Well, maybe this one does.

Bogeyland. Discovered in the caverns beneath Toyland by Dr. Ollie Dee and Dr. Stannie Dum (pictured below right in distinctive archaeologists caps) in 1934.

 

U.S. pilot Chuck Yeager was born 100 years ago today. You all know who he is, I’m certain. But a historical post is worthy of a recap: Brigadier General Yeager was the first person to exceed the speed of sound, in the Bell X-1, circa 1947.

Here’s a great read: www.businessinsider.com/14-reasons-chuck-yeager-may-be-the-greatest-military-pilot-of-all-time-2016-3

Heck, all you need to know is the one story related in Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff.  if you have seen the movie, at the end, Yeager takes up an F-104 Starfighter and has to punch out, and his helmet is on fire, from the oxygen feed.  You then see him walking, on the ground, towing his chute, burnt and messed up, but smiling.  It's described a little differently, in the book.  All of that is true, but he was injured way more than they could depict.  A civilian stopped to help him and give him a lift back to the base.  He peeled off his glove, and layers of skin went with it, and the guy hurled his guts onto the road, while Yeager calmly waited for the guy to recover.

Yeager set the tone for how test pilots operated and the reason that pilots tend to talk like they do, over the radio, has a lot to do with Yeager and his natural drawl.  He'd calmly describe his actions and those of the aircraft, even when things were getting hairy, with the laconic West Virginia twang.

Yeager started as a mechanic and then went through the Enlisted Pilot Program.  He was shot down, over France, on his eighth mission, but escaped to Spain, with the aid of the Resistance and back to England.  Regulations prohibited pilots who had escaped captivity from flying combat missions over occupied territory, so they could not be recaptured, if downed, and forced to give up information about Resistance cells.  Yeager and pilot Fred Glover raised hell with Eisenhower's staff until he was restored to combat duty, after the Normandy landings (since the Maquis were fighting in the open).  He made "ace in a day," on October 12, 1944, downing 5 aircraft on one mission, including 2 without firing a shot.  he had maneuvered into perfect firing position, on a BF-109, when the enemy pilot panicked and swung hard left into his wingman, downing both aircraft!  He also shot down an Me-262, while it was approaching for landing, in 1945, in one of the first victories over jet fighters.

Yeager also had operational billets, as well as test pilot duties and commanded air wings in Vietnam and West Germany.

Yeager also commanded the USAF Aerospace Research Pilot School, which trained potential astronauts, including Neil Armstrong.  However, during his tenure, he was accused of racial discrimination by Ed Dwight, the first African-American pilot to go through the school.  A 2019 documentary brings up further claims, including that Yeager instructed personnel to isolate Dwight and give him the silent treatment.  I have no idea what evidence is offered up, beyond Dwight's assertions; given the time frame, his background and race relations in the military, from WW2 up to my era, it is entirely possible.  It could have been independent behavior there; but, the CO tends to set the tone for the command and if there is rampant racism, it is often either a direct reflection of the CO's attitudes or they are willingly turning a blind eye to it, which is pretty much the same thing.

I do know that he was a proponent and spokesman for Northrop and the F-20 Tigershark, in my era, which was an upgraded version of the F-5E, that could match modern fighters, but at a much lower cost than the rival F-18 Hornet, being pushed by McDonnell-Douglas.  It was easy to fly and far less costly than the F-15 and F-16 and the extensive sales of F-5Es to foreign governments meant that retraining and equipping for the new aircraft would be simpler.  However, McDonnell-Douglas and General Dynamics had the ears of the Dept of Defense and Northrup ended up shut out.  Since the US government passed it over, Northrup was unable to interest foreign governments, as they wanted what the DOD had and the DOD steered them to their cronies (and then retired and went to work for them).  On top of things, the US government committed to financially backing development of Israel's Lavi fighter, which was then sold in direct competition to Northrop.

When we still had a pay phone in Barnes & Noble, we used to get calls from the 911 dispatcher that someone keeps making calls from our location.  it was usually unattended kids playing with the phone (which was outside the restrooms), since most kids learned to dial 911, at an early age.  The dispatchers acted like I had the staff to keep a watch on the phone, at the back of the store.  It was kind of a relief when the phone company removed it, after usage declined, in the wake of easier to get cell phones.

That's true, but I vaguely recall the number changing sometime back  

When I was a kid in the early '70s, we dialed zero and said "get me the police!"

But then we lived in a fairly small town.