10-03-2008, 02:17 AM | #2722 (permalink) |
comfortably numb...
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us?
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10-03-2008, 04:24 AM | #2723 (permalink) |
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No
-----Added 3/10/2008 at 08 : 24 : 24----- Yes
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10-03-2008, 06:10 AM | #2725 (permalink) | |
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Maybe this will help... I see water all around me.
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10-03-2008, 06:30 AM | #2729 (permalink) |
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Yes, I'm on an island... what gave it away?
-----Added 3/10/2008 at 10 : 32 : 22----- No, but after yesterdays "who am I" post by you I almost feel like saying yes.
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10-03-2008, 06:56 AM | #2732 (permalink) |
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No I'm saying it's not Martha's Vineyard... and you still suck
-----Added 3/10/2008 at 10 : 57 : 55----- Which "one" question would you like me to answer? I'll go with the first. I am West of the Mississippi.
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10-03-2008, 10:47 AM | #2733 (permalink) |
comfortably numb...
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santa catalina?
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10-03-2008, 10:56 AM | #2734 (permalink) |
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^ sorry, Tul. I just quoted myself since my previous question was missed...oh missus. But hey, who's counting?
Are you near the Strait of San Juan de Fuca? ...near meaning less than 500 miles? (...as an aside, or not: I tried a glass of Stella Artois again at lunch today since the tap I asked for was not pouring yet...I kindly asked her to pour it down the drain and give me a Yingling...that Artois stuff is nasty...imo) |
10-03-2008, 12:39 PM | #2735 (permalink) |
comfortably numb...
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south padre?
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it. |
10-03-2008, 02:23 PM | #2736 (permalink) | |
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Right coast, wrong Island... wrong body of water.
-----Added 3/10/2008 at 06 : 28 : 19----- Quote:
I'm farther the 500 miles from the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
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10-03-2008, 02:42 PM | #2737 (permalink) |
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Are you on one of the 'freak' states?
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10-03-2008, 02:46 PM | #2738 (permalink) |
comfortably numb...
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alcatraz?
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it. |
10-03-2008, 03:16 PM | #2739 (permalink) | |
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-----Added 3/10/2008 at 07 : 17 : 43----- No, but I can see "The Rock."
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10-03-2008, 03:19 PM | #2740 (permalink) |
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alameda nas?
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10-03-2008, 03:23 PM | #2742 (permalink) |
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Drake's Island
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10-03-2008, 03:35 PM | #2743 (permalink) |
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No. I'm in San Francisco Bay. I checked on wiki and can't find a Drake's Is. in SF Bay.
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10-03-2008, 03:41 PM | #2744 (permalink) |
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I always forget clues that involve "East/West"...
your "Rock" clue shoved me off from the obvious, to a more abstract interpretation of a 'famous rock', 'initial rock', 'Plymouth Rock'.. ah
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10-03-2008, 04:10 PM | #2745 (permalink) |
comfortably numb...
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i have to pee...
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10-03-2008, 05:08 PM | #2746 (permalink) |
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I'm man made for a specific purpose, if that helps.
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10-03-2008, 07:31 PM | #2747 (permalink) |
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Treasure Island? ...though not the one by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island, a man made island, has been used as an international airport, site of the 1939–40 World’s Fair and as a military base. The Museum of The City of San Francisco has an article and links to other World’s Fair information. |
10-04-2008, 12:49 AM | #2748 (permalink) | ||
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Fun times. To graduate the school you had to don the "hot suit" (a silver looking thing with a helmet that appeared to be made by NASA) and walk through a 30ft diesel fire, pick up a 5 gallon bucket of water and walk back out. A couple years later I found myself in Samoa where I visited the grave of Robert Louis Stevenson. His tombstone reads: Quote:
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10-04-2008, 08:30 AM | #2749 (permalink) |
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OK, where in the world am I?
Tul, One of the products/business groups where I work develops and manufactures body cooling apparatus...for industrial workers, military, etc. About 10 or so years ago, we developed and tested a system for cooling those fire suits you mentioned. As we were running our tests, a guy...I wish I remembered his name...came to witness and help with development; he was pretty much the world's leading expert in specialized heat/fire protection suits and systems. I recall getting into that suit and getting into a big heat treatment oven to test it...we didn't have breathing air available at the first runs, so I had a tube that led from my mouth and out the door so I could breath, and we had some prearranged signals in case I felt faint...first test failed since I got too hot and had to get out. |
10-04-2008, 08:54 AM | #2750 (permalink) |
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NH?
Nick: Here I am somewhere in the Indian Ocean between Diego Gracia and Kenya. Standing a couple frames forward of the flight deck, starboard, just before sunrise. We did most of our drills in the pre-dawn hours due to heat. We had no air supply at all in those days, by 0900 or 1000 it would be well over 100 degree. In that suit it felt more like 150.
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10-04-2008, 02:51 PM | #2755 (permalink) |
comfortably numb...
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city?
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10-04-2008, 04:07 PM | #2757 (permalink) |
comfortably numb...
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the empire state building?
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it. |
10-04-2008, 06:33 PM | #2758 (permalink) |
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Ahhh, Empire State building is one of my favorite buildings. I remember the first time I went up in it...I was about 10 years old.
per wiki: The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. Its name is derived from the nickname for the state of New York. It stood as the world's tallest building for more than forty years, from its completion in 1931 until construction of the World Trade Center's North Tower was completed in 1972. Following the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001, the Empire State Building again became the tallest building in New York City and New York State. ...but sorry, unc. I'm not in the Empire State Building. |
10-05-2008, 04:13 AM | #2759 (permalink) |
comfortably numb...
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landlocked state?
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