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#1 2006-07-14 8:12 pm
- ShnickyShnack
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A farewell to Shnicky
Not exactly a political thread, but being a regular I figured it might be okay.
As many/most of you know, I'm headed for West Africa to do some development work for six months. I leave this weekend! So after tonight it might be some time (or not) before I'm back in MiniThink.
So dudes, keep up the good battling. Don't let the place go to hell without me!
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#2 2006-07-14 8:13 pm
- Farmerkev
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Re: A farewell to Shnicky
Take care Shicky.
Do your part to combat global warming.
Eat a cow.
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#3 2006-07-14 8:17 pm
Re: A farewell to Shnicky
But who's going to dig up news tidbits from the wires and give us the political scoop on that big country up North?
Good luck on your trip!
It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.
- Oscar Wilde
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#4 2006-07-14 8:21 pm
- Farmerkev
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Re: A farewell to Shnicky
Not to worry.
I've got a forum mod ready to go now, the Fox news ticker will be running at the bottom of your browser.
Limbaugh will also be simulcasting his show here M-F.
Do your part to combat global warming.
Eat a cow.
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#5 2006-07-14 8:23 pm
- Nefarious
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Re: A farewell to Shnicky
Bon voyage. Be safe. Boil your water. Do no evil. Come back safe.
Activating my liberal cloning machine, just in case.
You might want a shortwave radio if you are feeling deprived of news.
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#6 2006-07-14 8:28 pm
- bratboy
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Re: A farewell to Shnicky
Be safe!
"One thing we've learned is there's a difference between being disappointed and having madmen in authority."
--Paul Krugman
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#7 2006-07-14 8:32 pm
- Jaligard
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Re: A farewell to Shnicky
Good luck and Godspeed.
George Bush: "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator."
George Bush: "One of the hardest parts of my job is to try to connect Iraq to the war on terror."
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#8 2006-07-14 8:41 pm
- Pariah
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Re: A farewell to Shnicky
Dont bring back any exotic critters in or on ya!
"and it's not surprising that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
Barack Obama
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#9 2006-07-14 8:45 pm
- ShnickyShnack
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Re: A farewell to Shnicky
Pariah wrote:
Dont bring back any exotic critters in or on ya!
I promise nothing.
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#10 2006-07-14 8:47 pm
- ghlbtsk
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Re: A farewell to Shnicky
I might not lurk so much if Shnicky didn't get to everything first and explain it in far greater detail than I could hope to.
Best of luck, Shnick!
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#11 2006-07-14 8:48 pm
Re: A farewell to Shnicky
Take your malaria meds, and for extra fun, combine your malaria meds with good pot. You'll have really great dreams.
If you get a worm, promise to name it after someone here who gets under your skin and drives you nuts.
It's a paradox of how sharply dull I am.
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#12 2006-07-14 9:14 pm
- Tallgeese
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Re: A farewell to Shnicky
You should have timed it for when I was gone too!
:squint:
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.
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#13 2006-07-14 9:16 pm
- Freakout Jackson
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Re: A farewell to Shnicky
What the rest of those guys said + a hug.
Godspeed Shnicky and please speak well of your american friends...
..as hard as it may be. 
"Perhaps if there were more Americans who had the courage to stand up to idiocy maybe we wouldn't have such an awful country." ~ VegasACF
I couldn't deal with a clone of myself. I would probably kill him inside a week, and tell the police it was justifiable homisuicide, and tell them to sit around and hang out with me for a week to show them why. ~ Dan
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#14 2006-07-14 9:26 pm
- blank kludge
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Re: A farewell to Shnicky
SIX MONTHS!
That makes your retun POST our mid-term elections! Bush will have invoked some Gonzo creation and annexed everything north of the 48th parallel...
West Africa. Senegal, perchance?
Well, bon voyage and consider me quoting all the above.
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#15 2006-07-14 9:53 pm
- ShnickyShnack
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Re: A farewell to Shnicky
Ghana, actually. A town called Sunyani -- west-central area of the country.
I leave Sunday. Getting just a tad freaked. It's gonna be hot hot hot! But I'll be close to one of the world's greatest national parks, full of wild animals (elephants, gazelles, hippos, monkeys ...). So I'll feel like I've got a front-row seat to the mid-terms!
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#16 2006-07-14 10:09 pm
- bedstuy
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#17 2006-07-14 10:11 pm
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Re: A farewell to Shnicky
Awesome, have a great trip!
"Now commences the process of cutting off the head, which generally takes from an hour to an hour and a half by an expert workman with a sharp blade." -Reuben Delano, Wanderings and Adventures
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#18 2006-07-14 10:16 pm
- blank kludge
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Re: A farewell to Shnicky
All them critters...Cool.
"Watching the elections...." (apologies to Elvis Costello (?))
Arrive alive.
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#19 2006-07-14 10:17 pm
- lagamorph
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Re: A farewell to Shnicky
Please be very careful. Enjoy yourself immensely. Come home safely. And know that I envy and applaud your courage and adventurous spirit!
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#20 2006-07-14 10:35 pm
- ShnickyShnack
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Re: A farewell to Shnicky
Thanks, man, whoever you are!
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#22 2006-07-14 10:58 pm
- ShnickyShnack
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#23 2006-07-14 11:40 pm
- [Tycho?]
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Re: A farewell to Shnicky
Boy the forum is going to be a lot less busy with you gone, you make like 10% of the threads here!
But have a fun time, we'll keep your spot on the forums warm for you... however that would work.
I could bore you with a philosophical tirade about freedom and tyranny, or try and explain to you what new horizons are suddenly open to me, but I doubt you would understand and if you did it might frighten you. That amuses me.
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#24 2006-07-15 1:08 am
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Re: A farewell to Shnicky
Have a great time, get some fulfillment, keep a good diary we can get snippets from and take LOADS of pics!
We want that blog stuffed with 'em when you come back!!
I hope this voyage does as much good for you as you'll do for them.
Be safe, bro. Hugs.
So, Shnicky who?
Exploring the intertubes
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#25 2006-07-15 1:57 am
- jkahless
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Re: A farewell to Shnicky
Take care man. We'll miss you here.
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