11-01-2005 08:55									#1
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Many people post in the Off-topic forum that they are leaving Apolyton and never coming back.

The usual response is something like "yeah, right, see you in a week....and don't forgot to post your orders in the other games/forum thread"

In most cases, the poster comes back, like a moth to a flame to Apolyton - it's unavoidable.

So, in thinking back over my time in Poly, I recall an eighteen month stretch where I did not post or visit Apolyton. It was back in 2001 when RL overwhelmed my time availability. Its a terrible, inexcusable set of reasons....something along the lines of looking for, and buying a new house; getting a promotion at work; raising my offspring; getting bored with Civ3 vanilla..blah blah blah. yes, the reasons suck.

Anyway, the bottom line is that I'm leaving Apolyton in early 2001 and I'm not coming back until 2002. Since I missed my opportunity in 2001 to post my goodbye thread, I'm doing it now.

Don't try to talk me out of it. My decision is final.

	11-01-2005 08:58									#3
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You'll be back 3 years ago.

	11-01-2005 08:58									#4
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See you in eighteen months from, uh, when was that again?

	11-01-2005 08:59									#5
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What kind of a dumbass would buy a PLUS membership and then leave? Japher I could see... but you?

	11-01-2005 09:04									#7
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quote: Originally posted by Theben What kind of a dumbass would buy a PLUS membership and then leave? Japher I could see... but you?

Don't worry. I've seen in the future and I have a plan to handle that.

I'll explain in the off topic forum in 2007 -- look for a thread from me then under a DL Settler account. Please don't me or I won't explain anything. I'm serious.

	11-01-2005 09:06									#8
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quote: What kind of a dumbass would buy a PLUS membership and then leave? Japher I could see... but you?

	11-01-2005 09:11									#10
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this is trajic news indeed old friend



well if you really are set on this leaving, there probably is not much any of us can do to talk you out of it



why? yes you have not fully explained yourself, and if you are willing start a thread then you should be willing to give a full and comprehensive account of your reasons



be well, and hopefully you really will return

	11-01-2005 18:37									#11
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I will have missed you while you were gone



Anyone read Douglas Adams' explanation on the *real* problem with time travel?

(from memeory)
'The problem is not changing the course of history or becoming your own grandfather. The history bit will eventually sort itself out, and becoming your own grandfather is nothing a broad-minded and well-adjusted family can't cope with. The problem is Grammar. How do you go ahead explaining you have just been in the past and stopped yourself doing something that eventually may have happened some time in the future?'

	11-01-2005 18:41									#12
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bongo... the name seems somewhat familiar...

	11-01-2005 18:56									#13
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ahhh do you know the Grand Pooobah of Bongolia then?

he is constantly seen with a towel near by

	11-01-2005 19:10									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Paddy the Scot ahhh do you know the Grand Pooobah of Bongolia then? he is constantly seen with a towel near by

Is that a towel, or a baby receiving blanket?

	11-01-2005 19:12									#15
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I never previously reply to these threads.

	11-01-2005 19:20									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Gamecube64 You'll be back 3 years ago.

me thinks he's been chewing too many gum leaves

	11-01-2005 22:38									#17
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That koala is going to need his Farewell Extinction thread if the dingoes keep eating them!

	12-01-2005 01:12									#18
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quote: Originally posted by Shogun Gunner Is that a towel, or a baby receiving blanket?

The towel is a 'guide' reference


Daddys little boy are done with blankets for the time being

	12-01-2005 01:31									#19
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When I first saw this tread, I thought 'Prime time thread close or delete material'.

But quite entertaining and original. Thank you for providing a laugh to myself and, it seems, many others.

If I went back in time and killed my mother before I was born.......would Ming exist?????

	12-01-2005 01:32									#20
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Are you sure he's feeding right?

	12-01-2005 01:34									#21
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quote: Originally posted by rah When I first saw this tread, I thought 'Prime time thread close or delete material'. But quite entertaining and original. Thank you for providing a laugh to myself and, it seems, many others. If I went back in time and killed my mother before I was born.......would Ming exist?????

I'm sure Ming would get the report and delete you before you are able to find her.

	12-01-2005 02:04									#22
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quote: Originally posted by rah When I first saw this tread, I thought 'Prime time thread close or delete material'.

Excuse me for being an OT-novice but isn't this forum *the* place for goofing off?



Thanks for not closing us btw, does it mean our sillyness is more amusing than annoying?




@Snowflake, he's feeding just like his daddy

	12-01-2005 02:17									#23
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I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one to allow their babies to teeth on the top of a beer bottle.

I will get nasty looks from the neighborhood moms as they think I'm feeding my little baby beer!

Rah, thanks. I can't change the past, if I could, I will fill the "missing 18 months" with different types of spam!

	12-01-2005 04:16									#24
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I never new you before you went away, so I won't wish you welcome back when you returned.

	12-01-2005 10:05									#25
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quote: Originally posted by Last Conformist I never new you before you went away, so I won't wish you welcome back when you returned.

sounds like the perfect post for the Lord Gunner

	12-01-2005 10:17									#26
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You were gone?

	13-01-2005 03:44									#27
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Ah! I, too, left in 2001 and reappeared a year and a half later. So, here goes:

quote: Originally posted in 2001 Civ3 sucks! I'm leaving!

quote: Originally posted in 2002 MoO3 sucks! I'm back!

	13-01-2005 04:34									#28
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Wow Straybow.... that is quite indepth

	13-01-2005 05:27									#29
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This thread makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

	13-01-2005 05:30									#30
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quote: Originally posted by rah When I first saw this tread, I thought 'Prime time thread close or delete material'. But quite entertaining and original. Thank you for providing a laugh to myself and, it seems, many others. If I went back in time and killed my mother before I was born.......would Ming exist?????

Ming exists through sheer force of evil