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With sincere apologies to Thurber, "The Not-So-Secret (and Ridiculously Exaggerated Fictional Internet) Life of Tom 'Titty' Wright?"

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Typical Tom Thread {SupaSEALRangersGunNutTom Mode}

catmandu57  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Nov-23-07 12:01 PM
Original message
Did anyone watch Mythbusters Wednesday night?

At the end of the program Jamie came up out of a black suv with a massive machine Gatling gun, i believe they called it an M60. It made me wonder if blackwater was using these in Iraq. These guns are scary heavy ordinance, I forget the rate of fire, but it sounded like one shot being fired just zip. Something like this could cut through a barricade in no time flat.

TomInTib  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Nov-23-07 12:17 PM
Response to Original message
1. It is a wicked weapon.
   
Edited on Fri Nov-23-07 12:18 PM by TomInTib
However, due to a design flaw, the M60 is not capable of extended fire.

Even though it can pop about 10 rounds per second, the barrel will fail after about 100 rapid-fire rounds. They designed a lightweight barrel for mobility, but the barrels melt so easily that the gunner has to carry extra barrels. Brilliant, that.

It also cannot be used overhead.

But the M60 can definitely mess stuff up.

Tom's the former supa sekrit soldierâ„¢ but doesn't attempt to inform the OP that an M60, is not a gatling gun.

shadowknows69  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Fri Nov-23-07 12:18 PM
Response to Reply #1
2. M60 isn't a gatling style though is it?

Doh!

TomInTib  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Nov-23-07 12:33 PM
Response to Reply #2
10. Link-belt fed.
   
I missed the "Gatling" part in the OP.

My eyes went directly to M60, since I have spent way too much time around those things.

As far as I know, the only "Gatling" (revolving barrels) style weapons are used on attack helos and A-10 Warthogs.

But, as always, I could be wrong.

oooo nice save, Tom

tularetom  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Nov-23-07 12:28 PM
Response to Original message
6. That wasn't a M60
   
Edited on Fri Nov-23-07 12:29 PM by tularetom
M60 was used in Vietnam and could only fire about 10 rounds per second for about 10 seconds. It also had a tendency to jam.

This was a rotating gatling type gun with multiple barrels and I believe they said it could fire 3000 rounds per minute (that's 50 per second) and it appeared too big to be handled by one person so it must be mounted.
   

TomInTib  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Nov-23-07 12:35 PM
Response to Reply #6
11. Usually on choppers or A-10 Warthogs. nt
   
Calling the GAU8 a "gatling gun", is like calling a giant blood thirsty lion , "kitty".
nb: I can't quite get the syntax of the post : I sure HOPE he wasn't saying an M60 was mounted on an A10, in Vietnam


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This is from a different thread but thought it was worth including.

TomInTib  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Mon Nov-07-05 01:42 PM
Response to Reply #1
14. We used WP grenades in VietNam
   
Tossed 'em right into hooches.
The carnage is beyond description. Jump in the water and it keeps on burning.

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[delilahmused]

TomInTib...car guy!!!
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TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Sun Apr-22-07 10:58 PM
Response to Reply #5
10. I'm really interested in the Tesla.
   But the Lambo blew the launch.

I had a LP640 (Murcielago) which would punch thru 60 in 3.3 or.4.

Traded it for a Carrera GT (which I am extremely proud of)
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TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Mon Apr-23-07 01:23 AM
Response to Reply #18
19. You have a 928 GT? Dream car...
   I once had a 928 S (traded a Jensen Interceptor).

Never even got to drive a GT.

Yeah, I have the GT (V10).

Certified smoker.

It is better than I am.
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TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Sun Apr-22-07 10:49 PM
Response to Original message
7. The Lambo blew the launch.
   I have drove a Murcielago (LP640) for a while and it will punch 60 in under 3.5, usually 3.4 or.3 in perfect conditions.

After that, it really squirts.
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TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Sun Apr-22-07 11:02 PM
Response to Reply #8
12. I never use enough words.
   While the Lambo driver missed something, the Chevy was awesome.

I would love to own it and race it. I wish I could hear it live.

I would go biodiesel if I could have something that fast.
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Now that's damn funny...the guy uses SO many words he gets himself in trouble. Here's my question, though. The guy is an ex-con which pretty much keeps him out of most high paying jobs, he works at a card shop (an upscale one, but still a card shop) and lives in one of the most expensive places in the country...how the hell does he afford all those fancy cars?

Cindie

Cindie

[delilahmused]

STOP THE PRESSES!!! MORE FAMOUS PEOPLE TiT KNOWS!!!!

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TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Thu Feb-14-08 03:53 PM
Response to Original message
2. Those Blue Q guys are hilarious. US Company, as well
   I mean, the line is a screamer.

Here's the Jesus line:

http://www.dogpile.com/clickserver/_iceUrlFlag=1?rawURL...

I have known Mitch and Seth since they did their first Trade Show.

http://www.blueq.com/about-us/
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apnu (1000+ posts)         Thu Feb-14-08 04:11 PM
Response to Reply #2
3. You know these guys?
   So are they serious or joking here?
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TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Thu Feb-14-08 04:33 PM
Response to Reply #3
4. Deadly serious.
   But Life is a running joke for them.

Check out the Company site in my reply.

Here, I will save you the effort.

Check it out, it is hilarious.

http://www.blueq.com/about-us/
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I think I figured out where all his money comes from...he probably worms his way into these people's lives, has several pictures taken with them and then blackmails them to keep mum about whether he knows them.

Cindie

[TheSarge]

As far as I know, the only "Gatling" (revolving barrels) style weapons are used on attack helos and A-10 Warthogs.

And the F-16, 15, 22, 35, 18 and the AV8B.

[Chris_]

I had a busy busy week this last week and I didn't realize this thread had been compiled. I haven't read the whole thread but I plan to. I compliment everyone on their outstanding work.... Delilah, this was an awesome idea.

I think Hookem is smiling.

[delilahmused]

OK...this isn't anyone famous but I bet you don't hear this everyday:

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TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Thu Feb-28-08 04:34 PM
Response to Reply #9
35. Or Lumberton...
   I actually remember when Lumberton was called Chance-Loeb.

Goodness, I knew some crazy people who lived there.

My Grandfather had a guy named Houston Brown who worked for him. Houston lived (by choice) in a large culvert and chased cars like a dog. He was killed doing that.
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I swear if he didn't do something himself, he knew someone who did. Sometimes I'm not sure whether I'm watching, "Apocolypse Now", "One Life to Live", "COPS", or Ringling Brothers.

Cindie

[delilahmused]

Ho Hum...another thing TiT's an expert at...now he can tell because of how her eyes look (just from photos mind you) that Cindy McCain is a drug addict...opiates of course.
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TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-19-08 09:45 PM
Response to Original message
8. In the opiates business, we call it "pinned".
   When you are doing certain types of drugs, your pupils become mere pinpoints, thus the term.
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I thought he was in the art business.

rurallib  (1000+ posts)         Tue Feb-19-08 09:47 PM
Response to Reply #8
11. Really?? I thought maybe she had some strange contacts or something
   That's interesting. Does it ever go away or does it indicate recent drug use?
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Someone needs to pull it's head out of all that rural dirt. At least Tom will have all the answers it will ever need.TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        

TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-19-08 09:56 PM
Response to Reply #11
18. It's not permanent.
   I saw some pictures of her today and it is very obvious that she is doing either opiates or some derivatives or synthetics.

But, then again, blue-gray eyes such as hers are usually sensitive to sunlight.

But I would bet the farm that she is having a problem.

By the way, I actually like Cindy McCain more than I do any of the candidates. But she should come clean, set the record straight.

Here is something I wrote on this last night:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2887458&mesg_id=2887574
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The linked post he's referring to:

TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Mon Feb-18-08 10:16 PM
Response to Original message
18. As a recovering heroin addict, I say...
   Own up, Woman.

Lay it down or go away.

You either did or you did not.

Face it.

Lies have no place in this arena.

Tom
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Add another asset to that resume, TiT...actually, this one I can almost believe.

DesertRat  (1000+ posts)         Tue Feb-19-08 10:40 PM
Response to Reply #8
30. That's interesting. I've seen that "pinned" look before
   What types of drugs can cause this?
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Enquiring minds want to know!

TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-19-08 11:37 PM
Response to Reply #30
37. Any opiates or derivatives thereof
   Heroin, Morphine, Percoset, Vicodin, Codeine, Oxy,...

You name it.

The poor woman has a serious habit.

Trust me, I can spot one a mile away...

Tom
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Riiiiight!

Cindie

[delilahmused]

Google cache of post by Eric Taylor's manager calling TiT on his plagiarizing.

BlueRubyMusic (1 posts)       Sun May-04-08 01:39 PM
Response to Reply #1
20. This is an Eric Taylor song, Tom
   Hi Tom,

My name is Susan, I manage Eric Taylor and Blue Ruby Music & Records.

The song you're calling "Whose God" and claiming to have written is, in actual fact, a song written by my artist Eric Taylor. The real title is "Your God" and is on his Scuffletown CD, released in 2001. We own the copyright and all publishing rights to "Your God" and Scuffletown.

You must own the Scuffletown CD, since we have the lyrics printed in the CD booklet. For those of you on this forum who'd like to hear a 1-minute MP3 of the song, please go to our Blue Ruby Music web site - www.bluerubymusic.com - and go to the "Listen" page. "Your God" is track #8 on the Scuffletown CD.

Tom, I realize that "Your God" is a great song. For legal, ethical, moral, business and personal reasons, I urge you to cease from plagiarizing and attempting to take credit for Eric Taylor's copywritten and legally protected work.

Sincerely,
Susan



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Cindie

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Tom's a "Recovering" Heroin Addict

TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Mon Feb-18-08 10:16 PM
Response to Original message
18. As a recovering heroin addict, I say...
   Own up, Woman.

Lay it down or go away.

You either did or you did not.

Face it.

Lies have no place in this arena.

Tom
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Who's also into the cocaine ..

Herman Munster  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-13-07 07:38 PM
Original message
How many people at DU have tried cocaine in their past?

I'm curious how common it is.

TomInTib  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-13-07 07:49 PM
Response to Original message
25. "Tried"? Hell, I dedicated more than ten years of my life...
   
to that crap.

Favorite bumpersticker from back then:

My Other Car is Up My Nose

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Is also a drug addicted alcoholic.

TomInTib  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Dec-19-06 10:09 PM
Response to Reply #11
12. I think you may be a little overly sensitive, ruggerson
   
Rather than taking a "You looking at me?" overview, maybe you should just stretch and look at some things objectively.

It's not as if it were aimed at you.

You are who you are.

And I am who I am.

I am a pretty hopeless alcoholic and drug addict. I have no plans to change. Only death will accomplish any change.
But I don't get pissed when I read negative (or satiric) shit about drunks and junkies.

And I have been living with this for 40 years.

Take it easy, sometimes, ruggerson. You will be much more content and happy.

It ain't about you.
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Tom

TomInTib  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-19-06 01:57 AM
Response to Original message
10. Where is my category (2+ bottles of wine)?
   
And some of Humboldt's finest.

What a wussy poll.

Give some credit to us serious drinkers.

And **** my liver.
Thru a string of events, I was left with about 33% liver function back in the early 70s.

I just said **** it and have danced on the edge of the feather ever since.

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TomInTib  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sun Mar-02-08 07:44 PM
Response to Reply #5
8. I was in a pot-legal zone last night.
   
At the Fillmore in San Francisco.

There was so much smoke in the air that I took out my contacts and dropped them on the floor.

And I have been smoking, every day, for 45 years.

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Soooo, Tom's a  Former Heroin Addict , Crackhead dopesmoking alcoholic. No wonder he's delusional.

[DixieBelle]

Wow. So he's apparently strong enough to hobknob with all of these famous people, run around his town at society functions all while stimultaniously addicted to multiple drugs/alcohol? And make music? Do the lies ever stop?

I'm just waiting for him to say that all of the Chuck Norris jokes are really based on him. 

[ScubaGuy]

Wow. So he's apparently strong enough to hobknob with all of these famous people, run around his town at society functions all while stimultaniously addicted to multiple drugs/alcohol? And make music? Do the lies ever stop?

I'm just waiting for him to say that all of the Chuck Norris jokes are really based on him. 

Close.  The truth is that Chuck Norris is based on TiT.

Chuck Norris wears TiT pajamas.

[delilahmused]

And TiT jumped out of the bushes and tasered...himself!

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TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Wed Sep-19-07 07:47 PM
Response to Original message
3. 160 seconds? Damn, I got tased once (self-inflicted)...
   Just one hit bounced me off a barstool and I wet my pants.

160 seconds would raise some real heck with you.
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TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Wed Sep-19-07 07:57 PM
Response to Reply #5
8. True story.
   Definitely rates in my 100 Dumbest Stunts I Have Ever Pulled list.

My uncle was a Detective in Houston and brought a Taser home so I could see it.

"Aww, come on. It can't be that bad. Watch this."

Best part is, I have a video of it.

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Cindie

[delilahmused]

TiT, the big game hunter...
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TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jan-02-08 10:11 PM
Response to Reply #7
8. If the guy carried a slingshot into the zoo...
   Well...

**** him.

I have been around large animals all my life, and I have seen pencil-dicks such as that idiot asshole do some incredibly stupid things to try to feel equal to a much finer being.

If I witnessed some dickhead firing a slingshot-driven projectile into a large animal cage, I would gladly remove said dickhead from the Potential Gene Pool myself.
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You could cut the irony with a chain saw.

uppityperson  (1000+ posts)         Wed Jan-02-08 10:13 PM
Response to Reply #8
11. Yeah, and if he carried a tazer, **** him too? Rumors, reported by NYPost
   Personally I'd make sure he got arrested, not kill him myself, but then I'm am uppity librul.
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TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jan-02-08 10:21 PM
Response to Reply #11
14. You know how much I think of you....
   but I am right here, on the Bay.

I have been following this from Moment One.

Those guys were useless ****ing punks.

****ing around at the Zoo on Christmas Day.

I have seen way to much of this shit in my life.

Check your inbox.

T
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Generator  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jan-02-08 10:49 PM
Response to Original message
18. Derrick Jensen is that you?
   Though on this we do agree. AS IF the cretins were the tigers and not the homo sapians. (Note to the P.C. police that is NOT a gay slur)
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TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jan-02-08 11:50 PM
Response to Reply #18
21. Who the hell is Derrick Jensen?
   I grew up around large animals who were constantly harrassed by drunken idiots.

And I have no patience or mercy when it comes to those kinds of folks.
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His parents were carnies? At least that would explain the large animals and no school.

Cindie

[delilahmused]

Back in the saddle again...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3282398#3282410

TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Thu Apr-24-08 08:37 PM
Response to Reply #89
90. Back at'cha.
   I should have called you.

Geoff Muldaur just put on a jaw-dropping show at Schoenberg's for about 20 people.

I could have got y'all in.

Tom
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 musette_sf  (1000+ posts)        Thu Apr-24-08 08:39 PM
Response to Reply #90
92. was his oh-so-charming ex there?
   and yes, i would have enjoyed it. next time!
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 TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Thu Apr-24-08 08:49 PM
Response to Reply #92
98. No Maria.
   Heck, even I am back in the studio.

Gotta bunch of new dreck.
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Cindie

[delilahmused]

This one has it all...brush with greatness (John Lennon), legal hassles, military service, being loaded, and the softer side of TiT...

TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Fri Dec-08-06 11:34 PM
Original message
John Lennon and me
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Every year about this time I am reminded of this...

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The time was in the early '70s and I was in Houston at the Federal Building on San Jacinto to appear in some sort of trial. I cannot remember the exact circumstance, but I am sure it was related to my service in the Military. I seemed to be, at the time, in a perpetual State of Trouble.

So I am sitting, wasted, in a chair in the hall outside of this courtroom waiting to go in and testify about whatever it was when this really familiar looking guy comes out of an adjoining courtroom. He sat down in the chair next to me and asked if I had a smoke, seems as if his wife had his in her purse. Told me he was attending a custody trial (Yoko and her ex were fighting about their daughter) and it was driving him crazy. And we shared some hazy conversation

That's when I realized that he was John Lennon.

So I gave him a Kool and we sat there smoking (one could do that back in those days) as the media horde came blitzing down the hallway.

The tv people came up, all kinds of light and confusion, shouting all manner of crap and Lennon said, "Can't you see I am having a conversation with my good friend Tom?", and he waved them off.

They all went away and we sat there and talked for quite some time.

I remember standing at the counter at Hank Wagner's hardware store in Houston many years later when the word came over the radio that Lennon had been killed.

I stood there with tears running down my face.

I was a hard guy in a soft place.

Tom

 
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Well, the timeline was right...the trial ended in 1971 but I thought TiT was still in country. Oh well.

TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Sat Dec-09-06 01:35 AM
Response to Reply #18
19. I was at my grandparents' house in Houstom
   When I saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show.

Thank the hell heavens, because we did not have teevee at our house.

I saw those guys singing and all of that sceaming and decided that I would never again cut my hair.

And the rest is...
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Severe upbringing, fundy parents but they're going to let him grow his hair long...sure.

TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Sat Dec-09-06 11:08 PM
Response to Reply #27
28. Interesting link.. Harlan Crow...
   In the Summer of '03, I was at a party at Harlan's house in Turtle Creek (Dallas).

Harlan was drunk and bragging about buying that statue of Hussein that was toppled in that bs staged square deal.

Saying he was going to put it in his sculpture garden once Iraq "cooled down".

I told him Iraq was never going to cool down.
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Not just actors, talk show hosts and singers but also real estate magnets...he does get around.

Cindie

[delilahmused]

During this time when SO many are suffering...let me again remind everyone what an EXCLUSIVE area I live in...oh, and I'm suffering too.

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TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Fri May-16-08 09:52 PM
Response to Original message
1. That's what it's down to, marmar.
   Even tho I live in one of the wealthiest ZIPs in the country (94920), I have recently begun enjoying the luxury of Public Transportation for a variety of reasons.

Things are really tough out there.

Folks dancing on the edge of the feather.
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Cindie

[delilahmused]

Tough guy Tom and the other special forces are ready to take on Blackwater...

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TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Thu Sep-27-07 07:05 PM
Response to Reply #3
7. Oh, we have.
   My community is loaded with ex-Special Forces personnel.

We have been talking about this quite a lot lately.

If they ever show up here, they will all die.

We are, at the least, as well armed and we know the hills.
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TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Thu Sep-27-07 08:28 PM
Response to Reply #36
40. In this case, never is forever.
   It all started when a bunch of us were talking about all of our locals being worked up about earthquake preparedness.

Somebody said, "Hell, I'm more worried about Blackwater".

That's when we started planning.

You would not believe the lengths to which we have gone.

We are as serious as Death.
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TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Fri Sep-28-07 01:32 AM
Response to Reply #44
47. What is "Jedi"?
   What the heck is "Jedi"?

I have been out of everything for a long, long time.

Jedi?
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Oh now, this is seriously funny...how can he possibly not know what a Jedi is? They've only been part of our culture for 30 years.

TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Fri Sep-28-07 02:58 AM
Response to Reply #54
57. Oh, movies....
   Edited on Fri Sep-28-07 02:59 AM by TomInTib
The last movie I paid any attention to was "Minnie and Moskowitz" (or something to that effect).

Took my sons to see "Roger Rabbit", "Dick Tracy", something like that.

I don't know much about any movies.

Just what I see on the teevee.
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Wait...I thought he never watched tv?

Cindie

[Randy]

TiT, the Forrest Gump of DU.

[LC EFA]

Tom "remembers his vietnam days"

Swede  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Thu Nov-16-06 10:23 PM
Original message
I remember the last time I almost went to Viet Nam,
   
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those were some good times. I also almost flew some jets.

Monkeyman  (1000+ posts) Journal  Thu Nov-16-06 10:28 PM
Response to Original message
3. I remember almost losing my leg in Vietnam
   
Edited on Thu Nov-16-06 10:29 PM by Monkeyman

TomInTib  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Thu Nov-16-06 10:38 PM
Response to Reply #3
5. In my case, it was my life.
   
And I don't appreciate any ****in jokes about it.

TomInTib  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Nov-17-06 12:01 AM
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9. I remember 68 of my buddies....
   
Done.

Lost forever.
   
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Boat Driver / SEAL / Hater of B52's

Klukie  (984 posts) Journal Sun Mar-26-06 12:56 PM
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A question for those who served during Vietnam.
   
I am curious to know how other branches of the miltary were viewed by those who served in the army or navy? Also, how big of a role did other branches play in this conflict? Thanks for any insight.

TomInTib  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sun Mar-26-06 01:13 PM
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8. Yeah, no kidding. What used to really piss me off was B52s
   
I did river patrol up north on the Qua Viet with 2nd Marine.

Those planes would come over on bombing mission and give the (I don't believe I can use that term here) "bad guys" cover in the craters.

On long-range recon, we would follow a carpet-bombing run so closely that the craters would still be smoking. Those guys would be shooting at us from the craters.
Man, I hated that crap.

TomInTib  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sun Mar-26-06 01:31 PM
Response to Reply #11
17. You had to be there to even begin to grasp the power of those
   
bombs. I can just see you in a bunk skating across the floor. Funny how we can still laugh about that.

I remember the ground shaking so hard it felt like an earthquake. My first experience with that crap was absolutely terrifying. Because of the rolling thunder, I just knew they were hitting much closer than we thought and that we would surely die. I was such a NFG it is a wonder I ddn't start squealing like a girl. Within a few weeks, I could walk right up the tail while they were hitting out in front of us and not even think about the bombs.

God, I am glad I'm not doing that stuff anymore.

TomInTib  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sun Mar-26-06 02:06 PM
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26. Here's mine..
   
Even though I grew up on a ranch in Texas, I have always had a fear of scorpions. Well, you know how big they were over there..

I was a pilot on a PBR and my first day I was being "briefed" (I thought so, anyway. They were just jerking me around) by the guy I was replacing. We were standing on the bow of the boat and he was going on about shit that was just scaring the piss out of me. But I was earnest and he could tell, so he finally got down to telling me the real stuff.
He was in the middle of how important it was to remain part of the situation, not worry about myself too much, but to think of the team in the present environment, and - most of all - to keep my shit together and never overreact.
That was when a scorpion about 10 inches long ran across my left foot.
I actually screamed right out loud and jumped over the side into the river.
Hit my head on the camel (bumper between boat and dock) and knocked my stupid ass out cold.

Talk about a great first impression.

TomInTib  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sun Mar-26-06 01:08 PM
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4. I was USN attached to the 2nd Marine
   
River patrol, long-range recon and target extrication in Vietnam and Laos.

To this day, I never let anyone get away with talking s**t about Marines.

The Navy's role was (except for guys like myself) largely limited to offshore ops (gun line) and, of course, the oft-times heroic work of SEABEES on construction/repair projects.

Most of my exposure to Army personnel consisted of bar fights.

As far as Air Force, I only saw them flying over my head and on R&R and in airports.

TomInTib  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sun Mar-26-06 01:21 PM
Response to Reply #9
13. I volunteered for USN for the reason you stated and spent..
   
27 months in combat a couple clicks south of the line.

As they say about best-laid plans...

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Tom the "torturer"

MassDemm  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Wed Dec-12-07 08:14 PM
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Water torture being used by USA personell in the Vietnam war.

I just never saw this picture.


TomInTib  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-12-07 08:21 PM
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1. And then there was our favorite...
   
Picture some poor bastard with his pants around his ankles.

And a team of crazy Americans with a field mouse, a length of aluminum conduit and a Zippo.

TomInTib  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-12-07 08:55 PM
Response to Reply #3
4. True story
   
When you hear crap such as, "Our government does not torture", remember what you read in my reply.

I had nightmares about that shit for years.
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Tom in the brig

TomInTib  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Jun-17-06 10:26 PM
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Vietnam era DUers - Remember 'Tiger Cages' and the outrage?
   
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Edited on Sat Jun-17-06 10:47 PM by TomInTib
Remember how the NVA was portrayed as inhuman savages because of the cages?

Special Operations interrogators gave some detainees only bread or crackers and water if they did not cooperate, according to the investigation, by Brig. Gen. Richard P. Formica of the Army. One prisoner was fed only bread and water for 17 days. Other detainees were locked for as many as seven days in cells so small that they could neither stand nor lie down, while interrogators played loud music that disrupted their sleep.

< aside: I spent a month on bread and water, 3 days on and 3 days off, in a Marine Brig. That regimen will absolutely mess with your mind. >

General Formica found that in the third case at a Special Operations outpost, near Tikrit, in April and May 2004, three detainees were held in cells 4 feet high, 4 feet long and 20 inches wide, except to use the bathroom, to be washed or to be interrogated. He concluded that two days in such confinement "would be reasonable; five to seven days would not." Two of the detainees were held for seven days; one for two days, General Formica concluded.

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[delilahmused]

Now he evidently knows the Eagles and lived by Don Henley...wow.

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TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Sun Nov-25-07 08:56 PM
Response to Reply #4
5. I knew them when they were still Linda Rondstadt's band.
   And opening act, as well.

I also lived right around the corner from Don Henley in Dallas (Bluffview).
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Cindie

[delilahmused]

Oh good Christ...rock stars, spies, corporate boardrooms...even Heidi Fleiss didn't get atround this much.

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TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Tue Oct-17-06 04:32 AM
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3. Bullshit, georgie... You know and I know that was the plan all along...
   Purvin&Gertz, Houston.

I saw those maps in Blake Eskew's conference room.

As did J A Baker.

As did Harmid Karzai.

As did that asshole Hadley.

Just google 'blake eskew', 'purvin','gertz'

Play around, see what happens.

I am tired of this and I am about to go absolutely Public.

They have planned this all along.
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Does anyone know if TiT went "absolutely public" with this? BTW, wouldn't posting on a public message board kind of do the trick?

Cindie

[delilahmused]

You'd think if he was gonna name-drop about the maker of the damn guitar he'd at least know how to spell the man's name. Oh, and surprise, surprise...another brush with greatness.

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TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Mon Sep-04-06 03:59 PM
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1. I have seen him play that guitar.
   And I have had one quite like it. Mine was built by Paul Reid Smith.

It is what we call a "soft" guitar. Basically a 2/3 scale and perfect for fast, choppy and nasty slide work. And next to impossible to keep tuned.

Ry was playing in open D and doing a great job with that fat glass slide. Playing those little guitars is either second nature or you're just not playing. All guitar logic flies right out the window when you are really cruising on a soft guitar.
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Just so you don't embarass yourself again, TiT...it's ReEd not ReId. How pathetic...can't even do a 30 second google to get the man's name right.

Cindie

[delilahmused]

Oh goody, another song!

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TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Sun Oct-21-07 01:42 AM
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1. For Josh...(dead at 14)
   You know they come from the water
To run through the trees
They say that all Men are Brothers
But as different as the Seasons

And you can pin wings to my shoulders
And pretend that I could fly
But if your wings are strong enough for enough for two....
I'll think I'll walk with you awhile

Some let the sand slip thru their fingers
Some throw it to the wind
Some let the Mystery linger
And some bring it to an end

And you can pin wings to my shoulders
And pretend that I could fly
But if your wings are strong enough for enough for two....
I'll think I'll walk with you awhile

I'll understand if you can't see me
I'll understand if you can't stay
But if somehow, I could catch your eye
Babe, please don't turn away


'cause you can pin wings to my shoulders
And pretend that I could fly
But if your wings are strong enough for enough for two....
I'll think I'll walk with you awhile

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Cindie