So why am I watching a program about plane crashes on the History Channel?

[ScreamingMeemie]

I am already a weinie when it comes to boarding those things...so why not sit and watch and listen. Gee, I need to know that 1100 people have been killed in the past 20 years in commercial airline accidents, that many are due to pilot/crew error.

Yes, I know that I am safer up there, but it still gives me the heebies. Someone change the channel please.

:scared:

[Wickerman]

1. Isn't there a nice Brewers game on or something?

change the channel!

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. If this were Packer season and between 1 and 4 on a Sunday

afternoon, I'd be all fine. I should have gone to bed. ;)

[x-g.o.p.er]

7. Except when they play the Vikings....

and get taken to the woodshed!!

Skol Vikings!!

:)

[ScreamingMeemie]

18. Sad little Vikings fan....

Are they still playing football after last season???
;)

[x-g.o.p.er]

33. LOL....

Nothing like sharing in a little pre-season jabbing.

I thought you would have been suicidal after the Philly game...much like I was after Arizona

[ScreamingMeemie]

37. Pretty close. I was physically ill, to say the least.

:7

[SmileyBoy]

34. WOOOO-HOOOOO YOU TELL 'EM!!!!

SKOOOOOOOL VIKES!!!

PACKERS SUCK!!!:D:D:D:D

[x-g.o.p.er]

38. Skol, baby!!!

[madrchsod]

2. lifetime movies

almost as mind numbing or psycho if you get tcm

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. Yes, expecially the ones with the jilted baby stealing women.

brrrrrrrr.....:hi:

[texas1928]

5. If you get The Movie Channel

The Ted Bundy story just started.

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. The one with Mark Harmon?

He was chillingly good in that. :scared:

[texas1928]

14. Don't know saw it flipping through the guide

on my digital cable.

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. It was actually kind of good, but quite long...and changed my

impression of Mark Harmon forever. :hi:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

6. Okra's not in season yet?

[Pobeka]

8. I just saw some in a can at the store today, sure it's in season.

It had some salt in the liquid.

<don't shoot me, I couldn't help it>

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. mmmm Okra....

and that is quite possibly true. If it were, I'd making up a batch right about now. ;)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

11. It's highly possible

that we've invented a new euphamism...

[ScreamingMeemie]

13. I think you are quite possibly right.

:7.

[texas1928]

12. How did we go from from Plane Crashes to Okra

:shrug:

[ScreamingMeemie]

16. Because things like that tend to happen here in the lounge.

;) and I am more favorably disposed to okra. :7

[texas1928]

Fried or pickled

is the only way I like them.

[texas1928]

22. Like a conversation with my wife,

one subject after another and before I know it we are way off the topic we started.

[DemoTex]

17. Can't plant okra until the soil is real warm.

Okra, like it's cousin cotton, is a heat lovin' plant. The soil temp must be near 80-degrees F for okra to geminate. I just planted my okra last week. It is sprouting.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

24. Well now we know

we need to get the soil hot...suppose it has to be REAL moist too...right?

[DemoTex]

28. Yes, indeed. In the immortal words of Roosevelt E. Roosevelt ..

"Hot and wet! That's OK if you are with a lady, but it ain't worth a damn in the jungle!"

Roosevelt E. Roosevelt (Robin Williams) in Good Morning, Vietnam.

[Pobeka]

19. Did you know no planes have crashed while dogs were piloting the craft?

That should be comforting.

[ScreamingMeemie]

20. Very.

Thanks. ;)


What about yaks? any yak caused crashes??

[Pobeka]

25. You're welcome.

Yaks have been witnessed attempting to hijack planes, but so far the dogs have always fought them off, and we are not able to say whether a yak would be a safer pilot than a dog.

There may be someone around here with an opinion on the topic though...

[liberalhistorian]

21. Not to add to the heebie-jeebies, but

for the past several years I've had some vivid dreams that have led me to believe that I'll probably die in a plane crash. I know what you're thinking, that the way around that is to never board another plane. But, you know, these things have a way of happening no matter what we do to stop them!

[ScreamingMeemie]

27. True. Plus, even with all my fear of flying, I won't let it stop me from

visiting my beloved little niece and niece to be. :hi:

[liberalhistorian]

30. I think it's perfectly natural to

have both a fascination with and a fear of flying. After all, you're up there 30-40,000 feet in the air with a total stranger in control of the plane. You have no control, and you don't really know what's happening in the cockpit. And if something does go wrong, you're stuck up there. You can't just stop the plane and get out. So it's perfectly reasonable to be afraid of flying.

Of course, when I fly, I HAVE to take Dramamine or the people around me wouldn't be too happy. That shit dopes me up so much that I'm really not all that conscious during a flight, anyway, lol!

[ScreamingMeemie]

32. I pop two Vicodin to handle it all.

You nailed it right there. It's the not being able to put my foot on the brake persay. I used to love flying until I had children.

[SmileyBoy]

36. Has Brett Favre been giving that stuff away to his fans now???

(Just kidding.)

[flamingyouth]

23. Does this show coincide with the 25th anniversary of the O'Hare crash?

I always loved the Disasters section of the World Almanac when I was a kid. I was a real delight! :D

Hi, Laura! :loveya:

[ScreamingMeemie]

26. Yes, that special (if you can call it a special, which they did) is on

tomorrow night at eight. That I cannot bring myself to watch. I remember the front page picture of it flying upside down over the terminal and could not shake the image for weeks. And the commercial tonight brought that back. I wonder why we find ourselves drawn to that?

Hi Lisa! It's great to see you! :loveya:

[Robb]

29. Plane crashes CAN be fascinating...

...see my hobby, below. :hi:

[liberalhistorian]

31. I suppose they can be, in a morbid kind of way,

as long as neither you nor anyone you know is on a plane that crashed!

[Cannikin]

35. It will be back on at 1am Central.....I'll catch it then, thanks!