[Donno]

Dont worry about me... I'm in a different ocean.... if only the COT could float!!

[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by PenelopePitStop

Well, it started with a GTG get together, then morphed into the Navy, then morphed into a joke with LSC (my fault).

Fine ... I'm out.

All that aside, you do good work, Pen. The best indication of an excellent facilitator is the ability to stimulate conversation and discussion, and to share ideas.

Topic...??? We don't need no steenking topic! We'll just rename this thread, "Son of Talk About Anything Thread!"

[thunderfoot]

Connie, Ranger, Enterprise. Ranger reunion in August in Clakamas Oregon. The C.O. from 71-73 now a retired Admiral got nothing else to do. So he will host a party. Thats got to be at least 10K of sailors showing up for free booze and chow

[thunderfoot]

Originally Posted by Donno

'Bench race'.... who can slide an open beer can down a bar without spillage, caution goes out for a titter-totter on the edge, but saved by the unexpected lap it falls in (the bench fly)!

NASCAR the utimate fan virtual DWI.....

That is the most excellent deffinition I have heard yet

[LSC9901]

Originally Posted by thunderfoot

Connie, Ranger, Enterprise. Ranger reunion in August in Clakamas Oregon. The C.O. from 71-73 now a retired Admiral got nothing else to do. So he will host a party. Thats got to be at least 10K of sailors showing up for free booze and chow

Ahhh the days gone by. I was on the fightin' Hannah. CVA-19. I think it had been decommissioned about three times before I got on it. VA-212

[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by thunderfoot

Connie, Ranger, Enterprise. Ranger reunion in August in Clakamas Oregon. The C.O. from 71-73 now a retired Admiral got nothing else to do. So he will host a party. Thats got to be at least 10K of sailors showing up for free booze and chow

Ranger 71-73...? That was when Chenowith threw the spanner wrench in the reduction gear, wasn't it? #@!*#@!#*'er!

[PenelopePitStop]

Originally Posted by Bob Tanner

All that aside, you do good work, Pen. The best indication of an excellent facilitator is the ability to stimulate conversation and discussion, and to share ideas.

Topic...??? We don't need no steenking topic! We'll just rename this thread, "Son of Talk About Anything Thread!"

The Navy has definitely taken over this thread ... no big whoop!

[LSC9901]

Originally Posted by PenelopePitStop

The Navy has definitely taken over this thread ... no big whoop!

Had it not been for Uncle I might still be working for a living !!! I'm pretty content with what I have today.

[Donno]

Navy...?

Nah... just those who like to sail the concrete superhighway, not always without surface water!!

The thread... tentative, silk like, and breakable!!! each part worth more than the sum of its arts!

[Donno]

Originally Posted by thunderfoot

That is the most excellent deffinition I have heard yet

yet...? so what is it really, enlighten the uninititated!

[PenelopePitStop]

Originally Posted by LSC9901

Had it not been for Uncle I might still be working for a living !!! I'm pretty content with what I have today.

That wasn't a shot at the Navy. I have the utmost respect for those who serve our country. My dad was a Marine. I don't know what war ... WWII? Forgive my history ignorance. The first war I remember is Vietnam. My uncle was a Marine during that war, and it changed his life forever ... and not for the good.

Here I go again ... getting off the original topic!

Bad, Penny! Bad!

[Donno]

A bad Penny,

no such thing... just a poorly spent cent....

Is NASCAR so 'flush' they cant even take care of the dollars...? OOOpppss, sorry make the drivers safe, yet let the drivers kick the **** out of them cars on the track...??

[LSC9901]

Originally Posted by PenelopePitStop

That wasn't a shot at the Navy. I have the utmost respect for those who serve our country. My dad was a Marine. I don't know what war ... WWII? Forgive my history ignorance. The first war I remember is Vietnam. My uncle was a Marine during that war, and it changed his life forever ... and not for the good.

Here I go again ... getting off the original topic!

Bad, Penny! Bad!

As you mentioned this one did get off topic, although not really. It started out as a reunion kinda thing for GTG people and then went to the Navy. Vietnam was my war also. Sadly there were to many that had their lives changed due to it. Mine changed but I made a change for the better. I was a lucky one.

[PenelopePitStop]

Originally Posted by LSC9901

As you mentioned this one did get off topic, although not really. It started out as a reunion kinda thing for GTG people and then went to the Navy. Vietnam was my war also. Sadly there were to many that had their lives changed due to it. Mine changed but I made a change for the better. I was a lucky one.

Good for you. You are a lucky one.

My uncle overcame a lot, but it took him many years. To this day, he will not discuss Vietnam.

I think I mentioned to you before that I wish this forum had an "Off Topic" area for NASCAR fans to discuss other interests and things not specific to racing. Tell Ross to get on it!

[LSC9901]

Originally Posted by PenelopePitStop

Good for you. You are a lucky one.

My uncle overcame a lot, but it took him many years. To this day, he will not discuss Vietnam.

I think I mentioned to you before that I wish this forum had an "Off Topic" area for NASCAR fans to discuss other interests and things not specific to racing. Tell Ross to get on it!

There is the talk about anything thread.