Bloodsparrow
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Mark Chance said:
"Listp" is a word?
Awwwwww nut bunnies!
"Lisp", you know what I was talking about!
I TOLD you hooked on phonics didn't work for me!
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Awwwwww nut bunnies!
"Lisp", you know what I was talking about!
I TOLD you hooked on phonics didn't work for me!
Mark Chance
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Bloodsparrow said:Awwwwww nut bunnies!
"Lisp", you know what I was talking about!
I TOLD you hooked on phonics didn't work for me!
I thought that's what you might have meant, and I didn't find 'listp" in any of my dictionaries, but it could have been that I was still not in the know.
As a teacher, I'm skeptical of the whole Hooked on Phonics experience. English has too many exceptions to the so-called rules for phonic-based spelling to be useful past the 1st or 2nd grade.
Plus, as a child, I was hooked on phonics.
It started out innocently enough. A vowel here. A vowel there. Soon, however, I was up to several hard consonants a day. Eventually, I ended up on the street, begging for my phonics phix.
"Hey, buddy, spare a schwa?"
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Krieg
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Semper Fi Farganger!!
So true, we are an old breed but a loyal one. (BTW it's Marine!
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I'm a 32 y/o divorced mongrel American male.
A Buckeye born & raised.
Joined the USMC out of HS going into the SIGINT field (2651 for you other Devil Dogs aka CTO for you Sailor types).
Apparently I picked the right (or wrong depending on your perspective) time to join as was lucky enough to spend a lovely fall/winter vacation in the Saudi Arabian Desert before heading up the road to Kuwait for an early Spring Break. I enjoyed it so much I made a return trip to nearby Somalia two winters later.
The last two years of my active duty service were spent at the world famous Edson Range instructing dinks in the fine art of marksmanship.
Spent the next 10 years or so bartending, taking in the occasional course of higher education, chatting up women of loose moral character & generally wasting time.
Finally came back into the fold of the Intel community about three years ago working for Uncle Sam at No Such Agency.
My first forays into gaming were circa 1980 when my mother bought me a copy of the 1e MM while I recovering from a nasty bout of Pneumonia. I was hooked from the start. I've played just about every RPG that's been released over the last 25 years (except VtG...nasty nasty Vampires!) but always seem to return to D&D. I must be one of the mindless "idiots" who just can't break away from the flock to appreciate the virtues of [insert favorite fad RPG system here]. Now if Runequest were still around, it might be a different story...
My musical tastes run the gamut from punk (old school) to blues, bluegrass to classical, classical rock to [insert favorite lesbian folk singer here].
I'm a computer junky, having been weaned on a TSR-80, raised on an Apple IIe & graduating to an Amiga. Of course now I spend most of my time on a Wintel box like everyone else (I told you I was a mindless sheep...baaahh).
Each summer I can be found at Camp Perry Ohio competing at the National High Power Rifle Championships (coming up in just over a week) with the goal of bringing home the Palma Trophy one year.
I mourn the passing of Chesty Puller, Futurama & Douglas Adams.
And finally....when I grow up I want to be an Astronaut...or a Paleontologist...I'm not sure yet.
Rel said:As I understand it, Old One, there is no such thing as a former marine.
So true, we are an old breed but a loyal one. (BTW it's Marine!
)I'm a 32 y/o divorced mongrel American male.
A Buckeye born & raised.
Joined the USMC out of HS going into the SIGINT field (2651 for you other Devil Dogs aka CTO for you Sailor types).
Apparently I picked the right (or wrong depending on your perspective) time to join as was lucky enough to spend a lovely fall/winter vacation in the Saudi Arabian Desert before heading up the road to Kuwait for an early Spring Break. I enjoyed it so much I made a return trip to nearby Somalia two winters later.
The last two years of my active duty service were spent at the world famous Edson Range instructing dinks in the fine art of marksmanship.
Spent the next 10 years or so bartending, taking in the occasional course of higher education, chatting up women of loose moral character & generally wasting time.
Finally came back into the fold of the Intel community about three years ago working for Uncle Sam at No Such Agency.
My first forays into gaming were circa 1980 when my mother bought me a copy of the 1e MM while I recovering from a nasty bout of Pneumonia. I was hooked from the start. I've played just about every RPG that's been released over the last 25 years (except VtG...nasty nasty Vampires!) but always seem to return to D&D. I must be one of the mindless "idiots" who just can't break away from the flock to appreciate the virtues of [insert favorite fad RPG system here]. Now if Runequest were still around, it might be a different story...
My musical tastes run the gamut from punk (old school) to blues, bluegrass to classical, classical rock to [insert favorite lesbian folk singer here].
I'm a computer junky, having been weaned on a TSR-80, raised on an Apple IIe & graduating to an Amiga. Of course now I spend most of my time on a Wintel box like everyone else (I told you I was a mindless sheep...baaahh).
Each summer I can be found at Camp Perry Ohio competing at the National High Power Rifle Championships (coming up in just over a week) with the goal of bringing home the Palma Trophy one year.
I mourn the passing of Chesty Puller, Futurama & Douglas Adams.
And finally....when I grow up I want to be an Astronaut...or a Paleontologist...I'm not sure yet.
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spacecrime.com
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I'm pretty damn typical. 34, married for 9 years, no kids yet but we've been collecting cats.
Studied medieval English and sang a cappella in college, managed a tax accountant's office in Boston afterwards, then moved out here to Northampton to start my bookstore with my wife in 1995. We've been living the dream (with frequent nightmarish bits) ever since.
I started getting paid to write on a regular basis in 2000, first by an internet startup with more money than was good for it and more recently by people who really should Know Better. I like beer, ice cream, baseball, country music, writer-driven TV shows, unscripted TV shows, and any book I can get my hands on.
When I'm stuck on a manuscript I eat Lucky Charms from the box. It doesn't help my writing one bit, but the sugar rush is not to be missed.
Studied medieval English and sang a cappella in college, managed a tax accountant's office in Boston afterwards, then moved out here to Northampton to start my bookstore with my wife in 1995. We've been living the dream (with frequent nightmarish bits) ever since.
I started getting paid to write on a regular basis in 2000, first by an internet startup with more money than was good for it and more recently by people who really should Know Better. I like beer, ice cream, baseball, country music, writer-driven TV shows, unscripted TV shows, and any book I can get my hands on.
When I'm stuck on a manuscript I eat Lucky Charms from the box. It doesn't help my writing one bit, but the sugar rush is not to be missed.
Tyris Harmon
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Nice to see a few other Devil Dogs on the boards. Missed the first Gulf War, but was sweating it my senior year of high school. Enlisted in delayed entry about two months before Saddam Insane invaded Kuwait. Met alot of gamers while I was stationed in Hawaii and Japan. Those were some fun times and I miss it!!!
Wippit Guud
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HellHound said:
*is that small-world I suddenly hear?*
You didn't by any change run your own BBS in Ottawa, did you?
Old One said:
Hey Rel -
I was just thinking the same thing
~ Old One
Well, the Vietnam war was long over, and at that stage I was very focused on academics. Most people had no idea that I had been in the Marine Corps (and due to *clean-living*, the fact that I was four years older than most freshman was not readily apparent).
There was a phase when I *almost* pretended I had never been in the Marines - seems silly now. My fondness for the Corps has grown over the years: I see it through roseate lens these days, and often wonder if I shouldn't have gone back in after college.
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