<p>I think it's time for a little mischief. </p>
<p>Did you notice that the SA Parents board has more posts than both USMMA and USCGA?</p>
<p>HA! HA! HA! LMAO (dedicated to Aspen via Boss)! We've been busy sitting back & watching all the kids' excitement in news coming and hoping the others hear soon. Need to get back to our threads and bring them back to life again. Weeeeee! Will have to think of some new and interesting threads. ;) I'm busy loving the season. All warm & fuzzy with kids going home for their first real break. And of course your kid singing at the White House. How awesome is that!?! </p>
<p>QUICK! Everyone turn it to the weather channel. I think we're gonna get snow flakes! Haven't seen those in five years. I gotta go outside and look. :) I have such a short attention span........ Life is good when you're me. I live excitement 24/7. Look for new threads soon! Not gonna let this little challenge slide! Get busy Boss and stop spending so much time with your kid! :)</p>
<p>There are so many "experts" on here that I can hardly get a word in edge-wise. Mostly lurking except in the CGA board. There is also a site for prospective cadets at the main academy site as well as a parents list serv so those take up a lot of the potential posters.
Anyway good luck to all the candidates and their families. I am somewhat bemused by the kids with LOA's being so impatient to get their "official notices." Remember a lot of kids don't hear until March or April or even later. Also it's funny that parents whose kids haven't even gotten to the school are worried about transportation NEXT THANKSGIVING. Enjoy the ride and try not to sweat the small stuff...at least not right away!
Merry X-mas to all(see I'm not completely p.c.!)</p>
<p>There are some truly funny things on here usually revolving around tighty whities. Can't wait for that discussion to come up again. And it will! I'm afraid that USMMA is sadly a little short in the listserv department so I had to glean all my information from here. And in addition to not being politically correct, there is always the issue of spelling here. I've grown to fear our teacher Mom here. I find myself running a spell check before I hit post so she doesn't get me. LOL </p>
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slpeling was ipmorantt! Hppe Hlodz tew my CC frndz! :)</p>
<p>The only thing I got was "huh". :D</p>
<p>Actually, I can't wait for the boots discussion. Do you remember how important that seemed? We've come a long way in just less than a year.</p>
<p>JM that's quite a post! Funny as usual but you better work on the spell checker there! After all you're a former journalist!</p>
<p>"Life is good!" - Jamzmom</p>
<p>A profound thought!.......Everyone needs or should to live by this philosophy!</p>
<p>My son said the same thing the other day...I'll add:"It's good to be the king"(him , not me...)</p>
<p>jamzmom- well so that we don't dissapoint you, the Torpedo will be getting a few of those tighty whiteys in his Christmas stocking this year- sure he'll love those! :eek: I can just hear the "No way I'm wearing those" now!</p>
<p>Too funny! Mine got new white hankies for his stocking. So excited for him to open them! I wish Boss would stop ratting me out! First I live in Tara and now this journalist thing. LOL Don't expect profund writing from someone who covered school board meetings and city hall. They thought I wrote so badly that I was no longer a journalist but a photojournalist when I moved to the south. Did get me into the Masters one year though! No pie for you Boss! :)</p>
<p>Sorry for outing you JM! I will promise(yeah right) not to divulge any more of your hidden secrets! HA! (:</p>
<p>Such a nice thread . . . or should I say: What a NICE thread and you all DON'T REALLY UNDERSTAND what you are talking about!!!</p>
<p>Boss, was it supposed to be: Don't sweat the petty stuff, just pet the sweaty stuff? That's the one I want to live by . . .</p>
<p>Bill - EH? You need to speak up alittle bit! I CAN'T HEAR VERY WELL. LOL You crack me up. Its don't pet the sweaty stuff. Gotta be. If thats how you wanna live Bill, I'm gonna worry for you. There's alot of nasty sweaty stuff out there. :)
Lets talk boots and undies!</p>
<p>JM- well, for all the time I've been hanging around here, I still don't get the boot thing. I still don't know what coroforms are (let alone spell it) - exactly what are they, and what kinds of shoes/boots actually get issued? </p>
<p>And exactly what is the big deal with polishing this stuff- I mean, I watched a great documentary a few weeks ago- a story about the Marines stationed at Arlington- they showed them preping their shoes- so shinny one would think they were made of black glass- and they handled them as if they were! They very carefully touched them only from the "inside" of the shoe, put them in flannel pouches (each shoe to its own), and said something about not "rocking from heel to toe" and "not bending the instep" when they walked 'cause it would cause the finish to "crack"....what the heck are they putting on these things? I've heard bits and pieces here and there about windex, keewi polish (never even heard of the stuff), water, lighter flames/no flames, good 'ole spit, hours of work- plebes lined up in the halls of Bancroft for "polishing" lessons- what am I missing and what's wrong with good 'ole pattent leather?</p>
<p>I've seen that documentary! It was awesome! What was it...Something like six hours of work to their gear & uniforms everyday. To be selected to that has to be such an honor for those guys.</p>
<p>Boss - If you think I'm gonna go up there and look around for your bear, you're nuts! There's crazy spookie things that go on up there. Talk about things that go bump in the night! No way man. I like ya but not that much.</p>
<p>Corfam was the first poromeric imitation leather, invented by Lee Hollowell, and introduced by DuPont in 1963 at the Chicago Shoe Show. Corfam was the centerpiece of the DuPont pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair in New York City. Its major advantages over natural leather were its durability and its high gloss finish that could be easily cleaned with a damp cloth. Its disadvantages were its stiffness which did not lessen with wearing and its relative lack of breathability. DuPont manufactured Corfam at its plant in Old Hickory, Tennessee from 1964 to 1971. After spending millions of dollars marketing the product to shoe manufacturers, DuPont withdrew Corfam from the market in 1971 and sold the rights to a company in Poland. Corfam is mainly remembered as a textbook marketing disaster.</p>
<p>Corfam is a trademarked name. Generically used to describe that unnaturally shiny type of shoe that military/police personnel wear when expecting foul weather [or when just generally lazy and not wanting to have to shine their leather shoes]; it is semi-bulletproof, plastic type of shoe. I suppose it is similar to patent leather.</p>
<p>navy2010 & Jamzmom: Watching a documentary on boot polishing? You're both a pair of real party animals. But, hey, who am I to point fingers when I take the time to read postings like Bill0510's on corfam.</p>
<p>Bill0510: Got to make sure I never ask you what time it is.</p>
<p>Got to go. My son arrived home last night from West Point and wants to spend a bunch of 1 on 1 time with me ( In my dreams !). He's already out and about catching up with his buddies.</p>
<p>Have a great holidays.</p>
<p>Attempting to understand Time has long been a prime occupation for philosophers, scientists and artists. There are widely divergent views about its meaning, hence it is difficult to provide an uncontroversial and clear definition of time. The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as "the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future, regarded as a whole". Another standard dictionary definition is "a non-spatial linear continuum wherein events occur in an apparently irreversible order." </p>
<p>The measurement of time has also occupied scientists and technologists, and was a prime motivation in astronomy. Time is also a matter of significant social importance, having economic value ("time is money") as well as personal value due to an awareness of the limited time in each day and in our lives. Units of time have been agreed upon to quantify the duration of events and the intervals between them. Regularly recurring events and objects with apparently periodic motion have long served as standards for units of time - such as the apparent motion of the sun across the sky, the phases of the moon, the swing of a pendulum.</p>
<p>After winning a case this morning, I had some extra time and money.</p>
<p>Now, Now, Aspen. Are you hinting that Navy2010 & I aren't the little wild cats we indeed are? Our big nights include egg rolls pal! Rerrrrrr! Phsssst! Hey! Bill has me all excited about patent leather now. I need to print that out & give it to the old ball & chain to justify him wearing the "p*mp" shoes he has to go with his tux for the All Academies Ball. He's really bucking me on this one. I can always use them afterwards for new mirrors around the house or to signal the space shuttle. Could be worse. I could be in Momof1's bunny boots & he in Shogun's green suit. </p>
<p>"a non-spatial linear continuum wherein events occur in an apparently irreversible order."
HA! HA! HA! ZOOOOM! Right over my wee little noggin. Why must you torture me with these things? You know I can't comprehend them. I can't even set my watch right to get the alarm to stop chimming every hour on the hour.....This is a crazy thread. Have you all been drinking again?</p>
<p>Nuts. I can't even figure this out to add something to my post without posting twice.
Aspen- no worries. While your son is out, we'll be here to entertain you. Sorry you have to hang with us.... I'm gonna enjoy that three minutes with my son when he gets home! He'll pick me up, carry me around to the kitchen, drop me in front of the stove and say, "I'm hungry woman & I gotta be somewhere in two minutes. Get busy". My kid lives in the wrong era. He needed to live back in the good old days before microwave chicken nuggets.</p>