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  • #31
    Before I give you the full welcome, can you clarify if (1) you are indeed a product of our fine Navy and, if so (2) you are willing to continually serve as a thorn in the side of our own goat-stealing baudy former serviceman? He's much funnier when he's prodded.

    With that out the way, welcome.
    Awesomeness now has a name. Let me introduce myself.

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    • #32
      No, I did not serve in the Navy, but my father did, and I am more than happy to be a thorn in the side of any ground pounding land lubber.

      Go Navy, Beat Army!
      Col. Klink: "Staff officers are so clever."
      Gen. Burkhalter: "Klink, I am a staff officer."
      Col. Klink: "I didn't mean you sir, you're not clever."

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      • #33
        Originally posted by USS Utah View Post
        You can call me Flattop -- that's my screenname at non-sports sites and at a history group I manage -- BB (2-letter designation for battleship, which the Utah was when first commissioned) wouldn't be bad, just as long as you don't call me a target ship.
        So Pirate Ship isn't off limits then, right? SWEET! We have a pirate on board!
        Dio perdona tante cose per un’opera di misericordia
        God forgives many things for an act of mercy
        Alessandro Manzoni

        Knock it off. This board has enough problems without a dose of middle-age lechery.

        pelagius

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        • #34
          Originally posted by USS Utah View Post
          No, I did not serve in the Navy, but my father did, and I am more than happy to be a thorn in the side of any ground pounding land lubber.

          Go Navy, Beat Army!
          Seaman envy?
          "Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
          The rest of us rarely bother to think about our actions." --Solon

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          • #35
            A military history buff? Excellent news.

            Welcome.
            "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
            "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
            "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

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            • #36
              I would have tried to make you feel more welcome if you were from Oregon or even Washington. But, welcome anyway!
              Get confident, stupid
              -landpoke

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              • #37
                Originally posted by USS Utah View Post
                Where has this site been all my life?

                age - 40
                eductation - some college (LDSBC) and am going back to school in pursuit of a history degree
                location - Bountiful, Utah
                Hobbies - History -- WWII, American, naval, military; sports, reading -- history, fiction, current navy and military affairs
                mission - California, San Jose -- some 20 years ago
                profession - Who knows?
                Married
                Just noticed you here - welcome! Another Ute fan is great, a Ute fan who is a military historian is a bonus, and learning along the way that Wuap also is a military history maven is simply too much. I am not such a maven, but I like to be around those who are.
                “There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
                ― W.H. Auden

                "God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
                -- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons

                "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
                --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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                • #38
                  Originally posted by LA Ute View Post
                  Just noticed you here - welcome! Another Ute fan is great, a Ute fan who is a military historian is a bonus, and learning along the way that Wuap also is a military history maven is simply too much. I am not such a maven, but I like to be around those who are.
                  Hehe. The word 'maven' always makes me chuckle when it's associated with males. It always seemed so feminine to me. I've decided that this is because I came to age in an era when Mavis Beacon dominated the typing tutorial market and since then the image that pops up in my head when I hear maven is school-master-look-alike Mavis Beacon.

                  This coincidence almost made it impossible for me to get through Gladwell's "The Tipping Point".

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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by I.J. Reilly View Post
                    Hehe. The word 'maven' always makes me chuckle when it's associated with males. It always seemed so feminine to me. I've decided that this is because I came to age in an era when Mavis Beacon dominated the typing tutorial market and since then the image that pops up in my head when I hear maven is school-master-look-alike Mavis Beacon.

                    This coincidence almost made it impossible for me to get through Gladwell's "The Tipping Point".
                    Hey, it's a perfectly good word, with Yiddish origins, and I was using it when Malcolm Gladwell was in high school!
                    “There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
                    ― W.H. Auden

                    "God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
                    -- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons

                    "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
                    --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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