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Begging for Snippets with Larry

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Re: Begging for Snippets with Larry
Post by TN4994   » Sun Nov 16, 2014 12:41 pm

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chrisd wrote:
kbus888 wrote:=2014/11/12=
I agree completely !!

My father used to say "Common sense isn't that common!".

I can add to that by saying that I've found that "common decency isn't all that common either" (unfortunately).

Oh well, I guess I'm showing my age :lol:




The only thing to which "common" is prefixed which is not, in fact, as rare as "rocking-horse turds", is the "Common Cold"


The common language, used during the course of the common day, by the common folk, tends to be vulgar.

The word vulgar can, in itself, be defined as: of the common people.
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Re: Begging for Snippets with Larry
Post by PeterZ   » Sat Nov 29, 2014 11:43 am

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PeterZ wrote:And now it's that time in our show where posters find silly ways to beg for Snippets.

(Sung to Danny Boy)

Oh, snippet posts....We search and search we're yearning...
from thread to thread and all of RFC's posts...
our patience gone and all our calm's a churning
'Ti's we must bide and you we desire the most

Oh come ye back when RFC's returned
Or when he's bored and seeks his relief
'Ti's here we wait with posts to be debated
Oh snippet post, oh snippets ease our grief

If you come when patience has abated
With patience gone as it may well be
You'll come find us at the post most debated
There you'll say" Read and be set free".

And as I read, my mind soars before me
And my dreams will warm and sweeter be
If you'll not fail to tell me you'll return to me
I'll simply wait, bound by desire for thee

I'll simply wait, bound by desire for thee
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Re: Begging for Snippets with Larry
Post by tootall   » Sat Nov 29, 2014 12:38 pm

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Usually posting to Breathless Hush worked-
eventually....
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Re: Begging for Snippets with Larry
Post by RHWoodman   » Sat Nov 29, 2014 2:16 pm

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Just a guess, but I suspect snippets will be about 3-4 weeks apart until we're lots closer to the release date.
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Re: Begging for Snippets with Larry
Post by fallsfromtrees   » Sat Nov 29, 2014 3:03 pm

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RHWoodman wrote:Just a guess, but I suspect snippets will be about 3-4 weeks apart until we're lots closer to the release date.

So far they haven't been:
snippets delay (in days)
1-2 7
2-3 7
3-4 10
4-5 7
5-6 10
6-7 11
7-8 9
8-9 9
9-10 12
10-11 19 (due to vacation in Europe)
and we are now at 12 days since snippet eleven. Its time please
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Re: Begging for Snippets with Larry
Post by Philip Stanley   » Sat Nov 29, 2014 5:40 pm

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I think it was Mark Twain who once said that American enthusiasm was like "building a fire on an ice floe; you had to keep feeding it or it would die out"
I sense this same phenomonon in the enthusiasm elicited by the relatively infrequent snippets we're getting for HFQ. There was a lot more excitement while we were waiting for LaMA, and getting subweekly snippets, than there is now when we get a snippet only once every 10 days (if we're lucky). There's not as much frantic topicing and replying, and the subjects aren't as much on point.
I hope RFC isn't losing his audience a little bit!
I realize that it's a long time to next November, but if fuel isn't added to the fire (see opening quote) regularly, it will die down significantly and may not relight quite as brightly.
Now that would be a tragedy!!!
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Re: Begging for Snippets with Larry
Post by MPCatchup   » Sat Nov 29, 2014 11:45 pm

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Maybe since it's taking so long this time we could get a snip instead of a snippet.
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Re: Begging for Snippets with Larry
Post by DrakBibliophile   » Sun Nov 30, 2014 11:28 am

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Those "snips" are very entertaining ... for David Weber. :twisted:

Ones like "I don't think Nimue is dead" or "Hektor being mortally wounded" have given David Weber tons of entertainment. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

MPCatchup wrote:Maybe since it's taking so long this time we could get a snip instead of a snippet.
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Re: Begging for Snippets with Larry
Post by tootall   » Sun Nov 30, 2014 12:44 pm

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I bet the traffic on this site has been terrific these past 4 days- nobody stays long - but everyone checks a couple three times a day for our next helping.

Maybe we're at the one a month stage???
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Re: Begging for Snippets with Larry
Post by fallsfromtrees   » Sun Nov 30, 2014 1:18 pm

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tootall wrote:I bet the traffic on this site has been terrific these past 4 days- nobody stays long - but everyone checks a couple three times a day for our next helping.

Maybe we're at the one a month stage???

That is a truly evil suggestion, and you don't need to be giving RFC any ideas.
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