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Sounds like the cheese is starting to stink... Boats, who is now running like hell

Donny, I see that your schitzophrenia medicine isn't working too good...your personalities are starting to merge Boats

A big Bravo Zulu from this wannabe squid! Thanks for all you did, troop! Scouts out! Boats

Yah, and mostly they talk about how many Nips end up making aluminum rain in Ironbottom Sound Boats

Dude, I went through the same thing...turned out it was a bad connection in the cable in the house. I replaced my modem, and the same blithering crap was there. Comcast also has a new thingmie, where you can drive over to the local Comcast store, pick up a new modem, and get them to reset it over the phone. If that doesn't do it, then you got connection problems in the line, somewhere between the pole and your puter. If this ain't it, then there could be a problem in the local node, and if that ain't it, then you got a little perve in the neighborhood trying to download all the alt. binaries hierarchy Boats, who has been there and done that, got a month free service, and the next three months at 9.95 out of it...after calling the local government office that regulates them arseholes. P.S...very important. Chances are, that when you call them, you won't be talking to someone local. I talked to one moron that was in North Dakota.

Ronin...dial 1-800-WAHH Boats

How many people besides me think that DH is really Donny when he really has a bad joke or pun to lay down? Boats

Very cool, Doc Thanks! Boats, who will remember his three hours on Vultures Roost for a very long time

Hmmm...got a fresh 120 gig HD...got a smokin' 3.6 mps download speed....oh hell yes! Boats, who will download whilst he's getting out of his work clothes, and heating up a bit of fried chicken...

New Orleans cops? you gotta be kidding me...Only way to reform them, is to fire every politician in the city, and ever cop, and start over. It's been like that for a century now, and there's no end to it in sight. Boats

Red, you'd have to be there to understand it. My great aunt had a friend named Andre...except Andre was a ghost. I sh!t you not. He would show up when my aunt had friends over for tea, and her friends KNEW someone was there, from little puffs of wind you feel when someone walks by you, to the feel of a hand on their shoulders. They complained to the local parish priest, who went over and told my aunt, Andre had to go. She did not want her friend to go, and the priest threatened excommunication. Dire thing for a Catholic, and my aunt was very devout. So, she asked Andre to leave, for she feared for her soul. Andre was never seen after that day. I kid you not. Cajun Louisina is steeped with this sort of thing, and the Creoles of Haiti and Dominica have their fair share as well. This sort of thing does not surprise me in the least. Boats

Business before pleasure... Joker, hang in there dude, we'll be here when you get back.. Screw the French. Boats

My pleasure, Canuck Boats

We had a couple of HMCN frigates come in today, the Ville de Quebec and another. They were over on the Gulf Coast, helping with disaster relief. About 1 AM, I'm sitting on the pier, by our portable (conex) tool room, in my company golf cart (easiest way to get around on restricted piers), and I see some people motoring by. I thought they were our Navy guys at first. Then three of them come up to me, and ask me if I know where the Canadian frigates are, and could I give them a ride...they are way more than a little drunk. Since one of them was a really good looking blonde, who would have easily have qualified for Donnies Babe list (WOOHOO!), I said sure!. Then another batch...and another. About half were OK to make it, but the rest? Geez...one guy was so whacked, he was wandering around in the dark on the pier, looking at the ships, and finally decided the USS Underwood was his ship, and started to head for the brow. I motored over, and said, "Canadian?" He said, yah, how could you tell? I gave him a ride, to keep him from falling in the water, and then gave several more a ride, till finally they had all made it back from the bars. They kept trying to give me money, and I refused all of them. I told them, that they had just come back from helping my country out when it needed it, and this was just my way of paying it back. Way funny kids! Boats

Eagerly awaiting Ronins pithy reply... Boats

"There is nothing so sublime, as the sound of a bullet that just missed killing you" Winston Churchill, from the Boer Wars Boats "The only way to negotiate with the enemy, is with your knee on his chest, and your knife at his throat" Naval Aviators, Yankee Station, Vietnam War Boats

quote=Shepherd,Sep 17 2005, 04:46 PM] sedan racing on ovals and two roadies. <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Congrats to you and the Mrs., Shep. I strongly suspect you will soon learn the meaning of the word "patience"<G> Boats

I had to go to work at around lap 200, and I had high hopes for my driver, since at that time, he was leading. He didn't pit when the other drivers did, and got the lead. I thought, Ryan is going to get passed here soon, but he'll still get the 5 points for leading a lap. Oh, no...not only did he keep the lead for quite a while, but when I was leaving the house, he was pulling away from Stewart! WOOHOO! Then the wife calls me at work, to tell me my guy won the whole tamale, and Ryan went all the way from 10th to 3rd, only 40 points out of contention. My day is complete! My driver finally won a race, and when it REALLY counted! Boats

Someone needs to send him a book about the 'Canal. There were seven, repeat, seven distinct naval actions that centered around the control of the Solomons, and only three were purely naval actions. That's not counting the times that carrier and land based air had to destroy landing barges, troop ships, and troop destroyers, not to mention the 3 carrier actions. I head to the library about once every ten years, and pull out a couple of books (damned if I can remember the name right now) and read up on them. Simply put, the struggle to control the Solomon Islands was the most pivotal actions of the Pacific war, second only to Midway. Boats

Just think...this was a good 90 miles from the center of the eye when it crossed land. Now you know why I watch the weather (my own take of the raw feed from the National Hurrican Center) during hurrican season every day. And I'm damn well ready to drop everything and get the hell of of Dodge (well, I'd stop long enough to get my hard drive ) Boats

You mean the boys at Comppuke USA? I can sure try. Boats

People, over the last five years (Bush Administration), Lousiana got 1.9 billion dollars for Corps of Engineers work. The majority of that went to the southern part of the state. That money is more than any other state, including California. During the five previous years, prior administration, they got slightly less. THEY WERE GETTING THE DAMNED MONEY ALL ALONG! People living in other states simply can't comprehend the level of corruption to be found in the state in general and NOLA in particular. Simply watching the mayor and the governor should be proof enough. The only thing that didn't happen during Katrina, and should have, is to whipe the city clean, so it could be built from the ground up. You have no idea, how angry about this I am. Boats

Ronin, I ain't gotta be a good pilot to wax your rice head...I'm a real sneaky SOB, who firmly believes that if you ain't cheatin' you ain't trying. You keep running that mockingbird mouth, podna...you'll soon overload your hummingbird arse Boats

Well, for starters, I've heard about a yacht basin that was built, and a new lock on the Industrial Canal, to service the Intracoastal Waterway, that was not needed. In fact, when the Corps said that the lock did not meet the mandated cost-benefit ratio, Sen. Landrieu snuck a change into an entirely different spending bell that by law changed the ratio parameters. Time for the Mayor, the Governor, and Sen. Landrieu to go feed the alligators Byron, who has no doubt, that when the next election comes around, these same people will get elected.