Good gravy, I got a like from I-hub!! Here, RB and there makes a 3 wheeler, what every kid wants for Christmas. In Russia’s called a troika, team of 3 pulling together. Now just a good set of sleigh bells and ring in the New! Out with the discouraging Old; half full as it became. Thanks to all, keep plugging as I do know PT’s at it 24/7.
Since I’m not in the business nor inclined to sell my services ( done at enormous personal effort and cost) I give a flying fig if investors like me or despise me. I do think respect is due just like who you’d follow into combat at great risk. The notion that past can’t predict the future gets a bit stale after many successful missions behind enemy lines and safe return of most to the fold. I love “Patton” and watch it over and over when I can. G C Scott caught the essence of the prickly great general if not the high nasal tones. I always recall 1st viewing in 1970. I was on 15 min runway alert at the Spang Nuc Alert Facility and we got early Base theater 16MM copies of running movies to help pass pretty boring 72 or 96 hour tours. Sometimes back to back just change bed sheets with a new crew. Night Patton came in I’d my choice of that or visiting with Dorly at the O’Club until 10 PM with a “brick” Motorola hand radio for recall. I chose a beautiful blue eyed blonde over ugly big nosed George C. When I got back I put it back on, popped new popcorn and sat to watch it by myself. I was stunned so put it back on and watched a 2nd time. Patton was a hero to those in N. Africa, S. Italy, all France and across Europe he liberated but GREATLY respected by those he defeated but also liberated dong so. To Luxembourgers Saint George killed the dragon AND Hitler. No normal activity remotely compares to mortal combat but some principles do apply.
Il nous faut de l’audace, encore de l’audace, toujours de l’audace! [3] Early French Revolutionist Georges Danton. Not Freddy the Great. [3] We must dare, dare again, always dare!
My best advice is fall in and we march together no love required. Unlike me or no, I speak on pretty even terms with PM Moguls, investment advisors and also general populace seeking for precious metals gain. Not easy to come by and with a half century’s notable flair of style ‘s hard to copy, try as will. Never took much money to achieve , simply persistence. Cost was entirely my investments, timed well…. thus far. Another great movie I can watch and watch from the bottom rank perspective is “The Sand Pebbles”. In Aug ’66 It was a big full 4 story advertisement in Bangkok theater on Petchburi Rd across from James Quality Jewelers. My B-57s were the first jet aircraft transferred into SEA via Clark AB PI from Japan in ’64. It meant a source of GI cash during R&R 5 days off each 60 day TDY they tried to fit on the sortie sched, usually one a day sometime both, early and late for twice. James Quality still visited USAF O Clubs stateside to not long past. They’d drive you around Bangkok in a Mercedes after you sat in A/C comfort sipping cold beer and chatting with pretty sales staff then a 5 course dinner on the river. Really good prices for quality gems and gold and they made a bundle still. The Bott was .05 and a carton of GI BX Salems or Kools ( loved menthols) at $1 hired you a taxi all night . Officers club in town was the Maneda Hotel by main Post Office across the street from luxus Oriental Hotel which had a pet monkey up in a small tree house you could feed peanuts. Was where you took the prop engine narrow tour boats along the klongs for river tour. You see in the movies a small 4 cylinder motor driving a long shafted prop on swivels and balanced neatly. As you toured the rear stilted houses each had on display the required 2 pictures of the King and Queen. Nice looking young then in 1960’s. Tour guide always pointed put the balcony had Laurel and Hardy instead. Wound up at town floating market then back to Oriental on big Chao Phraya river flowing S to Siam Gulf. Greenest damn county you’ll ever see.
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When I finally watched McQueen’s Sand Pebbles in English I noted the notion of protecting own rice bowl. When some no-nothing attacks whatever reason a mine share I’m working my tail off to see succeed? THAT’s MY rice bowl so stand prepared to defend the nonsense as I deem it and usually, no matter, I know better the actuality below surface and above . 8
Scene [17] ext shot 31. FRENCHY “That’s his rice bowl. You must be Holman.” http://www.thesandpebbles.com/script/sandpebbles_script.txt