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To: Ilaine who wrote (36956)	9/2/1999 12:05:00 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

WOW-- no kidding!!!!!!!!! WOW !!!!! WHere did you see them?? When? I saw them on the Ed Sullivan Show, and my dad kept saying loudly, "This is awful! You call that music? This is terrible! LOok at their hair!"

To: Ilaine who wrote (36956)	9/2/1999 12:06:00 PM
From: Thomas C. White	Respond to of 71178

Okay, no can do. I doff my cap. But I almostalmostalmost got to fly sidesaddle in a badass jet fighter once. When I was in the Air Force in Texas, we enlisteds could go up to Webb Air Force Base in the Panhandle, and sign up to fly backseat with desk jockeys who were former pilots. The pilots came into Webb once a year on a weekend for a "checkout" flight on two-seater F-4 Phantoms geocities.com, keeping their "reserve" flight status up. And usually they would take someone in the back seat (accompanied by requisite barf receptacle strapped to face like a feed bag). Invariably these desk guys, having their once a year chance to do serious Top Gun machory, would do some pretty wicked stuff, flying fifty feet off the ground at Mach 1, loop da loops, flying straight up and whatnot. And you got to wear a silver flight suit and helmet, even in the back seat, which made for a pretty nifty photo to show off to the young ladies at bars. Surefire bunny cuddle, and well worth the inevitable cookie toss. A friend of mine and I had it all planned to go there one weekend, and that very week, they discontinued the reserve checkouts at Webb and moved them to some place in Colorado. So I lost out. This may not have been your cup of tea, but to a twenty year old guy it was the Holy Grail.