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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 3202
Location: Alexandria, Virginia | Subject: Reconnected to outside world
Bill Kreher worked some kinda voodoo...tossed his magic chicken bones in the air...spoke in the unknown tongue to some guy in a far away hollow tree, who was called "tech rep" (a close friend of Yoda and Sparky the Wonder Dog) and typed in a lot of mystic words...codes...secret incantations...bra sizes...the names of the Seven Dwarfs...and a whole lotta stuff I know absolutely nothing about which means about everything that has a damn thing to do with cyberspace jungle drums, magic spelling boxes, internet stuff and electric information getters. I can operate, light switches, refrigerator handles (I don't understand how they know to turn on the light when you wanta get a half gallon jug of milk out or check and see what vegetables have gone bad.) and I've mastered how to trigger a toilet flush. At one point Bill told Mister Tech Rep, the guy operating out of that hollow tree in northern Honduras, that he was helping the dumbest bastard in North America...I have no idea who he was talking about cause there were just the two of us here. I would like to thank Joe Pheonix, Rick Hedman, Jon Krup, Ray, "the Goatman" Stone, Senor Stoops, and everyone except the sonuvabitch that sent me the post that had the Hippo Virus that super glued up the inside of my electrical connection box and loused it up. May your future generations turn out to be like Richard Simmons. I'm back...like athlete's foot, jock itch and the ugly girl at your class reunion. I feel resurrected...exhumed...dug up during an archelological excavation...I now fully understand how Casper the Friendly Ghost feels. GREAT...I now have to find out about (a) how Jon Krup's puppies are doing, (b) How to contact Bodega Bob, (c) If the Game Warden ever got a rope on Billy Bob, (d) If Millie ever killed Clear in his sleep and set him on fire (e) If Mandleblatt and the Duchess of Durban are doing OK (f) If John Wynn is still falling off bar stools at 40 School Street, (g) If Doc Gardner is still operating that bag full of hollering stray cats, (h) and if Bruce Miller ever mastered eating with a fork and the technical requirements of theuse of bathroom paper. GOOD TO BE BACK...Dex
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Old Salt
Posts: 330
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 877
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dex armstrong - 2009-05-07 11:49 AM
....(e) If Mandleblatt and the Duchess of Durban are doing OK ... GOOD TO BE BACK...Dex
Wooohooo..three cheers and a tiger for you..we're doing fine Dex.. |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1814
Location: Boydton, Virginia | Subject: RE: Reconnected to outside world
Uh-Oh! There goes the neighborhood. First Hairball, now Dex. Ya'll better hang onto your skivvies, we are in for a wild ride.... gonna be like snorkleing in the North Atlantic in January.
So, Dexter, did Bill reserrect your old 'puter or set you up with a yard sale special?
Steamboat sends |
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Old Salt
Posts: 419
Location: Anchorage, Alaska | Subject: RE: Reconnected to outside world
Welcome back, DEX. Been missin' your contributions here. |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1405
Location: Houston, TX (Best state in the US) | Subject: RE: Reconnected to outside world
Welcome back! It's been too long! |
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Old Salt
Posts: 264
Location: Harrison, NJ | Subject: RE: Reconnected to outside world
HOOYAH!! It's good to have ya back, Dex. We've been short a TM or two, lately
Try to keep running HSN. |
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 6180
Location: Summerville, SC | Subject: RE: Reconnected to outside world
Billy Kreher is the typical USS Sennet SS-408 Shipmate. Always there the lend a helping hand. Tell me, Dex, did Billy reach in your pocket and say he was looking for loose change? Billy was one hell of a Storekeeper. He could find much needed parts better than the best. He was a co-sal whiz kid.
Oh yeah, good to see you back cycling the vents again, Dex. I haven't had anyone to pick on other than John Clear.  |
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Old Salt
Posts: 402
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So...I'm betting ya fell asleep at the keyboard cause you have a lot of catching up to do.
WELCOME BACK DEX!!!!
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Plankowner
Posts: 9165
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: Reconnected to outside world
Dexter... good to see you learned dd to use the "ON" switch and reconnected yourself to the world. thanxs for the hospitality when we "Swine of the Higher Order" visited your home. Have you ever told anyone why you decided to hang POD's picture in your bathroom? I know we all got a good laugh out of that. Especially Blue. Oh, wait.... I get it now... it prevents constipation..... takes me awhile sometimes.....
Take care buddy.
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Master and Commander
Posts: 2254
Location: Foothills of the Ozarks | Subject: RE: Reconnected to outside world
dex armstrong - 2009-05-07 2:49 PM
(g) If Doc Gardner is still operating that bag full of hollering stray cats, (h) and if Bruce Miller ever mastered eating with a fork and the technical requirements of theuse of bathroom paper. GOOD TO BE BACK...Dex
Dex: The stray cats have taken up permanent residence and have learned to behave themselves. They even taught my dog (a Scottie no less) to howl whenever they go into "full throttle mode".
Good to see you back; if you ever learn how to work a DVD player I'll send you a DVD of "cat screeching"; guaranteed to rid your house of mice; your dog of fleas, and your neighbor of single malt scotch.
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Master and Commander
Posts: 2191
Location: Port Ludlow, WA (the Olympic Penninsula) | Subject: RE: Reconnected to outside world
Millie killed Clear after having had to watch that worst movie of all movies "SUB DOWN" - you win Dexter!!!!! Absolutely the "mostest, worstest" submarine movie in recent centuries... They actually spent money on that thing (obviously didn't make any)... I've seen better from the Our Gang Kids - really!!!! Thanks for the two hours of my life that I'll never recover!!!! Keep the box fed and don't let those viruses in again - hint, avoid answering too many messages from Nigeria!!!! BTW: Ignore Ralphy - he's running on diesel fumes!
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Master and Commander
Posts: 2357
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...Dex who? lol
Hang on, this should be fun!
Great to see you a month or two ago and now back online.
Blue *_* |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1262
Location: Va.Beach,Va. | Subject: RE: Reconnected to outside world
Welcome back Shipmate.
Just made a fresh pot of coffee and the flic starts in ten minutes(or whenever we get done cleaning up after evening chow).Draw a cup and tell us all about your
extended liberty period.How's Thelma?Did you rid the world of Rolling Rock and
Sly Fox? You've got a lot of 'splainin' to do,my friend.  
Edited by MAD DOG 2009-05-07 3:23 PM
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 3674
Location: Kansas City Missouri | Subject: RE: Reconnected to outside world
Finally.....my withdrawal symptoms cease. And I can stop trying to think up clever ways to make you respond. If you get bored with posting here, take a look at this http://www.archive.org/stream/chattanoogacount010217mbp/chattanoogacount010217mbp_djvu.txt The short history of Chattanooga. Welcome back. |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1405
Location: Houston, TX (Best state in the US) | Subject: RE:oh crap...this doesn't bode well....
Get One BIG POT
THrow in Ralph Luther, John Clear, Ric Hedman, Dex Armstrong, and a few more bilge rats, put on a mild flame, and stir vigorously! Grab a big bowl of popcorn and get a front row seat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The After Battery is open....don't forget to duck!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 3202
Location: Alexandria, Virginia | Subject: RE: Reconnected to outside world
I just lost a post I had been working on for the better part of a half hour. I would like to be able to forego swinging from limb to limb for a brief moment. In my life I have made damn near every mistake an immature bastard can make...I've tapdanced in damn near every cowpie in God's pasture. I suffered from severe advanced retarded maturity. But. I made two wonderful, never regretted decisions. I got a wonderful bride...in spite of the advice of all my friends, Father and all my relatives...all self annointed experts in saving me from myself. "Dex, they don't think like us...don't have or values...Norwegians are weird...all the sonuvabitches eat are fish and goat cheese." "Solveig talks like Inger Stevens in the FARMER's DAUGHTER." "Betcha five bucks it doesn't last five years." (Well, It lasted 40 wonderful years and ended when she reluctantly left us in a bed in Alexandria Hospital in December 2005.) The other smart move was volunteering for submarine duty and being blessed by ending up on a wornout smokeboat they quit making parts for. They say that "confession is good for the soul"....Well, I signed up to ride the boats for the most immature reasons an eighteen year old could come up with....I damn near wore out my eyeballs watching DESTINATION TOKYO (Cary Grant), OPERATION PACIFIC (John Wayne), reading SUBMARINE by Captain Edward L. Beach jr, SUBMARINE OPERATIONS OF WORLD WAR II by Theodore Roscoe...(Actually read the paperback Penguin edition called PIGBOATS...easier to park behind an Algebra II text in study hall and a helluva lot more interesting.) And I was a devoted fan of that silver tongued devil Rear Admiral Thomas M. Dykers...(I was an E-3...if I called him Tommy Dykers, a 50,000 volt lightning bolt would hop out of the sky and rip my butt off.) A few of the things Admiral Dykers failed to mention included standing lookout in a freezing North Atlantic rain, dumping trash from the sail door in a state five sea, trying to keep 311 feet of antiquated, wornout diesel boat on the ordered depth when snorkeling in a section of the ocean experiencing seventy foot swells raging like a giant washing machine in the rinse cycle....He somehow forgot to mention venting No. 2 Sanitary Tank inboard....life in Hogans Alley....hot sacking...reversing blank flanges (spectical flanges, Dutchmen) hunkered down in the superstructure with ice water sloshing all over you from the limber holes. There was a lotta stuff they never told you at Sub School.....but they also forgot to tell you about all the wonderful bastards you would become friends for life with. Men who would be your family for a lifetime...men who set the standard for loyal, never-let-you-down shipmates. Men who would seek you out...comfort you, pick you up and set you on your feet when life landed haymakers on your jaw...men like Joe Pheonix who helped me get back on line, Ric Hedman who busted his butt trying to get me back on line and figured out what the problem was (Ric you were right), Ray Stone who applied his technical expertise and determined that hauling the entire contraption to the local landfill was the best course of action....Jon Krup who conjectured that an entire colony of electro-demons had established a large community in that big black box with all the wires coming out of it. When you live alone, friends who don't forget you and really care when they say, "Dex just called to see how you're doing, Shipmate?" are the pearls in your oyster of life....They are the prize you got in your qualification CrackerJack box....I never knew it at the time but the botherhood of undersea service was one of God's most wonderful gifts. Those of you (you know who you are) who have pulled me out of the ditch since she went away...know that it has been recognized, appreciated and has become something I will always be deeply grateful for. Even John Wynn who wore out some heavy lumber getting my attention by beating hell out of me and his version of a gentle wake-up call. And a special thanks to you Bill K. for all the work you did that has allowed me to return to Gentry's magic sandbox...and join all the other miscreants who go to this playground simply to look up the girls dresses on the swings and check out their bloomers when they hang upside down on the monkey bars. Damn it's good to be home. Your Indebted Shipmate DEX |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1107
Location: Tucson AZ | Subject: Sharpen those harpoons me lads!
Now pull! Moby Dex is back!
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 2540
Location: Wappingers Falls, NY | Subject: RE: Reconnected to outside world
AH, SUCH SWEET WORDS...like "pure heaven"...
WELCOME BACK, Dear Friend. You were sorely missed...especially by "yours truly"! I am up in Groton as I write this post...having arrived about an hour ago...Return to Sub School and Anniversary Celebration...and I will find out if
John Wynn has fallen off any bar stools lately...and I think Jon's puppies are thriving...got a pix from him...they are adorable.
Well, something you don't know...you are now part of the "Swine of the Highest Order" (all us reprobates who invaded in March)...they even let me in... and I am in the best company. Thank you.
Now that you are "back"...don't let the gerbils run out of food!!
Good to see you back.
Edited by miss lumpy bumps 2009-05-07 6:28 PM
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 2561
Location: Rapid City, SD | Subject: "D-e-e-x-x," said with tears in my eyes....
You never mentioned that you missed me.
Boo-hoo..... 
Cora
I even thought of calling you, but have missplaced your phone number.
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 2540
Location: Wappingers Falls, NY | Subject: RE: "D-e-e-x-x," said with tears in my eyes....
Ah Cora, he's still getting his feet wet...he wouldn't forget about you...or me...like the old saying goes "save the best for last"??? (< |
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 602
Location: Visalia, Ca. | Subject: RE: Reconnected to outside world
Yeee-hah, I'm sure glad I put my seat-belt on when I saw the subject line on that post. Still almost fell off my computer chair laughing, reading that "I'm Baaaack" message.
Glad you're back. This place has not been the same without your breathless prose.
Even Cora wondered where you were hiding. |
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Senior Crew
Posts: 168
Location: St. John's, Newfoundland. | Subject: RE: Reconnected to outside world
steamboat - 2009-05-07 4:44 PM
Uh-Oh! There goes the neighborhood. First Hairball, now Dex. Ya'll better hang onto your skivvies, we are in for a wild ride.... gonna be like snorkleing in the North Atlantic in January.
So, Dexter, did Bill reserrect your old 'puter or set you up with a yard sale special?
Steamboat sends
Skivvies? Only sissies wear those! The skidmarks in my jeans is the only way I knw back from front, the zipper rusted shut years ago!
Lordy it's good to see you back Dex, it's too damm civilized without ya!
Cheers, Hairy. |
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Senior Crew
Posts: 168
Location: St. John's, Newfoundland. | Subject: RE: Reconnected to outside world
Doc Gardner - 2009-05-07 6:25 PM
Dex: The stray cats have taken up permanent residence and have learned to behave themselves. They even taught my dog (a Scottie no less) to howl whenever they go into "full throttle mode".
C'mon Doc, tell them about how your Scottie learned Kung-Fu and busted-up your leg and then danced the Highland Jig on your mangled body! By the way Dex, Doc is now, Biker Doc! Don't know of he's earned his patch yet, but he has the Harley!
Hairy. Ooops! Forgot the beer in my last poist! |
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 811
Location: NW Connecticut | Subject: RE: Reconnected to outside world
Welcome back Dex.. Good to see you are doing well. |
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Reconnected to outside world
