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Re: I'm Afraid Tom Was Right
« Reply #50 on: November 05, 2017, 01:32:57 PM »
I've been here 10 years today and don't plan on going anywhere. I didn't even know I had a computer that long, but I remember coming here because there was a gun giveaway. I signed up and liked what I saw on the forum. This is actually the only gun forum I'm a member of and I don't like Facebook. If I'm not out of town I'm usually on here early afternoon and again in the wee hours of the morning before I go to bed. Sometimes I'm on here more often than that.
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Re: I'm Afraid Tom Was Right
« Reply #51 on: November 05, 2017, 02:55:04 PM »
Quote from: Timothy on August 11, 2010, 07:03:27 PM
Thoughts...

I'm a pretty decent guy, lived hard, partied much, loved a few, married the "ONE" and have hundreds of friends who don't live anywhere near me.  I'm not one to take friendship lightly, in fact, I've been known to do more for people I've just met than for acquaintances who've known me for a while, simply because of my ability to filter through the bullshit of daily life.  Not that I'm judgmental but rather, that I'm a good judge of character.

I've known men and women for decades whom I haven't talked to in years and can take up a conversation with them as if we just discussed it yesterday.  Anyone who's spent time in the military or in some desolate or remote place can relate to that as we humans rely on each other whether we admit to it or not.  You have become part of that community that I can say anything, anytime on any topic and be understood!

I've found a place, though my wife thinks you're all probably crazy loons like me, that I can call my comfort zone, a place where my thoughts, though extreme in some respect, can be taken in context and not judged by any societal boundaries.  My happy place and your happy place coexist in this forum.  We may bicker and sling a bit of poo-poo, but we always seem to come to the center of our universe which, I believe, is to put others needs above the needs of ourselves, to put the countries best interest in line with our own existence.

Family, Friends, Countrymen, Brethren.....thanks for being what and who you are!

Not much has changed since I posted this 7 years ago!

Our ranks are fewer, sadly...


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Re: I'm Afraid Tom Was Right
« Reply #52 on: November 05, 2017, 04:37:41 PM »
I agree with all of you...the friendships here are fantastic.
I know NJ is not on anyone's travel list, but you're all always welcome.
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Re: I'm Afraid Tom Was Right
« Reply #53 on: November 06, 2017, 12:45:15 AM »
Quote from: jaybet on November 05, 2017, 04:37:41 PM
I agree with all of you...the friendships here are fantastic.
I know NJ is not on anyone's travel list, but you're all always welcome.
I went to a concert with the wife last night in our small town, and I sat there wondering if we could get Bluebone to a concert in one of the local events.
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Re: I'm Afraid Tom Was Right
« Reply #54 on: November 06, 2017, 12:53:01 AM »
With the talk of longevity I went an checked myself out.  October 3, 2007, must have been a show night, because there were a lot of us that signed up that night.  Page five is where I fall in, and there are a couple of you regulars still ahead of me in time.  Then I went and checked out number of posts, and I am number five on that list.  Most ahead of me no longer play here.
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Re: I'm Afraid Tom Was Right
« Reply #55 on: Today at 01:45:50 PM »
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Re: I'm Afraid Tom Was Right
« Reply #55 on: November 06, 2017, 06:37:51 AM »
Mike you made me check up on when I got in.  Mostly because I couldn't remember when the sweepstakes occurred for that really cool blue 10/22 with the practically unheard of TacSol barrel and wicked looking stock. 

When I got the call on Thanksgiving from MB that I had won it I answered the call from the "strange number" in a guardedly hostile way (guardedly hostile...I like that).  I'm surprised he didn't hang up on me and give it to someone else.  I remember when we shot it out at USSA.  Know what....there is still probably less that 200 rounds though that thing...I don't want to shoot it out!  It's too purty. 

I wonder if those pics are still in photobucket? 


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Re: I'm Afraid Tom Was Right
« Reply #56 on: November 06, 2017, 04:25:39 PM »


4/2/2008  and it was a free gun give away that enticed me to join.  That I won. 

I came for the gun I stayed for the friends.

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Re: I'm Afraid Tom Was Right
« Reply #57 on: November 06, 2017, 06:52:50 PM »
I went to my profile and checked my stats. Over the years I've been on here almost 95 days. It was time well spent.
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Re: I'm Afraid Tom Was Right
« Reply #58 on: November 06, 2017, 07:11:27 PM »
June 03, 2008, 03:53:59 pm, 133 days, 10 hours and 36 minutes for me...

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Re: I'm Afraid Tom Was Right
« Reply #59 on: November 06, 2017, 07:21:40 PM »
Geez....I'm only like 48 days online.  Started 10-FEB-07.

It also looks like I'm 3,000-4,000 posts behind.
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