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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/21/2010 2:54:23 PM

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One of my favorite Gamecock players and currently playing for the Broncos committed suicide today. I'm just stunned and devastated. He was the hardest worker, the nicest kid and someone you would otherwise point out as a complete role model.

I have no words. Weeping for his family and confused by such a drastic choice with all his potential.

Folks, make sure you love your friends and family. Tell them they are appreciated. I'm convicted of my own apathy and callousness to those around me right now. Who can know what people are suffering? But we can be a light and a friend to them.

God bless his family and graciously forgive him for this. I just don't know what to say right now.

You've certainly brought up an excellent point: we can best help those to whom we are near or interact with on a consistant basis by going beyond the standard greeting of "How are you? Fine? Good". When we assume others are doing well because they look okay, we fall into the trap of indifference.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/21/2010 3:02:10 PM

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Hi all,

Time to go home form work tithe...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/21/2010 4:58:06 PM

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Floods, suicides and general negative vibes abound...

I've done my part to raise the 'good karma quotient' around here by writing a nice letter of recommendation for a student to do a fellowship at CDC. It was very complimentary. As is my policy for these sorts of things, I'm going to send her a copy too. I hope it makes her cry-but in a good way.

It's important for people to read nice things about themselves as they develop their careers. Too often their ears are filled with those things that they can't do, what they're poor at, what they should be doing and how they should be doing it. They infrequently hear of those things that they genuinely do well. We're scant with praise, rich with criticism.

Not today. Not me.

Go do your parts.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/21/2010 4:59:36 PM

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Tithe....

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/21/2010 6:39:42 PM

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Go do your parts

Do my parts? I'll have you know this is a family forum!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/21/2010 6:42:41 PM

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A question to Terminus: did you empower the Emily's in your Thousand mile war with some kind of super powers? Should 4 of them be able to penetrate a CAP screen and torpedo (and sink) a pair of battleships on most occassions? Chickenboy, Chicken of the Sea just repeated your success , except this time it was fair weather and a CVE full of F4F's covering the battleships couldn't catch them!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/21/2010 6:53:04 PM

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/21/2010 6:54:53 PM

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Good parts.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/21/2010 6:59:28 PM

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The one on the far right is really jummy!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/21/2010 7:18:49 PM

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Yummy too.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/21/2010 7:22:08 PM

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They're all very appetizing.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/21/2010 8:10:56 PM

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A question to Terminus: did you empower the Emily's in your Thousand mile war with some kind of super powers? Should 4 of them be able to penetrate a CAP screen and torpedo (and sink) a pair of battleships on most occassions? Chickenboy, Chicken of the Sea just repeated your success , except this time it was fair weather and a CVE full of F4F's covering the battleships couldn't catch them!

Honestly, that result surprised me as much as it did you. So either Terminus rigged the scenario to torment you or perhaps earlier in life you wronged some fair lady named Emily and now the curse of the Emily will follow you forever.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/21/2010 8:15:25 PM

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The one on the far right is really jummy!

+1 if you'd used the correct spelling

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/21/2010 8:17:29 PM

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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

A question to Terminus: did you empower the Emily's in your Thousand mile war with some kind of super powers? Should 4 of them be able to penetrate a CAP screen and torpedo (and sink) a pair of battleships on most occassions? Chickenboy, Chicken of the Sea just repeated your success , except this time it was fair weather and a CVE full of F4F's covering the battleships couldn't catch them!

Honestly, that result surprised me as much as it did you. So either Terminus rigged the scenario to torment you or perhaps earlier in life you wronged some fair lady named Emily and now the curse of the Emily will follow you forever.

Why can't it be both?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/21/2010 8:18:06 PM

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The one on the far right is really jummy!

+1 if you'd used the correct spelling

Maybe that's how its spelled in BBM-Land.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/21/2010 8:18:35 PM

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Bedtime tithe...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/21/2010 8:19:54 PM

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A question to Terminus: did you empower the Emily's in your Thousand mile war with some kind of super powers? Should 4 of them be able to penetrate a CAP screen and torpedo (and sink) a pair of battleships on most occassions? Chickenboy, Chicken of the Sea just repeated your success , except this time it was fair weather and a CVE full of F4F's covering the battleships couldn't catch them!

my GOD!.....that never happened in history....game is definately broken!

(unless the sunken BB's are Japanese, in which case then its alright as this morning's Thread of the Day is proving)

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/21/2010 8:21:50 PM

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A question to Terminus: did you empower the Emily's in your Thousand mile war with some kind of super powers? Should 4 of them be able to penetrate a CAP screen and torpedo (and sink) a pair of battleships on most occassions? Chickenboy, Chicken of the Sea just repeated your success , except this time it was fair weather and a CVE full of F4F's covering the battleships couldn't catch them!

my GOD!.....that never happened in history....game is definately broken!

(unless the sunken BB's are Japanese, in which case then its alright as this morning's Thread of the Day is proving)

You sure had a good comment on those PT boats

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/21/2010 8:31:16 PM

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A question to Terminus: did you empower the Emily's in your Thousand mile war with some kind of super powers? Should 4 of them be able to penetrate a CAP screen and torpedo (and sink) a pair of battleships on most occassions? Chickenboy, Chicken of the Sea just repeated your success , except this time it was fair weather and a CVE full of F4F's covering the battleships couldn't catch them!

Honestly, that result surprised me as much as it did you. So either Terminus rigged the scenario to torment you or perhaps earlier in life you wronged some fair lady named Emily and now the curse of the Emily will follow you forever.

Sy'mon says, it was sure de curse, mon. Last year, we had dis chicken named Emily, and she was a big fat thing, and she was to go down on next Ecole du Samedi, but she went and pecked maitre cock to death. Ohhh dis be bad juju, really bad juju. Gris-gris man be workin over time; gettin slim from lack 'o de sustenance.

This bad. This really bad. You gonna have to think on sacrifice de virgin if you can find one.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/21/2010 8:33:54 PM

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I always roll my eyes when the "usual crowd" acts up whenever a Japanese player gets a result that isn't a strict replay headline from history. We then get the history lesson along with dark sermons on how AE is influenced by an evil pro-Japanese shadow society. (well they're right in JWE's case......he's certainly shadowy.....and i think he likes Sushi)

Get a result outside of history that favors the Allied side however....and suddenly all those voices either go silent or comment favorably on how the result is certainly possible within the realm of possibility.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/21/2010 8:38:49 PM

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I have no problem with wild, once in a life time weirdness. When said weirdness occurs two games running, I've got to wonder. It never happened in the Dozen or so games I played against the AI , but in the two times I've played it in a PBEM, it's happened both times. I'm not complaining (much!

) but didn't the odds just go from strange to astronomical?

All I way asking T was did he hack into my computer, or leave an easter egg in the scenario for me?

And JWE , what did I do to you?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/21/2010 8:40:36 PM

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I have no idea what you lot are wittering on about.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/21/2010 8:41:08 PM

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I always roll my eyes when the "usual crowd" acts up whenever a Japanese player gets a result that isn't a strict replay headline from history. We then get the history lesson along with dark sermons on how AE is influenced by an evil pro-Japanese shadow society. (well they're right in JWE's case......he's certainly shadowy.....and i think he likes Sushi)

Get a result outside of history that favors the Allied side however....and suddenly all those voices either go silent or comment favorably on how the result is certainly possible within the realm of possibility.

Hey! I like sushi! (In fact that's dinner tonight!

). Am I in "the usual crowd?"

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/21/2010 8:42:04 PM

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I like curry.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/21/2010 8:48:47 PM

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I have no problem with wild, once in a life time weirdness. When said weirdness occurs two games running, I've got to wonder. It never happened in the Dozen or so games I played against the AI , but in the two times I've played it in a PBEM, it's happened both times. I'm not complaining (much!) but didn't the odds just go from strange to astronomical?

All I way asking T was did he hack into my computer, or leave an easter egg in the scenario for me? And JWE , what did I do to you?

oh i hear you. Its just the obvious hipocracy that irritates me. (PT's score the mother load against a BB and a heavy cruiser, which never occured in history, but thats ok. Same smack downed japanese force sinks multiple PT's in return but thats NOT ok because that exceeded the HISTORY of PT sinkings.)

okey dokey.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/21/2010 8:49:39 PM

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I have no idea what you lot are wittering on about.

"PT Boat Flotilla vs Yamato/Musashi TF" thread on the main board.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/21/2010 8:55:21 PM

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I have no problem with wild, once in a life time weirdness. When said weirdness occurs two games running, I've got to wonder. It never happened in the Dozen or so games I played against the AI , but in the two times I've played it in a PBEM, it's happened both times. I'm not complaining (much!) but didn't the odds just go from strange to astronomical?

All I way asking T was did he hack into my computer, or leave an easter egg in the scenario for me? And JWE , what did I do to you?

I'll break security this time to explain what I think happened. I had Betties coming in high and Emilies low. Both should have had escorts, but the escorts never showed. The Betties aborted and went home. Perhaps your F4F's were chasing the Betties at altitude and the Emilies snuck in underneath.

Steve did take Kiska that turn, though.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/21/2010 8:59:45 PM

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I have no problem with wild, once in a life time weirdness. When said weirdness occurs two games running, I've got to wonder. It never happened in the Dozen or so games I played against the AI , but in the two times I've played it in a PBEM, it's happened both times. I'm not complaining (much!) but didn't the odds just go from strange to astronomical?

All I way asking T was did he hack into my computer, or leave an easter egg in the scenario for me? And JWE , what did I do to you?

I'll break security this time to explain what I think happened. I had Betties coming in high and Emilies low. Both should have had escorts, but the escorts never showed. The Betties aborted and went home. Perhaps your F4F's were chasing the Betties at altitude and the Emilies snuck in underneath.

Steve did take Kiska that turn, though.

I didn't mean to sound whiney.

I'm really too shocked to be upset.

And it's not that it happened in our game. It's that it happened almost exactly the same way.

I really need to look into these Emily's. They must be a vastly underated plane.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/21/2010 9:01:08 PM

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oh i hear you. Its just the obvious hipocracy that irritates me. (PT's score the mother load against a BB and a heavy cruiser, which never occured in history, but thats ok. Same smack downed japanese force sinks multiple PT's in return but thats NOT ok because that exceeded the HISTORY of PT sinkings.)

okey dokey.

It looked pretty extreme to me.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/21/2010 9:13:57 PM

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I always roll my eyes when the "usual crowd" acts up whenever a Japanese player gets a result that isn't a strict replay headline from history. We then get the history lesson along with dark sermons on how AE is influenced by an evil pro-Japanese shadow society. (well they're right in JWE's case......he's certainly shadowy.....and i think he likes Sushi)

Sy'mon says, ooooh yes JWE love de sushi; and de sashimi, and even de kami. But not de Uni, sea urchin reproductive organs just don�t sound much like de food, even with de spleef to help along.

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