New Scaratings

Prolly to find out an update on Chip and then report to us.

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Mitch (MTCHWF/WLFFLY)

Co-Home Bar: Buffalo Wild Wings Edwardsville, IL and Time Out in St Louis, MO

I'm here...

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"The game is afoot."

Yeah, that might do it, but I've had a few other things on my plate, and believe it or not I've been thinking...

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"The game is afoot."

As usual, you are right...

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Yep, that's what I'm thinking about. More to come after I try to reply to all of you great guys, who have posted here...

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Oh, if you had only read it on Buzztime. It would have given you a lifetime supply of silly nonsense to keep your analyst awake all night worrying that there might not be any cure for you.

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There was more...

I actually had more info on Chip the Bartender, but the Buzztime Players forum didn't give me a chance to update you guys.

According to his girlfriend, who still lives in Syracuse and works at the Buffalo Wild Wings in Cicero. He actually lives in the Bronx and teaches special needs kids in Manhattan today. I'll do my best to try to get him to join us here.

If Chip was able to teach walk-ins to the bar how to log on and play NTN trivia, I can understand how he is able to teach special needs children how to read. If I may go back a few years, Chip was also able to explain what an Interocitor was and how to use it in the movie "This Island Earth".

p.s. TOOTS, this might give you a clue as to how zany the "Chip the Bartender" thread became on the Buzztime Players site.

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I did too. If I don't fall asleep tonight, I will try to share with you my thoughts about where the new "Chip the Bartender" might be going, and things such as serious baseball trivia might be better spun off.

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Now that is classic old time "Chip the Bartender" stuff...

Nice post...!

p.s. Has anybody seen the movie "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" yet? It's a cartoon. It starts off slowly, but gets pretty good as it progresses. It really isn't all that bad. If you've got kids or grandkids, take them to see it. They will love it, and I think you might too...

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Thanks, it's good to see you guys again...

p.s. Great graphic, as usual.

p.p.s If the new "ScaRatings" is like the old "ScaRatings", I might be able to post a picture or two myself.

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Five hours... Big deal...!

That's just a case and a half of beer and three packs of cigarettes. Darn it, I forgot that you now have a life. Yep, five hours is a lot of time for people, who have a life full of real responsibilities.

Thanks for giving it a try.

p.s. Speaking of cigarettes, I gave SCAR the half pack of Marlboros that you left in my car to return to you. If there aren't 11 still in there, SCAR must have run out of smokes before he got home tonight.

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This is what I have been thinking about...

The "Buzztime Players" forums and threads were a zoo. They wandered all over the place and got so far off topic, that with a little help from my friends, we created the original "Threads that Unravel in All Directions" thread. It was an exercise in chaotic nonsense that ran to over 300 pages before NTN deleted it all without warning. (That was a bad surprise for a bunch of us.) However, we didn't give up, and started the "Chip the Bartender" thread that picked up where the "Threads that Unravel in All Directions" left off, and I believe it became the longest independent thread on the "Buzztime Players" website.

However, the "ScaRatings" website is much better structured than the "Buzztime Players" website was. I think the new "Chip the Bartender" thread that has begun here can still grow with zany silliness, but I think that more serious stuff such as baseball triivia, favorite movies, political issues, great computer games new and old, etc., probably ought to have their own individual threads.

Would like to hear your thoughts about this.

p.s. If someone doesn't think that "Chip the Bartender" was the longest independent thread on the "Buzztime Players" site, I think it only fair to add "Threads that Unravel in All Directions" to the total number of pages, posts, and views.

p.p.s. What do I mean by an "independent" thread...? It would be a thread that has little or nothing to do with NTN trivia.

p.p.p.s. TIM, if you are listening, and remember a reply I once gave you many years ago on the original "ScaRatings", I like to go to my sock drawer and find socks instead of underwear there. (I don't expect anyone to understand this. Perhaps TIM won't either.)

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Get ready LILJOL...

FSHMAN and I have been rebuilding an old CH-46 helicopter in my back yard. It's just about ready for a test flight. If we don't crash, burn, and die, we're gonna fly her to California, abduct you, and fly you to the West Virginia trivia bash that's soon coming up.

p.s. If you have buddies, who want to come along, we can take about 19 or 20 of them.

p.p.s. Would it be too much to ask you guys to chip in for fuel...?

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I thought of you, Cloudy, when my friend at work steered me toward this...

http://www.wgnradio.com/shows/nickd/wgn ... 50.mp3file

The aforementioned friend is a veritable Sherlock Holmes expert and visited with WGN Radio's Nick Digilio about the lasting legacy of Sherlock Holmes. I didn't make it all the way through the original "Chip, the Bartender" thread, but I read enough about your prolific movie collection to glean that you were a fan. (and your old avatar may have given me a clue... ) The segment is about 45 minutes long, but if you've nothing better to do, it's pretty entertaining and informative.

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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with fools.
-Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

How did you get that picture of me and my staff? Are you with MIB?

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"Truth Like Football. Gets kicked around much, before reaching goal." - Charlie Chan

" Don't look back, The bastards might be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige

Frank

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Looks like we need to start three new threads on the "ScaRatings" website. They would be baseball trivia, movies, and Sherlock Holmes. I think it best to keep "Chip the Bartender" to silliness such as abducting LILJOL and flying him to the West Virginia trivia bash.

Okay, you guessed it. I have nothing better to do, so I'll give the link you gave us a shot. (Might have a problem with my dial-up connection.)

p.s. My buddy, Ralph Hall (NTN handle WATSON) is a real member of the prestigous "Baker Street Irregulars".

p.p.s. Sherlock Holmes stars or appears in more movies than any other fictional character in all the movies ever made.

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Big wet kiss for y'all. Say, could you run over again the parameters, vis a vis what's acceptable and what's unacceptable for these here forums?

For starters, I see that masturbatory fantasies about doing violence to other forum members is a-ok, I'm so glad to see that's allowed. (That, or, maybe the moderator policy is set at +11 days per review.)

Looking forward to clarification on cussing, and I hope you forward that to me soon, so I can pass along any 'here's-where-you-can-shove-your-little-gun' suggestions along to a certain piece of...

doody? I'll start there, never can be too careful, can ya, hahahaha!!

You're off to a good start, but look out for TIM... SCAR has appointed TIM to be in charge of banning people for posts he finds to be unacceptable.

Anyway, it's good to see you again. Welcome on board...

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Ditto. This forum needs Mr_Ail. He livens things up.

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"Truth Like Football. Gets kicked around much, before reaching goal." - Charlie Chan

" Don't look back, The bastards might be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige

Frank

Indeed. Now he needs to get his ole avatar up and it's like the ole "Chip" fourm. BTW Cloudy where's yours?

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Mitch (MTCHWF/WLFFLY)

Co-Home Bar: Buffalo Wild Wings Edwardsville, IL and Time Out in St Louis, MO

1) We don't have time to sit and read the forums all day. If you see some masturbatory fantasy about doing violence, feel free to flag it, and we'll see it. +11 days sounds about right on random messages.
2) I don't think anyone gives a shit about cussing.

Um, nobody asked you to do anything. I observed that that sort of thing is apparently allowed, that's all. Don't worry about where it is, I know where to find it the minute someone has a hissy fit over me being too ungentle when I point out they're full of shit.

It is sorta too bad you guys didn't put in post numbers for easy identification, but not that big a deal.

Glad you finally fucking made your way over here.

Noticed that you all are still kicking ass out there on the left coast.

See you on the boards tonight.

-wonk
(poised to throw a hissy fit)