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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" width="95%" align="center"> <tr bgcolor="#234c6f"><td> <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1"> <tr bgcolor="#234c6f"> <td colspan="2" align="left"> <font size="3" color="#FFFFFF" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>T O P I C ��� R E V I E W</b> </font></td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Jeff Raven</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,2,13,12,38,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">March 13, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">12:38 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> ...I collect toys. Star Trek and Star Wars have filled an entire drawer in my room, and I've got a bunch of stuff in my dorm as well.<p>I've decided that I'll invest in a First Contact Geordi La Forge, or a Han Solo in stormtrooper getup at $5 a pop, and then, in twenty years, they'll be able to pay off my student loans...<p>OR, maybe its because when I was little, my brothers broke most of my toys, or claimed them for their own, and this is just an excuse to preserve the toys I have...<p>Oh well. Anyone else collect?<P>------------------<BR>"Ooga Chucka Ooga Ooga" - Some Guy<br> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>RW</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,2,13,13,3,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">March 13, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">01:03 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <br>Confess? Is collecting toys a bad and/or childish thing then? Not according to me. I don't collect things myself though. I build things. <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>CaptSershek</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,2,13,13,48,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">March 13, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">01:48 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> I, too, am a collector. I collect Prerecorded Trek tapes, toys, and I know of a few costumers who make Trek costumes for me (high quality stuff, no polyester I), as well as books. I have been collecting for about 20 years so I have a decent collection of stuff.<p><P>------------------<BR>Remember when we used to be explorers? - Capt. Jean-Luc Picard<br> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>First of Two</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,2,13,15,53,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">March 13, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">03:53 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> I collect the books - I have every Pocket "Star Trek" book ever written (except the voyager ones) and almost every old Bantam one.<p>I have at least one of every Star Trek starship model AMT/Ertl makes, including a number of kitbashed ones. I will keep buying them as long as they keep making new ones.<p>My father has almost the entire First-Run sets of all the Star Wars action figures, a complete Jabba's Palace and Ewok villiage, and a bunch of other toys (most of which USED to be my toys, but he bought them.)<P>------------------<BR>*I only SEEM Normal*<br> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Tora Ziyal</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,2,13,19,29,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">March 13, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">07:29 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> I have Trek toys and books, but I buy them because I like them, not because I want to complete a collection or sell them 20 years later. <IMG SRC="http://solareclipse.net/Forums/smile.gif"><P>------------------<BR>"I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three on the law become a Congress! And by God I have had this Congress!"<br>--John Adams, "1776"<br> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>The Excalibur</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,2,13,20,34,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">March 13, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">08:34 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> hmmmmm... Do I want to get into this. I'll miss something. <p>I collect some things. I do it more by impulse, instead of in some orginzed manner. The earliest thing I have is a picture of Spock playing 3d chess, it's not autographed. I have all the books by James Blish, aloto Bantum books, atono tng books, some Voyager, some DS9. When First Contact came out, the local Citgo station had some promo posters, I mangaed two from the gas pumps, and one small one from inside on a display. I have bumperstickers, "My other car is a bird of prey" "He's dead Jim", some others. One plate(More of a brain fart than an impulse)"The Best of Both Worlds" A couple of models. one of 1701 and two of 1701-D. Some cards for the game game, though I've never played the game. did I mention the T-shirts. One hand pantied(By someone else)with a Kliongon symbol on the front, and Qa,pla on the back, along with comets and stars and stuff, others, you get the idea, it's a sanity thing.<P>------------------<BR><b>Here I Come To Save The Day : Mighty Mouse</b> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Tora Ziyal</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,2,13,21,54,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">March 13, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">09:54 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Oh yeah, I have the starter pack of the TNG cards, too. It was a free gift from the Star Trek credit card, which my mom signe up when we went to the Experience so she could get one of those free Borg sports bottles. <IMG SRC="http://solareclipse.net/Forums/biggrin.gif"> I also want to get some of those Dominion and DS9 cards, too.<P>------------------<BR>"I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three on the law become a Congress! And by God I have had this Congress!"<br>--John Adams, "1776"<br> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Tahna Los</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,2,14,0,51,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">March 14, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">12:51 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> I confess, I only have a couple of books, a telephone, a poster with a cutaway of the Enterprise-D, and ST:FC and STVI.<p>I confess, I am not a collector, I am not a true Star Trek Fan.......<p>*cries*<p>Oh well, it's not something I can do about it. My mom is totally irritated by my Star Trek stuff, she burned two of my favourite books (Star Trek TNG Compendum, and ST:TNG Technical manual, to which I am still bitter at her to this very day). She thinks Star Trek is nothing more than a money making sham, as "they make money off of you."<p>So? She likes to collect Chinese antiques. Can it be the same thing too?<p>------------------<br>I can resist anything.......<br>Except Temptation<p><small>[This message was edited by Tahna Los on March 14, 1999.]</small> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Tora Ziyal</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,2,14,1,34,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">March 14, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">01:34 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> What does it matter what she thinks? Besides, if nobody makes money off of anybody, how is anybody going to make a living?<P>------------------<BR>"I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three on the law become a Congress! And by God I have had this Congress!"<br>--John Adams, "1776"<br> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Orion Syndicate</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,2,14,5,39,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">March 14, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">05:39 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> I hail your wisdom Ziyal. <IMG SRC="http://solareclipse.net/Forums/smile.gif"><p>BTW Tahna, I know how you feel. My mom hates me for my ST obsession. I'm always watching it, if not on television, then it's on video. My sisters even have a go at me occasionally. She's never destroyed anything, although she has threatened to on more than one occasion.<p>Even my dad who got me into trek gets a little pissed off at me at times. Well, it's his fault for getting me into trek in the first place <IMG SRC="http://solareclipse.net/Forums/wink.gif"><P>------------------<BR>"What does it mean, exact change?"<p><p><p><br> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Xentrick</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,2,14,15,4,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">March 14, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">03:04 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> I don't have any toys left, but now I really wish I still had the wooden phaser my craftsman Dad hand-made for me back about 1975.<p>Instead, I've got a variety of SF-related books, technical manuals, "Making Of," "The Art Of," etc, for Trek, Wars, a couple of SF movies, and 20-30[?] rule books and supplements for role-playing games {RPG's}---Shadow Run, Cyberpunk, Traveller, Gurps Space, etc.<p>No, I don't play, but I just have to get those books!<p>Plus a couple of art books: Rodney Mathews, two from Wayne Douglas Barlowe, three from Dougle Dixon.<p>Anyone else?<p><small>[This message was edited by Xentrick on March 14, 1999.]</small> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>First of Two</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,2,14,15,9,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">March 14, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">03:09 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> BURNED a book?? BURNED A BOOK??<p>*gets that 'psychotic librarian' look*<p>CALL OUT THE DEATH SQUADS!<p>If my parents ever did something like that to me, they'd be thanking whatever Gods they believe in (I don't ask) if I let them escape with their lives.<p>Fortunately, my folks now understand that Star Trek is my primary stress-eliminator -- the thing that keeps me from going after them with an axe -- so they let it alone.<p>Destroying my stuff would be tantamount to an act of war, and I've always belived in a Scorched Earth policy. Deterrence through bigger and better threats. (Burn my books? Pfah! I Burn your car, your house, and your business, and tell the neighborhood about them dirty movies you THINK you have hidden in the closet!)<p>Although that might be going a bit far... <IMG SRC="http://solareclipse.net/Forums/redface.gif"><br><P>------------------<BR>*I only SEEM Normal*<br> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>The359</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,2,14,15,53,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">March 14, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">03:53 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> *sneaks into First of Two's parent's closet*<p>*runs*<P>------------------<BR>"The one, the only, THE 359!"<p> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>The Excalibur</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,2,14,21,22,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">March 14, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">09:22 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Forgot to mention the first season of TNG on video tape. A stoneware copy of a china cup, used in ST6 dinner with the Klingons.<P>------------------<BR><b>Here I Come To Save The Day : Mighty Mouse</b> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Bernd</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,2,15,7,1,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">March 15, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">07:01 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Some fiction books, some non-fiction books, some tapes, some models, that's it. No I'm not really collecting things, but rather knowledge on Star Trek.<P>------------------<BR>Brain. Brain. What is brain? (Kara the Eymorg, "Spock's Brain")<br> <A HREF="http://www.uni-siegen.de/~ihe/bs/startrek/" TARGET=_blank>www.uni-siegen.de/~ihe/bs/startrek/</A> <br> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>The Excalibur</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,2,15,16,58,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">March 15, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">04:58 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Worf's head mug, Quark's head mug.<P>------------------<BR><b>Here I Come To Save The Day : Mighty Mouse</b> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Tahna Los</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,2,15,18,3,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">March 15, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">06:03 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Ya wanna know why she burned my book? Cuz I had a C in Drafting in High School. We had the hardest, meanest teacher in our school, and the average was below 50% (that's right, more than half the people failed the course). But no, my mom couldn't accept that explanation for a course which was literally impossible to get an A on (actually, the highest mark was a B).<p>My mom says her actions were TOTALLY reasonable, because Star Trek had polluted my brain, and cost me that A in that course. I refuse to listen to my mom anymore in the sense that she sets unreasonable rules upon me, and not upon my brother.<p>I can't wait to move out, so I can buy as many Star Trek stuff as I want.<P>------------------<BR>I can resist anything.......<br>Except Temptation<p> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Siegfried</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,2,15,20,48,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">March 15, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">08:48 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Hmm. I have a ton of books from the Original Series line (mostly my mother's). I have the TNG Technical Manual, First Edition Encyclopedia, Chronology, Worlds of the Federation, Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise, parts of the Starfleet Technical Manual (20th Anniversary Edition), a magazine with Star Trek stuff in it, a plaque on my wall with a picture of Data and Brent Spiner's autograph, a beeping commbadge from Voyager, and a myriad of itty bitty things. I've tried building models, but, ahem, it never worked right.<P>------------------<BR>"Some people call me the Space Cowboy. Yeah! Some call me the Gangster of Love. Some people call me Maurice. Whoo hoo! 'Cause I speak of the Pompatus of Love!" - Steve Miller Band's The Joker <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Tora Ziyal</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,2,16,2,17,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">March 16, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">02:17 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Tahna: Start watching a few trash tv shows. Your mother obviously doesn't seem to be aware that there are worse things on television. Show her.<P>------------------<BR>"I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three on the law become a Congress! And by God I have had this Congress!"<br>--John Adams, "1776"<br> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Orion Syndicate</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,2,16,8,24,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">March 16, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">08:24 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Tahna, my mother is quite similar as far as the dual standards go. She treats my brother a lot better. This has improved though anyway since I left to come to uni, although DON'T take this as a rallying cry to move out. It's just the elder brother should be more mature than little brother thing. "you're the eldest, give him what he wants". I hated him for that, and boy did he know how to milk the situation. He had a brain tumour a couple of years earlier and was operated on, so he knew he could get away with murder. If he wanted something and I refused, he'd start crying, yes he would. Then on comes mum and gives me a bollocking.<p>Anyway the point of all this is that it's just the way it is and you've just got to learn to accept it. It worked for me anyway.<P>------------------<BR>"YOU SMEG!"<p><p><p><p><br> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Bernd</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,2,16,8,32,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">March 16, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">08:32 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Ziyal: Actually I know a lot of people who think that Star Trek is trash and prefer "realistic" hospital and police series. <br /> </font> </td></tr> </table></td></tr></table> <br /> <br />
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