Selene Gregoire

And you just confirmed that not only do you lack reading comprehension, you see what you want to see, not what is actually there. Obviously, you want to be blamed for threads being locked. I won't be helping you. *plonk*

Here's another one for you Scyllia, from a different POV. https://www.gettysburg.edu/dotAsset/c25d9bb4-41d0-42d1-a242-d9e0d0dabdee.pdf

Then stop making off topic comments on off topic comments. That is what gets threads locked. It is that simple.

Just doing my part to try to keep things on topic.

Sam R. Watkins, born on June 26, 1839 near Columbia, Tennessee, attended Jackson College at Columbia prior to his enlistment as a private in the First Tennessee Infantry, Company H in the spring of 1861. Watkins served throughout the duration of the war, and was promoted to fourth corporal for picking up a Union flag from the battlefield during the Battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864. In 1881, 20 years after the war began, Watkins wrote his memoirs of the war, recounting his engaging saga in "Co. Aytch": A Side Show of the Big Show. Watkins died on July 20, 1901. More here: http://dragoon1st.tripod.com/cw/files/soldier_watkins.html

Gone for a Soldier: The Civil War Memoirs of Private Alfred Bellard More excepts on the pdf here: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/lifeandlimb/pdfs/transcriptbellardmemoirs.pdf

https://secondlife-status.statuspage.io/

It's a good song. If you don't know the lyrics, here they are:

I posted the vid of the song as you were posting this. It wasn't a song from the 50s ya know. lol

Need maor. Maor. MOAR! *grabs the pot and drinks from it*

It was also a line in a country song. Sorry. From now on I won't attempt to reinforce what you are trying to convey in plainer terms.

So you are saying that one should do this: "If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?" instead of this: "Hi. I'm Love. I hope your day has been going well." That first one just got the door slammed in your face. The second one, however, just opened the door enough to get your foot in. It's too freaking early in the morning.

Using pickup lines just shows me the other person has no confidence in themselves. If someone doesn't have confidence in themselves, how can I? Pickup lines can make an uncomfortable situation that could have been handled better even more uncomfortable. What do you think will happen if the person you are using "lines" on isn't comfortable with what is being said? It's guaranteed you'll get shot down every time. Conversation doesn't have to be an "art". It does, after all, begin with a simple greeting. You don't need to be suave and debonair. That comes off as fake. Just. Be. Yourself. Unless, of course, you like being shot down. Then, by all means, proceed.

making murderous murdering marauders mutter

Instead of trying to be "original" in using pickup lines, just be yourself and forget pickup lines. Personally, I can't stand phonies and using pickup lines is about as phony as you can get.

While we don't eat cookies with jams (unless they come with but then they aren't really cookies then), jellies and preserves we do eat biscuits with them. And butter too. Real butter, not margarine. And it isn't just any gravy. It must be country gravy which is rather peppery. A bit too warm for my taste buds.

I know you do. Unfortunately there are those who are determined not to. One in particular that never learns. As long as that one is allowed to post, they will derail a thread every time. That one has a long history of doing so on another forum. Good luck with keeping it on topic. I mean that sincerely.

To put it simply, war is politics and vice versa.

If this was meant to be a joke, it wasn't funny. I was diagnosed with Astigmatism when I was a child.

weaving wearily while wandering woods

You weren't that serious. Well... ok... in the RedZone threads you were but everywhere else... it was... fun!

Those are the two 10k plus threads. As I recall, the VooDoo was mostly in a thread of its own. I wish Cris would hurry up and get the SLU archive up. Just for grins and giggles.

It took me 9 years to get up to 14k LOL