Well, after mowing the lawn earlier, went for 1 beer, which turned into 2 beers, which turned into a couple beam and diets on the rocks, etc. Long story short, half in the bag. Based on my recent 'bye bye baby' purchase about the storied F-14, upon which my memorial thread was busted by Garamnet for copyright infringement, I've been no a real old school kick. So I thrw in TOPGUN and I'm watching it. I may even post pics later tonite from my own time at TG as a middie, which was me hanging out with the guys, sitting in cockpits, going to kladies night at teh club, and livig the dream before I even graduated from college. Anyhoew, lots of quotes to come. Ask yer questions if you got 'em, luight 'em if you got em, drink up, and post your fav TOPGUN quotes. I'll be posting mine. HA! And it's only Tuesday.
YEEHAW, Jester's dead- fuck this bullshit! What, you didn't win? Hell no, we got our asses kicied. 30 Seconds. We went this way, he went that way, Holywood said: 'Where'd he go?' I said: 'Where did whoooo gooooooo?' And he's laughing at us, right on the radio!
Top Gun is a Star Wars ripoff wrapped in a big gay Navy commercial. The only war movie they should play on memorial day is Full Metal Jacket. Failing that, Biloxi Blues, cuz I have a crush on Park Overall. Also, my Mad Libs says Captain America polishes his chainsaws with molasses. *Loves being on ignore*
Y'know, all the times I've seen this movie, and I never caught Tim Robbins name in the credits until tonite. Hr plays Merlin- Cougar's RIO, and then Maverick's in the final dogfight. F.A.G. member Tim Robbins- playing a Navy RIO. Go figure.
Fun to watch the aerial scenes when you know what's going on: 1. First dogfight: Mav VS Jester: Jester had him after the merge. The rest was all Hollywood. 2. Mav VS Viper: They are in a flat scissors in the first sequence, and you can see that little Scooter is about to spit that Tomcat out in front of it and PWN him. Then they cut to a rolling scissors to disguise it. In a horizontal angles fight like that, that little A-4 would have eaten a Tomcat's lunch. Especially a 1986 Tomcat with TF-30 engines.
"Danger zone", and "mighty wings", yes. "Playing with the boys", and "take my breath away", gay, and soft yuppie-contempo pabalum respectively. *Being on ignore is spiffy*
Goose just died and I'm weeping. I lost two college classmates to mishaps. One was a good friend- died in a cold cat off the Saratoga in an EA-6B. The other died in an S-3 mishap, details unknown- the entire crew was lost at sea. The first one hurt the worst: Tom, me, and two other buds used to eat lunch together almost every day- we all wanted aviation, and we actually talked about the fact that in Naval Air, there was a 75% prob that one of us wouldn't survive a 20 year career. I cut the article about Tom's mishap out of a Naval Aviation News mag and put it in my yearbook. There's not a day that I climb in a cockpit I don't think of him, and every memorial day...well, let's just say that I cry when the occasion calls for it.
Somebody ask Marso if there's a raging fire in his heart tonight Growing higher and higher in his soul Then ask if there's a raging fire in the sky tonight And if he wants to ride on the silver dove Far into the night
