Now then - some order Gentlemen....attention please!

[maxg]

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!!!

[ben.]

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.

[thebes]

Come back guys. We'll laugh about it over a good underwear thread!

[TBrennan]

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.

[TBrennan]

Ole Max, our Alcibiades.

[Champagne taste beer budget]

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.

[dodger]

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

[thebes]

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.

[jdm56]

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.

[Daddy Dee]

Thanks Max,

I'd like to see these guys posting again, too.

[garymd]

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.

[Marvel]

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.

[jt1stcav]

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?

[Marvel]

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

[garymd]

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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

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I probably could have built a house........

[garymd]

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.

[ZAKO]

FINI....YOU JACKA$$ You had everybody crying in their boots.

[thebes]

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!

[Frank Speaker]

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

[tankhokie]

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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)

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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!