Given the ages of her sons, I'd say my Mom's friend Pat was out of the Navy by the time Kennedy rolled around, (my father's discharge date was -- get this -- 23/11/1963) but some godless Commie is darned lucky women weren't "in combat" in Pat's day. And yes, I can hear the military nurses going "Huh?" The only thing that kept my mother out of the Air Force was her physical disability, and the fact that they still had height requirements back then -- Mom's 4'8".
And I'll see your Comcast and raise you a Qwest. We've had to have the phone company out here THREE TIMEs in the past MONTH. My maternal grandmother worked for old Ma Bell for 35 years, when she was diagnosed with bone cancer (after having spent four months being told the pain in her hip was a pinched nerve/nerve encroachment/bone spurs, and perfectly normal for a 56-year-old) she was short-listed to be moved up to regional management in Boston. I was 5, JustohBTW. If she could see what Qwest calls "Customer Service," she'd blow a fuse. We finally figured out that we think it's the alarm company's fault.
And oh, it's okay to raise a generation of girls to think women SHOULD be in combat units, because weren't Scarlett, Lady Jaye and Cover Girl right up there with the guys? Oh, silly me, that was just a TV show. Amber, you really need to learn to tell the difference between fantasy and reality, we've talked about this. I don't seem to recall Duke and/or Flint being any more or less anxious to rescue Red and Jaye from Cobra than they were with each other or any of the rest of the guys.
(Heck, on JAG, 9 times out of 10, it was *Mac* pulling *Harm's* 6 out of the fire, NOT the other way around!)
Music of the Moment: Quiet Man by John Schneider (JS's tribute to John Wayne.)
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Date: 2008-05-03 11:56 am (UTC)And I'll see your Comcast and raise you a Qwest. We've had to have the phone company out here THREE TIMEs in the past MONTH. My maternal grandmother worked for old Ma Bell for 35 years, when she was diagnosed with bone cancer (after having spent four months being told the pain in her hip was a pinched nerve/nerve encroachment/bone spurs, and perfectly normal for a 56-year-old) she was short-listed to be moved up to regional management in Boston. I was 5, JustohBTW. If she could see what Qwest calls "Customer Service," she'd blow a fuse. We finally figured out that we think it's the alarm company's fault.
And oh, it's okay to raise a generation of girls to think women SHOULD be in combat units, because weren't Scarlett, Lady Jaye and Cover Girl right up there with the guys? Oh, silly me, that was just a TV show. Amber, you really need to learn to tell the difference between fantasy and reality, we've talked about this. I don't seem to recall Duke and/or Flint being any more or less anxious to rescue Red and Jaye from Cobra than they were with each other or any of the rest of the guys.
(Heck, on JAG, 9 times out of 10, it was *Mac* pulling *Harm's* 6 out of the fire, NOT the other way around!)
Music of the Moment: Quiet Man by John Schneider (JS's tribute to John Wayne.)