rooter
10-10-2003, 05:35 AM
HAVE YOU EVER-----
---done one of those flowery write ups, you know the one where you spent a lot of time doing it--the one in which words just flowed like mellow aged Kentucky sour mash, only to discover that when you punched the SEND button, the warning shows in the middle of the screen that you are no longer 'hooked up'. Did that for me just a moment ago over on the Vietnam Memories Bulletin Board, and even with all the searching and recovery details I tried, nothing worked to replace that which I had spent so much time on. Let me tell you how if feels---you're riding a city bus in a strange town---the bus itself is shoddy and rundown---the driver looks a lot like Jackie Gleason (Ralph) from the HONEYMOONERS, not very friendly or helpful from all outward appearances---suddenly he stops the bus in a very sleazy looking area of the city, shuts it down and shouts over his shoulder as he dismounts, "END OF THE LINE". You've got you luggage, your briefcase, and most of all your nagging fears because everyone you see outside the bus, looks like those people on the Wanted posters down at the post office in your own friendly little town. You're packing cash, (you wish you were packing iron) ---even with all your companions nagging, you didn't purchase money orders for protection. You stand there on that decrepit looking side walk and have to ask the threatening looking person closest to you, "WHERE AM I"---. Not at all in a friendly sound manner, foreigne sounds come back to you from the responding citizen---is the words Czech or Russian--you can't tell--doesn't make any difference anyway because the only words you know from any other language are the 'dirty words' you learned in those ports of call when you were in the navy. Yup, that's kind of the way I felt---BTW, HONEYMOONERS was one of my favorite TV shows---am I that peeved this morning I had to pick on the looks of good old Jackie Gleason---"AND AWAY WE GO"!!!! Chief
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---done one of those flowery write ups, you know the one where you spent a lot of time doing it--the one in which words just flowed like mellow aged Kentucky sour mash, only to discover that when you punched the SEND button, the warning shows in the middle of the screen that you are no longer 'hooked up'. Did that for me just a moment ago over on the Vietnam Memories Bulletin Board, and even with all the searching and recovery details I tried, nothing worked to replace that which I had spent so much time on. Let me tell you how if feels---you're riding a city bus in a strange town---the bus itself is shoddy and rundown---the driver looks a lot like Jackie Gleason (Ralph) from the HONEYMOONERS, not very friendly or helpful from all outward appearances---suddenly he stops the bus in a very sleazy looking area of the city, shuts it down and shouts over his shoulder as he dismounts, "END OF THE LINE". You've got you luggage, your briefcase, and most of all your nagging fears because everyone you see outside the bus, looks like those people on the Wanted posters down at the post office in your own friendly little town. You're packing cash, (you wish you were packing iron) ---even with all your companions nagging, you didn't purchase money orders for protection. You stand there on that decrepit looking side walk and have to ask the threatening looking person closest to you, "WHERE AM I"---. Not at all in a friendly sound manner, foreigne sounds come back to you from the responding citizen---is the words Czech or Russian--you can't tell--doesn't make any difference anyway because the only words you know from any other language are the 'dirty words' you learned in those ports of call when you were in the navy. Yup, that's kind of the way I felt---BTW, HONEYMOONERS was one of my favorite TV shows---am I that peeved this morning I had to pick on the looks of good old Jackie Gleason---"AND AWAY WE GO"!!!! Chief
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