We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/tins_of_a_diffe.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:42:14 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification ...as you kind figured it would be. Checking downstream to the original premise, in which I requested you guys submit your deathless (i.e., no fair killing me off) prose via e-mail -- which would have served the dual purpose of 1. allowing me to scrunch similar endings together and 2. giving the jillion "Congratulations! Your E-Mail has won..." missives some legitimate company. *sigh* At least it generated some comments. From Sanger: Then I died. Buuuutt... God sent me back, to continue until the ring had been destroyed, having been cast into the fires of Mt Fuji... Where I'd been sent... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/tins_of_a_diffe.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/tins_of_a_diffe.html Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:02:33 -0600 [continuing storyline]As I gazed in disbelief at the chromatic puddle on the deck, and my vision telescoped into unconsciousness, I idly speculated on the source of this unexpected addition to my little home away from home. Had I failed to distinguish between the styrofoam cup of coffee (dangerous) and the styrofoam cup of hydraulic fluid drippings being saved for a rainy day?(poisonous) Had I neglected to notice an upper-body perforation during firefights Nos. 3,5,6, 8, or 11? Perchance a cracked rib, now excavating a lung, from when Hefty Crewmember landed on me during evasive action during firefights Nos. 3,5,6, 8, or 11? A sudden chill fell over me. I knew what it was. Congo Hemorrhagic Fever. I was doomed! Doomed to hack up my internal organs! But a small voice of reason piped up, just before darkness claimed me, and I was able to croak, "Can't be. Thank God I'm not in Africa." http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/tins_of_a_diffe.html#comment-58070 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/tins_of_a_diffe.html#comment-58070 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:52:33 -0600 ah, chianti!! i was thinking more along the lines of some sangria, but a chianti story line is SO much more believable! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/tins_of_a_diffe.html#comment-58066 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/tins_of_a_diffe.html#comment-58066 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:37:36 -0600 Thank you Chief! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/tins_of_a_diffe.html#comment-58050 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/tins_of_a_diffe.html#comment-58050 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:58:58 -0600 along with some fava beans ***Ffpt-Ffpt-Ffpt***.. The Beets, however may have to be checked-in at the barbican. And oh - BTW, you'd be glad to know that I'm a step closer to cashing-into them Yoruban Dinars. Having drained-up my 401k, I'm well on my way on maxing-out my 2nd mortgage line of credit. Just one more fee to "settle", & I'll be home-free.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/tins_of_a_diffe.html#comment-58048 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/tins_of_a_diffe.html#comment-58048 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:01:11 -0600