The Official #! Over-the-Hill-CrunchGang Thread

hinto · 2014-05-23 18:39:20

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CToPsT1UF10[/video]
And for the rural fans.....
-H

Sector11 · 2014-05-23 18:48:35

damo wrote:

Any more comments like that and you are going straight up to bed without a glass of milk, and I won't tell you a story

Kids today don't want bedtimes stories, they pop open their netbook or tablets and visit a YouTube video.

Now threaten to take away the netbook or tablet & cell phone for a day or two and you have their attention real quick like.

Sector11 · 2014-05-23 18:55:41

hinto wrote:

And for the rural fans.....
-H

Love it ... thanks ... some mighty fine pickin' in that piece!

nore · 2014-05-23 19:57:41

Sector11 wrote:

Geezer wrote:
OK, I understand the hazards of using the "f" word, will old coot do?
And fart isn't a bad word at all, after all it's just a burp gone south on vacation.

damo wrote:

(I've always liked blowing my own trumpet!)

Geezer wrote:

^ Shave it off, man, and feel the breeze!

Sector11 wrote:

I've always liked her 'raspy' voice ... it was a LOVE IT or HATE IT voice ... I loved it ...

Reading back this thread, I'm beginning to see a pattern here...harmonica counts in, too. Subliminal messages. Yeah, that's what I'm going to blame from now on.

damo · 2014-05-23 20:23:03

nore wrote:

Sector11 wrote:
Geezer wrote:
OK, I understand the hazards of using the "f" word, will old coot do?
And fart isn't a bad word at all, after all it's just a burp gone south on vacation.
damo wrote:
(I've always liked blowing my own trumpet!)
Geezer wrote:
^ Shave it off, man, and feel the breeze!
Sector11 wrote:
I've always liked her 'raspy' voice ... it was a LOVE IT or HATE IT voice ... I loved it ...
Reading back this thread, I'm beginning to see a pattern here...harmonica counts in, too. Subliminal messages. Yeah, that's what I'm going to blame from now on.

This kind of pattern familiar to you? ]:D

nore wrote:

Usually everyone else gets frustrated before I do. After banging my head on the wall for the first five minutes someone else takes turn and they just let me watch.

hinto · 2014-05-23 20:25:29

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_1ruZWJigo[/video]
^ you knew it was coming
-Hinto

dummie789 · 2014-05-23 21:15:45

Sector11 wrote:

damo wrote:
Any more comments like that and you are going straight up to bed without a glass of milk, and I won't tell you a story
Kids today don't want bedtimes stories, they pop open their netbook or tablets and visit a YouTube video.
Now threaten to take away the netbook or tablet & cell phone for a day or two and you have their attention real quick like.

Whoa! You take away my tablet, and I'll report you to the NSA. On what charge? I don't need one! (Neither does the NSA! {) )

Sector11 · 2014-05-23 21:30:16

dummie789 wrote:

Sector11 wrote:
Now threaten to take away the netbook or tablet & cell phone for a day or two and you have their attention real quick like.
Whoa! You take away my tablet, and I'll report you to the NSA. On what charge? I don't need one! (Neither does the NSA! {) )

{cough cough} And just who do you think supplies the NSA with all their free coffee and doughnuts? ]:D

They'd see your request about a tablet being withheld for a few days as a "File 13" action. O:)

And we'd put monster's under your bed!

dummie789 · 2014-05-24 06:54:48

Thanks!

g33zr · 2014-05-24 17:56:49

Back in the day, as some might remember, the NSA was so hush-hush that it was known by some as "No Such Agency." In retrospect, it's interesting that a few organizations that "officially" didn't exist back then have become notoriously present.

damo · 2014-05-24 18:18:33

Geezer wrote:

Back in the day, as some might remember, the NSA was so hush-hush that it was known by some as "No Such Agency." In retrospect, it's interesting that a few organizations that "officially" didn't exist back then have become notoriously present.

Yes, now this is the "Official" #! Crunchgang - previously it was just a shadowy organisation in a Dan Brown novel

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g33zr · 2014-07-16 13:27:34

This place has been mighty quiet. Have you all retreated and now lurk in the shadows of a Dan Brown novel or have gone underground and off-the-grid?

hinto · 2014-07-16 13:30:09

Check the obits.
-Hinto

g33zr · 2014-07-16 13:36:33

^ BAD, very Bad...tsk, tsk.... ]:D

Sector11 · 2014-07-16 16:29:33

Geezer wrote:

This place has been mighty quiet. Have you all retreated and now lurk in the shadows of a Dan Brown novel or have gone underground and off-the-grid?

As a matter of fact ... I just finished two of my birthday presents:

The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
The Janson Directive - Robert Ludlum -AWESOME!!!!

and I stopped at Chapter 4 of Digital Fortress (Dan Brown) last night at 01:00. I hope it's better than The Lost Symbol.

still have a few to go:

The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
1. First movie my wife and I saw together - figured I'd finally buy the book!
The Prometheus Deception - Robert Ludlum
Dead or Alive - Tom Clancy, and
Hinto's Obit - New York Times

@ hinto - I can be just as bad!

hinto · 2014-07-16 16:31:16

^I'm sleeping with one eye open from now on
-H

Sector11 · 2014-07-16 16:33:17

hinto wrote:

^I'm sleeping with one eye open from now on
-H

{sneaking in from the blind side} ]:D

damo · 2014-07-16 17:03:27

I can't bear Clancy and Brown, both very poor writers in my not-so-humble opinion. They can't hold a candle to Lee Child and his Jack Reacher books!

BTW I'm having a neuro-psychological baseline assessment on Friday morning, then I'm going sailing for the weekend. I'll let you know how it all goes, if I remember

Sector11 · 2014-07-16 18:45:19

damo wrote:

I can't bear Clancy and Brown, both very poor writers in my not-so-humble opinion. They can't hold a candle to Lee Child and his Jack Reacher books!
BTW I'm having a neuro-psychological baseline assessment on Friday morning, then I'm going sailing for the weekend. I'll let you know how it all goes, if I remember

Always on the lookout for good authors ... tough finding English books here. Never heard of Lee Child or his Jack Reacher before.

Just bookmarked his site http://www.leechild.com/ and will definitely go looking to see if I can find any of his books. And I like this!.

Thanks damo!

a neuro- what?

EDIT: Lee Child: Jack Reacher - I like the guy already!!!

Lee Child wrote:

“Just lost interest, I guess,” he said. “The defense cuts were happening. Made the Army seem unnecessary, somehow. Like if they didn’t need the biggest and the best, they didn’t need me. Didn’t want to be part of something small and second-rate. So I left. Arrogant, or what?”

hinto · 2014-07-16 18:48:41

PSI-Man by Peter David is cool.

And of course, since we are over the hill, Scalzi's Old Man's War series is excellent.

...and if you want "old school", The Messiah Stone by Martin Caidin. (anything by Caidin is good)
-Hinto

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ratcheer · 2014-07-16 20:10:31

Geezer wrote:

This place has been mighty quiet. Have you all retreated and now lurk in the shadows of a Dan Brown novel or have gone underground and off-the-grid?

Nope. I'm reading a Tolstoy novel. Since early May!

It is long. Really long.

Tim

ratcheer · 2014-07-16 20:14:21

Clancy is pretty good if you read real Clancy novels. Most of them have been ghost written for some time, now.

Tim

Sector11 · 2014-07-16 21:52:55

@ hinto

I'll add those to my list of books to find as well. Thanks.
OH!! ... KUDOS for the links!

@ ratcheer

How long is really long?

Clancy passed away in Oct of last year, he's had co-authors for a few years before that ... and there certainly is a difference in writing style. {opinion}

Sadly Ludlum passed away as well. I've been reading his books for 30+ years. Will miss him.

Just found: Jason Bourne is really a grape!

Clancy's non-fictional books are great as well.

g33zr · 2014-07-17 00:54:36

@Sector11: Have you read any detective stories by Canadian author Louise Penny. As a Canadian, you may enjoy her novels featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. There's much about the differences (or are they) between the English (les Anglais) and the Québécois. The action takes place in and around Montreal, especially in the Eastern Townships. Start with Still Life and work your way forward. If you're familar with the area, you'll like the books even more. (Disclaimer: My family used to vacation during the summer at Lake Carmi, VT, just a couple of klicks from the U.S./Canadian border. We sometimes went for drives to Montreal or to Sherbrooke. It's been close to 60 years, but I still remember my father driving down dusty dirt roads past villages that resembled somewhat Penny's fictious Three Pines.)

@Ratcheer: First Gentoo and now Tolstoy. You either love challenges, or ....? I keep a notebook when reading Russian novels, mainly to keep track of all the characters' nicknames. It seems each character has several, depending on whether friend, family, or whatever. As one person I knew once commented about Russian novels, "Lots of people in lots of pages."

ratcheer · 2014-07-17 13:43:57

Sector11 wrote:

@ ratcheer
How long is really long?

I can't say for a printed copy, but it is almost 2,500 pages on my ereader version. The novel is broken into eight "books" of about 30 chapters, each. I am now several chapters in to the fifth "book".

Tim

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