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2006 CL500
2009 C300 4matic
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

hang on I have to go right now, i'll report back to you when i'm done.

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1982 300GD Carmine Red (DB3535) Cabriolet Parting Out
1990 300SEL Smoke Silver (Parting out)
1991 350SDL Blackberry Metallic (481)

"The thing is Bob, its not that I'm lazy...its that I just don't care."

Lets see, showed up, did the deed, washed the hands, all while listening to music from the radio from a few rooms over.

Usually pet 1 or 2 cats that walk in as soon as I go in there.

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09 Jetta TDI
1985 300D

X2....Good kittys.........

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Matt (SD,CA)

1984 300SD.. White/Chrome Bunts..Green

1997 2500 Dodge Ram 5.9 Cummins 12 Valve 36 PSI of Boost = 400+hp & 800+tQ .. ..Greenspeed

2004 Dodge Ram 2500 4x4 Quad Cab Cummins 5.9 H.O "596hp/1225tq" 6 spd. Man. Leather Heated seats/Loaded..Flame Red....GREENSPEED

Global warming...Doing my part, Smokin da hippies..

Fight the good fight!......

Can’t say that I have. Please share it.

I must admit that there is a strange feeling to sitting with your pants around your ankles in the back of the plane, 40+ thousand feet up, 2:30am, a solo flight and knowing the thing is being flown by electrons. Your mind starts playing tricks on you. You hear things going wrong. You feel it turning when it’s not. You know that if it goes out of control, you’ll probably never make it back to the cockpit to save it.
It’s a weird thing to experience, and it never gets better with experience.

Then there’s always the times when you have to think faster than you can go.
When you’re back in the cockpit and the ATC finally gets a reply and then asks: “Where ya been 5-Tango-Alpha? We’ve been trying to contact you.”
I always claim a mysterious frequency change.

There are some "fun" things you can do while flying the plane while someone else is back there.
We call one of them "The Astronaut Crap." Need I say more.

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1980 300D - Veggie Burner !

OK, Here goes.

This was told to me in about 1982 by a guy who used to run the Metroliner facility in San Antonio. I don't remember his name. He had previously been a charter pilot in California.

Story goes that he was flying Walter Brennan in a light twin across the desert in California. Walter had to go, and insisted that the plane be landed in the desert NOW.

The plane landed, and Walter headed for the bushes. A few minutes later, Walter called out "Hey! Got any paper?" Pilot answered back "Nope". Walter asked "What about the maps?" Pilot answered back "Can't use the maps." After a few minutes, Walter asked, "Got change for a twenty?"

Pilot has an autographed picture of Walter Brennan with the inscription "Got change for a twenty?"


Of course, I can't verify the authenticity of all this, but, pretty good story.

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2004 C240 Wagon 203.261 Baby Benz
2008 ML320 CDI Highway Cruiser
2006 Toyota Prius, Saving the Planet @ 48 mpg
2000 F-150, Destroying the Planet @ 20 mpg



TRUMP .......... WHITEHOUSE
HILLARY .........JAILHOUSE
BERNIE .......... NUTHOUSE
0BAMA .......... OUTHOUSE

That's classic !!

Thanks.

Edit:
I shuttered when you mentioned that place down there.
I had a very spooky experience doing a "stick shaker check" in a 227-M-III.

I don’t “hate” many aircraft. But that one is pretty close to the top of my list.

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1980 300D - Veggie Burner !

Boring and sententious as it may be the following was related to me by a recently departed friend whose family built many Long Island estates before WWII.

Sir Ashley Sparks,the american Representative of the Cunard lines had a magnificent colonial style estate in Syosset,Delano and Aldrich I think.

Anyway back in the late '20's my pal,{his Dad owned the construction company}was hired to expand the living quarters and also to construct a roman style grotto,for which they hired an Italian stonemason,a tight-lipped nervous fellow.

Anyhoo,Their custom was to place several bottles of beer and a couple of watermelons in the cool stream which ran thru the estate.

Problem was that one watermelon and 3 bottles of beer were always missing.

They soon found out the truth,it was the stonemason.
In order to teach him a lesson my friend went to Snouder's drug store in Oyster Bay(still extant)and asked "doc"Snouder...."Whaddya got that will make a man *****"?

"Well,we got senna and phospho-soda but you gotta be careful,too much and you'll get dehydrated and fall sick".

"That's all I wanna know doc,gimme some".

My pal injected the stuff with a glue syringe and placed the beer and watermelon in the stream as usual.........wouldn't ya know,2 hours later there was an unearthly scream and the unforgettable image of the stonemason grimacing in pain,naked to the waist in the stream evacuating painfully his ill-gotten goods.

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Make sure the paperwork is current, comfortably position posterior, then pick up a little hand-held video game (something like Connect-4) and play one game, finish the deed, finish the paperwork completely, drop the lid, flush (making sure there's no evidence left (pardon the pun) behind), wash the hands, dry properly and get out.

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M. G. Burg
'10 - Dakota SXT - Daily Ride / ≈ 172.5K
.'76 - 450SLC - 107.024.12 / < .89.20 K
..'77 - 280E - 123.033.12 / > 128.20 K
...'67 - El Camino - 283ci / > 207.00 K
....'75 - Yamaha - 650XS / < 21.00 K
.....'87 - G20 Sportvan / > 206.00 K
......'85 - 4WINNS 160 I.O. / 140hp
.......'74 - Honda CT70 / Real 125
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“I didn’t really say everything I said.”
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woul you believe grunt and strain

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1986 xr4ti
For any given large, complex, hard-to-understand, expensive problem, there exists at least one short, simple, easy, cheap wrong answer.

I don't follow. How can you really do target practice? When you sit on the potty, it pretty much hits where it is supposed to because it is aimed for you.

I read magazines, poop quietly and read books. I have cleaned my gun while on the crapper too. The Glock, that is.

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01 Ford Excursion Powerstroke
99 E300 Turbodiesel
91 Vette with 383 motor
05 Polaris Sportsman 800 EFI
06 Polaris Sportsman 500 EFI
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Red
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Yellow
04 Tailgator 21 ft Toy Hauler
11 Harley Davidson 883 SuperLow

I don't follow. When flying on a commercial flight, isn't the auto pilot usually engaged or so I have been led to believe? I used to walk up to the cockpit when I was a kid and they usually had it on auto pilot. Actually, if I think about it today, I feel more comfortable with the auto pilot than a real pilot controlling the cruising. I don't know if auto pilot can handle take off and landing or whether it is designed to or not.

I have a phone with answering machine and a few slave phones attached to it and they are not hard connected. All they need is a power source and no phone jack. I have one in the crapper so I can talk if I need to. Can't you rig something like that up?

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01 Ford Excursion Powerstroke
99 E300 Turbodiesel
91 Vette with 383 motor
05 Polaris Sportsman 800 EFI
06 Polaris Sportsman 500 EFI
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Red
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Yellow
04 Tailgator 21 ft Toy Hauler
11 Harley Davidson 883 SuperLow

Actually, I was talking about when flying by myself. Not in a commercial aircraft.
I had many deadhead solo flights in the Citation CJ3s we had with our charter service.
Knowing that there is someone sitting up there monitoring things on a flight is one thing. Sitting in the rear of the aircraft with nobody else onboard is another.

Sure – I trust the auto-pilot systems. And after thousands of flight hours have only had to “catch” a few that failed while coupled (engaged). I’m glad I was in the cockpit to do so.
Not sitting on the pot back in the lav.

Yep – The commercial guys usually always have it on. For that matter, so do us corporate guys. I too, trust it over manpower cruising. At altitude anyway.

The newer aircraft that are Category III certified with Auto-Land systems (wont get into details) can pretty much handle the flight from runway to runway. Including the take-offs and landings.

We have the same type phones here. Nice setup.
In the aircraft, a 20’ headset extension with a push-to-talk button would probably cover the communication issues. I just haven’t remembered to get one.

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1980 300D - Veggie Burner !

Private or commercial? If private, I will have to look out those planes that can do it. I would LOVE to see it handle a flight from runway to runway. My wife just got trained at her hospital for a new IV pump I have been dying to experiment with. She enters the drug name, your weight and it calculates the rate and all that for you. Handles up to 4 different drugs. Her old system required you to calculate the rate and manually enter it. This new system is so sweet I wish I were a RN. Back in the 90s we had a program that beat out cardiologists with double digit accuracy when diagnosing heart conditions. I love the tech toys, does it show?

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01 Ford Excursion Powerstroke
99 E300 Turbodiesel
91 Vette with 383 motor
05 Polaris Sportsman 800 EFI
06 Polaris Sportsman 500 EFI
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Red
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Yellow
04 Tailgator 21 ft Toy Hauler
11 Harley Davidson 883 SuperLow