We Are Not Alone

"Houston, this is Discovery.  We still have the alien spacecraft under observance."


- Intercepted radio transmission from Discovery pilot Colonel John Blaha to Houston Control during a space flight in March 1989

Riding my bicycle

Here comes the bride

No Barriers

Gen. Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier again today, this time in an F-15, instead of in the X-1, as he did for the first time on this date in 1947.  He is 89 years old.

This publication would like to salute this legendary pilot and American hero and say on behalf of all young Americans:

Well done, Sir!

"My mule don't like people laughin'"

Caballero:  Listen, stranger, did you get the idea?  We don't like to see bad boys like you in town.  Go get your mule.  You let him get away from you?


Manco:  Well, see, that's what I wanna talk to you about.  He's feelin' real bad.


Caballero:  Huh?

Manco:  My mule.  You see, he got all riled up when you went a fired those shots at his feet.

Caballero:  Hey, you makin' some kinda joke?

Manco:  No, see, I understand you men were just playin' around.  But the mule, he just doesn't get it.  'Course if you were to all apologize...

[The caballeros laugh]

Manco:  I don't think it's nice, you laughin'.  See my mule don't like people laughin'.  Gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him.  Now, if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.


- A Fistful of Dollars

Risky Business

 "Sometimes you gotta say, 'What the @#$%'"


- Joel, Risky Business

"Dyin' aint much of a livin', boy"

Bounty Hunter:  I'm looking for Josey Wales

Josey Wales:  That'd be me.

Bounty Hunter:  You're wanted, Wales.

Josey Wales:  I reckon I'm right popular.   You a bounty hunter?

Bounty Hunter:  Man's gotta do something for a livin' these days.

Josey Wales: Dying ain't much of a livin', boy.  You know, this isn't necessary.  You can just ride on.

...

Bounty Hunter:  I had to come back.

Josey Wales:  I know.


- The Outlaw Josey Wales

Vanishing Point

"This radio station was named Kowalski, in honour of the last American hero to whom speed means freedom of the soul. The question is not when's he gonna stop, but who is gonna stop him." 


- Super Soul, Vanishing Point

Anticipation

"Some say I have a 'sixth sense' . . . Baloney. I've just learned to guess what's going to happen next. its anticipation. It's not God-given, its Wally-given. He used to stand on the blue line and say to me, 'Watch, this is how everybody else does it.' Then he'd shoot a puck along the boards and into the corner and then go chasing after it. Then he'd come back and say, 'Now, this is how the smart player does it.' He'd shoot it into the corner again, only this time he cut across to the other side and picked it up over there. Who says anticipation can't be taught?"


- Wayne Gretzky a.k.a. "The Great One"