I remember.

I'm not sure what's more impressive: not hitting any cones, or remembering the route.

That is so lame! He didn't hit a single cone! Man, I would have hit every damned one of them.

Well, here's the defense budget for this year, from our friends at Wikipedia. I'm not a math person, but I'm thinking that $300M is a piss in the ocean. That would get you about 2 F-35s, which are arguably more useful.

Where were you yesterday when I got flamed for dissing a valet parking guy who couldn't drive stick?

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Yes, but this one is my favorite.

FTFY.

Hell, she's probably rusted into the cockpit. Somebody should check it out.

I might say the same about Chili's. My son puked at a Chili's once and now refuses to go back. No great loss, really.

@ne1245: Dammit, I just spent the last five minutes working on this exact same post. Except mine doesn't have the little "A" in the middle of it.

One time I was forced to valet park, and the pimple-faced kid took one look at my 5-speed and called for help. Really? They hire valet parkers who can't drive stick?

I wouldn't kick it out of bed.

That's why I never use valet parking.

Get off my lawn, whippersnapper! Kids today. Sheesh!

Politely, yes. Nobody likes a snotty Grammar Nazi.

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A lot of interesting comments based on my initial post, so I'll throw some more JP4 on the fire. What is more important, numbers or technology? If we look at WWII, the Russians were (at least initially) outgunned by the Nazis. Sheer numbers kept them in the fight, until T-34, the later Yaks, and the Sturmovik came…

The United States intends to buy a total of 2,443 aircraft for an estimated US$323 billion, making it the most expensive defense program ever [en.wikipedia.org]