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No smiley, or obvious pointers to humour, or other versions, so I have the
horrible feeling it might be true. H. L. Mencken once said, "No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." As a former Procter & Gamble employee, working for them at the height of the "P&G is owned by Satan, and I know it's true because I saw it on Phil Donahue / Oprah / Sally Jessie / (you pick)" nuttiness, I've learned that - yes - there are FAR TOO MANY folks who have less than a full hod of bricks upstairs. -- Mike Kanze "Somewhere in the heavens there is a great invisible genie who every so often lets down his pants and ****es all over the pillars of science." - Ernest K. Gann "Peter Twydell" wrote in message ... In message , Ogden Johnson III writes Peter Twydell wrote: Jim writes Jdf4cheval wrote: Thanks, Ed. I thought of that, but if so it didn't have the national marking stripes along the top of the Vertical Stab. Joe Ours or theirs? Foreign military aircraft based in the U.S. are required to have U.S. markings. Why? Because years ago all of the black helicopter/konspiracy/tin hat brigade were citing the presence of those German-marked aircraft and their associated flight training program as proof-positive that NATO/The Bilderburgers/Various Other Nefarious Organizations had taken over the United States and all of its military forces. Since sanity is not required of U. S. Citizens, obviously the U. S. Gummint and the German gummint felt it was easier just to put US markings on the aircraft [with the German colors on the tail], than to waste time fooling with nutcases. I don't even know that it was the result of an act of Congress rather than just being an agreement between the two governments. I'd like to think that answer was a joke; as my Dad used to say: "Ask a silly question, and you'll get a silly answer". No smiley, or obvious pointers to humour, or other versions, so I have the horrible feeling it might be true. -- Peter Ying tong iddle-i po! |
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