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I am a real-time embedded software engineer currently living amidst the cornfields of Central Illinois, not far from where I grew up, to use a very liberal definition of "grown up."  Most of my work has been for military applications.  I never served in the military, but I've spent a lot of time listening to those who have.

My hobbies include reading (especially history),  music, and collecting previous addresses.  I've lived in Ohio, Georgia, California, and Connecticut.

If you came back here because something I wrote was out of line and offended you, please know that you're probably taking it far more seriously than I did.

Unless I specifically called you a "doody-head,"  in which case, it's on!


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Percival
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Percival
Hometown:
Joliet, IL
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Thanks, Lynn.  My parents are a few years older than you, and I always try to get them to talk of their childhood.  Dad has gotten into the habit of writing down bits of family history not only for his kids, but for our cousins.

Percival

You can trust your car
To the man who wears the star.
The big, bright Texaco star!

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haig-fund-poppy-250

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

– John McCrae

Percival

10 cents: Larry,

Look at you. You are not worthy to criticize people who fought the early hate wars. Their scars needed to be respected. If you are able to last another thou maybe you will be worthy to offer your newbie advice. Remember this is the hate thread not some Seattle Sunday School Meet Up.

I say we throw Larry from the Monorail near the Ugly Museum. What sat you Scrut, Severely, Percival, Susan, DocJay, Joan, and FG? · 1 minute ago

I was thinking pitch him from the ski lift onto the black diamond slope of Mt. Annoying, but the Ugly Museum works too.

Percival

Æthelred the Unready.

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Mike LaRoche

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Percival

Also it will be revealed that in addition to signing off on the search warrant of James Rosen's phone records, Eric Holder also signed off on the movies The Big Wedding, Identity Thief, and Battleship.

Percival

The document dump will contain Dr. Chu's detailed blueprints for a 100% solar-powered Death Star, to be built by a consortium consisting of Solyndra and Fisker.

It's a bargain. Really.  Besides, we've already spent 70% of the budget.

Percival

Come on now, Troy.  The president has just announced a new new beginning, so here is where he turns it all around!  That and yet another recovery summer, and we're back on Easy Street.

Percival

Thanks for the pictures, Doc.

Of the handful of family WWII pictures that I've seen, all but a few were of guys who were far too young to have ever been my uncles, sited in far-off flyblown corners of the globe, and grinning at the camera while taking a break from saving the world.

Percival

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

– Mark Twain

...and yeah, as a matter of fact, I had to google that.

Percival
jetstream: So, ten pennies, you want us to believe there's actually someone who will talk to you on the phone ... I don't think we're going to fall for it ... · 13 hours ago

Hey, 10¢ using a phone to talk to his imaginary friends is considered an improvement by the treatment staff.  Don't bust the bubble.

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Foxfier: Summed up over at Dudley's post-- basically, it's a misunderstanding/misinterpretation of the basic teaching.  Jesus paid the price, but we can still reject the gift.

Given the context I found and linked for the quote over there, I really have to wonder how sincere the original misinterpretation was. · 2 hours ago

Never underestimate the ability of HuffPo to misinterpret.

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Severely Ltd.

DocJay: Larry, does once make me gay? · 22 minutes ago

Once did. But all those times afterward sealed the deal. · 4 minutes ago

Hey, novitate jumping in to defend the Doc, do not mess with him. 

He can write scripts for one, put a hook in your lip number two, and lives in range of small, affordable casinos and abandoned goldmines.

You know , I may not know how to play the game, but that has never stopped me before . I have swallowed golf balls, thrown candy from helicopters at poor Iraqi farmers , and harassed elephants with propane blasts in a balloon. Jay is my homey and I'm sorta sure he's not gay. Although the Vespa and the collector Carmichaels tend to the eclectic. · 18 minutes ago

Ha!

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Central Scrutinizer

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Central Scrutinizer

#belch-chah

That's exactly what I thought you'd say. Although I must admit the creativity of making it two syllables caught me off guard. Well-done in that narrow respect. More broadly, you're a degenerate cretin. · 13 minutes ago

You are such a bigot. That judgmental attitude is gonna cause trouble for you and yours. I see sensitivity training in your future. I'll bet you own bibles and guns and an internal combustion engine.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. Man. · 45 minutes ago

Sensitivity training is in everybody's future.

And people who say "if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem" are themselves part of the problem.

Percival

That's one for the ages, mustang.  Right up there with the NY Post: Headless Body Found in Topless Bar.

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