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I give all I had to see the Donald face off with LCM. Or better, with Carolyn.

We have a winner! You guys would be great at Mad Gab. But - fur stings versed. More, more.

(((((EX10))))) (((((Tonto))))) I just had to get that out. Sorry I let out on you guys.

Sorry about that-it's fixed. And yes, the triangle (or words or part of the words in it) are part of the clue.

Yeah, I was skating on thin ice the whole way through. And, yeah, Oldies, I probably would have begged you. I mean, jeez....took PFAL at age 16, worked minimum wage jobs while finishing high school, commited to serve at various in-state programs, went WOW thrice, which required part-time, low paying jobs, and then spent whatever I had saved on getting back and forth to Ohio every year. And, everybody I knew had already gone into the Corps, was planning on going into the Corps, or had gone or were going WOW, which meant part time low paying work. I only knew one or two who could chip in, and they were already sponsoring others. If I had the nerve (which I didn't) would have approached perfect strangers and hoped they had a heart to help. It was pointed out to me that I was worthless because I could not keep up the sponsorship, and therefore had no right to be in the Corps. (This did not come from Craig, BTW). Because of that and some other things that were said, I left. Sure didn't want to stay where I wasn't wanted. What a waste! Four years down the drain..my heart's desire smashed out of me...because one person decided it was their turn to be cruel. With no family, and few friends in a position to help, I had still managed to make it 'till just two or three months from graduating. Sorry, guys.....this one hurts. I really would have been proud to have graduated with my Corps: even today it would have meant something. After everything that had happened, it would have been the proudest day of my life. Well, Oldies, I guess you wouldn't have liked me....

That used to bother me, too, until I realized that calling the bible "The Word" is common and has been for a long time. The brain retrain is to think of it as the "Word(s)" of God, not the "Word's" of the Way. HUGE difference. The Word is still comforting. IMO.

...and just for fun, we PAID for it...or begged others to pay for us. And all we were promised was a lousy T-shirt. (That's a joke, folks.)

Reds? Warren / Diane / the wonderful late Mureen Stapleton?

Hey, Dooj-you cook pretty darn good. And your "food" presentation is very pleasing. :D

You have to wonder why some cultures carry the grudge for ever. I mean, the British may not have completely forgiven us for dumping tea in the harbor, but at least they aren't over here blowing up our cars and buildings for revenge. Even the Mason-Dixon line has quieted down somewhat.... Didn't Issac and Ishmael come back together to bury Abraham? Seems I read that somewhere. Something that is always forgotten. Too radical a concept, I guess.

Very true-except that I have twenty plus years of tapes which have bounced around in moving vans and car carriers: let alone ashes, coke, and beer sprinkled generously throughout. Believe, I deserve the pain I have thrust upon myself. But only for the stuff that's not available anywhere else. Thanks.

Yes, Jonny--the candyman is alive and well......

Ding Ding Ding Ding...we have a winner!!! Using Music Match and the clues from Dan, I have managed to record directly from a cassette. It's coming out mono, but I see a light at the end of the tunnel. (Don't tell anyone, but it's the Pressed Down Medley from the JN 10th Anniversary-that was my tester. I love it so I knew I wouldn't lose patience. Smashing Pumpkin's just didn't seem right.) Now I've got to pick through my selected casstte's and find the ones that don't squeal. Yippee!!! Thanks, everyone.

Thanks, Paw.

EX-ROLFLMAO: oh, my God-tears are streaming!!!!! Jonny-you come here 'cause you'd miss us if you didn't! When I was applying for a job as a bookkeeper, credit manager, and corporate trainer, these people could have given a flip about whether I had memorized the books of bible or exceled in chair stringing. The things I learned in the Corps which was profitable for me were things you couldn't really put in a resume, the things that (hopefully) improved my character and work ethic. People wanting to pay me to work for them want to know if I can do the job they hired me for. Attending a leadership training bible camp wasn't high on their list.

What a riot! All you guys are movie stars to me! Ok-I would want--- The one, the only Lauren Bacall Who I would probably get-- God bless Gilda!

Can you imagine what a decent human resources department would have done to all these guys? Where were they when we needed them?

Y'all are really bad.

Hard to recall: they seemed to blend together. I thought it was in Bowling Green. Remember our future 10th Corps sis telling her kidnapping story: how they'd gotton her on the plane and she wrote the word "Help" in her butter pat-and the Flight Attendant found it? Was that PFAL 77 or AC 79?

Hell. no..although I would have loved to see his reaction to that! It was probably the loyalty letter: this was after I had left but still had access to some info.

Must have gone in the Bermuda Triangle, Jonny. Although, I've been on and off most of the day, and I didn't spot a new post from you. The delete button getting a mind of it's own? Bad button! Can you reconstruct? You're memory for details is so much better than mine. I just remember all the blather about the price of gold skyrocketing and not having enough money to contribute my share to the cost of the Mal's. But, hell yeah, we did save the world that year!! If not for us-in the hills we would still be, like Japanese coming out of the caves years after the war was over.

I seem to recall a reaming out that VPW gave a camera operator at PFAL 77: VP had made a move that meant he was going to stand up, but the cameraman didn't catch on in time. VP ripped him a new one in front of everybody. Those were few and far between, though: nothing like Craig, who I think just liked to hear the sound of his own voice. But putting it in writing? I had shown one of Craig's letters (I can't remember which one now) to a company president: he was the husband of one of our faithful grads. He could not believe that anyone who had the responsibilty's that LCM did would write and distribute such a thing: he called it a stupid move on about the level with grade school children and nothing a true executive would ever do.

Mar's Attacks?

I've been able to connect a casstte to the soundboard jack, and play through the desktop speakers, but no program is recognizing the input. I even reconfigured the jacks to input: I tried setting it up as a mic: nothing works. It's like it's bypassing the motherboard and going straight to output.