WordWolf

It's probably time for us to give that a try. I know we COULD have tried it before, but we got used to the forums. Maybe this would work a lot better now. I forget exactly who it was, but there was one moment where there were 3 of us in the chatroom. One of the other guys said (IIRC) "When someone shoots, I shoot back." So I felt this was the moment to reply by sound effect. Me: *cannon sound* Him: *cannon sound* Me: *cannon sound* Him: *cannon sound* Me: *scream sound* Him: *ambulance sound*

"I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard. I just want someone that I can talk to"

======================== I know it was a previous round, but the quote I think most appropriate was from "What You Leave Behind..." Kira:"I'll remember this moment forever. I'll remember all our moments." Odo:"As will I."

You have it. I was using only quotes from Picard's moments in the past to make a bunch of quotes resembling "Encounter at Farpoint" that didn't actually happen AT the Farpoinr mission. I thought this episode was too obvious to use right now, but with a little ingenuity, it became a bit more challenging. Personally, I thought Picard was very slow on the uptake in this episode. On my first viewing, I found myself yelling warnings at the television. Picard: *puzzled* "Why is it larger in the past?" Me:"It's GROWING!" Long before the thing formed, I was saying to shut the scanning beam off and leave the area. Q: "Goodbye, Jean-Luc. I'll miss you. You did have so much potential. But I guess... all good things must come to an end."

The Biodiesel Diner. All right, here me out. The "diner" part ties it into the cafe while not reusing the word "cafe." We want a place that can point to where we came from, while having its own identity. So, we had WayDale, which was needed for its time. It was a dale of sorts (a "valley" is a "dale") where people rested when fleeing twi or having been driven from it. The next step came with the Greasespot Cafe. The empty threats that we'd die once out of twi were shown to be empty words. We were not "greasespots", we were people who were beginning to thrive, to live again, to be better off than we'd ever been in twi. Twi was now the impediment we struggled against, to overcome in our lives. So, now we move on. As we do, the role of twi in our lives changes again. For us, the current group is a midget with delusions of grandeur- a handful of people living off blood money and fast-talking their consciences into silence. But to us, it's a dim memory. We have all reduced twi to an impediment we overcame long ago- like some athletes overcome a problem and eventually become champions. So, this is the next step, both as a hangout, and in our lives. Thus, the name "biodiesel." When grease is recycled, it can be refined into biodiesel- the grease now changing and serving a new function. In a like manner, our time in twi has been confronted, dealt with, and overcome. We now live as wiser individuals, stronger for having weathered the storm, more durable for having been tempered by fire, much like a sword. So, what was once our impediment- twi- now serves as a fuel for us to move forward and prosper like we never would have- were we still mentally chained to twi. So, to recognize where we were before, to acknowledge our past, and to announce our victory over small minds and small prisons for the mind, "b]the Biodiesel Diner.[/b]" (Possibly "BDD" for short.) Of course, it should have "Greasespot Cafe" mentioned prominently, and "waydale" as well, so people who look for the older versions of both can find the new version. Give it some thought. Sleep on it.

This is fantastic!

*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.