Wow, that's fantastic, Paul! Shows how easy it is to make a difference in someone's life.

coop wrote:

new jersey devil wrote: Always Remember And Never Forget Those who Gave All on this September Day 11 years ago.....God Bless America.....Thank you to our Military , Police, Fire.and EMS...Im Proud To Be an American...Mean Ole Devil.....9/11.

Thank you Devil that means alot to me personally as you all know I am a firefighter and this day holds a special yet sad meaning for me personally.Today I mourn my brothers and sisters in the FDNY, while America remembers this day I WILL NEVER FORGET THIS DAY.I am truly thankful for all of my brothers for other mothers in this little game called dogfight we are truly a family or a band of brothers as we call it in the military even though we dont know each other ...we do weird but true we all share parts of our lives on this thread,we laugh and joke we share thoughts and even mourn the loss of one of our own.We give thoughts and prayers out to ones who need them.You my friends are truly my friends and I am proud to call you that...Now that the sappy stuff is done.

Paul I am truly eating my heart out enjoy that spounge bath you so deserve it my friend.

D.J. aka Coop

Well said Coop.

Paul Mantz, Jr. wrote: I heard a story over dinner tonight that broke my heart.

One of the nurses here knows a family, MOM and dad and 2 kids living in their car. Kids in 1st & 3rd grades. The $$ I spent for seafood was well spent. However, double it and the family will now get a home. Wrote a check and tomorrow lives change. Sometimes we never think. A few marks on paper and now the kids can have a real bed. I feel like such an ass sometimes. Share....

Call your local school and help out....

I applaud you sir for being what many of us fail to be, A Decent Human Being.

Paul Mantz, Jr. wrote: I heard a story over dinner tonight that broke my heart.

One of the nurses here knows a family, MOM and dad and 2 kids living in their car. Kids in 1st & 3rd grades. The $$ I spent for seafood was well spent. However, double it and the family will now get a home. Wrote a check and tomorrow lives change. Sometimes we never think. A few marks on paper and now the kids can have a real bed. I feel like such an ass sometimes. Share....

Call your local school and help out....

We all have done things we are not proud of my friend but an ass sir you are not.Its amazing how we fail to think about something that can change a life for someone else, one simple act makes a differance to someone.A SIMPLE SMILE can change someones day.
HOOAH my friend.

As always, I take a break to mitigate the effects of Dogfight/Forum eyestrain and three full pages of squinty new posts appear. A more loquacious bunch of old sods I've never met.

Lesa...that did not refer to you. Welcome to the MOM forum thread, love of my virtual imaginary psychotic life! How are you getting along with the Pooka when I'm not at home? Has he tried anything funny? You know how rabbits are, even the giant imaginary psychotic ones.

Yep, that two dots player some of you saw yesterday was, in fact, my Lesa. She gazed into my eyes, stroked my troubled brow, eye gazed a bit more, got really super intensely eye gazey...then said, "I think I'll play as two beady little dots for a while." It was a touching moment. You wish you were me. Suffer.

MG_1500. No idea.

Balut~Pinoy. It's Boang again. Openly admitted same when I super sleuthed it out of him.

Who knows a player called 93? I was well impressed. (Felabad, was it you in the game with us?) 93 declared, "My buddy would like to join M.O.M." We never got to the part where he named the buddy. If you see him before I do tell him it's a twofer; we'll take his buddy if he joins, too. Fer.

Paul, Mr. Mantz...well done. Think of it; each of us - meaning those "with" - does what Paul has done for just one family "without", and suddenly it's a whole new, considerably less hungry world. You're so far from being the "ass" you say you feel like sometimes, it's humbling. Mantz is a Mensch, as some of my Judeo-psychotic friends here would say.

The annual memorial lights from the site of the former World Trade Center are something to behold. They're visible from almost everywhere in the city, miles and miles away. Twin columns reaching so high in the night sky they appear to have no end. Nearby, the "Freedom Tower" is nearing completion and dominating the skyline. In my opinion it's a dreadful name, and the Empire State and Chrysler buildings will always represent timeless, indomitable New York and America when it was unchallenged among industrial nations, but one can't help but be struck by the sheer scale of the new structure when standing at the foot of the construction site and looking literally straight up at the upper stories still being completed. A somewhat eerie night in a somewhat screwy town in a country that somehow manages to survive despite itself. Or did until 2000, at least. And that's probably as close as M.O.M should ever get to political debate, hence me shutting the hell up. (but seriously, you had to be here...)

Duckwing...prayers, thoughts. Dharma practice, voodoo dances, hippie positive vibes, long distance platonic band-of-brotherly love...whatever we have it's all aimed in your direction.

You, my friend, are a man of big words, and HEART!

Duckwing1 wrote: Quack Quack - I still have my tail feathers missing and my wings clipped, but I'm trying to stay positive. The day nurse is a O-4 and a Bxxxx. After 10pm the nurses leave me alone and I sneak in a little flying. I sure miss it. They are still drawning fluid out of my right lung and have a feeding tube in. I'm a fighter and will keep fighting, when I get worn out I stop playing.

The Duck

Don't hurt yourself, man. Hard enough flying with one arm, if you damage that one...

Seriously, though, do what the doc says. Don't get hurt.

new jersey devil wrote: Always Remember And Never Forget Those who Gave All on this September Day 11 years ago.....God Bless America.....Thank you to our Military , Police, Fire.and EMS...Im Proud To Be an American...Mean Ole Devil.....9/11.

NEVER FORGET, NEVER FORGIVE!!!

I just got my first ever ban for team killing. Boang, this time flying as "BinLadin" and still carrying the M.O.M tag, made light of the squad, made nasty cracks about me, laughed when I mentioned Duck being in hospital, called Lesa a b*tch (so she team killed him! My girl...) and I boiled over. I shot his blue ass down six times across two missions and took the ban. (and also a couple times when his ass was red) He says he's going to be flying as "Wigbomb 2" today. I would be grateful to any M.O.M who splashes this ignorant little m*th*r f*ck*er, red or blue.

In the process of all this I think I've found us a new recruit. Simmo, who I suspect many of you have encountered in the game, rose to my defense like a true gentleman, expressed himself articulately, did some jagoff team killing on my and Lesa's behalf, mentioned his being a veteran and asked me to give Duck his very best wishes. This guy is a M.O.M if ever there was and gets as many "in" votes as I've got. Which is...well...one. But, y'know, you get the idea.

ha wig iam glad u have a new soon to bewife in lesa. Can I be best man? Since I was the one to first talk to her. Or attleast can i have ur cake

. Wigbomb wrote: I just got my first ever ban for team killing. Boang, this time flying as "BinLadin" and still carrying the M.O.M tag, made light of the squad, made nasty cracks about me, laughed when I mentioned Duck being in hospital, called Lesa a b*tch (so she team killed him! My girl...) and I boiled over. I shot his blue ass down six times across two missions and took the ban. (and also a couple times when his ass was red) He says he's going to be flying as "Wigbomb 2" today. I would be grateful to any M.O.M who splashes this ignorant little m*th*r f*ck*er, red or blue.

In the process of all this I think I've found us a new recruit. Simmo, who I suspect many of you have encountered in the game, rose to my defense like a true gentleman, expressed himself articulately, did some jagoff team killing on my and Lesa's behalf, mentioned his being a veteran and asked me to give Duck his very best wishes. This guy is a M.O.M if ever there was and gets as many "in" votes as I've got. Which is...well...one. But, y'know, you get the idea.

ROGER THAT!!!

Wig, I regret that I wasn't there with you to share in some of that team killing. Any SOB that would use such a verminous title as bin laden deserves to have the living hell beat out of him in real life!

And I will be looking for the little shithead "wigbomb 2".

Strach, you're the entire squadron's "best man"! You can be whatever you like, brother. Be the MOM of the bride for all I care, or perform the ceremony and...no...wait...that would be his Holiness Bopes. And Sputterer as the ring bearer, only the rings will be made of CAKE. Flowers made of CAKE, dresses and tuxes made of CAKE, and of course the wedding CAKE made of...pie. Just to keep those nosey parkers in the other squads guessing when they read this stuff. MOMs are cagey like that...

Hi all,
I think i have seen a lot of you online and actually made some good virtual mates with a few. WIG sent me an invite and after a bit of looking around, i would like to join up, if you all will have me

GODZA

Welcome Godza! If a vote is required, I vote IN.

Needless to say (since I was the invitor of the invitee) I vote "In". Godza is good folks. A helluva good player, too.

Anybody heard from dogss lately? He's usually much more present than he has been over the past week. I worry about the boy...

If I have a vote.... HELL YA IN

Godza wrote: Hi all,
I think i have seen a lot of you online and actually made some good virtual mates with a few. WIG sent me an invite and after a bit of looking around, i would like to join up, if you all will have me

GODZA

GODZA, I have been in numerous games with you and there is no question! I vote IN!

. Wigbomb wrote: Needless to say (since I was the invitor of the invitee) I vote "In". Godza is good folks. A helluva good player, too.

Anybody heard from dogss lately? He's usually much more present than he has been over the past week. I worry about the boy...

I vote IN.. I want to see the Banner Wig comes up with for GODZA??!!! I can hear his wig wigginningggg ing now..

I think dogss is doing his motorcycle cycling cyclic collective motoring convention thingy.. not sure..


I am going to be gone for about a week.. so if anyone happens to say, "hey has anyone seen or heard from whats his name" that whould be me... Brad Pitt

I will add Godza to the list.. I guess he is an old guy and not a prodigy?? and let me know if he has a different in-game name from his forum name ...


Play well with your friends , share your toys with others and don't pee in the sandbox (well Dent may have a problem there)

I've been with Godza....well not with him, with him you understand,but you know....well if it's an open thingy I vote IN, but he must learn rule 6 by heart

And somebody mentioned Simmo, he's very good so yep IN.

Been working on Kptn Singh if that's ok with you guys, I like cake a lot but a curry once in awhile would go down quite well, curry, cake and beer.

And hey Coop what did you think of that guy earlier c&d something, one to watch don't you think, he was up for a giggle too. Took it in his stride when I suggested we all shoot him down.

Welcome to all new moms from the mean old devil

So Chetkopf, quickly before you go busting off on your "Hangover III" adventure, here:

GODZA
Simmo (possibly premature since he hasn't officially entered the mix but too good a guy to let slip away)
Jennyfly

Jenny per Bopeseses recommendation and my exchange with her this morning. Bopes, did you get Jen's age? I didn't have a chance. I used to have all kinds of chances with young women, but now...uh...anyway, she's in as Prodigy until we find out otherwise. Chet, think we should add "pending" or "tentatively" to Simmo and Jennyfly? Just so they know we haven't completely jumped the gun?

. Wigbomb wrote: So Chetkopf, quickly before you go busting off on your "Hangover III" adventure, here:

GODZA
Simmo (possibly premature since he hasn't officially entered the mix but too good a guy to let slip away)
Jennyfly

Jenny per Bopeseses recommendation and my exchange with her this morning. Bopes, did you get Jen's age? I didn't have a chance. I used to have all kinds of chances with young women, but now...uh...anyway, she's in as Prodigy until we find out otherwise. Chet, think we should add "pending" or "tentatively" to Simmo and Jennyfly? Just so they know we haven't completely jumped the gun?

Jenny is 19

I don't know beans about Simmo but I'm happy to hear Jennyfly is in.

After the whole transporter debacle it's a real shot in my recruiting arm!

I say we appoint Muck as the official finder out of age, as he appears to be quite good at it.

Flyingmuck wrote: I've been with Godza....well not with him, with him you understand,but you know....well if it's an open thingy I vote IN, but he must learn rule 6 by heart

And somebody mentioned Simmo, he's very good so yep IN.

Been working on Kptn Singh if that's ok with you guys, I like cake a lot but a curry once in awhile would go down quite well, curry, cake and beer.

And hey Coop what did you think of that guy earlier c&d something, one to watch don't you think, he was up for a giggle too. Took it in his stride when I suggested we all shoot him down.

I have been in a few games with Simmo and he certainly has my vote. Oh, Kptn Singh, yes but, please see if he will modify curry recipe. Just can't help thinking about my pet goats.

oedius wrote:

Flyingmuck wrote: I've been with Godza....well not with him, with him you understand,but you know....well if it's an open thingy I vote IN, but he must learn rule 6 by heart

And somebody mentioned Simmo, he's very good so yep IN.

Been working on Kptn Singh if that's ok with you guys, I like cake a lot but a curry once in awhile would go down quite well, curry, cake and beer.

And hey Coop what did you think of that guy earlier c&d something, one to watch don't you think, he was up for a giggle too. Took it in his stride when I suggested we all shoot him down.

I have been in a few games with Simmo and he certainly has my vote. Oh, Kptn Singh, yes but, please see if he will modify curry recipe. Just can't help thinking about my pet goats.

How about curried Sput cake. Oh and Kptn is a bit of a mad scientist!

I vote chicken curry

9 more comments and we'll break the 2500 comment mark!! WE are by far the most chatty group in the forum.

BTW welcome aboard Godza. I don't recall ever playing with you but I look forward to it.

I like seafood curry, but I'll settle for chicken. Because everything taste like chicken!!