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[This message has been edited by The Shadow (edited August 07, 2000).]
[This message has been edited by For�aken (edited August 20, 2000).]
Interesting spelling, I didn't think characters like that were possible in names here.
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Thornbird: "I'm Major Robert Thornbird. And you are?"
O'Neill: "Captain James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise."
This post sponsered in part by the Federation Starship Datalink
Anyway, welcome to the forums Forsaken...and in the future, keep your posts simple.
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Teddy Roosevelt: "Speak softly and carry a big stick."
Yosemite Sam: "Well, I speak loudly and I carry a bigger stick...and I use it too!"
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Frank's Home Page
"I love you all. Now shut up. Danke." - Simon Sizer
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Oh, fiddle faddle, everyone knows that our mutants have flippers. Oops, I've said too much.....
~C. Montgomery Burns
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"Fragile. Do not drop"
--posted on a Boeing 757
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"Ultra Magnus is Undeniably Fun!" David Stevens, New York Magazine.
"Total Complete excitement from start to finish!" -WPIX-TV, New York
"This isn't a thrill ride, it's a rocket..." -Richard Caves, Time Magazine.
Uh...welcome to Flare, anyway. 
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Frank's Home Page
"I love you all. Now shut up. Danke." - Simon Sizer
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"My Name is Elmer Fudd, Millionaire. I own a Mansion and a Yacht."
Psychiatrist: "Again."
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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
- George Bernard Shaw
Just to let you know that every little funny character that you can make has some intended purpose.
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-Small Computer Systems Interface "Scuzzy" Emperor
Operator of the Goulag Hotel, maintainer of the workhouses.
Operator of Cargill Conglomerate Publications, http://www.cargillconglomerate.com
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My Favorite Quotes:
In a movie, no matter what window you look out in Paris, the Eiffel Tower is always right there." ~~~ "'I think my mask of sanity is about to slip' -American Psycho ~~~ "Everytime I think I've hit the bottom, someone lends me a shovel." ~~~ "Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and recorded every day like those of a baseball player." ~~~ "'Remember there's no I in team' ... (but there is a M and an E)"
If you post often, and then mention your site, then that's okay.
And if you want to do it on the sly, stick it in your .sig like Frank. But be subtle, eh?
See? Now don't do that.
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"Why do you want to spend time with a deer? They're so stupid, they get hypnotized by headlights!" - Guido Anchovy
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Ready for the action now, Dangerboy
Ready if I'm ready for you, Dangerboy
Ready if I want it now, Dangerboy?
How dare you, dare you, Dangerboy?
How dare you, Dangerboy?
I dare you, dare you, Dangerboy...
�on Flux, "Thanatophobia"
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"The kingdom of God is inside you, and all around you; not in a building of stone or wood. Split a piece of wood, and I will be there. Lift a stone, and you will find me."
-The Gospel of Jesus, Stigmata
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"My Name is Elmer Fudd, Millionaire. I own a Mansion and a Yacht."
Psychiatrist: "Again."
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"The kingdom of God is inside you, and all around you; not in a building of stone or wood. Split a piece of wood, and I will be there. Lift a stone, and you will find me."
-The Gospel of Jesus, Stigmata
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-Small Computer Systems Interface "Scuzzy" Emperor
Operator of the Goulag Hotel, maintainer of the workhouses.
Operator of Cargill Conglomerate Publications, http://www.cargillconglomerate.com
A scene that was cut from last season's "Rock" episode, Tsumkatse:
Rock: Do ya smell what the Rock's cookin'?
Janeway: Mr. Rock, was that you?
Tuvok: An intriguing smell ...
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"Guess what? I got Marina Sirtis to sign my butt!"
-- Fooker, GPF
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Efficiency is a highly developed form of laziness. - anon (...and boy am I efficient...)
A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbour�s throat without having his neighbour notice it. � Trygve Lie
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-Small Computer Systems Interface "Scuzzy" Emperor
Operator of the Goulag Hotel, maintainer of the workhouses.
Operator of Cargill Conglomerate Publications, http://www.cargillconglomerate.com
A scene that was cut from last season's "Rock" episode, Tsumkatse:
Rock: Do ya smell what the Rock's cookin'?
Janeway: Mr. Rock, was that you?
Tuvok: An intriguing smell ...
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"We have HTML and images in sigs disabled here. Don't try it. If you do, I'll shove the image up your ass, then ban you. Have a nice day. :)"
-Charles Capps, August 13, 2000
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-Small Computer Systems Interface "Scuzzy" Emperor
Operator of the Goulag Hotel, maintainer of the workhouses.
Operator of Cargill Conglomerate Publications, http://www.cargillconglomerate.com
"Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of rights. We must not forget that the subjection of women is so complete, and dates from such distant ages, that we are often unwilling to recognize the gulf that separates them from us."
Tolstoy, on a more objective note.
[This message has been edited by SCSImperium (edited August 14, 2000).]
quote:
Normally the thread would be closed, but we don't want to scare off legitimate new users.
So things have changed here?
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Sailing the Slipstream
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Like so ...
[This message has been edited by SCSImperium (edited August 15, 2000).]
All without violating any rules, since no image code was put in a real signature ...
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-Small Computer Systems Interface "Scuzzy" Emperor
Operator of the Goulag Hotel, maintainer of the workhouses.
Operator of Cargill Conglomerate Publications, http://www.cargillconglomerate.com
"Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of rights. We must not forget that the subjection of women is so complete, and dates from such distant ages, that we are often unwilling to recognize the gulf that separates them from us."
Tolstoy, on a more objective note.
[This message has been edited by SCSImperium (edited August 15, 2000).]
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Frank's Home Page
"Antagonist Class Badly-Armored Poorly-Equipped Crappy-Fire Support Tug. To search out new armor and batteries. Because, well, we don't have a warp-core. That is my flagship, BTW." - Antag
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Come on darkness
Lay your body down on us
We've been calling you for so long now
We're weary of your name
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Camper Van Beethoven
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Read chapter one of "Dirk Tungsten in...The Disappearing Planet"! Pull your body for a moment from your soul.
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"My Name is Elmer Fudd, Millionaire. I own a Mansion and a Yacht."
Psychiatrist: "Again."
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"We have HTML and images in sigs disabled here. Don't try it. If you do, I'll shove the image up your ass, then ban you. Have a nice day. :)"
-Charles Capps, August 13, 2000
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We have HTML and images in sigs disabled here. Don't try it. If you do, I'll shove the image up your ass, then ban you. Have a nice day.
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So things have changed here?
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Ed: Well, I don't want to intentionally scare off users, and nor does anyone else. You might recall that it's what the whole thing with Lee was about.
I was being sarcastic, it looks like the same old place to me. Have a nice day Charles.(sarcasium)
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Sailing the Slipstream
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"It's like the Star of David or something. But without the whole Judaism thing."
-Frank Gerratana, 17-Aug-2000
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Sailing the Slipstream
Tanx
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"I threw bitter tears at the ocean
But all that came back was the tide..." Sarah McLachlan 'I Will Not Forget You'
I'm going to hide behind a chair, in case I say anything that'll get me smacked.
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"Why do you want to spend time with a deer? They're so stupid, they get hypnotized by headlights!" - Guido Anchovy
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Sailing the Slipstream
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"Weirdness doesn't frighten me. Ten-foot-tall purple wombats with shaving-cream-covered broadswords singing 'Kumbayah'... Now, that scares me..."
-Tim Nix
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Frank's Home Page
"And on a wholly unrelated note, I went to high school with Fidel Castro. So there." - Simon Sizer
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Seems to me he was rather nasty to a newcomer who unintentionally spammed.
Charles still does the same thing. He may not be as bad as he once was, but berateing anyone who posted a web address was standard procedure here, till they decided to dump lee. I don't know what Frank is talking about in the above post.
I know one girl who wantd to start a mail E-mail group to discuss trek. I sugested she come here instead. She posted the E-mail address to be used for the group, and Charles jumped all over it, threating to complain to her ISP, and get her dumped. When I E-mailed him, telling him it was my fault, and that she didn't undrstand, he responded with a nasty e-mail to me saying that she was spamming and I could go away. As a long time member, I took exception to that, and left for a couple of weeks, then decided that I missed to many people here, then the whole thing with Lee blew up. If it were'nt for a couple of people, I wouldn't come here at all. Looks like Baloo is gone now. I haven't seen Monty in a while, if Liam, Zyial, First and Sol were to leave, I wouldn't have much reason to come here. No offence meant to the rest, but this is a very slow place, anymore.
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Sailing the Slipstream
Boris posted something in Starships, which Lee then (incorrectly) moved to the OL, and insulted him on top of that. When Boris complained, Lee deleted the post.
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Frank's Home Page
"And on a wholly unrelated note, I went to high school with Fidel Castro. So there." - Simon Sizer
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Efficiency is a highly developed form of laziness. - anon (...and boy am I efficient...)
A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbour�s throat without having his neighbour notice it. � Trygve Lie
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Frank's Home Page
"And on a wholly unrelated note, I went to high school with Fidel Castro. So there." - Simon Sizer
Boris was one of the hard-core people, the ones who only visit the starships and whatnot forums, never the "community" ones.
Lee's insult consisted of something like this.
"*moved to the Officer's forum* Honestly, I don't know why some of you refuse to post over there. Are you afraid you'll lose your 'air of geekness' or something"?
It was trully harsh. I'm surprised Boris was able to keep himself from suicide. Or going postal at a school.
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"Why do you want to spend time with a deer? They're so stupid, they get hypnotized by headlights!" - Guido Anchovy
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What is the relationship between Flare and TNO anyways?
I got the impression that they were the "temporary" forums after the whole firebombing "Destroyer of the Forums" thing with *cough* Charles *un-cough*
But last I heard, its still up and thriving, so what is the truth?
It is still up and running. It was starting to grow, but has dropped a bit again. There are only a few other people besides Mods and Admins. I let my modship go there, haveing some personal problems of my own, and getting busier here at work. Christian made me a mod at Slipstreambbs, which is takeing off nicely, but not to the point where I have to be there all the time. If Andromeda is a hit, I think the place will really take off.
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Sailing the Slipstream
[This message has been edited by Kosh (edited August 22, 2000).]
Lee wasn't "fired". Charles got the impression that Lee was being continuously and unusually mean to people whilst exercising his administrative powers. So, Charles suspended those powers and basically said Lee could have them back when he'd calmed down. Lee did rather the opposite of calming down and decided to leave completely, even going so far as to ask Daryus to delete his profile from the Forums. Daryus attempted to do so, causing quite a few other profiles to shit themselves, due to most of the Forum control panel functions' being fubar. Charles took away Daryus' administrative powers as well because of this, but gave them back eventually.
TNO is a separate board from Flare, but it was founded by people who were regular posters at Flare, so there's a fairly close relationship between the two, including a rather large overlap in members (at least, the last I knew). As mentioned, we've also used it as a safe haven when this place has crapped out on us.
Baloo is gone because he hasn't got time to hang around here anymore. Monty isn't around because he's been home from school and hasn't had 'net access. I suspect he'll be back in the next couple months at most.
And I want to know why I'm not on that list of people whose leaving would make this place less interesting... *L*
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"It's like the Star of David or something. But without the whole Judaism thing."
-Frank Gerratana, 17-Aug-2000
Translation: Frank told Charles that Lee was being mean to people. As Kosh pointed out, saying "We have HTML and images in sigs disabled here. Don't try it. If you do, I'll shove the image up your ass, then ban you. Have a nice day. " isn't showing a huge amount of tollerance on CC's part, is it?
"even going so far as to ask Daryus to delete his profile from the Forums."
A fair enough thing to ask, since Charles hadn't been very nice to him.
"Daryus attempted to do so, causing quite a few other profiles to shit themselves, due to most of the Forum control panel functions' being fubar."
Which neither Daryus or Lee knew would happen.
"Charles took away Daryus' administrative powers as well because of this, but gave them back eventually."
Translation: Charles panicked, believing that firing both of his Admins would leave him vunerable and unloved. Charles also knew that Lee would disagree with him, and he hates that. Daryus on the other hand, is very easy going, and doesn't really care much about anything, so Charles kept him, knowing he'd be less hassle, and because he didn't argue with Frank as much as Lee. We don't want to loose our personal taxi service, do we Chuckie?
BTW, when was the last time the Moderators were ever asked about something? Or is it just CC, TSN and Frank now hanging around th back of the bike shed playing "rulers of the world"?
"Monty isn't around because he's been home from school and hasn't had 'net access."
Correction: Monty was at uni all through the summer, while he was doing his dissertation, and didn't post once. Monty isn't arround because he was sick of the backbiting, he didn't like how Lee was treated, and because the threads in the tech rooms had become extrememly anal, and because the threads round here had become extrememyl boring. And the threads in the flameboard had become "guns bad." "No, guns good. You idiot." "No, you idiot." "you like religion. You idiot. No, you idiot. You like Evolution. You idiot."
He isn't likely to come back. Orion still hovers, but hardly posts anymore. Neither do the Chrises, or MaGiC. Well done, you've managed to piss off an entire country by having a complete lack of a sense of humour.
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I removed Lee because he was being a PITA and constantly and continuously pissing people off. I removed Daryus because I thought he had killed the profiles on purpose. Daryus was brought back once it was made clear that he hadn't a clue what he was doing (and I've since taken steps to prevent it from ever, ever happening again).
That clears that up.
Oh, and the images in sigs bit - the "Have a nice day." is a fairly obvious indicator that it's light hearted. I'm KIDDING. Jesus.
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"I know you believe you understand what you think this fortune says, but I'm not sure you realize that what you are reading is not what it means."
[This message has been edited by Charles Capps (edited August 22, 2000).]
Two, everyone involved is a friend of mine, and I rather hate seeing them beat each other over the head.
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Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
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Ambrose Bierce
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Read chapter one of "Dirk Tungsten in...The Disappearing Planet"! It's useless to struggle.
Oh, and 'Oh, and the images in sigs bit - the "Have a nice day." is a fairly obvious indicator that it's light hearted. I'm KIDDING. Jesus.'
Right. Wheras saying "you afraid you'll loose nerd streetcred or something?" is obviously a very serious comment that was said with hatred and probably some form of vengence too.
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"Why do you want to spend time with a deer? They're so stupid, they get hypnotized by headlights!" - Guido Anchovy
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"What happens if a big asteroid hits the Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad."
- Dave Barry
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I removed Daryus because I thought he had killed the profiles on purpose. Daryus was brought back once it was made clear that he hadn't a clue what he was doing (and I've since taken steps to prevent it from ever, ever happening again). (Charles Capps)
Didn't bother to ask Daryus what the heck he was doing, just fired him.
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We have HTML and images in sigs disabled here. Don't try it. If you do, I'll shove the image up your ass, then ban you. Have a nice day. (Charles Capps)
That was supposed to be a JOKE!
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I don't understand their humor either. (Worf)
We need to work on that humor thing Charles. "Have a nice day" made it sound more like a smartarsed remark than a joke.
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And I want to know why I'm not on that list of people whose leaving would make this place less interesting... *L* (Tim Nix)
Nothing personal, and that goes for anyone I didn't mention. Most of the rest were people who came here long after I did. Zyial, Liam, Baloo, Sol and (edit)First of Two(/edit) are favorites.
"Ding ding" round two ends.
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[This message has been edited by Kosh (edited August 24, 2000).]
Well, there was also a little , IIRC...
"Didn't bother to ask Daryus what the heck he was doing, just fired him."
There's a big difference between firing someone and temporarily suspending someone. A BIG difference.
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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
- George Bernard Shaw
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"I know you believe you understand what you think this fortune says, but I'm not sure you realize that what you are reading is not what it means."
He, overreacted. But that's Charles. Point is, when I told him what happened, he was honest enough to admit the mistake and immiediately rectify the situation. Shit happens. As Liam said, I don't get ruffled.
So, since it happened so long ago, who gives a bollocks?
As for those who are ready to speak against Lee so fast, please note, you don't know him well enough to consider him heavy handed or otherwise. His job was an enforcer. Now, how heavy handed he was may have been a matter of semantics, and various people playing petty 'politics' but I doubt his removal as an admin here had a crushing effect on his life, or self esteem.
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"More beer, more beer, more beer, more beer! ARSE!"
- Ode to God.
Boris is not the only person to leave. A lot of people here may have left at one point due to the "poisoned" atmosphere that incident may have created. If I recall correctly, Elim Garak hasn't posted here in a very long time...... Some others too.
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"My Name is Elmer Fudd, Millionaire. I own a Mansion and a Yacht."
Psychiatrist: "Again."
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Wow, this thread is almost as retarded as the one in which everybody scanned pens.
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"What happens if a big asteroid hits the Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad."
- Dave Barry
And Elim hasn't posted due to the fact that he's been on several vactions, he sliced his wrists during a fall at one point and couldn't type, and he works. So, there's little time to post
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"Weirdness doesn't frighten me. Ten-foot-tall purple wombats with shaving-cream-covered broadswords singing 'Kumbayah'... Now, that scares me..."
-Tim Nix
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Ready for the action now, Dangerboy
Ready if I'm ready for you, Dangerboy
Ready if I want it now, Dangerboy?
How dare you, dare you, Dangerboy?
How dare you, Dangerboy?
I dare you, dare you, Dangerboy...
�on Flux, "Thanatophobia"
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"Weirdness doesn't frighten me. Ten-foot-tall purple wombats with shaving-cream-covered broadswords singing 'Kumbayah'... Now, that scares me..."
-Tim Nix
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Frank's Home Page
"I'd like to have a hard one, though..." - Fabrux
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Sailing the Slipstream
Ah. And you know this how?
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"Why do you want to spend time with a deer? They're so stupid, they get hypnotized by headlights!" - Guido Anchovy
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"More beer, more beer, more beer, more beer! ARSE!"
- Ode to God.
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Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
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Ambrose Bierce
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Read chapter one of "Dirk Tungsten in...The Disappearing Planet"! It's useless to struggle.
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Cute, cuddly, widdle teddy bears usually will eat you alive unless you can prove you're a god.
Ex-Admin, moderator at the TrekBBS.com
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Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
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Ambrose Bierce
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Read chapter one of "Dirk Tungsten in...The Disappearing Planet"! It's useless to struggle.
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Where's the bathroom on this ship?