It's A Small World.....Even For Us Gun Nuts.

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I just found out that Spot77 and I used to work together and hang out a bit back in the proverbial day. Who'd a thunk that. 10 or so years and 720 miles and we run into each other on The High Road.

I will have to make a trip home to have a few beers and do some shooting with you Spot77. Maybe not in that order but you get the point.

I wonder if his interest in guns started back durning the Great Paperclip Wars of the early 90s?:D

Chris
 
Well, this past weekend, Wendy & I (who _sorta_ met via THR/TFL...) saw ROTL and Kenn at the Collinsville, IL gun show... Of course, they looked awful flat, and sorta greyish lyin' there on the table of handouts, but it was them...
 
Heh, imagine my surprise when I run into my old Senior Drill Instructor from MCRD at the shooting range one day. Had not seen him (as hoped ;)) for at least 6 years.

He recognized me immediately. Still wondering if that is good or bad :D
 
Heh, imagine my surprise when I run into my old Senior Drill Instructor from MCRD at the shooting range one day. Had not seen him (as hoped ) for at least 6 years.
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Did he tell you to drop your pansy rear to the ground and give him 50 or something else to show you he still cared?:D
 
SoDFW Jason and I met over on GT and after talking a while, we realized that we knew each other back in HS. Pretty cool:cool:
 
Being the visual site i am....and the fact im easy to describe...its easy to just run into people youve never met.

ive had sorta the same thing happen here in nashville from time to time. running into people id never think id see again, and they remember me hard to forget tho. or like the fact that darrin was best friends with a good friend of mine's brother.....and we lived hundreds of miles apart at the time.... but its werid huh
 
One of my good (online) friends and I developed a relationship on a board about as far removed from firearms as is possible. After one obscure reference there we did a little digging and found out that we had been debating each other back when TFL was still up and running :D . When worlds collide....

We now have fun teasing the sheep on the other board :evil: .

Greg
 
I have a small worlder for you...

I recently met a woman, whom I've begun "negotiating" with. (You know, for eventual conquest, that sort of thing... :) )

Anyway... I've been in DC for 13 years, she was overseas for quite a few years and recently came back to the area.

Turns out that we went to the same small college in Pennsylvania.

I was a senior when she was a freshman.

We very vaguely knew each other, but knew quite a few of the same people.

We didn't realize this when we first got together. It only came out later in conversation.
 
Well, since she stumbled on my "Do you like pina coladas and double-ought at the range?" post, the wife and I are closer than ever. Just meant to be.
 
Is that a reference to The Dark Tower Series or is it something else?

Ssshhh ... Mike's crazy. Keep it quiet. (Jerry, you're on his list now. Look both ways.:uhoh: )
 
I see a lot of references to TFL. Help me out here--what was it? An old board, like this one?
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The forefather of THR, Tam. The Firing Line. Its archives are still available at thefiringline.com. Made me a believer.
 
Why, on the turtle's back, of course

Is that a reference to The Dark Tower Series or is it something else?
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I would have guessed it as a reference to Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. (probably my favorite author after Heinlein)

And just to stay on the "small world" topic, I recently ran in to a guy I went to high school with - on the other side of the planet (Japan) over 17 years ago. Just one of those "Don't I know you?" moments.
 
Why, on the turtle's back, of course
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From Stephen W. Hawking in A Brief History of Time:

A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He
described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast
collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and
said: “What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant
tortoise.†The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, “What is the tortoise standing on.†“You’re very
clever, young man, very clever,†said the old lady. “But it’s turtles all the way down!â
 
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