yeah.....that's kind of spooky actually. :chills: you two would probably annihilate each other if you ever touched.

Ok, was that in response to me, and if so, I'm presuming you meant me and Catwoman, not me and TS.... :D

Yeah, I think Catwoman and I would probably explode if we ever met in r/l....kinda like matter/antimatter :lol: But that's the beauty of the internet...it lets people get together and exchange ideas, and the only weapons one can use are words and evil lil smiley faces, and neither one causes permanent damage. Gotta love that.

I don't have anything against CW personally at all. Our ideas just don't like each other. And I know that if I ever want a good argument, all I have to do is bring up CP, and it's on. That's reassuring...one has to take comfort in the little things, you know?

Mike Smith = Valentine Michael Smith, protagonist of the immortal "Stranger in a Strange Land", by Robert Heinlein.

This book is often cited by Pagans as a formative read in their nonstandard religious development. It certainly was in mine, anyway.

In this context, you do not. Although he may have at one point claimed that he somehow gave the idea to RAH despite the book having been written before he was born.

A legendary nutcase from the Cellar's dial-up BBS era. Toad can reveal more, if he feels like it.

Reveal isn't really the right word. There isn't much to say I think. I didn't see much of his antics personally as I tended to stay away from the places he hung out. He was a legendary ass, one of those guys whose strong personality pissed everyone off, but he also was a habitual liar who convinced a set of young BBSers that he was a Navy pilot with a black belt etc. when he was actually 350 lbs and living in his parent's basement.

In the more closed community of the pre-Internet day, personalities like that could get around. You'd get second-hand stories of how Mike Smith said this or Mike Smith did that, etc.

You left out biggest witch on the east coast, and had a doctorate.

I royally pissed him off by calling the university he said he had a doctorate from and learning that they didn't offer doctorates. They stopped at Master's.

Oh, and I also called a Navy Recruiter to ask about the height requirements for pilots, because I knew that he was too tall.

Sssh, or he'll follow through on his threat to destroy every BBS in the 215 area code that doesn't kiss his ass. Assuming that his technological capabilities have increased over the years, he can probably bring down teleconnectivity for the whole Eastern Seaboard and knock over SEPTA buses just by thinking hard in their direction by now.

If it helps hasten the end of SEPTA, I'm all for it!

ask a question... get some answers. thanks.

:blush: Ah, damn...sounds like the East Coast version of our own Midwestern Pagan plague who goes by the handle of "Talesin". What a dick.

So much for my being insightful...

I grok VMS as well.

He showed up at a developmentally critical time in my life as well.

ok, now what the hell is "grok"?

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d'ja ever look at a chart of a stock and intuitively know what you needed to know about the situation? You "grokked" the situation.

In Stranger In a Strange Land, it meant a bit more than that. The whole idea being that when you understand something sufficiently, you are unable to take any emotional stance for or against that something without allowing it to stop you from making the right decision. To be able to hate something at the same time as you love it equally and eithr kill it or nurture as necessary.

In a more terrestrial sense it means to grasp something so thoroughly or intuitively enough that...

Ever have a moment of clarity?