"Jim McLaughlin" wrote in message
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Brain fart or yet another hangover?

I mean, it ain't hard to miss these suckers, unless you were :

(A) too drunk; or,

(B) like your fellow CanuckistanI, Skelton, a background faker.

Those are the only two possibilities.

Which are you?

OK, Perfect Man, I'll make you happy. I just got out of the pen after doing
hard time, and am back to doing Dilaudids and crack cocaine, beating up my
girlfriend and her kids, and juggling my schedule - how to sandwich the
convenience store robberies in between the parole officer visits.

Seriously, you anal berk, why don't you take a break from personal attacks?
I don't need them - not on newsgroups and not to my email. I don't give a
flying f**k whether you like me or not, because I don't intend to have you
over as a houseguest any time soon, but it's getting somewhat tiresome to be
continually subjected to insults. I don't take kindly to having my sobriety
questioned, so I suggest you don't visit Nova Scotia, ever, and let me know
where you're staying. And, yes, by this point in time you have seriously
tried my patience, so that's a threat - go ahead and call the local cops or
RCMP. For the Halifax Detachment OIC of the latter, just call
1-902-490-6883. For the police, 1-902-490-5020 is a good start.

You missed the third possibility, idiot. One is maybe not a combat engineer
and the only forklifts one maybe practically ever saw were the smaller ones
that can't negotiate rough ground. I recall the latter because we used them
during VERTREP's. I wasn't associated with loading cargo, I don't know how
many heavy forklifts got put onto amphibs, I didn't go into vehicle storage
spaces...I was familiar with with my berthing space, the head, the mess, the
ship's store, the welldeck, the flight deck, and the uppermost topside, and
how to get from one to the other. Well, some operational spaces, too, like
the SACC, and where the officers and chiefs lived. I don't remember seeing
heavy forklifts on any ship I was on - is the point becoming clear? Were
some present - possibly. I sure as hell wouldn't have seen them while
floating ashore on a landing craft or hovercraft or LCVP, nor would I have
seen them while being with an artillery battery, nor would I have seen them
while being with an infantry unit.

When I said brainfart, I meant that I know that big forklifts exist, because
I've seen them in civilian life, and it's a reasonable assumption that the
military has them too. I just don't recall seeing them aboard ship. Plain
enough? Doesn't mean they weren't there.

Start attacking arguments and not attacking people. If you can get *my*
goat, you're a piece of work. I hope to God you're not married with
kids...they must suffer.

AHS