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Originally Posted by Morphismus
Mayo,
I think the F-22 is the best looking fighter aircraft ever. Thoughts?
It sure is pretty.
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Originally Posted by fatkid
Mayo,
Besides the raw casino chicken incident, what the worst physical pain you have ever felt and what caused it?
I've never really had any serious incidents. Well, other than this:
One summer when I was five years old, I was playing around unsupervised in a house that was under construction. There was a big ol' hole in the floor through which cement had been poured into the basement. I stepped around this hole so that I might look out the window, then forgot about it, took a step back, and fell about 12 feet.
I remember falling very distinctly. As I was falling, I looked over to the right, noticed that a temporary ladder was suspended into the basement without touching the floor, and I thought that was interesting. I was way more focused on that than on trying to break my fall. So I didn't, and I hit the cement floor directly with my spine and the back of my head. I blacked out.
My sister, who was all of seven years old, probably saved my life. She saw me fall and ran to get my father, who carried me up that interesting temporary suspended ladder, threw me in the car, and raced to the ER. A favorite bit of family folklore is that during this, my sister looked at the speedometer, grew very concerned, and said "Daddy, you're speeding!"
Anyway, we made it to the ER, and the doctors were really worried about me. I was in and out of consciousness for quite a long time, and the doctors were worried I could slip into a coma or die. I didn't, and eventually went home and got better. But I don't remember any of this. I don't remember being at the hospital. I don't remember recovering. I don't remember any pain, though my mother tells me that I was in excruciating pain. This period of my life is just a complete blank space in my memory, as is EVERY SINGLE THING BEFORE THE FALL. My earliest memory is of the ~30 seconds preceding the fall, and the fall itself.
Before that, I have absolutely nothing. My whole life up through that summer, we had lived in a small house, and I do not remember it at all. People show me pictures from inside it, and it doesn't trigger anything at all. It's like the fall literally knocked those memories out of my head. I once talked to a neurologist who told me that that's not really possible, and that it's not uncommon for adults to not remember anything before age five. But my memory of the pre-fall and fall is sooooo vivid, and before that is nothing, and it was followed by the sharpest blow to my skull I have ever received. It seems like quite a strange coincidence. But, as I understand it, there are tons of unanswered questions about how memories are formed, especially in young children. If I had it to do over again, I would have very much liked to go into brain science. It's endlessly fascinating, and breakthroughs are happening all the time. I could have been a part of that! Instead, here I am at 4:00pm on a Wednesday talking to you people and watching "New Girl" on MTV.
Incidentally, this story is my go-to rebuttal whenever idiots say things like "Kids don't need bike helmets/seatbelts/lead-free paint/babysitters. *I* got through *my* childhood just fine." I hate that ****.
Other than that, the worst pain was probably when a horse stepped on my foot at age 10 or so. Maybe a 6/10 on the pain scale, but about a 14/10 on the ten-year-old pain scale.
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Originally Posted by 2/325Falcon
Mayo,
How did you not have any terminal leave?
I had about 45 days, but I sold them back instead of taking terminal leave. Made a little more money imo.
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Originally Posted by Majik1973
Mayo, should Hillary blow an intern to win over the male vote?
I don't think that would work.
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Originally Posted by Morphismus
...I thought they used Mirages for the MIGs? Mayo?
They used MiGs. That movie was a documentary of our nation's greatest heroes.
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Originally Posted by kioshk
Mayo, do you take pride in Kentucky's cultural heritage, in general? Appalachia, country music, etc.
Some of it, but not all. Appalachia is beautiful. I like old country music and bluegrass. UK basketball is great. We're the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln (That's good!) and Jefferson Davis (That's bad!). But I hate horse racing, bourbon, moonshine, latent racism, Islamaphobia, a horrible school system, and the University of Louisville. It's kind of a mixed bag.