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Just a figment…
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Proof that, I too, can be as sharp as a marble.
I live in a decent neighborhood. It's not great, but it isn't bad by any means. However, I have lived in places where expect to hear the sheriff's helicopters circling. And we still get them out here on occasion. Like today, I am sitting in my office and I hear the copter circling. They are announcing something over the PA system. I can hear, "white cap....black clothes....carrying a.....call...."
So what do I do, I walk outside to hear better. Not five minutes later I hear the same sheriff announcing, "Face on the ground. This is the Sheriff's Department." The helicopter is circling the apartments next to ours. It made me wonder why I felt the need to walk outside when I heard the first announcement.
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Sky isn't falling, ground is rising
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: In a hole in the dark in a cold cold place
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If someone yells "Get down!" the first thing anyone is going to do is look to see why.
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Rare Writer Pokemon
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Colorado
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Hey, it's survival of the fittest.
In those situations of danger, I just fling a child in front of me and run away. Truly, I am a marvel of evolution.
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Cheers
Join Date: Feb 2005
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I knew a guy back in highschool who was chased across his own farm by a helicopter because he was wearing orange overalls. There had been a prison break a couple miles down the road.
Of course, running from the helicopter probably didn't help. |
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Yes, I'm back.
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: The unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy
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The only thing to do when you hear armed police outside is ask your noisy neighbours to you a favour.
"What kind of favour" "Run outside shouting 'You'll Never Take Me Alive'"
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Forced into cell phone life
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: West Vir-freaking-ginia
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Those helicopters circle around here as well. For the first few months, I sat out on the porch with an eRase-Me board and marker, writing messages to them (i.e. "Go lower, you're gonna hit the limbo stick!" and "Glad you came- my toaster's broken! Help!") then I figured out that they were probably after me. So now, I never leave. Ever.
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RIP Anthony Shane Taylor. You will be loved and missed. I will never forget the tragic morning of Oct. 11, nor the many amazing times we spent together. You were one in a million and a great friend to many. Whatever's on the other side will treat you very well, and I know that someday I'll get the chance to see that shit eating grinning of yours again.
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Forced into cell phone life
Join Date: Jul 2006
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I can't anymore. I thought it'd be a good idea to paint the walls with gasoline, and it DID look really cool when it was done. The only problem was that I lit a victory cigarette afterward.
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RIP Anthony Shane Taylor. You will be loved and missed. I will never forget the tragic morning of Oct. 11, nor the many amazing times we spent together. You were one in a million and a great friend to many. Whatever's on the other side will treat you very well, and I know that someday I'll get the chance to see that shit eating grinning of yours again.
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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is not the avatar thief
Join Date: Feb 2005
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I have the distinction of being in the flightpath of all the flyovers for the Eagles' games.
During the playoffs, my house shook and I thought something was crashing in the backyard. What's really weird is to watch them on TV and hear them over your house at the same time.
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teh evil broad
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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We get to see and hear all sorts of cool flying machines. Sometimes you can't talk to the person standing next to you if you're outside. |
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Dream Killer
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Middle of Nowhere, Utah
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All we get around here are search and rescue helicopters because there are always stupid people who don't say where they are going, who don't watch the weather, who don't bother taking a compass and so forth and end up getting lost in the mountains.
I mean we're talking about the Rockies here, ground level around here is 6000 feet above sea level. It doesn't take a real genius to know, "Gee, this could be a little dangerous, maybe we should be prepared before going out." They take cell phones as their back up. Oh that's brilliant, since they only work half the time in the valley, let's take it on the mountain where we get zero reception!
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Sky isn't falling, ground is rising
Join Date: Oct 2006
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I used to live near Norfolk, VA. We often had the pleasure of watching (and hearing) the Blue Angels practice. It was amazing at times. I hadn't known a fighter jet could hover with its nose skyward.
As for "the eye in the sky' I was playing with one once. A friend and I managed to get ones attention and played it to the fullest. We darted and hid and he chased us and searched when he lost sight of us. It was fun until the cop that had followed my busted taillight into the complex walked up behind us. (Sigh) It is always the one you don't see... |
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Just a figment…
Join Date: Jan 2006
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It is nice to know that I am not the only marble in the bunch.
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Sky isn't falling, ground is rising
Join Date: Oct 2006
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practical experience, FTW
Join Date: Jul 2006
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We recently had an old man with dementia get lost in the canyons around our neighborhood and they sent the loudspeaker/helicopter around looking for him.
We also life on the flight path for a hospital's lifeflight helicopter, a military air base, and a police station. Husband swears he can tell which copter is which by the sound. I assume he's right, but the all just sound "loud" to me. |
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here for a minute...catch me?
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Okay you cracked marble you, umm, I would have done the same thing. How else would you hear the description of who they're searching for?
(wonder what we'd do if we caught him!) |
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Forced into cell phone life
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: West Vir-freaking-ginia
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RIP Anthony Shane Taylor. You will be loved and missed. I will never forget the tragic morning of Oct. 11, nor the many amazing times we spent together. You were one in a million and a great friend to many. Whatever's on the other side will treat you very well, and I know that someday I'll get the chance to see that shit eating grinning of yours again.
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practical experience, FTW
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LOL! - I can't remotely picture my straight-arrow husband running from the cops. He didn't even have a dissolute youth! (But who knows, maybe he could be planning to take up a life of reckless behavior in his 50s.)
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Forced into cell phone life
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He'd better be! My philosophy is that everyone's gotta roll with the dark side for a while, or life just isn't worth living! I mean, can you really call a lifetime of playing by the rules a REAL life? No! You have to see the nitty-gritty! You have to be that naked, drunk guy with piss all over his legs running from 8 cruisers and a K-9 unit while still chugging the beer bong and dragging along a wheelchair! You have to hang from rafters at a mosh pit spitting on the heads of other people! You have to tie the president's shoelaces to his desk and rig his toilet up with fireworks! BE the life, LIVE the life!
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RIP Anthony Shane Taylor. You will be loved and missed. I will never forget the tragic morning of Oct. 11, nor the many amazing times we spent together. You were one in a million and a great friend to many. Whatever's on the other side will treat you very well, and I know that someday I'll get the chance to see that shit eating grinning of yours again.
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volitare nequeo
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Assuming the child isn't related to you, otherwise Aunty Evolution would be quite annoyed.
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Dream Killer
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Middle of Nowhere, Utah
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In case anyone was curious...
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