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Re: gettin a little slow here

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From: McG.
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:20
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"OscartheGrouch" <Tondaleo@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> "McG." <McGrandpaNOT@NOThotmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:460c5a1f$0$1340$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
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>> "Inglo" <ioo@??.ลผลผลผ> wrote in message 
>> news:pH8Ih.2695$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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