WordWolf

*hums and sings along for a while* *snaps his fingers^ Got it! The band is Sister Hazel. (Named after a real nun who is quite nice.) The song, IIRC, is "All For You." "Hard to say what it is I see in you. Wonder if I'll always be with you...."

"I was asking if you'd ever been aboard a Galaxy Class starship before, sir." No. I'm, of course, very familiar with the blueprints and specifications... but this will be my first time aboard." "Well then, sir, if I may be so bold -- you're in for a treat. The Enterprise is quite a ship." "I'm sure she is." "Starfleet's canceling our mission to Farpoint Station and ordering us to the Neutral Zone as soon as we can leave spacedock." "No... no, we'll proceed to Farpoint." "Sir?" "You heard me." "How do you like your tea?" "Tea? Earl Grey. Hot." "Of course it's hot. What do ya want in it?" "Nothing..."

Will someone nudge Raf? He loves this movie. I've never seen it. I only know any of it because I've listened to him expound on it.

I could be, but it is not. Your logic seems to be tracking correctly, at least for now. I agree. Although we never did find out how our favorite Frenchman got that British accent. Then again, his brother didn't sound French, either.

This is someone else familiar with these particular specifications. You have the wrong episode. :)

I'm glad I'm only finding out about the mods in hindsight. I'd rather trust them in the abstract. I suspect I might have second-guessed myself wondering about their actions if I knew who they were. Instead, I could just follow the actions and see they were doing a credible and fair job, even when I disagreed with them. I've moderated on other boards before, so I try not to give staff "static" if I don't have to.

"I was asking if you'd ever been aboard a Galaxy Class starship before, sir." No. I'm, of course, very familiar with the blueprints and specifications... but this will be my first time aboard." "Well then, sir, if I may be so bold -- you're in for a treat. The Enterprise is quite a ship." "I'm sure she is."

Paw said he's keeping the GSC open for reading, but not for posting. (At least for then.) Me, I appreciate it greatly. I'm still waiting for my muse to come up with some names. I think it's too tired from all the holiday hooplah. I may have something in a week.

I don't remember this as well as I might. This is at the conclusion of the Dominion War, when Cardassia throws off the Dominion presence. Garak's back on Cardassia Prime, when one frustrated Dominion leader decided all the Cardassians were to be killed (how? his forces were greatly outnumbered), made a last stand, and some of the usual cast considered what to do once peace was declared.

We discussed this a page ago. Facebook doesn't believe in people's information remaining private. They are a business, and their "product" is the personal information of the users. They sell it to advertisers and other businesses. Just to tell you how intrusive they are.... I have 2 FB accounts, neither with my real name. When I added the 2nd one a few days ago, FB automatically served up someone I'd been in contact with on the other account as a possible "friend." In other words, they logged my IP address with both accounts and concluded that whoever is here is the same person. I guarantee you there's nothing that says Facebook will spy on your IP address and treat multiple accounts as automatically interchangeable.

I'm sorry, Jerry. I thought you'd get the joke, but nobody else would. I didn't mean to post a clue.

I'm rhe only one who joined the GSC group and used my same avatar.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (muffled) aaaaaaaaaaaaaa (loud) AAAAAAAAAAAAA (muffled) aaaaaaaaa (loud) AAAAAAAAAH!"

I know. I spelled my first name "Word" and my last name "Wolf" and signed up. :) I had that name years before I arrived at the GSC ezboard and it's as "real" for me as any other.

I hope you come along in some form or another, as we move house. Looks like a Facebook group and a new website, possibly with a messageboard are imminent. At least, that's what I HOPE is coming up.

I'll join you at the next iteration of the website and messageboard and so on. As much as I like my privacy, I was able to sign up for FB using a lot of anonymous information and setting almost the entire account to "only I get to see this." Frankly, people can learn more about me reading my posts here than even if they hacked into my FB account. The most they'd get there is a correct email address, where I'm from, and the year I was born. Besides, how my profile is here is pretty much how I picture myself part of the time, so that's hardly "anonymous" as I see it. Even I can't see FB getting much use of my information. As to books I like and movies I like, well, if they can make something useful of that, they're welcome to it.

"Magic Mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?" "Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work we go!"

Well, I was optimistically hoping lcm was able to be fixed by some help from his friends. ("Iron sharpens iron...") I figured the old-timers from twi could restore him to full functionality. (Since almost everything was under news blackout, I had no idea what the underlying problems were or how pervasive they were in twi.) So, I figured that vf and some others would chat with lcm, and lcm would settle in. The next mailer from twi was lcm saying "I fired vf and every leader in your state because they're carnal and greedy, and serving themselves rather than God." Now, I had to choose who to believe. vf and the local leaders, or lcm. the local leaders I had worked with in a few cases, and people I trusted worked with other local leaders. I'd seen vf teach and he didn't seem off. Therefore, it was unlikely that some 2-3 dozen of them were ALL carnal, greedy, etc. lcm, on the other hand, had demonstrated a willingness to yell, and to pontificate on matters he didn't understand. (He criticized some political strategies as ridiculous- and those strategies were exactly what the US needed to do at the time, and they benefited us in the long run.) So, if I HAD to choose one- and lcm was insisting that I HAD to choose one- the reasonable side had all the locals. My further exposure to them seemed to support that. That was 1989. I went to the ROA'89 with the intention of buying out the bookstore, and making personal observations. lcm's mass firings had resulted in 4/5 of twi leaving, so I had lots of space to move around and see things. I asked questions. People gave me faulty logic, and in one case, threats. All of those were quite indicative. The "side" of people staying was the "side" of people not making sense, relying on intimidation, trying to silence the other side, emotional appeals, etc. So, my arrival at ROA'89 was a watershed moment. It FELT nothing like the previous one. It felt empty, as if it was constructed based on DESCRIPTIONS of previous ROAs. And from what I'd heard, ROA'88 was a pale imitation of the ROAs that had come before. So this was more of a bad photocopy lacking any toner than a "real" ROA. I met lots of people, made many observations, bought many books, and said my goodbyes. At the end, when I left, I was thinking of "American Pie" and how the "Father, Son and Holy Ghost" had "caught the last train to the coast". I had the distinct feeling that our exit pretty much was a final judgement, and what we left behind was beyond repairing. (History pretty much proved that correct, if a gross understatement.) Of course, I was saying goodbye to the organization and the insane top leaders. At the time, I was still hanging out with the locals. It took a few more years before it was obvious to me that I was not particularly welcome nor appreciated among the splinter group that had formed. (I thought for myself too much. When leadership said things that sounded wrong, I didn't just ignore that-I looked into it, and if error was shown, I spoke up, mostly TO said leadership. I didn't just BLINDLY go along with them any more than I BLINDLY went along with twi. So, as time progressed, I found fewer and fewer locals meeting that I felt wanted me around. So, that exit was more of a slow drift away, and there wasn't a watershed moment of exit. I seriously doubt more than 3 or 4 of them missed me, any way.) Frankly, the GSC is the most interaction I've had with any ex-twi since then. Even with the food fights and petty bickering, it's been a LOT more healthy than my twi and splinter experience- because we actually spoke our minds.

Since Facebook has a history of sharing and selling profile information with vendors and things, I'm signing up for Facebook only because you guys mean so much to me. However, I'm using my GSC name and not using my physical photo. You'll have no trouble telling that I'm the same poster as always. My avatar=my profile pic.

Right. I like to post 2 quotes every 24 hours, approximately.

Is this one of the Mirror Universe DS9 episodes? "Thru A Mirror Darkly" or something?

Is this the new "Hawaii 5-O?"

No, this is not from ANY version of Sleeping Beauty.

Paw wants his life back. What happens next is being discussed- possibly a new site (WayDale closing was followed by the GSC), and all sorts of details.