dartfart
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Post by dartfart on Jan 23, 2016 8:36:46 GMT 9
Why is it that the more you have the closer together they come?
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Post by Jim on Jan 23, 2016 11:19:11 GMT 9
Why is it that the more you have the closer together they come? |
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Post by Jim on Jan 23, 2016 11:22:10 GMT 9
Why is it that the more you have the closer together they come? Changing your prescriptions to 90 day refills helps a bit |
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Bullhunter
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318th FIS Jet Shop 1975-78
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Post by Bullhunter on Feb 4, 2016 17:25:12 GMT 9
Birthday passed, Jan 25th. Hit 63.
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Post by Jim on Feb 4, 2016 22:23:16 GMT 9
Birthday passed, Jan 25th. Hit 63.
HAPPY LATE BIRTHDAY GARY!!!! Sorry that I missed you!! The Old Sarge |
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Post by LBer1568 on Feb 5, 2016 1:00:28 GMT 9
Happy Belated Birthday Gary. All the best and wish for many, many more.
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Post by Gene on Feb 5, 2016 2:50:16 GMT 9
 click on photo |
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Post by pat perry on Feb 5, 2016 13:54:01 GMT 9
click on photo Gene, Can you send me that same picture without any typing on it. The enlarged size is great. Did you send one of those to Doug Barbier? Thanks, Pat P.
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Post by Mark O on Feb 6, 2016 13:14:46 GMT 9
click on photo Gene, Can you send me that same picture without any typing on it. The enlarged size is great. Did you send one of those to Doug Barbier? Thanks, Pat P.
Would like the same Gene! Mark O |
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Bullhunter
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Post by Bullhunter on Feb 8, 2016 4:58:20 GMT 9
Thanks for the Birthday wishes. Life is good and God is Great.
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Post by Jim on Feb 18, 2016 23:59:52 GMT 9
Looking at the SIXERS with birthdays today, there are six of them. The earliest last post was 2008, the most recent was in 2013. Sure wish there was a way to send them an email birthday card. I use to enjoy it when I had access to the members' email address and I could send them a surprise greeting, typically with a squadron patch as part of the greeting. Oh well, those days are past...... HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU SIX GUYS ANYWAYS.. The Old Sarge
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Post by Gene on Feb 19, 2016 4:36:34 GMT 9
maybe its time to clean out those who haven't been on the site for a certain period. get a better view of how many members are here and still checking in once in a while... to bad there isn't email addresses involved. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN HERE  |
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Post by pat perry on Feb 20, 2016 7:36:47 GMT 9
maybe its time to clean out those who haven't been on the site for a certain period. get a better view of how many members are here and still checking in once in a while... to bad there isn't email addresses involved. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN HERE Happy Birthday to all having one Feb 19th (kcberg and roihammond). Both signed up in 2013 and haven't been back since, unless they came as guests and didn't log in which is a good possibility.
Nothing wrong with guests. We had 224 of them in the past 24 hours!
MOW did a membership purge a few years back and eliminated about 500 that hadn't posted in many years. Since then the membership has grown over 200 new members. Many of them have come from the FaceBook F-106 Group and others have come from the All Troops F-106Reunion membership. I think the posting of email addresses was restricted for privacy reasons when identity theft, spamming and scamming became a big problem.
I visit several forums and typically only about 5-10% of the members are very active posters. The rest cycle in as guests to check what's is going on. Sometimes they will post if the see a topic that motivates them to join the conversation. The rest of the time they come for the entertainment more than the interaction.
I'd like to see us have an open link to the FaceBook F-106 page. For those of us who don't use FaceBook, Twitter or any of the other social media, it would be a read only view of the discussion that goes on about the F-106. I know MOW is a member of the FaceBook F-106 group but I don't know if it is possible for him to set up an open link to it for the F-106 Forum.
One thing I do know is that MOW's Main F-106 site and this Forum contain more F-106 content than any other F-106 website in the world. It has grown exponentially since 2001. He has done a lot of work to maintain the sites and make pages available on smart phones.
When I see people hunkered down over their cell phones I used to think they must have a lot of interaction going on with other people. Some do, but I think the reality is that they are trying to figure out "How the hell does this thing work" so they don't have to read the 500 page instructions for the phone. I recently dumped my flip phone and bought a LG V10 smart phone just because texting was so difficult on the flip phone and most everyone I communicate with has moved to texting instead of email.
For the 4 Staff and 7 Members who visited in the last 24 hours, I think we do so because we find friendship here. MOW set us up a Chat Room when they were the big rage years ago. We had very little use of it. I think the Texting feature on cell phones has replaced that along with the proliferation of cell phone users and their tendency to text with just family and close friends.
I told MOW years ago that this Forum reminded me of the old country store with a pot bellied stove. Locals gathered to chat about anything and everything and some came in just to listen without speaking. I kind of like that because any one of us locals will not hesitate to answer a question on the F-106 when asked. And sometimes we even go to the guest books to try to answer questions for them.
I have made a lot of friends here and cherish every one of them.
Temp 78 here in Flower Mound, clear and sunny. This hasn't happened in Feb here for over 20 years.
Pat P.
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Post by Jim on Feb 21, 2016 0:34:13 GMT 9
HAPPY BIRTHDAY POPPERRY!!!!!!!The OLD SargeAttachment DeletedAttachment Deleted Part of Pats first posting that I foundFlower Mound, TX USA - Sunday, August 12, 2001 at 15:22:19 (PDT)
program. Have a look at the reunion pictures at
Pat Perry <popperryhotmail.com">popperryhotmail.com>
The 456th FIS held a reunion at Merced, CA on July 21, 2001. A tour of Castle Air Museum (Link no longer exists) was attended. Please make a donation to the Museum's "Save a F-106"
(Link no longer exists) Flower Mound, TX USA - Sunday, August 12, 2001 at 15:22:19 (PDT)
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Post by LBer1568 on Feb 21, 2016 0:41:08 GMT 9
Pat...Happy Birthday and all the best. May you have many more and share them on here with us.
Lorin
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Post by Gene on Feb 21, 2016 5:30:54 GMT 9
 yeah, you got to click it to enlarge BEST WISHES, |
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Post by Mark O on Feb 21, 2016 5:36:57 GMT 9
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Post by pat perry on Feb 22, 2016 5:44:42 GMT 9
yeah, you got to click it to enlarge BEST WISHES, Thanks Old Sarge, Gene, Mark and Lorin for the birthday wishes! Gene, that's a great picture. Was it 35mm slide or film? Is this a scan?
Celebrated my 70th by painting my mailbox. HOA got onto us about painting them about two years ago. I drove around the "hood" and about 20 of 199 homes have complied. The paint the recommended was $100 a gallon. I bought Krylon gloss black spray at $4 and it looks great.
My first car at age 16 was a '54 Ford ($400). Had to rebuild the tranny 6 times because I couldn't afford new parts. Then, at age 18, I got a '58 Chevy two door hardtop Impala 6 cylinder manual tranny. Tan over white, it was a good looker. Engine froze up as I was coming off the freeway in Memphis. Fiber cam drive gear broke a tooth and locked her up. I worked at an auto parts store and built a 327 engine, fuel injection heads and cam and two 4-barrel Carter AFB carbs. Could not afford a B&W T-10 4 speed so I kept the 3-speed manual with a 4.56 rear end. It was bad ass to the 1/8th mile from a stop light but not so much after that. A 4-speed would have helped. Gene, have you ever been to the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY? It's well worth a visit. You can pick up your new Corvette as it rolls off the assembly line and they'll let you take some laps on their new road racing track.
Son and daughter will be here today for Dad's filet mignons. Daughter is a free-lance photographer. She just bought a Lumix mirror less digital camera to replace her Mark 1 Cannons. Her new camera and all the lenses weigh less that the old Mark 1 Canon body. And for $3000 that's less than she paid for a Mark 1 body alone. Technology! She says film cameras in good shape are selling for more than 2-year old digitals. The Lumix has Wi-Fi thru her cell phone. She can shoot a still or video, edit it on the camera and send it to the newspaper with a caption. They can have it on their website in less than 10 minutes later.
Pat P.
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Post by Gene on Feb 22, 2016 8:08:43 GMT 9
it was a 35mm ektachrome asa 160 slide... taken in '76. laid in the bottom of a drawer unprotected for 30 years...sent it to a studio that converted it to disc, which I downloaded to my computer... again happy birthday, many more I hope... enjoy those steaks!!
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Post by Jim on Mar 10, 2016 0:15:38 GMT 9
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