Cynics, anyone?

[Old Town]

OT,,, You seem like a very sad and lonely person. When a guy has to try as hard as you do to convince others how well they are doing, it usually causes me to recoil. This "most interesting man in the world" act wears thin pretty quick. Tends to make be think more of some off beat kid in his parents basement working on the last crumbs of a quarter bag.........
Funny how a guy as popular as you, with so many folks demanding your time, has time to banter and insult all the little gullible folks here on TNET..

I sure am glad you are the one who referred to the members as " little gullible folks". I may be a snob but I'm not on your level. Jeeezz!

But you got good potential as a contributor. Seems you're as cynical and un-trusting as me. Plus you use really good lyrical phrases like: "Last crumb of a quarter bag."

This is great imagery and I plan to use it in the treasure novel I'm writing in my personal pages. It's title "The Deep And Emerald Sea." Watch for that line about the quarter bag. It's a good one and I can build on something like that. I need some bad characters early in the first chapter and so I'll make them dopers just for you and use your line.

If you have any more, please insult me at your convenience. I'll milk you with both hands like a blue ribbon Holstein at the county fair. Good stuff like "Last crumb of a quarter bag," is pure gold.

Thanks, OT

 

[Old Town]

OT;

20+ years ago I would have stood shoulder - to - shoulder with you and vigorously defended the "non-believers" encampment against all takers............

However, in the ensuing years, I have personally experienced sufficient events as to have transitioned me from an "OT" perspective, to more of a "Frankn" perspective......

Having stood firmly in the Skeptics camp for a good number of years, I can appreciate and even support those that hold this viewpoint. I just can't embrace it as my own anymore.

Diggem'

I respond last to Diggem' because he really doesn't belong here. He's way too controlled and dignified in his response. I suspect he's a gentleman, and hold out his writing as a fine example of how to answer a touchy issue without losing your mind in the process. I could even spend Christmas with this guy.

OT

 

[packerbacker]

Quote from OT-"Diggin, nice of you to feel you have to be polite in addressing such issues but it's not needed with me. I don't insult very easily. And no person on a forum can really effect anyone like me. Remember, as has been pointed out, I have no soul."
Then how come my statements concerning your parents bothered you so much that I became less of a Christian because of what I said? Because of what I said I got called a Christian soldier and a god-fearing cornball. I liked that one a lot. I may have referenced God in a statement or two but, if you look close, I never said I believe. You jump to that conclusion because you want to. You refer to yourself as a "pagan dog" because that's what you think I feel about you. The words about your parents were meant to expose your not-so-thick skin and it worked. You tell us you don't believe in anything you can't see or explain. Do you believe there is an endless universe? I'm sure your response here will be, "I don't care". You may want to ponder the reality of it; could bring about some creative thinking. (the term "ponder" is redneck shorthand for "deep thinking" or "searching for the truth".) Don't be scared, you can still call yourself a cynic. Maybe there isn't a God but there is something out there that even you know has no earthly explanation as of now. To say you don't care is a copout, you have to admit it exists although you can't explain how.
Now, for homework, I want you to go through all of your posts on this thread and look at all the name calling you do and write them down. Then, while you're authoring your best seller you'll have a reference guide when you want to degrade a character. Can you find a place for a character named "packerbacker" somehow?

 

[Old Town]

packerbacker, I will do my best to include a packerbacker somewhere. Maybe not a person's name but a person who'll have an unhealthy interest in the Green Bay Packers and I'll work that phrase in somehow.

As for going back and rechecking homework and stuff. This is ain't school and you ain't my teacher. No way I'm wasting time making myself look stupid. What do you think I am? an idiot? Not hardly.

Just had a brain storm. Just like that. I'm going to be describing a big fat guy later on in chapter one or two who is not well liked in the town and owns a sailboat. He'll be a Green Bay Packer fanatic. I can work this now. You stay tuned.

( "packerbacker" does relate to the football team, right?)

 

[packerbacker]

Yes OT, the Packers. I have a Bayliner and a Whaler though, sailing is too much work; I'd lose weight sailing one. Please make me a heavy beer drinker but don't get me involved with any shallow women. We're becoming friends aren't we?

 

[Old Town]

Yes OT, the Packers. I have a Bayliner and a Whaler though, sailing is too much work; I'd lose weight sailing one. Please make me a heavy beer drinker but don't get me involved with any shallow women. We're becoming friends aren't we?

I'd really hate to think we were becoming friends. I've got an image to keep up.

I'm going to name a sailboat "Packer Backer" and it will be owned by a fanatical Green Bay fan who paints his beautiful Herrishoff sailboat Packer Green. He'll have some other flaws too. Nothing personal, you understand. And thanks for the idea. It won't show up for a few days. Typing this crap is much slower than thinking of it.

OT

 

[packerbacker]

I'd like to think that my application for the yacht club membershtp was rejected more for my character shortfalls rather than the color of my boat. Being my friend could get you under rocks that you could only imagine otherwise.

 

[Dano Sverige]

You can't have pirates without having a Brit'!...I WANT IN! please. Thinking of it...you could relate your/our cynical side and portray me as "Fletcher Non-christian" who starts a mutiny against "Capt Greenbay Bligh"! and then sails off to seduce a plantation owners naked daughter in the moonlight on Tahiti.!!

I once fell on my arse playing the "i don't believe what i can't see" card with the Mormons! I invited them in,hoping to meet their sister "Marie", and somehow they got me onto the subject of God.
"OH..i don't believe in something i can't see.sorry."
Donny and little Jimmy nodded sagely. I should have noticed the glint in Donny's eye when it lit upon a baseball bat i kept behind the front door that i used to greet anyone who wasn't a postman or didn't have a sister named "Marie"!
"Ah baseball.Reminds me of my childhood back in America." said Donny. "Do you like America?"
"Apart from giving us "Dallas", "Dynasty", "Falcons crest" and "Knots Landing"?...yeah it's ok."
Nodding together like they'd just composed "crazy horses" Donny carried on...
"..and American girls? You MUST like American girls right?"
"Love them!Where is your sister by the way?"
"..And what part of America do you like best?"
"Dunno really...never been there."
(That's when their grins got even wider and looked like a field trip to Arlington national cemetary! )

"So...how do you know America exists?"

As i closed the door and looked down at all the pamphlets i'd promised to read,i couldn't help wondering if i could break the sound barrier if my baseball bat connected with those teeth?

 

[Old Town]

Dano, I'll give you a Brit of some kind. Can't promise he won't be a barnyard sodomist but you'll get your jolly Englishman. Can't say when yet. I can only think ahead a bit at a time.

OT

 

[Old Town]

Mish hunter: I read your post. You're going to a hot place when you are done. Straight down. LOL

OT

Florida? That WOULD suck!

The Keys are 15 degrees cooler than mainland Florida. I hate mainland Florida too.

 

[packerbacker]

My wife has a wish-I-were-rich cousin that watched Dallas every week. This cousin is a guy! He got so stuck on the show he named a horse Dallas and a child JJ. He used to tell people than he had a "ranch". This "ranch" consisted of 5 acres, 1 horse and 2 Holstien calves. Good thing he didn't get mesmerized by the "Roots" series or he'd have a kid named Kunta Kinte.
Bring it on Lord Nelson! I only regret that I have but one 24-pack of Natty Light.

 

[Kentucky Kache]

I'm going to name a sailboat "Packer Backer" and it will be owned by a fanatical Green Bay fan who paints his beautiful Herrishoff sailboat Packer Green.
OT

If you say this boat was built by a framer, I'm coming after you with my 25 ounce Big Blue.

 

[Old Town]

I'm going to name a sailboat "Packer Backer" and it will be owned by a fanatical Green Bay fan who paints his beautiful Herrishoff sailboat Packer Green.
OT

If you say this boat was built by a framer, I'm coming after you with my 25 ounce Big Blue.

I'm a big guy and can't swing a maul like that. You must have Popeye forearms.

 

[Kentucky Kache]

I'm going to name a sailboat "Packer Backer" and it will be owned by a fanatical Green Bay fan who paints his beautiful Herrishoff sailboat Packer Green.
OT

If you say this boat was built by a framer, I'm coming after you with my 25 ounce Big Blue.

I'm a big guy and can't swing a maul like that. You must have Popeye forearms.

Unfortunately, I'm a little feller. But I love that hammer.

 

[Dakota Digger]

Hmmmm.....I think we have here the reincarnation of E. Hemmingway.....

 

[Old Town]

Hmmmm.....I think we have here the reincarnation of E. Hemmingway.....

As a 13-year-old I once peed in the real Hemingway's pool in Key West. True Story.

 

[ivan salis]

sorry forgot --you only like MARCONI AND CHEESE * did not want to make your head hurt by making you think a bit , how cruel of me.

 

[DigginThePast]

Us posters can be characters? I'll come up with a name for my character, yes presumptuous on my part.

DigginThePast just won't work and Mike is too pedestrian for such a classic.

Hmmm......

 

[spartacus53]

Us posters can be characters? I'll come up with a name for my character, yes presumptuous on my part.

DigginThePast just won't work and Mike is too pedestrian for such a classic.

Hmmm......

I'll allow you t use Spartacus, just drop off the 53

 

[DigginThePast]

Us posters can be characters? I'll come up with a name for my character, yes presumptuous on my part.

DigginThePast just won't work and Mike is too pedestrian for such a classic.

Hmmm......

I'll allow you t use Spartacus, just drop off the 53

Thanks! Thats a winner for sure, I'll keep it as back up.

I was thinking more along the lines of a name that ties me to OT's hometown of Key West.