🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:57:30 -0800 (PST), baldypevsner@googlemail.com
wrote:

> On 14 Oct, 23:05, Bret Ripley <rip...@gotsky.com> wrote:
>> Br d!
> 
> Br tt! Forgive my appalling quoting, I've quite forgotten the art, I
> ell remember when bad quoting was virtually a hanging offence around
> here.

Br dd! No problemo. As long as you don't start side-posting, it's all good.

>> How are things with you? I hope your business is still going strong.
> 
> It is indeed, likewise I hope equine flesh is still very much in
> demand.

Yep, everything is fine in old salt mine.

>> Sorry for the slow response, but I only check this froup about as often as
>> I get my teeth cleaned. There's just something about the taste of blood in
>> my mouth that reminds me to check c.s.i.p.g.s-s.
> 
> Slow! I was under the impression this place attracted only tri-monthly
> posts, you were positively previous.

I was previous. Or will be, I think. It's hard to tell: I won't get around
to actually writing this post until 7 years ago.

>> I think X(2? 3?) is the last space sim I played. It was great fun at first,
>> but I soon reached the dreaded "is that all there is?" plateau. I don't
>> have as much time for pc games as I used to, and lately I've been reduced
>> to playing "Mafia Wars" on Facebook. At this point I must recognize that
>> habitual use of illicit drugs would probably be a positive step for me.
> 
> It was for me, but as with X(2? 3?) it reaches a plateau, one you
> can't stand up straight on.

I've found that when you're on a plateau and you can't stand up straight,
it's probably Sunday morning.

> I did did recently manage to capture a dead ship and dock at a station
> in X3:TC, but It's taken the edge of off the whole ten year epic, I
> feel like I've done everything now, I shall probably play it again in
> the new millennium.
> 
> Facebook I have so far resisted, I think you're only allowed on it at
> my age if you're a pervert, 

It probably wouldn't hurt.

> and I don't have the stomach for it.

Yeah, it can be pain sometimes. Relative strangers are always trying to get
you to join some cause or other, and every 3 days someone hacks your
account and sends messages to your relatives that contain links to computer
viruses that you probably would have gotten around to sending anyway had
you thought of it first.

>> I do miss ol' Lemming. I'll never forget the time I almost stopped by his
>> house, nor the time he almost chased me off his property while pelting me
>> with a seasonal medley of root vegetables.
> 
> I spoke to him yesterday, it was that which reminded me to check back
> here. They have been experiencing massive floods in Cumbria so I
> thought I had better check in and see if he was okay. He was, the
> floods didn't reach his area. 

I read about the flooding. I am very happy to learn that he escaped
unscathed.

> Although his wife did strap two very
> large bags of bricks around his neck and tell him that if he had to
> venture out into the torrent he must always keep them with him, they
> were her most prized possessions apparently.

Mrs. Lemming sounds like a canny sort.

>> Not much of the old gang seems to be around anymore. I haven't seen
>> anything at all of Bill Huffman, Xan, Shingen, and too many others to name.
>> Maybe they were the first against the wall when the revolution came.
> 
> Shin was Rog wasn't he?

He was? Well I'll be ... 

> If so he has replied in this very thread. 

I didn't realize that Roger was Shin. Which, by the way, explains my utter
failure to heap undeserved abuse on him.

> Hi
> Rog, hope all is well.

Yeah, me too. Sorry I didn't recognize you in your gmail disguise.

> Xan - although I haven't spoken to him for a long while - I'm
> confident will be doing well, it's the brains you see, apparently it's
> good to have them.

Well ... OK. But if he was so smart why was he hanging out with us?

> Bill I've no idea but I wish him well.
> 
>>
>> In other news: I've become a little bit of a football fan over the last
>> couple of years (Sounders FC!), so I should probably apologize for the shit
>> I used to give you about the sport. But that doesn't sound like any fun.
> 
> Good man!! We could arrange to meet up and stab each other with
> screwdrivers, it's what football fans do here. We're very
> sophisticated.

Technically, I think you can only call it "sophisticated" if you stab each
other with /metric/ screwdrivers.

>> But look: Doc Scorpio and Ceowulf were having this charming discussion
>> about Diaspora, and here we are just pissing all over it. Seems a little
>> like old times. <sniff>
>>
>> See you around the salt mines, old timer.
> 
> It's a joy Brett, sincerley. I shall pass on this link to Lem and see
> if we can get him involved, that'll be 6 or more of the old stagers
> together, we'll be breaking our bail conditions.

And if he decides not to show up here, please pass along my best wishes
next time you talk to him. 

> 
>>
>> Bret
> 
> Good luck mate.

And a Merry Christmas to you, you old so-and-so.

Bret