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Title: Greetings, etc.
Post by: Uncle Bubba on March 14, 2008, 12:19:53 PM
Some, or maybe all, of you have probably been wondering who the uppity new guy is who's been horning in with posts without introducing himself. Just another fella out here livin' life the best I can, like y'all appear to be, I reckon is the answer.

I can't recall exactly where I got the link to here, maybe from Kim du Toit's or Lawdog's blog. I'm fairly sure it was one of them, though. I lurked and read a little before jumping in, and apologize for doing so without introducing myself first, I was enjoying the byplay so much I forgot my manners.

I'm a husband and father who came to be both relatively late in life, three children so far and there might be more in the future but "just not anytime soon" as my lovely wife, whom I call Miss Priss when online, has told me. I'm a veteran of the US Army (as I've posted about), a mechanized infantryman many moons ago who wanted to be an Airborne Ranger, but being a callow youth I didn't know how to work Uncle for the things I wanted and so got took by him and spent my enlistment as a track toad. Ah well, c'est la vie c'est la guerre, eh?

I note some fine senses of humor here, and some insightful posts. I hope I can add something worthwhile.
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Post by: geronimotwo on March 14, 2008, 12:26:24 PM
howdy
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Post by: Twycross on March 14, 2008, 12:28:47 PM
Welcome to APS.
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Post by: The Viking on March 14, 2008, 12:39:54 PM
Welcome. New guy buys the beer alcohol. I'll have a couple of bottles of Sam Adams thankyouverymuch laugh. And a few shots of tequila.
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Post by: Paddy on March 14, 2008, 12:40:12 PM
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I note some fine senses of humor here, and some insightful posts

Welcome, Uncle Bubba.  And thank you.  It's not often I receive a well deserved compliment like that.
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Post by: Brad Johnson on March 14, 2008, 12:42:20 PM
Good to have you here.  Enjoy!

Brad
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Post by: seeker_two on March 14, 2008, 12:53:07 PM
"Welcome to the funny farm," seeker_two said sheepishly......  grin
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Post by: Bigjake on March 14, 2008, 01:01:48 PM
Good to know ya!



 
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I note some fine senses of humor here, and some insightful posts

Welcome, Uncle Bubba.  And thank you.  It's not often I receive a well deserved compliment like that.

You'll get used to that guy and fistful eventually.
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Post by: Tallpine on March 14, 2008, 03:05:58 PM
F?ilte! Smiley

(well - it is almost St Patrick's Day)
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Post by: roo_ster on March 14, 2008, 03:56:03 PM
UB:

Welcome.

So are you local to KdT? 
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Post by: grampster on March 14, 2008, 04:23:48 PM
Another piece of human wreckage finds a home.   grin
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Post by: Headless Thompson Gunner on March 14, 2008, 04:47:43 PM
Turn around and leave, while you still can.  This place is full of unsavory folks.
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Post by: Mabs2 on March 14, 2008, 04:55:00 PM
これだけではちんぷんかんぷんな話をすべきだ。
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Post by: 280plus on March 14, 2008, 05:45:13 PM
Oh, this place is loaded with some jolly folks ok.  cheesy

Welcome new guy, I'll have what Viking is having!  grin
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Post by: Sindawe on March 14, 2008, 07:05:00 PM
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...I forgot my manners.

What pray tell are these "manners" you speak of, and why would we want them?
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Post by: johnster999 on March 14, 2008, 08:05:35 PM
Welcome!
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Post by: RocketMan on March 14, 2008, 08:39:13 PM
Aren't the ex-Army types supposed to go over to THR or someplace?  What're you doing here?

Just joshin' ya.  Welcome aboard!
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Post by: wmenorr67 on March 14, 2008, 08:53:41 PM
Welcome. New guy buys the beer alcohol. I'll have a couple of bottles of Sam Adams thankyouverymuch laugh. And a few shots of tequila.

You also forgot the ammo.  I will take two cases 5.56 and two cases of .45 ACP
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Post by: Uncle Bubba on March 15, 2008, 01:59:55 AM
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I note some fine senses of humor here, and some insightful posts

Welcome, Uncle Bubba.  And thank you.  It's not often I receive a well deserved compliment like that.


Well, I know who the class clown is now. Cheesy
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Post by: Uncle Bubba on March 15, 2008, 02:05:25 AM
UB:

Welcome.

So are you local to KdT?

No, I live in the Southern suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia. Kim's area of Texas is on my short list of places to move to, though, when I have it together enough to get my family away from the hellhole my hometown is becoming.
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Post by: The Viking on March 15, 2008, 02:50:30 AM
Welcome. New guy buys the beer alcohol. I'll have a couple of bottles of Sam Adams thankyouverymuch laugh. And a few shots of tequila.

You also forgot the ammo.  I will take two cases 5.56 and two cases of .45 ACP
I don't have any firearms (yet) so I'd either have to throw them really hard at people, or build something from scratch. In that case, I'll have four cases of 9mm.
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Post by: 280plus on March 15, 2008, 03:53:35 AM
Heeyyyy, we DID forget the ammo!  shocked

Good thing one of us is on the ball.  laugh
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Post by: Laurent du Var on March 15, 2008, 04:11:29 AM
and so got took by him and spent my enlistment as a track toad. Ah well, c'est la vie c'est la guerre, eh?

I'm kind of holding the monopoly on the French language here,
so you owe me a glass of red wine.

Oh, and bienvenue !
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Post by: Uncle Bubba on March 15, 2008, 05:51:28 AM
Merci beaucoup, M. du Var.
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Post by: RadioFreeSeaLab on March 15, 2008, 06:06:15 AM
Welcome to APS. 
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Post by: Ex-MA Hole on March 15, 2008, 06:12:35 AM
Howdy!!!

Outside of Atlanta?

I frequent Savannah.
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Post by: grislyatoms on March 15, 2008, 06:21:35 AM
Welcome aboard!

I have an Uncle Bubba. When I was little I had a hard time saying his name, when I would try to say it it sounded like "Bubba", so that's what he has been ever since.
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Post by: Uncle Bubba on March 15, 2008, 09:42:07 AM
Welcome aboard!

I have an Uncle Bubba. When I was little I had a hard time saying his name, when I would try to say it it sounded like "Bubba", so that's what he has been ever since.

Cool! I have a fourteen-months-older sister who couldn't pronounce "brother" when I was born. I've been Bubba to her and our Mama ever since. When Sister's first child, a girl, was born I was very surprised and very pleased when I walked into the room to see her for the first time and my sister said, "Your Uncle Bubba's here to see you." Until I became a family man and heard "Daddy" addressed to me, Uncle Bubba was the appellation I was proudest of.