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So someone needs to be the THRAC.?ÿ It does have sort of a ring to it.?ÿ Those creating hijacks are thrackers.
So someone needs to be the THRAC.?ÿ It does have sort of a ring to it.?ÿ Those creating hijacks are thrackers.
If we get more than a dozen comments...you can guarantee the thread is hijacked.
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The above messages from last month have the common theme of the recurrent fact that many of our longer threads divert into numerous strings of conversation that veer away from the message in the original post.?ÿ It just happens.?ÿ It's not all bad as it keeps this site interesting.?ÿ It is challenging, though, to follow the thread.
Thus the suggestion of THRAC.?ÿ Those guilty of hijacking threads are to be known as thrackers.?ÿ?ÿ
To assist in identifying thracking, the goal of this thread is to show an example of the most thracked thread imaginable.?ÿ The next post is offered to start thrack practice.
In 1978, here in PLSSia, I was working on a three-man crew.?ÿ We were using a Ford long van as the survey chariot.?ÿ Our tools included a transit first used during the Civil War and a 100-foot cut chain and chaining pins.?ÿ Our goal was to establish a new tract encircling a regional mound adjacent to a slightly better than dirt county road.?ÿ Ticks, poison ivy and lizards were everywhere.?ÿ The likelihood of finding some copperheads and rattlesnakes was high.?ÿ The temperature was nearing 100 F as we started.?ÿ Ol' Stinky, the crew chief, was living up to his name after eating chili with jalopenos for breakfast.
THRAC YOU!!!!!!
Has old Stinky passed on to the big jalapeno gas cloud in the sky yet?
Just curious.?ÿ
Maybe he would have been able to classify as an indigestion based disability and gotten a grant for the coworkers for gas masks nowadays...
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THRAC THAT BABY
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Speaking of indigestion, that is a battle I fought for over two decades.?ÿ Every day, no matter what I ate, that pain in the gut would come back.?ÿ Then my doc scheduled me for an upper G I?ÿ for the same day as a colonoscopy.?ÿ I did confirm that they would do the upper before the lower just in case they were planning to use the same "snake".?ÿ The doctors then gave me a prescription for some magic elixir for 30 days.?ÿ Since then, I might have a problem once or twice per year.
Speaking of indigestion, that is a battle I fought for over two decades.?ÿ Every day, no matter what I ate, that pain in the gut would come back.?ÿ Then my doc scheduled me for an upper G I?ÿ for the same day as a colonoscopy.?ÿ I did confirm that they would do the upper before the lower just in case they were planning to use the same "snake".?ÿ The doctors then gave me a prescription for some magic elixir for 30 days.?ÿ Since then, I might have a problem once or twice per year.
Oh hell, cheer up man, this is coming on tv real soon. ?????ÿ
You know what, I bet Jethro would have been great help on a survey crew around Bug Tussle.?ÿ He wouldn't have needed a Fiskars machete.?ÿ He would pull everything up out of the ground and toss to one side.?ÿ He professed to be an expert at ciphering, which he learned to do while going to school at Oxford.
Tomorrow is my birthday.?ÿ
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I guess that makes you the same age as my mother.?ÿ She was born on February 7 and 103 years ago.
Today would have been my sister's 56th wedding anniversary if she had stayed married to hubby number one for more than about 18 months.?ÿ Next month she could have had a 54th wedding anniversary if she had stayed married to the father of her two kids.?ÿ
BTW, bushaxe, you look pretty darned good for being 103.
Go THRAC yourself.?ÿ It will feel soooooooooooo good.
Thinking of shared birthdays, my sister was born on the same day of the year as one of our grandmothers, 56 or 57 years apart.
We don't know for sure which, because Grandma didn't have a birth record, which was somewhat unusual but not unheard of in 1897/98. Dad insisted she had always been less than a year younger than Grandpa as far back as Dad could remember, and his memory was a thing to envy. But in her middle years, she probably lost a year. The date on her gravestone, etched when Grandpa died, reflects the younger age.
She always said she would live to be 100. She did it, even by the younger age, but her mind was gone to the extent she didn't really know when she achieved it.
Speaking of grandmothers, my other Grandma had the most unexpected death of anyone close except one uncle. Everybody else had a serious illness or declined for a long time.
Mom talked to Grandma on the phone and said she would take her to the grocery store. Fifteen minutes later, Mom arrived to find Grandma sitting in a chair wearing her jacked and with her purse on her lap. Dead.
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Jabberwocky
BY LEWIS CARROLL
??Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿ Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿ And the mome raths outgrabe.
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??Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿ The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿ The frumious Bandersnatch!?
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He took his vorpal sword in hand;
?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿ Long time the manxome foe he sought??
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿ And stood awhile in thought.
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And, as in uffish thought he stood,
?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿ The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿ And burbled as it came!
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One, two! One, two! And through and through
?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿ The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿ He went galumphing back.
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??And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿ Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!?
?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿ He chortled in his joy.
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??Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
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All mimsy were the borogoves,
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=660yMWjPGfg
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Have you seen Jabberwocky in other languages??ÿ Even if you don't know the language, it's a hoot.
