By Gulf I, Otis was an Air National Guard Base, no longer an Air Force Base. That does increase the chances that the personnel on station were locals and, as Bucky so aptly put it, Communists.
How about just plain old American? No sectarianism, regionalism, theology, background, predecessors… How does it go: one people united under common purpose…?
alviebird over 10 years ago
Massachusetts….. or an elevator.
Collo Rosso over 10 years ago
Bucky’s got it right again.
38lowell over 10 years ago
Some aren’t.But, is he a Red Sox fan?
Sandfan over 10 years ago
Mac’s mum is from Hartlepool? That’s the home of Andy Capp, which raises a few disturbing possibilities.
smollett over 10 years ago
Poor Bucky!!! The ignominy….
RoseHawke over 10 years ago
It would be more fun if his family was from Alabama. It would explain a few things about Bucky.
HMunster over 10 years ago
Bucky’s family is from Mayberry’s town drunk?
iggyman over 10 years ago
I am sorry Mass. types, this is funny!
Ferret-Fever over 10 years ago
Satch wants to be a Scowser! Must be the liver in Liverpool.
nosirrom over 10 years ago
Maybe he’s from Reading Ma (pronounced redin as in Otis Redding)
zambiland over 10 years ago
I’m from Mass and this is hilarious!
wes tnt over 10 years ago
hey, their gas ic cheaper than Connecticut’s! at 2 miles away, it’s worth the trip! (in my gas-guzzling El Camino with 4 barrels wide open…)
K M over 10 years ago
By Gulf I, Otis was an Air National Guard Base, no longer an Air Force Base. That does increase the chances that the personnel on station were locals and, as Bucky so aptly put it, Communists.
Hunter7 over 10 years ago
@Pacopuddy re: yesterday’s Babel Fish. I have read, but I did not connect the reference. But now I will re-read. Enjoyed that book.
ClarkSavageJr over 10 years ago
I’m sooo confused!
If:Massachusetts = IrishIrish = Roman CatholicCommunist = Athiest
Then:
Massachusetts ≠ Communist
Would not Socialist be a more accurate term?
PastPluperfect over 10 years ago
How about just plain old American? No sectarianism, regionalism, theology, background, predecessors… How does it go: one people united under common purpose…?
ClarkSavageJr over 10 years ago
Would that mean “One people united under one common religion”??? I told Wilbur and I told Orville, “That ain’t gonna fly”.
rjost Premium Member over 10 years ago
Otis refers to what used to be called Otis Air Force Base and is now known as Otis Air National Guard Base/
Timothy Higgins Premium Member over 10 years ago
on the Cape…………although RAF Molesworth was all but dead and buried when I was stationed in the UK in the 70s.
_Kvill over 2 years ago
I always thought Bucky liked communists, maybe all those other Bucky’s weren’t Bucky.