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  1. I couldn't agree more. I'm glad to that stupid decision was overturned.
  2. As Paul Harvey so often said "And now, here's the rest of the story".....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Zimmer_Friedman
  3. Thanks Charlie. This is great stuff. I'd forgotten about this series but I doubt if I ever missed an episode "back in the day"...........Doug
  4. Interesting. I run an adblocker (AdGuard) and have never had any video blocked.
  5. Make more humans........🙂
  6. From IMDb........ James Stewart joined the Army Air Corps during World War II, and flew combat missions in Europe. At war's end, he transferred to the Reserve as a colonel. He remained an active pilot in the Air Force Reserve, and was trained on the B-36 and B-47 bombers which he flew in this film. He flew one combat mission over Vietnam in a B-52. He retired as Brigadier General James Maitland Stewart, USAFR in 1968. In 1985 he was promoted on the retired list to Major General (by his friend, President Ronald Reagan), making him the highest ranking member of the military of anyone ever in the acting profession.
  7. W2DR

    Why We Sim

    Indeed. And all this time I thought I was doing well with only a Daher TBM930, a Maserati, a Lamborghini, and three Ferraris. You learn something every day.
  8. W2DR

    Why We Sim

    That's not why I sim. I'm into learning practices and procedures that can be applied in RL. But, to each his own......
  9. But, for old farts particularly (like me), there are some other things that may need to be considered: https://www.emedihealth.com/wellness/fitness/disadvantages-climbing-stairs Doug
  10. Sounds a lot like P3D and MSFS........
  11. Right on. The first time I was in Level D sim (SW 737-700) I looked out the windscreen and thought I flying FS2. "Looking pretty" scenery doesn't count when you're learning to fly the real thing.
  12. Late one evening, a Police patrol car was routinely parked outside a local neighborhood bar at closing time. The officer noticed a man leaving the bar so intoxicated that he could barely walk. The man stumbled around the parking lot for a few minutes with the officer quietly observing. After what seemed an eternity and trying his keys on five vehicles, the man managed to find his car, which he fell into. He was there for a few minutes as a number of other customers left the bar and drove off. Finally he started the car and even though it was a fine, dry night he switched the wipers on and off. He then switched on the turn signals, then switched them off, tooted the horn, and turned on the headlights. He moved the vehicle forward a few feet, reversed a little and then remained stationary for a few more minutes as some other vehicles left the parking lot. At last he pulled out onto the street and started to drive slowly down the road. The Police officer, having patiently waited all this time, now started up the patrol car, put on the flashing lights, pulled the man over, and carried out a breathalyzer test. To his amazement the breathalyzer indicated no evidence of the man's intoxication. The Police officer said "I'll have to ask you to accompany me to the Police station - this breathalyzer equipment must be broken." "I doubt it," said the man, "tonight I'm the designated decoy". ------------------------------------ As you may know, some folks have had brushes with the authorities on the way home after a "social session" out with friends. Well, two days ago I was out for an evening with friends and had several drinks of Scotch followed by some rather nice red wine... a dry Chianti I think it was. Feeling jolly, I still had the sense to know that I may be slightly over the limit. That's when I did something that I've never done before, I took a cab home. Sure enough on the way home there was a police road block, but since it was a cab they just waved it past. I arrived home safely without incident. This was a real surprise as I had never driven a cab before. I don't know where I got it, and now that it's in my garage I'm not sure what to do with it.
  13. I'm with you. "Back in the day" just change the points and plugs, put a new condenser in the distributor, adjust the idle speed on the carburetor and you're good-to-go. Eventually we had to rebuild the carburetor and put new brushes in the generator. But even that was no big deal. All you needed to get it done were a couple wrenches and a screwdriver. This computerized stuff has taken all the fun out of it. And don't even get me started on driverless cars and trucks.
  14. It's one of the very best......
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