Small world ain't it? You never know who your gonna meet because of TFF! - The Firearms Forum

hkruss · 02-12-2009, 07:41 PM

A week ago I posted a thread having to do with Mardi Gras in Mobile. A fellow TFF'er who goes by Chemfantry responded. Turns out he is from Mobile, and is in one of the mystic societies here in Mobile. (For those of you who don't know, the mystic societies are the organizations who put on the Mardi Gras parades. There are many of them who each parade on particular nights). So here is a guy who is stationed in Ft. Campbell Ky., who just happens to be from my hometown! Just got off the phone with him, and it turns out I know his brother. Anyway, were gonna meet up tomorrow night in person at my favorite bar. (Turns out he is very familiar with that particular bar also!)
I just thought it was quite a coincidence to have conversed with him on TFF before and it turns out he is a 'homeboy'! There will be drinking tomorrow night

and I'm sure I will unwisely try to hang with him. That wouldn't be so bad except he is half my age and in good shape. Me,...not so good. We will have to lift a glass to TFF!

Lori Mick · 02-12-2009, 07:44 PM

I love stuff like that!

Have fun tomorrow!

hkruss · 02-12-2009, 07:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lori Mick

I love stuff like that!

Have fun tomorrow!

Will do. I just hope I will be able to remember tomorrow!!!

Lori Mick · 02-12-2009, 08:33 PM

don't forget to drink some water and take an aspirin before you go to bed tomorrow night....

Have one for me!

RunningOnMT · 02-12-2009, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Lori Mick

don't forget to drink some water and take an aspirin before you go to bed tomorrow night....

Have one for me!

Just FYI...I used to do the aspirin thing myself after a night of drinking so I didn't end up ith a headache in the morning..UNTIL...I mentioned the habit to a doctor. He told me if ones goal was to eat a whole through your stomach he could think of no quicker way than taking aspirin on top of alcohol.

ponycar17 · 02-12-2009, 08:50 PM

Haha, that's very cool... I used to participate in Mustang (and general car) message forums but quickly tired of some of the garbage in those places. I did however meet a lot of good people, who I still talk with today (I work with 3 of them now).

RunningOnMT · 02-12-2009, 08:51 PM

That's great. I've heard before that if you met a stranger anywhere in the country that there was an almost 100% probability that someone you knew and someone they knew, knew each other. I love connecting with people that way. The most dramatic experience I had was in Vietnam. In 69 around TET they were expecting a major attack on our rear base like occured a year earlier. They pulled some units back to reinforce their perimeter. So I'm in this bunker with a guy from another battalion. As usual we passed the time telling each other stories of home. Our conversation went on for a couple hours when I happened to mention the name of a teenage type nightclub (no booze) that I used to go to all the time. He said .."wow, where are you from..we had a place back home by the same name. Yep..turns out we were both from Akron. In fact it turns out my sister and his uncle were friends and neighbors. Anyway...have a great time time tomorrow night. This gets me thinking..a get together, (bash) as chatrooms call it..might be a nice thing for us to arrange for TTF.

artabr · 02-12-2009, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by hkruss

Will do. I just hope I will be able to remember tomorrow!!!

Russ, ya gotta take some pics of the night to help you remember in the morning.
I also remember seeing a unwritten TFF rule about having to post above mentioned pics on the forum for the merriment of others.

"Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler"

"Let The Good Times Roll"

Hope yall have a good one!!

Art

durk · 02-12-2009, 09:30 PM

Cool story Russ. Let us know how it went.

pickenup · 02-12-2009, 10:59 PM

Pssssttt....pass the word.
PAR-TEEE at hkruss's place tomorrow night.
Just so y'all know, I ain't helping replace the furniture and drapes, like last time.

hkruss, ya know, you could always choose NOT to drink yourself into a stupor tomorrow night. Either way, have FUN, and let us know how it went.

1shot1k · 02-12-2009, 11:50 PM

Have enjoyed this post...and some truth for sure. Dont know
about the 100% for sure fire about ..if you meet someone somewhere then 100% that he will know someone that you will?

....Why..I think the odds may be higher even than that..!
( Quote : from Ed Norton to Ralph..after Ralph had just stated 100%
assuredness of something...) tryin to be funny.maybe older ones will get....

noslolo · 02-13-2009, 12:05 AM

Great post!!! Thanks!

armedandsafe · 02-13-2009, 12:28 AM

Pickenup, you bad! I remember when FirstInLine and I went to that convention. I didn't mind puting the drapes back up. I didn't mind replacing the table with the hobnail boot footprints on it. I didn't even mind so much the ... ummmmm ... stuff in the back toilet.

What I did mind was the hangover the cats had when we came back.

Pops

Crpdeth · 02-13-2009, 01:17 PM

Don't forget the PICTURES!

Crpdeth

TranterUK · 02-13-2009, 01:33 PM

Its interesting, I mean how would most of us have met if it were not here? Not at all I guess, which I think would be a shame.

Pistolenschutze · 02-13-2009, 08:11 PM

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Originally Posted by armedandsafe

Pickenup, you bad! I remember when FirstInLine and I went to that convention. I didn't mind puting the drapes back up. I didn't mind replacing the table with the hobnail boot footprints on it. I didn't even mind so much the ... ummmmm ... stuff in the back toilet.

What I did mind was the hangover the cats had when we came back.

Pops

Well, Pops, I warned Donny not to put that 180 proof Texas rotgut down the toilet, but he did it anyway. You must admit though, it was funny when the sewer pipe all the way out to the street melted.

02-12-2009, 07:41 PM	#1
hkruss Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Mobile, Al. Posts: 1,092	Small world ain't it? You never know who your gonna meet because of TFF! A week ago I posted a thread having to do with Mardi Gras in Mobile. A fellow TFF'er who goes by Chemfantry responded. Turns out he is from Mobile, and is in one of the mystic societies here in Mobile. (For those of you who don't know, the mystic societies are the organizations who put on the Mardi Gras parades. There are many of them who each parade on particular nights). So here is a guy who is stationed in Ft. Campbell Ky., who just happens to be from my hometown! Just got off the phone with him, and it turns out I know his brother. Anyway, were gonna meet up tomorrow night in person at my favorite bar. (Turns out he is very familiar with that particular bar also!) I just thought it was quite a coincidence to have conversed with him on TFF before and it turns out he is a 'homeboy'! There will be drinking tomorrow night and I'm sure I will unwisely try to hang with him. That wouldn't be so bad except he is half my age and in good shape. Me,...not so good. We will have to lift a glass to TFF! -->

02-12-2009, 07:44 PM	#2
Lori Mick Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Stuck in Upstate NY for a while Posts: 2,374	Re: Small world ain't it? You never know who your gonna meet because of TFF! I love stuff like that! Have fun tomorrow! __________________ It's a Brand New Day! Make it an awesome one! "No one outside myself can rule me inwardly. Knowing this I become wholly free."

02-12-2009, 08:33 PM	#4
Lori Mick Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Stuck in Upstate NY for a while Posts: 2,374	Re: Small world ain't it? You never know who your gonna meet because of TFF! don't forget to drink some water and take an aspirin before you go to bed tomorrow night.... Have one for me! __________________ It's a Brand New Day! Make it an awesome one! "No one outside myself can rule me inwardly. Knowing this I become wholly free."

02-12-2009, 08:50 PM	#6
ponycar17 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: South Carolina Contributor Posts: 4,884	Re: Small world ain't it? You never know who your gonna meet because of TFF! Haha, that's very cool... I used to participate in Mustang (and general car) message forums but quickly tired of some of the garbage in those places. I did however meet a lot of good people, who I still talk with today (I work with 3 of them now). __________________ Arm yourself with intellectual Ammunition! Gunfacts 5.1 Myth-Busting Facts JustFacts.com on Gun Control Stopping Power, the Downloadable Book

02-12-2009, 08:51 PM	#7
RunningOnMT Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Akron, Ohio Contributor Posts: 4,720	Re: Small world ain't it? You never know who your gonna meet because of TFF! That's great. I've heard before that if you met a stranger anywhere in the country that there was an almost 100% probability that someone you knew and someone they knew, knew each other. I love connecting with people that way. The most dramatic experience I had was in Vietnam. In 69 around TET they were expecting a major attack on our rear base like occured a year earlier. They pulled some units back to reinforce their perimeter. So I'm in this bunker with a guy from another battalion. As usual we passed the time telling each other stories of home. Our conversation went on for a couple hours when I happened to mention the name of a teenage type nightclub (no booze) that I used to go to all the time. He said .."wow, where are you from..we had a place back home by the same name. Yep..turns out we were both from Akron. In fact it turns out my sister and his uncle were friends and neighbors. Anyway...have a great time time tomorrow night. This gets me thinking..a get together, (bash) as chatrooms call it..might be a nice thing for us to arrange for TTF.

02-12-2009, 09:30 PM	#9
durk Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 2,026	Re: Small world ain't it? You never know who your gonna meet because of TFF! Cool story Russ. Let us know how it went. __________________ Durk

02-12-2009, 10:59 PM	#10
pickenup Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains Posts: 6,837	Re: Small world ain't it? You never know who your gonna meet because of TFF! Pssssttt....pass the word. PAR-TEEE at hkruss's place tomorrow night. Just so y'all know, I ain't helping replace the furniture and drapes, like last time. hkruss, ya know, you could always choose NOT to drink yourself into a stupor tomorrow night. Either way, have FUN, and let us know how it went. __________________ The gene pool needs chlorine

02-12-2009, 11:50 PM	#11
1shot1k Former Guest Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Fort Worth, Texas Posts: 904	Re: Small world ain't it? You never know who your gonna meet because of TFF! Have enjoyed this post...and some truth for sure. Dont know about the 100% for sure fire about ..if you meet someone somewhere then 100% that he will know someone that you will? ....Why..I think the odds may be higher even than that..! ( Quote : from Ed Norton to Ralph..after Ralph had just stated 100% assuredness of something...) tryin to be funny.maybe older ones will get....

02-13-2009, 12:05 AM	#12
noslolo Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Johnstown PA Posts: 1,558	Re: Small world ain't it? You never know who your gonna meet because of TFF! Great post!!! Thanks! __________________ I'm a heck of a "obesito illegitimo"

02-13-2009, 12:28 AM	#13
armedandsafe Former Guest Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Moses Lake, WA Posts: 10,344	Re: Small world ain't it? You never know who your gonna meet because of TFF! Pickenup, you bad! I remember when FirstInLine and I went to that convention. I didn't mind puting the drapes back up. I didn't mind replacing the table with the hobnail boot footprints on it. I didn't even mind so much the ... ummmmm ... stuff in the back toilet. What I did mind was the hangover the cats had when we came back. Pops

02-13-2009, 01:17 PM	#14
Crpdeth Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Location: Location Contributor Posts: 8,247	Re: Small world ain't it? You never know who your gonna meet because of TFF! Don't forget the PICTURES! Crpdeth __________________ Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. ~Eric Hoffer

02-13-2009, 01:33 PM	#15
TranterUK Advanced Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Cambridge UK Posts: 5,103	Re: Small world ain't it? You never know who your gonna meet because of TFF! Its interesting, I mean how would most of us have met if it were not here? Not at all I guess, which I think would be a shame. __________________ DVC - Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas - Accuracy, Power, Speed. The light at the end of the recession tunnel IS a train coming the other way!