LOL, how soon we forget. Who helps out or at least tries to keep auctions and fundraisers up to snuff?

At least that one thing is certain.

Spurned, scorned, cursed, or blessed.
I shall never be forgotten.
I suspect that much at least is true.

Some take my thoughts as overworked pride. I do have a lot of that, and I believe I have every right to it.
I have worked for it, and mostly paid for it. For many years.

Now.......
Let me give you this one clip. Use it only as a last resort.
But, I have always used it, and may tonight again if things get two rough.

I got two guns, one for each of ya.

Your friends might take me out, but NOT before I make your head a canoe. Period. Do not back off.
If anybody noodles you, repost the clip. If that does not work, get to deleting posts immediately. They shall get the point then.

Hope I got the right clip indexed there, or you might be in trouble...LOL.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Clayton, I would ask you to stay. I find your post to be thought provoking, funny, head scratching and furious. Just what is needed in a community.

And you had Fred the BOSS of all the mods. Post you personnaly, Not to leave.
As a former mod myself, I can state that Mods are not gods. And to be fair to the mods some are new to the game. It does take time to learn the ropes. The older mods help the new ones learn. But as humans, Mistakes do happen. That why you can address such grievances to the mod list. Or you can E-mail or PM Fred directly.

Now if you really want to scare yourself, Take a gander way back in the early days of the cafe. A lot of posts are hidden but enough are open to read. Back then Mods didnt answer to anyone. Now they answer to Fred.

I hope you stay, And everyone gets modded at some point.( Even mods get modded.)
You just need to know what the divieding line is.

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Old James

Hey Clayton !
The SETI@home project needs YOU and BOINCsteam (your team) !
And then, who is going to post us all these delirious things which you pick up almost everywhere ?
The SETI@home community is as a family !
And in a family, there is also rants...
But we don't leave his family.
Stay with us :)

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The previous situation shall never happen again???
Just what is that previous situation?
That an ingnorant poster should never post something that an innocent mod has a life experience with???

And should not respond in terms that the ignorant poster should not be offended by???

WTF are you saying????

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

The situation before we had Fred, as James said in his post. Nothing to do with belligerent posteres. Apologies if it wasn't as clear as it could have been.

NO mod should ever be put in the situation between doing what is right and arguing with a poster.
This, as I said before, was simply an impossible situation given the mod, the poster, and the subject matter.
I was there for every post in the bit, and I side with the mod.

She did everything she could do to diffuse the argument.
I shall now bring back what I can of the thread.
Kick me in the arse if you must.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

My name has made it on the wooden spoon here in my little country village 4 times in the last 12yrs for the best stirrer in town. :-D

So I certainly don't take offense at being at the other end of a bit of stirring myself (all is good for a laugh when you know those around and who it's being aimed at). ;-)

In fact I'm well behind this year in the running because of this crazy girl around the corner not taking no for an answer (no one here ever believes me either because her ute is nearly always in my driveway they say).

Cheers.

My name has made it on the wooden spoon here in my little country village 4 times in the last 12yrs for the best stirrer in town. :-D

So I certainly don't take offense at being at the other end of a bit of stirring myself (all is good for a laugh when you know those around and who it's being aimed at). ;-)

In fact I'm well behind this year in the running because of this crazy girl around the corner not taking no for an answer (no one here ever believes me either because her ute is nearly always in my driveway they say).

Cheers.

So, you are shacking with a young girl and want my OK?
And just was this have to do with the object at hand?
Have fun in your driveway.
LOL...BTW.
It's really funny that you blame it on 'this crazy girl around the corner not taking no for an answer'.....you sicko.
LOL.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

My name has made it on the wooden spoon here in my little country village 4 times in the last 12yrs for the best stirrer in town. :-D

So I certainly don't take offense at being at the other end of a bit of stirring myself (all is good for a laugh when you know those around and who it's being aimed at). ;-)

In fact I'm well behind this year in the running because of this crazy girl around the corner not taking no for an answer (no one here ever believes me either because her ute is nearly always in my driveway they say).

Cheers.

So, you are shacking with a young girl and want my OK?
And just was this have to do with the object at hand?
Have fun in your driveway.
LOL...BTW.
It's really funny that you blame it on 'this crazy girl around the corner not taking no for an answer'.....you sicko.
LOL.

Actually, no I'm not Mark, and I'm trying to see why you are taking my words the in the wrong way.

I do not want young girl at all (more so when she has a 9yr old daughter if you really want to know) and that's all there is to it (she just can't understand why, which is why I call her crazy).

Cheers.

If Clayton was really unhappy here and wants to take his ball and go home, then I suppose that's his right. We have lots of other balls to play with.

My beef is that he didn't just take his ball, he called Moderators' Construction Company and had them run a bulldozer through all the empty lots he owned. We have other lots too, but some of his were really fun to play on.

(I'm alluding here to when Mayor Daley carved up the runway at Meigs Field.)

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

If Clayton was really unhappy here and wants to take his ball and go home, then I suppose that's his right. We have lots of other balls to play with.

My beef is that he didn't just take his ball, he called Moderators' Construction Company and had them run a bulldozer through all the empty lots he owned. We have other lots too, but some of his were really fun to play on.

(I'm alluding here to when Mayor Daley carved up the runway at Meigs Field.)

I surely miss the I gotta go thread. Reminds me of the fun in the past We had. I just might have to reopen the Puns O FUN thread again. Seems like there is a market for it:)

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Old James

I think part of the contribution people can make to the
project is their ability to entice others to be part of
of it all, the crunching, the donating, and the posting.
For me part of the fun of donating money and cycles here
is the entertainment I get from posting and reading the
forms. The I gotta' go thread. was a lot of fun. Clayton
you are part of the reason this whole thing works, try
to find a reason to stay.

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T'would seem I missed some serious fireworks Friday evening. Shame it came to that, and Clayton feels the need to erase most of the threads he started. I was enjoying the ones I participated in. Pity ALL the posts in those threads are hidden.

Clayton, I notice that you have not yet cancelled your S@H account, so you may yet read this. I, too, have looked Death in the face. For 16 of the 20+ years I served in the US Navy, I went to sea on ships that sank on purpose, or fixed them when they broke. There were several occasions when things went wrong, and we weren't sure we would all get home, but we did. I have been knocked down by 450VAC, 250VDC, and 3000 psi hydrualic oil, exposed to toxic gases, and hit by falling machinery. I have held 3 people's hands while they died, including both my parents. Death and I are not strangers. I do not fear him, but I do not laugh AT him, either. He has a job to do, and he does it.

I do, however, laugh about death. As Chaplain for 3 Veterans' Service Organizations, I deal with sick and dying members, and their families. Several years ago, one of my Shipmates died, and another suffered a heart attack two days later. When I visited the second Shipmate in the hospital, I asked him how he felt. He replied something like "lousy, but I'll live." To which I responded "Good, I was worried I'd have to do a two-fer" (funeral). The nurse, who had just entered the room, happened to also be a member of our Post, laughed along with me and the Shipmate, but the Shipmate's wife took it badly, and complained to the Post Secretary and Commander. Eventually she got over it. Gallows and graveyard humour has its place, but not everyone appreciates it. Life goes on. And then it ends.

In the short time you have been a member of this Project, you have added value to both the science and the community. Please don't let one misunderstanding, however serious, drive you away.

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

I seem to take Dr. Death a bit more seriously than some. I aplogize if my sense of humor wanes a bit when addressing him directly. He has been anything but a joker to me. I understand the need of some to misdirect their sorrows in other directions. Please understand when I seen to have been unable to achieve that in my own goals. Not that I should have to apologize for not dealing with death correctly, if their is such a term.

The only death I hope I need to deal with short term is my Squirrel kitty, who I believe may be on short notice from the Lord above. And that is gonna be a killer, as they say. Not sure how that's gonna work out for me.
Might be a bit tragic.

Not that I need to be any more the drama queen than some already make me out to be.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

I always did wonder why in his greatest wisdom, man is the only animal, as Twain said.
Man, you see that for sordid wages goes forth to exterminate his own kind.
I'd be pleased if he only went forth against those truly responsible.
And I cannot believe what would occur should that come true.
Force a man's child to go to war and you'd be amazed how quickly his views on the subject change.

I never had children, which is why I can afford to be to cynical about the subject, you see.
Not that the fact has made me any less honest about it.
Or more condescending about it.
I hate war as much, or more than most any man on the planet, and can spend hours of my useless life berating it.
And then spend countless more hours defending that faith, you see.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Id say just about every poster in here has seen the death of a loved one. As you get older its bound to happen . Im with Donald that sometimes you just have to laugh.

My second wife was in a car wreck. She had a massive skull fractures and was on life support. After a brain scan they told me she was brain dead. I pulled the plug. Now im not saying my grieving was all fun and games, Quite the contrary, But If I had not had humor to soften the loss I have no clue what I would be like today.

I for one will cut some slack on the so called death humor. Does it touch a nerve now and then, Yes but I also realize all humans grieve differant. So thats my two cents.

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Old James

Id say just about every poster in here has seen the death of a loved one. As you get older its bound to happen . Im with Donald that sometimes you just have to laugh.

My second wife was in a car wreck. She had a massive skull fractures and was on life support. After a brain scan they told me she was brain dead. I pulled the plug. Now im not saying my grieving was all fun and games, Quite the contrary, But If I had not had humor to soften the loss I have no clue what I would be like today.

I for one will cut some slack on the so called death humor. Does it touch a nerve now and then, Yes but I also realize all humans grieve differant. So thats my two cents.

Well then, James, then we seem to grieve differently.

This is MY version of grieving........ If one has time before hand to elucidate it.
There is not better realization of what is to come ever recorded.

I could not script a better line to end my life with.


I should be so blessed, so graced, and have that one moment of lucidity to make such a statement at my time of departure. Time to die.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Mark there is no right or wrong way to grieve. Thats why I wont ever pass judgement on a persons way to do it.

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Old James

When My mom died, it took a few days, but I was driving and I had to pull over suddenly, I cried like a baby and I normally try and avoid that for medical reasons from childhood, after I was done crying, that was it.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Mark there is no right or wrong way to grieve. Thats why I wont ever pass judgement on a persons way to do it.

OK...fair enough.
It is something that all have to deal with in their own way.
I am not the one to pass judgement on it either.
I can only hope that some would understand that I am still dealing with some of my loss after 35 years.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Some humour in good taste can take the edge off it. My dad is now 100 and he has said "When I go I want a brass band marching down the high street!", I said "Weelll, we might manage a 3 piece group outside the Co-Op!". We both know we are kidding of course, but that's all to the good.

Reminds me of the NCIS episode where Kate gets killed, and as they are leaving the gravesite, Abby cues up a CD of a Dixieland Funeral March on her boombox.

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired