In spite of intrusions by the USMC, computer glitches on con listings, and
general gloopiness of contestants, Dean did yeoman service running, and KR
supporting, the Full Thrust games at GenCon. I know that he was feeling pretty
disappointed some events didn't come off, but I thank him for the one I
played, and could tell plenty of others had a damn good time.
And I DID play, in a crossover! FINALLY!
Maybe next year I'll replace Hobie as the totem king maker in the big
tourney. ;->=
By the way, I did see 'vanilla' FTII played, though there may have been some
MT added. Still a good starter, methinks.
Tell us about how the Crossover went. I'd love to play one of these days, but
I'll have to live vicariously through you this year.
> --- devans@uneb.edu wrote:
I'll second that -- Dead did a FANTASTIC job running the Full Thrust
tournament this year!
-- Rick Rutherford
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> Rick Rutherford wrote:
Dead ? He must have been working too hard !! ;-)
Tony
> -- Rick Rutherford
As someone who played his first ever game of Full Thrust at GenCon, promptly
ran to the dealers' room to buy the books, and just subscribed to this list
yesterday, I would like to echo that thank you.
Welcome to the List. We're an odd lot, but interesting, and the
signal-to-noise ratio is quite good. Caveat: when one of the listers
talks about the biological details of obscure fish (or the radar
characteristics of antitank missiles, or the exact procedure for kicking in a
door and going
through with assault rifle in hand, or the life cycle of stars)--be
careful when you argue with the poster because there's a good chance that the
speaker deals with that subject professionally. (except me, of
course--I
get paid to *sound* convincing) :-)
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> On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Chris DeBoe wrote:
> Welcome to the List. We're an odd lot, but interesting, and the
Mmm. Some of us deal with the stuff professionally _and_ get paid to
sound convincing, even;)
Cheers,
Beth explained a military related acronym to someone!!! Yeah, Beth. One
more step to being fluent in speaking military/government/bureaucrat...
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 09:42:35 +1000 "Fulton, Beth (CMR, Hobart)"
> <Beth.Fulton@marine.csiro.au> writes:
> At 10:35 AM -0400 8/9/01, Glenn M Wilson wrote:
One
> more step to being fluent in speaking military/government/bureaucrat...
For more Acronym and terminology fun check out the following...
US and UK naval terms...Some are quite funny.
http://www.hazegray.org/faq/slang1.htm
http://www.hazegray.org/faq/slang2.htm
Vietnam era terms...
http://grunt.space.swri.edu/glossary.htm
SF terms...(umm Special Forces)
http://grunt.space.swri.edu/jargon.htm
AMF