Peter Duniho wrote:
"Dr. Anthony J. Lomenzo" wrote in message
...

Point of the piece however was not an exercise in grousing but rather to
alert folks who have to go the commercial route that things are
different now.


Really? Do tell.

I did, Peter!

I wouldn't have guessed it.

Slow under-study?

Amazing what one can learn
with the Usenet.

Which de facto explains why you've come back!

Ta-Dum. ;-) [*Now Peter...I'm diligently trusting in your neurons
making the requisite synaptic leaps 'before' one of them gets mis-fired
and does a short final, as it were, and whispers to your auditory
channels, to wit, 'Hey! The Doc may not be kidding, man!' ....

Nahhhh. I wouldn't take this approach if I had you pegged for a yoyo.
But this you know.

That done, what....


Seriously though, don't get me wrong.

I know your stuff, Peter, be assured....besides, if the crowd gets ugly
in the RAS av group, hey, you know how that can go!


I love your rambling posts...you're
the only hard-to-read Usenet poster

Cu Less movement of the lips...more concentration! ;-)

Don Parker: "Hahahahhahahahaha!"

Al Denelsbeck: "Shhhh! Go back to shaving, man!" [from the 'Flight of
the Phoenix' bit... ] Nice group that...like your buddy 'X' [you know
who]...passed-on some years ago however and is 'still' waiting to be
informed of his demise despite your best efforts of such PIREP
advisories. But then, Peter, 'De mortuis nil nisi bonum', yes?


I bother to read through, just because
it's fun to do so, and there's almost always something of interest in there.


That was the wind-up...and now for the 'pitch' ....


But really, did we really need to be told that traveling by commercial
airline is different since 9/11?

YOU read it!

Is that really supposed to be some sort of
breaking news? Who's out there claiming that 9/11 has had no effect on life
in America? I know I wish it hadn't -- after all, most of the changes play
right into the terrorists' hands

The operative word, of course, being 'changes' and I would agree!

-- but I've yet to meet a person who
actually thinks it hadn't.

Just curious...


Well, that of course depends on just who you meet and talk to and I'm
not at al being facetious. Remember Peter, there were some who
vociferously felt that the Iraq thing was the 'only way' to go...I did
not...nor did various others. But that's another story and perhaps
stemming from my years as a member of the 'Green Machine' and wondering,
AFTER I saw the Wall in DC, and also remembering my homecoming BTW when
RVN ribbons and CIB's were targets for eggs and insults, what the hell
was it all for! Then we move up to Mr. Bush Jr. and his publicly telling
the UN it lacks a spine while launching his war based on more hype
rather than fact. Interesting how it became a 20/20 hindsight thing
'after' the fact and THEN come those voiced reservations previously not
to be heard.

Back to aviation, well, I believe the tragedy of 9-11 made a tremendous
difference in this nation but I've also met folks who do tend to
minimize its effect perhaps because they may not be directly effected by
same or their life centers around the armchair. Or the talk show
circuit. You know as well as I do Peter that it's a mixed bag out there
and I daresay that there are even a few floating around who would
comment 9-WHO? That happens too.

I like your stuff, Peter, because you say what you feel and are rather a
lone wolf as I am. But then perhaps we both subscribe to old Abe who had
it right..you know...'you can please some of the folks some of the time
but never all of the folks all of the time.' But then, when I write,
although I use a very colloquial style in usenet that de facto places
requisite blinders on our friends Messrs. Strunk and White, hey, it
causes its share of responses [or whatever] and I find that interesting.

As for scribbling for coin of the realm, ahhh, well, that's a bit
different but then usenet is for relaxing. Like flying. If one can
afford it. I know a few of the brethren who would not dare to mention
their monikers sans the N-numbers and rating yet the plane hasn't moved
from the tie-down in months or they are sunshine pilots while others,
hey, it's their profession. Like I said, mixed bag. But that's good!

Doc Tony




Pete