This woman’s facial expression reminded me of this guy.
Speaking of “doppelgänger”, Donovan shared a funny story with Craig Miller on The TICKET. Donovan’s wife, Twiggy, thought a guy on a commercial looked like Craig and told her husband, “Donovan, look, it’s Craig’s dingleberry.”
In a training exercise gone wrong back in 1989, Capt. Brian Udell had to eject from his F-15 travelling at supersonic speeds. The force of the air on his body was so strong that it nearly killed him. Here is Udell explaining what happened.
The wind tore his helmet off, broke every blood vessel in his head and face, dislocated his left elbow so that it was pointed backwards and snapped both of his legs in half. His lips were so swollen that they “fit into the first three fingers of [his] hand.”
His weapons officer had ejected with him, but only Udell survived what remains the highest speed ejection from a U.S. fighter aircraft.
On top of that, he spent four hours lost at sea before the Coast Guard rescued him and later is devasted to learn his navigator died.
When he starts to talk about his will to live to see his pregnant wife and to be there for the birth of his first child, I can’t help but think of Cougar in Top Gun “lost the edge”.
I loved how LBJ used this tactic, and he used it often. Granted, it would have bothered me to no end if I was on the receiving end, but it’s different when it’s a presidential trait that’s the stuff of legend. Presidents get a pass for this kind of behavior. For instance, I’ve read numerous time how Theodore Roosevelt used to swim nude in the Potomac while in office and would occasionally urinate out a West Wing window.
Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November…
South Carolina news – Eleven days after South View High School’s graduation, school officials learned the wrong student had been named valedictorian.