Subj : Card trick
To   : Paul Quinn
From : Roger Nelson
Date : Mon Jul 31 2017 17:21:36

On Mon Jul-31-2017 15:20, Paul Quinn (3:640/384) wrote to Joe Delahaye:

 PQ> Hi! Joe,

 PQ> On Sun, 30 Jul 17, you wrote to me:

 RN>>>>>>>>>>> Then you knew how it was done all along and
 RN>>>>>>>were just testing the rest of us? (-:
 RN>>>>>>>>>>>
 JD>>>>>>>>>>> No idea.
 RN>>>>>>>>>> When will you get one?
 JD>>>>>>>>>> Might take some time <G>

 RN>>>>>>>>> I'll stand down until then.

 JD>>>>>>>>> Good idea <G>

 RN>>>>>>>> That will give you time to figure out what the
 RN>>>>>>>> opposite of stand down is. (-:

 JD>>>>>>>> Sit up?

 RN>>>>>>> No.  Would you like another guess or two?  (-:

 PQ>>>>>> An ex-Air Force wallah wouldn't have a clue. Make
 PQ>>>>>> him squirm. :)

 JD>>>>> See my answer to Roger <G>

 PQ>>>> Keep twisting. You may twig to it yet.[smirk]

 JD>>> Might also have different meanings, depending on
 JD>>> which military of course.

 PQ>> Yep, hence my remark.

 JD>>> Stand down order means to stop and go relax.  We have
 JD>>> been (as a base) been
 JD>>> stood down for weather related stuff, Like a foot or
 JD>>> more of snow, or extremely high temperatures.

 PQ>> Yeah. But Roger was prompting for the reverse of
 PQ>> 'stand down'. Wanna try for another spin of the wheel? 
 PQ>> 8-)

 JD> Well I know of no other reverse then to get back to work.

 PQ> TBH, I don't have an exact idea as to what Roger may be thinking. 
 PQ> For the short time when I had a green skin, in a 'full tactical'
 PQ> environment there was a kind of drill that was enacted twice a day:
 PQ> sunset & sunrise.  (No, t'ain't no flag raising & saluting thing
 PQ> either.)  As I indicated, a feller in blues may not have been so
 PQ> trained.  Particularly a technician such as yourself. 

 PQ> Mmm... I wonder if this is what Roger has in mind?  Roger, what say
 PQ> you?  ;-) 

I say I half expected that from an ex air force dude.  (-:

We had a guy at our church some years ago whose surname is Junkers.  He is a 
helicoptor mechanic.  How ironic is that?


Regards,

Roger 
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