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Article #286876Re: gettin a little slow here
From: McG.
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:20
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:20
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"OscartheGrouch" <Tondaleo@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:O89Ph.117$Pq.94@trndny03... > > "McG." <McGrandpaNOT@NOThotmail.com> wrote in message > news:460c5a1f$0$1340$4c368faf@roadrunner.com... >> >> "Inglo" <ioo@??.ลผลผลผ> wrote in message >> news:pH8Ih.2695$uo3.2125@newssvr14.news.prodigy.net... >>> OscartheGrouch wrote: >>>> Shit, where's Arqon? Where's supertech? Where's everybody who it's been >>>> so long I can't remember their names. Where's aj and tomo? Why do I >>>> remember them? Geribaldi, the pf dudes, red, muktheknife. Ok, so I'm >>>> going back to 1999 and 2000 and 2001. This was a fun hoppin place. Sad >>>> to see it so dead. >>>> >>>> >>> I was looking at Google Groups archive stats for agq3, in June of 2001 I >>> had 286 posts all by myself. That's inconceivable! That's like 10 >>> posts a day. >>> There's been about that many posts total here in the last year. >>> >>> The all time top posters are: >>> Wiz 4893 >>> Supertech 4737 >>> Joe Crouse 2408 >>> sepulchral 2357 >>> me 2201 >>> jimbob 2133 >>> pop 2124 >>> a.j. (?????, so many posts killfiled) 1617 >>> McGrandpa 1612 >>> >>> >>> Of course that goes by number of posts per e-mail address and I know >>> lots of people rotated different munged addys. One in the top list is >>> no@spam.com which is kind of generic. >>> Still kind of interesting. >>> >>> I don't do much gaming any more. I'm trying to get a PhD in >>> astrophysics right now, if ya can believe that. I heard you can order >>> them online. I spend the rest of my time compiling obscure statistics >>> as above. >>> >>> There ain't never been nor never will be anything quite like the heydays >>> of agq3. >>> >>> -- >>> "Out here on the perimeter there are no stars" >>> >>> Steve --Inglo-- >> >> Good lord have mercy, how'd I ever even make that list?!?! LOL! I just >> gotta figure how to get Q3 to work under x64 :) >> McG. >> > > McG, that's kinda funny, a five post difference between yourself and aj. > Your posts related to the game and intelligent stuff as I recall. Aj was > blasting everyone, but mostly tomo. That was right about when I came in, > those clowns were going at it. I remember thinking this newsgroups is > really cool, and it has it's own comic relief section. They were just a > normal part of the landscape here in those days for me. These days I would > have killfiled both pretty quickly. I've grown a bit grouchier. > I'm with ya. I know what it is to be a Grumpy Old Man ;) LOL! You still running Q3A? I think it's about time for a rerun through all the Quakes. Got cable, online should be a lot more fun than the old dialup daze with the DPJOD! McG.
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