Very OT - Jack-booted storm troopers

"Rich S." wrote in message news:dvCdnbA-|
| Ok - but only if you'll risk life and limb for a ride in the Emeraude. I
| promise to not push you out (canopy won't open in flight).
|

I guess I get the better part of the deal, then.

Earlier, "C J Campbell" wrote:

...when the police tried to close
down the hill, the crowd started
to riot...

Readers of _Sons of the Profit_ will recognize that as a longstanding
Seattle tradition.

"Bob Kuykendall" wrote in message
om...
| Earlier, "C J Campbell" wrote:
|
| ...when the police tried to close
| down the hill, the crowd started
| to riot...
|
| Readers of _Sons of the Profit_ will recognize that as a longstanding
| Seattle tradition.

Bill Speidel, founder of Seattle Underground tours and author of "Sons of
the Profits" and several other books about the area, would no doubt have an
especially sharp quill for the modern Seattleite.

I liked the Underground Tour much better back in the old days when you had
to carry your own flashlight and the guides were less politically correct.
Crawling around through filthy, dark tunnels with rats scurrying everywhere
(especially at night) somehow seemed to more of a reflection of what Seattle
history was all about. Speidel often conducted the tours himself, hawking
his autographed books at the end.

"Rich S." wrote in message
...
Sorry about this - I just had to get it out.

Yesterday was the first meaningful snow we have had in the Puget Sound
area
for quite a few years. Kids have grown up without knowing for
whatinthehell
a sled was used. Lord, did it come down! Large chunks of the working class
stayed home to avoid playing bumper cars, to tend their kids (since many
schools were closed), and just to enjoy a taste of winter.

One of the steep, long hills in Seattle was closed to auto traffic early
in
the storm. Before long, several hundred people had brought out their
sleds,
saucers, inner tubes and snowboards and turned Queen Anne Avenue into a
good
old-fashioned sledding hill and half-mile long block party. As may be
expected, after a few hours a sled veered off the hill and went splat into
something or other. One of the riders broke her arm and the Aid Car was
called.

You guessed it. The next thing to happen was the arrival of the Seattle
Police. The news reports went something like, "The unruly crowd was
dispersed by the heroic actions of the outnumbered police". "Several
people
resisted but were subdued and booked for failure to comply with lawful
orders."

Sounds like the fun police are hard at work out there.

Regrets.
--
Jim in NC

"C J Campbell" wrote in message
...

I liked the Underground Tour much better back in the old days when you had
to carry your own flashlight and the guides were less politically correct.
Crawling around through filthy, dark tunnels with rats scurrying
everywhere
(especially at night) somehow seemed to more of a reflection of what
Seattle
history was all about. Speidel often conducted the tours himself, hawking
his autographed books at the end.

In my experience, the "catacombs" were seen through the eyes of a rookie
firefighter, flashlight in hand, following his Lieutenant through the
mysterious passageways. A few years later, "Night Hotel" inspections in
Chinatown revealed gambling parlors, opium dens, and "Pleasure Houses". A
wise inspector bypassed these and spent his time making sure the exits were
unlocked in the flophouses and missions.

There is a lot of history in the Emerald City.

Rich S.

Good post Rich,



"Rich S." wrote snip

This was accompanied by video of a citizen apparently (and loudly)
asking an officer what authority he had to run citizens off a closed street,
whereupon this heretic was taken down, handcuffed, frisked and shoved into a
patrol car.


This is no big deal, this is what happens to me everyday at RAH!

Keep rolling them on with power,

pacplyer

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 12:51:01 -0800, "Rich S."
wrote:

"C J Campbell" wrote in message
...

Don't do that! Now you have clean your computer screen.

I'd rather fly with you than argue with you any day. Tell you what. Call
PAVCO at 800-645-3563 and put yourself on my schedule and N7277M any time
we are free. We'll go flying, my treat. If I get real ambitious, I'll even
make up some sort of " I Flew With the World Famous Flight Instructor"
certificate for you, suitable for framing.


Now you've done it! Gone and spoiled a perfectly good argument - and just
when I was starting to wax eloquent, too.

Ok - but only if you'll risk life and limb for a ride in the Emeraude. I
promise to not push you out (canopy won't open in flight).

Damn it Rich and C.J., Don't either of you know the unwritten Usenet
rules?

Once an argument has started it *MUST* escalate into a flame war, in
which it is *REQUIRED* that one of the parties make derogatory
personal remarks about the other, after which it is *MANDATORY* that
the other compare the first to Hitler or a Nazi. At which point one
of many NetCops is *COMPELLED* to try to invoke Godwin's Law.
Following that, of course, are the *OBLIGATORY* postings of Godwin's
Law corollaries.

Acting civil is going to spoil the reputation of this newsgroup.

- John Ousterhout.-

"John Ousterhout"
wrote in message news

Damn it Rich and C.J., Don't either of you know the unwritten Usenet
rules?

Once an argument has started it *MUST* escalate into a flame war, in
which it is *REQUIRED* that one of the parties make derogatory
personal remarks about the other, after which it is *MANDATORY* that
the other compare the first to Hitler or a Nazi. At which point one
of many NetCops is *COMPELLED* to try to invoke Godwin's Law.
Following that, of course, are the *OBLIGATORY* postings of Godwin's
Law corollaries.

Acting civil is going to spoil the reputation of this newsgroup.

So - sue my a$$, you **&*&^%^% brown-shirted hippie!

And have a good day.

Rich S.

"John Ousterhout"
wrote in
|
| Damn it Rich and C.J., Don't either of you know the unwritten Usenet
| rules?
|
| Once an argument has started it *MUST* escalate into a flame war, in
| which it is *REQUIRED* that one of the parties make derogatory
| personal remarks about the other, after which it is *MANDATORY* that
| the other compare the first to Hitler or a Nazi. At which point one
| of many NetCops is *COMPELLED* to try to invoke Godwin's Law.
| Following that, of course, are the *OBLIGATORY* postings of Godwin's
| Law corollaries.
|
| Acting civil is going to spoil the reputation of this newsgroup.
|

Well, if you insist, you stinkin' net Nazi. :-)

From: John Ousterhout

Date: 1/8/2004 10:22 PM Central Standard Time
Message-id:

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 12:51:01 -0800, "Rich S."
wrote:

"C J Campbell" wrote in message
...

Don't do that! Now you have clean your computer screen.

I'd rather fly with you than argue with you any day. Tell you what. Call
PAVCO at 800-645-3563 and put yourself on my schedule and N7277M any time
we are free. We'll go flying, my treat. If I get real ambitious, I'll even
make up some sort of " I Flew With the World Famous Flight Instructor"
certificate for you, suitable for framing.


Now you've done it! Gone and spoiled a perfectly good argument - and just
when I was starting to wax eloquent, too.

Ok - but only if you'll risk life and limb for a ride in the Emeraude. I
promise to not push you out (canopy won't open in flight).

Damn it Rich and C.J., Don't either of you know the unwritten Usenet
rules?

Once an argument has started it *MUST* escalate into a flame war, in
which it is *REQUIRED* that one of the parties make derogatory
personal remarks about the other, after which it is *MANDATORY* that
the other compare the first to Hitler or a Nazi. At which point one
of many NetCops is *COMPELLED* to try to invoke Godwin's Law.
Following that, of course, are the *OBLIGATORY* postings of Godwin's
Law corollaries.

Acting civil is going to spoil the reputation of this newsgroup.

- John Ousterhout.-

You forgat the part about degenerating to blatant sarcasm.

Or was that starting a string of puns?

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired