Posts by Jonathan Thompson

@Noel Hughes. Can you help?

FBOM would be here if he could. He's up there watching over us.

I'm of the opinion is not us against them. It's just a choice and I've chosen to be here.

I've got three step kids, one in college and two in high school. They are my money pit for the next eight years. Than back to toys.

I'm stealing this.

Quote from Tripod

A man and his dog were walking along a road.
The man was enjoying the scenery, when
it suddenly occurred to him that he was dead.
He remembered dying and that the dog walking bedide him had been dead for years.
He wondered where the road was leading them.

After a while, they came to a high, white stone wall along one side of the road. It looked like fine marble.

At the top of a long hill, it was broken by a tall arch that glowed in the sunlight.
When he was standing before it, he saw a magnificent gate in the arch that looked like mother-of-pearl and the street that led to the gate looked like pure gold.

He and the dog walked toward the gate, and as he got closer, he saw a man at a desk to one side.

When he was close enough, he called out,
"Excuse me, where are we?"

"This is Heaven, sir," the man answered.

"Wow! Would you happen to have some water?" the man asked.

"Of course, sir. Come right in, and I'll have some ice water brought right up."
The man gestured, and the gate began to open.
"Can my friend," gesturing toward his dog,
"come in, too?" the traveller asked.

"I'm sorry, sir, but we don't accept pets."

The man thought a moment and then turned
back toward the road and continued on the way he had been going with his dog.

After another long walk, and at the top of another long hill, he came to a dirt road leading through a farm gate that looked as if it had never been closed.

There was no fence.

As he approached the gate, he saw a man inside, leaning against a tree and reading a book.

"Excuse me!" he called to the man.
"Do you have any water?"

"Yeah, sure, there's a pump over there,
Come on in."

"How about my friend here?" the traveler
gestured to the dog.

"There should be a bowl by the pump," said the man.

They went through the gate, and sure enough, there was an old-fashioned hand pump with a bowl beside it.

The traveler filled the water bowl and took a long drink himself, then he gave some to the dog.

When they were full, he and the dog walked back toward the man who was standing by the tree.

"What do you call this place?" the traveler asked.

"This is Heaven," he answered.

"Well, that's confusing," the traveler said.
"The man down the road said that was Heaven, too.'"

"Oh, you mean the place with the gold street and pearly gates? Nope. That's Hell."

"Doesn't it make you mad for them to use your name like that?"

"No, we're just happy that they screen out the folks who would leave their best friends behind."

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We should all just update our profile pics with rabtechs forum pic and be done with it.

Quote from Astrolite

Gotta love a Trekkie. Some of my fondest memories are of me and my dad watching Star Trek together. Got to laugh, he loved the original episodes, but when the movies came out and they started using curse words he was really disappointed.
Sorry about the detour in this thread.

Trekkie vs. Trekker[edit]

There is considerable disagreement among Star Trek fans over whether to use the term Trekkie or Trekker. Some say that Trekkie is "frequently depreciative",^[53] thus, "not an acceptable term to serious fans",^[54] who prefer Trekker. The distinction existed as early as May 1970, when the editor of fanzine Deck 6 wrote:
... when I start acting like a bubble-headed trekkie (rather than a sober, dignified — albeit enthusiastic — trekker).^[1]:4[55]
[/quote]By 1976, media reports on Star Trek conventions acknowledged the two types of fans:^[56]
One Trekkie came by and felt compelled to explain, while paying for his Mr. Spock computer image, that he was actually a Trekker (a rational fan). Whereas, he said, a Trekkie worships anything connected with Star Trek and would sell his or her mother for a pair of Spock ears.^[30]
[/quote]In the 1991 TV show Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special, Leonard Nimoy attempted to settle the issue by stating that the term "Trekker" is the preferred term. During an appearance on Saturday Night Live to promote the 2009 Star Trek film, Nimoy – seeking to assure Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto, the "new" Kirk and Spock, that most fans would embrace them – initially referred to "Trekkies" before correcting himself and saying "Trekkers," emphasizing the second syllable, with a deadpan delivery throughout that left ambiguous whether this ostensible misstep and correction were indeed accidental or instead intentional and for comic effect.^[57] In the documentary Trekkies, Kate Mulgrew stated that Trekkers are the ones "walking with us" while the Trekkies are the ones content to simply sit and watch Star Trek.
The issue is also shown in the film Trekkies 2, in which a Star Trek fan recounts a supposed incident during a Star Trek convention where Gene Roddenberry used the term "trekkies" to describe fans of the show, only to be corrected by a fan that stood up and yelled "Trekkers!" Gene Roddenberry responded with "No, it's 'Trekkies.' I should know — I invented the thing."

Quote from rabtech

There is. Do you need me to send you a host file for your computer that redirects you to my site when you type their site address?

no no no @rabtech. I'm not two timing... I meant a way to purge myself from the other place so I never existed.

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I know it's had not to go over to the dark side. It has taken me a few weeks but I finally cut out all contact. I just can't waste my bandwidth posting or surfing over there anymore.

sure wish there was a way to actually quit the other place.

That other place is/was a business... This one is a passion and the admins here actually own slingshots.

Water, sunglasses, clears, and the Mrs.

@rabtech. They all work except the slingshotmania.com

Quote from Bill Martin

Hey @Jonathan Thompson - you pull off that bow tie a lot better than most!! Tried it a few times and I coulda won "World's Greatest Nerd" !!

thanks @Bill Martin. The bow tie is all I ever wear. Learned from my grandfather. I was 30 before I learned to tie a Windsor.

Welcome. Where the forum is priceless and therefore can never be sold.

I don't have a meme. I just want notifications when y'all post stuff.

Me and the bride.

I'm glad to be here... That is all.

That's just scary. Who does that? I changed my steering wheel and you're dissecting your engine. I don't understand.

Quote from bookmd

that's nice @rabtech what are your lift details?

That's the luckiest bastard in the world model made by the has more luck than any guy I know mfg company and marketed by craigslist.

Quote from gpcustoms

Mr. Thompson!!!

Just a note that may make you smile but if you tug a little more on the back of the boot the fold in it(back of handle) will pop into a recess in the handle and look even cleaner than it does now.
I hope you like it Young man. I am honored to be in such good company as you and many more!
Thank you again.
Mark

Thanks Mark... I'll finess it some more. It looks amazing. And for @Tripod... I'll tug it real good. Hahaha