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6/21/2008 12:44:48 PM
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Bill Moonroe
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Maybe this will bring him back.
He may be a little crusty at times, but the Teec is this forum's Otis Meets Roger Ebert. I've come to appreciate the classic stuff that he's mentioned, and his exchanges with Gardie and Gordie have been as entertaining as an ostrich fight...
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"A thagizer? What's that do? Hey, what's this button for? Uh-oh. Sorry about that, man. It'll grow back, right?"
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6/21/2008 1:36:46 PM
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Berry
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With ya, Bill.
TCO, you are missed much like a benign tumor that, nevertheless, caused great discomfort before and after its removal. Please come home. You DO have a place here . . .
And I'm still laying claim that TCO had popped into the old forum as that wild and crazy writer of teh fictions himself: Igor Sanchez.
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6/22/2008 7:37:06 AM
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Thomas R
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I have a theory on what might bring him out.
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"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other." Francis Bacon
"Gummy Bears, gummy bears don't spread darkness and death!... Do they?" Tom Servo MST3K
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6/22/2008 1:02:14 PM
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Byron Bailey
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TCO bait:
And to appease his lust:
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6/23/2008 9:00:25 AM
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Bill Moonroe
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Good to see you having fun with smilies, Byron.
I think we might have seen Teec sooner if the old forum address had some kind of redirection page instead of a "The page cannot be found". For someone surfing a gin enhanced internet, that might have been the proof that SF has finally gone belly up.
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"A thagizer? What's that do? Hey, what's this button for? Uh-oh. Sorry about that, man. It'll grow back, right?"
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6/23/2008 9:20:52 AM
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bluetyson
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Please don't invite the Dark Side elements back.
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6/23/2008 11:01:42 AM
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Bill Moonroe
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Well, Blue, there's people you invite to a party because they're delightful company, then there's the people you invite to add "spice". You know, the company drunk, his wife, her gigalo and his mistress, or the Freudian and the Jungian. TCO's one of those people. Even when his alcohol blood level is out of whack, he's still entertaining when he asks if Thomas R and Ethomas are the same person based on name similarities.
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"A thagizer? What's that do? Hey, what's this button for? Uh-oh. Sorry about that, man. It'll grow back, right?"
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6/23/2008 11:08:46 AM
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Berry
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Hey, Bill, do you think that putting up a thread titled "Robert A. Heinlein Bows at John Scalzi's Feet" might lure him from the depths?
edited by Berry on 6/23/2008
edited by Berry on 6/23/2008
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6/23/2008 11:11:38 AM
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Bill Moonroe
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If the Albanian Americans thread doesn't lure him out of the gin glass, nothing will...
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"A thagizer? What's that do? Hey, what's this button for? Uh-oh. Sorry about that, man. It'll grow back, right?"
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6/23/2008 11:26:22 AM
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Thomas R
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I'll try one more thing, but it's rather sneaky.
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"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other." Francis Bacon
"Gummy Bears, gummy bears don't spread darkness and death!... Do they?" Tom Servo MST3K
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6/23/2008 11:29:22 AM
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Bill Moonroe
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Thomas, you rascal. Are you going to crank call TCO? 
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6/23/2008 11:51:02 AM
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Thomas R
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Nahh just more threads that relate to him. I could try something like crank calling, but I don't know his number.
However I found an Amazon.com reviewer named "TCO" who may be the TCO. One of his reviews of a McDevitt book says "Save your Heinleinian beer money." Amazon's TCO Apparently you can e-mail that page. I could also put chunks of that guy's reviews here and if it's not our TCO maybe it'll draw him. (I think there's a good chance it is though)
"When I consider how much money I blow on restaurant meals or alcohol, a book price becomes trivial. What bothers me about buying a book that I don't enjoy is not the lost money. It's the lost time."
"This is not as good as Jumper (and Jumper wasn't perfect either, but it had a neat idea and some charm at times)"
"Don't be fooled by the whorish endorsements from other writers (like the husband and wife team of Sheffield and Kress). Similarly with the (now commonplace) comparisons to REAL masters like Asimov, Niven, etc. (geared to buyers frustrated by all the crap and looking for "stuff like the good ole stuff". This guy is NOT in that league. It's just marketing spin, and the comparison to Liliputians that makes anyone not gawdawful get Gulliver-compared nowadays. "
"Otherwise, the shorts would have killed the bubble earlier. The thing to think about is how much of a lesson have the MBA schools, McKinsey's and the like learned? Was this a one-time miscalculation or is there a deeper problem of a lack of true intellectual curiosity into business analysis? I think it's a deeper problem. And I think that it limits best capital allocation and company operation. Of course, this gets us into agency effects... "
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"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other." Francis Bacon
"Gummy Bears, gummy bears don't spread darkness and death!... Do they?" Tom Servo MST3K
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6/23/2008 11:57:04 AM
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EThomas
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Bill Moonroe wrote:
Even when his alcohol blood level is out of whack, he's still entertaining when he asks if Thomas R and Ethomas are the same person based on name similarities.
That was pretty funny. He will show up eventually...he has been away for months and always returns. I'm not sure why people are so obsessed; there is no need to pine or anything.
To Thomas: Your plan is sneaky. I see what you are doing. It just might work.
Edit to add: Oops, crossposting. I meant your other plan.
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edited by EThomas on 6/23/2008
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6/23/2008 4:53:53 PM
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T Radigan
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With apologies to the band "Player":
TC come back, any kind of fool can see
This new forum is deadly dull without you
TC come back, registration is cost free
We're so bored, and we just can't live without you
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6/25/2008 10:00:39 AM
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Bill Moonroe
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Kind of ironic that we're trolling (should that be trawling?) for TCO.
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6/26/2008 3:26:54 PM
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Berry
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bump
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6/26/2008 9:53:21 PM
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Bill Moonroe
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Now, who wouldn't like to get TCO's take on the Strahan thread?
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7/10/2008 10:56:57 PM
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RandyBeck
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I thought I'd bump this thread.
Maybe TCO was a good luck charm after all.
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7/10/2008 11:39:11 PM
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Thomas R
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I think TCO can't be drawn out. I tried many things to do so, but to no avail. TCO will come here in his own time and his own way or not at all.
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"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other." Francis Bacon
"Gummy Bears, gummy bears don't spread darkness and death!... Do they?" Tom Servo MST3K
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7/10/2008 11:49:28 PM
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Sue
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I prefer TCO over Bromfield. TCO had some brains, but all Bromfield has is oversized nads.
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