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Offline Hobodog

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« Reply #15 on: February 06, 2001, 08:32:00 PM »
I use all the web alltheweb.com I PREJUDICED AGAINST   things with names like gOOgle

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« Reply #16 on: February 07, 2001, 12:45:00 AM »
Not to mention that the B-17 crews joked that the B-26 was the best fighter escort they could ask for, since the B26 had to fly several thousand feet lower than the B17, so Germans would pounce on them first.

Martin Murderer...LOL

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« Reply #17 on: February 07, 2001, 01:13:00 AM »
I kinda gotta kick outta 'B-Dash Crash' and 'One a day into Tampa Bay'..

"Training Flight 114; requesting takeoff clearance runway 18..

(tower) "rgr, 114, copy all, hold for traffic and while we wait, how's yer backstroke commin?"

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« Reply #18 on: February 07, 2001, 04:52:00 AM »
Well, in defense of the Germans, some 190 models got cool nicknames  .



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