Dead Man Walking

[EMTAE]

Not too very long ago, the "Dead Man Walking" acting FAA
Administrator Bobert Sturgell sent out a tear-stained
missive to his troops. Bobby typed this one standing up,
because he had just come back from Capitol Hill and he
didn't have any ass left to sit down on...they had chewed it
all off. Here is Bobert's letter, with my editorial comment
in parenthesis (like this.)

Dear Colleagues (at least, those of you "Colleagues" with a
car, driver, security, and staff of 45,000):

The last few weeks have been difficult for the FAA.
(Basically we have been getting the living **** kicked out
of us.) It’s discouraging to see the agency’s stewardship of
safety called into question in such a broad-brush fashion
all across the country. (Frankly the detractors should put
down the brush and just start heaping buckets of scorn,
ridicule and indictments at "the agency's stewardship of
safety." This agency is to safety what a fish is to a bicycle.)

Painful as this is, I would urge us all to keep the focus
where it belongs. (Which is: "What have you done to screw
the controller workforce today?") This is not about us – our
reputation or our feelings. (Mainly because our reputation
is in tatters and our tender feelings are being trampled by
truth and justice.) It’s about the flying public. And it
provides us an opportunity to step things up a notch or two.
(Yes, we hope to rise from our current
standard---ZERO---to something measurable in the near
future.) I ask each of you to take a moment to reaffirm
your commitment to the mission and highest standards of
professionalism that has made the FAA the gold standard of
safety the world over. (Except those of you working under
imposed Draconian pay and work rules, which means that you
are ****ed off, ****ed on, burned out, tired, and couldn't
care less about the FAA missions and standards.) I believe
that from crisis, opportunity emerges, (true...an
opportunity to get rid of a lot of deadwood on the 10th
floor of the Puzzle Palace) and this current environment
provides all of us with the opportunity to rededicate
ourselves to the work we do, the excellence we strive for
and to the people we serve. (Namely, the contractors who
will be hiring us in the near future.) We owe them, and
ourselves, nothing less. (Work you do? Exactly how much
rededication does it take to cut sheet cake? How much
rededication does it take to swing by the credit union? How
much dedication does it take to harass and intimidate
subordinates, break the law, ignore Congress, skip safety
inspections, cut corners on training, contract out essential
services, and hold endless meetings about nothing?)

We are in the midst of the safest period in aviation, (a
smoke-and-mirrors trick that will come home to roost long
after we are gone,) but we cannot bask in this achievement,
and this latest episode is a stark reminder of that fact.
(It is also a stark reminder of Elvira and her flying
monkeys, swooping across the country to ruin the National
Airspace System. They got me...and my little dog, too.)
There is no such thing as an acceptable safety plateau.
(Safety plateau? Are you on crack? To even imply that
there is a safety plateau requires that you put down the
pipe for a few hits.) To improve an already outstanding
safety record requires constant vigilance and continuous
improvement – as individuals, as an agency, and as an
industry. (Too bad we are in bed with the airlines and the
industry, and real change will never, never, never happen.)

Continued partnership with the airlines is critical to this
trend. (Can I call it, or what?) As Patrick Smith, an
airline pilot wrote in a New York Times op-ed over the
weekend (“Don’t Ground the Safety System”), the FAA has
worked with the airlines and pilot unions very well over the
years. (Oh, ****. A washed up airline pilot heaping praise
on another washed up airline pilot. Well ain't that just
grand. Do you know how to tell when an airline pilot is
lying? Watch his lips. If they are moving...he's lying.
Let me guess...Chuck Yeager voice...orange juice on the
rumpled tie...making forty grand a year driving Boeings full
of ****ed off people around like a glorified Greyhound Bus
driver. Yeah. His opinion counts. For bumwad.)

This partnership has produced life-saving innovations, Smith
says, and he cites TCAS and cargo-fire suppression systems
as examples. (Smith forgets that TCAS almost killed a bunch
of people when they rolled it out, flight-checking it on the
American people instead of in the lab.) (And may I just
add...BFD. The FAA jumped the shark when they started
treating the airlines like "Customers." And the customers
started bossing the store owner around. And the idiot FAA
took it in the shorts for so long that they now think that
lump in the back of their trousers is natural.)

Each of the partners in this relationship has information
needed to improve safety and if any of these partners is
afraid of bringing that information to light, we will drive
safety problems underground. (Like we have for the last
five years. If you think a controller is going to come to
you with a safety issue, you probably think Marion's one hot
looking woman.) Senior safety inspectors remember only too
well a time when there were signs in airline maintenance
shops urging mechanics, “Don’t Talk to the FAA!” (Anybody
who knows anything knows not to talk to the morons from the
FAA. You do so at your peril. They will hound you, lie to
you, cheat in front of Congress, and try to fire you for the
pettiest of offenses. If you come forward....with safety
problems...you are in worse shape than ValuJet.)

Yet, while we want to hold ourselves accountable, and we
will, I don’t want you hanging your heads. (Now me, I'd
like to see all their heads hung....ala Saddam.) (But
Bobert....he wants you to pretend like nothing has happened,
and when Congress and the media get off our asses, we can go
back to celebrating diversity, or Heritage Month, or Louis
Armstrong's bi-plane, or anything at all except for the
critical staffing in the system and the fact that we are
moments away from an aviation disaster of epic proportions,
one that will turn two Pringles tubes full of jet fuel into
a thin pink mist with little bits of stuff and people
raining down on a small town near you.) You are part of
proud tradition that goes back to 1958 when the FAA was
established, an anniversary that we are celebrating this
year. Take pride in that tradition because you helped make
it happen. (And then, unfortunately.....you got to watch
Marion and I dismantle it in less than six years.)

Meanwhile, keep your chin up and your eye on the ball.
(That way, you won't see the shovelful of crap we are about
to cram into your sphincter. Don’t worry about the politics
or the press. (Because they will go away. They will go
back to the polygamists, or the pandas, or Paris Hilton, and
we will have survived, like the cockroaches we are.) We’ll
do the best we can with those and let the chips fall where
they may. Just do the right thing and don’t worry about the
rest. (In other words....don't screw up, and if you do,
don't let anybody catch you.) We’ll get through this and in
the end we will have a better, stronger agency and, most
importantly, an even better safety record. (Hmmm.
Somebody's lying here. You just told me we are in the midst
of the safest period in aviation. Now you tell me we can
have an even better safety record. Which is it, Bobert?)

Thanks for all you do. It’s an honor to be part of this
agency. (For the very limited time I will be here, until
someone with the sense God gave a picket fence will come
into office and boot my ass to the curb.)

Bobby (aka Bobert, aka Robert, aka Biker Bob)

[Bertie the Bunyip[_24_]]

Buttman > wrote in news:4814053c$0$3396
:

> EMTAE wrote:
>
>>
>> Bobby (aka Bobert, aka Robert, aka Biker Bob)
>
> great post, thanks for sharing
>

Bwawhawhhahw!

Pretending to be sane this week?

Bertie

[Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]]

Buttman > wrote in news:48140d9a$0$3395
:

> Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
>
>> Buttman > wrote in news:4814053c$0$3396
>> :
>>
>>> EMTAE wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Bobby (aka Bobert, aka Robert, aka Biker Bob)
>>>
>>> great post, thanks for sharing
>>>
>>
>> Bwawhawhhahw!
>>
>> Pretending to be sane this week?
>>
>> Bertie
>
> I see you're not.
>

That's right.

I never pretend.


You OTOH pretend to be a flight instructor when you are clearly just a
hazard to navigation.


Bertie

[Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]]

Buttman > wrote in news:48142077$0$12934
:

> Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
>
>> Buttman > wrote in news:48140d9a$0$3395
>> :
>>
>>> Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
>>>
>>>> Buttman > wrote in news:4814053c$0$3396
>>>> :
>>>>
>>>>> EMTAE wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bobby (aka Bobert, aka Robert, aka Biker Bob)
>>>>>
>>>>> great post, thanks for sharing
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Bwawhawhhahw!
>>>>
>>>> Pretending to be sane this week?
>>>>
>>>> Bertie
>>>
>>> I see you're not.
>>>
>>
>> That's right.
>>
>> I never pretend.
>>
>>
>> You OTOH pretend to be a flight instructor when you are clearly just
a
>> hazard to navigation.
>>
>>
>> Bertie
>
> k
>

That won't work either now fanboi..


Bertie

[Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]]

gregvk > wrote in news:Xns9A8D7DF821EBEE817AC3D8380227
@127.0.0.1:

> Bertie the Bunyip > wrote in news:fv2eg0$3b3$1
> @blackhelicopter.databasix.com:
>
>> Buttman > wrote in news:48142077$0$12934
>> :
>>
>>> Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
>>>
>>>> Buttman > wrote in news:48140d9a$0$3395
>>>> :
>>>>
>>>>> Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Buttman > wrote in news:4814053c$0$3396
>>>>>> :
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> EMTAE wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Bobby (aka Bobert, aka Robert, aka Biker Bob)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> great post, thanks for sharing
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bwawhawhhahw!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Pretending to be sane this week?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bertie
>>>>>
>>>>> I see you're not.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That's right.
>>>>
>>>> I never pretend.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You OTOH pretend to be a flight instructor when you are clearly
just
>> a
>>>> hazard to navigation.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Bertie
>>>
>>> k
>>>
>>
>> That won't work either now fanboi..
>>
>>
>> Bertie
>
> You have a fanboi called Buttman? That has "bad news" written all
over
> it.
>

True. his choice of nam, not mine, though.


Bertie

[EMTAE]

What in the hell is a "Bunyip"??

[EMTAE]

EMTAE wrote:
> What in the hell is a "Bunyip"??

A bunyip is a legendary spirit or creature of the Australian
Aborigine. Bunyips haunt rivers, swamps, creeks and
billabongs. Their main goal in life is to cause nocturnal
terror by eating people or animals in their vicinity. They
are renowned for their terrifying bellowing cries in the
night and have been known to frighten Aborigines to the
point where they would not approach any water source where a
bunyip might be waiting to devour them.


That is real weird

[Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]]

EMTAE > wrote in :

> EMTAE wrote:
>> What in the hell is a "Bunyip"??
>
> A bunyip is a legendary spirit or creature of the Australian
> Aborigine. Bunyips haunt rivers, swamps, creeks and
> billabongs. Their main goal in life is to cause nocturnal
> terror by eating people or animals in their vicinity. They
> are renowned for their terrifying bellowing cries in the
> night and have been known to frighten Aborigines to the
> point where they would not approach any water source where a
> bunyip might be waiting to devour them.
>
>
> That is real weird
>

It's a living.

Bertie

[Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]]

gregvk > wrote in
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> Bertie the Bunyip > wrote in news:fv2pht$qb$1
> @blackhelicopter.databasix.com:
>
>> EMTAE > wrote in
>> :
>>
>>> EMTAE wrote:
>>>> What in the hell is a "Bunyip"??
>>>
>>> A bunyip is a legendary spirit or creature of the Australian
>>> Aborigine. Bunyips haunt rivers, swamps, creeks and
>>> billabongs. Their main goal in life is to cause nocturnal
>>> terror by eating people or animals in their vicinity. They
>>> are renowned for their terrifying bellowing cries in the
>>> night and have been known to frighten Aborigines to the
>>> point where they would not approach any water source where a
>>> bunyip might be waiting to devour them.
>>>
>>>
>>> That is real weird
>>>
>>
>> It's a living.
>>
>> Bertie
>
> So it's basically the same as a boogyman. Except the boogyman doesn't
> make noise, he just hides quietly in the closet (or the bushes if
> outdoors) and sneaks out to get you while you're sleeping or otherwise
> not paying attention.
>

Amateurs.

Bertie

[Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]]

gregvk > wrote in news:Xns9A8DB15AD1E6FE817AC3D8380227
@127.0.0.1:

> Bertie the Bunyip > wrote in news:fv30v5$iuo$1
> @blackhelicopter.databasix.com:
>
>> gregvk > wrote in
>> :
>>
>>> Bertie the Bunyip > wrote in news:fv2pht$qb$1
>>> @blackhelicopter.databasix.com:
>>>
>>>> EMTAE > wrote in
>>>> :
>>>>
>>>>> EMTAE wrote:
>>>>>> What in the hell is a "Bunyip"??
>>>>>
>>>>> A bunyip is a legendary spirit or creature of the Australian
>>>>> Aborigine. Bunyips haunt rivers, swamps, creeks and
>>>>> billabongs. Their main goal in life is to cause nocturnal
>>>>> terror by eating people or animals in their vicinity. They
>>>>> are renowned for their terrifying bellowing cries in the
>>>>> night and have been known to frighten Aborigines to the
>>>>> point where they would not approach any water source where a
>>>>> bunyip might be waiting to devour them.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> That is real weird
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It's a living.
>>>>
>>>> Bertie
>>>
>>> So it's basically the same as a boogyman. Except the boogyman
doesn't
>>> make noise, he just hides quietly in the closet (or the bushes if
>>> outdoors) and sneaks out to get you while you're sleeping or
otherwise
>>> not paying attention.
>>>
>>
>> Amateurs.
>>
>> Bertie
>
> Well, it's probably better *not* to make noise. Why warn the prey and
> give it a chance to flee or assume a defensive posture? Surprise
attack
> is one of the most valuable tactics of the successful legendary
> terrifying spirit-creature.
>

But mine are all attacted to noise!
You've met Maxwell and buttman!

Bertie

[muff528]

"Bertie the Bunyip" > wrote in message
...
> EMTAE > wrote in :
>
>> EMTAE wrote:
>>> What in the hell is a "Bunyip"??
>>
>> A bunyip is a legendary spirit or creature of the Australian
>> Aborigine. Bunyips haunt rivers, swamps, creeks and
>> billabongs. Their main goal in life is to cause nocturnal
>> terror by eating people or animals in their vicinity. They
>> are renowned for their terrifying bellowing cries in the
>> night and have been known to frighten Aborigines to the
>> point where they would not approach any water source where a
>> bunyip might be waiting to devour them.
>>
>>
>> That is real weird
>>
>
> It's a living.
>
> Bertie

Hmmmm....I wonder if bunyips are taxonomically related to chupacabras.?
Maybe a proto-bunyip family floated over to Mazatlan on the Kontiki with
that Norwegian fellow several million years ago and became established
throughout Central America. Maybe not. You never see chupacabras posting on
the usenet. Maybe they can't type. <shrug>....who knows?!?

TP

[Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]]

"muff528" > wrote in
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>
> "Bertie the Bunyip" > wrote in message
> ...
>> EMTAE > wrote in
>> :
>>
>>> EMTAE wrote:
>>>> What in the hell is a "Bunyip"??
>>>
>>> A bunyip is a legendary spirit or creature of the Australian
>>> Aborigine. Bunyips haunt rivers, swamps, creeks and
>>> billabongs. Their main goal in life is to cause nocturnal
>>> terror by eating people or animals in their vicinity. They
>>> are renowned for their terrifying bellowing cries in the
>>> night and have been known to frighten Aborigines to the
>>> point where they would not approach any water source where a
>>> bunyip might be waiting to devour them.
>>>
>>>
>>> That is real weird
>>>
>>
>> It's a living.
>>
>> Bertie
>
> Hmmmm....I wonder if bunyips are taxonomically related to
> chupacabras.? Maybe a proto-bunyip family floated over to Mazatlan on
> the Kontiki with that Norwegian fellow several million years ago and
> became established throughout Central America. Maybe not. You never
> see chupacabras posting on the usenet. Maybe they can't type.
> <shrug>....who knows?!?


Not sure abotu that, but Robert Loggia is one of us.

Bertie

[Maxwell[_2_]]

"Bertie the Bunyip" > wrote in message
...
>> That is real weird
>>
>
> It's a living.
>
> Bertie

No it not. It's the useless fantasy your life has become, hanging out on the
Usenet, accomplishing nothing more than Anthony.

You're actually more pathetic.

[Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]]

"Maxwell" <luv2^fly99@cox.^net> wrote in
:

>
> "Bertie the Bunyip" > wrote in message
> ...
>>> That is real weird
>>>
>>
>> It's a living.
>>
>> Bertie
>
> No it not. It's the useless fantasy your life has become, hanging out
> on the Usenet, accomplishing nothing more than Anthony.
>
> You're actually more pathetic.
>

Sure luser boi. You really haven;t figgered it out yet, have you?


Bertie

[muff528]

"Bertie the Bunyip" > wrote in message
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> "muff528" > wrote in
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>>
>> "Bertie the Bunyip" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> EMTAE > wrote in
>>> :
>>>
>>>> EMTAE wrote:
>>>>> What in the hell is a "Bunyip"??
>>>>
>>>> A bunyip is a legendary spirit or creature of the Australian
>>>> Aborigine. Bunyips haunt rivers, swamps, creeks and
>>>> billabongs. Their main goal in life is to cause nocturnal
>>>> terror by eating people or animals in their vicinity. They
>>>> are renowned for their terrifying bellowing cries in the
>>>> night and have been known to frighten Aborigines to the
>>>> point where they would not approach any water source where a
>>>> bunyip might be waiting to devour them.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That is real weird
>>>>
>>>
>>> It's a living.
>>>
>>> Bertie
>>
>> Hmmmm....I wonder if bunyips are taxonomically related to
>> chupacabras.? Maybe a proto-bunyip family floated over to Mazatlan on
>> the Kontiki with that Norwegian fellow several million years ago and
>> became established throughout Central America. Maybe not. You never
>> see chupacabras posting on the usenet. Maybe they can't type.
>> <shrug>....who knows?!?
>
>
> Not sure abotu that, but Robert Loggia is one of us.
>
> Bertie

The name sounded familiar but I had to google him to see who the heck he is.
I'm not up to speed on names of actors, etc. unless it's someone like Clint
Eastwood or Heather Locklear. :-)

TP

[Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]]

"muff528" > wrote in
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> "Bertie the Bunyip" > wrote in message
> ...
>> "muff528" > wrote in
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>>
>>>
>>> "Bertie the Bunyip" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> EMTAE > wrote in
>>>> :
>>>>
>>>>> EMTAE wrote:
>>>>>> What in the hell is a "Bunyip"??
>>>>>
>>>>> A bunyip is a legendary spirit or creature of the Australian
>>>>> Aborigine. Bunyips haunt rivers, swamps, creeks and
>>>>> billabongs. Their main goal in life is to cause nocturnal
>>>>> terror by eating people or animals in their vicinity. They
>>>>> are renowned for their terrifying bellowing cries in the
>>>>> night and have been known to frighten Aborigines to the
>>>>> point where they would not approach any water source where a
>>>>> bunyip might be waiting to devour them.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> That is real weird
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It's a living.
>>>>
>>>> Bertie
>>>
>>> Hmmmm....I wonder if bunyips are taxonomically related to
>>> chupacabras.? Maybe a proto-bunyip family floated over to Mazatlan
>>> on the Kontiki with that Norwegian fellow several million years ago
>>> and became established throughout Central America. Maybe not. You
>>> never see chupacabras posting on the usenet. Maybe they can't type.
>>> <shrug>....who knows?!?
>>
>>
>> Not sure abotu that, but Robert Loggia is one of us.
>>
>> Bertie
>
> The name sounded familiar but I had to google him to see who the heck
> he is. I'm not up to speed on names of actors, etc. unless it's
> someone like Clint Eastwood or Heather Locklear. :-)
>

Well, for a while he posed as a Cat, but he's really a Bunyip who's
managed to penetrate the human world.


Bertie

[muff528]

"gregvk" > wrote in message
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>> "Bertie the Bunyip" > wrote in message
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>>> "muff528" > wrote in
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>>>> "Bertie the Bunyip" > wrote in message
>>>> ...
>>>>> EMTAE > wrote in
>>>>> :
>>>>>
>>>>>> EMTAE wrote:
>>>>>>> What in the hell is a "Bunyip"??
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A bunyip is a legendary spirit or creature of the Australian
>>>>>> Aborigine. Bunyips haunt rivers, swamps, creeks and
>>>>>> billabongs. Their main goal in life is to cause nocturnal
>>>>>> terror by eating people or animals in their vicinity. They
>>>>>> are renowned for their terrifying bellowing cries in the
>>>>>> night and have been known to frighten Aborigines to the
>>>>>> point where they would not approach any water source where a
>>>>>> bunyip might be waiting to devour them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That is real weird
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It's a living.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bertie
>>>>
>>>> Hmmmm....I wonder if bunyips are taxonomically related to
>>>> chupacabras.? Maybe a proto-bunyip family floated over to Mazatlan
>>>> on the Kontiki with that Norwegian fellow several million years ago
>>>> and became established throughout Central America. Maybe not. You
>>>> never see chupacabras posting on the usenet. Maybe they can't type.
>>>> <shrug>....who knows?!?
>>>
>>>
>>> Not sure abotu that, but Robert Loggia is one of us.
>>>
>>> Bertie
>>
>> The name sounded familiar but I had to google him to see who the heck
>> he is. I'm not up to speed on names of actors, etc. unless it's
>> someone like Clint Eastwood or Heather Locklear. :-)
>>
>> TP
>
> Heather Locklear is pushing 50, and it shows. Please tell me you like
> her for her acting and not because you think she's "hot".


Don't think I've seen her in anything since "Dynasty". That's how I'll
always remember her. :-)

TP

[Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]]

"muff528" > wrote in news:VqwRj.11466$Rk6.5044
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>>> "Bertie the Bunyip" > wrote in message
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>>>> "muff528" > wrote in
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>>>>>
>>>>> "Bertie the Bunyip" > wrote in message
>>>>> ...
>>>>>> EMTAE > wrote in
>>>>>> :
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> EMTAE wrote:
>>>>>>>> What in the hell is a "Bunyip"??
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A bunyip is a legendary spirit or creature of the Australian
>>>>>>> Aborigine. Bunyips haunt rivers, swamps, creeks and
>>>>>>> billabongs. Their main goal in life is to cause nocturnal
>>>>>>> terror by eating people or animals in their vicinity. They
>>>>>>> are renowned for their terrifying bellowing cries in the
>>>>>>> night and have been known to frighten Aborigines to the
>>>>>>> point where they would not approach any water source where a
>>>>>>> bunyip might be waiting to devour them.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That is real weird
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's a living.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bertie
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmmmm....I wonder if bunyips are taxonomically related to
>>>>> chupacabras.? Maybe a proto-bunyip family floated over to Mazatlan
>>>>> on the Kontiki with that Norwegian fellow several million years
ago
>>>>> and became established throughout Central America. Maybe not. You
>>>>> never see chupacabras posting on the usenet. Maybe they can't
type.
>>>>> <shrug>....who knows?!?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Not sure abotu that, but Robert Loggia is one of us.
>>>>
>>>> Bertie
>>>
>>> The name sounded familiar but I had to google him to see who the
heck
>>> he is. I'm not up to speed on names of actors, etc. unless it's
>>> someone like Clint Eastwood or Heather Locklear. :-)
>>>
>>> TP
>>
>> Heather Locklear is pushing 50, and it shows. Please tell me you
like
>> her for her acting and not because you think she's "hot".
>
>
> Don't think I've seen her in anything since "Dynasty". That's how I'll
> always remember her. :-)

She is not a Bunyip, of course, but Bunyips would not throw her out of
bed for eating kiwis.

Bertie

[Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]]

gregvk > wrote in news:Xns9A8EDB2061CDEE817AC3D8380227
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>>>>>
>>>>> "Bertie the Bunyip" > wrote in message
>>>>> ...
>>>>>> "muff528" > wrote in
>>>>>> news:81bRj.5035$zw6.2131@trnddc06:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "Bertie the Bunyip" > wrote in message
>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>> EMTAE > wrote in
>>>>>>>> :
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> EMTAE wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> What in the hell is a "Bunyip"??
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> A bunyip is a legendary spirit or creature of the Australian
>>>>>>>>> Aborigine. Bunyips haunt rivers, swamps, creeks and
>>>>>>>>> billabongs. Their main goal in life is to cause nocturnal
>>>>>>>>> terror by eating people or animals in their vicinity. They
>>>>>>>>> are renowned for their terrifying bellowing cries in the
>>>>>>>>> night and have been known to frighten Aborigines to the
>>>>>>>>> point where they would not approach any water source where a
>>>>>>>>> bunyip might be waiting to devour them.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> That is real weird
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It's a living.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Bertie
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hmmmm....I wonder if bunyips are taxonomically related to
>>>>>>> chupacabras.? Maybe a proto-bunyip family floated over to
Mazatlan
>>>>>>> on the Kontiki with that Norwegian fellow several million years
>> ago
>>>>>>> and became established throughout Central America. Maybe not.
You
>>>>>>> never see chupacabras posting on the usenet. Maybe they can't
>> type.
>>>>>>> <shrug>....who knows?!?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not sure abotu that, but Robert Loggia is one of us.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bertie
>>>>>
>>>>> The name sounded familiar but I had to google him to see who the
>> heck
>>>>> he is. I'm not up to speed on names of actors, etc. unless it's
>>>>> someone like Clint Eastwood or Heather Locklear. :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> TP
>>>>
>>>> Heather Locklear is pushing 50, and it shows. Please tell me you
>> like
>>>> her for her acting and not because you think she's "hot".
>>>
>>>
>>> Don't think I've seen her in anything since "Dynasty". That's how
I'll
>>> always remember her. :-)
>>
>> She is not a Bunyip, of course, but Bunyips would not throw her out
of
>> bed for eating kiwis.
>>
>> Bertie
>
> She would never be in bed with a bunyip, anyway, because bunyips
> reproduce by assraping male housecats. (Don't ask me how it works.
I'm
> no bunyip expert.)
>

What's your point?

Bertie

[Gig 601Xl Builder]

gregvk wrote:

> Heather Locklear is pushing 50, and it shows. Please tell me you like
> her for her acting and not because you think she's "hot".


46 is not pushing 50 damn-it.

[Lou]

On Apr 29, 8:27 am, Gig 601Xl Builder >
wrote:
> gregvk wrote:
> > Heather Locklear is pushing 50, and it shows. Please tell me you like
> > her for her acting and not because you think she's "hot".
>
> 46 is not pushing 50 damn-it.

Sorry Gig, but it is.
Lou

[Chupacabra the Bertie via AviationKB.com]

muff528 wrote:
>>>> What in the hell is a "Bunyip"??
>>>
>[quoted text clipped - 12 lines]
>>
>> Bertie
> You never see chupacabras posting on
>the usenet. Maybe they can't type. <shrug>....who knows?!?
>
>TP

Of course we can type.....jeez.

We don't post here cuz its too full of Bunyip crap.

--
Message posted via http://www.aviationkb.com

[Bertie the Bunyip[_24_]]

"Chupacabra the Bertie via AviationKB.com" <u33403@uwe> wrote in
news:836c1791caf66@uwe:

> muff528 wrote:
>>>>> What in the hell is a "Bunyip"??
>>>>
>>[quoted text clipped - 12 lines]
>>>
>>> Bertie
>> You never see chupacabras posting on
>>the usenet. Maybe they can't type. <shrug>....who knows?!?
>>
>>TP
>
> Of course we can type.....jeez.
>
> We don't post here cuz its too full of Bunyip crap.
>

imitation is rthe highest form of flattery.

Bertie

[Gig 601Xl Builder]

Lou wrote:
> On Apr 29, 8:27 am, Gig 601Xl Builder >
> wrote:
>> gregvk wrote:
>>> Heather Locklear is pushing 50, and it shows. Please tell me you like
>>> her for her acting and not because you think she's "hot".
>> 46 is not pushing 50 damn-it.
>
> Sorry Gig, but it is.
> Lou


****!

[Jay Honeck[_2_]]

>>> 46 is not pushing 50 damn-it.
>>
>> Sorry Gig, but it is.
>
> ****!

I feel your pain, Gig. My half-century mark is just months away...

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[John Godwin]

"Jay Honeck" > wrote in news:hP%Rj.143490
$yE1.2407@attbi_s21:

> I feel your pain, Gig. My half-century mark is just months away...

Yes, but some actresses age better than others. Brigette Bardot, for
example:

<http://tinyurl.com/5pqx4k>

--

[Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]]

"Jay Honeck" > wrote in news:hP%Rj.143490$yE1.2407
@attbi_s21:

>>>> 46 is not pushing 50 damn-it.
>>>
>>> Sorry Gig, but it is.
>>
>> ****!
>
> I feel your pain, Gig. My half-century mark is just months away...
>
> ;-)

But unlike Heather Locklear, no one wants to **** you.

Bertie

[Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]]

gregvk > wrote in
:

> Bertie the Bunyip > wrote in
> :
>
>> "Jay Honeck" > wrote in
>> news:hP%Rj.143490$yE1.2407 @attbi_s21:
>>
>>>>>> 46 is not pushing 50 damn-it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry Gig, but it is.
>>>>
>>>> ****!
>>>
>>> I feel your pain, Gig. My half-century mark is just months away...
>>>
>>> ;-)
>>
>> But unlike Heather Locklear, no one wants to **** you.
>>
>> Bertie
>
> Depends if you mean the sexual kind of "****" or the
> drive-him-way-out-in- the-middle-of-nowhere-and-ditch-him kind of
> "****". The latter might be kind of fun.
>

Someone beat you to it, he already lives in Iowa.


Bertie

[Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]]

gregvk > wrote in
:

> Bertie the Bunyip > wrote in news:fval3b$ptq$2
> @blackhelicopter.databasix.com:
>
>> gregvk > wrote in
>> :
>>
>>> Bertie the Bunyip > wrote in
>>> :
>>>
>>>> "Jay Honeck" > wrote in
>>>> news:hP%Rj.143490$yE1.2407 @attbi_s21:
>>>>
>>>>>>>> 46 is not pushing 50 damn-it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sorry Gig, but it is.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ****!
>>>>>
>>>>> I feel your pain, Gig. My half-century mark is just months
>>>>> away...
>>>>>
>>>>> ;-)
>>>>
>>>> But unlike Heather Locklear, no one wants to **** you.
>>>>
>>>> Bertie
>>>
>>> Depends if you mean the sexual kind of "****" or the
>>> drive-him-way-out-in- the-middle-of-nowhere-and-ditch-him kind of
>>> "****". The latter might be kind of fun.
>>>
>>
>> Someone beat you to it, he already lives in Iowa.
>>
>>
>> Bertie
>
> I was thinking more along the lines of a dirt road that winds through
> the mountains for more than 60 miles, the farthest stretches of which
> are 40+ miles from the nearest town of any sort and probably sees no
> more than a dozen vehicles a year. There really is a road like that
> near here. If your car breaks down, you're ****ed. You probably
> wouldn't even get a cell phone signal out there. About all you can do
> is start walking and hope a car comes along (ha!) before you have to
> walk the entire way back to the nearest town.

Yeah, that's what I said. Iowa.
>
> I think Jay would rather enjoy a nice little adventure like that.
> Blisters and dehydration aside, it would be fun as long he didn't get
> eaten by a mountain lion or something.


Mmm, he might. I can't see a mountain lion having taste that bad,
though.


Bertie

[Jay Honeck[_2_]]

> I think Jay would rather enjoy a nice little adventure like that.
> Blisters and dehydration aside, it would be fun as long he didn't get
> eaten by a mountain lion or something.

Although I used to enjoy wilderness backpacking, I'm more into walk/running
on a track nowadays...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]]

"Jay Honeck" > wrote in
news:U_5Sj.143902$yE1.80447@attbi_s21:

>> I think Jay would rather enjoy a nice little adventure like that.
>> Blisters and dehydration aside, it would be fun as long he didn't get
>> eaten by a mountain lion or something.
>
> Although I used to enjoy wilderness backpacking, I'm more into
> walk/running on a track nowadays...

killfle not working wel there liar boi?


Bertie

[Jay Maynard]

On 2008-04-30, John Godwin > wrote:
> "Jay Honeck" > wrote in news:hP%Rj.143490
> $yE1.2407@attbi_s21:
>> I feel your pain, Gig. My half-century mark is just months away...
> Yes, but some actresses age better than others.

I'll toss in an observation here: Cindy Morgan (Lacy Underalls in
_Caddyshack_ and Yori in _TRON_) is *still* babe-a-licious. Especially in
her TRON costume. Yes, I've seen her in it in person in the relatively
recent past. Rowr.
--
Jay Maynard, K5ZC http://www.conmicro.com
http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net
Fairmont, MN (FRM) (Yes, that's me!)
AMD Zodiac CH601XLi N55ZC (ordered 17 March, delivery 2 June)

[Maxwell[_2_]]

"Bertie the Bunyip" > wrote in message
...
> "Jay Honeck" > wrote in
> news:U_5Sj.143902$yE1.80447@attbi_s21:
>
>>> I think Jay would rather enjoy a nice little adventure like that.
>>> Blisters and dehydration aside, it would be fun as long he didn't get
>>> eaten by a mountain lion or something.
>>
>> Although I used to enjoy wilderness backpacking, I'm more into
>> walk/running on a track nowadays...
>
> killfle not working wel there liar boi?
>
>
> Bertie

Learn to follow a thread dumb ass. He clearly wasn't responding to you.

[Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]]

"Maxwell" <luv2^fly99@cox.^net> wrote in news:5A8Sj.111609$Ft5.75869
@newsfe15.lga:

>
> "Bertie the Bunyip" > wrote in message
> ...
>> "Jay Honeck" > wrote in
>> news:U_5Sj.143902$yE1.80447@attbi_s21:
>>
>>>> I think Jay would rather enjoy a nice little adventure like that.
>>>> Blisters and dehydration aside, it would be fun as long he didn't
get
>>>> eaten by a mountain lion or something.
>>>
>>> Although I used to enjoy wilderness backpacking, I'm more into
>>> walk/running on a track nowadays...
>>
>> killfle not working wel there liar boi?
>>
>>
>> Bertie
>
> Learn to follow a thread dumb ass. He clearly wasn't responding to
you.
>
>

you sure?


Bertie

[Maxwell[_2_]]

"EMTAE" > wrote in message
...
> What in the hell is a "Bunyip"??

A lame retard that doesn't have a life, so he hangs out on the Usenet and
imitates Anthony.

[Maxwell[_2_]]

"Bertie the Bunyip" > wrote in message
...
> "Maxwell" <luv2^fly99@cox.^net> wrote in
> :
>
>>
>> "Bertie the Bunyip" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>>> That is real weird
>>>>
>>>
>>> It's a living.
>>>
>>> Bertie
>>
>> No it not. It's the useless fantasy your life has become, hanging out
>> on the Usenet, accomplishing nothing more than Anthony.
>>
>> You're actually more pathetic.
>>
>
> Sure luser boi. You really haven;t figgered it out yet, have you?
>
>
> Bertie

We have all figure you out dumb ass.

[Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]]

"Maxwell" <luv2^fly99@cox.^net> wrote in news:%C8Sj.111611$Ft5.38310
@newsfe15.lga:

>
> "Bertie the Bunyip" > wrote in message
> ...
>> "Maxwell" <luv2^fly99@cox.^net> wrote in
>> :
>>
>>>
>>> "Bertie the Bunyip" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>>> That is real weird
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It's a living.
>>>>
>>>> Bertie
>>>
>>> No it not. It's the useless fantasy your life has become, hanging
out
>>> on the Usenet, accomplishing nothing more than Anthony.
>>>
>>> You're actually more pathetic.
>>>
>>
>> Sure luser boi. You really haven;t figgered it out yet, have you?
>>
>>
>> Bertie
>
> We have all figure you out dumb ass.
>
>
>
>

Apparently not...

Bertie