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Date: Jan 25, 2005

come fly with me

Date: Jan 25, 2005

Is this for real?????

Date: Jan 25, 2005

But bring your own books while flying because the library can't afford to buy any for you.

Date: Jan 25, 2005

years ago we had a pilot and an airplane. knew someone who travelled to Starkville with Lucas on it. scared speechless.

Date: Jan 25, 2005

I thought this thread was about the swinging tune of the same name.... Given the state of things at USM, could this position be renamed "Leader of the Black Sheep Squadron?" Or, maybe we should call it "Southern Miss To The Top" Gun!

Date: Jan 25, 2005

Up in the air junior birdman?

Date: Jan 25, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Amy Young
"Anyone interested in a part-time job at USM to be Pilot Command Officer and provide air transportation to University officials conducting university business?
http://www.usm.edu//hr/templates/printpost/php?id=203
"

One way tickets?????????????

Date: Jan 25, 2005

Who is providing the plane?

Date: Jan 25, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Receding Airline
"Who is providing the plane? "

The taxpayers of Mississippi, that's who.

If anybody says (about anything), "It's being done with foundation money," just remember that that "foundation money" could be used to fund things that presently take a chunk out of the E&G budget, things that have a direct & positive impact on students.

USM needs an airplane pilot right now about as much as I need a hysterectomy.

Date: Jan 25, 2005

Good heavens. Just when I think they can't knock me speechless . . .

Did anyone just see a big white rabbit with a gold watch go by? He was muttering something about being late . . .

NO QUARTER, not even in the air!
Anne Wallace

Date: Jan 25, 2005

This is about keeping up with the Georgias, Auburns and Alabamas. It will get used here primarily for "emergency" trips to Nawleans to have gumbo and ettouffe for lunch. Can you say: "Gregg, how does lunch at Bayona sound?"

Date: Jan 25, 2005

i see it as a revenue producer--during athletic events it can circle the field pulling an advertisement behind it--like you see at the beaches in florida. "Joe's Crab Shack" "Leatha's Barbecue"

Date: Jan 25, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Receding Airline
"Who is providing the plane? "

Reports are circulating out of the Dome that there are two major sources of funding for this economic development aviation necessity.

One is the savings from consolodating Colleges down to 5. The other is money that will be saved by cancelling Faculty Sabaticals.

Date: Jan 25, 2005

Aviator, will you please pass me the provided barf bag?

Date: Jan 26, 2005

Invictus, I'll fix you up!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Date: Jan 29, 2005

In response to USM Airways' question

Date: Feb 2, 2005

[Flight #209 has gone into yet ANOTHER nosedive]
Elaine Dickinson: Ted, the altitude! We're falling, Ted! We're falling! THE MOUNTAINS, TED! THE MOUNTAINS!
Ted Striker: What MOUNTAINS? We're over IOWA!
Elaine Dickinson: The... THE CORNFIELDS, TED! THE CORNFIELDS!

Date: Feb 3, 2005

Simon: Gentlemen, I'd like you to meet your captain, Captain Oveur.
Clarence Oveur: Gentlemen, welcome aboard.
Simon: Captain, your navigator, Mr. Unger, and your first officer, Mr. Dunn.
Clarence Oveur: Unger.
Unger: Oveur.
Dunn: Oveur.
Clarence Oveur: Dunn. Gentlemen, let's get to work.
Simon: Unger, didn't you serve under Oveur in the Air Force?
Unger: Not directly. Technically, Dunn was under Oveur and I was under Dunn.
Dunn: Yep.
Simon: So, Dunn, you were under Oveur and over Unger.
Unger: Yep.
Clarence Oveur: That's right. Dunn was over Unger and I was over Dunn.
Unger: So, you see, both Dunn and I were under Oveur, even though I was under Dunn.
Clarence Oveur: Dunn was over Unger, and I was over Dunn.

Date: Feb 7, 2005

Parachuting
Watch Now!

Date: Feb 7, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Yossarian
"Parachuting Watch Now! "

Your bravado in claiming that we should be replaced with young faculty more to your liking, and President Thames' liking, suggests that you have given no thought to the dynamics of employment at a university. The new faculty would all be untenured and rookies, new blood as it were, and Thames could coerce them in to doing what he wants. However, that avenue is a catch 22. If the new faculty did what Thames wanted, their career would suffer, as would their future income. They would not be able to move to another job and would be stuck here. The ones that are left would not teach well, research well, or provide leadership. Those who did not want to stay would produce peer reviewed research and leave. Those who remained would grow jaded and angry, and hunker down dong the least amount they can get by with. You would have bad teaching and no research and a university full of bad attitudes.

Date: Feb 7, 2005

Lt. Col. Korn, XO: All you have to do is be our pal.
Colonel Cathcart: Say nice things about us.
Lt. Col. Korn.X.O.: Tell the folks at home what a good job we're doing. Take our offer Yossarian.
Colonel Cathcart: Either that or . . .

Date: Feb 7, 2005

Milo Minderbinder: What's good for M & M Enterprises will be good for the country

Date: Feb 7, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Economic Development
"Milo Minderbinder: What's good for M & M Enterprises will be good for the country"

Milo Minderbinder: I want to serve this to the men. Taste it and let me know what you think.
[Yossarian takes a bite]
Yossarian: What is it?

Milo Minderbinder: Chocolate covered cotton.
Yossarian: What are you, crazy?
MiloMinderbinder: No good, huh?
Yossarian: For Christ's sake, you didn't even take the seeds out.

Milo Minderbinder: Is it really that bad?
Yossarian: It's cotton!

Date: Feb 12, 2005

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, that specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane, he had to fly them. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of the clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.