Where has everybody gone?

Now Dave, that was unkind ( even if I did barely manage to hold off asking if there was that much difference between Jimmy Hoffa and Chairman Mao up until just now ).

Sigh. There's a line in Pete Seeger's song "My Rainbow Race" that goes "...don't you know you can't kill all the unbelievers, there's no shortcut to freedom."

It's not the unbelievers that lead me to keep a riot gun nearby, it's the "True Believers" as philosopher/longshoreman Eric Hofer put it, that are the scary ones.
 
I guess the Maoists are worse than the teamsters.

Both groups donate to the Democratic party though, right?

-Dave

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"Trust in steel, Conan..."
 
I'm a relative newbie and locating you has been a little difficult. The best way is for me to come in through the HI site.
 
Well, Howdy, Wild Bill - glad you made it to the HI Forum, Cantina and Stage Stop. Pull up a chair and set a spell. Uncle Bill has probably turned in for the evening. But he'll be glad to give you a big welcome in the morning. Once you go back to the forum index you might want to set your bookmarks or favorites so you can just click on that and be whisked right over. And for the record, Wild Bill, I'm not teasing you 'cause of your name by the way I'm talkin to ya. Well, not hardly. I'm on my best behavior to newbies. I don't tease them unmercifully 'til the second time they speak up. Keep an open mind and a sense of humor and you'll find that this is a unique spot where the most knowlegeable as to anything in particular are still just students. Like Uncle Bill often says when we get to talking, "What does this have to do with khukuris? Everything!".
 
Rusty, you're really getting the hang of being a forum moderator (co-moderator?). Your welcome to Wild Bill was so "down home" it reminded me of family "get-togethers" on the back porch when I was a kid. However, one thing you didn't tell Wild Bill was how weird some of you guys are -- which means that nothing on the forum should be taken personally and everything should be taken with a healthy dose of skepticism.
 
Welcome Wild Bill!!!!! It is very nice to have you on the forum.



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Steven, we don't trot out this forum's troglodites and yetis for newbies. ( And there are no weirdos on this forum, just the pleasantly eccentric long as they take their medication). 'Sides, Uncle Bill don't let them play less they take their thorazine.

Now when it comes to bein' skeptical, how many times have I told you that I always tell the truth, particularly when I want to be disbelieved? Remember my post on the whales of Nepal? So they was actually Gangetic Dolphins if you want to get picky.

One reason I try to keep a down home flavor is that I don't like to think of all the people who've actually been there and done that, or have Ph.D's in history or anthropology and the like who are reading my babbling. The kind of people that have the credentials to get into museums and fondle the originals. Or all the undistinguished otherwise members who just plain have more common sense than anybody ought to have.

Life, Love, and Laughter to all - Rusty
 
De-lurking and checking in. Glad to hear you are recovering well uncle bill, 4 Heinekens in one evening? catchin up with me!
 
Many thanks, Zen. Docs seemed much more concerned about my smoking than the Heinekens I drink.

Funny, on a fairly regular basis I dream that I'm smoking. And, everyday I miss the cigs terribly and want to light up. What an addiction and I devoted 52 years to it, too!

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Blessings from the computer shack in Reno.

Uncle Bill
Himalayan Imports Website
Khukuri FAQ
 
3 1/2 more weeks and it'll be a year for me Uncle Bill. I suppose I'm grateful, or at least I should be, but there are times I'm not too happy about it either.
 
Hang in, Rusty. Common sense tells me it is one of the most stupid habits there is but the addiction is still with me. When I started smoking it was the "in" thing to do and they gave cigarettes away on the airlines rather than outlawing smoking and servicemen got their fair share of free smokes, too. A far cry from the way things are today.

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Blessings from the computer shack in Reno.

Uncle Bill
Himalayan Imports Website
Khukuri FAQ
 
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