Met "Lee D" here in SLC

Doug Taylor said:
Ha!

At least you're not the type that told my wife at a bar, "Hey, I'm a dispatcher for XXXXXX, pilots have the easy job, they're just controlling one but I'm controlling ALL of them, can I buy you a drink?"

(Kristie: "Have A Nice Day Cafe" circa 2000)
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Haha. I'll have to remember that one!
 
Hey aloft, yeah i'm not that cool, I'm riding in the back (sounds like you have been up front or back at one point)

I do wear headsets so I can listen to the traffic and know what the heck the pilots up front are doing (before we end up on the roof of the plane doing multiple teardrops)

One of these days I need to meet you guys..
 
Nope, haven't been--just wondering what it's like. Get your butt to Sparky Imeson's mountain flying lecture at Westminster on Saturday and you'll get to meet at least me!
 
Maximillian_Jenius said:
Lee D...man always wanted to know what your avatar is about!

:)

-Matthew
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I think it's Cpl Max Klinger in a M*A*S*H episode (TV version). I don't remember what the episode was about though.
 
SteveC said:
I think it's Cpl Max Klinger in a M*A*S*H episode (TV version). I don't remember what the episode was about though.
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Was he the gay character in MASH? Or rather the character they silently inferred was gay?

-Matthew
 
Maximillian_Jenius said:
Was he the gay character in MASH? Or rather the character they silently inferred was gay?

-Matthew
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No, but close. Klinger was the guy that always wore women's clothes, trying to get a "Section 8" and get himself kicked out of the army. The gag was that he wasn't gay or crazy, but tried to put himself off as one or the other (at different times) to go home to Toledo, Ohio. Big Mudhens fan.

<chuckle>
I found this list on the M*A*S*H FAQ website (can you tell I'm sitting in a pilot's lounge, waiting for pax?):

Q12: What are some of the crazy Section-8 stunts that Klinger has pulled?

A12: Corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger, arguably the most entertaining regular
character on M*A*S*H, was determined to get out of the Army via a
Section-8 "Psycho Discharge". The stunts that he pulled in order to
convince everyone that he was crazy included the following:


- Wearing women's clothing (a given).
- Eating a jeep, part by part.
- Soaring away on a hang-glider, looking like "a big red bird with fuzzy
pink feet".
- Loving the army, and then flipping back to being Queen of the Nile.
- Carrying Radar's Teddy Bear.
- Dressing as a nun.
- Escaping in an inflatable rubber raft.
- Various combinations of family members pregnant/dying appeal letters.
- Riding Sophie through the camp (a la Lady Godiva) after he thought he
had reenlisted.
- Trying to fatten up in order to exceed the Army's weight limit.
- Threatening to torch himself. ("Who put gasoline in my gasoline?!")
- Doing guard duty naked while a General was on site.
- During a heat wave he dressed in a rubber reducing suit and fur coat.
- Pole sitting in freezing weather.
- Dressing up as an old Korean peasant woman.
- Running outside PostOp in his underwear, trying to get pneumonia.
- Trying to convince the doctors that he had some mysterious malady.
- Trying to get into West Point.
- Trying to join the Navy.
- Becoming "Zoltan, king of the gypsies".
- Fainting spells.
- Hearing loss. When his hearing came back, the first thing he heard was
that it would have been his ticket home.
- Pretending he was back in Toledo as a civilian.
- Bravery (volunteering for dangerous mission in "Rainbow Bridge").
- Passing himself off as being pregnant.
- Taking care of an imaginary camel.
- Hardship discharge because of his many "children" (he got the pictures
from Potter and others).
- Sending love letters to Generals, usually accompanied by a revealing
photo of himself.
- Dressing up as Moses.
- Practicing voodoo on Potter with a voodoo doll and dead chicken.
- Confessing to be a serial killer who strangled female motorcycle cops.
- Attempting to bribe Potter into giving him a Section-8.
- Attempting to forge his own discharge papers.
- Displaying himself as the Statue of Liberty for General MacArthur.
- Disguising himself as a bush.
- Stowing away in a mail bag.
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Thanks SteveC! I am such a loser, cause I remember almost all of those episodes. Too much TV as a kid I guess. Grew up watching MASH. (In my early 30's now.) I was on a MASH kick last summer. Watched it a lot while working out on the overnights & I think I put that avatar up around independence day. Hence the Klinger in the Statue of Liberty motif. Probably should get creative and change it again.
 
Lee D said:
Thanks SteveC! I am such a loser, cause I remember almost all of those episodes. Too much TV as a kid I guess. Grew up watching MASH. (In my early 30's now.) I was on a MASH kick last summer. Watched it a lot while working out on the overnights & I think I put that avatar up around independence day. Hence the Klinger in the Statue of Liberty motif. Probably should get creative and change it again.
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I like it I say keep it. I always thought your avatar was a monster creature (man in rubber suit) from Power Rangers or something to that effect.

:)

-Matthew
 
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