"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
03/29/2018 at 09:07 • Filed to: good morning oppo
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
03/29/2018 at 09:07 • Filed to: good morning oppo | 3
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One more day until the three-day weekend. But it’s a working weekend for me. If your kids want to take up a musical instrument, have them play trumpet or trombone. That way, they’ll always have at least two gigs a year on Easter and Christmas.
The Graf Zeppelin (the first one, LZ 127) and a 1929 Packard. That looks like the Goodyear Blimp in the background. Goodyear launched its first blimp in 1925. Now, they are flying two semi-rigid airships, which are technically not blimps, but are still called blimps. Blimp.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> ttyymmnn
03/29/2018 at 09:25 |
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4 day weekend!
8)
punkgoose17
> ttyymmnn
03/29/2018 at 09:27 |
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Do you have a favorite of the newer airship concepts?
OPPOsaurus WRX
> ttyymmnn
03/29/2018 at 09:28 |
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i’ve let my kids try my trumpet. They were able to get sound out of it. One of my daughters like Lindsey Sterling and now wants a violin for her 6th b-day.
MrDakka
> ttyymmnn
03/29/2018 at 09:29 |
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We need to bring back those sky whales
WilliamsSW
> ttyymmnn
03/29/2018 at 09:36 |
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Good morning!
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ttyymmnn
> WilliamsSW
03/29/2018 at 10:17 |
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Very appropriate selection. When I was a teenager (mid-80s), there was a local movie theater that showed midnight movies on the weekends, usually rock shows like The Song Remains the Same , An Evening With The Doors , Stop Making Sense , The Wall , etc. Going to those movies in a significantly altered state was common. I still think Song Remains the Same was my favorite. At the time, the theater took a pretty lax attitude towards the, shall we say, activities , that its patrons partook in during the films. I remember one screening of the Doors movie when the PA system announced, “We’re about to start the film, so sit back, relax, and don’t throw up on your neighbor.” The announcement was followed by a loud cheer, then the sounds of untold bottles and cans being opened and the click of many, many lighters. Good times.
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ttyymmnn
> OPPOsaurus WRX
03/29/2018 at 10:18 |
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Violin is good, but if you want her to get a scholarship, have her switch to viola. Or bassoon.
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ttyymmnn
> punkgoose17
03/29/2018 at 10:19 |
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I haven’t really been keeping track of current trends. I’ve been hearing for years now that airships are coming back, but I’m still waiting. The Navy shelved their plans for a blimp a couple of years ago. The idea of floating to Europe is still appealing to me.
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ttyymmnn
> pip bip - choose Corrour
03/29/2018 at 10:19 |
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33 percent better!
DucST3-Red-1Liter-Standing-By
> ttyymmnn
03/29/2018 at 10:44 |
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3 day weekend? Why? Did I miss something???
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punkgoose17
> ttyymmnn
03/29/2018 at 11:00 |
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Yeah it has been taking a long time. The airship companies don’t have the money or do not want to fully invest in it, and outside companies do not want to make the investment either. The closest things have got are a mining company wants to use the boeing airlander to transport equipment to sites without roads in Canada, but they do not want to buy and airship.
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ttyymmnn
> punkgoose17
03/29/2018 at 11:21 |
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Airships were a thing back when there were no suitable aircraft to make transatlantic crossings. Obviously, that’s not the case now. So the airship has become a technology in search of a mission. They’re cool and all, but the job is being handled effectively and efficiently by modern aircraft. And I doubt many people would sign up to float across the Atlantic, though I might, if the price were right.
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ttyymmnn
> DucST3-Red-1Liter-Standing-By
03/29/2018 at 11:21 |
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Good Friday. Some folks have the day off.
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DucST3-Red-1Liter-Standing-By
> ttyymmnn
03/29/2018 at 11:32 |
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Oh right!