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    DEEP OBSERVATIONS ON LIFE



    1) When I die, I want to die like my grandfather--who died
    peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the
    passengers in his car."
    --Author Unknown

    2) Advice for the day: If you have a lot of tension and you
    get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle:
    "Take two aspirin" and "Keep away from children."
    --Author Unknown

    3) "Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a
    support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they
    meet at the bar."
    --Drew Carey

    4) "The problem with the designated driver program, it's
    not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into
    doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night,
    drop them off at the wrong house."
    --Jeff Foxworthy

    5) "If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball
    and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the
    infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base."
    --Dave Barry

    6) "Relationships are hard. It's like a full time job, and
    we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend
    wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks' notice.
    There should be severance pay, the day before they leave
    you, they should have to find you a temp."
    --Bob Ettinger

    7) "My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took
    her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom,
    they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'"
    --Paula Poundstone

    8) "A study in the Washington Post says that women have
    better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the
    authors of that study: "Duh."
    --Conan O'Brien

    9) "Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I'm
    halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God....
    I could be eating a slow learner."
    --Lynda Montgomery

    10) "I think that's how Chicago and Detriot got started. Bunch of
    people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime
    and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's
    go west.'"
    --Richard Jeni

    11) "If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the
    impersonators would be dead."
    --Johnny Carson

    12) "Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us
    geography."
    --Paul Rodriguez

    13) "My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they
    turned sixty and that's the law."
    --Jerry Seinfeld

    14) "Remember in elementary school, you were told that in
    case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line
    from smallest to tallest. What is the logic in that? What,
    do tall people burn slower?"
    --Warren Hutcherson

    15) "Bigamy is having one wife/husband too many. Monogamy is
    the same."
    --Oscar Wilde

    16) "Suppose you were an idiot .. And suppose you were a
    member of Congress... But I repeat myself."
    --Mark Twain


    17) "Our bombs are smarter than the average high school
    student. At least they can find Afghanistan."
    --A. Whitney Brown

    18) "You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog
    will give you a look that says, 'My God, you're right!
    I never would've thought of that!'"
    --Dave Barry

    19) Do you know why they call it "PMS"? Because "Mad Cow
    Disease" was taken.
    --Unknown, presumed deceased
    Bob Ollerton

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    Re: Deep Observations On Life

    ok, so I drag myself back into the house after a long, long day of scraping 60 year old tape off wing ribs and it's about 20 degrees out there in the shop and my feet hurt, and my head is throbbing, and the carburetor overhaul guy still hasn't called and the whiskey doesn't seem to help and then I read this Thread and...and I get a laugh going and it all seems ok. Thanks, Bob. I enjoyed it.

    Bob Gustafson
    Bob Gustafson
    NC43913
    TF#565

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      Re: Deep Observations On Life

      What is it with us that we find beauty in a pile of welded tubing and a stack of fine-grained spruce? The amount of work needed to rebuild a good old bird like the t-craft is approximately equal to building a small house....But I already have a warm house, a good shop to work in, Jimmy Buffett on the CD player, with Enya following.....and dreams of pulling g's in the old girl when she's flying again....Ain't life grand.......(PS...the whiskey is not an option.....)

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      • #4
        Re: Deep Observations On Life

        INteresting observation, Marcus, on life in the T-craft lane. Or is this what young Mr. Lees would call "thread hijack"?

        So why DO we do this? It's not for financial gain. I figure my time on this taylorcraft rebuild project will net around 50 cents per hour if I sell the finished product. Maybe less.

        Before I got involved in this airplane thing I just HAD to build a sailboat. A monster 8 ton fiberglass and mahogany nautical traveling machine. Nine years every waking moment and in my dreams at night I'm either building or planning this project. Then I get it done and suddenly I feel empty, useless. I can't wait for the next project to come along. An airplane, by George! And not just any airplane, but a complete rotted wreck bent disaster airplane that will take YEARS to rebuild. Ah, yes, life is good.

        Bob Gustafson
        Bob Gustafson
        NC43913
        TF#565

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        • #5
          Re: Deep Observations On Life

          Bob......I have noticed also that an inordinate number of pilots (Real pilots, that fly T-crafts, Luscombes, Monocoupes, Stearmans, Buckers, etc), also have been bitten by the sailing bug. It is not a terminal or even a distasteful affliction. Sailing is the closest thing to flying I have ever done, and will continue the sport as long as I am able.....The T-craft will also remain in my stable, as I have a wife, a daughter, and a son-in-law that have shown an intrest in flying that I never would have suspected before they saw the project.....they even help on it occasionally. Marcus

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