Comments on: Over 3,400 Annoying Gimmicks

Over 3,400 Annoying Gimmicks

breezeway — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:47:17 -0800

Consolidated B-24 Liberator nose art archive. S i g n s of the z o d i a c, dirty jokes, self-fulfilling prophecies, and stumpers . (Some questionable content [NSFW-ish] and site design)

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:04:02 -0800

these are awesome. No taurus! Damnit.

By: nostrada

nostrada — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:12:53 -0800

U.S. B-24 in freak accident Ouch!

By: y2karl

y2karl — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:38:36 -0800

Aware that [Senator George] McGovern had been at 22 a decorated Army Air Force pilot who had flown 35 combat missions (the maximum number allowed), I urged the McGovern managers to film a couple of members of the flight crew telling how terrified they were the day McGovern, with two of his plane's four engines knocked out, somehow managed through skill and strength an emergency landing of his B-24 (which required a 5,000 foot landing strip) on a 2,200 foot runway on an island in the Adriatic. Stephen Ambrose brings us George McGovern, war hero Well, he gets some props here--along with Jimmy Stewart, Robert Altman, Walter Matthau, Stewart Udall and Lloyd Bentsen. It was like the Hollywood/Beltway bomber, evidently...

By: DakotaPaul

DakotaPaul — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:54:40 -0800

Great find, breezeway. Thanks!

By: alumshubby

alumshubby — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:15:16 -0800

Speaking of double-entendre B-24 nose art, here's the famous The Dragon and His Tail. BTW, I think this is the last flyable B-24J in existence.

By: buzzman

buzzman — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:47:52 -0800

Oh Oh Oh! I don't need to even look! WWII voluptuous bomber art? The Liberator in action? The US of A saving El Mundo from the bad guys? Get real, this stuff has to rule! I've got some goosebumps going on! Oh yes, hell yes!

By: alumshubby

alumshubby — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 05:56:57 -0800

...and so buzzman graces us with his fresh, glistening, steaming turd right in the middle of an otherwise respectable thread.