by me, Kerry Burgess, 02/06/2026 01:39 AM
Still nothing of the exceptionally improbable that I want to blog-post about here
So, more homework
by me, Kerry Burgess, 02/06/2026 02:03 AM
"Flippant remarks"
Only just now discovered a trivial detail from an article I referenced many, many years ago, as I assembled it for this note
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminator
The Terminator is a 1984 American science fiction action film
Written by James Cameron
Plagiarism
Writer Harlan Ellison stated that he "loved the movie, was just blown away by it," but believed that the screenplay was based on a short story, "Soldier from Tomorrow", and an episode of The Outer Limits, "Soldier"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Officer_and_a_Gentleman
An Officer and a Gentleman
From Wikipedia
An Officer and a Gentleman is a 1982 American romantic drama film
Written by Douglas Day Stewart
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memos_from_Purgatory
Memos from Purgatory
Publication date 1961
Memos from Purgatory is Harlan Ellison's account of his experience with juvenile gangs when he joined one to research them for his first novel, Web of the City.
Television adaptation
Ellison later adapted "Book One: The Gang" into a teleplay for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. The episode aired in 1964 under the slightly different title "Memo from Purgatory" and starred James Caan as the author Jay Shaw (based on Ellison), and Walter Koenig as the gang's leader. The character of Shaw decides to write a book about a juvenile street gang and researches his subject by joining The Barons gang in Brooklyn.
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An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Quotes
Foley: In every class, there's always one joker who thinks that he's smarter than me. In this class, that happens to be you. Isn't it, Mayonnaise?
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An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Quotes
Foley: [Speaking to the newly-arrived recruits] ... I know why most of you are here. I'm not stupid. Before you get to join United Airlines and sell them what we teach, you gotta give the Navy six years of your life, sweet pea! Lots of things can happen in six years. Another war could happen in six years. And if any of you are too peace-loving to dump napalm on an enemy village where there MIGHT be women and children, that's what I'm here to discover...! I expect to lose at least half of you before I'm finished. I will use every means necessary, fair and unfair, to trip you up - that is, to expose your weaknesses... both as a potential aviator, and as a human being. The prize at the other end is a flight education worth $1 million! But first, you gotta get past ME.
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An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Quotes
Foley: Only TWO THINGS come outta Oklahoma
Foley: steers and queers. Which one are you, boy? I don't see no horns on you, so that narrows it down!
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An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Quotes
Foley: Not all the obstacles that can trip you up are on this base. Let me tell you something about the local girls. Ever since there's been an OCS here, there's been what we call the Puget Sound Debs. Poor girls who come over on the ferry every weekend, with just one thing in mind: to marry themselves a naval aviator. A Puget Deb will tell you, "Don't worry about contraceptives. I've got that all taken care of." Don't believe it. A Puget Deb will do anything and say anything to trap you. I know this sounds silly, especially in this so-called modern age. But you scuzzy college pukes better watch out, because they're out there. And YOU are the answer to their dream!
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An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Quotes
Foley: [his first cadence, for Zack and the other OC's; edited for TV] ... Sergeant Foley, can't you see; A Puget Deb is after me; Please don't let her catch my tail; I'd be better off in the county jail...! My mom was a Deb, my grandma too; That's all them gals know how to do; She'll catch my butt before she's through; Sergeant Foley, it's up to you!
https://the.hitchcock.zone/wiki/The_Alfred_Hitchcock_Hour_-_Memo_from_Purgatory
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Memo from Purgatory
"Memo from Purgatory" was originally broadcast on 21/Dec/1964 as part of the third season of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.
Jay is a young writer interested in writing a book on juvenile delinquency. He changes his identity and infiltrates the violent gang "The Barons." He wins the trust of the gang's leader Tiger, but trouble arises when Filene, Tiger's girlfriend, falls in love with Jay. Filene's love, however, is not the only source of tension. Other gang members grow jealous of Jay's growing power within the gang. When gang members break into his room and find his notes, they tell Tiger that Jay is an undercover cop. Jay is sentenced to death by Tiger and the gang.
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An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
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[last lines]
Lynette: Way to go, Paula! Way to go!
https://www.ancestry.com/search/categories/bmd_death/?name=Lesa_Withem&birth=1966&death=2011
Name Lesa Lynette Withem
Birth 30 Jun 1966 Little River County, Arkansas, United States of America
http://www.texarkanagazette.com/gcms/news/2011/04/17/lesa-withem-306979.php
Texarkana Gazette
LESA WITHEM
ASHDOWN, Ark. Lesa Jewell Withem of Ashdown
http://www.ancientfaces.com/person/lesa-l-withem/63524242
Lesa L Withem (1966 - 2011)
LESA L WITHEM'S BIOGRAPHY
Lesa was born on June 30, 1966.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-swearing-richard-helms-director-the-central-intelligence-agency
The American Presidency Project
Lyndon B. Johnson
36th President of the United States: 1963 ‐ 1969
Remarks at the Swearing In of Richard Helms as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
June 30, 1966
Mr. Helms, Members of the Cabinet, distinguished Members of the Congress, my friends:
It was a little more than a year ago that I asked Admiral Raborn to come out of a hard-earned retirement in California to take on one of the most critical tasks in Government and to succeed a great Director, John McCone, as head of the Central Intelligence Agency.
I knew that I was asking a great deal of this good man. He had already served his country--and he had served it long and well. He had capped his career by playing a vital role in the development of the Polaris missile system. But once again I felt that his country needed him and the President needed him, and he complied, though reluctantly, with my request. He agreed to make still one more contribution to the security of his country and he attached only one condition, that he could leave as soon as we decided upon a permanent successor.
We have come to the White House this morning because both Admiral Raborn and I are satisfied that we have found the best man available as that successor. Both of us have worked closely during the past 14 months with the very able public servant whom we are swearing in today as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and who became a partner of Admiral Raborn as his Deputy by appointment at the same time the Admiral was selected.
I am extremely proud of both of these men and their colleagues. The nature of their work does not often allow public acknowledgment. Praised or damned (and we are living in an era where men who spend all their time concerned with the protection of the security of their country are frequently damned more than they are praised, I regret to say) these men must go about their work without standing up for bows and sometimes are not even permitted to speak out in their own defense. Their role is misunderstood by some of their supporters, and I never read a morning paper without seeing it being distorted by their critics.
In 2½ years of working with these men I have yet to meet a "007." I have met dozens of men who are moved and motivated by the highest and most patriotic and dedicated purposes--men who are specialists in economics, and political science, and history, and geography, and physics, and many other fields where logic and analysis are crucial to the decisions that the President of their country is called upon to make. Through my experience with these men I have learned that their most significant triumphs come not in the secrets passed in the dark but in patient reading, hour after hour, of highly technical periodicals.
In a real sense they are America's professional students; they are unsung, just as they are invaluable.
From 2/23/1946 ( from Science News publication: Adds in 1/5000 of a Second ) To 5/5/2001 ( ) is 20160 days
20160 = 10080 + 10080
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) is 10080 days
From 3/18/1905 ( Annalen der Physik receives "On a Heuristic Point of View concerning the Production and Transformation of Light" by Albert Einstein ) To 3/21/1976 ( premiere USA TV series pilot "Charlies Angels" ) is 25936 days
25936 = 12968 + 12968
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/5/2001 ( ) is 12968 days
From 6/1/1916 ( ) To 6/5/1987 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Earned NEC 1189 - Based on graduation from the Terrier Mk 152 Guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex course - Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, Virginia, US Navy - leading to permanent assignment until 1990 to CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (operator and advanced technician, UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2) ) is 25936 days
25936 = 12968 + 12968
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/5/2001 ( ) is 12968 days
From 11/10/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) To 5/5/2001 ( ) is 12230 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/28/1999 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: Population research office studies efficacy of contraceptive devices ) is 12230 days
https://papersofprinceton.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=WeeklyBulletin20010521-01.2.3&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
Princeton University
Princeton Weekly Bulletin, Volume 90, Number 28, 21 May 2001
Time Is Right For Tilghman
named her Princeton's 19th president on May 5.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_K._Stewart
Star Trek - "Metamorphosis" - tv-series Season 2 Episode 9, 11/10/1967
Episode Summary
When their shuttle is diverted to a planetoid, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy encounter Earth's Warp Drive pioneer, Zefram Cochrane, who appears to have survived there alone for 150 years.
(from internet transcript)
SPOCK: These instruments, they date from the time indicated. From your ship, Mister Cochrane?
Zefram COCHRANE: No, the Companion did. I told it I'd die of loneliness. I thought it would release me. Instead, it brought you here.
NANCY: No! No! No! That's disgusting! We're not animals! No! Oh, no! It's inhuman! No! No!
(Kirk and McCoy take her to a bed and lie her down. McCoy gives her an injection.)
From 1/19/1989 ( ) To 5/14/1990 ( departing as enlisted {non-commissioned officer} US Navy Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2)(paygrade E-5) Kerry Wayne Burgess my Honorable Discharge from US Navy active service ) is 480 days
480 = 240 + 240
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/30/1966 ( ) is 240 days
Los Angeles Times
Future Looks Bright, Bush Tells Youths, but Reagan's Shoes Will Be 'Hard to Fill'
January 19, 1989
WASHINGTON — George Bush, on the eve of his inauguration as the nation's 41st President, spoke today of his optimism about the future
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Earnest_Will
Operation Earnest Will
From Wikipedia
Operation Earnest Will (24 July 1987 – 26 September 1988) was the American military protection of Kuwaiti-owned tankers from Iranian attacks in 1987 and 1988, three years into the Tanker War phase of the Iran–Iraq War. It was the largest naval convoy operation since World War II.
excerpt from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 03/28/07 2:18 AM
the doctors had told Randy he would never walk again because he had stepped on a landmine.
From 7/20/1946 ( Randy Romine [purported Purple Heart medal recipient from US Marines and Vietnam veteran and was one of several former step-father when I was child as Kerry Burgess] ) To 5/7/1992 ( first launch of the United States space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut and my 1st official United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 16728 days
16728 = 8364 + 8364
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/26/1988 ( US Navy ends convoy duty in the Persian Gulf ) is 8364 days
From 12/7/1941 ( the US Navy Pacific Fleet severely damaged in the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor Hawaii ) To 5/7/1992 is 18414 days 18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) is 9207 days
From 6/3/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2), with my personal participation and commendation my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal 88Feb13 88Jun03, CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (operator and advanced technician, UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, Operation Earnest Will, Middle East Force, including Operation Praying Mantis ) To 5/7/1992 is 1434 days
1434 = 717 + 717
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/20/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Doomsday Machine" ) is 717 days
From 2/10/1960 ( Dwight Eisenhower, 34th President of USA: Remarks After Inspecting the Missile Test Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida ) To 8/15/1986 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th President of USA: Statement on the Building of a Fourth Shuttle Orbiter and the Future of the Space Program ) is 9683 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/7/1992 is 9683 days
From 1/20/1961 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"The Whole Truth" ) To 5/7/1992 ( ) is 11430 days
11430 = 5715 + 5715
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/26/1981 ( premiere USA film "Stripes" ) is 5715 days
From 2/28/1920 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: UNIVERSITY MACHINE IS VERY BADLY WRECKED ; Anthony Antoninus, Campus Employee, Gets In Way Of Ford Which Was Newly Purchased. ) To 3/7/1973 ( premiere USA TV series pilot "The Six Million Dollar Man"::"The Moon and the Desert" ) is 19366 days
19366 = 9683 + 9683
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/7/1992 ( ) is 9683 days
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-08/news/mn-1910_1_space-station-assembly
Los Angeles Times
Shuttle Endeavour Blasts Off on Difficult Maiden Flight : Science: The mission includes three spacewalks, practice for space station assembly and rescue of a communications satellite.
May 08, 1992 ROBERT W. STEWART TIMES STAFF WRITER
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Dodging gusty winds and threatening thunderstorms, the shuttle Endeavour, the nation's newest orbiter, found a hole in the clouds Thursday and blasted off on its maiden voyage.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 02:58 AM Pacific-timezone USA Friday 02/06/2026
