Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 1140110)

Ahhh... those were the days. I'd forgotten about the lizards humping avatar! That was one of the best avatars ever.

Originally Posted by Check Essential (Post 1140020)

As we witness the downfall of Latest and Greatest we should pause to reflect on past glory.

It is possible to retrace the evolution of Latest and Greatest. The moment of true revelation and cultural enlightenment occurred in December of 2009.


It was all 80ktsClamp's fault.




80 posted a bunny with a pancake on its head.
As night follows day, this led directly to the historic first underboob pic.



Superpilot92 then provided the spark that started the revolution. For his efforts he was recognized with another milestone. The first Delta pilot to be banned from APC.

The historic masterpiece photo has since been removed from APC and placed in the Smithsonian Air Museum, but I believe it was a young female of the well endowed yet scantily clad variety in a torn off football jersey flipping pancakes.



Creative genius and innovative thought is often frightening to the establishment. Think Galileo.

FTB of course immediately escalated the debate to indecent levels and way beyond tolerance:




And the coup de grace was delivered a few hours later when acl changed his avatar to the infamous "humping lizards".

From that moment on, the Renaissance had begun and its been all downhill from there.

Originally Posted by Check Essential (Post 1140020)

As we witness the downfall of Latest and Greatest we should pause to reflect on past glory.

It is possible to retrace the evolution of Latest and Greatest. The moment of true revelation and cultural enlightenment occurred in December of 2009.


It was all 80ktsClamp's fault.




80 posted a bunny with a pancake on its head.
As night follows day, this led directly to the historic first underboob pic.



Superpilot92 then provided the spark that started the revolution. For his efforts he was recognized with another milestone. The first Delta pilot to be banned from APC.

The historic masterpiece photo has since been removed from APC and placed in the Smithsonian Air Museum, but I believe it was a young female of the well endowed yet scantily clad variety in a torn off football jersey flipping pancakes.



Creative genius and innovative thought is often frightening to the establishment. Think Galileo.

FTB of course immediately escalated the debate to indecent levels and way beyond tolerance:




And the coup de grace was delivered a few hours later when acl changed his avatar to the infamous "humping lizards".

From that moment on, the Renaissance had begun and its been all downhill from there.

Originally Posted by roadrunner65 (Post 1139883)

Keeping the DC-9's around is a good thing overall, but the downward pressure from all the backward movement means that I'll be stuck on the bloody thing for the forseeable future, even though I can easily hold the 320 or the 7ER and was planning on bidding over with the expected MD. I am OVER the 5 leg a day ATL shuttle flying. Done complaining now.... ;-)

Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1139834)

I want to congratulate the poor ATL 88 FO that is in bucket 3.

While many are at 0 credit thus far.

I've flown a 1/3rd of what I'd flown by this point normally (and that's saying sometin) and barring a SC trip I probably won't fly again. And I still think this 80 raw score is wrong even if I'm benefiting from it. I think for a domestic NB take the longest trip in category plus 2 days of SC. That should be bucket 1.

For an international category, no idea. Ya'll figure out your own problems and stop asking the NB people to fix your messes. It's like what NASA told the crew to Apollo 13, "you got yourself up there, you can get yourself down."

Originally Posted by DAL 88 Driver (Post 1140145)

If you're in MSP it sounds like they are still probably going to close that category (and possibly move it to ATL?) on the March AE. Anybody heard anything different?

Originally Posted by JobHopper (Post 1139661)

NY taxes income earned in NY by out of state residents. I grew up in NJ and my mom worked as a secretary in Manhattan for many years; NY always took a portion of her pay even though she filed her taxes in NJ.

Dunno, but this may be a method to protect you from that.

Originally Posted by DAL 88 Driver (Post 1140145)

If you're in MSP it sounds like they are still probably going to close that category (and possibly move it to ATL?) on the March AE. Anybody heard anything different?

Originally Posted by TANSTAAFL (Post 1139679)

Thought we were 4% overstaffed according to reports from other lounge visits?

Of course its part of the tried and true negotiating doom and gloom psyops: be overstaffed so you can do have lots of MD's to demoralize the troops and lower expectations.:mad:

Originally Posted by Launchpad475 (Post 1139617)

2 weeks ago there was talk about another early out with medical. its been 2 weeks and seems very quiet.

Originally Posted by buzzpat (Post 1139634)

The intel coming from the LA lounge visit is that it probably won't be offered to pilots.

Originally Posted by johnso29 (Post 1139640)

I guess we aren't overstaffed then.