I almost asked if the tint would stay dark with the engine off. But I stopped myself just in time.

“Fix our energy problems?”

Did someone schedule a photo shoot before the interior was ready?

Tyler hasn’t done an article since Tuesday. Should we go looking for him?

Its not just that. Each aircraft has its own personality. After awhile, when you hear that tail number you’ll immediately remember its quirks.

No, but before I went to work for the IT dept. I was a correctional officer. “Cops” was showing in the dayroom and it was showing one of the Nashville episodes. Metro PD was chasing some guy down the street and one of the inmates pointed to the guy next to him and said “man, that’s your cousin!”

Many years ago there was an episode of Cops (this was Tennessee also, Nashville specifically) where a drunk ran from the police and drove his car up a guy wire. He gets out of his car and calmly walks away pretending it wasn’t him and gets seriously tackled.

“...caused me to make choices, decisions and act out in a manor...” This sentence makes it sound like he beat someone up in a large English estate.

The Tennessee DOT has been holding contests for the best slogan for their electronic Interstate billboards. Last years winner was “Texting and driving, oh cell no!”

“The Fighting Amish.”

I had to buy a car in a hurry after losing my company car when I was laid off. A Saturday afternoon was spent online looking at Autotrader and I found a 4 yr. old Sonata with 69,000 miles on it. The Carfax showed scheduled maintenance had been followed and it had no dents, dings or scratches.

Anyone exposed to the instant vacuum of space for 2 minutes would get the bends. (Let’s say Bob the red shirt got airlocked for stealing the Captain Kirk’s Twinkies.)

Navy SEALs.

Definitely not the same bunny boots I wore when I deployed to The Canadias for Operation Maple Flag.

I traded in my 1972 Dodge Dart Demon for a new 1981 Pontiac T1000 in Alexandria, LA. After a year, some interior parts simply fell off, but one trip to car wash loosened the door molding and left it hanging. I glued it back on but another trip to the car wash (should have learned my lesson) and other plastic bits fell…

Ask your dad. He’ll remember the tail numbers he flew.

Are you Putin me on?

Everytime I hear about a submarine disaster I think about the Kursk. It was a 500 ft. long sub that sank in water 360 ft. deep.

These are from the Great Tennessee Airshow in Smyrna, TN a few years ago. This year I have a better camera and we get the Blue Angels.

Yes. A win-win situation for us all.