Let The Countdown Begin!

[Mouse]

Infinite points to Niki for having Bad Wolf as a tag line!

[Laird Fraser of Lovatt]

Last time I went fishing, I caught a drunk.  

Ummm... was he really pale and bloated?

He was pale. He also had a mohawk and a leather jacket, and thats about all he was wearing.  





I remember going to the gun line once to have a meeting and  seeing a kid sleeping on a cot in between two M109's in a battery firing 6 rounds for effect. Didnt even move.

LOL... I was known for falling out while outbound on a combat drop.  The hum of the engines on a C-130 always did me in!   

[maeven]

Yeah! How could you have slept through that?

My alarm is within 12 inches of my head. It can ring for over an hour before I wake up. I can sleep through almost anything... The B-47 crash knocked my little brother out of his bed. (I was 8 years-old when this happened, he was 6). This occurred in 1960 in Little Rock, AR.  My dad was in the Air Force at the time and witnessed the breakup of the bomber over Little Rock. He was watching it fly over when it exploded...  When you consider that a bomber crashed in the middle of a city, and only two civilians and three crew members died, it's pretty bloody amazing.

No kidding! That's crazy.

[Breandan]

He was pale. He also had a mohawk and a leather jacket, and thats about all he was wearing.  

will I cringe and cry a little inside if you divulge where the hook caught? o.O

I remember going to the gun line once to have a meeting and  seeing a kid sleeping on a cot in between two M109's in a battery firing 6 rounds for effect. Didnt even move.

that was me with the CRAMS at VBC after day 3. Every time that thrice-damned Incoming alarm went off, I'd mutter imprecations and pull the pillow over my head before R2D2 burped. Of course, I was less than 100 meters from the thing, and it generally fired over our CHU, but I still managed to sleep through that, among other "gifts" left by the locals. I did hate chasing my laptop around the table during the Night of the VBIEDs, however... bastages.

[Rani Zemirah]

Adaptability... some folks have it, some don't.  I'm an extremely light sleeper, but I can tune certain things out, and focus on other things that normally wouldn't even register with other people.  When my daughter turns over in her bed on the other end of the apartment, I hear it... but I've managed to tune out the couple next door who seem to think 3am is a perfect time to bang their headboard against the wall of my bedroom.   


My little brother slept through half a KISS concert when he was 4... but he doesn't pick and choose, he just blocks out everything!  LOL

[maeven]

I am a pretty light sleeper-I can hear when a door opens in my house. lol

When my husband and I had our first apartment, we had a couple that lived above us that made a lot of noise, so I had to sleep with ear plugs in. I've gotten so used to them that I sleep with them every night. lol

[haleyileaha]

Adaptability... some folks have it, some don't.  I'm an extremely light sleeper, but I can tune certain things out, and focus on other things that normally wouldn't even register with other people.  When my daughter turns over in her bed on the other end of the apartment, I hear it... but I've managed to tune out the couple next door who seem to think 3am is a perfect time to bang their headboard against the wall of my bedroom.    


My little brother slept through half a KISS concert when he was 4... but he doesn't pick and choose, he just blocks out everything!  LOL

Lol this is why I'm glad I don't live in an apartment, If I want to I can bang my headboard against the wall anytime day or night without bothering anyone lol

I'm a super super light sleeper as well I hear everything unless I'm passed the point of exhaustion and then I can sleep a bit deeper.

[Hospitaller]

All this talk about sleeping through large gun-fire, etc....and I'm still stuck two pages back trying to picture Rani as a girly-girl

Just sayin'.....

Merlin - the stepson is based in Little Rock as a C130 crew chief. He tell me they still have close calls with those 40 year old planes and it's a miracle none have landed downtown!

[maeven]

Yeah, my head is still trying to wrap around the thought of that ever happening in my area. It would be total chaos! Extreme and total chaos.

[Rani Zemirah]

All this talk about sleeping through large gun-fire, etc....and I'm still stuck two pages back trying to picture Rani as a girly-girl

Just sayin'.....

Obviously you have never seen me set up camp... in a full ankle length skirt!  Ask Fraser... he's seen it.     In fact, even in camp I'm rarely in anything besides a skirt (and yes, a top, as well... ).


And just because I DON'T do the whole eyelash batting thing to get the lads to pitch my tent for me, doesn't mean that I can't... it just means that I prefer to show what a confident, competent woman I am, and not some simpering, helpless, hair-twirling twit that ooohs and aaahs over big muscles and manly swaggering. 

Oh, not that I DON'T oooh and ahhh, mind you... it's just done in a way that lets a man know that it's more than his muscles (or his car, house or bank account) that have impressed me.   

And on occasion... I might even paint my toenails!   

[haleyileaha]

Lol I definitely ooh and aah over muscles and manly swaggering. I just can't help myself lol
Of course I usually always pitch my own tent but not in a skirt usually in jeans or shorts. Lol
Of course if someone offered help I wouldn't turn them down but I wouldn't try to coerce someone into helping just to get out of doing it myself.

[Mead Swilling Lech]

Anybody that's former military (well except maybe the prop tops in the air farce) can sleep at the drop of a dime.  It comes from experience.

I once fell asleep on the top of my squad's M-113 to stay off the ground and in the morning they fired it up and started driving off.  TC popped his head out of the hatch and had to smack me to wake me up.

Damn jet jockeys don't sleep well if they hear their ice machine is broken.

[Laird Fraser of Lovatt]

Anybody that's former military (well except maybe the prop tops in the air farce) can sleep at the drop of a dime.  It comes from experience.

I once fell asleep on the top of my squad's M-113 to stay off the ground and in the morning they fired it up and started driving off.  TC popped his head out of the hatch and had to smack me to wake me up.

Damn jet jockeys don't sleep well if they hear their ice machine is broken.

Come on, Lech... you know you were just trying to hitch a ride! 


*damn Legs*

[Laird Fraser of Lovatt]

Lol I definitely ooh and aah over muscles and manly swaggering. I just can't help myself lol
Of course I usually always pitch my own tent but not in a skirt usually in jeans or shorts. Lol
Of course if someone offered help I wouldn't turn them down but I wouldn't try to coerce someone into helping just to get out of doing it myself.

Rani's right.. bat the eyelashes and breath really deep... you'll have guys tripping over each other to help you set up...  

[Rani Zemirah]

I tend to be far more impressed by what's in a mans mind, and the way he uses it, than his muscles...  I mean, any idiot can lift weights, but it takes a great deal more to get my undivided attention than just looking good without a shirt.  Eventually I'll want to find out if they can hold an intelligent conversation... and if not, they're not worth my time or effort.  


Why bother with someone who bores me?  


Of course, with most guys, that's not an issue.  Lots of them seem to fall for the helpless, simpering idiot type... for a while, anyway.