PAPOY 2012, now with .35% less creepiness!

[minionofmidas]

Anvi, nice pic and well matched couple.  Where be ye?

Thanks, Patrick!    That picture was actually taken at Peggy's Cove in Nova Scotia (my girlfriend lives and works in Halifax).

That's quite the longdistance relationship, then?

[minionofmidas]

Pisco sours make every pic a happy one, Patrick!  Nice!

Pisco is very nice.

Far too nice to mix. Though IIRC there's a difference between Chilene Pisco and Peruvian Pisco, which is what I'm familiar with.

[minionofmidas]

Kinda like Osama in his final hiding place, except with shorter hair?

[minionofmidas]

Indeed, I used to be young.

Was that picture taken in the People's Republic of Poland or the Republic of Poland?

Well, I was born in 1988, so you need to check dates on wiki to be sure.

Discussion reminds me of a friend's Born in the GDR t-shirt... he was. In 1986.

[minionofmidas]

The Black guy. Obviously.

[minionofmidas]

just to show my beard off.

[minionofmidas]

My size 12 1/2 feet (American scale) aren't even in those pics!

[minionofmidas]

So I went geocaching for the first time recently, and while I doubt I'll ever take it up seriously as a hobby it was a fun afternoon. Anyways, pics.

[minionofmidas]

"Fox Van Allen"? What kind of corny-gay stage name is that?

[minionofmidas]

Ouch. Poor boy. I forgive you all your political opinions and past transgressions.

[minionofmidas]

I hate to think of any of the other events that ever befell you. Also, I like the sig pic.

[minionofmidas]

I think that's a first. Why did you hide from us so long?

[minionofmidas]

You look like an outtake from a modeling shoot.

That's exactly what it was.

For some reason I think you look like Tom Waits.

That's the second inaccurate statement you've made about Tom Waits this month.

Link to the first one?

[minionofmidas]

No, you had wisely neglected to.

[minionofmidas]

A mild but readily placeable one, yeah.

Also, cute vid.

[minionofmidas]

Down @100 lbs/10 inches this morning in 8 months.  I am embarrassed that I let it get to that point but this gives me motivation to keep going.

Now I need a picture of you 8 months ago. To look at once and then apply brain bleach, probably, but I need to see it nonetheless.

Does the shirt indicate a return to the old avatar?

What's this in reply to?

[minionofmidas]

"Naso" and "museum" does not belong in the same sentence.

http://www.raynaso.com/Art-Museum.html

[minionofmidas]

Which one?

Would Tweed ever be anywhere near the right?

He is in this pic. From his own point of view, anyhow, though not from yours.

[minionofmidas]

I think you're too feminine.

[minionofmidas]

We have two blacks??

Maybe he's drunk and seeing you twice.

[minionofmidas]

Demrepdan? That was a long time ago.

There was also another one in between, forget his name now.

[minionofmidas]

Proving Scott wrong?

[minionofmidas]

I am sitting behind one of the Tuskegee Airmen

How many of them are still left?

It recently occurred to me that the end of the Vietnam War is now longer ago than the outbreak of WWII was when Vietnam ended.

[minionofmidas]

And I hear many different numbers for the Airmen... this gentlemen told me about 200 are still living

That's quite a lot still, given how old they'd be and there were only about 840 in 1945 (ie the total number of men trained, a far-above-average number of whom were never sent overseas, minus their war dead).

[minionofmidas]

And I hear many different numbers for the Airmen... this gentlemen told me about 200 are still living

That's quite a lot still, given how old they'd be and there were only about 840 in 1945 (ie the total number of men trained, a far-above-average number of whom were never sent overseas, minus their war dead).

And far fewer of those were actual pilots... the rest were mostly ground crew

Nah, that's the number of those who were pilots ( / bombardiers / navigators. Bomber plane crew members) or at least completed such training but weren't used.

If you include the Air Force's Black ground crews, that's far more people. (I also found, skimming the wikipedia article a second time, the sentence "no one knows how many of the original 996 pilots and about 15,000 ground personnel are still alive".)