RE: [SLE] Warning to Americans!

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Marlier, Ian

1 May 2006 1 May '06

16:58

-----Original Message----- From: Kevanf1 [mailto:kevanf1@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 11:35 AM To: SuSE Group Subject: Re: [SLE] Warning to Americans!

On 01/05/06, Jerry Feldman wrote: I once crashed a

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helicopter while landing on a mountain top because we were too heavy.

I've crashed a hovercraft... But that was because I was being stupid and trying to do something the craft was incapable of in the weather conditions :-/

Can I borrow your lives for a bit? I don't risk death nearly often enough sitting at my desk.... :-)

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Jerry Feldman

1 May 1 May

18:45

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-----Original Message----- From: Kevanf1 [mailto:kevanf1@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 11:35 AM To: SuSE Group Subject: Re: [SLE] Warning to Americans!

On 01/05/06, Jerry Feldman wrote: I once crashed a

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helicopter while landing on a mountain top because we were too

heavy.

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I've crashed a hovercraft... But that was because I was being stupid and trying to do something the craft was incapable of in the weather conditions :-/

Can I borrow your lives for a bit? I don't risk death nearly often enough sitting at my desk....

:-) I need all my lives. As I was taking off from LZ Uplift with a full load of water for the troops, a chaplain jumped on, and I did not allow for his added weight. I was also

On Monday 01 May 2006 12:58 pm, Marlier, Ian wrote: planning on a different LZ. As I looked at the map, the LZ was the top of a mountain surrounded on 3 sides by 100 ft. trees. As I was on short final the wind shifted to a quartering tailwind and I lost tail rotor control and the aircraft started to rotate as I was approaching the makeshift helipad. The only casualties were the chaplain (cut ear) and my zippo lighter, and my peter-pilot's underwear (I was aircraft commander) with my name and unit crest, and the Huey was in pretty bad shape. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

Kevanf1

19:01

New subject: [SLE] Warning to Americans!

On 01/05/06, Marlier, Ian wrote:

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-----Original Message----- From: Kevanf1 [mailto:kevanf1@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 11:35 AM To: SuSE Group Subject: Re: [SLE] Warning to Americans!

On 01/05/06, Jerry Feldman wrote: I once crashed a

...
helicopter while landing on a mountain top because we were too heavy.

I've crashed a hovercraft... But that was because I was being stupid and trying to do something the craft was incapable of in the weather conditions :-/

Can I borrow your lives for a bit? I don't risk death nearly often enough sitting at my desk....

:-)

After crashing a motorcycle at 90mph then not even breaking a fingernail I don't have many lives left. I (and my family) were also hit head on by a large lorry which wrote the car off that we were in. I also stepped from behind a parked bus into the path of an oncoming car that managed to stop within about half an inch of me. -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== PLEASE DON'T drink and drive it's not clever, it's just stupid. Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR

Ken Schneider

22:10

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On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 20:01 +0100, Kevanf1 wrote:

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On 01/05/06, Marlier, Ian wrote:

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After crashing a motorcycle at 90mph then not even breaking a fingernail I don't have many lives left. I (and my family) were also hit head on by a large lorry which wrote the car off that we were in. I also stepped from behind a parked bus into the path of an oncoming car that managed to stop within about half an inch of me. So that would be about 12 mm then, right? Geez, metric is so much easier to work with.

-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998

James Knott

2 May 2 May

00:36

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Marlier, Ian wrote:

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-----Original Message----- From: Kevanf1 [mailto:kevanf1@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 11:35 AM To: SuSE Group Subject: Re: [SLE] Warning to Americans!

On 01/05/06, Jerry Feldman wrote: I once crashed a

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helicopter while landing on a mountain top because we were too heavy. I've crashed a hovercraft... But that was because I was being stupid and trying to do something the craft was incapable of in the weather conditions :-/

Can I borrow your lives for a bit? I don't risk death nearly often enough sitting at my desk....

:-)

If you want to live dangerously, tell your wife that new dress makes her look fat. ;-)

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