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JHyre wrote:For our friends here who are enamoured of, umm, Alternate Sources of Information:

http://www.military.com/video/operation ... 551903001/

John Hyre

oh... and btw...
this is what REALLY happened to obl...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... fF1vkMQ0h0

JH...
you are (quite a few) daze late...
and quite a few (worthless fiat) dollarz short
be that as it may... it was well worth repeating!

oh... and btw...this is what REALLY happened to obl...http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... fF1vkMQ0h0

Obviously I was not paying close enough attention. Scooped, serves me right!

John Hyre, Behind the Times

PS: Oddly, no one chastized us with "THAT'S NOT FUNNY", since people were dropped from choppers in South America circa 1970's & 1980's. Where's a humorless PC scold when you need one?

JHyre wrote: PS: Oddly, no one chastized us with "THAT'S NOT FUNNY", since people were dropped from choppers in South America circa 1970's & 1980's. Where's a humorless PC scold when you need one?

And it goes back even earlier than that, at least to the 1960s for helicopters in SE Asia. But I think the Argies may have won the prize for large-scale aircraft defenestration during their Dirty War, 1976 to 1983.

Obviously, tossing people from doors and windows, whether from rotary-wing aircraft or from more humble terrestrial structures, goes waaaay back. It was already well established in Europe by the Middle Ages. In Prague they even do famous-defenestration re-enactments. Now, that is a cultural event.

Keyword: defenestrace. And oh what a splendid hijacking.

Ahhh, defenestration. Back in the good old days, circa 1929, Wall Streeters had the decency to kill themselves via The Jump. Admittedly, this was messy and therefore somewhat rude. Then came the FDR bank-insurance schemes, and on a similar theory, they now get bailouts instead of an incentive for a wee self-shove off the 30th floor. Pop the corks instead of the window latches. Progress(ive)?

John Hyre, Window Slopping

JHyre wrote:Ahhh, defenestration. Back in the good old days, circa 1929, Wall Streeters had the decency to kill themselves via The Jump.

That was because they recognised that what they had done was.... Immensely Wrong. Today, there is no such understanding.