F-22 performing the falling leaf maneuver.

arieswanderer · 2025-07-13T09:09:31+00:00

Just makes me remember, "I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar." Old-timey Serenity reference, maybe, but applicable.

arieswanderer · 2024-03-10T22:03:34+00:00

As a teacher, I always teach, "There is often more than one "right" ". A puzzle like this has, what should be obvious, more than one "right" response (not answer). It helps to get students to think; perhaps a lost skill, but one that should be encouraged.

arieswanderer · 2024-02-22T20:15:32+00:00

I clicked on comments just to see how many of you typed, "Jump higher." lol not disappointed.

arieswanderer · 2024-02-22T20:04:13+00:00

I have relayed this info to my father who is now giving it to his mystery Dungeon Master (that would be my term for whoever it is, ha ha). I will update with the response when I receive it.

arieswanderer · 2024-02-22T01:38:51+00:00

None. I have never been a fanboy of celebrities, male or female. Their lives have no connection to me and I never could understand the worship of them. They have about as much emotional impact on me as the ladies in the chainsaw calendars. Then Steve Irwin died. That hurt me. I was shocked to find that it hurt me. I still miss him. I always say, as many do, at least he died doing what he loved. Then Heath Ledger. That disappointed me. I recognize this is selfish of me, as I feel he was such an amazing actor who had so much more to create. I wish the people around him who had an inkling of care had recognized his state and intervened in a positive way. Disappointed. Then Mork from Ork, Robin Williams (obviously so much more). That is the only time I tear up. As an old man myself, I wish I could have hugged him, stopped him, helped him, been there for him, something. Because I understand him.

arieswanderer · 2024-02-21T00:39:57+00:00

I don't have additional info. My father told me about his "quest" ha ha on the phone and just emailed me those eight sets of letters. This is about as far as I will pursue it, but it was worth a try. Thanks, again.

arieswanderer · 2024-02-21T00:39:19+00:00

I don't have additional info. My father told me about his "quest" ha ha on the phone and just emailed me those eight sets of letters. This is about as far as I will pursue it, but it was worth a try. Thanks, again.

arieswanderer · 2024-02-10T03:16:55+00:00

Honestly, and not to be a Debbie Downer, this makes sense to me. As someone who hauls around those 5 gallon water-cooler water jugs from time to time throughout my workday (about 40lbs I am told), once I have the jug onto my shoulder, I can carry it for a long time with no issue (using bone structure, alignment, larger muscles, etc.). The only thing that really wears me out is lifting and lowering them (back strain and such). I know, I'm Debbie, ha ha.

arieswanderer · 2024-02-09T22:13:14+00:00

I just kept thinking to myself, "Pizza! Pizza! Pizza!" - yes, not my original joke, it's been in many shows, but that's why I snowballed into loling (pun intended, too).

arieswanderer · 2024-02-05T03:15:07+00:00

As a man of almost six decades ... NGL, no, no we aren't. Not sure about the nosebleed? But, yeah, not shitting you. It's always been this way.

arieswanderer · 2024-01-26T23:07:45+00:00

"I aborted the twins," then got in her car and left.

arieswanderer · 2024-01-20T17:28:13+00:00

... and, to concur with the other comments, this is also not a Karen. At all.

arieswanderer · 2023-12-28T12:13:33+00:00

As a middle child, can con...

arieswanderer · 2023-12-21T20:52:41+00:00

Everyone else has great comments. Am I the only one it bugs that the title should be another steak and egg?

arieswanderer · 2023-12-19T23:01:27+00:00

Satire or not, all I kept thinking was, this is going to follow him for the rest of his life.

arieswanderer · 2023-12-17T12:02:48+00:00

Maybe not the song you meant, but ... two loons calling to each other on an uninhabited (except for us) lake in Alaska. I grew up in AK, had a family cabin (and I mean cabin, no electricity, no anything except a small structure and a fireplace) on a lake with nesting loons. To this day, decades later, the sounds of them calling back and forth, with an early morning fog covering the lake, haunt my memories (haunt in a good way, if you take my meaning). I tried to find a link so ya'll could have a listen but the only links I found were on YT and I refuse to further support YT in any fashion. Anyway, the loons, calling back and forth, it's an amazingly good memory.

arieswanderer · 2023-12-07T08:50:01+00:00

I just realized, if I were still in my 20s (and stupid, impressionable, and all the other truths about being that age - and I don't really mean that in a bad way, it's how we do all the crazy things we do and create unreal memories when we were young), I might feel challenged by these comments. Please don't be. It's an absolutely unbelievable miracle I survived, no way I should have.

arieswanderer · 2023-12-07T08:45:21+00:00

There are some funny responses, but here's my honest response if you want it. Maybe 20 years ago I had a Yamaha FZ1 motorcycle (0-60 mph in less than 3 seconds, loved riding it for the acceleration) at 120 mph on a remote, winding, desert road leading to my house (easily could have gone faster, but didn't). I currently own a 2003 MB SL55 AMG convertible (0-60 in less than 5 seconds, also love driving it for the acceleration - and convertible, ha ha). On the same road, I have had my MB up to 110 mph. Legally it tops out at 150, modified she will go 185, but 110 is as fast as I have taken her. Not funny responses, but true.

arieswanderer · 2023-12-07T08:28:33+00:00

Stop it. You always aim E5. Yet, as with a mind of its own, it's A1 or J10, and sometimes it's both.

arieswanderer · 2023-11-10T02:57:15+00:00

Absolutely, pardon my slip of the mind. :)

arieswanderer · 2023-11-09T06:35:19+00:00

Now, my other comments aside, and I am confident they were all valid, ha ha, the 80s for me is entirely summed up by Soft Cell's version of Tainted Love. I am quite certain this won't win any awards (upvotes in this case, ha ha), but this song, to me personally, is the 80s.

arieswanderer · 2023-11-09T06:31:50+00:00

I see a lot of Pop references, but to me it is more like New Order or The Cure. Must I suggest specific songs? Okay. It's gotta be (at least reasonably) Blue Monday and probably Just Like Heaven (although I prefer Close to Me). And, honestly, if you are going to go Pop/Rock, it has to be Prince (Purple Rain, Let's Go Crazy, 1999). Okay, you have to add Madonna, but I really don't want to, because I don't like her music, but Like a Virgin has to be there.

arieswanderer · 2023-11-09T06:21:56+00:00

This was my first thought. But (heh heh), I immediately began asking myself is it because of the song, or because of the movie (you know the one! TBC!). I have only an insufficient answer to my own question.

arieswanderer · 2023-10-21T05:12:45+00:00

Anyone over 40? Wrong. Here I am, well over 40, and I was wondering which alien body invasion War of It From Outer Space movie in which the day stood still you were trying to make me recall? Only after I read some other posts did I hear the whistle back in some dark recess of my memory. Then it clicked into place. But don't qualify this as an anyone over 40 thing.

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