THE THREAD!!!

[BrucePowers]

Morning Tithe[:)]

[Kwik E Mart]

morning gents...never play a dice game in a bar with a cab driver...

[BrucePowers]

I think I had that one figured out already[:D]

[anarchyintheuk]

ORIGINAL: Kwik E Mart

morning gents...never play a dice game in a bar with a cab driver...

I'd add play poker w/ a guy who is named after a city.
Take carpentry lessons from a man who has four fingers on one hand.

[Mynok]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Mynok


Recovering from bug acquired on the plane ride (most likely). Wife has now entered the bad phase of the disease.

Note to self: get the disease AFTER one's wife has had it to avoid whining.

Welcome back, brother brush hat. I too felt the inexorable reminiscence of Montezuma upon my return from Manila two weeks ago. Good on you for doing the right thing out there, dude.

We avoided TD, but got some kind of virus. Go figure.

[Mynok]

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: sprior

Did anyone remember WW1's birthday yesterday? Should we send a "sorry it's late" card?

Yep... I did... my gradfather fought in it...


Leo "Apollo11"

Whoa....for Austria-Hungary?

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Mynok

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

ORIGINAL: sprior

Did anyone remember WW1's birthday yesterday? Should we send a "sorry it's late" card?

Yep... I did... my gradfather fought in it...

Whoa....for Austria-Hungary?

Yep... Austria-Hungary...


Leo "Apollo11"

[Dixie]

ANother day of graft out on the flight line, I'm a tired little airman now [>:]

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Thunderstorm...




Leo "Apollo11"

[Nikademus]

ORIGINAL: USS America

Is anyone else noticing that it has recently started taking longer for THE THREAD!!! to load than other forum topics?  I fear it may be time to start planning a new incarnation after this one hits 1000 pages. 

not unless someone wants to rekindle a Bizmark debate.

[Nikademus]

In the spirit of the latest "Those poor dumb Japanese" thread to appear.......

"Beer......is there any evidence that it effectively kills brain cells?"

Spring break doesn't count.

[:'(]

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

ORIGINAL: USS America

Is anyone else noticing that it has recently started taking longer for THE THREAD!!! to load than other forum topics?  I fear it may be time to start planning a new incarnation after this one hits 1000 pages. 

not unless someone wants to rekindle a Bizmark debate.

Ahhh...those were the days... [:D]

BTW, Bismarck was scuttled! [8D]


Leo "Apollo11"

[Dixie]

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

ORIGINAL: USS America

Is anyone else noticing that it has recently started taking longer for THE THREAD!!! to load than other forum topics?  I fear it may be time to start planning a new incarnation after this one hits 1000 pages. 

not unless someone wants to rekindle a Bizmark debate.

Ahhh...those were the days... [:D]

BTW, Bismarck was scuttled! [8D]


Leo "Apollo11"

Sunk

[Nikademus]

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Ahhh...those were the days... [:D]

BTW, Bismarck was scuttled! [8D]


Leo "Apollo11"

by Oompa Loompas!

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

ORIGINAL: Mynok

ORIGINAL: Apollo11



Yep... I did... my gradfather fought in it...

Whoa....for Austria-Hungary?

Yep... Austria-Hungary...

Repost of my post to general forum some time ago...

My grandfather was captured by Russians in 1915 on Eastern front. He was wounded in arm (bullets passed through just above his right hand wrist) and he got another bullet in his groin - luckily for him, instead of carrying his dog-tag around neck he had it in his pocket (in his pants) and bullet stopped when it hit it (I still have his dog tags!)...

Please note that we were then (for centuries BTW) part of Austrian-Hungarian empire.

He was transferred deep into Russia (almost close to Siberia) and come home in 1921/1922 (with WWI and after Russian civil war he was unable to travel).

Luckily for him he was forest engineer and he almost immediately found himself great post as a foreman on one big estate there (all Russian men, of course, were fighting in war and thus there was no one to take care of huge estate).

In the meantime my grandmother never lost faith that he would return (she waited as his fiancée for 8 years) and they got married in 1923.

Strangely enough when he and my grandmother got children (4 in all) he insisted that their first daughter would called Olga and second one Myra (my mother was their third daughter and my uncle their only son)... God knows why... [;)]

BTW, I still remember sitting in his lap as a child (he died in 1977 as almost 100 years old) listening to him talking about his military and post WWI adventures!

P.S.
I will never forget what he said: "Communism is nice thing in theory but in practice it would require people to be angles - which they are not and thus this whole thing is one grand illusion and utopia!" [8D]

P.P.S.
When he returned the only big thing he carried with him (apart from clothes on his back) was aluminum pot he used to cook all his meals - I still have that pot at home! [:D]

Leo "Apollo11"

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

ORIGINAL: Nikademus



not unless someone wants to rekindle a Bizmark debate.

Ahhh...those were the days... [:D]

BTW, Bismarck was scuttled! [8D]

Sunk

Scuttled! [;)]


Leo "Apollo11"

[Nikademus]

ORIGINAL: Apollo11


Scuttled! [;)]


Leo "Apollo11"

Brought to you by the Royal Navy.......Service with a Smile (and a cup of tea)

[DuckofTindalos]

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

In the spirit of the latest "Those poor dumb Japanese" thread to appear.......

"Beer......is there any evidence that it effectively kills brain cells?"

Spring break doesn't count.

[:'(]

Because nobody ever takes their brain to spring break...

[USSAmerica]

I'm taking my brain home, and stopping for some beer on the way.  [:D]

Parole - Tithe. [&o]

[JWE]

ORIGINAL: Apollo11
My grandfather was captured by Russians in 1915 on Eastern front. He was wounded in arm (bullets passed through just above his right hand wrist) and he got another bullet in his groin - luckily for him, instead of carrying his dog-tag around neck he had it in his pocket (in his pants) and bullet stopped when it hit it (I still have his dog tags!)...

Please note that we were then (for centuries BTW) part of Austrian-Hungarian empire.

He was transferred deep into Russia (almost close to Siberia) and come home in 1921/1922 (with WWI and after Russian civil war he was unable to travel).

Luckily for him he was forest engineer and he almost immediately found himself great post as a foreman on one big estate there (all Russian men, of course, were fighting in war and thus there was no one to take care of huge estate).

In the meantime my grandmother never lost faith that he would return (she waited as his fiancée for 8 years) and they got married in 1923.

Strangely enough when he and my grandmother got children (4 in all) he insisted that their first daughter would called Olga and second one Myra (my mother was their third daughter and my uncle their only son)... God knows why... [;)]

BTW, I still remember sitting in his lap as a child (he died in 1977 as almost 100 years old) listening to him talking about his military and post WWI adventures!

P.S.
I will never forget what he said: "Communism is nice thing in theory but in practice it would require people to be angles - which they are not and thus this whole thing is one grand illusion and utopia!" [8D]

P.P.S.
When he returned the only big thing he carried with him (apart from clothes on his back) was aluminum pot he used to cook all his meals - I still have that pot at home! [:D]

Leo "Apollo11"

Astonishing what some people know and remember from their ancestors talking about it. And equally astonishing is what their ancestors chose to remember and talk about.

Gosh, I love this thread, and the people in it!