What kind of a dorm is that then?

I thought dorms were supposed to have Wi-Fi? :confused:

Our campus isn't wireless accessable yet, but in a few years it will be. Our library is the only place on campus with Wi-Fi.

It was all night down I-81. Ended up veering off I-80 and make a 60-mile detour just to get back on it (since I don't know where everything is). Then we got pulled over and got slapped with a huge ticket.

At least we made it, safe and sound. And my cat loves this new place! Details to follow whenever I get more time or I'm back in NYC.

Virginia Cops, they're a real pain in the @$$.

Due because of being a target and my homophobic views.

It's best that I should leave before I get into deep trouble.

/me waits 15 minutes for CG to say I'm coming back. It's happened before.

Due because of being a target and my homophobic views.

It's best that I should leave before I get into deep trouble.

You need to learn to take responsibility for your actions.

Due because of being a target and my homophobic views.

It's best that I should leave before I get into deep trouble.
You can't run away from your problems.

Atlas14 - Damn, that sucks.

I don't know why, but I was convinced to return by a few people.

I don't know why, but I was convinced to return by a few people.
Try to be balanced CG. You really need to focus on interviewing a lot. Posting at CFC should be the reward after a hard days work of researching, practicing and interviewing. Maybe set some goals as far as how much you've accomplished equals how much time you allow yourself to post. Just me thinking out loud.

My modem has been out of function for quite some time now, but it's working again! I hope you've missed me!

Granted, I have been a bit on the computers in the public library. Well, a lot. :blush:

Well, I know I made some 60 posts while in North Carolina, but I came back after a long trip yesterday. So even though I still don't think I add any degree of reasonableness to the board, I do return with the same New Yawk attitude when it comes to attacking wannabe political rivals from the federal to the local level.

And yes, I'll have to complain about some things in rants and rave on some other things.

I don't think anyone noticed I haven't posted since Friday, but I am back from a ward (church) retreat. Good times.

Goodbye, CFC. :)

It's been fun, but the semester is beginning to rachet up, so I'd better quit posting for a while. I may make a comeback in a month or so, but I doubt if I'll post much more for the month of September.

Spiral out, keep going.

Integral

Goodbye, CFC. :)

It's been fun, but the semester is beginning to rachet up, so I'd better quit posting for a while. I may make a comeback in a month or so, but I doubt if I'll post much more for the month of September.

Spiral out, keep going.

Integral
Noo!! :cry:

At least be sure to stay in touch and make a post or something to let us know you haven't forgotten us!

Goodbye, CFC. :)

It's been fun, but the semester is beginning to rachet up, so I'd better quit posting for a while. I may make a comeback in a month or so, but I doubt if I'll post much more for the month of September.

Spiral out, keep going.

Integral


Bye Integral :) Don't stay away forever though!

Goodbye, CFC. :)

It's been fun, but the semester is beginning to rachet up, so I'd better quit posting for a while. I may make a comeback in a month or so, but I doubt if I'll post much more for the month of September.

Spiral out, keep going.

IntegralNOOOaaaaoooooOOHHH!!!!!

Who is going to throw awesome statistics for my mind-blowing pleasure?

Edit: Delete me

'People' = 'one person'.

Toughen up, CivG. We have the ignore list for a reason, you know.

Since people just sees me as a childish and immature spammer. It's best that I take my leave and head elsewhere.
CG - We discussed this. It was only a joke.

Same deal as Integral. I have school work that must get done. But I'm also feeling incredibly depressed right now over certain things in my life , so I am not gonna be posting for a while.

Thanks CFC, and goodbye :)

I have decided that it's time for me to move onto better pastures and get some serious help.

I would like to first of all apologize to anyone whom I have annoyed in the past. Especially to those I have asked for advice. I also would like to apologize to the mods that I have gave a hard time. I also would like to apologize to those whom I argued with relentlessly.

I have a problem that causes me to take the internet a bit too seriously and makes me act out in ways that I will regret later on. I am going to seek serious help on this one. I dont know when I would be back, but all I know it would be a time when I am ready to be reintergrated back into the CFC community.

I have decided that it's time for me to move onto better pastures and get some serious help.

I would like to first of all apologize to anyone whom I have annoyed in the past. Especially to those I have asked for advice. I also would like to apologize to the mods that I have gave a hard time. I also would like to apologize to those whom I argued with relentlessly.

I have a problem that causes me to take the internet a bit too seriously and makes me act out in ways that I will regret later on. I am going to seek serious help on this one. I dont know when I would be back, but all I know it would be a time when I am ready to be reintergrated back into the CFC community.

Oh goody, you used "whom" correctly this time. Finally.

Good luck on your future endeavors. Let's hope you don't flip flop on this one too.

Good luck, CG. I hope you do well. If you go through with this, I'll be proud of you. :)

Good luck, CivGeneral.

I hope you can overcome your fears and get a girl in the process. :goodjob:

I'm betting CG comes back in the next day. 5 cookies to me if I win.

Moving into my new house today which doesn't have internet so im off for awhile (from 1-4 weeks!) have fun everyone!

Cya CivG! Sorry I wasn't around for your first leaving but I've been without internets.

On that note, I've been gone and will continue to be gone until #$@$ING COMCAST installs my internets in a few days.

My CFC hiatus has finally ended, my hiatus from real life is just starting again.
Good to see the same old faces :).

I will now leave CFC, and all of it, forever. I spend too much time here, I need to focus on getting some good friends, not the half friends I have now. CFC isn't helping me.

Short and simple: Goodbye!

I will now leave CFC, and all of it, forever. I spend too much time here, I need to focus on getting some good friends, not the half friends I have now. CFC isn't helping me.

Short and simple: Goodbye!

You'll be back, and when you do... :ninja:

Blitzkrieg1980 is back! That ol' bloke! :cowboy:

Welcome back, Ozzy! :yeah:

Redy, you will not succed...

Welcome back, Ozzy! :yeah:

Cheers :).
PS... Red... no chance! :p

I will return to fight the injustices put upon my party.

Red Door has spidey-sense. :wow:

I'm moving out to my new uni accomodation tomorrow,a nd I don' know when I'll next have university access or indeed enough time to access CFC, so I guess I'm leaving for a while.

i is back!

he is back!

Messiah Fifty is back!

i wish i was back in Kos. back at work...

Cya CG, good luck in your future endeavors!

Good luck Civ G - I actually came to this thread because I was wondering why you haven't been posting.

Cya Civgeneral.

I have to say after thousands of hours of working and coming back with some hard-earned rewards, I find it odd that most marijuana dealers in Charlotte, NC are Vietamese from Canada.:hmm: Good stuff, and frankly I am burnin my brain-cells just about now.

I have to say after thousands of hours of working and coming back with some hard-earned rewards, I find it odd that most marijuana dealers in Charlotte, NC are Vietamese from Canada.:hmm: Good stuff, and frankly I am burnin my brain-cells just about now.

Huh? Is this in the right thread? :crazyeye:

Posting shall be rarer, if any, from the 18th to the 2nd. At least, I should be around much less than I was when I was in Greensboro.

So with that, OT becomes a lot more reasonable in my absence! :p

I have returned, mostly. Not that I was really gone that long...

-Integral

Going on swimming contest all weekend, see ya on monday :)

Good luck gr!

Its the contest of the year, so i will go for hundred percent and then go for medal :)

I returned a while ago from a long absentee, guess i spread the word again :D

Posting shall be rarer, if any, from the 18th to the 2nd. At least, I should be around much less than I was when I was in Greensboro.

So with that, OT becomes a lot more reasonable in my absence! :p
I suppose I'll have to read the threads to find out just how much more sense was gained in my absence.

But with my return, be prepared for a less sensible OT.

Great two week period, that was.

Good to have you back :)

Your welcome-back present is a thread of mind-blowing statistics (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=244803), since you like them so much. ;)

/shameless self-promotion

-Integral

I'M BACK!

I got one silver (:trophy2nd: ) and two bronze (:trophy3rd: :trophy3rd: ), my swim club owned the whole tournament (:trophy:) :)

I also set all my personal records exept in 50 metres crawl :trophy:, where i got just at the very hundredth of a second :/

The borrom line is that its one of the best tournaments as far i've got :)

congrats GR!

Congratulations, gandhi rules!

I third my congratulations.

Felicitaciones, gandhi rules! :)

I penta my congratulation!

Hey there, everyone!

I used to post here waaay back in the day. In fact, I doubt anyone remembers me. Recently, though, I rediscovered this website, so I'll be posting a bit more often.

In another note, I see that CG recently left to get help; I wish him the best.

Welcome back Bacon King! Long time no see. :D

And, I only stumbled into this thread because I was wondering about CG. Best of luck to him.

Hey there, everyone!

I used to post here waaay back in the day. In fact, I doubt anyone remembers me. Recently, though, I rediscovered this website, so I'll be posting a bit more often.

In another note, I see that CG recently left to get help; I wish him the best.
[sees Bacon King for the first time]

There shall be peace in our time!

Hello, I'm a long time lurker in OT, beginner poster.

I live in London and work as an accountant.
My principal uses of my spare time are a) studying for my professional qualification b) drinking and c) playing civ 4 bts.
I sometimes combine b +c, to make the most of my time off.

Also to avoid any confusion I am Irish, not English or British and out of the total of 314 months in my life so far I have spent 18 in France (9 Paris, 9 Clermont-Ferrand), 14 in London, 6 in Milan and the balance of 276 on a small farm in Galway, west of Ireland.

I sometimes combine b +c, to make the most of my time off.

I advise starting some sort of Civ-related drinking game.

Hello, I'm a long time lurker in OT, beginner poster.

I live in London and work as an accountant.
My principal uses of my spare time are a) studying for my professional qualification b) drinking and c) playing civ 4 bts.
I sometimes combine b +c, to make the most of my time off.

Also to avoid any confusion I am Irish, not English or British and out of the total of 314 months in my life so far I have spent 18 in France (9 Paris, 9 Clermont-Ferrand), 14 in London, 6 in Milan and the balance of 276 on a small farm in Galway, west of Ireland.

Welcome! You might find this (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=123163) thread helpful for optimizing the b+c experience.

Welcome! You might find this (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=123163) thread helpful for optimizing the b+c experience.
Hehe...I just had drinks with him two weeks ago. That boy can throw it down with the best of 'em! :beer: Now that I think of it I'll see him again in Tucson the first weekend of December. :scared:

Welcome really. If anyone causes you trouble around here let me know. :devil:

After a particularly pointless debate on here earlier, I realized just how little I actually accomplish by spending so much time here - generally the people I talk to don't learn anything, and most discussions either fizzle out without anything being resolved, or I leave because I'm sick of some troll refusing to stop post inanities and playing semantical games. I do learn some things here, but generally things I can learn elsewhere, and less than if I just spent that time reading up on topics where I don't know enough. And some of my real life things really need my attention.....So, I'm taking a break. I'm going to not post on CFC OT for a month or so, and after that I'll see if I want to come back. If I do, then it'll probably be less than before. If I don't, well, it's been fun guys.

Later.

No, No, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Come back Elrohir, come back!

After a particularly pointless debate on here earlier, I realized just how little I actually accomplish by spending so much time here - generally the people I talk to don't learn anything, and most discussions either fizzle out without anything being resolved, or I leave because I'm sick of some troll refusing to stop post inanities and playing semantical games. I do learn some things here, but generally things I can learn elsewhere, and less than if I just spent that time reading up on topics where I don't know enough. And some of my real life things really need my attention.....So, I'm taking a break. I'm going to not post on CFC OT for a month or so, and after that I'll see if I want to come back. If I do, then it'll probably be less than before. If I don't, well, it's been fun guys.

Later.

We'll miss you, Elrohir.

Come back soon, man.

Later.

Noooahahaanooo!!!

Who will be there to tell me that I'm a leftist destroying the country by coddling criminals, welfare queens, and heretics!?

I need you!

I think I might know which thread. And let me say that we will be missing you, you provide well-thought out points of view.

Well kids today is my last day with my computer, since I moving it to my brothers. Then I leave monday for basic so its been nice and hopefully after basic I'll get a chance to come bother you people again. Anyway thanks for the hours and hours of entertainment from OT.

Well kids today is my last day with my computer, since I moving it to my brothers. Then I leave monday for basic so its been nice and hopefully after basic I'll get a chance to come bother you people again. Anyway thanks for the hours and hours of entertainment from OT.

Have fun, Colonel. And good luck.

Real life is more important than virtual life.

After having posted for 5 years on this board I have decided it's time to concentrate on my real life. So this is my last message on this board.

Goodbye everyone. I have enjoyed it, but it's time to move on :)

PS : I will still check my PM's and answer them.

Location Avn..?!?

Did i miss a biggie while straying from OT..

..im just back here waiting for some NES to update..

Away for the weekend on a swimming camp, will be fun...

Bye AVN, Elrohir, and Colonel :(

Farewell Elrohir, and Colonel, and AVN. :wavey:

Wow, AVN and Elrohir, eh?

You guys were an asset to CFC, take care and good luck :)

Colonel, I did not know you as well, but whatever life has in stock for you, may it be good, and make the most of it :)

I'M back again! With a hurting back :sad:

I'm BACK!!!!!!


Back in the back
of a cadillac!

'CAUSE I'm BACK IN BLACK!

(I don't know if even mr. nobody noticed that I was offline for a few months!)

I'm BACK!!!!!!


Back in the back
of a cadillac!

'CAUSE I'm BACK IN BLACK!

(I don't know if even mr. nobody noticed that I was offline for a few months!)

Now that you're back, yes, I've noticed :D

I'm BACK!!!!!!


Back in the back
of a cadillac!

'CAUSE I'm BACK IN BLACK!

(I don't know if even mr. nobody noticed that I was offline for a few months!)

So who's been posting as you, then? You last posted on October 21 (before today) and you've gone on veritable spammin' sprees earlier on. :confused:

WHAT???

I'll check, but I have only some posts in Forum Games, nothing else.

PLS link me!

EDIT: I haven't post (I!) from about 10 days...

But ten days isn't 'a few months', which is what was confusing about your post.

Guys, I have posts ten days ago, yes.

But actually (with a short break for 2-3 days around 15th September) I haven't post seriosly. You'll notice that all my posts are in Forum Games and are 2-3 posts a day (not 20 as usual)

My week long Colonoscopy had severe complications.

Speaking of which, when are you going to change your avatar?

Within a couple days.

Why so? seems fine to me

It needs to be changed. I've had this one too long.

I'm not back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!11!! i'm back but sick...

Sick? Or Ill?

can i pick both? :p

I'm simply here to check up on the Babe Thread. I have too much to do for my classes for me to stay and post. I'll be back during December/January though.

We'll miss you.

And the Babe Thread has gone downhill. I think I will need to post again in the next one.

We'll miss you.

And the Babe Thread has gone downhill. I think I will need to post again in the next one.

Thanks Eran :) After inspection I agree, the BT quality has gone down a bit. I miss everyone on CFC!

For those it may concern, I can inform that I have recovered enough to be able to spread more of my evil propaganda. A quick look at recent threads shows that it is sorely needed...

Good to have you back luceafarul :goodjob:

Boarding Amtrak again very early Sunday morning back to North Carolina.

I suppose I'd better hit the sack now if I'm going to want to catch at least a nap before I have to leave tomorrow night/Sunday morning.

Welcome back Luceafarul.

Nice to have you around again. :)

Bye, everyone. :wavey: This forum's much too addictive for a weak-willed person like me, and I need to reclaim my weekends. I might return, depending on whether or not I find anything interesting to do.

It's been fun. :)

YES, He's gone! (:joke:) bye Cathy and have a umm... good life without cfc :confused:!

Welcome back, luceafarul! :)

I hear you're one of the better members of OT.

Catharsis: NOOOOO!!!!!! :(

Bye, everyone. :wavey: This forum's much too addictive for a weak-willed person like me, and I need to reclaim my weekends. I might return, depending on whether or not I find anything interesting to do.

It's been fun. :)

Catharsis, who's jokes am I going to LMAO at if you leave...? :(




(seriously I think you have the best sense of humor in this whole forum :D)

Take care Catharsis, I do hope to see you back one day :)

:wavey: Catharsis
It is, indeed, a sad day.
For me you were one of the better posters of CFC. Forum games will never be the same without you.

Nooo!! Catharsis, don't leave!

You're among the best new members here, now we need someone else to be the flagship of the newbie fleet!

Good to have you back luceafarul :goodjob:

Welcome back Luceafarul.

Welcome back, luceafarul! :)
Thanks a lot, my friends.:)

I hear you're one of the better members of OT.
Actually I am the best.;)

Hello everyone.

I'm back. My month or so long self imposed CFC exile didn't go quite as planned - instead of spending less time on the computer, I just spent my time on the computer doing less worthy things. So I'm coming back to CFC OT. I probably won't be quite as active overall as I was before, but I'll probably be posting pretty regularly this week, since I'm on break.

I hope everybody missed me. ;)


Catharsis, sorry to see you go. I come back, you leave - six up, half a dozen down. Hope you come back soon.

I just spent my time on the computer doing less worthy things.

School, work, and social lives are all less worthy.

WELCOME BACK!

¡Welcome back Elrohir!

Hey! Welcome back, Elrohir :)

Thanks guys. Things been quiet in my absence?

Usual stuff. Welcome back :)

Thanks guys. Things been quiet in my absence?

Curt Sibling and MobBoss are now the sole moderators.

OMG, I MISSED YOU SO MUCH! :(

Welcome back :)

After being absent from this forum for a long time, i have returned.

Thanks guys. Things been quiet in my absence?

Well, we always have Ron Paul to talk about.

Curt Sibling and MobBoss are now the sole moderators.


I WiSH


ftxcl

I live again!!!
http://www.studiocreations.com/howto/evilash/images/eash_screencap01.jpg

Where did you go? :(

Oh it was just my annual nostril cleaning.

Hello everyone.

I'm back.

I guess I missed the party, but

WELCOME BACK!

You bring more to this community than most, and you've been missed.


--------


As an aside, I'll be leaving from Wednesday to Friday, not that anyone really cares. ;)

Godwynn - Hold down the fort
Elrohir - good to have you back
Jericho - Slay some commies, bring economic enlightenment to all
Yankee - Don't take yourself too seriously
Catharsis - :salute:

Godwynn - Hold down the fort

"Hold the fort, I am coming!" - W.T. Sherman

Who cares, any reference to ED3 is godly.

I'm back from my 1 week group therapy session for humans that think they saw aliens once from staring at an alarm clock for too long.

I'm back from my 1 week group therapy session for humans that think they saw aliens once from staring at an alarm clock for too long.

Oh, rly? ;)

Yes, and that's the end of the of the matter. :shifty:

I'm back from my 1 week group therapy session for humans that think they saw aliens once from staring at an alarm clock for too long.
It was quite good, IMHO. ;)

Anyways, I'm back too.

I'm back. Ta-Da!

I'm back. Ta-Da!

Glad to have you Back:)

I'm back. Ta-Da!

Jesus, the 37th member of the forums!

I don't think I've ever seen anyone with a number that low besides Thunderfall.

I'm back. Ta-Da!
Oct 2000?! :eek:

Jesus Christ! :old:

(I wasn't even living in the US at that time!)

Jesus, the 37th member of the forums!



where do you get that number from?

where do you get that number from?

Go to his profile, it will say something like member.php?u=37.

Go to his profile, it will say something like member.php?u=37.

thank you, number 31.759 :)

Jesus, the 37th member of the forums!

I don't think I've ever seen anyone with a number that low besides Thunderfall.

Lefty Scaevola? ;)

Anyway, seems you've had many usernames over these 7 years! :D

Hi gang. I've decided it's time to leave CFC. While i've wasted a decent part of my youth on this site I do have some tongue biting skills to show for it, and obviously have had some good chat with some of you. So I don't burn all my bridges my email is -I use it for msn/bebo also. Anyway best wishes to all. peace :D

Ah ye, good bye Gainy. Where he leaves, I guess this is where I come in. Back in 2006, I was a big fan of Civilizaton ll, having owned it for quite a while. A shame Civ lll was never ported to the Mac, which I use.

Either way, at christmas I finally got Civ 4. I also owned Civ 3 for the PC, but we have only ONE PC in our entire house. I always loved game companies like SEGA and Nintendo, and my father is a computer programmer. And he knows which platform is superior. Yes, the Mac. But now I own Warlords and I'm planning on getting the Mac version of BTS when it arrives.

My name is Josef Steel, the full translation of Josef Stalin, I don't live in Russia, and I am not a communist.

Im leaving on the 8 for a trip to Malaysia and back on the 12th. Then ill leave for Korea (South-North) on the 16th

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! GAINY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ah ye, good bye Gainy. Where he leaves, I guess this is where I come in. Back in 2006, I was a big fan of Civilizaton ll, having owned it for quite a while. A shame Civ lll was never ported to the Mac, which I use.

Either way, at christmas I finally got Civ 4. I also owned Civ 3 for the PC, but we have only ONE PC in our entire house. I always loved game companies like SEGA and Nintendo, and my father is a computer programmer. And he knows which platform is superior. Yes, the Mac. But now I own Warlords and I'm planning on getting the Mac version of BTS when it arrives.

My name is Josef Steel, the full translation of Josef Stalin, I don't live in Russia, and I am not a communist.
What are you talking about!!

Not only that Civ3 was ported on mac, but even C3C (Civilization 3 Conquests) was ported to Mac. We have even an entire forum dedicated to Civ3 for Mac!!

http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=59 - Mac Civ3 Forum.

I have returned back from a deep and icy slumber.

Kidding ;). Actually I have returned after being away from CFC for a while.

Still no Girlfriend, but I am still happy and taking care of myself. Just recently I was given a job after applying to Mohegan Sun and working in there Shared Labor Department as a Shared Support until a better full-time position comes up (On Calls dont recive medical benefits)

So here I am and back! :D

I have returned back from a deep and icy slumber.

Kidding ;). Actually I have returned after being away from CFC for a while.

Still no Girlfriend, but I am still happy and taking care of myself. Just recently I was given a job after applying to Mohegan Sun and working in there Shared Labor Department as a Shared Support until a better full-time position comes up (On Calls dont recive medical benefits)

So here I am and back! :D

I call PDMA. :P

Welcome back CG, even though to some of us you never REALLY left. *cough#fiftychatcough*

I have returned back from a deep and icy slumber.

Kidding ;). Actually I have returned after being away from CFC for a while.

Still no Girlfriend, but I am still happy and taking care of myself. Just recently I was given a job after applying to Mohegan Sun and working in there Shared Labor Department as a Shared Support until a better full-time position comes up (On Calls dont recive medical benefits)

So here I am and back! :D

Welcome back to posting! Now only to head to the casino to stalk you during your shift! :p

Well, as long as you're better in your life, that's what matters more than this board. So good job!

Welcome back CG!

I have returned back from a deep and icy slumber.

Kidding ;). Actually I have returned after being away from CFC for a while.

Still no Girlfriend, but I am still happy and taking care of myself. Just recently I was given a job after applying to Mohegan Sun and working in there Shared Labor Department as a Shared Support until a better full-time position comes up (On Calls dont recive medical benefits)

So here I am and back! :D

Might there be any connection between you being better and you being away from CFC :mischief:

WELCOME BACK CIVGENERAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :woohoo:

Welcome back to the forums, CG! :beer:

I have returned back from a deep and icy slumber.

Kidding ;). Actually I have returned after being away from CFC for a while.

Still no Girlfriend, but I am still happy and taking care of myself. Just recently I was given a job after applying to Mohegan Sun and working in there Shared Labor Department as a Shared Support until a better full-time position comes up (On Calls dont recive medical benefits)

So here I am and back! :D

Welcome back thar!

Welcome back to the forums, CG! :beer:
True that! ;)

Welcome back, CivGeneral!

Quack Quack Civ G, which is duck speak for welcome back!

I have a vomit sickness, i dont know for how long it will last, i think it will last a few days. See you when i get better.

Well folks, as much as it pains me to do this, I think I'm out for the time being. Things in my life have been getting steadily worse on a number of fronts, and quite frankly I've been using dear old CFC-OT to escape some of the harsher realities of my life lately. Unfortunate thing about reality, though, is that if you ignore it still won't go away. ;)

I probably won't be going cold turkey, but I'm cutting myself off today so that I can start to get my real life in order. Thanks to all of those who've enjoyed my odd little threads, and those of you who've made discussions on here worthwhile. I'll miss all of y'all, but I'm sure I'll be back 'round once my head is on a little straighter than it is right now.

Good luck in life to all Off-Topic Faithful, and like the fella says, "Keep your pecker hard, your powder dry, and the world will keep on turning..."

Happy Holidays, a great 2008, and I'll see you further down the trail.

~Che Guava

:santa2: :xtree:

bye Che! its been fun if short. :) Come back soon.

Noo! Don't leave us, Che Guava!

Well folks, as much as it pains me to do this, I think I'm out for the time being.

...

~Che Guava

But we love you! :cry:

I hope you get your real stuff in order though. :sad: Please come back soon!

I forgot to say it earlier, but welcome back Civg!

farewell Che, and come back soon :)

Noooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!! WHO WILL MAKE THE FUNNY NEWS TREADS WHEN YOUR GONE???????????????????????????????????????

But Che, who's going to inform us of what's going on?! :(

I'm back. Ta-Da!

Welcome back PH.

Yes i appreciate this was about a week ago but i only just noticed the post!

here to stay or just a flying visit?

I had to look at CNN for the first time in months now that Che is gone. :(

I had to look at CNN for the first time in months now that Che is gone. :(

I had to do the same with the BBC. The news just isn't interesting anymore...

Che, we're going to miss you bud.

Che! No! I will genuinely miss you :(

Hello to everyone.

I hope you take kindly to new members.
I have heard dark things about this place.

Hello to everyone.

I hope you take kindly to new members.
I have heard dark things about this place.

As long as you don't start a thread advocating creationism, :goodjob:

What is there to know about you?

Edit: Btw Hi :)

Hello to everyone.

I hope you take kindly to new members.
I have heard dark things about this place.

Yum, fresh newbie meat! :yumyum:







:joke:

Welcome aboard!

As long as you don't start a thread advocating creationism, :goodjob:

What is there to know about you?

Edit: Btw Hi :)
Nothing really interesting, just a normal guy. :mischief:

Yum, fresh newbie meat! :yumyum:

:joke:

Welcome aboard!
I'm mostly skin and bones, so not much meat for you! :p

Nothing really interesting, just a normal guy. :mischief:


Welcome:)

Everybody here has something intereting about them so you'll have to find something to be like everybody else.:p

Hello to everyone.

I hope you take kindly to new members.
I have heard dark things about this place.

g'day mate! My names fifty, an' I'm the resident bloke from down unda! We have wallabies of fun around here, glad you made it mate! I'll throw another shrimp on tha barby for ya, just grab a fosters and keep an eye out for the dingos mate!

g'day mate! My names fifty, an' I'm the resident bloke from down unda! We have wallabies of fun around here, glad you made it mate! I'll throw another shrimp on tha barby for ya, just grab a fosters and keep an eye out for the dingos mate!
That was so pathetic, it wasn't even funny.

If you're not Australian, please don't imitate them.

By the way, what is this Fiftychat?

That was so pathetic, it wasn't even funny.

Crikey mate! Loosin up mate this aint the states, we're relaxed here down unda! Have anotha fawstas! Its australian for beer!

If you're not Australian, please don't imitate them.

But I am mate!

By the way, what is this Fiftychat?

Its me chatroom mate! you should come by, we're about to grill some kangaroo shanks we are!

Crikey mate! Loosin up mate this aint the states, we're relaxed here down unda! Have anotha fawstas! Its australian for beer!

But I am mate!

Its me chatroom mate! you should come by, we're about to grill some kangaroo shanks we are!
...Whatever...

Now if I can just find how to get to this #fiftychat of yours... :scan:

Oh stop that L.

Also, don't start a "what's your religion thread". You should be good.

Oh stop that L.

Also, don't start a "what's your religion thread". You should be good.
Huh? Who's L?

Don't start a religion thread? Ok... :shifty:

Ya'll are silly sillies!

L is the guy pretending to be Aussie.

And I am not saying don't start a thread about religion, just don't do a poll of what our religions are. You need to be here for years just to know what options to put, and these seem to pop up every month or so.

...Whatever...

Now if I can just find how to get to this #fiftychat of yours... :scan:
Check out my sig, darlin'

Huh? Who's L?

Don't start a religion thread? Ok... :shifty:


I'll just say this much: religion threads get a bit...heated around here. So do political threads, but those are fun.

As long as your first new thread isn't some variant of "What's your <religion> <political belief> <age>", you'll be fine. :)


Welcome to the Forums! :wavey:

It's like crack. Bad for you, but once you get hooked you just can't stop. ;)

L is the guy pretending to be Aussie.

And I am not saying don't start a thread about religion, just don't do a poll of what our religions are. You need to be here for years just to know what options to put, and these seem to pop up every month or so.

Eran knows all.

And the mods are to be loved, not feared. :love:

BTW, vote for me in 2020! Or for the megacorruptbutawesome administration by OT's best and brightest (which may or may not include me based on how many blows to the head I'll suffer by then...the more I get, the brighter I become!) in 2024!

Check out my sig, darlin'

Ya'll are silly sillies!
You people are very odd.

Can anyone provide me with information about them?
(Someone NOT with the same avatar as them, please)

You people are very odd.

Can anyone provide me with information about them?
(Someone NOT with the same avatar as them, please)

:rotfl: You're learning quickly. And we're all a little nuts around here. That's what makes this place so addictive.

:rotfl: You're learning quickly. And we're all a little nuts around here. That's what makes this place so addictive.

But we're all nuts in a different way. We're special. :smug:

It's a suprisingly diverse group we've got here. Everything from economists to neuroscientists to theologians, and everything in between. Oh, and students. Lots and lots of high school and college students.

The serious threads can be very engaging, while the silly threads can get, well, pretty silly. Overall, CFC-OT is more fun than 99.98% of the rest of the Internets.

You people are very odd.

Can anyone provide me with information about them?
(Someone NOT with the same avatar as them, please)

The Rules of Fiftychat...

Rule #1: The first rule of Fiftychat is, you do not talk about Fiftychat.
Rule #2: The second rule of Fiftychat is, you DO NOT talk about Fiftychat.

I'll be flying back to the frozen North, to return sometime next year.

And by next year, I mean in a few weeks.

:xmascheers:

The Rules of Fiftychat...

Rule #1: The first rule of Fiftychat is, you do not talk about Fiftychat.
Rule #2: The second rule of Fiftychat is, you DO NOT talk about Fiftychat.

You just broke both of them.

You guys have issues....

Spectre X-- welcome to our humble abode. If you don't like someone hit the "report button" and let us know. :hammer: Other than that these guys are ok...for guys. The girls...watch out!

Have fun and be nice. W

IC--your stay is alway too short. I don't know about these other chuckleheads but I'll miss ya, brah.

Well folks, as much as it pains me to do this, I think I'm out for the time being. Things in my life have been getting steadily worse on a number of fronts, and quite frankly I've been using dear old CFC-OT to escape some of the harsher realities of my life lately. Unfortunate thing about reality, though, is that if you ignore it still won't go away. ;)

I probably won't be going cold turkey, but I'm cutting myself off today so that I can start to get my real life in order. Thanks to all of those who've enjoyed my odd little threads, and those of you who've made discussions on here worthwhile. I'll miss all of y'all, but I'm sure I'll be back 'round once my head is on a little straighter than it is right now.

Good luck in life to all Off-Topic Faithful, and like the fella says, "Keep your pecker hard, your powder dry, and the world will keep on turning..."

Happy Holidays, a great 2008, and I'll see you further down the trail.

~Che Guava

:santa2: :xtree:
Goodbye Che! Come back soon!


Welcome Spectre!

I'll miss both Che and Irish. You guys brought so much light into my life! Come back to us safe and sound!

[starts singing to console myself]This little light of mine...I'm gonna make it shine...[/odd flashbacks to the 2006 gubernatorial campaign]

Bye Irish, Welcome to #fiftychat Spectre!

You people are very odd.

Can anyone provide me with information about them?
(Someone NOT with the same avatar as them, please)

The one with the high postcount is the one you want to watch out for. (saying his name is forbidden). Somehow every teen with low self esteem that come to CFC end up being a minion of the one with high postcount....

Don't go to fiftychat.. EVER!

Alternatively, Rhymes is corrupting you with japanimation-style confusion tactics.

Come to fiftychat, we have *insert beverage of choice here*!

Just completed Air Force Basic Military Training. Not exactly back yet but I will most likely be on a bit this weekend, got bunches of base lib. heheheeh

Anyways hello to all the people who know me, hello to all those I don't know too.

Hello......

Welcome to CFC OT, Spectre X!

Don't worry, #fiftychat is a fun bunch. They just like to mess with the newbies. :)

Well, not happy to meet so few familiar people here. But I'm glad to see Lefty, Knight, Narz and Perfection with another pentagonal thing of his. Anyway, I'm back. Maybe someone remembers me. I've been off for a couple of years. :-)

Several cases of plural identity lead me to an extended stay in a recovery ward. All should be glad i am "better" now, tho a bit itchy.

Yo!

Gold Bond does wonders.


And welcome back!

Well, tomorrow morning I depart New York from LaGuardia to North Carolina. Then on January 4th, I head from NC to Minnesota until the 20th (I must be nuts), then return to New York at JFK.

So, activity will most likely be diminished over the following month. OT's sanity will undoubtedly improve.

Well, tomorrow morning I depart New York from LaGuardia to North Carolina. Then on January 4th, I head from NC to Minnesota until the 20th (I must be nuts), then return to New York at JFK.

So, activity will most likely be diminished over the following month. OT's sanity will undoubtedly improve.

Might as well take this opportunity to end the avatar madness !

Have a nice trip

Might as well take this opportunity to end the avatar madness !

Have a nice trip

Never!


Which means that this may well be stuck there until January 20th, at the earliest. Merry 27 Days of Christmas!

I'm going off to the mountains and ski. Bye! I'll see you in a week.

I am jelous!

Time to take a break for awhile. Love to all of you & your families (your mothers & sisters specifically :mischief: )! PM me w/ anything urgent.

:salute:

I'm back with an increased hate of sand.

I'm back with a empty PM box :smug:

After a Christmas vacation that was way too short, way too long, way too busy, and I still didn't do half the things I wanted to, I'm back in the Southland for another term.

The flight was awesome; nobody sat next to me.

IC--your stay is alway too short. I don't know about these other chuckleheads but I'll miss ya, brah.

I'll miss both Che and Irish. You guys brought so much light into my life! Come back to us safe and sound!

Aw, *sniff* thanks, guys!

Well, tomorrow morning I depart New York from LaGuardia to North Carolina. Then on January 4th, I head from NC to Minnesota until the 20th (I must be nuts), then return to New York at JFK.

What's happening in Minnesota?

Let me know if it really gets to be 40 below; when I was there in the summer of '06, the locals all talked about the cold winters as a badge of honor.

Welcome back, Irish Caesar! :)

I hope the trip went well!

I'll be at Oglethorpe the 25th-27th. I'm considering going to school there. It's all still up in the air right now, but I'm testing the waters up in Atlanta to see how I like the place and to see what kind of scholarships I can get.

What's happening in Minnesota?

Let me know if it really gets to be 40 below; when I was there in the summer of '06, the locals all talked about the cold winters as a badge of honor.

Girlfriend and her folks here. And thanks to this massive heat wave, it's 40 above, not 40 below.

Girlfriend and her folks here. And thanks to this massive heat wave, it's 40 above, not 40 below.
Thanks to a heat wave it's 40? :eek:

:snowgrin:

Thanks to a heat wave it's 40? :eek:

:snowgrin:

We don't have a heat wave here and it was 80F today.:(

Oh? Well we do. (http://www.heatwavecorps.org/mambo/)

Ladies and Gentlemen, I have an important announcement.

Effective 1/11/08, I am checking out of here, and plan to pretty much leave OT. There are a few reasons:

1) I have been here a long time...several years. While its cool that I've gotten to know (or at least, as well as one can over the internets) a lot of you guys, a lot of the OT discussion has really become derivative. I know what a lot of you are going to say before you say it. We discuss a lot of the same topics all over again. Why should I read another RELIGION IS IRRATIONAL AND DUMB thread if I've read the same damn thing for 3 years?

2) My motivations for posting have changed a little bit. As a person, I've changed A LOT over these past few years, which is to be expected, seeing as I left high school, and went to college. But after my dad died and mom got sick, and I was bounced to a community college for a year...to be honest, i just lost patience for a lot of the dumb petty crap I used to think was important...or even how I used to think.

The things that have kept me at OT over the last few years were the insights from people who had more life experience than I did...people like Whomp or JH, since being a student, I don't have that many adults to ask questions to anymore. In 2005, I might have been interested in 80% of the open threads...now, its more like 15 for me.

3) I spend a LOT of my time with politics. I'm a political science major, so I'm usually in government classes all day. Then I go to work in my government job. I talk about government stuff with my friends and family. And then i'm here. Now, I'm really passionate about this kind of stuff, and I do have a lot of other interests, but I'm worried I'm getting burned out, which isn't healthy for me intellectually, or professionally.

4) I have over 7,000 posts here. Thats feels like kind of a waste to me. I think I'm going to take all that energy, and try to focus it on more productive endeavors...like writing more (since i don't get to practice that very much at OSU). If I focused the energy it takes for me to post on improving my voice by say, blogging or writing essays, I'll be using that "work downtime" a lot more productively.

Its been fun guys. I like a lot of y'all, and I've learned a lot. I'll still be around fiftychat, and have email...but for now, I think its time for my next adventure

We'll miss a voice of reason; something the world could use a lot more of. I wish you the best in your future plans for public office, and if I find myself in Ohio (or you find yourself wherever I happen to end up), you've got my vote.

Please be sure to let us know (or at least let me know!) if you tour in the New England or greater Atlanta area anytime in the future...

And hey, I know it sounds corny and cliche, but this place just won't be the same without you.

:hatsoff:

Ladies and Gentlemen, I have an important announcement.

Effective 1/11/08, I am checking out of here, and plan to pretty much leave OT. There are a few reasons:

1) I have been here a long time...several years. While its cool that I've gotten to know (or at least, as well as one can over the internets) a lot of you guys, a lot of the OT discussion has really become derivative. I know what a lot of you are going to say before you say it. We discuss a lot of the same topics all over again. Why should I read another RELIGION IS IRRATIONAL AND DUMB thread if I've read the same damn thing for 3 years?

2) My motivations for posting have changed a little bit. As a person, I've changed A LOT over these past few years, which is to be expected, seeing as I left high school, and went to college. But after my dad died and mom got sick, and I was bounced to a community college for a year...to be honest, i just lost patience for a lot of the dumb petty crap I used to think was important...or even how I used to think.

The things that have kept me at OT over the last few years were the insights from people who had more life experience than I did...people like Whomp or JH, since being a student, I don't have that many adults to ask questions to anymore. In 2005, I might have been interested in 80% of the open threads...now, its more like 15 for me.

3) I spend a LOT of my time with politics. I'm a political science major, so I'm usually in government classes all day. Then I go to work in my government job. I talk about government stuff with my friends and family. And then i'm here. Now, I'm really passionate about this kind of stuff, and I do have a lot of other interests, but I'm worried I'm getting burned out, which isn't healthy for me intellectually, or professionally.

4) I have over 7,000 posts here. Thats feels like kind of a waste to me. I think I'm going to take all that energy, and try to focus it on more productive endeavors...like writing more (since i don't get to practice that very much at OSU). If I focused the energy it takes for me to post on improving my voice by say, blogging or writing essays, I'll be using that "work downtime" a lot more productively.

Its been fun guys. I like a lot of y'all, and I've learned a lot. I'll still be around fiftychat, and have email...but for now, I think its time for my next adventure

I'll miss your posting and I wuv you forever and ever and I will see you in fiftychat!

Downtown, you are one of the most reasonable posters in this forum. I've learned a lot from your comments and I've enjoyed our discussions, though they have been few.

I'll miss you. Good luck. :salute:

Aces High is based in Columbus, right? I'll drop by sometime.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I have an important announcement.

Effective 1/11/08, I am checking out of here, and plan to pretty much leave OT. There are a few reasons:

1) I have been here a long time...several years. While its cool that I've gotten to know (or at least, as well as one can over the internets) a lot of you guys, a lot of the OT discussion has really become derivative. I know what a lot of you are going to say before you say it. We discuss a lot of the same topics all over again. Why should I read another RELIGION IS IRRATIONAL AND DUMB thread if I've read the same damn thing for 3 years?

2) My motivations for posting have changed a little bit. As a person, I've changed A LOT over these past few years, which is to be expected, seeing as I left high school, and went to college. But after my dad died and mom got sick, and I was bounced to a community college for a year...to be honest, i just lost patience for a lot of the dumb petty crap I used to think was important...or even how I used to think.

The things that have kept me at OT over the last few years were the insights from people who had more life experience than I did...people like Whomp or JH, since being a student, I don't have that many adults to ask questions to anymore. In 2005, I might have been interested in 80% of the open threads...now, its more like 15 for me.

3) I spend a LOT of my time with politics. I'm a political science major, so I'm usually in government classes all day. Then I go to work in my government job. I talk about government stuff with my friends and family. And then i'm here. Now, I'm really passionate about this kind of stuff, and I do have a lot of other interests, but I'm worried I'm getting burned out, which isn't healthy for me intellectually, or professionally.

4) I have over 7,000 posts here. Thats feels like kind of a waste to me. I think I'm going to take all that energy, and try to focus it on more productive endeavors...like writing more (since i don't get to practice that very much at OSU). If I focused the energy it takes for me to post on improving my voice by say, blogging or writing essays, I'll be using that "work downtime" a lot more productively.

Its been fun guys. I like a lot of y'all, and I've learned a lot. I'll still be around fiftychat, and have email...but for now, I think its time for my next adventure

I want you to have my babies before you go. That way, a part of me will be with you forever.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I have an important announcement.

Effective 1/11/08, I am checking out of here, and plan to pretty much leave OT. There are a few reasons:

1) I have been here a long time...several years. While its cool that I've gotten to know (or at least, as well as one can over the internets) a lot of you guys, a lot of the OT discussion has really become derivative. I know what a lot of you are going to say before you say it. We discuss a lot of the same topics all over again. Why should I read another RELIGION IS IRRATIONAL AND DUMB thread if I've read the same damn thing for 3 years?

2) My motivations for posting have changed a little bit. As a person, I've changed A LOT over these past few years, which is to be expected, seeing as I left high school, and went to college. But after my dad died and mom got sick, and I was bounced to a community college for a year...to be honest, i just lost patience for a lot of the dumb petty crap I used to think was important...or even how I used to think.

The things that have kept me at OT over the last few years were the insights from people who had more life experience than I did...people like Whomp or JH, since being a student, I don't have that many adults to ask questions to anymore. In 2005, I might have been interested in 80% of the open threads...now, its more like 15 for me.

3) I spend a LOT of my time with politics. I'm a political science major, so I'm usually in government classes all day. Then I go to work in my government job. I talk about government stuff with my friends and family. And then i'm here. Now, I'm really passionate about this kind of stuff, and I do have a lot of other interests, but I'm worried I'm getting burned out, which isn't healthy for me intellectually, or professionally.

4) I have over 7,000 posts here. Thats feels like kind of a waste to me. I think I'm going to take all that energy, and try to focus it on more productive endeavors...like writing more (since i don't get to practice that very much at OSU). If I focused the energy it takes for me to post on improving my voice by say, blogging or writing essays, I'll be using that "work downtime" a lot more productively.

Its been fun guys. I like a lot of y'all, and I've learned a lot. I'll still be around fiftychat, and have email...but for now, I think its time for my next adventure

I wubs you Matt Brown. :love:

SEE YOU IN #FIFTYCHAT!

<fifty> Fiftychat: The only . .. .. .. .ing place you'll get to talk to downtown!

I want you to have my babies before you go. That way, a part of me will be with you forever.

I want to have Downtown's babies, so a part of HIM will always be with me forever.

Introduction of Ondskan.


Hiho. My name here is Ondskan.
I'm a cool guy.

ty.

Matt--Thanks for your kind words. What you said means a lot to me because I think you're an awfully solid person.

People here will say "you'll be back" ... I say come back if you're interested in discussing something you want to talk about. There's no timeframe for interesting discussion...

I'm sure you'll have a positive impact on more lives than you know over your lifetime. Here's a little something I have at my desk to remind about life.

From Mark Twain--
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Cheers! B

Hey, downy. It's been good, having you. I'll see you around #fiftychat, yeah? :D

Farewell to a brave and noble comrade.

:salute: Goodbye downtown, one of our most sane posters.

Matt left? damn.

What a cool guy, I'll miss him. This might sound dumb, but before MB and Eran, I thought all mormons were nutjobs.

Matt left? damn.

What a cool guy, I'll miss him. This might sound dumb, but before MB and Eran, I thought all mormons were nutjobs.

Yeah I have to admit, they represent their societal group well. I think they are good PR for mormons in general.

Damn shame to see you go Downtown. Take care :wavey:

Be well Matt, and feel free to drop by sometime and let us know how you're doing. :)

You'll be missed, downtown. :(

:salute: May you spend your energy in the best way for you and the people you're responsible for!

Not downtown! :cry: Now from whence will the sanity be brought?

So long. I'll keep reading your blog. :wavey:

Ladies and Gentlemen, I have an important announcement.

Effective 1/11/08, I am checking out of here, and plan to pretty much leave OT. There are a few reasons:

1) I have been here a long time...several years. While its cool that I've gotten to know (or at least, as well as one can over the internets) a lot of you guys, a lot of the OT discussion has really become derivative. I know what a lot of you are going to say before you say it. We discuss a lot of the same topics all over again. Why should I read another RELIGION IS IRRATIONAL AND DUMB thread if I've read the same damn thing for 3 years?

2) My motivations for posting have changed a little bit. As a person, I've changed A LOT over these past few years, which is to be expected, seeing as I left high school, and went to college. But after my dad died and mom got sick, and I was bounced to a community college for a year...to be honest, i just lost patience for a lot of the dumb petty crap I used to think was important...or even how I used to think.

The things that have kept me at OT over the last few years were the insights from people who had more life experience than I did...people like Whomp or JH, since being a student, I don't have that many adults to ask questions to anymore. In 2005, I might have been interested in 80% of the open threads...now, its more like 15 for me.

3) I spend a LOT of my time with politics. I'm a political science major, so I'm usually in government classes all day. Then I go to work in my government job. I talk about government stuff with my friends and family. And then i'm here. Now, I'm really passionate about this kind of stuff, and I do have a lot of other interests, but I'm worried I'm getting burned out, which isn't healthy for me intellectually, or professionally.

4) I have over 7,000 posts here. Thats feels like kind of a waste to me. I think I'm going to take all that energy, and try to focus it on more productive endeavors...like writing more (since i don't get to practice that very much at OSU). If I focused the energy it takes for me to post on improving my voice by say, blogging or writing essays, I'll be using that "work downtime" a lot more productively.

Its been fun guys. I like a lot of y'all, and I've learned a lot. I'll still be around fiftychat, and have email...but for now, I think its time for my next adventure
So long Matt! I'll miss you around here, even though we disagreed a lot. Good luck with your studies and life, and I'll see you around fiftychat. (And I'll check your blog occasionally, it's bookmarked)

I've been thinking a lot of similar stuff lately, so I know how you feel. It can get really old....but come on back to visit if you can. :)

Oh, and welcome, Ondskan! You picked a rather unfortunate time to announce yourself, it seems. ;)

Thank you all for the kind words :)


Please be sure to let us know (or at least let me know!) if you tour in the New England or greater Atlanta area anytime in the future...
:hatsoff:Thanks IC. I can tell you right now I'll be in Boston right after this Christmas, since the Alpha Phi Omega national conference is at BU. I'll try to find some place to jam in town that weekend.


Aces High is based in Columbus, right? I'll drop by sometime.
Yeah, I'd check www.aceshighblues.com around May to see the summer touring schedule. I'm going to try and get a few festivals closer to your neck of the woods come July.

What a cool guy, I'll miss him. This might sound dumb, but before MB and Eran, I thought all mormons were nutjobs.
One of the highest compliments I think I can get :)

Bye downtown :wavey:

May you find happiness wherever you go :)
(and don't forget to visit #fiftychat once in a while ;))

A sad day :(

Downtown, whenever you come to DC, e-mail me or pm me where your CD is.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I have an important announcement.

Effective 1/11/08, I am checking out of here, and plan to pretty much leave OT. There are a few reasons:

1) I have been here a long time...several years. While its cool that I've gotten to know (or at least, as well as one can over the internets) a lot of you guys, a lot of the OT discussion has really become derivative. I know what a lot of you are going to say before you say it. We discuss a lot of the same topics all over again. Why should I read another RELIGION IS IRRATIONAL AND DUMB thread if I've read the same damn thing for 3 years?

2) My motivations for posting have changed a little bit. As a person, I've changed A LOT over these past few years, which is to be expected, seeing as I left high school, and went to college. But after my dad died and mom got sick, and I was bounced to a community college for a year...to be honest, i just lost patience for a lot of the dumb petty crap I used to think was important...or even how I used to think.

The things that have kept me at OT over the last few years were the insights from people who had more life experience than I did...people like Whomp or JH, since being a student, I don't have that many adults to ask questions to anymore. In 2005, I might have been interested in 80% of the open threads...now, its more like 15 for me.

3) I spend a LOT of my time with politics. I'm a political science major, so I'm usually in government classes all day. Then I go to work in my government job. I talk about government stuff with my friends and family. And then i'm here. Now, I'm really passionate about this kind of stuff, and I do have a lot of other interests, but I'm worried I'm getting burned out, which isn't healthy for me intellectually, or professionally.

4) I have over 7,000 posts here. Thats feels like kind of a waste to me. I think I'm going to take all that energy, and try to focus it on more productive endeavors...like writing more (since i don't get to practice that very much at OSU). If I focused the energy it takes for me to post on improving my voice by say, blogging or writing essays, I'll be using that "work downtime" a lot more productively.

Its been fun guys. I like a lot of y'all, and I've learned a lot. I'll still be around fiftychat, and have email...but for now, I think its time for my next adventure

Geez, I don't post here for a few days and this happens! Sorry to see you go, Matt, you brought a unique perspective to some of the issues of the day and you did a great job teaching about the LDS and its members to dispel some of the many ridiculous myths that are out there.

I'll have to go find your CDs sometime and just noticed the link to the blog, so you have a reader. Farewell, my friend. And I'll take an order of babies also. :love:

Farewell, downtown. :salute:

Sad to see you leave.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I have an important announcement.

Effective 1/11/08, I am checking out of here, and plan to pretty much leave OT. There are a few reasons:

1) I have been here a long time...several years. While its cool that I've gotten to know (or at least, as well as one can over the internets) a lot of you guys, a lot of the OT discussion has really become derivative. I know what a lot of you are going to say before you say it. We discuss a lot of the same topics all over again. Why should I read another RELIGION IS IRRATIONAL AND DUMB thread if I've read the same damn thing for 3 years?

2) My motivations for posting have changed a little bit. As a person, I've changed A LOT over these past few years, which is to be expected, seeing as I left high school, and went to college. But after my dad died and mom got sick, and I was bounced to a community college for a year...to be honest, i just lost patience for a lot of the dumb petty crap I used to think was important...or even how I used to think.

The things that have kept me at OT over the last few years were the insights from people who had more life experience than I did...people like Whomp or JH, since being a student, I don't have that many adults to ask questions to anymore. In 2005, I might have been interested in 80% of the open threads...now, its more like 15 for me.

3) I spend a LOT of my time with politics. I'm a political science major, so I'm usually in government classes all day. Then I go to work in my government job. I talk about government stuff with my friends and family. And then i'm here. Now, I'm really passionate about this kind of stuff, and I do have a lot of other interests, but I'm worried I'm getting burned out, which isn't healthy for me intellectually, or professionally.

4) I have over 7,000 posts here. Thats feels like kind of a waste to me. I think I'm going to take all that energy, and try to focus it on more productive endeavors...like writing more (since i don't get to practice that very much at OSU). If I focused the energy it takes for me to post on improving my voice by say, blogging or writing essays, I'll be using that "work downtime" a lot more productively.

Its been fun guys. I like a lot of y'all, and I've learned a lot. I'll still be around fiftychat, and have email...but for now, I think its time for my next adventure

:( Good luck in your future endeavors, good luck with the band (checked the shipping costs for Belgium yet? ;) ) and a truckload of groupies for you:goodjob:

Sad to see ya go, Matt :( :salute:.

Downtown will surely be missed. :(

My friends,

Four months and seven years ago our moderators brought forth on this cyberspace, a new forum, conceived by Thunderfall, and dedicated to the proposition that no computer game is Civilization's equal.

Now I find it engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that forum, or any forum so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure a quality Off-Topic subforum. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. I have come to dedicate a portion of that field--this exact spot--as a resting place for my final OT post. It is altogether fitting and proper that I should do this.

But, in a larger sense, I can not dedicate -- I can not consecrate -- I can not hallow -- this OT subforum. The lesser posters, active and inactive, who posted here, have so thoroughly damaged it, far above the poor power of the greater posters to add or detract. OT will little note, nor long remember what I say here, but it can never forget why I leave here. It is for lack of time, lack of interest, and lack of quality posts that I dedicate this task of leaving which this goodbye post will so nobly advance. Lastly, I am dedicated to the great task remaining before me -- that of thanking those great honored posters who with great devotion to that cause for which they gave their last full measure of wit, erudition, and devotion --, so I here with strongest resolve say that those greats did not post in vain -- that this forum, under Thunderfall, was greater for their noble efforts, despite the many repetitive and boring posters -- and I pray that a forum of the cool people, by the cool people, and for the cool people, shall one day exist on CFC.

Farewell,

Gogf

For the folks who actually care:

I'm tired of the same-old-same-old debates over and over. After a couple of pages, every thread becomes about one or more of the following: religion, George W. Bush, communism vs. capitalism, or some other beaten-to-death topic. I often find myself feeling worse after browsing CFC for a while than before I started—disappointed and depressed by the flaming and ridiculous arguments. I have a lot of friends here who I hope to stay in contact with, and I wish everyone all the best. I'll pop in from time to time, but don't expect me to post frequently at all. I should be around on IRC most of the time, though.

Take care!

You'll be missed, too, Gogf! :cry:

I wubs you gogf.

:love:

My friends,

Four months and seven years ago our moderators brought forth on this cyberspace, a new forum, conceived by Thunderfall, and dedicated to the proposition that no computer game is Civilization's equal.

Now I find it engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that forum, or any forum so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure a quality Off-Topic subforum. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. I have come to dedicate a portion of that field--this exact spot--as a resting place for my final OT post. It is altogether fitting and proper that I should do this.

But, in a larger sense, I can not dedicate -- I can not consecrate -- I can not hallow -- this OT subforum. The lesser posters, active and inactive, who posted here, have so thoroughly damaged it, far above the poor power of the greater posters to add or detract. OT will little note, nor long remember what I say here, but it can never forget why I leave here. It is for lack of time, lack of interest, and lack of quality posts that I dedicate this task of leaving which this goodbye post will so nobly advance. Lastly, I am dedicated to the great task remaining before me -- that of thanking those great honored posters who with great devotion to that cause for which they gave their last full measure of wit, erudition, and devotion --, so I here with strongest resolve say that those greats did not post in vain -- that this forum, under Thunderfall, was greater for their noble efforts, despite the many repetitive and boring posters -- and I pray that a forum of the cool people, by the cool people, and for the cool people, shall one day exist on CFC.

Farewell,

Gogf

For the folks who actually care:

The quality of OT has declined precipitously lately. There are still some good posters, but by and large I tend to feel worse after browsing CFC—disappointed, annoyed, or just depressed. Finding the good posts in the mountain of spam and meaningless garbage ("which is worse, being waterboarded or molested?") is simply impossible most of the time. I will miss quite a few of you, and I'll probably pop in from time to time, but do not expect me to post frequently. I'll still be around on IRC, so contacting me shouldn't be incredibly tough, should the need arise.

Bye guys, it's been fun.

All the best in your endeavors Gogf.



Where has Gogf gone?” he cried. “I
shall tell you. We have killed him –
you and I. We are his murderers. But
how have we done this? How were
we able to drink up the sea? Who
gave us the sponge to wipe away the
entire horizon? What did we do when
we unchained the Earth from its sun?
Whither is it moving now? Whither
are we moving now? Away from all
suns? Are we not perpetually falling?
Backward, sideward, forward, in all
directions? Is there any up or down
left? Are we not straying as through
an infinite nothing? Do we not feel
the breath of empty space? Has it not
become colder? Is it not more and
more night coming on all the time?
Must not lanterns be lit in the
morning? Do we not hear anything
yet of the noise of the gravediggers
who are burying Gogf? Do we not
smell anything yet of Gogf’s
decomposition? Gogfs, too,
decompose. Gogf is dead. Gogf
remains dead. And we have killed
him. How shall we, murderers of all
murderers, console ourselves?”

Shame to see you leave gogf! See you in fiftychat from time to time hopefully. And bye bye matt! You will be missed.

Nicely put Gogf! Fare thee well and may your newly gained free time be filled with lots of decent other activities.

See you around!