Act now before your wings are defaced

On Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at 1:11:42 AM UTC-7, wrote:
If a Canadian invented basketball while in the USA, it’s still a CANADIAN invention. Admittedly the peach basket had a solid bottom and play was delayed while someone climbed up to get the ball back. Pablum, pagers, walk-in talkies, telephone, electric wheelchairs, Java, insulin, pacemakers, iMax film and projectors, green garbage bags, Canadarm...so many things, and now women’s tennis at the US Open...19 year old Bianca Andreescu devours Serena Williams in straight sets. Snowmobiles. Screech. Health care for all, Nanaimo bars. The Avro Arrow. Paint rollers. Peanut butter. WonderBra. Pacemakers...I repeat for effect.

Of more interest to pilots.... Canadian Reginald Aubrey Fessenden was a prolific inventor in the area of wireless technology — he was the first to broadcast on the AM radio band in 1900 — although he's often regarded as an unsung hero in Canada because his inventions in radio technology were outshined by Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi. Fessenden built two-way radio transmission towers — one near Boston and the other in Scotland — and issued the first transatlantic radio broadcast in 1906.

My favorite?...

The jockstrap hard cup. Imagine, it took a CANADIAN to think up the idea of putting something protective between baseballs and yours. The entire remainder of Earth made do with an extra pair of underwear. We tackle the obvious, invent the less obvious and we improved the odds that superior genes demonstrated by the world’s elite athletes will go forward for the millennia unscathed. Never again would a 105 mph slider eliminate the Mickey Mantles and Christian Yelichs from our great grand children.

Even then we got creative and invented the hard cup for faces of goalies so genetic good lucks would also mutate. We plan ahead. We live up here on a chunk of ice free of sharpies and therefore we cannot sketch ourselves into a better world. Although the Group of Seven thought they sketched a better world. We actually do good ****.

I’m proud of my country and glad we live next door. Keep your friends close. And your enemies closer. Kidding. We need your protection. So we pray you will not build a northern wall, nor will you extend your southern wall to keep us from trekking north to California too. Sharpies can do that.

Over, eh? (Trivial aviation inserted shamelessly to remain on topic in RAS.)

Now that’s been settled, Kim Kardashian announced yesterday she replaced all sorts of medications with CBD oil. Raved about it for mood and anxiety. Now where I live, for me to cross the border and fly up to California, I am screened by CBP...your folks at the border inside Toronto’s airport. “Have you ever used marijuana?� And if answer, yes, I used in college for a month... I am flagged as permanently banned from the USA. Grass is legal in all of Canada and Washington State, Oregon and California, but if a Vancouverite answers yes en route south to get back to California’s grass, he or she is banned for life. Sharpies can make that happen.

You can eliminate Kim Kardashian now if she can be lured to Vancouver.

Wait, how can Tommy Chong ever see the real Rockie’s and get home?? Easy... he was born here, we let will always him in and out.

Just saying.

Eh?

Naismith invented the game under the direction and supervision of Dr. Luther Gulick at the Springfield YMCA, making it an inherently US invention:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith
The popularity of the game in the US, and Naismith's unrelenting promotion, led to its introduction as an Olympic sport in the 1936 summer games.

Most citizens of the US have heritage from some other country - Naismith was just one of many, including Albert Einstein.

Tom

2G we're not interested in historical fact here, we're more interested in multinational or more appropriately, Can-Am hyperboly.
Get with the program dude !! lol

On Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 12:01:19 AM UTC-4, wrote:
2G we're not interested in historical fact here, we're more interested in multinational or more appropriately, Can-Am hyperboly.
Get with the program dude !! lol

Yes, humour is by definition often hyperbole. To make people smile sometimes one exaggerates.
Roeseann Rosanadana established that in the last century.

And Canadians may feel any attempt by any American in 2019 to not laugh at politics is disingenuous.

We down here in Canada suffer the genetics of those doomed to live in constant ice and snow, and we are taught to laugh away our troubles.

Mark Twain is revered across the land, but let any Canadian crack a one-liner about Trump and we are deemed hyperbolous in the extreme.

It must be the cold that thickens our skins down here. Global warming will have that little issue sorted out in due course.

Until then, smile. It works. 😎�

The TDS(Trudeau Derangement Syndrome) here is strong. Some folks need to build a wall in their heads to keep the rot from walking in and muddying up the place. Start gently by deporting all those foreign to natural law notions you hold that you used to know, and still sort of know on some level, are wrong.
It ain't winter yet, time to get back to soaring with a question: If one is landing out in a field of freshly planted solar panels do you want to land across the rows or with the rows?

Oh, ****!Â* Solar panels.

You should see what they're installing a couple of miles west of the
Moriarty airport.Â* It looks like the flight deck of the USS Gerald R.
Ford
https://www.google.com/search?q=uss+gerald+r+ford&safe=active&client=oper a&hs=dYL&sxsrf=ACYBGNSPDhr4XB0cU6tvawZ4ZJe7MuL59A: 1568904360108&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKE wjOjsiYkN3kAhXFo54KHQ37C80Q_AUIEigC&biw=1496&bih=7 22#imgrc=HX8TKvM-6gYWbM:.Â*
But I think that if they track the sun, and you land on it at noon, it
should be OK.

On 9/19/2019 7:51 AM, wrote:
The TDS(Trudeau Derangement Syndrome) here is strong. Some folks need to build a wall in their heads to keep the rot from walking in and muddying up the place. Start gently by deporting all those foreign to natural law notions you hold that you used to know, and still sort of know on some level, are wrong.
It ain't winter yet, time to get back to soaring with a question: If one is landing out in a field of freshly planted solar panels do you want to land across the rows or with the rows?

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Dan, 5J

On Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 7:47:25 AM UTC-7, Dan Marotta wrote:
Oh, ****!Â* Solar panels.



You should see what they're installing a couple of miles west of the
Moriarty airport.Â* It looks like the flight deck of the USS
Gerald R. Ford.Â* But I think that if they track the sun, and
you land on it at noon, it should be OK.




On 9/19/2019 7:51 AM,
wrote:



The TDS(Trudeau Derangement Syndrome) here is strong. Some folks need to build a wall in their heads to keep the rot from walking in and muddying up the place. Start gently by deporting all those foreign to natural law notions you hold that you used to know, and still sort of know on some level, are wrong.
It ain't winter yet, time to get back to soaring with a question: If one is landing out in a field of freshly planted solar panels do you want to land across the rows or with the rows?





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Dan, 5J

Looks as if the soaring season maybe over.....

On Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 9:51:14 AM UTC-4, wrote:
The TDS(Trudeau Derangement Syndrome) here is strong. Some folks need to build a wall in their heads to keep the rot from walking in and muddying up the place. Start gently by deporting all those foreign to natural law notions you hold that you used to know, and still sort of know on some level, are wrong.
It ain't winter yet, time to get back to soaring with a question: If one is landing out in a field of freshly planted solar panels do you want to land across the rows or with the rows?

Never cross the streams... sayeth the (mostly Canadian) Ghost Busters... so "with" the rows.

SO, revisionism.

You are saying Dr. Gulick directed Naismith on his to design the sport of basketball.

Using that same logic, Trump invented walls.

I think I am done on this one.

On Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 11:04:46 PM UTC-4, 2G wrote:
Naismith invented the game under the direction and supervision of Dr. Luther Gulick at the Springfield YMCA, making it an inherently US invention:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith
The popularity of the game in the US, and Naismith's unrelenting promotion, led to its introduction as an Olympic sport in the 1936 summer games.

Most citizens of the US have heritage from some other country - Naismith was just one of many, including Albert Einstein.

Tom