Ah George, as always your posts make me smile. Do you recall the Ansett captain who insists on pulling the thrust levers back at 50 feet because "that's the way Boeing certified it"? A desperate search through the memory bank can't produce a name, but the FE's all called him Evil Kaneval ("takes off like a rocket but lands like a bag of s**t").
I am sure every airline has one of those characters. Former Air Nauru pilots (and passengers) from the late 1970's will remember Joe Z, a 737 captain hired directly from Boeing. Joe flew U.S. Catalina amphibians in WW2 and used the same flare height in the 737 with teeth rattling results