Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for November 13, 2009

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    Pacejv  almost 15 years ago

    I’m so far behind, I think I’m first.

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    Rakkav  almost 15 years ago

    Excellent, Pacejv!

    So does that mean, Prof, that the hurrider you go, the behinder you get?

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    ben_david  almost 15 years ago

    Just turn around and you’ll back up forward.

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    jrbj  almost 15 years ago

    If he’d quit drinking beer all the time he might be able to reorient himself.

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    wicky  almost 15 years ago

    jrbi… . And your poing being?…………

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    Allan CB Premium Member almost 15 years ago

    Hmmm I need a backup plan … just a sec………. nope, walking backwards didn’t change my life.

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    GROG Premium Member almost 15 years ago

    And walking backward doesn’t undo the things you wish you hadn’t done.

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    fredbuhl  almost 15 years ago

    You cann’t even see where you’ve been if you havn’t been any where.

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    EarlWash  almost 15 years ago

    Make sure your backup lights work.

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    yyyguy  almost 15 years ago

    as long as he doesn’t have one of those annoying “back up” alarms.

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    johnnydoc5  almost 15 years ago

    My life is still in the moving forward phase. I’m not sure how it moves backwards what with time being linear and unidirectional and all…

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    pbarnrob  almost 15 years ago

    As my American History teacher, Rudolf Roy Show (Cpl, WWII - in a Panzer batallion) used to say, “If you never do anything, you’ll never make a mistake!” I miss his wisdom sometimes.

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    HighNoon  almost 15 years ago

    pbarnrob…your AH teacher fought for the Germans in WWII?

    Did you mean Sherman?

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    pbarnrob  almost 15 years ago

    Nope, HN; he survived, got out, emigrated, went to school in Nebraska, had seven languages, and taught all of one year in Tustin CA. In ‘61, when the mandatory 10,000-students stadium anti-Communist bloviating was happening, he told us “I can’t tell you to actually find, and read, the Communist Manifesto that they’re shouting about, but how are you to know what you’re supposed to be against, if you haven’t?” He at least got to finish the school year.

    As Brother Dave Gardner used to say, “Are Americans going to the Moon? Are Russians? Heck, no, it’s Germans on both sides, playin’ rocket ship!”

    Just finished Gen. Walter Dornberger’s V-2, about the real people who worked at Peenemunde (as a break from Michener’s Space, which inserted several fictitious characters around whom he could weave a story.)

    A hundred-plus of the Peenemunde team wound up in El Paso, and then in Huntsville, and were the core of our fledgling space program, when Sputnik went up and scared us into getting busy.

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    treBsdrawkcaB  almost 15 years ago

    PBarnrob - I think it was a 130 German scientists and technicians - led by Werner VonBraum - that defected to the United States in the closing days of WWII. We also got the remains of, I think, 60+ V2 rockets, materials and supplies. It was the JPL built WAC rocket mounted upon a V2 that became the “Bumper WAC” that lofted Explorer I into space, returned the first actual space science and put the United States into the space race. See http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/missiondetails.cfm?mission=Explorer and http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=655

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