Which PA member do you miss the most?

Atavachron wrote: 'came a cropper' ?--  you're gonna have to translate that, mate

ah .... 'come a cropper' .... I'm not at all sure of the etymology but it essentially equates to an accident. In my post "train wreck" probably would have sufficed. To be honest the whole thing was poorly worded.

I was about to head off into "damned American's, learn to speak English, when I realised the phrase is probably no more English than I am* . I read something somewhere that linguists believe that if e.g. there was no contact between America, England and Australia in less than 100 years we would not be able to understand each other. in the case of New Zealand some suggest this has already happened.

ps - it's a shame old posts only go a couple of years.

* wrong again ya drongo .... come a cropper is in fact a British expression.


Edited by t d wombat - July 22 2015 at 17:39

PROGMAN wrote: fellow welshman snog dog is the other i remember too

Ah, the legend that is Ian Cownie. He's the man who got me on here in the first place, with his scathing put downs. I'm still friends with him on FB but I'm not sure why he doesn't post here any more.

I'm not sure how he'll react to being called "snog dog" instead of "snow dog" though.

micky wrote: t d wombat wrote: micky wrote: yeah.. that reminds me.  Of all the things to miss the most in PA's.  Ivan.. oh yeah. he is still here in spirit but in a kind of symphonic semi-Yoda state.  One can not think of him without thinking of seas of blue font.. verbally going to toe with anyone foolish or stubborn enough to think they can out debate him.  I miss those days. A relative newcomer to these hallowed halls I ventured in with angels shrieking "decelerate you fool".   Flayed alive I was. You cannot ( at least I did not) master Ivan when it comes to debate.  Mighty of coloured font and bold of type is he and damnit he really does know his stuff. (Newcomer in that while I did first sign up in 2007, I didn't become a regular contributer until quite recently.) that is he does and is stubborn as a mule   I've only seen one person that can out-Ivan Ivan.  Get this...many years ago some damn fool decided to get into with him over the release date of an album.  14 pages and countless multi-colored quotes and various research finds later he emerged victorious.  The key to debating him is.. a) be right and b) out stubborn him as he doesn't give up easily. Bless him

Yeah, if Ivan was wrong, like any good philosopher, he would make damn sure he didn't understand anything that might support the other guy's point of view.

'came a cropper' ?--  you're gonna have to translate that, mate

t d wombat wrote: micky wrote: yeah.. that reminds me.  Of all the things to miss the most in PA's.  Ivan.. oh yeah. he is still here in spirit but in a kind of symphonic semi-Yoda state.  One can not think of him without thinking of seas of blue font.. verbally going to toe with anyone foolish or stubborn enough to think they can out debate him.  I miss those days. A relative newcomer to these hallowed halls I ventured in with angels shrieking "decelerate you fool".   Flayed alive I was. You cannot ( at least I did not) master Ivan when it comes to debate.  Mighty of coloured font and bold of type is he and damnit he really does know his stuff. (Newcomer in that while I did first sign up in 2007, I didn't become a regular contributer until quite recently.)

that is he does and is stubborn as a mule
 
I've only seen one person that can out-Ivan Ivan.  Get this...many years ago some damn fool decided to get into with him over the release date of an album.  14 pages and countless multi-colored quotes and various research finds later he emerged victorious.  The key to debating him is.. a) be right and b) out stubborn him as he doesn't give up easily. Bless him

micky wrote: yeah.. that reminds me.  Of all the things to miss the most in PA's.  Ivan.. oh yeah. he is still here in spirit but in a kind of symphonic semi-Yoda state.  One can not think of him without thinking of seas of blue font.. verbally going to toe with anyone foolish or stubborn enough to think they can out debate him.  I miss those days.

A relative newcomer to these hallowed halls I ventured in with angels shrieking "decelerate you fool".   Flayed alive I was. You cannot ( at least I did not) master Ivan when it comes to debate.  Mighty of coloured font and bold of type is he and damnit he really does know his stuff.


(Newcomer in that while I did first sign up in 2007, I didn't become a regular contributer until quite recently.)


Edited by t d wombat - July 21 2015 at 18:26

Gerinski. He disappeared into Spain.

number 9

PROGMAN wrote: velvet room bunch those days when the forums were more edgier and colourful lol

Remember that the first VC room was called Mariah Carey?

never participated in those thread, lack of time and I'm not silly enough to indulge in), but a lot of fortunes (in turns of posts published) were built in those kinds of threads.

swedens national treasure Velvetclown, very colourful member who i was great friends with on here