I was a regular poster here a long time ago; I suppose it's been about four years now. Yikes. Life gets crazy, you lose Internet access for a while, and suddenly you realize it's been years and you don't recognize most of the people on the forum. I suppose I *could* just comb the threads for people I recognize, but aliases change and, frankly, I'm lazy. I do recognize a few people. Who's still around that I'd remember? I'd love to re-acquaint myself with some of the wonderful people I used to know here. Long time no see!
To everyone I don't yet know, hallo! I look forward to becoming acquainted.
Posted by LadyDove (Member # 3000) on :
Yank- Weren't you on a mission?
Nice to see you again. Posted by Yank (Member # 2514) on :
Well, yes, but I returned about a year and a half ago, posted briefly from the public library, and then got heavily involved in the Proverbial Vicissitudes of Life. I haven't really been seen since. *grin*
And thank you! It's good to see you again as well.
Posted by ludosti (Member # 1772) on :
Welcome back to us, Yank! I hope your life is going well. Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
Hi yank! I remember you. How are things?
Posted by LadyDove (Member # 3000) on :
Ah yes, the pull of the Vicissitudes. They are jealous little, sticky tendrils. Once they've found you, they never quite let you go.
I hope they at least give you time off so that you can visit Hatrack more often.
Posted by Theaca (Member # 8325) on :
You know, I was actually thinking about you the other day. Someone that had actually said goodby, did a mission, then came back, then disappeared. I couldn't remember your name, but it was definitely you I was thinking of. Welcome back.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Hi, Yank. Sorry I was such a lousy Hatrack provider while you were gone. Zevlag and Hobbes are suffering that right now.
Posted by Yank (Member # 2514) on :
katharina: You were *not* lousy, *I* was a lousy correspondent.
I'm working Tech Support now, so between calls and emails I have a lot more time to troll the Internet in all its ridiculousness. Things are going well, if not how I planned, but that's life. I'm also in an apprenticeship for Martial Arts teaching now, having taken up Shaolin Chuan'fa (a Kempo/Kung-fu style) right off my mission. So, very busy but busy doing things I enjoy doing.
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
Yank!
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
Yay!! Welcome back, Yank! I didn't remember that you were back from your mission, but that makes sense, as it seems like a LONG time ago that you left.
Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
I remember you, not sure you do me.
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
Hiya, Yank, nice to see you.
Welcome back. Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
*tackle*
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
Whoa.
Posted by Jaiden (Member # 2099) on :
I remember you, but I don't think you'd remember me Posted by Yank (Member # 2514) on :
Actually, I remember every one of you saying, "I don't think you'd remember me." It's good to see y'all again!
Posted by Jhai (Member # 5633) on :
I lurked at that time, but didn't post.
Welcome back anyways! Posted by xnera (Member # 187) on :
Hi, Yank! Good to see you again. Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Hi Yank! I remember you! Good to see you again. Welcome back.
Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :
You're yanking my chain.
Posted by Yank (Member # 2514) on :
Where did the Pun Police go? We've got a serious violation of the Bad Pun Statute here. *grin*
Posted by unicornwhisperer (Member # 294) on :
I remember you! Wow 4 years! That's insane. It's good to see you again!
Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
Hey Yank!
*head explodes*
Posted by David Bowles (Member # 1021) on :
Hey... I've been away for a while, too. Good to see you.
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
I bet you don't remember me, Yank!
Edit:
This is a new name, but I bet you can't remember who I was! Posted by Yank (Member # 2514) on :
Well, of course I can't remember who you were if your name has changed. It's not like I have faces to go on, or that your post gives me any clues.
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
You wouldn't remember who I was. I tricked you. *happy dance* I apologize. I actually didn't have a name before this, and you are new to me.
You seem like a neat-o person. Would you mind ignoring my cruel joke and letting me get to know you slightly better?
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
quote:You're yanking my chain.
You say that because you want him to.
Posted by Yank (Member # 2514) on :
Bah, cruel joke, shmuel joke. *grin* If that's your idea of a cruel joke, you need to go to Boy Scout Camp. Or live in my last apartment.
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
I've been to Boy Scout Camp for the past four years, thank you very much. And I've camped over my birthday each time, to boot.
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
I remember you, Yank, and I remember when you posted just after your mission. Has it seriously been a year and a half since then?!
Posted by Yank (Member # 2514) on :
Ah, Scout Camp- the memories, the axes, knives and other sharp objects, the guns, the pyromania (Scout water!), the cows streaming in from an adjacent cattle ranch, the sheer number of 12-year-old human males....
It's a wonder any of us survived to post about it.
Posted by Yank (Member # 2514) on :
Yep, it's been a year and a half. Can't believe it either.
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
I just remember one of my friends and I decided to cremate these frogs we found that were dead. We got in huge trouble for that...
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
quote:Originally posted by Xavier: Hey Yank!
*head explodes*
Haha. I was going to ask him if he'd cleaned up any exploding heads lately. Posted by Yank (Member # 2514) on :
Nope, I'm more or less out of the janitorial business. Besides, grey matter is corrosive stuff; did you know the Old West trappers used beaver brains to cure their hides?
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Howdy Yank.
Beaver brains -- wow! So, without all those beavers sitting around thinking healthy thoughts, we'd have had a bunch of trappers in the old west suffering from acne, boils and leprosy?
Fascinating stuff.
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
Well, since you've been gone, I've kinda gotten into the janitorial business myself....
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
And I got cancer!
Which actually sucks, as opposed to Papa Moose's change which was a good thing.
But lots of good things have happened since you've been gone. Weddings, babies born, stories published. All sort of coolness.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by Yank: Bah, cruel joke, shmuel joke.
You know Shmuel? I'd have thought he was since your time.
I haven't been here 4 years yet, but I do remember your too-short posting flurry a year and a half ago. Welcome back! Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
quote:Originally posted by Yank: Where did the Pun Police go? We've got a serious violation of the Bad Pun Statute here. *grin*
You have been gone a long time, haven't you? The Bad Pun Mafia runs this town now. Sad but true.
Posted by Miro (Member # 1178) on :
Welcome back. Things around here certainly have changed over the past 4 years.
I think I remember you, but I'm not sure. My memory doesn't always cooperate when I want it to.
Posted by HollowEarth (Member # 2586) on :
I remember you.
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
I don't know if you remember me Yank, but I remember you... I've been here about three years, so I'm not sure why it is that I know you... anyway, welcome back!! Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
I guess I am from after your time . . .
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
quote:did you know the Old West trappers used beaver brains to cure their hides?
.
Nope. And I think I could've gone through my life entirely happy about not knowing that.
Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :
Hi Yank!
You were very popular in the Hatrack Nameology game -- have a search and see!
Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :
Hi yank. I missed you!
Ni!
Posted by JaneX (Member # 2026) on :
Hey, Yank! Good to see you again.
~Jane~
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
I remember when you checked in after your mission, but I wasn't around back when you left.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
I think I remember you?
-pH
Posted by Yank (Member # 2514) on :
Thanks for all the wonderful welcomes!
And I remember *you*, pH. You're the Vin Diesel fan, right?
Posted by peterh (Member # 5208) on :
Amen to pooka above.
Welcome back!
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
Haha, yes. Vin is my lovah.
He is sometimes joined by Cillian Murphy and Colin Farrell.
-pH
Posted by jebus202 (Member # 2524) on :
Crazy to see you back, Yank.
I remember chatting to you in parachat when I first joined.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
I remember you, although not well. Posted by Redskullvw (Member # 1549) on :
Welcome back Yank, check in on Ornery
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
A little out of line, don'tcha think Jon?
Posted by Jonathan K. (Member # 7720) on :
it was directed at pH since he said he loved Vin
Posted by Papa Janitor (Member # 7795) on :
pH is a she, though that fact has nothing to do with your post being out of line.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
I figured it was directed at her, but it was still in very poor taste. SOme of them were funny, but the others just igoranly crude.
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