maxg Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 Over the course of this day I have watched the forum in a somewhat bemused fashion and tried to figure out the best approach to lending whatever help I can in fixing the situation (viz a viz the 2 channel cock up). What has become apparent is that there is bugger all I can do on that subject so I am going to do the next best thing. This is a "Fini, Allan and Cut-throat come back thread (plus anyone else who has opted out and I missed). All you have to do is post a reply to this - positive only please - if you do not agree - dont post - or start your own thread. In order to please Ami - this is in the General Forum (and is it weird jumping to that or what???) Anyway - your responses are expected. The above 3 are far to valuable as contributors to let slip through the politics of the site. Orderly fashion please - one at a time and no pushing!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben. Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 Bravo, Max. I can't begin to count the number of members who've been positively influenced by many former regulars, including those you mention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebes Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 Come back guys. We'll laugh about it over a good underwear thread! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBrennan Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 Thebes---You just want to help Max, an Athenian. Were he Lacedaemonian you probably wouldn't. Are you one of The Sacred Band? (snickering) Epaminondas ring a bell? Tell us a riddle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBrennan Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 Ole Max, our Alcibiades. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Champagne taste beer budget Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 Yeah, I need Allan back to remind me that my long lost antique record collection that I had hoped would finance some new Khorns was really only worth $1.98. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodger Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 Hello: Yes, they should be brought back. They have provided humour, knowledge, dry humour and the ability to look at ourselves and step down off of our soap box. Hopefully they will give the Forum serious thought and come back. If they do not, may all of these posts be forwarded to them and our thanks, we would like you back statements be added as well. Thank you Max, Champagne for the notes we needed to see. Win dodger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebes Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 Darn you hitting me with classical greek references after two glasses of wine. Does that make me a Retsina? Darn educated labor skates. My minds dull right now so are you referring to Alcibiades engaging in proskynesis in Iran? Now as I recall it Aristotle had been told of an elephant trained to pay proskynesis to a king, by blowing the kiss with his trunk, but Aristotle did not belive that elephants could bend both knees at once. Of course, free greeks and what befitted an elephant did not become a Hellene. I guess that makes me a Hellene. Or does it make me a Macedonian? Learned this story from a book about Alexander the Great. I'm thinking of becoming Swiss though. Voltaire said: If you see a Swiss banker jump out of a window, follow him, there's money to be made on the way down. Or maybe a Kushan. From John Updike's The Coup: Kush is a land of delicate, delectable emptiness, named for a vanished kingdom, the progeny of Kush, son of Ham, grandson of Noah. Their royalty, ousted from the upper Nile in the forth century by the Christian hoards of Axum, retreated from Meroe, fabled home or iron, into the wastes of Kordofan and Darfur, and farther westward still, pursued by dust devils along the parched savanna, erecting red cities soon indistinguishable from the rocks, until their empty shattered name, a shard of grandeur, was salvaged by our revolutionary council in 1968 and, replacing the hated designation of Noire, was bestoyed upon this hollow starving nation as many miles as years removed from the original Kush, itself an echo: Africa held up a black mirror to Pharonic Egypt, and the image was Kush. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdm56 Posted June 19, 2004 Share Posted June 19, 2004 While not denigrating their voluminous contributions to this forum, I personally do not care one whit whether the parties Max named choose to participate or not. The forum was fine before they participated, and it will be fine without them. So, nothing personal, but WELCOME BACK, GUYS! or - BON VOYAGE BOZOS! It makes no difference to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Dee Posted June 19, 2004 Share Posted June 19, 2004 Thanks Max, I'd like to see these guys posting again, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garymd Posted June 19, 2004 Share Posted June 19, 2004 Whilst I don't recall ever conversing with Cut-Throat, I certainly would miss Fini and Allan's contributions to the forum. I also expect I will remain in touch with both if they do not return. I plan to give Fini a call first thing Monday to find out what gives! P.S. First time I've ever used the word "whilst" in a sentence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted June 19, 2004 Share Posted June 19, 2004 THE STORY OF EPAMINONDAS AND HIS AUNTIE<1> <1> A Southern nonsense tale. Epaminondas used to go to see his Auntie 'most every day, and she nearly always gave him something to take home to his Mammy. One day she gave him a big piece of cake; nice, yellow, rich gold-cake. Epaminondas took it in his fist and held it all scrunched up tight, like this, and came along home. By the time he got home there wasn't anything left but a fistful of crumbs. His Mammy said,-- "What you got there, Epaminondas?" "Cake, Mammy," said Epaminondas. "Cake!" said his Mammy. "Epaminondas, you ain't got the sense you was born with! That's no way to carry cake. The way to carry cake is to wrap it all up nice in some leaves and put it in your hat, and put your hat on your head, and come along home. You hear me, Epaminondas?" "Yes, Mammy," said Epaminondas. Next day Epaminondas went to see his Auntie, and she gave him a pound of butter for his Mammy; fine, fresh, sweet butter. Epaminondas wrapped it up in leaves and put it in his hat, and put his hat on his head, and came along home. It was a very hot day. Pretty soon the butter began to melt. It melted, and melted, and as it melted it ran down Epaminondas' forehead; then it ran over his face, and in his ears, and down his neck. When he got home, all the butter Epaminondas had was ON HIM. His Mammy looked at him, and then she said,-- "Law's sake! Epaminondas, what you got in your hat?" "Butter, Mammy," said Epaminondas; "Auntie gave it to me." "Butter!" said his Mammy. "Epaminondas, you ain't got the sense you was born with! Don't you know that's no way to carry butter? The way to carry butter is to wrap it up in some leaves and take it down to the brook, and cool it in the water, and cool it in the water, and cool it in the water, and then take it on your hands, careful, and bring it along home." "Yes, Mammy," said Epaminondas. By and by, another day, Epaminondas went to see his Auntie again, and this time she gave him a little new puppy-dog to take home. Epaminondas put it in some leaves and took it down to the brook; and there he cooled it in the water, and cooled it in the water, and cooled it in the water; then he took it in his hands and came along home. When he got home, the puppy-dog was dead. His Mammy looked at it, and she said,-- "Law's sake! Epaminondas, what you got there?" "A puppy-dog, Mammy," said Epaminondas. "A PUPPY-DOG!" said his Mammy. "My gracious sakes alive, Epaminondas, you ain't got the sense you was born with! That ain't the way to carry a puppy-dog! The way to carry a puppy-dog is to take a long piece of string and tie one end of it round the puppy-dog's neck and put the puppy-dog on the ground, and take hold of the other end of the string and come along home, like this." "All right, Mammy," said Epaminondas. Next day, Epaminondas went to see his Auntie again, and when he came to go home she gave him a loaf of bread to carry to his Mammy; a brown, fresh, crusty loaf of bread. So Epaminondas tied a string around the end of the loaf and took hold of the end of the string and came along home, like this. (Imitate dragging something along the ground.) When he got home his Mammy looked at the thing on the end of the string, and she said,-- "My laws a-massy! Epaminondas, what you got on the end of that string?" "Bread, Mammy," said Epaminondas; "Auntie gave it to me." "Bread!!!" said his Mammy. "O Epaminondas, Epaminondas, you ain't got the sense you was born with; you never did have the sense you was born with; you never will have the sense you was born with! Now I ain't gwine tell you any more ways to bring truck home. And don't you go see your Auntie, neither. I'll go see her my own self. But I'll just tell you one thing, Epaminondas! You see these here six mince pies I done make? You see how I done set 'em on the doorstep to cool? Well, now, you hear me, Epaminondas, YOU BE CAREFUL HOW YOU STEP ON THOSE PIES!" "Yes, Mammy," said Epaminondas. Then Epaminondas' Mammy put on her bonnet and her shawl and took a basket in her hand and went away to see Auntie. The six mince pies sat cooling in a row on the doorstep. And then,--and then,--Epaminondas WAS careful how he stepped on those pies! He stepped (imitate)--right--in-- the--middle--of--every--one. . . . . . . . . And, do you know, children, nobody knows what happened next! The person who told me the story didn't know; nobody knows. But you can guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt1stcav Posted June 19, 2004 Share Posted June 19, 2004 Hope they come back soon...if not, well, it's not the end of the world. Life goes on. Marvel, that's a helluva story. You are a freak, y'know that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted June 19, 2004 Share Posted June 19, 2004 Not very PC is it? On the topic at hand, I miss some of these guys a lot. They have had great input for those asking questions here, and I hope they come back soon. Nothing wrong with taking a break once in awhile though. I could probably have had an amp built by now if I had spent fewer minutes on here. Marvel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garymd Posted June 19, 2004 Share Posted June 19, 2004 ---------------- On 6/19/2004 4:48:11 PM Marvel wrote: I could probably have had an amp built by now if I had spent fewer minutes on here. Marvel ---------------- I probably could have built a house........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garymd Posted June 19, 2004 Share Posted June 19, 2004 I guess it's the closest thing to attending your own funeral. Glad to see you back. Guess I won't call Monday morning unless you come up with a new joke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZAKO Posted June 19, 2004 Share Posted June 19, 2004 FINI....YOU JACKA$$ You had everybody crying in their boots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebes Posted June 19, 2004 Share Posted June 19, 2004 Fini's clone may think he's the same as the original but we know he's a pale imitation. He's lacking, oh say, a soupcon of peckishness or perhaps a dash of the droll. And, hey, not even a pinch of irony! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Speaker Posted June 19, 2004 Share Posted June 19, 2004 Thats not fini. If that's you fini, explain these terms: Pitch Header Top plate Footing Sole plate Blocking Collar tie Toenail Strongback Cripple Birds mouth Crown up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tankhokie Posted June 19, 2004 Share Posted June 19, 2004 ---------------- On 6/19/2004 5:56:36 PM fini. wrote: (For those who don't already know....this IS NOT FINI....just a mere clone account "fini" with a period at the end. So put your pants back on because this is the last post from this bogus account) ---------------- that wasn't fini...it was me, i thought i explained the FAKE account in the message. i guess though you never know with fini all i did was copy the avatar, profile, etc and slap a period after fini to create a look-a-like. i remember somebody else doing that....i think it was CAIN, CaIN, whatever. just a joke guys, wipe you chins! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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