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Ripple
Ripple



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Welcome back Pappy
#5746558 - 06/13/06 05:42 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Even though 80% of the people here won't know who you are, just like most don't know me 
it's good to have you back my brother!
Shine on
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Re: Welcome back Pappy [Re: Ripple]
#5746571 - 06/13/06 05:45 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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welcome back pappy!!
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Ripple
Ripple



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Re: Welcome back Pappy [Re: trendal]
#5746639 - 06/13/06 06:04 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Tren....you in Ohio?
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Re: Welcome back Pappy [Re: Ripple]
#5746701 - 06/13/06 06:24 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Doesn't look like it...work
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Papaver
Madmin Emeritus?

Registered: 06/01/02
Posts: 26,880
Loc: Radio Free Tibet!
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Re: Welcome back Pappy [Re: Ripple]
#5746709 - 06/13/06 06:26 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Thanks All! 
Just tryin' to help out around here. I'm sort of like the ghost in the machine...
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It's the psychedelic movement!


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Re: Welcome back Pappy [Re: Ripple]
#5746855 - 06/13/06 07:01 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Papaver
Madmin Emeritus?

Registered: 06/01/02
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Re: Welcome back Pappy [Re: Learyfan]
#5747164 - 06/13/06 08:12 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Sadly, "Papaver's Tiki Lounge" is no more. The other Admins scrapped it a while after I left, and they sold the blowfish-lamps and the jukebox, and then used the money to buy drugs... 
As for vintage pr0n...
 Senio_Doobie about to "get him some!"
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Re: Welcome back Pappy [Re: Papaver]
#5747294 - 06/13/06 08:42 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Re: Welcome back Pappy [Re: Papaver]
#5747303 - 06/13/06 08:45 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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much to ya Pappy!~

tc
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Papaver
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Re: Welcome back Pappy [Re: Roadkill]
#5747344 - 06/13/06 09:01 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
I took it to Kihn. Merv Kihn, free-lance journalist with an extensive line in Texas pterodactyls, redneck UFO contactees, bush-league Loch Ness monsters, and the Top Ten conspiracy theories in the loonier reaches of the American mass mind.
"It's good," said Kihn, polishing his yellow Polaroid shooting glasses on the hem of his Hawaiian shirt, "but it's not mental; lacks the true quill."
But I saw it, Mervyn." We were seated poolside in brilliant Arizona sunlight. He was in Tucson waiting for a group of retired Las Vegas civil servants whose leader received messages from Them on her microwave oven. I'd driven all night and was feeling it.
"Of course you did. Of course you saw it. You've read my stuff; haven't you grasped my blanket solution to the UFO problem? It's simple, plain and country simple: people -- he settled the glasses carefully on his long hawk nose and fixed me with his best basilisk glare -- see things. People see these things. Nothing's there, but people see them anyway. Because they need to, probably. You've read Jung. You should know the score... In your case, it's so obvious: You admit you were thinking about this crackpot architecture, having fantasies... Look, I'm sure you've taken your share of drugs, right? How many people survived the Sixties in California without having the odd hallucination? All those nights when you discovered that whole armies of Disney technicians had been employed to weave animated holograms of Egyptian hieroglyphs into the fabric of your jeans, say, or the times when..."
"But it wasn't like that."
"Of course not. It wasn't like that at all; it was 'in a setting of clear reality,' right? Everything normal, and then there's the monster, the mandala, the neon cigar. In your case, a giant Tom Swift airplane. It happens all the time. You aren't even crazy. You know that, don't you?" He fished a beer out of the battered foam cooler beside his deck chair.
"Last week I was in Virginia. Grayson County. I interviewed a sixteen-year-old girl who'd been assaulted by a bar hade."
"A what?"
"A bear head. The severed head of a bear. This bar hade, see, was floating around on its own little flying saucer, looked kind of like the hubcaps on cousin Wayne's vintage Caddy. Had red, glowing eyes like two cigar stubs and telescoping chrome antennas poking up behind its ears." He burped.
"It assaulted her? How?"
"You don't want to know; you're obviously impressionable. 'It was cold' -- he lapsed into his bad southern accent -- 'and metallic.' It made electronic noises. Now that is the real thing, the straight goods from the mass unconscious, friend; that little girl is a witch. There's just no place for her to function in this society. She'd have seen the devil, if she hadn't been brought up on 'The Bionic Man' and all those 'Star Trek' reruns. She is clued into the main vein. And she knows that it happened to her. I got out ten minutes before the heavy UFO boys showed up with the polygraph."
I must have looked pained, because he set his beer down carefully beside the cooler and sat up.
"If you want a classier explanation, I'd say you saw a semiotic ghost. All these contactee stories, for instance, are framed in a kind of sci-fi imagery that permeates our culture. I could buy aliens, but not aliens that look like Fifties' comic art. They're semiotic phantoms, bits of deep cultural imagery that have split off and taken on a life of their own, like the Jules Verne airships that those old Kansas farmers were always seeing. But you saw a different kind of ghost, that's all. That plane was part of the mass unconscious, once. You picked up on that, somehow. The important thing is not to worry about it."
I did worry about it, though.
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Re: Welcome back Pappy [Re: Papaver]
#5747375 - 06/13/06 09:09 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I remember you.. you probably don't know me or anything, but I've been here since near the beginning. Mostly only posted in mycology forums. I always lurked the other forums from time to time though.
Anyways, welcome back.. glad that you are back.
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Re: Welcome back Pappy [Re: Papaver]
#5747464 - 06/13/06 09:34 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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oh snap pappy is back as a mod! lol that didnt take long at all can i mod some crappy forum
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