Official Gramps' Memorial Eternal OT Thread

[NorthDallas40]

While we’re all bragging
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Lol. You want to know the funny part. Yours keeps better time than mine

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

 

[Y9 Vol]

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‘Murica!!

 

[SumSoonerChick]

It’s Spring Break Bitches!!!!

 

[AirVol]

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‘Murica!!

Carry enough “drop” with you?

 

[Y9 Vol]

Carry enough “drop” with you?

You know it!
It’s the Dickel we run out of to quickly!

 

[Orangeburst]

 

[Grand Vol]

I'm glad the Vols get to beat up the Beaver soon.

 

[McDad]

I'm glad the Vols get to beat up the Beaver soon.

 

[LouderVol]

Found out my sister will be graduating in Neyland in May.

They are only doing a couple of the professional degree programs, and limiting seating to 4 guests max. Apparently you have to sign up early if you actually want to walk the stage, also gets you on the jumbotron. Rain or shine.

Told her I am coming decked out in UT paraphernalia, and that I will "Woo" when she crosses the stage.

May be the closest I get to a UT football game in at least 2 years, may end up as more.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

Lawyers.

 

[McDad]

Found out my sister will be graduating in Neyland in May.

They are only doing a couple of the professional degree programs, and limiting seating to 4 guests max. Apparently you have to sign up early if you actually want to walk the stage, also gets you on the jumbotron. Rain or shine.

Told her I am coming decked out in UT paraphernalia, and that I will "Woo" when she crosses the stage.

May be the closest I get to a UT football game in at least 2 years, may end up as more.

Congrats to her. I'll give you 5 whole dollars if you streak during the ceremony.

 

[VolStrom]

Found out my sister will be graduating in Neyland in May.

They are only doing a couple of the professional degree programs, and limiting seating to 4 guests max. Apparently you have to sign up early if you actually want to walk the stage, also gets you on the jumbotron. Rain or shine.

Told her I am coming decked out in UT paraphernalia, and that I will "Woo" when she crosses the stage.

May be the closest I get to a UT football game in at least 2 years, may end up as more.

After you attend more than one graduation ceremony you will praise the times when they get cancelled.

 

[Grand Vol]

After you attend more than one graduation ceremony you will praise the times when they get cancelled.

This.

Absolutely this.

 

[hog88]

After you attend more than one graduation ceremony you will praise the times when they get cancelled.

When our daughter got her masters it was in Thompson Boiling, it was hot crowded and miserable.

 

[VolStrom]

When our daughter got her masters it was in Thompson Boiling, it was hot crowded and miserable.

You forgot hours long for the 5 seconds of pride when they mispronounce your child's name when she walks across the stage.

 

[LouderVol]

After you attend more than one graduation ceremony you will praise the times when they get cancelled.

That's the added bonus of it being in Neyland, if it's taking too long I just get up and walk about and see what spaces I can get into.

 

[LouderVol]

When our daughter got her masters it was in Thompson Boiling, it was hot crowded and miserable.

I imagine it will be 90+, same in humidity and direct sun. Glad I am not the one in the wizard get up.

 

[VolStrom]

That's the added bonus of it being in Neyland, if it's taking too long I just get up and walk about and see what spaces I can get into.

If you're lucky they'll be selling $14 beers to help take the edge off.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

 

[DancingOutlaw]

 

[AM64]

After you attend more than one graduation ceremony you will praise the times when they get cancelled.

I skipped both of mine, but I've had the "pleasure" of attending too many others. Hopefully now that my wife and son both have the title of Dr (not MD) that's all done. And I gotta tell you paying for those fancy robes with all the stripes on the sleeves and funny floppy hats are expensive ... and only slightly more useful than a wedding dress ... assuming participating in graduation ceremonies for others.

 

[AM64]

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I was reading a book earlier and ran across something I'd read before. During the war in Viet Nam there was a Wild Weasel team ... Tom and Jerry. Jerry Hoblit was the pilot and Tom Wilson the guy in the back seat handling the electronics. There are some interesting stories told about them. Tom Wilson wrote a series of novels starting with Termite Hill ... good reading.

Excerpt from an Air&Space magazine article:

Hoblit vividly remembers being trumped by the Vinh operator during a night mission. "I had a preplanned strike launch all figured out coming off the water, where I used the radar and got a good range on him," Hoblit says. "So I was doing this trick and it was a pretty high angle. I think I was launching [a lofted delivery of the missile] around 30 degrees. And right after I launched that Shrike, I'm still kind of floating and up comes the Fan Song [transmitting a launch signal]. I'm all out of airspeed and about everything and it's night, and I'm over an undercast everything went from good to bad in an instant. And Tom [Wilson, Hoblit's EWO] is yelling at me, calling me a very bad name." Hoblit doesn't think the operator actually fired a missile at him, but knows his own attack against the Vinh operator failed miserably. "That was typical. I wasn't so dumb. He was just smart," Hoblit says.

 

[NorthDallas40]

After you attend more than one graduation ceremony you will praise the times when they get cancelled.

I went to my own graduation because my parents said I was going as they wanted to see me get that diploma. Otherwise I would have blown it off.

 

[VolStrom]

I went to my own graduation because my parents said I was going as they wanted to see me get that diploma. Otherwise I would have blown it off.

I was disappointed when my dad blew off my graduation, but my mother and sisters came. My dad was a smart man.