More than meets the eye

Finally, the long winter of my discontent has ended. My new(er) computer is up and running at apparently 100%. Mucho thanks to Wilzy for the final tune up. Now if only the long winter of my real life would get here. I'm a winter guy, by the way.

Anyone who enjoys video games, and especially older shooters, will understand this next bit.

As I as fooling around with some fun stuff on the new rig, I came to realize that all the stories of the Red Baron are probably false. Now, this is not to say that he didn't live, or fly a plane or something. I just think that he probably didn't fly around in a bright red plane all the time and shoot down all those enemy flyers. How do I know? Because any experienced shooter player knows that when you shoot a plane that's red, a little powerup will appear. So I'm thinking that every plane in the sky (his own side included) would have been gunning for him if he was flying a red plane. He may have tried it once, made it home in one piece, and said "To heck with this red plane thing, I'll just be called the Red Baron."

Except he was German, so he'd have said "Zu Zur hölle mit diesem roten Flugzeugding, ich werde nur den Roten Baron gerufen werden."

Saw that one coming, didn't you?