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General Discussion / FORUM MOVE COMPLETE

« on: 2001-12-17 00:51:00 »

Hey Straywings, good to see you back.  You've been *awfully* quiet lately.

We seem to extend the sarcasm just as far as the answers.  All in good fun, right?    

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General Discussion / Something stupid

« on: 2001-12-16 03:29:00 »

Darkness:  heh, yer hooked!  Kinda like tobacco, or maybe crack...

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General Discussion / FFX - New Release Date

« on: 2001-12-13 13:57:00 »

Or, keeping with the theme, a snowball with a nice big rock in the middle.

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General Discussion / Do you have a network running through your walls?

« on: 2001-12-11 00:01:00 »

I have easy access to the underside of my house, so I ran cable underneath the floor-I also installed jacks so I could plug right in.  Just remeber to keep away from anything that might cause interference-(anything big and electrical-oh, and flourecent lights as well.)

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General Discussion / Possibly another forum move in progress...

« on: 2001-12-04 22:42:00 »

considering the member count (4800) you'd think it be a lot higher. (currently $22   )

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General Discussion / Possibly another forum move in progress...

« on: 2001-12-04 16:20:00 »

Heh-I'm working on one of my finals while reading this topic... :weep:

Try college and a mortgage.

I know that polykarbon's BBS has a way for those that want to contribute monitarily can do so-though that may just be a feature of ezboard.  I wouldn't mind contributing financially-maybe through paypal or some other means?

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General Discussion / 100 Greatest movies.

« on: 2001-11-29 01:14:00 »

This is what I found in a local website:

The "D" in D- Day means simply the "day" of a planned attack.  Military commanders would calibrate their calendars to the D-day (and the H-hour) of an operation so everyone would work from the same reference point.

For example, "D-3" would mean three days before D-day.  "H + 75" would mean 75 minutes after the attack.

The term dates at least as far back as World War I, when an army officer wrote in an American Expeditionary Forces order on Sept 7, 1918: "The First Army will attack at H hour on D day with the object of forcing the evacuation of the St. Mihiel Salient."

"D-Day" eventually became synonymous with June 6, 1944, the day of the allies' famous invasion of Normandy that proved to be a turning point in the war.

If you're interested,  here's the link.
[edited] 193 2001-11-29 02:22

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General Discussion / Star Wars In Telnet

« on: 2001-11-26 14:52:00 »

Just wondering:  We're all waiting for this movie to be "dark" like Empire-but won't the third one be more apt to carry the moniker?  Anakin freaks out, wipes out the Jedi, has some horrible disfigurements, becomes Darth Vader, and the Old Republic collapses...

And yes, the title couldn't suck enough.

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General Discussion / 100 Greatest movies.

« on: 2001-11-26 14:45:00 »

Dag:  Some of it comes from perspective, as well.  Patriots to the cause, maybe?  Calling yourself a patriot sounds a lot better than calling yourself a rebel (at least then-maybe not now).    And the PR of a war-even then-was as important as the war itself.

There were factions under Samuel Adams who called themselves "Whigs" -or even worse- "Patriots" as early as 1763.  This was before anyone ever considered revolting militarily against England.  This was during political wrangling over various stamp acts (read: taxes)  proposed and imposed, not during discussions of separating the colonies from the homeland.  

And didn't Old Ben Kenobi say that it all depended on a certain point of view?

Anyways, nobody abuses a language as well as the native speaker thereof.

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General Discussion / IMPORTANT: The final forum URL

« on: 2001-11-25 00:21:00 »

If I didn't know better, I'd think you were rubbing it in...

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General Discussion / IMPORTANT: The final forum URL

« on: 2001-11-24 23:04:00 »

Alhexx:  Two way sats are relatively new, but are available.  Runs abt. $80 a month USD IIRC.  I think DirecPC is the one who does it here in the states.

And I'm sure DSL is totally overrated.  I mean, who the hell would want a fast connection to the internet, anyway?  

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General Discussion / And you thought you were worthless...

« on: 2001-11-24 02:21:00 »

*ahem*  not to turn this into some kind of pr0n swap meet, the Fanfic Revolution does have some pretty good stuff-and in the beginning, all they did was SM-their link is on the anime turnpike.  

And no joey, I will not post it here.

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General Discussion / And you thought you were worthless...

« on: 2001-11-24 02:00:00 »

Jari:  Hfics, huh?  Yeah, it's prolly something really sick-like sailormoon hentia...  

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General Discussion / useless link (and pic) of the day

« on: 2001-11-24 01:18:00 »

An american burnt-out-hippie comic.  rather a funny old fool, and a bit raunchy.

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General Discussion / IMPORTANT: The final forum URL

« on: 2001-11-23 02:58:00 »

Qhimm:  Gigabit?  I still want my green smilie!  
*Sulks in jealousy*

Though there is an option for some of us out here in the boonies of the good ole' USA-DirecPC satellite connections.  Don't know how reliable it is, but you can still dial up if you suffer from rain fade or other gremlins.

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General Discussion / useless link (and pic) of the day

« on: 2001-11-23 01:45:00 »

Yeah, Tidus, Selphie and moogles-aren't Tidus and Selphie playable?

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General Discussion / 100 Greatest movies.

« on: 2001-11-23 00:52:00 »

Best movies?  
 1.  Empire Strikes Back
 2.  The Cowboys (with John Wayne)
 3.  Star Wars (ANH)
 4.  Raiders of the Lost Ark
 5.  Blade Runner (surprised that one hasn't shown up...)
 6.  Lawrence of Arabia
 7.  The Road Warrior
 8.  The Patriot
 9.  Twice Upon a Time (with ralph-the-all-purpose-animal)
Bad Movies?
 1.  Anything with Barbara Striesand

Darkness:  Beats me?  Board still does weird things sometimes...

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General Discussion / useless link (and pic) of the day

« on: 2001-11-23 00:36:00 »

This was on The Madman's cafe-most of you have prolly seen it, but for those that haven't, there's a pic floating about with Yuffie and Squall.  It's a guest appearance in Kindom Hearts-kinda weird, shows Squall at 25, very Laguna-like.

here's the link.

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General Discussion / What happened...

« on: 2001-11-22 14:57:00 »

crap!  forgot to log in...

Fice:  happy is as you should be.  There was nothing but unadulterated jealousy in my post...hey-that's something else we need-green smilies for jealousy.

(Since I'm feeling in a good mood, I've fixed it for you -Ficedula )
[edited] 68 2001-11-22 16:07

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General Discussion / What happened...

« on: 2001-11-21 23:35:00 »

There's been so many things happening lately I was just like "oh, well-it'll pop up sooner or later!"  Good to see there's a (semi?) permanant address now...

Wish list?  I'd like to see the old ending "tag" line for the board up again-do you remember it?

*edit*
Oh, yeah-and given Fice's current post levels and rate, maybe we should give him a "Ficedula Express Posting Button".  He'll be hitting 2000 before I hit the century mark...  
[edited] 193 2001-11-22 00:41

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General Discussion / Got Win XP now...

« on: 2001-11-21 23:20:00 »

Jedimark-man, someone else that has a viper II card!  Nice to know beforehand that XP chokes on it...

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General Discussion / We moved again...

« on: 2001-11-18 02:18:00 »

Might not be a bad idea to spread the word to those who might get lost otherwise-if anyone seems missing, drop them a line to let them know (until something else can be arranged).

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General Discussion / We moved again...

« on: 2001-11-18 00:51:00 »

Luckily, I had Fice's site in my faves.  Obssesively checking it brought gold!

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General Discussion / We moved again...

« on: 2001-11-16 20:37:00 »

Damn!  took me long enough to find it...  

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Troubleshooting / Garden by The SaINT

« on: 2001-11-10 13:15:00 »

It is rather odd that you'd pick an old thread like this to begin posting in...

Fice:  I've always thought your nick was rather masculine-not that I dwell on those sorts of things.  Given that this forum is 97% male, I *usually* assume "non-gendered" nicks are male, unless otherwise stated.