# You guys can't be serious. Lighten up. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 27, 2006, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-cant-be-serious-lighten-up/378066 "2006-10-27T03:19:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-cant-be-serious-lighten-up/378066/21 "2006-10-27T16:06:25Z")
Come on **D\_Odds** , you’re not helping. Seriously though, what was your AFSC? I was a 3C051 ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-cant-be-serious-lighten-up/378066/22 "2006-10-27T16:27:01Z")
[QUOTE=brewha] Simple answer is no. I encrypted and decrypted classified messages in the USAF. They don’t give Top Secret security clearances to stupid people. I got out of the military and started college as an engineer. I have my degree in mechanical engineering. Stupid people can not pass 400 level calculus classes. I now design components for multi-million dollar jets. Stupid I am not. [/QUOTE] Dude, do you have any idea how stupid this makes you sound? ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-cant-be-serious-lighten-up/378066/23 "2006-10-27T16:43:58Z")
[QUOTE=brewha] Come on **D\_Odds** , you’re not helping. Seriously though, what was your AFSC? I was a 3C051 [/QUOTE] It was 20 years ago I want to say 207x3. Google tells me it is now 1N3xx, depending on language, which is certainly different from the time I was in. ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-cant-be-serious-lighten-up/378066/24 "2006-10-27T17:16:58Z")
I’m pretty sure my brother was a 1N something. He was in ELINT (electronic intelligence). ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-cant-be-serious-lighten-up/378066/25 "2006-10-27T17:18:06Z")
Nevermind, he was a 1N5xx ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-cant-be-serious-lighten-up/378066/26 "2006-10-27T17:36:49Z")
[QUOTE=brewha] Nevermind, he was a 1N5xx [/QUOTE] [1N5xx](http://usmilitary.about.com/od/airforceenlistedjobs/a/afjob1n5x1.htm) is ELINT. So is [1N3xx](http://usmilitary.about.com/od/airforceenlistedjobs/a/afjob1n3x1.htm), but it is very specialized. ---
**Author:** ![Sharky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Sharky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sharky)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-cant-be-serious-lighten-up/378066/27 "2006-10-27T22:49:42Z")
[QUOTE=D\_Odds] Then put your hand down. [/quote] :smack: Oops, you’re right - I need to work on my reading comprehension skills. > [@](#): > > Another doper who lives their life fully within the limits of the law at all times. Warms the cockles of my heart, it does. Well, it would if I had a heart. The Wizard hasn’t come through for me yet. > [@Sharky](#): > > It seems that whenever I break the law, I get caught and have to pay a fine. Maybe you should work on yours, too. 😛 > [@WhyNot](#): > > OTOH, the OP never indicated in the OP that he and the other people involved were kids themselves. I can’t guarantee it, but I probably would have reacted with a had I known that. Hoo boy, do people do dumb things at that age! I totally get that. I read it as a “this is what happened to me last week” anectode about adults. Same here. There was no indication that the incident had taken place when **Brewha** was a teenager. _shrug_ **Brewha** , I humbly apologize for pissing on your thread. I overreacted, because that is a touchy subject for me. Anybody who knows me would tell you I’m not normally an old grouch - quite the opposite, in fact. My comments weren’t meant to be so critical. My writing skills aren’t all that great, and maybe I sound more serious than I mean to be. Next time you come to PCB I’ll by ya a beer or two and a dozen oysters at Hunt’s. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-cant-be-serious-lighten-up/378066/28 "2006-10-27T23:03:52Z")
I may have over-reacted as well. I guess I should have started off by saying "here’s something I did when I was young and dumb. [QUOTE=Sharky] Next time you come to PCB I’ll by ya a beer or two and a dozen oysters at Hunt’s. 🆒 [/QUOTE] I’m not actually a big fan of oysters. But, if you want to split a bucket of ribs at Pineapple Willy’s, you got a deal. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-cant-be-serious-lighten-up/378066/29 "2006-10-27T23:22:01Z")
Hey, I thought it was funny. They ARE really cute until you see them up close and personal and realize how damned big they really are. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-cant-be-serious-lighten-up/378066.md?page=1)