I think you have a different idea of a ‘friend’. I’d die for my friends if it came to that, that’s my definition of a true friend. All others are mere aquantances. I had only a few real friends in HS. I was ‘friendly’ with many of my peers but I’d step in front of that bus for a handful at most.

Natasha Fatale, you will be missed dahlink.

Or they could make a adaptation of Turtledove’s “Guns of the South”. Sci-fi story about time travel, US Civil War and AK-47s.

Seriously. Big airliners are the Greyhound buses in the sky, borrring. A small plane; now you’re talkin’, G’s, tight turns. A sports car. Ridem’ Cowboy!

I favor Yeee Hawww!

Those Merlin engines were sweet.

I thought so too. I saw it in IMAX in a center-ish seat and I lost a lot of the dialogue especially the aerial battle and the scene in the fishing boat. I have reduced hearing though especially above 9Khz.

Spitfires running out of fuel have glided for 15 miles so the brief but seemingly long glide sequence was not beyond possibility. The ammo thing I’ll grant you. The number of short bursts a Spit pilot could squeeze off could be a few as eight and maybe twelve or thirteen if he was frugal with ammo. I was counting and…

Gibson is a pretty good 9Lb Cat. Since he has been going outdoors all night his appetite has increased a lot. Still have access to his ribcage and he can leap 6 foot fences like nobody’s business. I can’t imagine him getting to this stage despite packing away all the food I put in front of him. How did you get sooo…

Asteriods! (?)

How are they at hand-to-hand Wombat?

Jeez I got beat by an Onion story. Oh the humanity! 73%.. and I thought I was sooo savvy..

Ocearch founder Chris Fischer (who named her after his mother and believes her charm lies in her “matriarchal and clever personality”)

A Cord! Saw one in the flesh in Mexico City years ago. The chrome headers stood out in stark contrast to the red primer and rust body but it was a Cord nonetheless. One of my Dad’s favorite designed cars and he made sure I knew all about how all the ‘modern’ frills on cars were invented and used since the early days…

My Dad was the family gear head. All car related issues were refered to him. He sometimes assumed a level of knowledge about cars that did not neccessarily exist within our extended family. To wit: My Aunt called one frosty winter day that her car wouldn’t start. My Dad asked” Does the engine turn over?” She replied…

Yes. A group huddled or stacked preparing an ambush or even just chilling, waiting to ambush the Iraqi army. Gets spotted, drone etc. Sniper team gets to work. Reports are that there was little to no wind. Sniper team had a height advantage, necessary for such a long range shot. The round that hit, we all assume that…

Kylie Minogue. Singing and moderate dance movement no syncing. All the strenuous stuff is done by the back up dancers. No stress on her so she can belt it out live.

True, seen one seen them all.

Earliest ‘American’ porn film example. There are examples from France (?) pre- WWI IIRC. No surprise that porn hasn’t changed since then either. All the same acts, positions, themes etc. The one I saw featured naughty nuns.