Saturday, November 24, 2007
"Takeoff is Optional; Landing, Mandatory"
Truer words never said. Near the end of my two years on the rescue wagon at the headquarters base of "the-mightiest-fighting-machine-the-world-has-seen" etc etc (as I fondly call it), we were on "standing-by" next to the runway waiting for the arrival of a Marine aviation A-6 "inflight" (pilot calls...
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Friday, November 23, 2007
"Happy", "Comfortable", and "Confident"...a three-fer for T'Giving!
As definined in our modern lexicon, in sample sentences: "Happy" (adjective, as in "We want everyone to be happy with this"; "My team and I will not leave until our customer is happy"; and, "We're just not happy with this; what can you offer?"). This now means a subjective feeling that a goal has...
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
A new MajRojism
Being convincing is more important than being right, but knowing when to be quiet beats them both.
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
Reverting back to Murphy's Laws of Combat:
"When the balloon goes up, the ops plan goes out the window". (scratch scratch scratch...huh??). Formalized plans as to what will occur when one swings into action are ALWAYS wrong. They are written by peacetime soldiers who are hierarchists and not warriors, in response to second-guessing...
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Sunday, November 11, 2007
A "Maj-ism":
(In reference to going to volunteer events as a senior-sort of volunteer where I actually want to be hired): "It's getting to be like being invited to the pretty classmate's house, and having her hand you her math text to help with homework".
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Saturday, November 3, 2007
"Jackjawing"
I believe it goes back to the old bumperjacks that had a long upright square ratchet and a traveling lever-and-pawl that allowed you to work the lever up and down, which lifted the pawl assembly (and hopefully the car) up about 1/2 inch at a time. If you ever ratcheted one of these up, then tripped...
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"Winking in the dark"...you get it, don't you?
You know what you're doing, but no one else does. See my other blog for its use. (That's why I started this one, to footnote the other one...which was started to footnote my original primary blog...).
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Friday, November 2, 2007
Why do I keep getting in dutch for using the following?
"The project is underweigh" "Time for us to stop and recouperate for a while" "I wish you would stop with the 'oral arguments' bit already! It's 'VERBAL'! If they're interchangeable, try interchanging them followed by the word 'sex'...". "And the next time I read/hear/or write the word...
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Friday, October 5, 2007
A measurement of futility...
"Like a cat covering poop on linoleum".
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Tuesday, October 2, 2007
"An out of work hero's a bum".
Where are the quaterbacks from college, the guys and women who served fifteen years in the service then left after a war, the candidates who ran for office then failed and returned to private life? Where's the guy who pulls a kid out of a river, or a seasonal firefighter who gets too old or too hurt...
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