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Old 03-10-2009, 02:29 PM
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Originally Posted by ClutchCargo
Pardon a Purple Pilot jumping in here, but did no one get this?
There seems to be a humor shortage right now, but it was no hill for a stepper. I think everyone got it, good and hard-they just don't know it yet. As is always the case.


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Old 03-10-2009, 02:35 PM
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Originally Posted by ClutchCargo
Pardon a Purple Pilot jumping in here, but did no one get this?

BTW-

Illinois is now issuing BHO license plates.
And Blago, Mao and Stalin as well.
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Old 03-10-2009, 04:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Luckydawg
I found a few definitions of depression and actually a few fit. The 25% unemployment is the peak of unemployment for the "Great Depression" but I don't think anyone has a number associated with a general depression. One indicator is said to be a GDP of greater than a 10% decline. One factoid that I recently discovered was that all periods of economic declines prior to the 1930's were referred to as depressions.
  • a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity
  • a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
  • natural depression: a sunken or depressed geological formation
  • sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
  • a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment
  • low: an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation; "a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow"
  • depressive disorder: a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
  • a concavity in a surface produced by pressing; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud"
  • angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
  • pushing down; "depression of the space bar on the typewriter"
We may not be in a depression but for some of the 300 UPS pilots (as well as others furloughed right now) it might feel like one.

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We may be in the "great recession" but not the "great depression"
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Old 03-10-2009, 07:14 PM
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If true, maybe Continental can offer a solution to our "over-manning" problem too?

From Continental thread: http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/ma...tml#post576304

"Anbody hear about the possible 300 captains wanting to leave due to the A-fund and the lump sum going away?"
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Old 03-10-2009, 11:58 PM
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[quote=jungle;576092]There seems to be a humor shortage right now, but it was no hill for a stepper. I think everyone got it, good and hard-they just don't know it yet. As is always the case.

So... an under-educated, over-priviliged rootin' tootin' cowboy gets invited to your house (for eight years) and manages to light it on fire for you before going home... you call the fire department to put it out and then blame the fire department for the water damage to your house. Makes sense.
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Originally Posted by jungle
There seems to be a humor shortage right now, but it was no hill for a stepper. I think everyone got it, good and hard-they just don't know it yet. As is always the case.

So... an under-educated, over-priviliged rootin' tootin' cowboy gets invited to your house (for eight years) and manages to light it on fire for you before going home... you call the fire department to put it out and then blame the fire department for the water damage to your house. Makes sense.
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Don't despair guys. I know of a man who immigrated to the US from Kenya as a child and despite having a zero balance in his debit account just seven short years ago and never in his life holding a nine to five job, he has managed to gain employment in a very high executive position. He is many times a millionaire now and even has several private jets.
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There was something in this post--some word or turn of phrase--that reminded me of one of those Nigerian check cashing email scams.

Sorry for the extreme thread drift.

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It would be "a tale of an American sucess story" if he belonged to a different party.

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Originally Posted by Winged Wheeler
There was something in this post--some word or turn of phrase--that reminded me of one of those Nigerian check cashing email scams.

Sorry for the extreme thread drift.

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Originally Posted by jonnyjetprop
It would be "a tale of an American sucess story" if he belonged to a different party.

Back to your regularally scheduled Fox News program
I'm not entirely sure I get you here.

However, there is no doubt that it is an American success story.

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Originally Posted by jungle
There seems to be a humor shortage right now, but it was no hill for a stepper. I think everyone got it, good and hard-they just don't know it yet. As is always the case.


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