09/18/11 - DVCers Take Over the Dream (S.S. Member Cruise 2011) - Thread #5

[Steamboat WillyNilly]

Other than playing on a football regulation-sized field, not really. You can't run with the Disc and you have to catch it in the endzone to score.

No Tackling?

 

[W@LL-E]

No Tackling?

You wouldn't notice it by the video, but it's actually a non-contact sport (with no referees).

 

[Steamboat WillyNilly]

It's getting too late for me to keep playing. Revenge of the Nerds kept me up late last night now you guys tonight! Good night guys!

 

[Steamboat WillyNilly]

You wouldn't notice it by the video, but it's actually a non-contact sport (with no referees).

Would love to play it sometime!

 

[DizDragonfly]

G'nite Junior!

 

[W@LL-E]

It's getting too late for me to keep playing. Revenge of the Nerds kept me up late last night now you guys tonight! Good night guys!

Yeah, I gotta hit the sack too. Work in 5 hours. Night Junior, Night Karen.

 

[DizDragonfly]

Yeah, I gotta hit the sack too. Work in 5 hours. Night Junior, Night Karen.

 

[calypso726]

I think the people who want to kill innocent people must be held accountable for their actions and I don't think we should stop until everyone of them is either captured or killed..

I totally agree!

Just curious. Was Terrie born in America?

Yup! My grandparents and my mom fled Cuba in the 50's before Castro took power and overthrew Batista. I was born in California, but dont really remember it much. Been in FL most of my life

 

[Hoosier John]

Hey John! Here's early congratulations on you 1000th post!

Sho 'nuf ... this is #1000. Glad you saw that, because I missed it. Even after reading the exchange between Karen & Jennifer about Karen's 2,000th post, I still didn't look at mine.

 

[Hoosier John]

I am finding all these stories and tributes about September 11th so moving. I think it is amazing we can share and learn a bit more about each other in the process. Thanks for this. I salute anyone and everyone who had any part in the search, rescue, recovery, construction, and of course, protection when it relates to that horrible day.

It is a day that will forever be rooted in my brain. Whenever I write a check with that date, schedule a meeting for that date, and especially when I write that date on the whiteboard in my classroom every year, I can't help but get a chill. I was teaching 2nd/3rd grade that year and around 10am that morning, the teacher next door came over with tears in her eyes and told me a plane had hit the towers. The school office had the radio on, and the principal was listening closely. As time passed, the reports/thought was that Chicago might be next. Teachers were told to keep our kids indoors, as they knew these were terrorist attacks. We could not go out for recess or P.E. I remember the drive home from work, I could see people crying in their cars along the expressway. I was glued to the TV the rest of the night and just cried and cried. My roommate and I decided to go out for a walk to get "away" and I have, to this day, never seen anything like it. All I can say is...GHOST TOWN! There was ablsolutely nobody on the streets. No cars, businesses were closed, stoplights were stuck on green, dead silence. It was the strangest feeling I have ever experienced. The worst part for me was going back to school the next day and trying to explain to my 7 and 8 year old students how a person/persons could do such a thing to America. They had so many questions and were so scared. I have been teaching 13 years, and that is still the HARDEST thing I have ever had to go through with my students, seeing the complete fear in their eyes. It was so sad and there was nothing I could really do to help/explain to them. September 11th was just so senseless.

Thanks for listening/reading. Thanks for sharing your stories and for being such good DIS friends. I can't wait to meet you all!

Thank you Kelly. Interesting view from of the school-age children's stance. I never even thought much about them. I had heard that many children were glued to TV's at school, but the 'lock down' situation must have added to their fears. And I remember talk about the Sears Tower being a possible target, so Chicagoians certainly had extra concern.

 

[Hoosier John]

Bunco is a mindless dice game that old lady's play so they can gossip about other people.

Couldn't have said it better myself. Lara's sister was hosting a Bunco party and wanted me to tell her how to score points. I created a spreadsheet which applied to various numbers of players, and put quite a bit of consideration into it.

Once I saw how little effort was required for the game, I was sorry I spent any time on it. Lara played for a while, but it became too mind numbing very quickly.

 

[Hoosier John]

... Just think, Wally and I both didn't even have accounts till these threads were started.

I just started on DISboards with this year's Thread 1, too. So we have a combined total of over 4000 posts.

 

[friends with mickey]

I just started on DISboards with this year's Thread 1, too. So we have a combined total of over 4000 posts.

Hi John,
A random way to go for your 1003 posts.

 

[Hoosier John]

After my team and I dominate in Ultimate Frisbee CLICKY (this is what i play when not injured )

I don't see how anyone could possibly get injured in a game like that!

 

[Hoosier John]

Hi John,
A random way to go for your 1003 posts.

Hi Mike, I was back several pages catching up.

 

[friends with mickey]

I was watching the frisbee highlights, and I thought frisbee golf was intense.

 

[Hoosier John]

I just saw what Vicki had posted about my experience on 9-11. For the last few days I have both been happy and sad. The shooting of Bin Ladden stirred up a lot of memories that I don't think I will ever forget. I remember leaving the office building I was in and walking on the streets of Manhattan, it was a quite errey feeling, the worst part came when the Air Force had the F-16's flying over Manhattan and everybody stopping on the street and looking up into the sky and not seeing anything but hearing the jet engines. Little did any of us know at the time that they were our jets, everybody was ducking expecting another jet to crash into another building. I remember walking over the 59th street bridge and it was quiet except for the sounds of fire trucks and ambulances coming into the city to try to take care of the people at the WTC. Looking out over downtown from the bridge and just seeing the smoke from the fires and soot drifting from downtown into Brooklyn. I never saw so many people walking in mass and not even making a noise. I just wonder if we were all in shock because not one person was taking, just walking to get home to their families. Some sceptics say that we should get out of the mid east but I can't live with that and I will tell you why. Many of you know that I work for the nhl during the hockey season at MSG. Well that year our crew was asked to volunteer to work the fireman's vs police ice hockey game the following January. Needless to say every seat was sold out with the proceeds going to the police and firemans fund for the families of 9-11. Well anyway, before the game started, all of the wives, husbands, mothers, fathers and children of the fallen were escorted to seats in center ice. After those families sat down, the fire department brought out a large bell and the bell was rung after every policeman and fireman's name that died on 9-11 was read. I cried my eyes out but what made me hope that we get every terroist is that looking into center ice and seeing those families especially the children who lost a parent crying realizing that they will never see that parent, child or spouse again kind of stuck in my brain and heart. I think the people who want to kill innocent people must be held accountable for their actions and I don't think we should stop until everyone of them is either captured or killed. Hopefully I didn't bore anybody by rambling on but I just felt I had to get this off my chest.

Thank you for sharing your experiences, Chuck. In more open areas, like where I live, the fighter jets would have been a welcome site. But downtown amidst the tall buildings where you could only hear echos of the engines ... again something I would have never considered being a problem. You must have felt at the time that the attacks were still continung.

I bet there wasn't a dry eye at the hockey game ceremony. Here's to more happy days, and fewer sad ones.

 

[Hoosier John]

I was watching the frisbee highlights, and I thought frisbee golf was intense.

That's what I was thinking when I saw the video. Not exactly what comes to mind when one thinks of combining frisbee and golf, is it?

 

[friends with mickey]

That's what I was thinking when I saw the video. Not exactly what comes to mind when one thinks of combining frisbee and golf, is it?

That is frisbee football, frisbee golf is very sedate. I wonder if someone is bringing a frisbee on the cruise for Castaway Cay?

 

[Hoosier John]

That is frisbee football, frisbee golf is very sedate. I wonder if someone is bringing a frisbee on the cruise for Castaway Cay?

Woops, I hope Wally doesn't take offense (or maybe I will contiue to call it frisbee golf, just to keep him riled up?).

Gotta get some work done around here, Later Mike.