Now I'm interested - is there any chance one of you fine folks could put together a thread with links to some of these past posters' greatest moments? I'd REALLY like to read that...

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We've got rules and maps and guns in our backs, but we still can't just behave ourselves. Even if to save our own lives, we are a brutal kind. The Shins

Check out the bottom of the page. Click on the word "users." then find the user you want to check out, click on their name, and that will take you to their profile page. Finally, click on "find all posts by ______", and viola! You can see all there posts in one spot.

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LET ME SEE YOUR WAR FACE!!!

Cool I didn't think of doing that! Good advice...

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We've got rules and maps and guns in our backs, but we still can't just behave ourselves. Even if to save our own lives, we are a brutal kind. The Shins

Actually, I tried after I write that post and it's not quite as easy as it sounds. You still have to dig through a lot of member names to find the one your looking for. There doesn't seem to be an easy search method to find a particulr member quickly.

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LET ME SEE YOUR WAR FACE!!!

Sure there is. We have a search button at the bottom of the page that enables you to search by author.

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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. - Theodore Roosevelt

I miss MerlinX...

He doesn't really post anything anymore, though I did just see him yesterday.

He made some really great contributions to this forum, and I personally learned a lot from his posts. Plus, I think we have a lot of the same interests. I hope he's not gone for good.

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LET ME SEE YOUR WAR FACE!!!

I dont miss him at all - he's far too bright.

And then the bastard shows up intermittently to invade discourse with reason - show-off!

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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

Merlin never really left us. He merely transcended into another realm. He still exists as a dream for some... AND A NIGHTMARE FOR OTHERS!

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"It's never over... BOY!"
The Tall Man, Phantasm III

in fact we were in the midst of a discussion earlier this week on the political board about monopolies.

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JMS gets another English lesson:

Quote:

there is no "mostly unique;" thats like saying "sometimes always," its an oxymoron - its either one or the other.

The result:

Quote:

By the mid-19th century unique had developed a wider meaning, “not typical, unusual,” and it is in this wider sense that it is compared. The comparison of so-called absolutes in senses that are not absolute is standard in all varieties of speech and writing.

...he's out there (I can sense a presence)....lurking...

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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."