Delightfully Useless

(Disclaimer: My sister in Search and Rescue got this as an e-mail forward from her captain. I haven't the Snopes-fu to be quite sure it's for real, but even if it's not, it'd be a pretty impressive fake! And either way, I just had to show it to my MacGyverly friends here.)

So apparently, this group of fishermen on a "fly-in" trip to the Alaskan interior left some fish, bait, and such in their plane. And a bear came along. This is what it did to the plane:

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So the pilot, being a resourceful sort of person, radioed to another pilot, who brought him 2 new tires, 3 cases (yes, cases - that's what the e-mail said) of duct tape, and "a supply" of sheet plastic. And this is what he did with it:

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After which he was reportedly able to fly the plane home!

First off: I haz big news! Four years, four months and three days ago (yes, I counted), my family moved house. Since then, we've been doing a major remodel on the old house and trying to sell it - not exactly at the same time. My mother and I did most of the work: plumbing, electrical, carpeting, drywall, flooring, cabinets, everything but roofing (which I refuse to learn, being acrophobic.) I even wrote a Doctor Who ficlet, Liberation, inspired by the subject.

Anyway. Today - today, right now, as I type - is the closing on the old house! Going, going, gone!!! Out of my hair! No more flitting around like an UNCLE agent in miniature, never knowing what will go wrong next or where I'll spend the night; no more camping without running water or a working stove! (Granted, these experiences do help me get inside the boys' heads when I'm writing, but I'd just as lief not have any more for a while, y'know?)

So, in celebration, a plumber!Illya LOL. (You know you're going a little bit crazy when you seriously consider dreaming up a scenario where Illya takes a long-term undercover assignment as a handyman just so you can turn around all the crazy things that happen to you and happen them to him. No, I didn't do it.)

I must be the only person on illyushadarling 's flist who, when confronted with this particular Illya-costume from The Off-Broadway Affair, saw something besides Baby Ducky. (I absolutely love this costume... but that's a bit beside the point, isn't it?)

If you don't get the caption, there's an explanation below the LOL.



Okay. If you didn't get it: it's a MacGyver joke. Mac occasionally goes undercover as a computer geek named Dexter Fillmore; the disguise consists of scruffy clothes, thick glasses, and really seriously good, Illya!Nexor level, acting. This is Mac (in Dexter's clothes, but not in character); this is Dexter.

And if you haven't seen MacGyver, you should.

All this stuff about zombies on my flist has reminded me of my first fanfic, Velocizompire Apocalypse. Which reminded me of Cairis Rin's awesome Mac/Gate epic Variance of Luck. Which reminded me of the SG-1 ep Double Jeopardy (proving once again that the ways of my brain are peculiar, which the same I am free to maintain - with apologies to Bret Harte.) So I went over to Stargatecaps.

This is the result. Don't ask me what the backstory behind this pic and caption is, because I don't know. It certainly isn't what it started out to be: an illustration for Velocizompire Apocalypse!

I was going to do another LOLIllya, but, well... I was looking through lolmac and illyushadarling archives at the same time, and I kind of lost track of time. So I'll make that up and post it tomorrow.

In the meantime - here's something I doubt you'll find on any other journal: a (very small) picspam of Dan Shea's appearances on MacGyver as someone other than RDA's stunt double! (Pics ganked - that's a technical term, you know winks - from macsyourman, with some assistance in finding them from IMDb.)



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