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Post by Grandstander on Aug 13, 2006 19:05:09 GMT -5
I'm opening up a franchise satellite office on this board. You all know me, you all know how this works.
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Post by nesince92 on Aug 13, 2006 19:49:08 GMT -5
How do you feel about the word Grandstander appearing in all lowercase letters?
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Post by Grandstander on Aug 13, 2006 20:11:23 GMT -5
How do you feel about the word Grandstander appearing in all lowercase letters? The highest honor which could be given a victorious Roman general was to stage a "Triumph" for him. This consisted of an elaborate parade through the gates of the city to the Forum steps. The march would include captured slaves and exotic animals from the conquered region, dancers, musicians and everyone who was anyone in Rome was attending and cheering. The general rode in a splendid war chariot, alone save for one slave who stood next to him and throughout the entire route, continued to whisper in his ear "Remember, you are but a man." The idea of course was to keep the hero humble, an obvious cultural borrowing from the Greeks who regarded excess hubris as a forecast of calamity. I shall rely on Hellenistic-Roman culture for my attitude and take the lowercase treatment as my whispering slave.
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Post by TestSubjekt on Aug 13, 2006 20:18:45 GMT -5
Welcome GS....
How many PM's did you get telling you about this board? Do you have any first impressions of the place? What are your thoughts on a name (check the announcement...the one threatening smiting) ?
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Post by tanner2126 on Aug 13, 2006 20:30:33 GMT -5
Can I get 2 double cheese burgers, large fries and a medium sprite???
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Post by Grandstander on Aug 13, 2006 20:52:41 GMT -5
Welcome GS.... How many PM's did you get telling you about this board? Do you have any first impressions of the place? What are your thoughts on a name (check the announcement...the one threatening smiting) ? Thanks. I have been contacted by numerous folks alerting me to the birth of this board. I wasn't part of any wars with moderators or associated with any disgruntled FanHome group, so this is all lateral movement to me rather than some sort of needed change. I don't really know the background of the disputes which generated this board, so I'd be commenting in the dark.......so I won't. As for the board name business, again I am a cloudburst of indifference. The Grand Board would be nice, but I won't be upset if they go with something else.
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Post by Grandstander on Aug 13, 2006 20:59:31 GMT -5
Can I get 2 double cheese burgers, large fries and a medium sprite??? May I supersize that Sprite for you for only 25 more cents? Did you know you can get four cheeseburgers for the price of three? For an additional 39 cents you can get the fries in the new Family Quarry size. Are you enrolled in the Ask Grandstander bonus rewards program?
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Post by shimmeroo roo on Aug 13, 2006 21:09:05 GMT -5
That's not an answer. It's all questions.
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Post by Grandstander on Aug 13, 2006 21:12:17 GMT -5
That's not an answer. It's all questions. and this isn't a question.
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Post by pacino on Aug 13, 2006 21:40:19 GMT -5
You exalt/smite anyone yet?
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Post by canesfan68 on Aug 13, 2006 22:02:44 GMT -5
Grandstander, if you were gonna buy a new car, what would you buy?
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Post by Grandstander on Aug 13, 2006 22:03:24 GMT -5
You exalt/smite anyone yet? No. Sounds like a job for an extremist.
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Post by Grandstander on Aug 13, 2006 22:04:40 GMT -5
Grandstander, if you were gonna buy a new car, what would you buy? I guess I would buy a new car.
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Post by TestSubjekt on Aug 13, 2006 22:49:29 GMT -5
Do you have any pets? If so, what are their names...assuming you have given them names.
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Post by Grandstander on Aug 13, 2006 23:18:12 GMT -5
Do you have any pets? If so, what are their names...assuming you have given them names. I just call her Miss March.
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Post by bedirthanaverage on Aug 14, 2006 0:02:03 GMT -5
Do you understand this message board software any better than the last?
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Jeremy
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Post by Jeremy on Aug 14, 2006 0:05:10 GMT -5
Will grandstander decide to use our newfound display name change privilege to adjust the current lower-case setting of his name? hehe ;D
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Post by robinhood on Aug 14, 2006 0:15:46 GMT -5
Was the Virgin Mary really a Virgin?
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Post by Grandstander on Aug 14, 2006 8:37:57 GMT -5
Do you understand this message board software any better than the last? I figured out how the quote button works and I really don't need anything beyond that other than how to post a graphic should the need arise. Looks like a complicated cockpit of contols up there...I'm intimidated by the button which says "glow" since I don't know what that is and suspect that it has something to do with radioactivity.
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Post by Grandstander on Aug 14, 2006 8:39:00 GMT -5
Will grandstander decide to use our newfound display name change privilege to adjust the current lower-case setting of his name? hehe ;D I shall....once it is newly found by me.
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Post by Grandstander on Aug 14, 2006 8:49:22 GMT -5
Was the Virgin Mary really a Virgin? Yeah, right. And Joseph bought that angel story. What a dork he must have been. It is good to keep in mind that in the first several decades after the death of Jesus, he was not being marketed as god or as any sort of god. That came much later when Paul was competing with the belief in Roman gods as he tried to sell Jesus to the gentiles. The Romans were accustomed to conceptulaizing gods as powerful beings with supernatural abilities and Paul was vending a peasant from backwater territory. In what has to be the most successful promotional decision of all history, Jesus got changed into Son-O-God so that his stature was more acceptable to those reared on the deeds of Neptune and Jupiter et al. The consequence is that the gospels were crafted to reflect the newer doctrinal marketing. Virgin births, rising from the grave, ascending into heaven...these were all "He's a god" add ons.
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Post by robinhood on Aug 14, 2006 19:01:09 GMT -5
Dinosaur or man, which came first?
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Post by Molitov on Aug 14, 2006 19:08:54 GMT -5
Where should I go on vacation this year and who should I take with me?
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Post by Bawa on Aug 14, 2006 19:42:54 GMT -5
I think I took a wrong turn someplace around parts unknown, what is this strange mirror universe?
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Post by Grandstander on Aug 14, 2006 19:43:25 GMT -5
Dinosaur or man, which came first? They were simultaneous descendants of the extinct Dinomen, whom themselves had evolved from the Humasaurs.
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