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Old 03-05-2005, 10:46   #1
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Old 03-05-2005, 12:54   #2
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Thanks. Pre-ordered it. But I have a long queue right now. Maybe we need to restart the reading list thread from scratch . . .
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Old 03-28-2005, 07:33   #3
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damn.

I thought that this thread was going to be about Gxxx O'Neill.



I know someone here has some good Chief O'Neill stories.....or better....Sergeant O'Neill stories.

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Old 03-28-2005, 08:18   #4
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damn.

I thought that this thread was going to be about Gxxx O'Neill.



I know someone here has some good Chief O'Neill stories.....or better....Sergeant O'Neill stories.

He was the Weapons Man on NDD and my HALO team.

He is back working at SWCS now.

We probably have some stories involving G.

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Old 03-28-2005, 08:23   #5
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There are some stories that should never be told...
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.

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Old 03-28-2005, 08:32   #6
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well, hook a brother up.

I am bored.

I am 44 years old, have a hot 20-year old girlfriend, and I am bored.

I could use a laugh.



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Old 03-28-2005, 08:40   #7
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well, hook a brother up.

I am bored.

I am 44 years old, have a hot 20-year old girlfriend, and I am bored.

I could use a laugh.



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Yeah, sounds like you should be the one with the stories to tell right now.

This is probably not the place for them, though.

I'll keep an eye out for you in Playboy.

Do you have a silk smoking jacket yet?

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Old 03-28-2005, 08:53   #8
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no smoking jacket. Quit smoking a long time ago. Quit dipping, too, for that matter.

(still not too happy about that).

I do have a wicked nice silk kimono with a dragon on it.

just took some pics of the GF in lingerie and go-go boots, too. (long story).

she is scratching my back now, as I write this.

life...has been worse, brother.

I am still bored.

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Old 03-28-2005, 10:18   #9
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Old 03-28-2005, 12:07   #10
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you cannot possibly imagine.



we just watched Million Dollar Baby. Anyone else see that damned downer of a flick? There ought to be a warning label on the sleeve: "This movie has a sad-ass ending, viewer beware."

now...she wants to talk about how she wants to take care of me, even if I am paralyzed and need an iron lung.

sigh.

she is looking at me...with these bright little eyes.

I am too old for this.

this is how the Big Ranger punishes me for all the bad things that I did when I was young.
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no smoking jacket. Quit smoking a long time ago. Quit dipping, too, for that matter.

(still not too happy about that).

I do have a wicked nice silk kimono with a dragon on it.

just took some pics of the GF in lingerie and go-go boots, too. (long story).

she is scratching my back now, as I write this.

life...has been worse, brother.

I am still bored.

I hope you survive your boredom.
Back to my ever exciting knife grinding machines here.
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Old 03-28-2005, 14:30   #12
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I split and merged the posts regarding the new earthquake/tsunami. The Thai GF posts we'll leave.

Now, how is this new O'Neill book anyway?
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Old 03-28-2005, 14:31   #13
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
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Old 03-28-2005, 14:35   #14
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Comes out in August
Doh!

OK, maybe we should hear more about the Thai GF after all . . .
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Old 07-10-2005, 08:17   #15
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you cannot possibly imagine.



we just watched Million Dollar Baby. Anyone else see that damned downer of a flick?
S:

I posted a couple of pic's of CC, you can find them if you look. "Sad."

Then boarded a plane to Osaka, and I watched that miserable movie twice, cried both times.

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