Comments for A New Contest 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 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:21:34 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification A New Contest Relax, Cassie -- it's *not* a caption contest (mmmm, technically, it might be -- but it's not the one she's gonna damage me for). Whatzis helicopter and why does it have a balloon on top? Every month or so, I get an e-gram with the correct answer. OH-58D. Kiowa *gag!* Warrior. Unfortunately, it's not supposed to be a serious question. Y'see, a couple of years back, when John first dragged me squalling and scratching into this mess suggested I start doing actual posts, rather than sending his spam filters into overload mode merely e-mailing him vignettes, he asked me what... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:17:00 -0600 Comment from BillT on 2007-08-29 So Ugly the ground repels them. Are you saying the reason I fall down a lot is because I'm *cute*?]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63765 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63765 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:03:15 -0600 Comment from BillT on 2007-08-29 Hey, *you* were the ones whining about not being able to use the Copperhead because you couldn't get a parabolic arc out of a laser... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63764 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63764 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:00:31 -0600 Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2007-08-29 KW. Of course, I'm prejudiced. The Flyboys let my branch spend all the money to develop the thing, then stole it from us. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63756 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63756 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:21:56 -0600 Comment from HomefrontSix on 2007-08-29 So Ugly the ground repels them. And I'm not sure which is funnier-looking...the KW or the 'Hook...it's a toss up.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63754 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63754 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:37:50 -0600 Comment from BillT on 2007-08-28 Look up, Wyandotte County. Or, Dennis Moore. Jim B is John Cleese? Uses for Lupins * Sit on them * Sleep in them * Feed the cat them * Burn them * Wear them * Eat them Ways to Cook Lupins * Lupin Soup * Roast Lupin * Steamed Lupin * Braised Lupin in Lupin Sauce * Lupin in the Basket with Sauteed Lupins * Lupin Meringue Pie * Lupin Sorbet ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63718 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63718 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:01:12 -0600 Comment from BillT on 2007-08-28 According to Grim, there are two hundred and thirty two ways of looking at it... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63717 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63717 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:53:36 -0600 Comment from Ymarsakar on 2007-08-28 You see... I'm in the Red Cross. SO. If SugarButtons is ON the cross... I have a lot of 'splainin to do! That's one way to look at it ; )]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63716 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63716 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:28:44 -0600 Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2007-08-28 Look up, Wyandotte County. Or, Dennis Moore. ;^) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63715 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63715 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:13:05 -0600 Comment from BillT on 2007-08-28 Bill - do you have *any* idea where Jim B lives? He *used* to hang around Wheeler-Sack AAF, but it's been a while. Short-term memory loss and all that. And I've just *begun* to rummage through the Dufflebag of Useful Excuses...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63714 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63714 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:05:48 -0600 Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2007-08-28 Bill - do you have *any* idea where Jim B lives? Methinks... not. You've got him confoozled with someone else, I'm guessing. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63712 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63712 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:49:15 -0600 Comment from Ymarsakar on 2007-08-28 How about Bill needs a helicopter to escape Cass's wrath. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63710 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63710 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:56:39 -0600 Comment from Pogue on 2007-08-28 How about "Four decades of combat operations." http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63709 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63709 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:24:29 -0600 Comment from BillT on 2007-08-28 ...flying the helicopters Americans won't! Considering the Army sent the last flyable Cobras up to jim b's bailiwick in 2001, you're closer than you realize, NinjaFluff.
Dodging hostile fire semisuccessfully since 1969!
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63705 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63705 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:15:58 -0600 Comment from jim b on 2007-08-28 The balloon is on the top cause putting it on the bottom created a rocky situation at best. I prefer to think of it as a Flying Bullet Magnet. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63704 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63704 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:43:06 -0600 Comment from NinjaFluff on 2007-08-28 You guys are great... This is why I love this site so much! Playing off of AFSister's suggestion, how about "Chief Sugarbuttons... flying the helicopters American's won't!" Or how about "Bill, the Rotorhead - STILL flying faster than his Guardian Angel!" http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63702 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63702 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:24:08 -0600 Comment from AFSister on 2007-08-28 ohhhhh my... ymarsaker, you have *no* idea how much that made me laugh! You see... I'm in the Red Cross. SO. If SugarButtons is ON the cross... I have a lot of 'splainin to do! Boq... that's AWESOME.... Now, if we can only make that blonde a brunette! With red highlights of course. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63696 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63696 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:41:08 -0600 Comment from ymarsakar on 2007-08-28 Don't let all this insidery-blog-joke stuff deter you. All the inter-blog-joke stuff as well. I might *need* the Red Cross... Either that or you'll be on the Cross.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63693 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63693 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:14:17 -0600 Comment from Ymarsakar on 2007-08-28 Don't let all this insidery-blog-joke stuff deter you. All the inter-blog-joke stuff as well. I might *need* the Red Cross... Either that or you'll be on the Cross.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63692 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63692 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:11:13 -0600 Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2007-08-28 BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63691 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63691 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:32:23 -0600 Comment from Boquisucio on 2007-08-28 THIS fiddy bit.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63690 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63690 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:04:41 -0600 Comment from WereKitten on 2007-08-28 And he attached a jaypeg of a KW. If I hadn't thought he was kidding (I've never even been off the ground in one) PHEW! I hadda read that twice just to make sure it said 'KW' and not 'WK'. As far as I know, you've never been off the ground in WK either. I'm pretty sure I would have remembered that.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63687 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63687 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:34:20 -0600 Comment from Pat on 2007-08-28 (Channeling Mick Dundee) "That's not a TINS, this is a TINS" http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63684 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63684 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:13:07 -0600 Comment from MajMike on 2007-08-28 i'm kinda partial towards that part about "fiddly bits flying in formation". kinda sez it all... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63682 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63682 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:22:33 -0600 Comment from NevadaDailySteve on 2007-08-28 Kiowa airlines motto: "If you build it, some idiot will fly it." I hesitate to list my only other motto, it might run afoul of "Da Rulez" but it could be paraphrased as "I have big spheres, you have big spheres, we all have big spheres, but I have the biggest spheres of all." http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63680 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63680 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:00:45 -0600 Comment from AFSister on 2007-08-28 that's the way, uh huh uh huh, I LIKE IT, uh huh uh huh.... OK all you Photoshop Jockies out there... I have a mission for you. Take Twitchy Bill's picture, coat the bird with candy dots, add some feeee-male passengers and a title bar "Chief SugarButtons and the SugarButtons Brigade". http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63679 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63679 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:36:08 -0600 Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2007-08-28 Certainly not, Trias - Bill alluded to a new pic in the future - so, suggest away! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63677 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63677 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:18:59 -0600 Comment from Trias on 2007-08-28 One day i'll get half these injokes, then my conversion to true insanity will be complete. taglines? for that pic? hmm? Bills new copter with its Advanced Bill Correction Device (ABCD). This fantastic marvel of engineering automatically adjusts helium levels to make the CG move around wildly thereby providing Bill with normal operating conditions. AI could, unfortunately, not be included in the extensive feature list due to it's propensity to eject before takeoff. Is suggesting a new pic a faux pas? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63676 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63676 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:14:20 -0600 Comment from bad cat robot on 2007-08-28 really fast, you might be in a helicopter."]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63675 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63675 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:07:18 -0600 Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2007-08-28 speaking of Cassie's joint - don't ask about *why* that marmoset is so scared. Just, well, let's just say Cassie has a *history* with marmosets that hasn't been good. For marmosets. Really. Get with it, people! The man needs taglines!!]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63674 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63674 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:09:52 -0600 Comment from Cassandra on 2007-08-28 [tapping foot]... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63673 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63673 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:38:01 -0600 Comment from BillT on 2007-08-28 Absorbing sexual harassment so you don't have to!]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63672 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63672 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:28:27 -0600 Comment from BillT on 2007-08-28 *That* is why we need you for the comment parties. Meantime, get back on subject... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63671 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63671 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:18:24 -0600 Comment from AFSister on 2007-08-28 Aw, come on, Bill! I LIKE IT! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63670 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/a_new_contest_1.html#comment-63670 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:12:06 -0600