I want to apologize for pulling Freewriting Friday from my site yesterday. The person that I was writing about was a little uncomfortable being written about. So I didn’t get a chance to respond to your comments.
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I am sure this has been circulating, but I have never seen it before. Today is lazy day, since the post I had put together “seemed” kinda self-deprecating. I have been asked not to put anything else out that “puts myself down”, so I had to put something together quickly. Thanks to my dad for sending this to me. Some of these quotes are from military manuals.
Military Quotes
‘If the enemy is in range, so are you.’ - Infantry Journal
‘It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.’ - U.S.Air ForceManual
‘Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.’ - General Macarthur
‘You, you, and you … Panic. The rest of you, come with me.’ - U.S. Marine Corp Gunnery Sgt.
‘Tracers work both ways.’ - U.S.ArmyOrdnance
‘Five second fuses only last three seconds.’ - Infantry Journal
‘Any ship can be a minesweeper. Once.’
‘Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do.’ - Unknown Marine Recruit
‘If you see a bomb technician running, try to keep up.’ - USAFAmmo Troop
‘Though I Fly Through the Valleyof Death, I Shall Fear No Evil. For I am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing.’ - At the entrance to the old SR-71 operating base Kadena, Japan
‘You’ve never been lost until you’ve been lost at Mach 3.’ - Paul F. Crickmore (test pilot)
‘The only time you have too much fuel is when you’re on fire.’
‘If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it’s probably a helicopter — and therefore, unsafe.’
‘When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane you always have enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash.’
‘Without ammunition, the USAFwould be just another expensive flying club.’
‘What is the similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots? If a pilot screws up, the pilot dies; If ATC screws up, …. The pilot dies.’
‘Never trade luck for skill.’
‘Airspeed, altitude and brains. Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight.’
‘Mankind has a perfect record in aviation; we never left one up there!’
‘Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it.’
‘The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you.’ - Attributed to Max Stanley (Northrop test pilot)
‘There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime.’ - Sign over squadron ops desk at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 1970
‘If something hasn’t broken on your helicopter, it’s about to.’
‘You know that your landing gear is up and locked when it takes full power to taxi to the
terminal.’
As the test pilot climbs out of the experimental aircraft, having torn off the wings and tail in the crash landing, the crash truck arrives, the rescuer sees a bloodied pilot and asks ‘What happened?’.
The pilot’s reply: ‘I don’t know, I just got here myself!’ - Attributed to Ray Crandell (Lockheed test pilot)
11 responses so far ↓
1 Avitable // Mar 8, 2008 at 7:44 am
You removed a post where you didn’t even mention any names, AND you gave a person that you are going on your first date with your blog address?
Avitable’s last blog post..Manna from heaven. Or Kyra.
2 Absurdist // Mar 8, 2008 at 7:48 am
Yes, and I was trying to be courteous. A lot of people read my blog, so I didn’t see any issues with him reading mine.
I guess it’s a difference of opinion.
3 Avitable // Mar 8, 2008 at 7:50 am
I’m impressed that you’re open with your blog like that!
Avitable’s last blog post..Manna from heaven. Or Kyra.
4 Robin // Mar 8, 2008 at 7:53 am
Yeah everyone is different with blogging and how they view it. A lot of my family hates that I blog.
Robin’s last blog post..MC Erik
5 Absurdist // Mar 8, 2008 at 7:55 am
Thanks Robin. I know no one knows who he is, but down the line, maybe they will. So, I guess courtesy applies.
Avi, I am not dogging you.
6 laughingattheslut // Mar 8, 2008 at 9:44 am
Well, if you actually end up having a serious relationship with this guy, it could get a bit weird on the blog. Like you’d be writing “Last night I went with–oh, wait, I can’t write about that. I was with he who must not be mentioned. Never mind. Okay, later today were supposed to go to lunch and then–oh, wait, I can’t write about that either. Uh, well, my dog is doing okay, and I’m still not living out of my car. Thanks for stopping by.”
My mom doesn’t know I have a blog. My sister and I have never discussed blogs. My brother might be aware that I have one, but I certainly haven’t told him where to find it. My husband knows about the blog, as he was the one who started this whole mess with his blog and, well, you know. I don’t tell my friends were to find my blog. I have a friend I meet on line and I told him where to find the blog. I have another friend who says that he’s found my blog, so I told him to stop by and leave me a comment, which he did not, so maybe he didn’t really find my blog after all. I rarely use anyone’s name, and I’m thinking of deleting the few that I have mentioned. I certainly would never use anyone’s full name. And I don’t use my name or my husband’s name.
People have blogs for different reasons. Mine is mostly a diary now. But I like being able to just blurt out anything that pops into my head and then sometimes get comments about the situation from people out there who don’t really know me and don’t know the other people mentioned at all. If I used names, I couldn’t really do that, so it would defeat the purpose.
laughingattheslut’s last blog post..Freaky Friday
7 Absurdist // Mar 8, 2008 at 9:54 am
Slut:
You make a very good point. To date, mine has been like yours; a journal of sorts, with some goofy shit in between. The nature of my blog was intended to be that which is absurd; to probe your mind and make you think. I deviated from that some time ago.
If you look at Wayne’s blog, he has only mentioned his wife two times, and his daughter and Jaden a few times. He tries to keep his family off of his blog, which he does a pretty good job of.
I don’t mind modifying my blog back to its original intent. I mean you are right; if I end up dating this guy seriously, then it would be hard not to talk about certain things, since that would be a main focus of my life. Until that time, as we date, maybe I can get him to understand the nature of a blog, how very people know who I really am, and how names are not mentioned.
I think it’s a matter of educatin him on blogs. He doesn’t work in technology; he’s a petro-geologist, so this kind of stuff really eludes him.
Anyhoo, that’s probably the best approach for me. If I think about it, his perception was really not about what everyone else is going to read; his problem more had to do with the fact of how insecure I am, and his concern that that insecurity would jeaopardize any relationship we might have. He mostly didn’t want me ragging about myself, or talking about what we talk about. I can understand that, especially if it is something more intimate. Again, more education for him. I don’t think he liked reading about himself; I think that’s more what it was about than other people reading it.
Plus, he didn’t figure out that the guy that my friend wanted to set me up with was a dream. he probably just missed that part of the writing. That was weird; he was like, well, why didn’t you go out with the guy your friend wanted to set you up with? And I said, “um, duh, that guy is the representation of you. IT WAS A DREAM.”. He made some stupid assumptions that I had to clear up for him.
Again, he doesn’t understand the nature of blogs. I would imagine that, like my father stopped reading my blog due to sexual content, he would probably do the same.
As soon as he gets back from scotland, what I need to explain to him is that the content on my blog is merely the part of me that wants to rebel, and write whatever the hell I want to. He doesn’t understand that it can’t be traced back to who I am.
Completely understandable.
Plus, I can’t understand a fucking word he says on the phone, because his brit accent is coupled with mumbling. Usually I understand Brits just fine; but it’s certain british accents/dialects that can be difficult. So I will be better able to explain this to him in person.
sorry so verbose.
8 Kyra Sutra // Mar 8, 2008 at 1:58 pm
You don’t have any good military spouse quotes so I’ll just go ahead and submit one:
“Fuck this shit.”
Kyra Sutra’s last blog post..I Love/Hate Weekends.
9 Absurdist // Mar 8, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Having been a military wife, all I can say is “here fucking here!”
or hear hear, however you spell it.
10 whall // Mar 8, 2008 at 7:02 pm
I like these quotes - I hadn’t seen these before, but they remind me of the repair quotes you’ve seen around.
whall’s last blog post..2007 Year In Review
11 whall // Mar 8, 2008 at 7:02 pm
I like these quotes - I hadn’t seen these before, but they remind me of the repair quotes you’ve seen around.
whall’s last blog post..2007 Year In Review
Come on man. You know you want to say something!