Daniel J. Matyola wrote: >Thanks, Bob. > >We all had Nicknames -- or "handles" as they were called. We painted >"Black Max" and "Cossack" on our airplane, which was one of the very few to >bear the number 13. In reality, he was "Max Gross" because when he took >his semiannual flight physical, the flight surgeon would ask the corpsman >"What's the max weight allowed for a 6'0" flight crew," and would then >write in that number (ie, the max gross weight.) I was the Mad Russian, >because in boot camp, the redneck drill sergeant asked what the hell kind >of name "Matalooa" was, and when I said it was Rusyn, he responded: "I >knew it, I knew it, your're a Mad Rooshian spy sent here to f*** up my >mind."
I certainly hope you lived up to expectations and f***ed up his mind. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
