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It appears that down in Cape Pablo, you know, on the other side of the Canal, they’ve been spending a little too much time at the beach; and not enough time in Pab’s math class (yes, just math, no trigonometry required).
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This is an actual German commercial that would never make it in the puritanical U.S.
click on http://waheyboys.com/2009/April/30/GermanEngineering.html#german
- an expression for a structure or argument built on a shaky foundation or one that will collapse if a necessary (but possibly overlooked or unappreciated) element is removed.
No news is good news, well, some news might be good, well, nothing can happen unless, well, we need money to, well, whatever. Guess what? Nothing is still happening at the Air Base, ah, I mean Southfield. But Wahey, things are looking up because um, well, I don’t know why things are looking up, but everyone remains hopeful that things are going to work out.
click http://waheyboys.com/2009/April/28/HouseOfCards.html to read more
To Those of You Born between 1930 - 1983
This is a monologue by Jay Leno. Please read what he said and make note of his quote at the end. Very well stated, Mr. Leno.
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!
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Its baseball season and the Sox are beating up the Yankees this weekend. The Celtics are playing tough in the playoffs despite losing KG and the B's look better than they have in years, and everything’s right in the world. It’s too early to be chanting “Yankees Suck” and it’s way too early to be thinking football, but with the NFL Draft going on, I couldn’t help noticing something today.
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Several years ago, two ten year old boys walked to the Stella Tirrell Park to play catch and maybe get to watch a Cranberry League baseball game. They were budding baseball stars themselves and loved to watch the older guys play and maybe pick up some pointers. They weren’t supervised by any adult, which was not unusual, because there were plenty of people around watching the game and Stella Tirrell was a safe place to play. Their game of catch was interrupted by an older boy, maybe sixteen, who asked if they were interested in trying some “pot”. One boy immediately refused, while the other more “adventurous” boy actually seemed intrigued by the offer. The “smarter” boy won out, despite the 16 year old’s persistence and the boys left.
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A level 2 Sex Offender is considered by the Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Board to be a moderate risk to the public, whereas a Level 3 would be considered a high risk. In the Town Of Weymouth there are 48 Level 2 sex offenders registered. In order to acquire more information regarding Level 2 offenders it is necessary to go directly to Police.
Level 3 offenders living or working in Weymouth are listed here http://waheyboys.com/2009/April/22/SexOffender.html#sexoffender
This was forwarded to us from a Maritime Wahey Boy. It is a correspondence from a member of the crew of the Maersk Alabama that is circulating through the Maritime community. It reflects the circumstances and decision-making that transpired during the Pirating of the ship and subsequent hostage taking. It has not been edited.
click here http://waheyboys.com/2009/April/21/MaesrkAlabama.html#maerskalabama
I was laying in bed looking up at Yaz and closed my eyes for a moment. “Please Yaz, this is a very important day for me.” I heard Sid, The Jarhead’s footsteps on the stairs and jumped up to quickly pull the bedspread taught. Sid opened the door and scanned the room. “Alright, go ahead”, he said, “but be back when the street lights come on.”
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Last week I was on one of my new favorite blog-sites and clicked on this. I think I got something in my eye. I had never seen this add before. There are sports legends that define our lives. Probably like many from the Boston area, mine are Yaz, Orr, Bird and Brady. What a great sports town.
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Once upon a time, when the Wahey Boys were still in the Weymouth schools, everything was free. We drove cars (that weren’t free) to school and parked for free. We played any sport we wanted for free. We took the bus for free. We had to take Phys. Ed. (to learn Square Dancing), but it was free, and they gave you a funny outfit for free. Field trips- free. Pencils, rulers, paper…yep- all free. If someone told us we were going to have a fundraiser, we would have said, “sure, we like raising fun, as long as it’s free.”
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Dave forwarded this note along as well:
Dear friends,
This is a jungle, a monument built by nature honoring disuse, commemorating a few years of nature being left to its own devices. But it's another kind of jungle, the kind that comes in the aftermath of man's battles against himself. Hardly an important battle, not a Gettysburg or a Marne or an Iwo Jima. More like one insignificant corner patch in the crazy quilt of combat. But it was enough to end the existence of this little city. It's been five years since a human being walked these streets. This is the first day of the sixth year, as man used to measure time. The time? Perhaps a hundred years from now. Or sooner. Or perhaps it's already happened two million years ago. The place? The signposts are in English so that we may read them more easily, but the place is the Twilight Zone. –Rod Serling
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While all the “Pinkies” squawk about why the “Sox” are playing a Florida (Tampa Rays) based team on Opening Day in New England, us hometown Wahey Boys say “put another layer on”. More like, “put your slicker on”, whatever, it got canceled anyway. I had my popcorn and beer and lineup card all ready. Oh well, looks like I’ll have to take today off too then. Plus it gave us more time to dwell on our predictions.
True to the “realist” that I’ve become, I think injuries will take their toll this year and picked them for third (ouch) but the rest of the baseball Waheys are standing by the home team.
| Mule | Bender | Vic | Stan |
| East | |||
| Sox | Red Sox | sox, | Yankees |
| Yankees | Yankees | yanks | Rays |
| Rays | Rays | rays | Red Sox |
| Jays | Jays | bj's | Orioles |
| Os | Orioles | o's | Jays |
| Central | |||
| Tigers | Twins | white sox | Indians |
| Twins | Royals | tigers | White Sox |
| Indians | Tigers | indians | Twins |
| WSox | White Sox | twins | Tigers |
| Royals | Indians | kc | Royals |
| West | |||
| A’s | Angels | angels | Angels |
| Angels | Oakland | rangers | A’s |
| Mariners | Texas | oakland | Rangers |
| Rangers | Seattle | seattle | Mariners |
Bender has devised a point scheme that we’ll tally at the “Break” and then again at season end to see who won. Won what?
Look for me, Mule and Big D in the Bleachers Thursday.
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Growing up near the South Weymouth Naval Air Station I became somewhat interested in and familiar with planes and jet fighters, because they were always flying overhead. It was a great experience to attend the “Air Shows” back then and in later years, with my son, where we would watch the “Blue Angels”. I got to see all kinds of planes over the years, but for me, there will always be “the plane”. “The plane” is the familiar memorial plane that stood for many years at the entrance to the South Weymouth Naval Air Station and that for many of us growing up back then represented the United States superiority to the Soviet Union.
When I was around 8 years old I remember, while playing with friends, instinctively stopping whenever we would hear a jet fly over. This wasn’t because of the sight of the jet itself, for that was a common occurrence; but instead, we would stop to place our hands over our ears in preparation of the ensuing “sonic boom”. Within seconds after hearing the jet, the craft would zoom overhead and then there would be a large “boom” that signified the jet “breaking the sound barrier”, at least that is what I was told. As I grew older, jets would still do flyovers, but it seemed that we didn’t hear the boom any more. I wasn’t sure if that was because the planes were not allowed to break the barrier or whether technology had changed to prevent the sonic boom. (The term sonic boom is commonly used to refer to the shocks caused by the supersonic flight of an aircraft. Sonic booms generate enormous amounts of sound energy, sounding much like an explosion.)
As it turns out, there are still sonic booms, but through better design coupled with laws preventing planes from causing them, we don’t hear them as often.
I didn’t know it back then but that sound was most likely caused by a Cougar Fighter Plane. The Cougar’s predecessor, the Gruman F9F Panther was the U. S. Navy’s most widely used jet fighter during the Korean War. Unfortunately, the Panther’s overall performance versus Russian designed MiG’s was not good and soon after, Gruman replaced the Panther with a swept wing designed fighter called the Cougar that proved superior to the MiG 15. Starting in the 1950’s, the Navy and Marines assigned particular planes to designated Air Stations and this was the plane flown by the Marine Attack Squadron 322 or “The Fighting Gamecocks” stationed in South Weymouth. In 1959, the Cougar was replaced by the North American FJ3 Fury as NAS South Weymouth’s plane. However in 1960, the Naval Air Station donated, and the Town Of Weymouth accepted, an F9F6 Gruman Cougar Fighter Plane to serve as a memorial and this was “the plane” that stood at the entrance to the Air Base on White Street. Not long after taking its place as the Air Base focal point, another plane, called the Douglas A4B Skyhawk was assigned to South Weymouth. From 1962 until the early 70’s the Skyhawks bore the tail code Z and later 7Z.
White Street, a small side street off of Union Street in South Weymouth, was the main entrance to the Air Base since it opened in 1942 and as the Base grew in size this street would become a busy through fare for Base traffic. Then in 1982, tragedy struck when a young neighborhood boy was struck and killed by someone traveling to the Air Base. The town demanded that the Navy change the entrance location. For their part the town installed a four-way “Stop” sign at the intersection of the tragedy hoping to slow the traffic coming down White Street. It wasn’t until 1987 that the Navy finally received funding and approval to install a new entrance gate off of Route 18 and “the plane” was dismantled.
But the plane was not about what type as much as what it stood for and the Navy constructed a new symbol to adorn the new entrance in the form of the Skyhawk. After the Air Base closed in 1997 “the plane” took its place further up Shea Boulevard at its present location in the Shea Memorial Grove. “The plane” has symbolized many things over the years from the Cold War to economic change and it will continue to do so. Today it memorializes local recipients of the Medal Of Honor and represents a major change in the landscape of Weymouth and surrounding communities.