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Welcome back, Dooj!

I'm sure you're right, so please feel free to post one!

George

I was sure I was right too.. but I'm so out of practice that I'm still thinking about it.

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The World According to Garp

I'll pop in and out. I don't really know where I fit in here, anymore.

Thanks for the welcome.

Twinky, Waysider - Thanks to you as well.

Hey Girl,

Good to know you've been writing.

We need to catch up - again.

Hey all,

I haven't been here in a while. It's almost strange looking at all the old posts and seeing new and old names.

I'm glad to see that there's more emphasis on living life instead of re-living twi. (That's a bad re-run scenario for sure.)

It's funny how life goes - people are so fragile. I don't think we appreciate our human frailty near enough. If we did, we'd all be a lot kinder and more patient with each other.

The next time you are all so sure that you are right and the other person is wrong and you must simply KNOW what they are thinking and why they did something...

STOP...

... take the time to talk to the person. Don't just text, or post - Talk.

We are human, flesh and blood. What makes us all think that this cyberspace we share has any sense of reality in it?

It's so easy to judge someone when the only reality is the one we have built. (Have you ever thought that maybe, perhaps, you don't know the whole story?)

BTW - this isn't about twi. It's not about anything more than me having to heal.

As humans we sometimes fail to see that we are all living and struggling in this life together. We sometimes fail to see that hurt and pain and sadness can make us feel isolated. Have you ever considered that it is our struggles that truly unite us?

Thanks for the ramble....

Some people put the cart before the horse. Apparently JL doesn't mind putting the horse's arse before it's head and the announcing to everyone that that was how god intended it all along.

Jeez.

Why bother with him and his ilk? We've seen these morons come and go - maybe it's just entertainment.

You would think that with all the circular reasoning he did he would have been dizzy.

Maybe that's ultimately why he lost one eye. It was causing him to sin.

Morals are man made?

Who came up with that crock? ...OH! wait.... now I understand... johniam is back.

Well.... let's see... morals? The subject is morals, right?

The 10 Commandments - God's Revelation in the Old Testament

The 10 Commandments are found in the Bible's Old Testament at Exodus, Chapter 20. They were given directly by God to the people of Israel at Mount Sinai after He had delivered them from slavery in Egypt:

"And God spoke all these words, saying: 'I am the LORD your God…

ONE: 'You shall have no other gods before Me.'

TWO: 'You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.'

Is not being idolatrous a moral? Okay, maybe not. But there could be an argument made for loyalty being a moral. If that doesn't suit you, we'll call it good moral fiber - or character.

THREE: 'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.'

Whaddya think folks? I say yes - but I'll let you vote.

FOUR: 'Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.'

Vote.

FIVE: 'Honor your father and your mother.'

I'd call this a moral (And so would Jesus - but I digress.)

SIX: 'You shall not murder.'

Yep... sounds like a moral to me.

SEVEN: 'You shall not commit adultery.'

Uh-huh - moral... check!

EIGHT: 'You shall not steal.'

Yep.

NINE: 'You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.'

Don't lie about people - now if you don't think this is a moral, then don't get all uppity about falsehoods in the press or the dirty business of politics. If you're willing to blow this one off as "man-made" for VP, then you'd have to accept it everywhere else you encounter it.

TEN: 'You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.'

Coveting is tricky - because it has to do with the "I wanna's," It's more internal. BUT if you say this isn't a moral, then I can see how you'd condone der Victoid stealing money, homes, wives... whatever the heck he wanted.

Those look like morals to me. But since johniam says that morals are really man-made, I'll just ignore them and go do as I please.

Dooj...

This place is closing and that is a sadness, I guess...so much life and work poured into the GreaseSpot happening...ongoing...

But I did want to leave this thought with you, who apparently loved the old RumRunner most recentley and perhaps forever...

I enjoyed all of our brief entwinement of life and living. DW was a salty, real, straight forward and honest man that didn't often mince words...

...so if he shared something of worth with you, he, no doubt, meant that with all of his being. I found him to be like that and it makes me smile to think back of it and the years our lives crossed...it was sweet.

Ergo...you must be sweet, and dynamic, and of a strong fiber to carry on...resolved to live well and live long. It ain't over yet.

I wish you the best...and that your heart adjusts and mends...but never forgets. My memories of the the sinewy little guy in cowboy boots will forever be held in high regard and with the greatest fondness.

Here's to Thessalonians...deal me in.

Best to you...with love.

Thank you, Matilda. He and I shared an amazing amount of ourselves with each other. Yes, I will love him forever. There isn't a day that passes that I don't think of him or recall the things we shared and talked about. It's rare that you can meet someone and share a lifetime in a few months. That is what we had - and in many ways, it's what we still have.

My heart is an open wound. I always believed he'd be there whenever I needed him...and he was in the past...whether a phone call or a chat. We had our arms around each other when we were sad or needed comfort. I look forward to seeing him again.

He let me know how he felt about you, Soggy. He and I were very open with each other about our friends.

twi isn't worth the time or the energy it would take to write what should be said.

Why fan flames? All this angst only gets used to fuel the last few remnants of idiots "believers" to dig and and keep trying to move something that should move on it's own worth.

There was a movie called "Like Water For Chocolate"

We can call it "No Water With Dinner" (Not sure if it's still true, but there was a big cult teaching that we couldn't drink water with our meals.)

I mean geez, how many posts does it take to call the other guy nutzoid?

How creative do you want to get?

You don't really want another Cafe/Diner/Supper Club/House of Pancakes do you?

Why don't we just call it

"Cornfield Follies" and be done with it?

or

"Corn Cult Follies"

Or

"HIGOOTWALTTAI"

(How I Got Out of the Way and Lived To Tell About It"

Or just call it

The Next Thing"

In the long run, does it matter? People will go because of the content.

The first incarnation of the website was going to be a newspaper format called something to the effect of "The Greasespot After Midnight Gazette" And the first article to grace the front page was written by Groucho.

The second incarnation, pam and I spend hours on the phone trying to think of a byline or whatever you call it. All of a sudden, she comes out with "Midnight has come and gone" We both knew that that was it. The site was basically just a forum in the first year. On the first anniversary of GS, the new site was unveiled. That April had been traumatic for me, I had a breakup at the beginning of the month, then a week before the site was to be unveiled, my house burned down. I was renting it out at the time. So I flew quite a bit that month from northern CA to Socal. One of the weekends, I flew to see pamsandiego so that we could finalize the site. I remember she was house sitting that had a parrot or parakeet named Fred or something like that.

I'll never forget the night of the unveiling, we had to do it AFTER midnight, it was soo much fun and so exciting.

The latest incarnation was designed by pamsandiego, rich (who is first a friend of pams and then we became friends and he is NBW) and myself. I wanted a classic 50's diner look. We took a long time before going with what we did. Rich is a Photoshop Wizard. The chrome across the top behind the logo was taken by Rich on the side of those old fashioned stools with red tops. And if you look very closely, you can see pam's cat zephyr in the chrome.

The square patterned chrome was a photo that Rich took of the lunch truck where he works..

Now I see the cat! How cool!

I have some Photoshop skills should they become needed or wanted. I might be able to design a logo should one be needed or wanted.

The TWIt-less Diner?

What about

The Midnight Diner?

We were all supposed to be greasespots by midnight.

It would be a homage to this site and a further thumbing of the nose to the cult.

You do know he wasn't really a "Dr.", don't you?

But he played doct....

Does it have to have "Way" in it? "Greasespot" was so creative... and NOT way.

I'd rather not give the cult anymore face time...

Then again, it's not my call...

I'm not a huge fan of Facebook myself with all the information floating around these days. Unfortunately, the account I did have had a lot of the information (even though it was all marked as private) copied to other "Personal data" sites I'm finding. Since then, I've not visited as much except to respond to those who only visit there.

Still working on getting the new site up (Unless of course this one stays after January).

I am still in search of a good name..

What does everyone think about The Online Rock?

I'm not too "creative", I know...

Should have chat, forums, personal profiles, and the front page done by New Years..

The great thing about "Greasespot Cafe" as a name is that it had nothing to do with any one belief, and it was a real thumbing of the nose to twi. LCM all said we'd be greasespots by midnight - so this is the place we all met to prove we were still here (kinda like a stubborn debbil spurt.) I'd use a name that points to something old and something new...something with the word "Diner" in the title. That would maybe lend some continuity from the "Cafe" image that we all came to know and love. Then instead of greeting new folks with a cuppa joe, we can greet them with adam and eve on a raft. (That's poached eggs on toast.)

Just a thought....

Thanks to all the mods. I think I got moderated a few times.

Two fine people! You both deserve the best in everything. I hope you're both intensely happy for a long time.

dooj

Since we soon we will all be finding other ways to meet each other.

Since the year is coming to a close.

Since this is a time for family and remembrance.

Let's remember all those who have graces the forums of GSC and have made it place that is like no other. All those fine people who have left these mortal bounds. We read their posts, laughed at their jokes, grimaced at their faux pas, and loved them for who they were. They helped make our time here memorable.

May they never really be gone from our love and our memories.

I'll start with the names I remember:

RumRunner

LG

I think it might be appropriate to write anecdotes or kind sayings for those we knew.

I'll wait to write mine since it's so fresh - not only for me but also in recent GSC history.

I don't stop in here often anymore. It's been over two months and I still can't believe it - yet the stark reality slaps me in the face daily.

Yes Groucho your friendship with him was special and a relationship he cherished. I'm thankful for the time we had together and the love we shared.

He is missed... more than words can say.

Here's a link:

From Texas A&M

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• Choose the most attractive food material for the ant species present, such as peanut butter, mint apple jelly, corn syrup, etc.

• Mix 1 part boric acid powder (available from most pharmacies) per 100 (or 50) parts bait material, e.g., 1 teaspoon per 2 (or 1) cups food material.

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