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Right Angle: Backstage 02/14/23

Balloon madness, bad army men rip-offs, Canadian content, eh? and specific instructions on how to burn down your neighborhood.

Balloon madness, bad army men rip-offs, Canadian content, eh? and specific instructions on how to burn down your neighborhood (which you must never, ever do!)

All that and so much less on this edition of Right Angle: Backstage, exclusively for you, our members here at Bill Whittle.com.

57 replies on “Right Angle: Backstage 02/14/23”

Bill,
The ‘six servicemen’ who died under the Japanese balloon bomb were NOT servicemen. Bart Lago is correct, they were members of a Sunday school class on a picnic. The pastor’s wife and five school children died because the bombs were kept secret from the public, and they had no idea what it was.
The Mitchell Monument is located at
42.43206585247069, -120.86032807463428
about 9.5 miles ENE of Bly, Oregon.

The CRTC has been roughing up most of the Canadian airwaves for far too long. Now JT is trying to narrow the bandwidth for all of us up here. I work for a Co-op radio station and we have to be careful how many CDN songs we play per hour. The performers have to be CDN, the writer has to be CDN, and it has to be produced and recorded in Canada.
I watched the game until after the first play. The National anthem was awesome. And the tears running down the man’s face were so perfect. “I am at the Super Bowl”.

Mr Green mentioning that his wife heard and responded to Scott saying there were too many Tom Cruise reminded me of me teasing my mother about her hearing, saying, “I swear, you could hear a roach fart at 30 paces!!!” LoLoL!!!!

Never, ever watch half-time shows. They’ve just got worse every year. Heard from others that some felt Rihanna act was openly Satanic (essentially becoming Dana Carvey’s iconic “Church Lady”). The ‘fallen’ white ‘angelic’ dancers below her, she’s above them, dressed in red. Dunno. More wokeness?

Interesting. I actually commented to my wife that with the moving platforms, the red outfit, and the masks on the other dancers – I thought the choreographer was channeling Dante’s Inferno as a theme.
Since I don’t know the songs and couldn’t understand a word, I don’t know if the song selection carried this them along.
Or perhaps I was looking for a deeper meaning in something just meant to be flashy.

Maybe there’s a market for balloon kits. Made in the USA. From my fun and somewhat wayward youth, I still have a spud gun somewhere in the basement. A few pieces of PVC with glue, a lantern igniter, and hair spray. We found that Breck Extra Hold provided the best range. We made them in various calibers from Idaho mortars down to new potato field artillery. Being a kid used to be so much fun.

Bet your sister (or someone’s sister) was really mad
I tried to turn my brother’s Bat Plane model into a Bat Rocket.
I chose. . .poorly. 40 + years later, he still reminds me I destroyed his Bat Plane.

I’m in my 70s Bills disappointment about Palisades Park is the way I’ve felt about Disney the last few years, I absolutely loved the place since Disneyland opened in 1955 and I watch on TV with awe, Been to DisneyWorld several times with children and grandchildren but now like millions of others I’m just heartbroken at what the lefty bole weevils have done to the company.

I completely agree, Disney has let the inmates take over the company and destroy its legacy. I grew up in Burbank, CA. less than 2 miles from Disney studios, I even worked there for 2 weeks before I was laid off, along with several hundred other employees.
Our mom worked there for over 14 years before she retired, so we got “silver passes” twice a year when we were kids, so we went to Disneyland for free several times.
I’m retired now, and we were planning a family vacation to Disneyland next year for my 65th birthday, and our oldest granddaughter’s 16th. Now, we’re not sure if we even want to ever go back to the park again.
Disney needs to pull its head out of its ass and get rid of these “woke” clowns calling the shots. It’s pathetic.

Bill may be remembering a Callahan cartoon with two panels: New York and LA. In the New York panel one person says to the other “Fuck you” but his mind balloon says “Have a nice day”. In the LA panel one person says to the other “Have a nice day” but his mind-balloon says “Fuck you”.

THis is an old Rodney Dangerfield line. I had just quoted it to my wife the other day when a news story came on about a guy getting arrested for propositioning a call girl. Told her he should have used Rodney’s line and told the cops he was hiring her to paint his house.

We made the dry cleaner bag hot air balloons nearly 60 years ago, but we used a tin foil square at the cross of the straws with stereo. Our made the news as someone reported one as a UFO.

Three touchdowns? *ppphhfffttt* I’m old enough to remember when the Oilers were up FOUR touchdowns in the AFC championships. Or the wildcard game. Something. But FOUR touchdowns. Four.

The reason I keep hearing is because it’s hard to hit a slow small target when travelling as fast as a jet fighter. Which just makes me think that you compensate for that by firing more than one….

I read somewhere else this week that whichever plane they used doesn’t have guns anymore, just missiles. I guess there is an issue with the altitude that they cannot use helocopters or slower planes… an A10 seems fitting but might not have the ability to go that high.

Best I have is I’ve been accused of being both Kevin Anderson the Star Wars writer and Kevin Anderson the actor.

Also, a Mexican in TJ w/ a donkey thought I was Donny Osmond.

I had sea monkeys briefly as a kid. The sad thing is they would probably sell better if they were properly labeled for what they are: Kulthulu’s Dandruff!

Really funny South Park episode about that. Warning: not suitable for children or the squeamish.

Darn it! You guy just had to make me start brainstorming ways to do the candle balloon thing better. If I wind up setting all of Europe on fire, I blame you! I may not be a properly trained engineer but, I’ve got a post doctorate in redneck engineering and I just can’t help myself!
I kid but my idea for substituting a cut up a soda can in place of the straws and fueling fueling the thing with a dollop of Sterno fuel might work just well enough to be even more dangerous and tempting.
If you are want to know how that’s supposed to work, here it is. Stick the can in the freezer. Slice the bottom off and discard. Spiral cut the can to make the longest possible strips. Cut off any strips you don’t need for support. Now you have a high temperature fuel cup. Granted it would be a little harder to keep the bag from melting or catching fire, but that’s just a matter of keeping the bag from getting too close to the heat rising up from the flame. Two or three bags taped end to end should work well.

Scott,
Of course Steve was filling his vehicle with electrons. They were participating in the covalent bonds between the many hydrogen, oxygen and carbon atoms in that petroleum solution.

To me, the big story is that a $400,000.00 Sidewinder missile missed a balloon in the first attempt.
Pretty sure I could have hit it with my slingshot and a ceramic load.

I think the real story is that they were dumb enough to fire a $400,000.00 heat-seeking missile at a balloon that would have had less of an infrared signature than a car in a parking lot. But then again, a fighter jets gun isn’t a sniper rifle and it probably had to be going somewhat fast to get high enough to engage the target. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the Sidewinder was the cheapest missile they had on hand.

Nobody knows how Herbie flies. And nobody has heard from Herbie in the last 72 hours.
Good thing “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” is over in London.
And the big fluffy dog in “Never Ending Story” is elsewhere, too

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