Plz excuse my typos. These are mighty long winded rants for a busy man. I'm just kinda dumb and don't know when to quit. Anyway.... I'll talk to you guys later

And Wig... Sorry. I doubt you meant to invite a redneck like me to stop by, but without current events and the current conversation, you'd have never known. I'm basically just here to play the fun airplane game.

Jacklpe wrote: And Wig... Sorry. I doubt you meant to invite a redneck like me to stop by, but without current events and the current conversation, you'd have never known. I'm basically just here to play the fun airplane game.

MOM does not discriminate against those with self-selected idiomatic descriptors. (See, somewhere in Rule 6, I'm sure ...)

Translation: welcome, self-described redneck!

Somebody tell me this is my imagination

Wow, that is one expensive neilmed sinugator cordless puslating nasal wash!

Jacklpe wrote: And Wig... Sorry. I doubt you meant to invite a redneck like me to stop by, but without current events and the current conversation, you'd have never known. I'm basically just here to play the fun airplane game.

Like bopes said, we don't discriminate, everyone has a right to say their piece or pieces welcome to the asylum

bopes wrote: Wow, that is one expensive neilmed sinugator cordless puslating nasal wash!

PLEASE HELP!
I am trying to snezze! $28.00 medicade

bopes wrote: Wow, that is one expensive neilmed sinugator cordless puslating nasal wash!

bopes, please don't tell me you have one!

Paul Mantz, Jr. wrote:

bopes wrote: Wow, that is one expensive neilmed sinugator cordless puslating nasal wash!

PLEASE HELP!
I am trying to snezze! $28.00 medicade

Blimey! Not you as well.

Flyingmuck wrote:

bopes wrote: Wow, that is one expensive neilmed sinugator cordless puslating nasal wash!

bopes, please don't tell me you have one!

No but ... If there's any chance it'll improve my k/d ratio, I'd consider it...

The MOM R&D boys are always on the lookout for new projects...specially since the GOMLEGOMOM and ouija board in-game texting initiatives have been tabled indefinitely...

bopes wrote:

Flyingmuck wrote:

bopes wrote: Wow, that is one expensive neilmed sinugator cordless puslating nasal wash!

bopes, please don't tell me you have one!

No but ... If there's any chance it'll improve my k/d ratio, I'd consider it...

Well I guess the image of you with one of them stuck up your nose would have em all rolling in their cockpits with giggles, should make it easy to shoot em down!

So as of today all MOM's will go into battle wrapped in their snuggies (kindly donated by Kptn Singh) and with a cordless pulsating nasal wash stuck up their nostril!
Dents gonna look a picture with his red dress and all, to say nothing of wig in his wig.
We should win squad wars by default.

Jacklpe wrote: Tex. ya gotta ask yourself why is this not Iran etc? I mean we aren't so special that we couldn't end up in that boat, given potential circumstances and events. As far as the constitution... The bill of rights is a very important part of that. I'm sorry if the second amendment ain't the warmest and fuzziest part of it, but it's there for a reason. I'm not a big fan of supporting and defending the parts of the constitution that I like. Especially the founding principles of our country. All of these parts make a very good whole, and the unintended consequences of pulling out pieces of the jenga puzzle are great. I'm glad you believe that it will always be because it has always been, but there are plenty who would gladly make you and me their bitch in a heartbeat, if given half of an opportunity. BTW, I was attempting to study that Big Tex twist you were doing there. It is similar to something I've been doing lately, but certainly not as well or effectively. I like it.

I had to figure out a way to stop dying so much on the head to head matchups against everyone. I figured that the long term success rate peters out at about 50/50; everyone gets that much better at it, so you in turn have to become better at it. I was never really any good to begin with going straight at someone, and even the newest noobs were killing me. Add the super slow speed chuffing along a bomb and I was the easist target out there. So I decided to stick and move and avoid the head-ons and it's worked pretty well since.

As far as why this isn't Iran - there are so many answers to this question, and we'd need another section just on that alone.

First - It's just not in our DNA. Iran, or Persia, has been ruled by a king/emperor/caliph/sultan/shah/Ayatollah for it's entire history. There has never been any significant form of democratic rule. When they last wanted change, they overthrew the Shah and his family in 1979 and set up the theocracy they now have. Here, most of the first non-native people came to America because they wanted freedom in some form, whether it was religious freedom that the Puritans and Quakers and Pilgrims sought, or they saw the New World as an opportunity to leave the trappings of an established society, where the opportunities to become a self made man were few. Our founding fathers were well versed in the history of democracy and made sure to create our government based on preserving liberty and freedom at its very core.

Second - There's only one religion allowed in Iran, and that is Shi'a Islam. More importantly, Sharia law is the coding of the prophet Mohammed's teachings into everyday living for muslims, and Iran's legal system is based on this. Here in the US, Freedom of Religion is one of our most treasured rights, and our laws are based on English Common Law instead. Can you imagine trying to make just one religion the "official" law of the land, and then tossing all US case law, statutes, judicial findings and precedents, as well as the Constitution, out the window, and substituting it with what one body of religious "experts" says God says the law should be? In Iran, there is a Supreme Leader (not the president) that dictates who can do what - everything from appointing who sits on the Guardian Council (they decide which laws parliament passes are within sharia guideleines and who can run for president) to who commands the military, and he is not subject to the will of the people. I doubt very much anything like that could ever happen here.

Finally, I think that the fact that Americans come from every country on the globe prevents us from seeing the world through a specific ethnic viewpoint. It is because we are not a homogenous ethnic or cultural group, our differences help keep our many different points of view in play at all times in all facets of our society. Our diversity, and our tolerance and acceptance for those differences, are our biggest strength, and I think what makes us uniquely "American". Iranians are mainly ethnic Persians, and there is a longstanding historic enmity with their Arab neighbors that goes so much deeper than the Sunni - Shi'a religious split. We've seen how intolerant one group of people can be towards another - Hitler's so called Aryan master race (did you know that the word Iran in the Persian language means 'Land of the Aryans'?), what hapened in the former Yugoslavia, or the genocide in Rwanda beween the Tutsis and Hutus. We may be many things, but one thing we ain't is anywhere close to becoming what Iran has become.

TO M4rtin.
I was able to play in your favor.
Thank you!
The position of the button is shifted a little? I decided to not care .

Wow Tex, that's quite a dialogue.

legendofkane wrote: Bopes being all funny..." talk to me mayan".." cat got your tongue"..haha..im a sad mime.

So let me get this straight . You and wig were in game together testing out your new mod powers and wig permanently accidentally mutes you ?

LOL!!! That is too funny.

Y'know, there's a reason sheriff Andy Griffith let deputy Barney Fife have only one bullet ....

Knock it of you guys, I'm trying to work and I can't do that and bust a gut laughing at the same time

Hard to tell which one is Barney Fife and which is Andy Griffith. Maybe it's more like Barney and Otis, or Floyd the Barber.

Flyingmuck wrote: Wow Tex, that's quite a dialogue.

Sorry man. I'm zipping it.

susi-harakiri wrote: TO M4rtin.
I was able to play in your favor.
Thank you!
The position of the button is shifted a little? I decided to not care .

Thank you Ktsas, dxp and I were hoping you would slip Was a fortunate win for us.

Big Tex wrote:

Flyingmuck wrote: Wow Tex, that's quite a dialogue.

Sorry man. I'm zipping it.

Nah don't do that, it was good dialogue, you put a lot of thought and feeling into it. It's appreciated.

Tex, I agree with everything you said there. I'm a pretty good student of history too. You put it well though, and obviously put some time, thought, and effort into that. You didn't have to, but I guess I should be flattered. My point keeps coming back to one thing though. I don't care if it's moogs, toogs, bics, or figs. If you have any group of people holding all of the artillery, and everyone else holding sticks and stones, then that group can do as they wish.

Also, about the types of weapons owned by people etc etc please note that the amendment says arms. Not guns, not any specific thing. Yea, they may have had flintlocks back then, but they also had cannons and artillery. They understood the meaning of the word "arms". Also, your line about how the founding fathers set things up, to me, proves my point. They didn't put the part about us being armed right behind the happy speech and assembly stuff by accident. They knew what they were doing.

There is no end to this, and we could drive everyone else crazy for a long time I guess going over it, but I'll call a truce with you and stick to talking about the game.

Later

Jacklpe

Jacklpe wrote: Tex, I agree with everything you said there. I'm a pretty good student of history too. You put it well though, and obviously put some time, thought, and effort into that. You didn't have to, but I guess I should be flattered. My point keeps coming back to one thing though. I don't care if it's moogs, toogs, bics, or figs. If you have any group of people holding all of the artillery, and everyone else holding sticks and stones, then that group can do as they wish.

Also, about the types of weapons owned by people etc etc please note that the amendment says arms. Not guns, not any specific thing. Yea, they may have had flintlocks back then, but they also had cannons and artillery. They understood the meaning of the word "arms".

There is no end to this, and we could drive everyone else crazy for a long time I guess going over it, but I'll call a truce with you and stick to talking about the game.

Later

Jacklpe

A Karma for you

May I ask, what is karma in regard to this type of format? I assume it is a good thing, so thanks. Oh yea, am I a mom member or just the goofy political guy hanging around? I really don't know how this group does things, and I'd hate to aggravate y'all by putting M.O.M over my airplane if I'm not "entitled". Thanks

M4rtin wrote:

. Wigbomb wrote: Barring any late breaking "out" votes, ICARUS, RacinMadness and Jacklpe are IN! Still waiting to hear from RyansAce. I'm trying my best to maintain the M.O.M anti-protocol protocol but generally "stop by and apply" is heard as "stop by and be in". I've been playing with Jacklpe for months, he's always impressive and always fun...and always bearing a squad tag, "Pure Evil". Only tonight did I get around to asking, "Hey Jack, is Pure Evil a real squad?" When he said "no", I invited him to the thread. Jack, give us a sliver of info about yourself...I'll need first name, city, state (for the roster) and the squad will want to know whatever you'd care to share by way of brief "get to know your Jackalope" thumbnail bio type stuff.

Welcome to The House of M.O.M, men!

Congratz new M.O.M memberssss!!!!!!

Yes jacklpe you are in, unless someone says OUT and I have not seen that. Some of the higher ups could you please re- confirm I don't want to misinform anyone. Thanks!

Karma is good and bad. Don't figure it out it takes to long and we smell smoke coming from people's heads!!!
About wearing a snuggle i have one. It's Bengal colors and has their logos ALL over.

Jacklpe wrote: May I ask, what is karma in regard to this type of format? I assume it is a good thing, so thanks. Oh yea, am I a mom member or just the goofy political guy hanging around? I really don't know how this group does things, and I'd hate to aggravate y'all by putting M.O.M over my airplane if I'm not "entitled". Thanks

KARMA IS: A laugh. An I agree. I don't agree, but respect your opinon. Paul is an ask!

Jacklpe wrote: May I ask, what is karma in regard to this type of format? I assume it is a good thing, so thanks. Oh yea, am I a mom member or just the goofy political guy hanging around? I really don't know how this group does things, and I'd hate to aggravate y'all by putting M.O.M over my airplane if I'm not "entitled". Thanks

Karma is good,unless its bad, then it's bad karma and not good karma which is ok cos its still karma whether its good or bad, the sheep have a lot of karma good and bad, unless they're on Tex's BBQ then they have no karma. Hope that clears it up for you
So far as I could see you were in so now you have to ask to be put on the roster and beg wig to get you a banner and then drop a bribe in Paul's bribe box which is in the building at the end of the bridge. Some cake would do nicely.

The striker16 wrote: Karma is good and bad. Don't figure it out it takes to long and we smell smoke coming from people's heads!!!
About wearing a snuggle i have one. It's Bengal colors and has their logos ALL over.

That is not an official MOM snuggie as donated by Kptn Singh, you will now round up the sheep, shear em and use the wool to knit yourself an official snuggie as donated by Kptn Singh and no cake for a week, or at least untill tomorrow!

Can I join M.O.M.