Roost Air Lounge => Current Strip => Topic started by: fireflyr on February 28, 2006, 11:34:39 AM
Title: We're here to help!
Post by: fireflyr on February 28, 2006, 11:34:39 AM
BWAAAAAHAHAAA :D
I love it! Guys, this one great.
Nothing gets me into self preservation mode quicker.
Title: Re: We're here to help!
Post by: Gulfstream Driver on February 28, 2006, 06:10:38 PM
Saw this one in Trade-a-plane last week. I think it's one of my favorite jokes. :D
Title: Re: We're here to help!
Post by: Mike on February 28, 2006, 08:45:18 PM
Thanks guys!
I have to say, this is by far one of my absolute favorites as well (if not my most favorite so far...).
In real life I am getting along really well with our inspectors in VNY. Our POI keeps changing but there are only so many helicopter inspectors out there, so we all know them. They are too busy, since the cut-backs started, to give us a hard time and we always just do our thing the way they told us to without creating any headaches for them. This way we've been co-existing in harmony for a long time now. In fact, I am there almost every week to submit liftplans, schedule checkrides for my guys, and so on...
But there is always that guy who has to prove something and/or likes to get power-trippin' on you because he doesn't know you... Am I right? Another favorite: RAMPCHECK !! But by now I know enough about what they want and have been through so many inspections and checkrides that they can rarely find anything to bust my chops. ;) (I hope I didn't jinx it just now... I have a checkride in 10 days!)
Title: Re: We're here to help!
Post by: FlyingBlind on February 28, 2006, 10:00:55 PM
This one is really good :D i hope you make a comic book (as in REAL book...not in the web :P) and ship it to me (for free - a getwell present :D) but good one..no really!
Title: Re: We're here to help!
Post by: fireflyr on March 01, 2006, 01:21:13 AM
I paid full price for mine and I'm happy I did----it's well worth it---
A wise man once told me that when something costs nothing, that's how much it's worth!
When's the next one due to be published?
Jim
Title: Re: We're here to help!
Post by: Mike on March 01, 2006, 01:59:35 AM
I paid full price for mine and I'm happy I did----it's well worth it---
A wise man once told me that when something costs nothing, that's how much it's worth!
When's the next one due to be published?
Jim
Wow, Thanks for the kudos (again) Jim!! ! I needed that today. Just found out some old grumpy guy posted a pretty bad review of our book at amazon.com I realize that if you put your work out for the public to enjoy you can't always get everybody to like you. But it kind of hurts if someone goes through the whole process of logging in to amazon just to write a negative review. I don't like "Chris Isaak" for example but all I do is just not buy his music... know what I mean?
But check it out though: If you go to amazon.com and punch in "Chicken Wings" in the search, our book will be the first book on top! Pretty cool, huh?! ;D I like that! Maybe you guys can help us out with some good reviews in amazon.com next time you happen to be at their website ( ;), hint, he he....)
Title: Re: We're here to help!
Post by: Paper-Airplane on March 01, 2006, 02:29:31 AM
I gotta get the book. I need money...
Also the comic today was hillarious. Great work guys :).
Title: Re: We're here to help!
Post by: chuckar101 on March 01, 2006, 04:44:41 AM
Love the new comic and you know as well as I do Mike some people have no personality and don't enjoy the simple pleasures in life like Chicken Wings.
Title: Re: We're here to help!
Post by: Gulfstream Driver on March 01, 2006, 04:58:09 AM
Did you happen to look at that guy's wish list? I'm not sure he has a sense of humor.
Title: Re: We're here to help!
Post by: fireflyr on March 01, 2006, 05:44:23 AM
My dad's favorite piece of chicken was what he called the "popes nose"---it was the part of the chicken that crossed over the fence last---also the part just north of the sewer outlet---the piece that tail feathers were attached to---are we getting the picture here? What kind of sense of humor would you expect from someone named Gene 'POPE'--let your mind wander through the possibilities here folks. :-\
Most time referred to as an equine Posterior-- or something like that, this guy is definitely a chicken lip--or something like that! ;)
Humorless to say the least.
Title: Re: We're here to help!
Post by: Mike on March 01, 2006, 05:48:19 AM
Thanks guys!
It's good to have die-hard friends and fans.
So can I count on you to top this review? :)
Title: Re: We're here to help!
Post by: fireflyr on March 01, 2006, 08:59:35 AM
We're just trying to encourage you and Stef.
See, when you guys make it BIG, you'll not want to fly your own G-5, you'll hire some lackey and that's when some young fan/friend will call in his/her marker and you'll hire them. I knew Sparky Schulze (Peanuts) but couldn't suck up for a job flying his Citation because his kid Craig is a great pilot and wanted the job. I also figure you'll move to Sonoma County to build your winery and mansion and I'll suck up for that 5 dollar an hour gardener job that I'll need to supplement my social security check, so don't get all emotional about the support. :'(
Title: Re: We're here to help!
Post by: FlyingBlind on March 01, 2006, 12:57:05 PM
Thats why i do not like Estonia! No paypal, no credit cards (well you can get one but it costs hallelujah! a lot) so i'd really appriciate if i could get a discount...and since mailing money is illegal....well...i have no idea if Stef or Mike (pardon, bad memory :)) was coming in Estonia, if he could bring one book with him and i could buy it offa him
Title: Re: We're here to help!
Post by: Mike on March 01, 2006, 06:35:37 PM
See, when you guys make it BIG, you'll not want to fly your own G-5, you'll hire some lackey and that's when some young fan/friend will call in his/her marker and you'll hire them. I knew Sparky Schulze (Peanuts) but couldn't suck up for a job flying his Citation because his kid Craig is a great pilot and wanted the job. I also figure you'll move to Sonoma County to build your winery and mansion and I'll suck up for that 5 dollar an hour gardener job that I'll need to supplement my social security check, so don't get all emotional about the support. :'(
Winery, huh?! You can be my gardener anytime Jim! I am just not sure how much gardening we're gonna get done sitting down with the young wine we just bottled telling fire and aviation stories . . . ;) About the G5: We would have to make it REALLY BIG for that one! Harrison Ford told me how much his costs... :oWoah! We would have to sell a few more books and t-shirts for that... How about flying a Caravan or Twin Otter in a Chicken-Suit at airshows instead ?? ;) ;D
Thanks for the support Jim! And thank you so much for the review at amazon.com!! Looks like the guys bad review will get drowned out now. Especially since he's the only one who has a spelling error in his headline. Makes him look a little less smart than all the other reviews.... ;)
Title: Re: We're here to help!
Post by: FlyingBlind on March 01, 2006, 09:17:40 PM
I am being ingored :(
Title: Re: We're here to help!
Post by: Gulfstream Driver on March 01, 2006, 10:02:36 PM
See, when you guys make it BIG, you'll not want to fly your own G-5, you'll hire some lackey and that's when some young fan/friend will call in his/her marker and you'll hire them.
How 'bout the Gulfstream Driver? ;)
Title: Re: We're here to help!
Post by: fireflyr on March 01, 2006, 10:26:22 PM
No you're not, flying blind---saw yer picture---WHOA!!!!! :o
Mike, I dunno about the chicken suit idea :-[
Title: Re: We're here to help!
Post by: Stef on March 01, 2006, 10:49:34 PM
@ FlyingBlind: Well, it could take a while until I make it to Estonia... But if you hook me up with the right people to go parachuting, you'll get a couple of books for free of course! ;D If you come for a visit to Vienna, you get a free copy too! :) Mailing money is illegal?! I didn't know that!
As for the Gulfstream pilot... Well, if we can ever afford that, we can also afford two pilots! Hehe ;D
Title: Re: We're here to help!
Post by: FlyingBlind on March 01, 2006, 10:54:46 PM
Can be done Stef! BUT the problem is that i cant get the training lessons cheaper :( its still 2000 krones (190 Dollars - Includes Training + 2 jumps) and the rest of the jumps is inbetween 100 - 400 krones (each jump)
Title: Re: We're here to help!
Post by: Mike on March 01, 2006, 11:13:44 PM
As for the Gulfstream pilot... Well, if we can ever afford that, we can also afford two pilots! Hehe ;D
And at that time we will also be able to afford sending FlyingBlind a bunch of free copies ;)
Title: Re: We're here to help!
Post by: Frank N. O. on March 04, 2006, 02:17:20 AM
Great strip! Really great, and in more ways than one. There is the classic stereotype that FAA and pilots/operators hate each-other but strictly speaking the FAA really is there to help, help make safety is up to std. and that's in all people's interest isn't it? Pilots, owners, passengers and people on the ground etc. Of course I know like has been said earlier then there are bad seeds in all groups, aviation, politics, religion, gender, culture etc. but isn't the FAA like the traffic police, to make sure the vehicles etc. are safe, and clean so that people can enjoy them with minimal risk, and enviromental impact which will further ruin life? I know I'm a bit special compared to what the media and news show as normal young males but I don't object to speed limits, right of way, vehicles requirements etc. at least none I've heard of yet and I for one can't enjoy the drive/flight if the vehicle isn't safe and since I'm not an engineer despite what tech-knowledge I've picked up since a small kid both from magazines and my dad then it's nice that there are some people who work to help others in this way. People have different skills and desires and by working together humans can do a lot. I'm a bit of a loaner but even I know that, and actually after talking with good people at Racerplanet and now here I know that I'm not as alone as I thought since I've found there are good responsible people around :)
The great thing about the strip is also that both Chuck and the inspector laugh at each-others joke-line but it's a friendly, mutually respectful laugh, like good old friends both of them, again the drawings convey so much from the detailed expressions 8)
Greetings Frank
Title: Re: We're here to help!
Post by: Mike on March 04, 2006, 04:22:18 AM
Wow Frank! You just turned a three panel strip into a whole chapter of a book!! ;D
Or were we able to caption a pretty big topic in only 3 panels??
:D :D
Thanks for the kudos!
Title: Re: We're here to help!
Post by: Frank N. O. on March 08, 2006, 04:31:36 AM
You're welcome, but I think it's you guys that got all that into 3 panels 8)
Frank
Title: Re: We're here to help!
Post by: FlyingBlind on March 08, 2006, 12:28:28 PM
