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CS Get-together Picnic, Norris Dam Park, Knoxville, TN, Saturday, August 16th

Ouch! Paintballs hurt!

How about paint balloons and water guns? (They'd probably never allow us in the Park again!)


Four weeks from today!!!! Gonna' be some fun times for everone!!!!

Ya'll come!

CS Get-together Picnic, Norris Dam Park, Knoxville, TN, Saturday, August 16th

Naw... Real guns aren't allowed in the park! (Just beware of the Kansan with the "soaker balls.")

CS Get-together Picnic, Norris Dam Park, Knoxville, TN, Saturday, August 16th

Ok, so pack up your Okie-Missourian and New York-Missourian selves and come on down to Tennessee! (I'll give you a Kansas-Tennesseean welcome! )

CS Get-together Picnic, Norris Dam Park, Knoxville, TN, Saturday, August 16th

Think I'm kiddin', don'tcha'?

RE: WHO HATES BEAUTY CONTESTS IN CS..?

I'd like to see a poll on how many people want you to come to our doin's! (I think you'd have bump up a few percentage points to maybe 63.8/36.2! )

CS Get-together Picnic, Norris Dam Park, Knoxville, TN, Saturday, August 16th

Hmmm... Guess I'll have to see if my old web-cam works on my new laptop. No guarantees, but maybe we make something happen? (Hopefully I'll be able to find a "current bush" to plug it into!)

CS Get-together Picnic, Norris Dam Park, Knoxville, TN, Saturday, August 16th

We'll have to see how things go this year, but I certainly wouldn't discount the possibility. Heck, it'd be worth it just to see your smilin' face in East Tennessee!

CS Get-together Picnic, Norris Dam Park, Knoxville, TN, Saturday, August 16th

We've got a pretty good idea - Jackie will probably give you a call tomorrow to bounce some ideas off you - and we'll definitely have a big batch of homemade Sassafras tea for everyone to try!

CS Get-together Picnic, Norris Dam Park, Knoxville, TN, Saturday, August 16th

Hi Claire!

If we do this again next year, Jackie and I both expect to have the honor of your presence! (And something tells me that you'd better wear clothes that you don't mind getting wet! )

CS Get-together Picnic, Norris Dam Park, Knoxville, TN, Saturday, August 16th

Yeah, I've been planning to grab a frisbee or two and the water guns are a great idea!

Dang I'm looking forward to this! (But I don't think I'm gonna' turn my back on Anne very often! )

RE: advice needed in this new world

Hey Alex,

I wish I could give you some advice, but you don't seem to taking the advice others have given to heart, so I'll try and offer up a bit of an explantion instead;

Our world is not static, it is always and forever changing. That applies to dating sites as well as real life. People are not all the same, they travel at different speeds, move in different circles and have different senses of humour as well as moral values and what they consider to be right and wrong. This also applies to dating sites as well as real life.

While I would never go so far as to say that rules are made to be broken, I would say that most are designed to allow a certain latitude or bending, if you will. Those who have absolutely no regard for the rules generally don't last very long -- This also applies to both dating sites and real life. There are those who always follow every single rule, yet seem not to grasp the need for common courtesy when interacting with others who may not be quite so pedantic. There are also those who routinely bend the rules and don't have much patience for those who "always drive the speed limit."

One of your chief complaints - and a chief complaint of those you complain about - is your seeming propensity for resurrecting old threads. I really don't think anyone minds if it's only an occasional thing - nearly everybody does it once in a while - but to resurrect ten or fifteen or more, without regard to current threads or the people who might miss them when they're knocked back to the 2nd or 3rd page is simply impolite. In a strict sense, you're following the rules, but it's in complete disregard for other members. Then you wonder why folks get ticked at you.

The world is not a static place. To exist in society, whether real life or cyber, calls for a certain latitude and courtesy towards others. Either that or you're going to be alone for a long, long time. (Or you're going to have to find another place where everyone else follows the rules with as much dedication - and as little tolerance towards others - as you.)

I wish you all the best!

RE: Doomsday Chronicles....

I've thought about this and, to tell the truth, I don't think I'd bother to change anything at all. A big part of my life has been based on the "tomorrow's another day" thing and I look forward to seeing each new day.

I mean, I could go hog wild (and a lot of people would!) but it wouldn't make any difference in the long run. Those that I care about already know how I feel - I can't make it any plainer - and I like my life. And if I were to go wild and spend everything, do everything, celebrate the end, etc... and then the darn world didn't end, I'd feel pretty damn foolish.

Soooo... I think, on the last day, I'm just gonna' read for a while in the evening, kiss my lovely wife and go to bed. Tomorrow's either gonna' come or it isn't... If it does, I'll be well rested and ready to meet it. If it doesn't, I will have gone off peacefully and with no worries. What better way to go?

CS Get-together Picnic, Norris Dam Park, Knoxville, TN, Saturday, August 16th

Great! We look forward to seeing you there!

P.S. You've got mail - or at least you will have in a few minutes!

RE: McCain

"c" word? You mean conscience? He's a lawyer, and I doubt he has one so why would he refer to it?

Summer Get Together in the Knoxville Area...

Ok, here are the details as we have them:

What: A picnic style meet & greet.

Where: Norris Dam State Park, approximately 20 minutes north of Knoxville, Tn. (I-75, exit 128, then south 2 1/2 miles on US Highway 441)

When: August 16th, 2008 The park is open from 8:00 A.M. to 10:00 P.M., so we'll eat whenever everyone gets there or whenever we feel like it. (I guess what I'm trying to say is that you can come for the whole day or for a few hours.)

Besides beautiful scenery and hiking trails there are several other sites to see close by. I'm planning on taking my canoe, so if anyone is up for a short float ('bout a mile or so) on the nearby Clinch River, I think we can arrange that as well.

I really think we can make this work and the more folks who can make it, the more fun it'll be!

As we get closer to the date, I'll make sure that everyone who is coming has mine and/or Jackson's cell phone #'s as well as specific directions to the site/picnic area.


I think there's more info on the sign-up thread in the main forums.

...Don...

CS Get-together Picnic, Norris Dam Park, Knoxville, TN, Saturday, August 16th

'Morning Anne!

Yep, it's gettin' closer and we're gettin' more folks!

CS Get-together Picnic, Norris Dam Park, Knoxville, TN, Saturday, August 16th

Great! Make sure to hit the sign-up button so we can count you in. (Those figures are what we're going to use to for calculating eats & drinks, etc.)



Gonna' be some fun times!

RE: How come when you see!

Yeah, but NEVER drink before you go to a liquor store!

RE: Any POWERLIFTERS AROUND?

I thought about power lifting once. Got myself psyched up, squatted down...



























...And took a break 'til the fork lift got there! Work smart, not hard!

CS Get-together Picnic, Norris Dam Park, Knoxville, TN, Saturday, August 16th

My mistake! He's up to 61.5/39.5!

CS Get-together Picnic, Norris Dam Park, Knoxville, TN, Saturday, August 16th

Sic 'im, Bev!

CS Get-together Picnic, Norris Dam Park, Knoxville, TN, Saturday, August 16th

'Morning Bev! 'Mornin' Anne!

Beautiful morning up here!

Bev, we've got Indy up to almost 60/40 from 50/50!

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Bring some lemonade and I'll loan you couple of my personal "aliens" to help out on the hills.

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Naw, I don't plan on camping so it should be dry and clear!

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Great! Want me to bump the thread so's you can hit the sign-up button? We're holding it in a well lit place and you can BYOB. (Bring your own bulbs.)

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I can live with that, Indy!

Soooo... Still 50/50? Or are you up to 65/35?

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Are you sure that's not a burning flag?

Uh-oh! The Nobama cops are gonna' get me now!





'Morning Bob!

RE: <QUESTION> HAS ANYBODY FOUND THAT SPECIAL WOMAN OR MAN ON C.S.?I'AM STILL SINGLE&AVAILABE.

Sure, but none you'd want to hear.

JK!

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Now that is something I never even considered!

Not the part about changing to an eco-bulb, but putting one in the toilet -- I mean, we have a light in the bathroom, but it never even occured to me to light up the commode! (Does it go in the tank, or in the bowl?)

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Well, it has been nearly seven months since I originally posted this thread and it would seem that quite a few of us are still in the dark!