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10 ) You have attained “Walter Cronkite” status at the museum / hangar / airport and make reports of the latest warbird news, much to the astonishment of those who still read (shudder) magazines.

9 ) Saturday nights are wasted away combing the globe with Google Earth to find the next "discovery" to post on WIX. You found an A-26 in the Sudan yesterday, but you still can't find your socket wrench in the garage.

8 ) You cancelled your subscription to Maxim magazine and now just wait for Jack Cook to post each months nose art collection.

7 ) Sick of getting upstaged, you budgeted and ate Peanut Butter and Jelly for lunch for 5 months to get that Digital SLR so you could build a respectable Webshots library to impress the WIXhood.

6 ) You now find yourself reading the newspaper from Papua New Guinea online more than your local newspaper. You are up on the jungle news, but don't know who your city mayor is anymore.

5 ) When talking about your online friends, your significant other asks to see a picture of them... you show them this:

4 ) You celebrated more over reaching 1000 posts than you did on your 21st birthday. If you are from Maine, you celebrated more than the first time you shot a Moose.

3 ) You consider yourself the hospitality host at the "WIX Emergency Shelter" when the FlyPast Forum goes down and we get the refugees. You stock plenty of virtual Stout and start ordering up the rounds when the crowd starts throwing cockney colloquialisms around.

2 ) If you are from the US, you suddenly find you have more online friends from the UK and Canada than any in real life, and if you are from the UK and Canada, you suddenly find you have more online friends from the US than any in real life. If you are from Maine, you suddenly find you have friends...

1 ) …and noew a reeding frem the gosple accoring to Col. Rohr.

Of course, this is in all fun folks! It's my 5th anniversary today of being on WIX and I have been wanting to do this for a while!

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Ryan Keough
Stow, MA

That is too dang funny Ryan. Good Job and Happy anniversary

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Ryan,

Too funny and way too true!

So Rob and I are the only ones mentioned by name!!!???
I'm not sure now to respond to that.
Over to you Steve Patterson!

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Don't touch my junk!!

Hey! What is wrong with magazines?

Lordy lordy, I fall very close to number 8. That is if I had actually ever had a subscription to Maxim.

I've been here too long.

The light is fading.

Is that old oil I smell?

I swear I can hear a P-40 going over the house right now.

Jack, when is the next round of nose art due? I think I'm starting to have withdrawl.

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It's you and me against the world.

We attack at dawn.

Warbird Digest is a journal... anything perfect bound with a 100 pound gloss cover is just shy of a coffee table book!

If it has two staples in the spine and is located West of the Rockies... that's a magazine

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Ryan Keough
Stow, MA

Phew... I was getting nervous Thanks for clarifying!

Good one Ryan!

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Olivier Lacombe -- Harvard Mk.4 C-GBQB

Welcome back, oh salty one. Hope the water was clear and Duvall St. was jumpin'!

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To an enemy the warning is dire: here only eagles soar,
and the last thing he'll see is a mirrored Spitfire!

Warbirds Digest IS a coffee table book in my home. In fact, that's where they reside full time!

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Dan

Watsa a coffee table? If it's that small table in the living room that I think you're talking about, over here that's our dining room table where we eat our sushi, sukiyaki & of course our shirogohan.

Believe me, it's a lot cheaper to buy furniture here. No dining room sets, no sofa & love seat combinations. And, if my wife decides to rearrange the furniture, all I have to contend with is if the "coffee table" is now heading North to South when it used to head East to West.

Mac

Now THAT list really caused me to do some personal reflection!

I have saved some pretty good coin by cancelling the girly magazine subscriptions and devoting more "peeper time" to Jack's images, only to turn around and give it to him for photos...

It would be a rare time indeed to find a copy of my wife's "Good Housekeeping" magazine on top of MY "Warbird Digest", much to her consternation!

Thanks Ryan, for hitting me where it hurts!

Working on #7 right now.
And #4 sortof, just 500 posts and my 16th w/ my license.

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