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Thread: Where's that Shipmate?
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Yorick
Infinite Jester
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Anyone know what's happened to Tortuf?
(ISTR there was a thread devoted to enquiries after absent Shipmates, but couldn't find it.)
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این نیز بگذرد
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Chorister
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This may, in some part, help to answer your query. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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Yorick
Infinite Jester
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How extraordinary. For no reason I can imagine, Tortuf popped into my head this morning, and I felt an impulse to enquire after him.
Synchronicity, I guess.
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Tortuf
Ship's fisherman
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I have not been on the Ship lately. I needed a rest from the Ship and the Ship needed a rest from me.
Thank you for thinking about me. That was unexpected and kind.
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Yorick
Infinite Jester
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Thanks, Tortuf. I miss seeing you around, and hope your rest is restorative. I'd like to see you contributing regularly again, as soon as you're ready.
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Evensong
Shipmate
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Now this is going to be extra weird, but I've been thinking exactly the same as Yorick in the last couple of weeks. Even wondering where this wondering where that shipmate thread is.
Nice to see you back Tortuf.
We miss you. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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Originally posted by Evensong:
Anyone know where Campbellite is?
I've been wondering about him. He is missed.
![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Campbellite is dealing with Real Life™. Remember that? I think mine is around somewhere.
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Evensong
Shipmate
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If you see him in that fabled Real Life or during your hostly duties, please send him my regards Pete.
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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
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Has any one heard from Curiosity Killed lately ? She last posted 22nd of October I think, and I haven't seen her lately in the cafe.
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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
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Downgrades level of concern having found her latest photo post on 365
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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. George Orwell
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Eutychus
From the edge
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Does anyone have news of Spiffy? Her last post dates back to October 1st.
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Spiffy is quite active at the moment on the other social medium. Trust me, she'll be on you like... never mind like what... if you post something with which she disagrees.
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Yorick
Infinite Jester
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quote:
Originally posted by PeteC:
the other social medium
WTF? Other?
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Eutychus
From the edge
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My thoughts precisely. Could he be thinking of MySpace?
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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You lot figure it out.
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ken
Ship's Roundhead
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Must mean Cix. No, the Well. Or LiveJournal. Or Tumblr. Surely Spiffy doesn't frequent chans?
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Ken
L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
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Eutychus
From the edge
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Maybe he means the Daily Mail.
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Campbellite
Ut unum sint
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Originally posted by PeteC:
Campbellite is dealing with Real Life™. Remember that? I think mine is around somewhere.
It is overrated.
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Suffering for Jesus since 1966.
WTFWED?
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Hoody- Hoo! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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quote:
Originally posted by PeteC:
Spiffy is quite active at the moment on the other social medium. Trust me, she'll be on you like... never mind like what... if you post something with which she disagrees.
Baaaaa?
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Piglet
Islander
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Has anyone heard from Birdsoftheair recently? She used to be quite a regular on the British thread, but I haven't seen anything from her for a while.
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Latchkey Kid
Shipmate
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I read through the Miss Molly: Fields of Gold thread recently. I joined long after she died. There were many shipmates I had not heard of; I did wonder what happened to St Sebastian (who posted up to 2007).
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
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Originally posted by Latchkey Kid:
I read through the Miss Molly: Fields of Gold thread recently. I joined long after she died. There were many shipmates I had not heard of; I did wonder what happened to St Sebastian (who posted up to 2007).
IIRC he posted once or twice within the last two years. I was glad to see him.
Moo
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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quote:
Originally posted by Latchkey Kid:
I read through the Miss Molly: Fields of Gold thread recently. I joined long after she died. There were many shipmates I had not heard of; I did wonder what happened to St Sebastian (who posted up to 2007).
He is having a bad bout of RL. But he will be at my house for Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Adrienne
Shipmate
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Originally posted by jedijudy:
... he will be at my house for Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday!
That's good to hear - please pass on best wishes!
A
[ 22. November 2011, 16:18: Message edited by: Adrienne ]
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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I certainly will! Maybe if enough of y'all say his name, he'll hear and start posting again.
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
# 107
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Please give him my best.
Moo
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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I will, Moo! In fact, I'll make him read this thread!
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Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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Please do! I remember his kindness and he is missed.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
quote:
Originally posted by PeteC:
Spiffy is quite active at the moment on the other social medium. Trust me, she'll be on you like... never mind like what... if you post something with which she disagrees.
Baaaaa?
She's doing NANO, honey!
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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St. Sebastian was quite pleased to know that y'all remember him! It was very good to spend some quality (eating) time with him today.
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Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
quote:
Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
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Originally posted by PeteC:
Spiffy is quite active at the moment on the other social medium. Trust me, she'll be on you like... never mind like what... if you post something with which she disagrees.
Baaaaa?
She's doing NANO, honey!
Ah! I quite understand. Hope she makes her quota. ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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St. Sebastian
Staggering ever onward
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Awww, ya'll are so kind to think of me! I always think of Molly this time of year, and thus the Ship and, of course, having T-Day at JediJudy's house brings you all to mind.
I'm afraid Jedi J was six(teen) sheets to the wind by the time she slurred the comment about the Ship so I wasn't sure if she was making it up or not.
Perhaps that comment needs some context . . .
You see, she made the comment about 35 minutes into a rambling and increasingly agitated . . . prayer . . . I guess we'll call it. We sat down for dinner 108 minutes later, after she had invoked the Wrath of God on a surprisingly disparate group of people ("who would benefit from a dose of CONDITONAL love", as she advised the Almighty at one point) about whose sins and failings she was quite explicit. As some of those named were actually in the room, it was a little awkward.
Remarking to those nearest her that she "was bored to death with you people" she shoved a bowl of gravy out of her way (and into the lap of her daughter, poor girl, to whom Judy remarked, rather snidely, I thought, "a little gravy won't make THAT dress any uglier)to make room for her laptop. I was at the kiddy table across the room at the time (my punishment for arriving at 12:33 instead of 12:30. I don't even know why she called it the kiddy table, since there were no children. It was really just me on a bean bag chair balancing a napkin of giblets on my knee) and she summoned me to her side to see the thread. Then, in a drunken abuse of power, she deleted the profiles of several Shipmates and changed the passwords of several others, cackling about what a rush it is to be "the Heavenly Host".
I didn't catch the thread name because Judy slammed the 'puter shut and staggered to where her son-in-law was leading his weeping wife to their car to get a change of clothes (apparently, that's where they'd been sleeping during their visit, because Judy's cats, "might want to use the other bed"). She wanted to explain to him how much more suitable a match someone else would have been. She didn't seem to have anyone particular in mind, just "someone else".
I, along with several other guests, seized the opportunity afforded by the emasculation of her son-in-law to make our escape on the pretext of "going to get more Jack. You only have a bottle and a half left." I'm not sure if she really thought it needed a complement of 7 people to refurbish her supply, or was just relieved at the prospect of some quiet. Most of those leaving with me had been sobbing not so quietly for a good while at that point. Still, she didn't throw anything or cuss at us (though I got a blistering voicemail several hours later, when she apparently realized we weren't coming back with more whiskey).
All's well, though. It turned into one of her blackouts, so we've assured her it was a Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving.
You know, so she won't hurt us.
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In Spite of Everything: Yes.
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Gill H
Shipmate
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I'm in a cafe and Fields of Gold is playing as I read this.
I think Molly is having a giggle at St Seb's post...
Nice to see you on the Ship again.
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M.
Ship's Spare Part
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Haven't seen Rosamundi or Yangtze around for a while?
M.
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Ariel
Shipmate
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St Sebastian, welcome back - even if you're only just dropping by, good to see you again and thanks for that wonderful post. Tell it like it is, man.
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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Now why aren't the Shipmeets I go to like that? ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Bronwyn
Shipmate
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Seem to remember the shipmeet at Exeter involving tim tams was a great time
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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St. Sebastian should just be grateful that it wasn't a stuffed and roasted basket of kittens on the dinner table. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
And, for those interested in some of St. S's history on the Ship... this might be interesting reading.
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif) I can see that we need St. Sebastian back bad, if only to get the real low-down on jj.
Come back, come back!
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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I always knew Jedi Judy was my long lost big sister. this just proves it. genetics show!
so great to hear from you, St. Sebastian! keep that crazy lady in line!
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"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.” -Calvin
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Jengie jon
Semper Reformanda
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JediJudy
That thread came to mind immediately on reading St Sebastian's post. I just had forgotten that it was saved. He was on form!
Jengie
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Back to my blog
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
# 473
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quote:
Originally posted by Bronwyn:
Seem to remember the shipmeet at Exeter involving tim tams was a great time
hehe, so it was. But perhaps we should have dipped the timtams in the whisky?
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St. Sebastian
Staggering ever onward
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quote:
Originally posted by jedijudy:
St. Sebastian should just be grateful that it wasn't a stuffed and roasted basket of kittens on the dinner table.
Judy, your daughter did tell me that I was lucky you hadn't made your bi-monthly run to the Animal Shelter. AND about the rum-balls you made at Christmas...the ones with the little teeny ears? Oh, the Felinity!
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St. Seb
In Spite of Everything: Yes.
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tomb
Shipmate
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Originally posted by Latchkey Kid:
I read through the Miss Molly: Fields of Gold thread recently. I joined long after she died. There were many shipmates I had not heard of; I did wonder what happened to St Sebastian (who posted up to 2007).
Since it's December, I was thinking of Miss Molly. Given my general absence from the Ship, I was surprised I couldn't find the thread. {sadness}
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