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Had this poster of Kim in my dorm.

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Kim is nice, but I had a poster of my own girlfriend in my dorm room.

Today is also the birthday of another "Bond girl", Kim Basinger, who portrayed "Domino" in Never Say Never Again. My daughter has one of these vintage tiger print swimsuits in her collection of swimwear. One of her little actress acquaintances, Holli Coleman, portrayed the title child in the Basinger film Bless The Child. We once got to spend an afternoon hanging out in her trailer on set eating pralines.

We cannot neglect to recognize today's birthday girl, Teri Hatcher, another Bond "girl"/woman.

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Pics?


WTF has happened to this place?. …three pages before anyone asked.

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Well, lead the way and share your daughter first, eh?

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pic of girlfriend?

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All of my personal photos of her were long before digital photography and are in a scrapbook. I have pics of her in elementary and high school, sitting on the hood of her first car, tailgating with me at football games, in newspaper articles and in a bikini at my apartment pool. One of her daughters is a virtual clone, but taller (one likely reason she did not win was being 5'2" while Rhonda was 5'6"). I just pulled up her social media and don't see a suitable photo of her, but to give you some appreciation, this is her look-a-like daughter at about 40? A wedding photo.

I discovered those performances many years ago, as Whiter Shade is one of my all-time favorite songs.

Here is Ian Anderson's orchestral Aqualung, from a concert with orchestra.

She has been worth every penny so far. Don't expect that I will live another 30 years to take care of all of her mortgage, but I may provide for her in my will.

J/K. I'm proud of mine too. No house yet as she doesn't know where she will end up, but 28 and a doctor.

I built an A-10 many years ago*. Used to watch the 926th Tactical Fighter Group practice strafing runs when they were at Alvin Callender Field near NOLA.

165 Warthogs were deployed to Operation Desert Storm and flew over 8,100 sorties, losing 4 planes, two of which were able to return to base but lost on landing due to damage which affected control of the aircraft.

The A-10 has a backup manual control system (cables and pulleys - think driving a dumptruck without power steering). One interesting story of an A-10 in low-level ground support in Baghdad which took over a hundred hits from anti-aircraft fire and lost hydraulic controls:

The pilot managed to fly the plane an hour back to Kuwait and successfully land it. Colonel Kim Casey Campbell, a woman, who flew more than 100 combat missions in a 24 years career.

*Edit to add: a 1/24 model, not an actual airplane!

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Anybody Have A Feel For Eric Wolford, the New OL Coach From Ky?

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I wonder what kind of feel would he prefer. Poster earlier in the thread said he was an analist?

Y'all do realize that that grocery photo was obviously staged. All the products' names are facing the camera so as to be easily identified.