Andrew Rannells - <span class="bold">The Book of</span> Mormon: Original Broadway Cast Recording - I Believe Live 2011 Tony Awards performance
or
The Drifters - Every Night's Saturday Night - You're More Than a Number in My Little Red <span class="bold">Book</span> or
Me First and <span class="bold">the</span> Gimme Gimmes - Love Their Country - East Bound and Down Cover of
Jerry Reed from the album
"Smokey and the Bandit soundtrack" Edit: Adding message later - work interrupts ;(
Sorry for taking so long - got crazy busy!
Hear ye, hear ye!
The cards are in! Let it be known to all barons of media that it is
written in stone how
<i>"He that speaks with french-fried potato breath"</i> will succeed! :) I'm framing
this one for my
plastic paddy gingervitis stricken
's birthday! [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od152rSQme0#t=00m50s]Oh, God! It felt like I was visited by George Burns! :P The
way in which it all unfolded brought me to [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwTnP3iq3Sc]tears! :) There is true
magic in this thread!
WhiteElk: Right on :)
While you were at Carowinds i was just a couple hundred miles to your south at MCAS Beaufort. Dad was stationed there at times, during the 70's. i well remember the Bicentennial!! i was 7, and it was a big deal to all those around me. i still save a bicentennial quarter and half-dollar, and still hold a place in heart for that national celebration of 200 years of Independence.
My dad dug VW's! We had a couple campers (ideal for young military families who frequently transfer between duty stations). He had a number of Beatles. And a Squareback...
It's a small world in more ways than one! We were right next to each other! I'm a Navy aviation veteran too!:)
Spring 1974 with my transistor radio
This was our
camper called "Smokey" that was used on that debut Carowinds trip. It had their original bumper sticker on it.
Here I am at
Pullen Park (far right) with Mom
early summer of 74. We would usually walk around campus and stroll through the
Free Expression Tunnel on park days too.
was into convertible [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Karmann_Ghia]Karmann-Ghias. She
had a few of them.
Speaking earlier of summer '75 it's hard not to also think of
and how [url=http://i.imgur.com/BpZH3rR.jpg]many times I saw that masterpiece over the summer. :) I had just seen it right before that pic for the first time. Soon after
Dickie Goodman's "Mr. Jaws" parody came out and I couldn't stop listening to it. This game has always reminded me of that "ghost in the machine" bit.
I guess it's time for
Tom Cruise to come
"out of the closet" Hello world! This is
my name (summer '73). Here is the
of my [url=http://i.imgur.com/rC8VoNX.jpg]clan's kilt! You've seen this side of
RADAR Love with the music assoc. game so now I'll explain the
<i>other radios that I loved.</i> I grew up in
(a.k.a. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_of_the_East]Wilmywood) at the beach in
Cape Fear and in
"The City of Oaks." Soon after grade school I joined the Navy and became a
Aviation electronics technician on the
(Weapon systems, RADAR, countermeasures, communications, navigation, etc.) in [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VF-84]Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84 Jolly Rogers). We also did reconnaissance photography work since we were a
TAPRS outfit. My maiden deployment was during the first Gulf War. Once the squadron disbanded in '95 we took over
VF-103 "Sluggers" in true
fashion! :P Although F-14's were technically nicknamed "Tomcats" these were my [url=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/F-14-vf-84.jpg]beautiful screaming birds! :P Our callsign is "Victory" and our unofficial nickname is "The Hollywood Squadron" due to always being used for film/t.v. given how our mascot (skull and crossbones) is very photogenic.(
and more [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VFA-103#The_Jolly_Rogers_in_popular_culture]credits). I was on detachment with them at
NAS Key West for the aerial shots used in
Executive Decision. Our mascot's name is
Ensign Jack Ernie. His bones are fashioned into
the Jolly Roger and encased in glass that travels everywhere with the squadron (
origins of his name used for the legend). Later on I taught and did curriculum development as a subject matter expert on the same material. It was never lost upon me how coincidental it was growing up in Wilmington (Wilmywood) in the shadow of the
Outer Banks/Graveyard of the Atlantic that not only served as home to privateers like
(Edward Teach) but also the Wright bros. first flight at ([url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Devil_Hills,_North_Carolina]Kill Devil Hills) and then end up in that squadron.
After I left the Navy I studied electrical engineering at
. I now live in [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFNMQpKEel8]Kissimmee near the
"Stepford" community that
Walt built for Disney employees called
Celebration. :)
Here are some of my
squid pics:
Jolly Roger F-14 and Corsair at an airshow
POTUS Clinton visiting before heading out in support of
Yugoslav Wars (Bosnia)
Album 
