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I watched that film so many times growing up I could recite the opening speech and most of the movie.

If you really want an incite I to the man read the 3 volume set The Patton Papers by Martin Blumenson. It has tons of diary entries from the diary he kept. He kept one from about age 12 until his death.

re: McDonald's Reports Strong Sales

Posted by crash1211 on 2/12/26 at 5:17 pm to
0 times since Ida. After they fricked me out of $42 because the app showed the one I ordered from was open but it wasn't. They told oh the charge won't go through. Guess what it did and they couldn't figure out how to get it refunded. Never got the money back and I haven't eaten there once since. I used to get it about every 3 weeks on Friday for the kids.

re: Godfather quandry.

Posted by crash1211 on 2/12/26 at 8:53 am to
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He had like a 20 yard head start Any grown Man under 300 pounds with two functional legs would have caught him in less than 30 seconds


It was hot. He didn't want to get all sweaty. :lol:

re: Godfather quandry.

Posted by crash1211 on 2/12/26 at 8:50 am to
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He explained that Appolonia would lose a father instead of gaining a husband if he refused to consent. Pretty clear.


Nah, he said he would do that if he told the people who were looking for him where he was located.
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Saw a good one "stay out stay out"


Gives a new meaning to BOX BOX BOX.
This is the most amazing part of the story.

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It is now clear that many of these predictions were wrong.


Headline should be NY Times admits it was wrong.
Got you beat stopped watching when they stopped racing back to the yellow. The stupid playoff put the final nail in it for me.
Well, it is pretty impressive he can spell words because, im pretty sure he sits down to pee.
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Let Bill and Hillary testify in separate rooms at the same time, while asking them the same questions. Let them contradict each other.


The Daniel strategy. I like it. Maybe we can have the same results also. One could hope.
The NASA management was boasting way crazier numbers. Something like 1 in 100,000. This is one reason Feynman wanted it grounded until measures could be put in place.

Rogers Commision Report
I found it clever how he gave Feynman the direction to search for answers

"One day [early in the investigation] Sally Ride and I were walking together. She was on my right side and was looking straight ahead. She opened up her notebook and with her left hand, still looking straight ahead, gave me a piece of paper. Didn't say a single word. I look at the piece of paper. It's a NASA document. It's got two columns on it. The first column is temperature, the second column is resiliency of O-rings as a function of temperature. It shows that they get stiff when it gets cold. Sally and I were really good buddies. She figured she could trust me to give me that piece of paper and not implicate her or the people at NASA who gave it to her, because they could all get fired. I wondered how I could introduce this information Sally had given me. So I had Feynman at my house for dinner. I have a 1973 Opel GT, a really cute car. We went out to the garage, and I'm bragging about the car, but he could care less about cars. I had taken the carburetor out. And Feynman said, "What's this?" And I said, "Oh, just a carburetor. I'm cleaning it." Then I said, "Professor, these carburetors have O-rings in them. And when it gets cold, they leak. Do you suppose that has anything to do with our situation?" He did not say a word. We finished the night, and the next Tuesday, at the first public meeting, is when he did his O-ring demonstration ... I never talked with Sally about it later ... I kept it a secret that she had given me that piece of paper until she died [in 2012].[3]
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There is a pretty good documentary (for those who like engineering stuff) on Netflix about the O-Rings and how they knew about the cold weather issues that could occur and the decision to launch. Im sure lots of yall have seen it, but it is worth a watch if you haven't. Its called "Challenger: The Final Flight".


I remember physicist Richard Feynman showing how the O-ring seals lost resilience in cold temperatures.during a hearing on TV.
I was in class at Nicholls. It seemed like they canceled class and went to my truck to listen to WWL about it.
Saying Karen Carpenter would be weird because I'm a man, so I'll go with Luther Vandross just because I heard a song by him a few days ago in a store, and it made me smile.
I see Buck Levy 1956 1st winter Olympian from LA. New Orleans
Sheryl Franks (1980) New Orleans Figure Skating
Burt Lancon (1984) Morgan City Figure Skating
We used to call Luther Fletcher the Principal of H.L. Bourgeois in the 80's Boss Hogg. He would dress up like him for Home Coming and things like that.