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I’m a graphic designer since 1975 and have been immersed in fonts since. That was fun!

That confirms they have your name attached to that number, and that information has value to them. When asked that by the spammer, you should ask, “Who’s calling?” Some will hang up, saving me the effort. Others may repeat the question, which results in me hanging up without saying another word. Others may identify themselves and are (rarely) someone I want to talk to. All of my unknown callers numbers are sent to spam and deleted. Rye has a good setup for automatically sending calls to voicemail. I can mark those as spam, but most don’t leave a message. Then I block the number. Works pretty well!

Agreed!

Santa visited MCAF Iwakuni via Kaman HH-43 in 1958. Didn’t need no stinking reindeer! I was a kid, so I had no frame of reference about noise. Everything was noisy. Loved it.

I and both my sons are Eagles. My younger son took the last-minute path as well! Congratulations to both of you, it’s a big achievement to be proud of. 🦅

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummo_Marx

I have that book. It’s an awesome read.

My parents had a ‘66 Beetle with the recently introduced gas gauge. As the gas sloshed around while driving, so did the needle. It was in constant motion. The car also had windshield washers. There was no pump as it ran off the spare tire air pressure, from a hose connected to the tire valve. It was a great incentive to keep the spare filled with air.

AF planes landing gear would collapse before the tail hook grabbed a wire. A carrier landing is more like a controlled crash.

Yup.

There was a time in the early jet age when designers thought of other ways of egress. The early F-104s ejected the pilot downward. My dad’s Douglas A3D Skywarrior had a chute opened by a lever where he was supposed to slide out the bottom of the plane. Both systems depended on the planes being upright, which was a ridiculous assumption. Dad also flew Lockheed TV2s and Grumman F9F Cougars which had standard ejection seats. He thought the A3D arrangement was pretty stupid.

Hi Plains Hud, for reasons already expressed.

I give a demerit to the TO for allowing the shooter to leave the firing line and hold up the posse while he retrieved his hat to indulge himself in this foolishness, even if was a joke. All the TO had to do was say “Hands on head”.

Carl Stalling was a genius. His partnership with Warner Bros was spectacular. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_W._Stalling And the MGM Hanna/Barbara cartoons produced by Fred Quimby were works of art. I learned to love big band music of the 1940s from them.