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Posted on 01/27/2005 9:59:05 AM PST by ecurbh
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There's a restaurant know for it's Friday Fish Fry up near my home town, we always make a point to go there whenever we're visiting. They usually have 3 kinds of fish: cod, lake trout, and smelt.
Cleaning smelt strikes me as a really slow process. :-)
Little buggers. Lots of 'em. :-)
But then again, it's more like cuttin' plugs. Pretty fast.
Sorta like arguin' with liberals. Big fun. :-)
Uhmm... yeah... that'd be great. Thanks.
Yeah, and that one I was there for.
The Columbia disaster was the first disaster that I remember learning about on the web. I was up early browsing a news site when I spotted a little story about Mission Control losing contact with the shuttle during its descent. I then turned on the TV to the cable news channels to see if they were saying anything, and I saw the first video broadcast on CNN. I knew right away it had broken up.
Every disaster before that I learned about first on TV or the radio. 9/11 was the first time I tried to follow news reports on the web; I was lurking on FR even though I didn't have a user account yet. I remember I eventually gave up, because FR kept going down under the user load. I just started flipping the TV between ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/Fox News...
Same here. In fact, I signed up here ~on~ 9/11. It was the events of that day that lured me out of lurkdom.
I lurked for a couple of years, and it was the mother-of-all-Y2K threads that finally forced me to log in and post my first post and my first flame-out post... at the same time. :-)
I'd finally had enough... and had to tell them all that *nothing* would actually happen on Y2K. [sigh] It all looks so small now, in the perspective of things.
Good night all....
Just had to go find this out of curiosity... found my first post. Althought I signed up on 9/11 I still didn't post for a few more days.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/523290/posts?page=78#78
My first ever reply on a LOTR-related thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/584362/posts?page=14#14
My first post of a thread (a review of FOTR):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/584606/posts
My first-ever ring-ping:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/586147/posts?page=2#2
My first reply to Rosie:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/588818/posts?page=45#45
My first reply to Hair:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/593234/posts?page=15#15
My first reply to 2J:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/604888/posts?page=37#37
My first post on a Hobbit Hole thread (its actually just a ring-ping):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/616910/posts?page=3#3
My first reply to Jen:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/616910/posts?page=1254#1254
My first reply to Overtaxed:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/628694/posts?page=326#326
My first reply to ksen:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/616910/posts?page=3742#3742
And that's all I have energy to go through right now. I need to go take my contacts out and get ready for bed.
And *dangit* if they didn't have the coolest Land Rover Defender 90 in the showroom. It's a 1995 with 35K miles (they say) but it is monstrously clean and showroom new. [sigh] Dammit.
It looks sorta like this:
Except the one here is a soft top, but still has the roll cage, and is hunter green like the pic.
Hmmm... didn't need this decision just now... but *dangit* I've always wanted one of these...
Isn't that cute..... I remember when you were lookin' at those all the time. Some of them were pretty rough! Not spiffy like that one!
It's way cool. Will have to swing by and look again...
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