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Thread: Welcome Eliab! New Purgatory Host (And farewell to tclune!)
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Our long-time Purgatory Host tclune has decided to step down. We will miss you. tclune and we thank you for your long, loyal service.
Eliab has graciously accepted our request that he join the Purgatory Team, and is already showing signs that he will excel at the position. Please use this space to deliver your hearty welcomes and heartfelt goodbyes.
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I cannot expect people to believe “
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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Dafyd
Shipmate
# 5549
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Congratulations. He'll be brilliant.
I am sure Eliab will take this the right way when I say we are totally going to plank him.
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we remain, thanks to original sin, much in love with talking about, rather than with, one another. Rowan Williams
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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Thanks for your service, tclune, and thanks for taking on the job, Eliab. We couldn't have this ol' tub without deckhands, and I thank all of you who perform this very necessary duty.
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This is the last sig I'll ever write for you...
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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It's a very ma-- stu-- fine thing you've done, Eliab.
And tclune, thank you for your years of being calmly wise and wisely calm.
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Barnabas62
Shipmate
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I'll miss Tom. He and I became Purg Hosts at about the same time and "grew up together". Thanks, Tom, for your companionship and enjoy the extra time. Look forward to seeing you around.
Eliab! The new king of the hazing threads which are used to "train" new Hosts i.e. designed to reduce minds to jellylike states. Which we signally failed to do. You won a contest which many of us were glad to get a draw out of. The warmest of welcomes. Looking forward to working with you.
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Who is it that you seek? How then shall we live? How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?
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Eutychus
From the edge
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Thanks to tclune for long, faithful, persevering service.
Thank you Eliab, because you mean I'm not the new kid on the block any more ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Let's remember that we are to build the Kingdom of God, not drive people away - pastor Frank Pomeroy
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Nicolemr
Shipmate
# 28
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farewell tclune and welcome Eliab!
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On pilgrimage in the endless realms of Cyberia, currently traveling by ship. Now with live journal!
Posts: 11803 | From: New York City "The City Carries On" | Registered: May 2001
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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quote:
Originally posted by Dafyd:
Congratulations. He'll be brilliant.
I am sure Eliab will take this the right way when I say we are totally going to plank him.
![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
Karma's a BITCH.
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I cannot expect people to believe “
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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Adam.
Like as the
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Wow, you'll go to extraordinary lengths to influence my vote, won't you? Seriously, thanks for stepping up to the plate. You'll do great.
Thanks, Tom, for such sterling work over the years.
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Ave Crux, Spes Unica!
Preaching blog
Posts: 8164 | From: Notre Dame, IN | Registered: Sep 2003
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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
# 1984
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Good luck Eliab, enjoy your stepdown tclune ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
[ 09. February 2014, 22:32: Message edited by: Doublethink ]
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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
Posts: 19219 | From: Erehwon | Registered: Aug 2005
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Sioni Sais
Shipmate
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Welcome Eliab, sounds like you've been laying a trail in the Hosts Lounge.
Thanks tclune, for firm, knowledgeable and sensitive hosting, and some good advice.
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"He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor"
(Paul Sinha, BBC)
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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Many thanks, tclune, for a great job hosting. Don't be a stranger, now.
Welcome and good luck to Eliab!
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Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
# 333
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Thank you for your years of hosting, tclune! Enjoy reading just what you want to read! ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
Welcome, Eliab! When you want to run screaming the other way, just remember where we hid the GIN! ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.
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RooK
1 of 6
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tclune: My sincere thanks. You have set a standard few can equal.
Eliab: We could not have asked for a better candidate. I look forward to seeing you in action.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Thanks and goodbye to tclune and a hearty welcome to Eliab.
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I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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tclune, thanks for all your work and I hope you enjoy the retirement!
Eliab, welcome to the team! I'm sure you'll fit right in .
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Hail Gallaxhar
Posts: 30100 | From: Adrift on a sea of surreality | Registered: Apr 2003
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Callan
Shipmate
# 525
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The fool, the poor, brave fool...
Congratulations to tclune for getting out in one piece!
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How easy it would be to live in England, if only one did not love her. - G.K. Chesterton
Posts: 9757 | From: Citizen of the World | Registered: Jun 2001
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QLib
Bad Example
# 43
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quote:
Originally posted by Gildas:
The fool, the poor, brave fool...
< Cackles maniacally >
Enjoy the well-earned rest, tclune.
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Tradition is the handing down of the flame, not the worship of the ashes Gustav Mahler.
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Gee D
Shipmate
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Many thanks for all your work tclune.
Sail well Eliab.
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Not every Anglican in Sydney is Sydney Anglican
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Eliab
Shipmate
# 9153
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Thanks for the welcome everyone, and thanks tclune and all the other past and present hosts and admins for all your work. I hope I come close to the standards of hosting you have set over the years I've been on the Ship.
Am I the first person on the ship to get planked the day after being made a host?
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"Perhaps there is poetic beauty in the abstract ideas of justice or fairness, but I doubt if many lawyers are moved by it"
Richard Dawkins
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John Holding
Coffee and Cognac
# 158
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quote:
Originally posted by Gildas:
The fool, the poor, brave fool...
And as I recall, you should know!
Best wishes to TOm from one who also escaped Purgatory after several years of service,
and a hearty welcome to Eliab.
John
Posts: 5929 | From: Ottawa, Canada | Registered: May 2001
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
# 2522
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quote:
Originally posted by Eliab:
Am I the first person on the ship to get planked the day after being made a host?
Probably.
Ask me how much pity I feel.
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I cannot expect people to believe “
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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An die Freude
Shipmate
# 14794
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quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
quote:
Originally posted by Eliab:
Am I the first person on the ship to get planked the day after being made a host?
Probably.
Ask me how much pity I feel.
Hey, I was thrown overboard on my 25th birthday, who are you to complain?
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"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable."
Walt Whitman
Formerly JFH
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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quote:
Originally posted by Gildas:
The fool, the poor, brave fool...
Congratulations to tclune for getting out in one piece!
Can't do anything better than echo these sentiments.
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Technology has brought us all closer together. Turns out a lot of the people you meet as a result are complete idiots.
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An die Freude
Shipmate
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Also, of course, many thanks to tclune (you remain the only person from the ship that I have quoted straight onto my Facebook status) and good luck to the excellent choice that is Eliab!
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"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable."
Walt Whitman
Formerly JFH
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M.
Ship's Spare Part
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I'm constantly (and gratefully) amazed at how many people are prepared to donate their time to the Ship - the gin in the Hosts' Lounge must be good stuff. So thanks, TClune and good luck Eliab.
M.
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tclune
Shipmate
# 7959
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Thanks, all, for the kind words. I'm sure Eliab will do the Ship proud.
--Tom Clune
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Porridge
Shipmate
# 15405
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Many thanks, tclune. Will miss your good sense.
Welcome, EliaB; We'll need your good sense.
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Spiggott: Everything I've ever told you is a lie, including that.
Moon: Including what?
Spiggott: That everything I've ever told you is a lie.
Moon: That's not true!
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Smudgie
Ship's Barnacle
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Excellent news. Not the farewell to tclune, but the arrival of Eliab on the hosting team. tclune, thanks for all your hard work. Eliab, mwahahahahhahaha. ......
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Miss you, Erin.
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saysay
Ship's Praying Mantis
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So long, farewell - I do hope you stick around to post tcclune...
And best of luck to you, Eliab. You're a brave one.
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"It's been a long day without you, my friend
I'll tell you all about it when I see you again"
"'Oh sweet baby purple Jesus' - that's a direct quote from a 9 year old - shoutout to purple Jesus."
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Piglet
Islander
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Congratulations Eliab, and here's to a long and happy retirement, tclune.
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I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
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Autenrieth Road
Shipmate
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Thank you, tclune, for your service as a Host.
Thank you Eliab for stepping in. I think you'll be brilliant at it.
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Truth
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daronmedway
Shipmate
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Eliab has already been gracious enough to sort out my coding mess twice. I'll try not to make a habit of it.
Thanks also to tclune.
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