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Hey Wiz,

Maybe my first post was out of line and too forceful, but your last post is just stupid. I'm not sure how you can infer my one goal at USAFA was to get wasted and chase a**, or that's what I "base myself" on from one line in a post. I had a steady girlfriend that lived in COS for 4 years, so maybe that's why I got laid a lot. :-)

I don't think I'm high and mighty, I don't wear my ring, and I don't tell anyone where I went to college or got my commission unless they ask. I'm not even going to my reunion. It just irks me when non-grads (and I don't mean that in a disparaging why) tell potential cadets/middies how awful life is at the Academies and how they'll be mindless, socially stunted automatons after 4 years. I'll lighten up.
 
A good Naval Academy grad story from a close friend of mine in Pensacola. She plays the part of Kristin in this.

And if you need explination on the Oliver joke refer to this site www.factualmaterial.com/douchebag.htm

"chose to go to Pensacola Beach with Celandine instead.) The following is all true-
We saw a really tan guy with a pink shirt and a popped collar and "intellectual glasses".
Celandine: "Ooooh, he's hot"
Kristin: "He looks like a douchebag"
Celandine: "You don't even know him"
Kristin: "That's why I said he looks like one"
Kristin (to Douchebag): "Hey, is your name Oliver?"
Douchebag: "Why do people keep asking me that?"

I saw a guy I was totally interested in talking to. Great outfit. Funny T-shirt, cord blazer... shorts and old school bike messenger shoes. I think he's adorable.
He makes a beeline for Celandine. **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** him. Good thing his friends have a sense of humor and are willing to gab with me.
He buys her a beer. I'm nursing a Coors Light.
Celandine (to guy, in a very rude voice): "Do I look like the kind of trashy girl who drinks beer? Get me a glass of wine."
I'm still nursing that beer, by the way and guy's friends are like "Who the F___ does that chick think she is?"
So he orders a mini-bottle of Ernest & Julio Gallo (read: one tiny step up from Boone's Farm)merlot and the barkeep pours it in a plastic cup. She's sipping.
Guy's Friend #1: "Hey Cellophane, how's that gum you're smacking on?"
Guy's Friend #2 (to me): "How can you hang out with her?"
I shrug.
Celandine and guy converse on what appears to be Quantum Physics, International Politics and Rocket Science.
Guy walks over to his friends who are talking to me and taking an active role in making fun of her. Guy whispers a loud drunk whisper to his buddy: "Dude, these chicks are dumb. We're in." (Keep in mind, guy hasn't said two words to me to assume with any validity whether I'm dumb or not)
His buddy: "No, I'm pretty sure that's just the one you were talking to"
Guy: "Whatever"
Me (to guy): "Oh, look at that... I just spilled my beer ALL over you."
Too bad a really cool outfit was wasted on such a dirtbag.

Turns out dirtbag is an '04 Naval Academy Grad. Double Fvck him.

Told Celandine I couldn't hang out anymore for a while. Scoping guys requires too much energy. I'd rather just sit at a bar and drink beer."
 
MAGNUM!! said:
I had a steady girlfriend that lived in COS for 4 years, so maybe that's why I got laid a lot. :-)
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Dude. You didn't get laid a lot. You got laid once and repeated the deed for four years. You seal one deal and claim you got laid all the time. Talk about missing out in the prime of your life.
I bet you know the names of every gash you've ever touched. It's easy when you can count them on one hand!!!
 
Man, you guys infer way too much from single lines in posts. Lived in Columbia and Destin as a single dude over the years. THOSE years were the prime of my life. Not that it matters how many chicks you've had, when you stay single until you're 30+, the numbers can't help but add up. Prime of my life? Hell, I'm still in it!
 
State School Moron

I didn't go to the academy, but i stayed at a holiday inn express last night. I know quite a few zoomies from UPT and Air Force life since UPT. Some guys show no signs of scarring while other the wounds from the academy are deep and fresh. Quick story- Years ago, a conversation with some zoomies at UPT....

Zoomie: Where did you go to school?
Me: Auburn University
Zoomie: Cool, were you in a fraternity
Me: yeah.
zoomie: dude, do you think if i get my master's at a state school in a few years, i could rush and get in a fraternity?
Me: no, that would just be embarrasing. Let it go dude.

It seemed like most of the zoomies were spring loaded to try to party like rock stars at every chance at UPT. I think eventually they all grow out of it, they're just trying to catch up.

There is no doubt that you get a great education at any service academy and if you're selected for an appointment, that alone is worthy accomplishment. At the academy you will be sacrificing you present for your future. At a state school, you will be sacrificing your future for your present.
Anyone who thinks you can drink beer and enjoy the coeds as much at the academy as a state school, apparently did not receive the best education at the academy. It's just not realistic. If i was a betting man, i'd say i drank more beer in one month at school, than the majority of academy guys did in their four years at the academy. My grades sucked huge, i escaped by the skin of my teeth. I created some large hurdles to clear for myself, but i'm still a pilot just like all the academy grads.

Good luck with your decision.
 
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Robot? WTFO? Is this from your vast experience with dudes from the Academies?

I went to USAFA, drank as much as anyone on this thread and got laid like a madman. You just have to be a little more proactive.

Guess what? If you're a f****** geek in high school, you're going to be a f****** geek in college whether you're at USAFA, USNA, FSU, or Bama. If you went there, comment. If you didn't, STFU. Most ROTC guys I know (and I include some of them as my best buds) are woefully misinformed about Academy life (yes, there can be one), and most of the ROTC guys, despite what they say, can't tell if a dude went to the Academy or not unless they wear their ring, which most of us don't.
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Magnum,

Sounds like things have changed a bit at the USAFA since you were there. Not too long ago, the strong arm, date rape approach was the only way a socially challenged Zoomie could get a little action on Saturday night. From recent events, looks like the fundamentalist bible-beaters have taken over. I’m guessing the latest batch of Zoomies isn’t having as much luck with the ladies these days since they no longer use your old favorite ‘proactive’ dating techniques.

The biggest scandal at the Boat School these days is the lowering of academic standards for football recruits. I guess that’s not all bad, since they can fly the P-3 replacement if they graduate.
 
slacker said:
IThere is no doubt that you get a great education at any service academy and if you're selected for an appointment, that alone is worthy accomplishment. At the academy you will be sacrificing you present for your future. At a state school, you will be sacrificing your future for your present.
Good luck with your decision.
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Slacker sums it up quite well. Hawkins, my man....check it out. If you're a deuschebag or a nimwit going in to one of the academies, you'll more than likely be one coming out. If you are a good dude with some common sense and a level head, you'll do fine. People tend to gravitate to their own crowd....nerds, jocks, in-betweens. You'll find your home.

To all you haters out there, yeah there are rapists, forgers, and whatever else enrolled in each of the academies. I personally knew some of them, however I chose(unique concept) to avoid participating in activities that would land me in Levenworth. Nothing hard there.

Partying/whoring.....I did my share. If you can't hold yourself at a party or talk to a chick, the academies won't help you there. Alot depends on your crowd, too. I did quite enough damage at many mid-atlantic colleges. My choice was not to major in partying, but to get a respectable engineering education(see slacker's quote).

There was no gaurentee of a flight billet for me.... I passed the physical, and easily made the grades(I'm not that bright either....ask Hugh). BTW, in '95, flight slots went all the way to about 900 out of 936ish. If you can't fall within those numbers, you have bigger worries than flying. I don't know what the numbers are these days, nor at the AFA.

There are alot of simpletons out there that argue that they drank more beer, layed more pipe, etc. Bottom line, I made the most out of it, and got what I wanted out of it. Deep down, some folks may be jealous of that.

Oh BTW....total college loans....$0.00. Nice bennie.

RM
 
RogerMOSA said:
Slacker sums it up quite well. Hawkins, my man....check it out. If you're a deuschebag or a nimwit going in to one of the academies, you'll more than likely be one coming out. If you are a good dude with some common sense and a level head, you'll do fine. People tend to gravitate to their own crowd....nerds, jocks, in-betweens. You'll find your home.

To all you haters out there, yeah there are rapists, forgers, and whatever else enrolled in each of the academies. I personally knew some of them, however I chose(unique concept) to avoid participating in activities that would land me in Levenworth. Nothing hard there.

Partying/whoring.....I did my share. If you can't hold yourself at a party or talk to a chick, the academies won't help you there. Alot depends on your crowd, too. I did quite enough damage at many mid-atlantic colleges. My choice was not to major in partying, but to get a respectable engineering education(see slacker's quote).

There was no gaurentee of a flight billet for me.... I passed the physical, and easily made the grades(I'm not that bright either....ask Hugh). BTW, in '95, flight slots went all the way to about 900 out of 936ish. If you can't fall within those numbers, you have bigger worries than flying. I don't know what the numbers are these days, nor at the AFA.

There are alot of simpletons out there that argue that they drank more beer, layed more pipe, etc. Bottom line, I made the most out of it, and got what I wanted out of it. Deep down, some folks may be jealous of that.

Oh BTW....total college loans....$0.00. Nice bennie.

RM
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Yeah, what he said.
 
I will never forget my four years on the SEVERN River (USNA). I will always walk lil faster then most ... be 10 minutes early ... the shipmates, memories and experience of the Naval Academy will be with me for the rest of my life ... It is one of the toughest things I have ever done ... I am grateful for all that has come from the USNA "un-college" life. Time, Tide, and formation wait for no man ... Go Navy ... Beat Army SIR!
 
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i got a friend that has one of those diplomas--it is an awesome looking thing. biggest diploma i have ever seen. he is a great guy. a definite type A, but really nice. Naval Aviator, but stopped flying when he left. then made lots of dinero on his own. :)
 
VaB, I'll put my cheating degree up against your AA from Sh1tehole, PA State College any day.

Griffin, I thought maybe you'd graduated high school and shipped off to parts unknown. Just when the collective IQ of this message board starts creeping upward, you run your pie-hole and bring us all down. Go back to the acne message board at your JUCO. BMD
 
DaveGriffin said:
The biggest scandal at the Boat School these days is the lowering of academic standards for football recruits. I guess that’s not all bad, since they can fly the P-3 replacement if they graduate.
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Or better yet, they could pretend to be a SEAL and wallow away their days on internet message boards frequented by those who actually earned warfare designators. Yes, they could hurl harmless insults in the direction of those to whom they admire the most, those who achieved what they could not....

Griffin was probably a BUDS washout, followed by flight training, then eventually getting tossed from surface warfare and found his niche as the guy who is a sorry excuse for a base PAO in east bumblyphuque.:rolleyes:
 
VaB said:
Toosh or touche or whatever.

And it's not an AA, it's an Assoc in Specialized Business from Cental Penn Business School. Oh well, at least there were lots of chicks.
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It's touché, but that's not the easiest to type without a word processor.


Might as well hijack this thread to do something useful, huh??

I resort to a rather primitive method, myself, to produce the nonstandard characters like ½ and ÿ. It involves the use of an ESCAPE character... nahhh, rather than try to explain the background, I'll just explain the steps...



WHILE HOLDING THE ALT KEY:

PRESS, in succession, a four digit number associated with the particular character using the numeric keypad. (The numbers along the top of the QWERTY keypad aren't the same, for this purpose.)

RELEASE the ALT KEY


For the é, the numbers are 0 2 3 3

so, HOLD ALT, type 0233, release ALT

voilà, you have an é! :)


Oh, for the à in the voilà, the number is 0244 :)


For all you Españolas out there, there's the ñ at 0241,

and of course you'll need the ¿ at 0191 and the ... well, hmmm, I can't seem to find the upside down exclamation point... ¿hmmmm? ;)


Anyway, here's a few other interesting characters:

0128 €

0133 …

0151 —

0162 ¢

0163 £

0165 ¥

0169 ©

0174 ®

0176 ° (the degree symbol)

0177 ±

0188 ¼

0189 ½

0190 ¾


Anybody know an easier way to use those characters in this primitive text editor?

Anybody know of any other interesting characters?




.
 
BMD said:
VaB, I'll put my cheating degree up against your AA from Sh1tehole, PA State College any day.

Griffin, I thought maybe you'd graduated high school and shipped off to parts unknown. Just when the collective IQ of this message board starts creeping upward, you run your pie-hole and bring us all down. Go back to the acne message board at your JUCO. BMD
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By the way, A$$head, what gives with including insults directed at me in the same post as you insulted Mr. Seal Wannabe Griffin?

I think 2 seperate posts were the way to go there. Especially since I carried your lazy a$$ for 3 years, with it.
 
i figured he was just up in the middle of the night trying to amuse himself in some Otel in some far flung city on "trip" time. like me :)
 
Hugh Jorgan said:
Or better yet, they could pretend to be a SEAL and wallow away their days on internet message boards frequented by those who actually earned warfare designators. Yes, they could hurl harmless insults in the direction of those to whom they admire the most, those who achieved what they could not....

Griffin was probably a BUDS washout, followed by flight training, then eventually getting tossed from surface warfare and found his niche as the guy who is a sorry excuse for a base PAO in east bumblyphuque.:rolleyes:
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You can always count on patrol weenies loudly spouting terms like "warfare designator," in bars, after midnight, around fat chicks. It makes them feel like real Naval Aviation guys, even though they aren't.
 
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DaveGriffin said:
You can always count on patrol weenies loudly spouting terms like "warfare designator," in bars, after midnight, around fat chicks. It makes them feel like real Naval Aviation guys, even though they aren't.
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As opposed to DG, who only yearns to feel real Naval Aviation guys. He's a polesmoker from way back.
 
DaveGriffin said:
You can always count on patrol weenies loudly spouting terms like "warfare designator," in bars, after midnight, around fat chicks. It makes them feel like real Naval Aviation guys, even though they aren't.
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That "registered self abuser" under your call sign is starting to make sense.
Careful though, you may go blind.
 
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