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Gnat the Beggar
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:08 am

Former Navy man here...
Don't know why OP did not like the move.
Going from the Army to the Navy would be an upgrade IMO.

Like going from coach to 1st class.

However; on another note, I for one truly do appreciate all you Army fellas did and do for the USA... :!:

Both here and abroad.

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GreyM
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:29 am

We're coming out ot the wood work now...

Army
11C (long story on that one)
BIG RED ONE BABY (Ft. Riley, KS)

for all you Navy guys...when I was in Airborne school, a crazy Seal (in training) told me this one:

Q: Why does the Navy use powdered soap in their showers?

A: It takes longer to pick up

Then he jumped out of formation and did a belly flop in a puddle of water that was about 2" deep. I think there was something seriously wrong with him ;-)

bbarsh
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 11:37 am

GreyM wrote:for all you Navy guys...when I was in Airborne school, a crazy Seal ...
Then he jumped out of formation and did a belly flop in a puddle of water that was about 2" deep. I think there was something seriously wrong with him

Dude, I had a whole freaking squad of Seals in my group at Airborne School. They would purposely egg on the cadre so we would get hammered with PT in the pit. They were all nuts!

And I could've bought these damn modules off the 1$ rack!!!

New modules for your Old School game http://pacesettergames.com/

Everything Pacesetter at http://pacesettergames.blog.com/

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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 2:36 pm

Back on topic :wink:

Checking on other box sets (Al-Qadim) from the early 90's they all have the 3 seamed SW.
Course I'm going to be opening them but thought to preserve that little info if it becomes relevant for dating SW.

ShaneG.

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bbarsh
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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 4:11 pm

Plaag wrote:Course I'm going to be opening them...
ShaneG.

Get that on video. We will tie Ryan to a chair and make him watch the process. Rumor has it that will turn him into a Reaver (for all you Firefly fans).

And I could've bought these damn modules off the 1$ rack!!!

New modules for your Old School game http://pacesettergames.com/

Everything Pacesetter at http://pacesettergames.blog.com/

Plaag
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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 5:14 pm

bbarsh wrote:
Get that on video. We will tie Ryan to a chair and make him watch the process. Rumor has it that will turn him into a Reaver (for all you Firefly fans).

I could and maybe wear a brown coat to while doing so...but doesn't he suffer enough with just the words "removing shrink wrap". I'm sure the imagination can be worse then seeing the deed.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came unwrapping,
As of some one gently tearing, tearing at my books galore.
`'Tis some vandal,' I muttered, `tearing at my Ebay score -
Only this, and nothing more????'

ShaneG.

I reject your reality and substitute my own

smarmy1
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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 9:59 pm

Plaag wrote:
I could and maybe wear a brown coat to while doing so...but doesn't he suffer enough with just the words "removing shrink wrap". I'm sure the imagination can be worse then seeing the deed.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came unwrapping,
As of some one gently tearing, tearing at my books galore.
`'Tis some vandal,' I muttered, `tearing at my Ebay score -
Only this, and nothing more????'

ShaneG.

Thank you Edgar Allan Plaag. That was awesome.

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate sundered wrapper wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
From my modules surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the shrink no more -
For the rare and shiny maiden whom the angels named shrink wrappor-
Ripped to pieces here for evermore.

Ok... the last rhyme was a bit of a stretch :oops:

Hello Mrs. Cleaver, Theodore.

Gee, Mrs. Cleaver ... That certainly is a lovely dress.

Thunderdave
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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 10:22 pm

...And the silken sad searching for each opened piece uncertain
Thrilled me - filled me with disappointing tremors never felt before;
So where now, to still the beating of my heart, I kept re-looking
Wasn't there some fold up pieces I could use for my castle door
Some cardboard cut-out to stand in for my castle door
Where's the map, there's nothing more!

<sometimes you wish you went shrink :wink:

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