A rather sad joke...

Getting Married

Jack, age 92, and Jill, age 89, living in Devon , are all excited about their decision
to get married.They go for a stroll to discuss the wedding, and on the way they pass a chemist shop and Jack suggests they go in.
Jack addresses the man behind the counter:"Are you the owner?"
The pharmacist answers, "Yes."
Jack: "We're about to get married. Do you sell heart medication?"
Pharmacist: "Of course we do."
Jack: "How about medicine for circulation?"
Pharmacist: "All kinds "
Jack: "Medicine for rheumatism?
Pharmacist: "Definitely."
Jack: "How about suppositories?"
Pharmacist: "You bet!"
Jack: "Medicine for memory problems, arthritis, and Alzheimer's?"
Pharmacist: "Yes, a large variety. The works."
Jack: "What about vitamins, sleeping pills, antidotes for Parkinson's disease?"
Pharmacist: "Absolutely.."
Jack: "Everything for heartburn and indigestion?"
Pharmacist: "We sure do..."
Jack: "You sell wheelchairs and walkers and canes?"
Pharmacist: "All speeds and sizes."
Jack:"Adult incontinence pants?"
Pharmacist: "Sure."
Jack: "Then we'd like to use this store for our wedding presents list..."

Well, this is a bit sad, though (( (
So, do everything in good times and have better wish lists...)))

I remember. But wishes is a little bit different stuff then real deeds. I've seen the good words on the information desk at the University of civil aviation: Deems turn out to be truth when a strong desire transforms them into the real steps. (translation is mine) I couldn't agree more.

Have you already had a test (demonstration) flight, or maybe first lesson?

My first 60 mins hour flight has been booked for October, actually it's a kind of a present for my BD..)) I couldn't say no...)))))

Good present. But have to say it's a little bit different things to have a joy ride and to learn to fly and to become a pilot. What exactly do the present imply?

Th package "Aeroplane Pilot Trial Lesson"
A 60 minute experience includes:
30 minute briefing
30 minute hands on flight and insurance and a certificate))))

You watch me.....
The hardest bit is to go there....
Afterwards...I can't guarantee that I will forget all about it.

I was flying a bit on Yak-18..)))) and it was awersome...Then the circumstances changed and I wouldn't even think about it...
This is just another good chance to start from scratch and perhaps to be quilified for PPL...just for my own pleasure and not for commerce.

Well, not bad for beginning :-) Sure you'll be delighted ;-)

Looking forward to...))))

But be aware, it's pretty addictive enterprise...

Hi to all!
MSL
I will try and yet can't promise anything ;-))it's so...exciting.)))
I just want to say that in a couple of days I am off.
May I hope that the thread will be OK and stay on this page without merging too low to the bottom.
Wish everyone good luck and...keep on brushing up!

Outta girl, MIla Love. Well done! Way to go!
Congrats!

I've seen today a couple of Be-200 at Nizhny Novgoros Strigino. They are to extinguish fires at the region. I was impressed a lot by tem and really surprised with unexpectedly modern avionics of the flying boats. But it seemed to me the captain of one of them took my question about seaworthiness of the amphibians as a mockery although I meant nothing bad. Mila may guess why I asked such question :-)

MSL
Is this the Bird you were talking about?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ...

I guess that I am near the coastline...)))

Exactly!

Попытка разговора по-русски с моим 7-летним. Он балуется, потрошит почту. Я пытаюсь отнять письма, говорю:
- Дай! Дай!
Малой, надувает щеки:
- You die!
( ((

2 boba

You'd better not try to take away toys from your kids! :-)

I was flying today over southern-southern-east part of central Russia. A huge amount of forest and peat-bog fires. A smoke interfered take-offs and approaches. Once we had to change a take off course to avoid an area of fire and smoke in the vicinity of an aerodrome. The temperature at an aerodrome was + 39 deg Centigrade. Awful picture, real disaster. :- (( (

Hi to all!
It's a real disaster and this is serious...In Ulyanovsk it's +40 and I don't think it's -Celcius-going to drop down (( ((
Is this global warming???

Hi Mila!
I'm to fly to Ulyanovsk tomorrow morning. I wish you hadn't said that :- ( Although It's not much better here in Moscow... I'd say it's already not a global warming but a kind of a global roasting. :- (( (

Hi, guys! It was really nice to see you last weekend:)

oops, it wasn't weekend, was it:)))) It was thursday:))) Anyway:)

Hi! To be correct there was only one guy on Thursday, it was me, and there were two charming ladies. If my memory serve me well. :-)

Hi Inna12 and MSL, and everybody.

For a week we've been breathing in heavy smoke and the change for the better isn't that could be expected.
Rather tough days.
As I can see, something outstanding has happened recently, hasn't it? )
Can't believe it! Have You met with THE FOUNDER? )))

2 NN
Affirmative!

NN, yes, we did meet

MSL
Well, well, well ...
Why stop? ) Keep on telling. I'm all ears! )))

Well. I met Mila in the morning at Domodedovo and we spent several hours she had to kill before her train to Ulyanovsk. Few hours later Inna12 joined us. I found meeting pretty pleasant, as well as both of two ladies :-)

MSL
Lucky you are! ) Living in Moscow ...
Mila two times has sent me the info as to her arrival, I was entirely advised.
Alas, it's not Moscow where I belong. ))))))))
Anyway, glad to see all the virtual on this thread is gradually getting even more real.)))
A very great breakthrough for the silver line! )))

MSL
Checked. Read. Answered. )))

Understanding Engineers - Take One:

Two engineering students were walking across a university campus when one said, 'Where did you get such a great bike?'

The second engineer replied, 'Well, I was walking along yesterday, minding my own business, when a beautiful woman rode up on this bike, threw it to the ground, took off all her clothes and said, 'Take what you want.'

The second engineer nodded approvingly and said, 'Good choice; the clothes probably wouldn't have fit you anyway.'

Understanding Engineers - Take Two:

To the optimist, the glass is half full.
To the pessimist, the glass is half empty.
To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.


Understanding Engineers - Take Three:

A priest, a doctor, and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers.

The engineer fumed, 'What' s with those guys? We must have been waiting for fifteen minutes!'

The doctor chimed in, 'I don't know, but I've never seen such inept golf!'

The priest said, 'Here comes the greens keeper. Let's have a word with him.' He said, 'Hello, George! what's wrong with that group ahead of us? They're rather slow, aren't they?'

The greens keeper replied, 'Oh, yes. That's a group of blind fire fighters. They lost their sight saving our clubhouse from a fire last year, so we always let them play for free anytime.'
The group fell silent.

The priest said, 'That's so sad I think I will say a special prayer for them tonight.'

The doctor said, 'Good idea. I'm going to contact my ophthalmologist colleague and see if there's anything he can do for them.'

The engineer said, 'Why can't they play at night?'

to boba- very funny :)))))))

Understanding Engineers - Take Four:

What is the difference between mechanical engineers and civil engineers?
Mechanical engineers build weapons and civil engineers build targets.


Understanding Engineers - Take Five:

The graduate with a science degree asks, 'Why does it work?'
The graduate with an engineering degree asks, 'How does it work?'
The graduate with an accounting degree asks, 'How much will it cost?'
The graduate with an arts degree asks, 'Do you want fries with that?'


Understanding Engineers - Take Six:

Three engineering students were gathered together discussing the possible designers of the human body.
One said, 'It was a mechanical engineer. Just look at all the joints.'
Another said, 'No, it was an electrical engineer. The nervous system has many thousands of electrical connections. '
The last one said, 'No, actually it had to have been a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area?'

Understanding Engineers - Take Seven:

Normal people believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.


Understanding Engineers - Take Eight:

An engineer was crossing a road one day, when a frog called out to him and said, 'If you kiss me, I'll turn into a beautiful princess.'

He bent over, picked up the frog and put it in his pocket.

The frog spoke up again and said, 'If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will stay with you for one week.'
The engineer took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it and returned it to the pocket.
The frog then cried out, 'If you kiss me and turn me back into a Princess, I'll stay with you for one week and do ANYTHING you want.'
Again, the engineer took the frog out, smiled at it and put it back into his pocket.

Finally, the frog asked, 'What is the matter? I've told you I'm a beautiful princess and that I'll stay with you for one week and do anything you want. Why won't you kiss me?'
The engineer said, 'Look, I'm an engineer. I don't have time for a girlfriend, but a talking frog, now that's cool.'

Hi to all!
A couple of days without Internet is something :- ((
It's still roasting (Yes, it's MSL's TERM) and I agree. Although there is no smoke from peat but only dust and heat still it's exhsausting.
Thanks for keeping the thread active.
NN
You never know and perhaps one day we could make it. I have heard about the disaster in your area and hope that it will be over, the sooner the better.
MSL
I hope that you will fly to Ylyanovsk again and again.

Take care all of you.

Mila, how is your vacation? Ulyanovsk could do as Honolulu this summer. But I wonder if Kuibycshevskoye pool still exist?

Moscow these days could be a perfect stage for a sequel to Silent Hill :- (( (

a perfect stage for a sequel to Silent Hill
===
I am absolutely agree with you.
= (( (
So - I cancelled my visit to Moscow.
Shit happens.

2 0стровитянин
Good decision if a visit could wait.

Hi to all!
Holiday is OK AND got used to the heat ))) Had a couple of days swimming in the Volga< haven't done so for so many years! Nice and refreshing. There is stiil heat but without smoke and this is fine. Water melons, okroshka and apples - my everyday meal.)))
Hope that everybody is OK.
Pretty soon will be coming back to Moscow again for a day....
Take care all of you.

swimming in the Volga Nice and refreshing.

Sounds good. I thought all water pools have already become a kind of fish soup.

hi there:) I'm also sick and tired of the heat!!!

2 Inna12
Hi! I think a smog has an even worse affect to the comfort then the damn heat. Meteorologists have forecasted a relief since today. But nothing seems to be improving.

MSL, the soot is the main threat..who knows what consequences for our health we are going to face later on..

Wind seems to start turning westbound (190 deg instead of 120 earlier). Atmosphere is becoming more transparent. Is that long awaited relief?
What about consequences, I think nature can't poison human beings more than we do it by our own.

Here is current wind direction: http://www.realmeteo.ru/moscow ...

thank you for the good news! Something positive for a change:)))

A husband and wife are shopping in their local WalMart. The husband picks up a case of Budweiser and puts it in their cart. 'What do you think you're doing?' asks the wife. 'They're on sale, only $10 for 24 cans’ he replies. 'Put them back, we can't afford them’ demands the wife, and so they carry on shopping.
A few aisles further on along the woman picks up a $20 jar of face cream and puts it in the basket. ‘What do you think you're doing?' asks the husband. 'It’s my face cream. It makes me look beautiful, ' replies the wife.
Her husband retorts: 'So does 24 cans of Budweiser and it's half the price.'

2 boba
That is true. There is no unattractive women. It's only a shortage of Vodka sometimes happens.

There are no unattractive women, to be correct.

A woman went to a pet shop and immediately spotted a large, beautiful parrot. There was a sign on the cage that said $20.00.


"Why so little?" she asked the pet store owner.

The owner looked at her and said, "Look, I should tell you first that this bird used to live in a house of prostitution, and sometimes it says some pretty vulgar stuff."

The woman thought about this, but decided she had to have the bird anyway.

She took it home and hung the bird's cage up in her living room, and waited for it to say something.

The bird looked around the room, then at her, and said, "New house, new madam."

The woman was a bit shocked at the implication, but then thought "that's really not so bad."

When her two teenage daughters returned from school, the bird saw them and said, "New house, new madam, new girls."

The girls and the woman were a bit offended, but then they began to laugh about the situation considering how and where the parrot had been raised.

Moments later, the woman's husband, Keith, came home from work. The bird looked at him and said,

"Hi Keith."