Here's something you can't do... by Kwicko

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Here's something you can't do...

POSTED BY: KWICKO
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013 3:46 AM

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

http://kottke.org/13/04/insane-wingsuit-flight-through-a-hole-in-a-mou
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"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero

"I was wrong" - Hero, 2012

Mitt Romney, introducing his running mate: "Join me in welcoming the next President of the United States, Paul Ryan!"

Rappy's response? "You're lying, gullible ( believing in some BS you heard on msnbc ) or hard of hearing."

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Friday, May 10, 2013 5:37 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thanks for not posting the entire article Kwick.....

At the same time, I bash you on the head for not at least giving some clever remark about it.

Do you think it was awesome? Do you think it asinine? Do you think it both?

I'm just messing with ya!

Holy fuck-balls! That was AWESOME!!!!

Two feet any way from center and we'd be laughing about the newest Darwin Award winner, but he nailed it!

Heh... Makes me feel silly about being nervous at a job interview. This guy would straight up ask them if they're going to give him the job before he left and if they even wavered one second he'd jump up on their desk, drop trow, and take a steaming pile of shit on their IKEA!

EDITED TO ADD: Oh... and I FULLY concede that even in my more adventurous youth, I could never do this, let alone even think of the possibility of doing this.

I think the lack of oxygen coupled with the loss of stomach from free falling would turn my land-bound hypertension into a full blown heart attack or aneurism before I had time to properly land.

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Friday, May 10, 2013 4:11 PM

KWICKO

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Do you think it was awesome? Do you think it asinine? Do you think it both?

A bit of both. It was simply amazing to see it, but it's something you can't get wrong more than once, ever.

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EDITED TO ADD: Oh... and I FULLY concede that even in my more adventurous youth, I could never do this, let alone even think of the possibility of doing this.

Nope, neither could I. I jumped motorcycles, did motocross, raced cars, flew in tiny planes and gliders... but no, I could not have fathomed doing that.

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero

"I was wrong" - Hero, 2012

Mitt Romney, introducing his running mate: "Join me in welcoming the next President of the United States, Paul Ryan!"

Rappy's response? "You're lying, gullible ( believing in some BS you heard on msnbc ) or hard of hearing."

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Friday, May 10, 2013 4:15 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Big deal . Trying doing that w/ some hungry ass Reavers on your tail. THEN I'll be impressed.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

Resident USA Freedom Fundie

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Friday, May 10, 2013 4:29 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

Kwicko - has fast do you think he was going when he went through?

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Friday, May 10, 2013 4:47 PM

KWICKO

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Kwicko - has fast do you think he was going when he went through?

Story I saw said his horizontal speed was 155mph. And they said he essentially had a six-foot "bullseye" he needed to hit in order to make it. Keep in mind that as he's going forward at that speed, he's also falling at quite a clip as well.

I think Wash would be quite impressed. A leaf on the wind, indeed.

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero

"I was wrong" - Hero, 2012

Mitt Romney, introducing his running mate: "Join me in welcoming the next President of the United States, Paul Ryan!"

Rappy's response? "You're lying, gullible ( believing in some BS you heard on msnbc ) or hard of hearing."

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Friday, May 10, 2013 5:17 PM

TRAVELER

I just saw the video of this and can't believe the distance he traveled. You could only see a small dark spot several hundred feet away that he had to go through. Some kind of crazy.

http://www.imdb.com/list/1pzry-tpdaI/

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Friday, May 10, 2013 5:23 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

Jeez louise.

Yes, he could either have made it or been a candidate for the (always posthumous) Darwin Award.

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Friday, May 10, 2013 9:34 PM

SHINYGOODGUY

That was awesome!

I like the comment someone left about Wile E. Coyote, that was funny!

SGG

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Originally posted by Kwicko:

http://kottke.org/13/04/insane-wingsuit-flight-through-a-hole-in-a-mou
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"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero

"I was wrong" - Hero, 2012

Mitt Romney, introducing his running mate: "Join me in welcoming the next President of the United States, Paul Ryan!"

Rappy's response? "You're lying, gullible ( believing in some BS you heard on msnbc ) or hard of hearing."

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Sunday, May 12, 2013 2:55 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Nope, neither could I. I jumped motorcycles, did motocross, raced cars, flew in tiny planes and gliders... but no, I could not have fathomed doing that.

You got me beat there too. I only shoplifted, "piloted" an inconspicuous 4-door Cavalier on covert beer-drinking/pot-smoking missions with the girlies and found out enough about drugs that even a guy like me thinks that mushrooms and cocaine is for spirits more free than I.

Oh... there was that one time when I "walked" up a wall outside of the pool hall and broke my leg on the way down. I've got nothing but pity for cats stuck up in trees now. Hell.... I was just as naive and sober as they are at the time.

Only a dumb ass like me would think it was a good idea to show off and "walk" up a wall and a pillar of bricks about 30 feet high vertically with no plan how to get back down.

I don't remember much, but I do remember asking if anyone had a trampoline or perhaps a large blanket they could all hold before my limbs gave out.

Probably should have seen if it was easy to climb down as it was to climb up before I got that high.

Dumbass.....

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