Catch-22
05-07-2010, 04:44 PM
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Catch-22
A little about the book and the meaning of the phrase.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22_(logic)
Clip, about six minutes, lots of B-25s:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jYoe...eature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLNnWw1YHGg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHCZe...eature=related
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22_(logic)
Clip, about six minutes, lots of B-25s:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jYoe...eature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLNnWw1YHGg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHCZe...eature=related
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05-07-2010, 06:09 PM
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Who else could have played Yossarian?
When I checked out in the KC-135, I had a few engine shut downs in the first year. A copilot came up to me and said, "Remind me to never fly with you.. you're the guy with all the engine shut downs." Remember 'Crazy Joe' who practiced ditchings, I told him, "I'm THE guy you want to fly with. I have more time really shutting engines. The others have only done it in the sim." He thought about it for a minute and said, "HEY.. you're right!"
When I checked out in the KC-135, I had a few engine shut downs in the first year. A copilot came up to me and said, "Remind me to never fly with you.. you're the guy with all the engine shut downs." Remember 'Crazy Joe' who practiced ditchings, I told him, "I'm THE guy you want to fly with. I have more time really shutting engines. The others have only done it in the sim." He thought about it for a minute and said, "HEY.. you're right!"
05-07-2010, 07:07 PM
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Who else could have played Yossarian?
When I checked out in the KC-135, I had a few engine shut downs in the first year. A copilot came up to me and said, "Remind me to never fly with you.. you're the guy with all the engine shut downs." Remember 'Crazy Joe' who practiced ditchings, I told him, "I'm THE guy you want to fly with. I have more time really shutting engines. The others have only done it in the sim." He thought about it for a minute and said, "HEY.. you're right!"
When I checked out in the KC-135, I had a few engine shut downs in the first year. A copilot came up to me and said, "Remind me to never fly with you.. you're the guy with all the engine shut downs." Remember 'Crazy Joe' who practiced ditchings, I told him, "I'm THE guy you want to fly with. I have more time really shutting engines. The others have only done it in the sim." He thought about it for a minute and said, "HEY.. you're right!"
I am of the belief that Heller's point of the Yossarian character, is in fact, the innate paradox within all of us!!
Joseph Heller = Crazy Joe
05-08-2010, 05:37 AM
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I think it is that the rules don't make any sense and are contradictory. And amid the contradictions, some figure out a way to not only survive but increase (ie Milo). Applicable today.
05-08-2010, 06:46 AM
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This is really a very fine movie, they had to use something like 18 real B-25s in those days before computers. It has ten times more story than most films today. It was marketed as antiwar in 1970, but it is really anti-crazy.
Beautiful cinematography and dialogue.
Beautiful cinematography and dialogue.
05-08-2010, 07:25 AM
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My dad bought one of those B-25's off the set after the movie for $4000 USD. He fixed it up and sold it about 10 years later for $55,000. The guy who bought it paid with a duffel bag full of cash. No kidding..
Not a bad ROI. I wonder what a solid in flying condition B-25 sells for today?
As a side note that B-25 wound up on it's back in shallow water after making a drug drop in the Bahamas several months after we sold it. Apparently the guy got to low at night and skipped off the water. That would have been in the early 80's.
Not a bad ROI. I wonder what a solid in flying condition B-25 sells for today?
As a side note that B-25 wound up on it's back in shallow water after making a drug drop in the Bahamas several months after we sold it. Apparently the guy got to low at night and skipped off the water. That would have been in the early 80's.
05-08-2010, 07:57 AM
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My dad bought one of those B-25's off the set after the movie for $4000 USD. He fixed it up and sold it about 10 years later for $55,000. The guy who bought it paid with a duffel bag full of cash. No kidding..
Not a bad ROI. I wonder what a solid in flying condition B-25 sells for today?
As a side note that B-25 wound up on it's back in shallow water after making a drug drop in the Bahamas several months after we sold it. Apparently the guy got to low at night and skipped off the water. That would have been in the early 80's.
Not a bad ROI. I wonder what a solid in flying condition B-25 sells for today?
As a side note that B-25 wound up on it's back in shallow water after making a drug drop in the Bahamas several months after we sold it. Apparently the guy got to low at night and skipped off the water. That would have been in the early 80's.
B-25s are ten to twenty times more expensive now.
05-08-2010, 08:01 AM
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My dad bought one of those B-25's off the set after the movie for $4000 USD. He fixed it up and sold it about 10 years later for $55,000. The guy who bought it paid with a duffel bag full of cash. No kidding..
Not a bad ROI. I wonder what a solid in flying condition B-25 sells for today?
As a side note that B-25 wound up on it's back in shallow water after making a drug drop in the Bahamas several months after we sold it. Apparently the guy got to low at night and skipped off the water. That would have been in the early 80's.
Not a bad ROI. I wonder what a solid in flying condition B-25 sells for today?
As a side note that B-25 wound up on it's back in shallow water after making a drug drop in the Bahamas several months after we sold it. Apparently the guy got to low at night and skipped off the water. That would have been in the early 80's.
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