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  1. Bluebird Marsha

    Comments You Get When You Dress Vintage

    "Flippant", *giggle*, and "Anne Frank" - these just sooo do not go together. I prefer to believe this person was simply to stupid to realize how idiotic she sounded!
  2. Bluebird Marsha

    Military Fakes- sometimes you just have to share the joke...

    Well, the jump boots, like certain color berets and insignia, are/were part of the uniform of "elite" units. It doesn't quite rise to wearing a medal you haven't earned. But it comes close. I don't know if the same status is still attached to those boots. I suspect folks in combat wear what...
  3. Bluebird Marsha

    Military Fakes- sometimes you just have to share the joke...

    I was explicitly warned when I entered Army ROTC and started buying some of my uniforms, (early 1980's), to NOT purchase jump boots. And my classmates that completed Airborne school practically glowed when they first wore their highly polished jump boots.
  4. Bluebird Marsha

    Worst Golden-era inventions

    Great minds think alike. I too though of the inappropriate use of Lysol! More pics for the curious http://realchoice.blogspot.com/2006/03/lysol-douche-ads-these-are-for-real.html Some poor old guys out there have an olfactory connection between Lysol and "fun".
  5. Bluebird Marsha

    The general decline in standards today

    I have a friend who pursued a PhD in Philosophy. It was his undergrad degree, and even after he got his Master's in Library Science, he wanted that PhD. But he did it the "right" way. He was accepted at UConn, and his tuition was covered while he worked as a teaching assistant. The job paid just...
  7. Bluebird Marsha

    Military Fakes- sometimes you just have to share the joke...

    There are a couple of "types" in the military impersonation business. Clark is the most dangerous type. A conman who uses a uniform to further his crime, much like a police impersonator. Another type is former military, but uses bogus medals and injuries to increase their retirement pensions...
  8. Bluebird Marsha

    Radical life change needed!

    I know what you mean. I used to have a figure , that in retrospect, was fabulous. But when I entered the "adult world" of work and my own home I also started hitting the fast food and restaurants pretty heavily. It took a decade, but I went from 140 to 220. I just decided that what I had left of...
  9. Bluebird Marsha

    The general decline in standards today

    I'm not sure that a college education and a job "in the trades" are mutually incompatible. Maybe back when only the well-to-do went to college, that might have been the case, but I don't see a disconnect in a plumber who has a philosophy degree but works installing bathrooms. I had a history...
  10. Bluebird Marsha

    Military Fakes- sometimes you just have to share the joke...

    Alas, being a nut is not enough to get you arrested. Planet wide mockery is a second-best choice, but it will have to do.
  11. Bluebird Marsha

    Military Fakes- sometimes you just have to share the joke...

    He's so awesome, he has to have multiple jackets to display his medals on. The Order of the Patriotic War, Victoria Cross, WWII POW medal (he LET himself be captured-just so he could escape). I'm sure he has Astronaut wings too. When he makes a HALO jump, he don't need no stinkin' parachute...
  13. Bluebird Marsha

    Military Fakes- sometimes you just have to share the joke...

    Space Nazi's. I hate those guys. Normally, when I hear about about a 54 yr. old woman snagging a 28 yr. old hubby, I want to give a fist bump and yell "Go Team!" Alas, in this case instead I envision Deliverance, with dueling banjos playing.
  14. Bluebird Marsha

    Military Fakes- sometimes you just have to share the joke...

    The polar bears were in cahoots with beluga whales. Our Boys were being held in the underwater Caverns of Doom when Sgt. Boogerman single handedly rescued them. And there was a volcano. First, he rappelled out of the space shuttle, and when he reached the end of the rope-he turned it into a...
  15. Bluebird Marsha

    Military Fakes- sometimes you just have to share the joke...

    Someone over at This Ain't Hell pointed out the Antarctica service ribbon. It was the Airborne, Air Assault wings, plus the pilot's wings that sent me into giggles. Someone thought they recognized a Coast Guard pin in all that mess. Apparently the Navy was able to escape his attention. Rambo...
  16. Bluebird Marsha

    Military Fakes- sometimes you just have to share the joke...

    The funniest part of the uniform is what's not in this picture of the baby zoomie. In the rest, he has a GREEN BERET!, and he has his pants bloused into a pair of desert tan BOOTS! For the full story, and ensuing hilarity go to: http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=24149. I'm quite positive he's...
  17. Bluebird Marsha

    Attention Texans, don't spank your kids

    I have a step-aunt who was doubly appalled. But in our family, her opinion doesn't count for much. :) My sister is actually one of those mothers that usually need to be kicked through the goal posts of life. Either too strict, or too lenient, whichever suits her mood. The punishment was a small...
  19. Bluebird Marsha

    Military Fakes- sometimes you just have to share the joke...

    I'm quite sure the first person to illegitimately claim military service was some guy who claimed to be a Spartan who survived the Battle of Thermopylae. Be that as it may, there is a long and inglorious history of this kind of behavior, and I suspect that as each generation of veterans ages...
  20. Bluebird Marsha

    Attention Texans, don't spank your kids

    I'm solidly in the spanking category. Not as the first line of punishment, but not as the last line either. As the appropriate punishment. If I had kids, they wouldn't necessarily get spanked for being "sassy" with me. Sass my mom? (their grandmother)- fist of God time. But with love:) I...
  21. Bluebird Marsha

    If you had a chance to travel through a TIME MACHINE for a WEEK? where would you go?

    I'd haul my butt back to the Library of Alexandria, with a pit stop at the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum, bag of gold and amber in one hand, and the best portable scanner I could lay my hands on in the other. If I was feeling really brave, I'd visit the caves at Lascaux while they were...
  22. Bluebird Marsha

    What is your passion?

    I've seen things you people wouldn't believe: Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion...
  23. Bluebird Marsha

    What do you want out of life?

    I also think that was an outstanding article. The idea of sustainability, which I think is overused in many circumstances is spot on here. I'm not quite sure how I could have it better than my parents and grandparents. Food and a comfortable shelter, education up to the point I was qualified...

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