Nat Geo contest winner - with horrid Photoshopping

On 12/22/08 10:26 AM, in article
, "Stephen Henning"
wrote:

(Floyd L. Davidson) wrote:

That should be: you did the job... no bonus. But if you
did a *great* job, you'll be recognized appropriately.
It may be a pat on the back, a bonus, or a Nobel Prize,
depending on just how great.

I worked at Bell Labs. We were expected to do a Great job. Good was
unacceptable. We were expected to schedule our scientific
breakthroughs. No idea was so bad that we couldn't make it work.
Sorta like NASA during the Apollo days?

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:36:24 +0000, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote in
:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember John Navas
saying something like:

Anyone that lives through a horrible experience is a hero.

No - that'a a survivor. A 'hero' would be someone who, using just a
paperclip and a toilet roll, managed to outfox and outgun a gang of
armed desperados, releasing the hostages and getting the beers in at the
same time.

That's a movie, not real life.

Don't feel bad, Ronnie Reagan thought his movie roles were real life
experiences too.



--
Best regards,
John
Panasonic DMC-FZ8, DMC-FZ20, and several others

On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:51:52 -0500, Cynicor
wrote in :

Stephen Henning wrote:
"RichA" wrote:

It's like calling people who were in a
bombing "heroes" when all they did was be there, unknowingly.

By definition, heros are ordinary people in extraordinary conditions.
People that are supposed to be bombed are called soldiers.

Well...they're ordinary people in extraordinary situations who then do
something unexpected and brave. If a gunman takes hostages and one
person cowers in a corner while the other overpowers them, both people
are not heroes just because they're both in extraordinary conditions.

I'd call the pilot that set the jet down in the river a hero.
Likewise all the passengers, who dealt with the crisis very well indeed.

--
Best regards,
John
Panasonic DMC-FZ8, DMC-FZ20, and several others

John Navas wrote:

I'd call the pilot that set the jet down in the river a hero.

Nah. At least not for the ditching. It was what he was trained and paid to do.
He did it well.

I understand that he was the last person off the plane because he was walking
the aisle making sure everyone else got off. That's to his credit even if a
little short of "hero" in my book. -- Doug

On 1/16/09 5:44 PM, in article ,
"Douglas Johnson" wrote:

John Navas wrote:

I'd call the pilot that set the jet down in the river a hero.

Nah. At least not for the ditching. It was what he was trained and paid to
do.
He did it well.

I understand that he was the last person off the plane because he was walking
the aisle making sure everyone else got off. That's to his credit even if a
little short of "hero" in my book. -- Doug
Your book is very much limited. You are one jaded mo'fo'.

The man is the 'definition' of "hero"...

John Navas wrote:
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:51:52 -0500, Cynicor
wrote in :

Stephen Henning wrote:
"RichA" wrote:

It's like calling people who were in a
bombing "heroes" when all they did was be there, unknowingly.

By definition, heros are ordinary people in extraordinary conditions.
People that are supposed to be bombed are called soldiers.

Well...they're ordinary people in extraordinary situations who then do
something unexpected and brave. If a gunman takes hostages and one
person cowers in a corner while the other overpowers them, both people
are not heroes just because they're both in extraordinary conditions.

I'd call the pilot that set the jet down in the river a hero.

I say he was doing his job.

--
Ray Fischer