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ashlad Brigadier Remembered


Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 3442 Location: Norristown, PA
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Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 8:00 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, More... is fine, as long as it's not needlessly complicated, like CATCH Bird Flu and the feather of the fowl that pecked y'ALL. _________________ "Morals are customs rather than natural law." --Robert A. Heinlein |
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Glistam I plead the Third


Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 5076
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Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 8:12 am Post subject: |
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I really don't see the issue with archiving this thread and creating a new thread that continues discussion of the hate and misery we either did all experience or that we are currently experiencing. I also see no issue with leaving it for eternity. Whether I archive it in one page or never, the fact remains that whatever was talked about on page 37 will forever remain buried, because no-one's goign to go back through the whole thread. One advantage to archiving it at some point is that if you ever did decide to go back through to try and find a discussion, you only have 71 pages to look through and not 192 or whatever number the page count happens to be at.
If the issue is that it'll get archived at exactly 71 pages, first let me explain that there is no automatic script that does it. I just see it reached 71 and I lock it and move it. There are two ways around this process if the number 71 is going to bother you that much. First would be to stop posting in here and create the new thread now. If this thread never reaches 71 then there's no horrible number to have to deal with.
The second option is to blow through the 71st page so fast that by the time I catch it, it's already up to 72. I'd recommend making those posts at least relatively worthwhile, or they're likely to get deleted, which may result in the thread reverting to 71 pages.
If you guys really want to keep it and just let it grow forever let me know in the poll i'm about to make. _________________ "I don't have dreams about the Navy. The Navy killed all of my dreams." - Buddy Lee |
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ashlad Brigadier Remembered


Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 3442 Location: Norristown, PA
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Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 8:21 am Post subject: |
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Quote: | There are two ways around this process if the number 71 is going to bother you that much. |
I could care less about the number 71. I just don't particularly want it archived. There's something of a matter of principle to allowing this and no other thread surpass 71 and be the longest thread on the board that I had in mind. I also don't care that much.
By the by, from time to time I scan through this thread starting on page 1. It's here as a reminder of the best decision I ever made: getting out.
If other people like the archiving at 71 pages so much that they feel it ought to apply to this thread as well, then so be it. I just wanted to put my plug in. _________________ "Morals are customs rather than natural law." --Robert A. Heinlein |
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Madhatte Brigadier Survivor


Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 7949 Location: Olympia, WA
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Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 8:55 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, you put that plug in, bitch. _________________ We live in an amazing, amazing world, and it's wasted on the crappiest generation of spoiled idiots. -- Louis CK
We are going to have to stick a pin in a map, set fire to something and carry on until the earth looks flat! -- RandyMac
I could teach you to how file a washer to make it worth a nickel but if you really want to make big bucks just take a penny and drill a hole in it and it becomes a washer and is worth a dime. -- Art Martin, Old-Time Logger |
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ashlad Brigadier Remembered


Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 3442 Location: Norristown, PA
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Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 9:39 am Post subject: |
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I'm not the one with a cork collection. _________________ "Morals are customs rather than natural law." --Robert A. Heinlein |
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CrushFearSynth Brigadier Survivor


Joined: 13 Dec 2005 Posts: 9017 Location: Sterling, VA
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Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 10:35 am Post subject: |
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Or thousands of stacks of rolled pennies. Gross. _________________ "The cheese stands alone." - Madhatte |
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Madhatte Brigadier Survivor


Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 7949 Location: Olympia, WA
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Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 10:44 am Post subject: |
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ashlad wrote: | I'm not the one with a cork collection. |
I'm gonna do somethin' with 'em!
*OH SHIT*
Not that! _________________ We live in an amazing, amazing world, and it's wasted on the crappiest generation of spoiled idiots. -- Louis CK
We are going to have to stick a pin in a map, set fire to something and carry on until the earth looks flat! -- RandyMac
I could teach you to how file a washer to make it worth a nickel but if you really want to make big bucks just take a penny and drill a hole in it and it becomes a washer and is worth a dime. -- Art Martin, Old-Time Logger |
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Madhatte Brigadier Survivor


Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 7949 Location: Olympia, WA
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Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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Find it yourself.
 _________________ We live in an amazing, amazing world, and it's wasted on the crappiest generation of spoiled idiots. -- Louis CK
We are going to have to stick a pin in a map, set fire to something and carry on until the earth looks flat! -- RandyMac
I could teach you to how file a washer to make it worth a nickel but if you really want to make big bucks just take a penny and drill a hole in it and it becomes a washer and is worth a dime. -- Art Martin, Old-Time Logger |
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ashlad Brigadier Remembered


Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 3442 Location: Norristown, PA
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 1:36 am Post subject: |
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*punches 'Hatte in the stomach 42 times*
*punches 'Hatte in the stomach 29 more times* _________________ "Morals are customs rather than natural law." --Robert A. Heinlein |
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Mishlai Brigadier Survivor


Joined: 22 May 2005 Posts: 6226 Location: Dry Land
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 6:26 am Post subject: |
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Quote: | It's okay to tell your stories and why be so adamant about being angry, that time is long gone for you. |
Not long enough.
Quote: | Yeah, More... is fine, as long as it's not needlessly complicated, like CATCH Bird Flu and the feather of the fowl that pecked y'ALL. |
Sorry about that, I'd actually misunderstood the key element of the title as being a cure to sickness as opposed to the words "catch all". Obvious in retrospect. I have a fever and the only cure is... was what I latched on to, creating a hybrid of current events and hair of the dog. It was a miserable failure, and it only now has the words Catch All in it because it was renamed by Glistam.
I'd actually support a total rename of that thread, if that isn't too confusing. The one I picked should have had a coat hanger taken to it in a dark alley somewhere. _________________ You are the result of 4 billion years of evolutionary success.
Fucking act like it.
"The stars died so that you could be here today" - Lawrence Krauss
"The universe is huge and old, and rare things happen all the time." - Lawrence Krauss |
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Mishlai Brigadier Survivor


Joined: 22 May 2005 Posts: 6226 Location: Dry Land
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 6:34 am Post subject: |
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I forgot to give you a key piece of my confusion. By "catch all" I thought the old threat title meant Navy corpsman catchall, i.e. Motrin. I didn't realize it was the official catch-all thread.
I'm done explaining now, I just didn't get it. ; ) _________________ You are the result of 4 billion years of evolutionary success.
Fucking act like it.
"The stars died so that you could be here today" - Lawrence Krauss
"The universe is huge and old, and rare things happen all the time." - Lawrence Krauss |
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Leedon Moderator


Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 1478
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 8:28 am Post subject: |
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*pats Mishlai on the head*
It's okay, someday you'll get it. _________________ Flirtin' with disaster,
Ya'll know what I mean.
You know the way we run our lives,
It makes no sense to me.
-Flirtin' with Disaster, Molly Hatchet |
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Ryrra Brigadier Trainee


Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 1122 Location: Near Chicago IL
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Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 11:50 am Post subject: |
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Here is a web site that I thought some of you might want to check out. I like it. It is kinda like myspace or face book for people who are or were in the navy so check it out.
http://navy.togetherweserved.com/usn/index.jsp _________________ Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
-Chinese Proverb-
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
-Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)-
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Mongolio Brigadier Elite


Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 4976
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:17 am Post subject: |
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Something Navy-like just happened to a coworker of mine. She had ordered a 24-inch ruler from Staples. Said ruler just came in. It arrived in a box that was 24" x 35" x 36". There was nothing else in the box but the large-style bubble packing material.
We are left to speculate on how large a box the invoice will arrive in tomorrow... _________________ Core meltdown (commonly known as a meltdown) is an accident scenario in nuclear reactors, and is one of the possible modes of failure for light water reactors, during which the reactor pile turns into a pile of reactor.
---RationalWiki
If Jesus had existed, his DNA would have been 99% similar to that of a chimpanzee. Or you. You're 99% Jesus.
-- RationalWiki |
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Loupy Lobo Brigadier Rookie


Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1221 Location: Idaho Falls
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, that is Navy like. While we were in Marseilles during the Iron Man cruise, I ordered an expensive bottle of champagne. When the shipment came in, I got an expensive bottle. No champagne. The cork was in the bottle, it was still wrapped and everything. Just no champagne. _________________ "Does this smell like chloroform to you?" -infamous pick-up line of Terrence "Brasa" Webster (R.I.P.) |
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Trassin Brigadier Legate


Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 10150 Location: Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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My company paid me overtime for 6 hours to drive out to a remote plant and spend 30 seconds tightening the packing on a valve. Except for the overtime it felt very navy-ish. _________________ The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. - Albert Einstein
"Raccoons oscillate at 50Hz in Europe." - FAWBOTS
"I'm not sure I'm up for orgy scrabble parties" - Female Friend |
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Madhatte Brigadier Survivor


Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 7949 Location: Olympia, WA
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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Trassin wrote: | Except for the overtime |
Quit yer whinin', punk. _________________ We live in an amazing, amazing world, and it's wasted on the crappiest generation of spoiled idiots. -- Louis CK
We are going to have to stick a pin in a map, set fire to something and carry on until the earth looks flat! -- RandyMac
I could teach you to how file a washer to make it worth a nickel but if you really want to make big bucks just take a penny and drill a hole in it and it becomes a washer and is worth a dime. -- Art Martin, Old-Time Logger |
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Mongolio Brigadier Elite


Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 4976
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:52 am Post subject: |
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Four more posts...
*jumps clear* _________________ Core meltdown (commonly known as a meltdown) is an accident scenario in nuclear reactors, and is one of the possible modes of failure for light water reactors, during which the reactor pile turns into a pile of reactor.
---RationalWiki
If Jesus had existed, his DNA would have been 99% similar to that of a chimpanzee. Or you. You're 99% Jesus.
-- RationalWiki |
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Leedon Moderator


Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 1478
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 5:37 am Post subject: |
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Three more until Glistam sets us up the bomb! _________________ Flirtin' with disaster,
Ya'll know what I mean.
You know the way we run our lives,
It makes no sense to me.
-Flirtin' with Disaster, Molly Hatchet |
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Trassin Brigadier Legate


Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 10150 Location: Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 5:45 am Post subject: |
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TWO! _________________ The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. - Albert Einstein
"Raccoons oscillate at 50Hz in Europe." - FAWBOTS
"I'm not sure I'm up for orgy scrabble parties" - Female Friend |
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