The ***OFFICIAL*** Friday/Saturday Night Singles' Thread (Oct. 14th & 15th)

October 14th, 2005 -- 9:00PM ET | scott7278

[scott7278]

Welcome!!!

 

 

"We're so glad to see so many of you lovely people here tonight...

 

 

 

...We would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois' law enforcement community who have chosen to join us here at the Place Hotel Ballroom at this time. We certainly hope you all enjoy the show and remember people that no matter who you are and what you do to live, thrive and survive, there's still some things that make us all the same...

 

 

 

...You, me, them, everybody..."

 

"…You know people, when you do find that special somebody, you gotta hold that man, hold that woman, love him, please him, squeeze her, please her, signify your feelings with every gentle caress…because it’s so important to have that special somebody to hold, to kiss, to miss, to squeeze, and please…"

 

 

 

 

 

[Rca2000]

How's it comin' with your novel, Paul?

I am in the process of rewriting mine, into the screenplay format, so it will be acceptable for the contest. I was hoping not to have to, but I will have to rewrite it. I have about 5 weeks left.I do believe I WILL make it, though.

[Paul_Denton]

Its coming along good. I am about to write a Zero-G mecha battle. Mine is hard sci-fi so it is realistic. The squad enters a base deep inside an asteroid. And there is neither air nor gravity.

[Nowhere Man]

The Bengals, perhaps?
(Even I have to admit, they are no longer the "Bungals").

You guys play us next, the Pittsburgh Steelers. I remember one of our local sportscasters, he retired this year, Myron Cope always called the Bengals, the "Bungals." I have Madden 2001 on my Playstation (the first one) and I renamed the Baltimore Ravens, "The Ratbirds" and they play in "Rat-Town Stadium." B-D "Ratbirds" is a pet name for the Ravens. You guys are a game and a half ahead of us, I'm glad Rothlesburger (sp) is coming back, Maddox threw several real bombs last week, heck my 18 year old calico cat or my 90 year old grandmother could have done better. B-D

Or perhaps, the on-going Rove-Plamegate mess?

Blech..... That is so boring, there is nothing much to it, at least to me. When they start talking about that, I pop in my tape of Sting and "The Police," "Swing Out Sister" or "Mister, Mister" or whatever I happen to have in my Walkman. Tell you the truth, politics and all of this stuff is burning me out,I tend to listen to Jim Quinn and Glenn Beck, by the time Rush comes around, if I'm that burned out, I flit in and out, sometimes I listen to our local Christian station. 9 times out of 10, when Hannity comes on, I know I'm burned out. I always listen to Savage though, him (and Beck) have interesting takes on things, I always had this thought to where Beck seems like a slightly older brother to me (he's 41 I'm 39) and Savage is like an uncle or father figure (my parents divorced when I was 10, didn't see much of my father). I've pretty much just sit and copy the mail although I srtill comment on the social issues that are near and dear to my heart.

Or, past loves lost, and such, like before?

Oh man, I think I'll pass. I tried to get Elaine S. or Martha M. to notice me in high school but it failed. B-( Don't feel like talking about chicks right now. B-)

[Nowhere Man]

Its coming along good. I am about to write a Zero-G mecha battle. Mine is hard sci-fi so it is realistic. The squad enters a base deep inside an asteroid. And there is neither air nor gravity.

I've been kicking around some "alternate history" ideas in my mind. That reminds me, got to work on my Morrow Project RPG using Twilight: 2000 rules.

[Paul_Denton]

Cool :) I been brainstorming zero-G weapons. That is weapons without recoil.

[Nowhere Man]

Well it is because of loneliness that I feel that way. Just a few months ago the realization hit me hard that I am 24 and never even had so much as a date in my life (the closest thing for me is the one girl I was friends with that moved on that I talked about earlier). I try my best to hide it in public but I just do not know what to do.

(Sgt. Nowhere Man bellies up to the Lonely Heart's Club Bar) B-)

I'll buy a round of beer or whatever yuns (Pittsburgh word for the plural form of you) will have. B-)

I'm in the same boat myself, but I'm 39. I have other issues to deal with such as dig myself out of my economic funk right now and I resolved it this way, "God will lead the right one to me sooner or later," or me to her, sometimes I have to leave this to His will. Dang, now I'm talking about chicks. B-) I know I showed up late but I had been very busy, doing website as well as working in accounting full-time, well you get the idea. B-)

[Paul_Denton]

Thanks. I am glad you and understand. 39? Wow. Talking about chicks, nothing wrong with that :) Yeah being alone is not fun. You are working on a website? Cool.

[Nowhere Man]

I like to do those kind of things,when I hear of someone hurting. I try to help someone, even if I am hurting at the time. I have always been that way.

Better than just telling him"you get what you deserve".

I'm pretty much the same way. There is one book called "Susan Lenox, Her Rise and Fall" (1908, published 1917) by David Graham Phillips about a young girl born illegitimate and her mother died at birth and she was forever marked as being a (excuse me, I'm trying to do a Cliff Notes of a Cliff Notes version here) "bastard child." Well to make a long story short, because a boy took interest in her and vice versa, she was accused of being "loose" (although she was not) by her aunt and uncle who raised her because of miscommunication, having that stigma, and false pride to where they thought "she was going the way of her mother." Well, tyrying to keep it short and trying to stop going on a tangent, she decides to run off, her family catches her, forces her to marry a sharecropper on her (other) uncles farm, she runs away again, works in a dingy factory, becomes a streetwalker and finally a well-to-do actress. Yet she still longs for something and feels empty in her life.

although I have always been that way, the book did reinforce my outlook that it isn't always good to point fingers and yell "you get what you deserve" or "you will amount to nothing." Yes, in our world, we do need to be more judgemental but we cannot drive those away and offer to help them to the right path. Anyways, pointing fingers and doing nothing, when that game is played all the time, sooner or later, there will be 4 or 5 fingers pointing back. I do believe in redemption and repentance. Glenn Beck on his radio show talks about this quite a bit. In the case of Susan, she was condemned right off the bat because of how she was born, she is the innocent in all of this yet she took a lot of crap which drove her to her hard life. although she was innocent, her circumstances condemned her. I know in the scheme of things, having babies out of wedlock is wrong although there are worse things. (Whispering abortion or abuse). My boss, she spent a day working with the convent her sister is in on getting home up to reach out to young, unwed mothers so there is a time to reach out and try to help and get people on the right track. Well, I'm getting off base here but I do believe that we cannot be so quick to comdemn all the time and reach out and offer our help and show them that God is there for them and He cares. As the Book of Ecclesiasties start off in Chapter 3, To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: Just for the heck of it, I was thinming of writing a fan-fic version of it except a Christian reaches out to save her.

I know there are some people that cannot be reached, it has always been that way, but there is a time to temper condemnation and a time to use it, but to use it right off the bat is wrong.

[pcottraux]

"I'll buy a round of beer or whatever yuns (Pittsburgh word for the plural form of you) will have. B-) "

I'll have an orange cream Sobe.

[Nowhere Man]

Cool :) I been brainstorming zero-G weapons. That is weapons without recoil.

Hmmm, that's something to think about. I know if my Morrow Project and Twilight: 2000 games, there is a 106mm recoiless rifle from World War II that is sometimes encountered. You can mount it on a jeep since there is little or no recoil. I'd like to check into the physics of it. I was thinking of gauss guns/rifles or gyrojets but you'd still have recoil from them, remember Newton's Third Law?

[Nowhere Man]

Thanks. I am glad you and understand. 39? Wow. Talking about chicks, nothing wrong with that :) Yeah being alone is not fun. You are working on a website? Cool.

Well, I wasn't up to talking about chicks tonite but I blew it. B-) Websites, well I was freelancing for a while but there was too much feast or famine, I need a dependable source of income so I work in accounts payable for a major shipping firm. I have been gearing the websites down but I have retained a few clients. I have a major push this weekend on a site meaning I'll have a fair amount of work to do.

[Nowhere Man]

I'll have an orange cream Sobe.

Done. I'll take a Royal Crown myself. B-)

[Paul_Denton]

Yes I am well aware of it. Well there is always lasers lol. Gyro jets. That could work if the launching barrel was open at both ends.

[Paul_Denton]

LOL it is easy to do. I thought of getting my own domain site but that has not really gone anywhere. My novel's technical manual (talks about all the equipment used, from small arms to warships) is even less complete than the novel itself. Still, sometime eventually.

[Nowhere Man]

Yes I am well aware of it. Well there is always lasers lol. Gyro jets. That could work if the launching barrel was open at both ends.

Hmmm, again, like the recoilless rifle, the back end dissipates the gasses when it is fired. Lasers, well, they are a bit trite plus they would consume a lot of power, unless in your campaign you have a lot of power in a compact case (basically like a 50 kW generator in your back pocket or in a penlite battery) lasers would be out. Even in zero g, you got to keep mass down so you can move around easier. Gyrojets would be cool. I haven't been watching the new Battlestar Galctica lately, too poor for digital cable and I need to pick up the tapes my buddy is making for me, but I do find it interesting, yet refreshing that they use firearms like we do. Except for space travel, they do not seem to be that far ahead of us. I remember in one episode, on the planet Caprica where Boomer and Zero (I think that's his name) hid out in a bomb shelter in a restaurant that had a radio beacon inside. It looked like my old grandmother's shortwave radio, something you'd see in a 1967 Sears catalog. B-)

[Paul_Denton]

Well the launching platforms are 3-4 meter tall(9 to 13 feet tall) tall mechs with air-independant generators. I like gyrojets but I wonder if there are powerful enough rocket motors so that the projectile reaches at least mach 2 by the time it emerges out of the barrel so you do not have that minimum range disadvantage?

[Rca2000]

Let's get this little party started!!!

[Paul_Denton]

In!

[Paul_Denton]

congrats :)

[Paul_Denton]

Congrats :)