Tornado Alley (PROG)

[Porgie Tirebiter]

I remember when he did that press briefing. And I thought to myself how very "Rumsfeldian" that muse was. I was Dan Searle's airplane mechanic when Rumsfeld ran G.D. Searle.

Rumsfeld adopted Dan's airplane and flew it pretty much as his own and was quite deliberate in keeping the unknowns unknown from us and even Dan Searle himself. He'd park the plane and come stomping into the hanger and say something like "Change the Flummox Valve!" and we would say, "What's it doing sir? What are the issues you're having?"

Rumsfeld would stand there and just look like a volcano about to blow and then say "I SAID CHANGE THE G. D. FLUMMOX VALVE!!

Dan might come in later and question why we had done the work and we would say that Mr. Rumsfeld told us to, and Dan would just leave it at that. There would be no more questions...