On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 05:23:46 -0700, Charles Lindbergh
<spirit@stlouis.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 22:43:45 -0700, "Bob (not my real pseudonym)"
><invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
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>>On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 12:32:59 +0100, JR <jr@somewhere.cox> wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 01:02:25 -0700, "Bob (not my real pseudonym)"
>>><invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
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>>>><here@glorious-somerset.uk> wrote:
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>>>>>Enjoy:
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>>>>>https://www.youtube.com/embed/0px9HFIVYjY?feature=player_embedded
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>For an outfit that sells canned bat piss, Red Bull has an impressive
>>>>"air force".
>>>
>>>Their lineup of old warplanes is stagering. Bet there are quite a few
>>>museums drooling...
>>
>>I'm a bit of a historical accuracy nut - and happy to tell other folks
>>how to spend their money - but I wish Red Bull would tone down the
>>company logo on the warbirds. The Sea Vixen repaint was a travesty.
>
>Red Bull claims them as a business expense, advertising and marketing
>to be exact. The logos are so prominent simply because, if they were
>not, the IRS would look unfavorably upon such fanciful accounting.
And many of them would likely be rotting in a field somewhere as well,
but... They don't even get out to my corner of the US, anyway.
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