(Announcement) Please welcome our new PF team member!

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  1. PoliticalForum

    PoliticalForum Administrator Staff Member

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    Along with the many recent positive changes, I am pleased to announce that Winter Bear has joined the PF team.

    Winter Bear has been observing PF for over six months and has been working closely with our Staff for many weeks now. He has extensive experience with online communities, politics and public service, communication, and general management.

    Winter Bear has volunteered to help as PF's first Sub-Administrator. He'll be primarily helping me and our hard-working Moderation Team. So, his main duties will be conducted in the Staff area, unseen to you.

    He will also be participating as a member, helping to promote PF, and generally helping to make PF an even better community. Therefore, his role involves many small aspects and will evolve over time.

    By the way, Winter Bear will not be involved with most technical aspects of the site.

    We've wanted to introduce him here for a while, but have both been so busy! He also has limited free time for the next 4 weeks. So for the next many weeks, you'll mostly see him posting casually and off-topic.

    For those who are curious: I'm not selling the site. The only changes will be continued improvements.
     
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    Indofred Banned at Members Request

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    Jolly nice.
    Have fun.
     
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    Dark Star Senior Admin Staff Member Donor

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    Thanks. It's really a privilege to be a part of this community, and I appreciate the opportunity you're giving me. I've still got a lot to learn, but I'm looking forward to getting to know the posters and get a better feel for the culture here. It's a good time to be coming on board, with all the changes you're making to restore and improve the site.

    Just so everyone knows, I have no official authority or responsibilities here on the forums right now, and I don't want any until I know my way around a little better. I'm going to spend the better part of the next couple of months just posting and getting to know the people, and the way you do things here, before we talk about exactly what my role will be. But I'm really looking forward to being a part of the new direction this site is taking; we can do some wonderful things with this place.

    It's nice to meet you all - I was getting sick and tired of working in the shadows all this time, and I'm really looking forward to being able to jump into some of the discussions without people wondering who the hell that is and what he's doing here.
     
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    tresha New Member Past Donor

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    Wait a minute!!

    Who the hell are you and what are you doing here?

    You've....you've been spying on us eh?

    Oh.....I remember!
    You're the newbie I had to give my locker too!
    (Sorry about the um....:weed: smell. It came from....um....someone else!)

    **sings** I'm not the newbie anymore, I'm not the newbie anymore!**

    Welcome aboard Mr. Winter Bear and do make yourself at home!!

    Say, do you like :trout: ?
     
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    Kranes56 Banned

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    Well nice to meet you. Make sure PF doesn't get messed up again will yeah? Don't want to be spending an hour waiting for a database error.
     
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    tresha New Member Past Donor

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    Great.
    Way to pressure the newbie. Thanks ever so much for that. (j/k)

    If the hamster slows down, I'm coming looking for you. :nod:
     
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    Kranes56 Banned

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    The only reason why he would slow down is because he's been sniffing the inside of your locker for too long.
     
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    Dark Star Senior Admin Staff Member Donor

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    Not my end, but I can say it looks like that one's been solved. I think the way is going be pretty much just forward from here.
     
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    Kranes56 Banned

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    Good. It would be really weird if it was going sideways. It's just unnatural.
     
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    Dark Star Senior Admin Staff Member Donor

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    Yeah, but it's fun to watch. Especially for Tresh when she comes back from her next little trip to her locker.
     
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    Dark Star Senior Admin Staff Member Donor

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    Salmon, preferably. Fresh is best. Where do you keep them, please?
     
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    Kranes56 Banned

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    Can't be any worse then the time I was trying to walk with Beer goggles on.
     
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    Jiyuu-Freedom Keep the peace Past Donor

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    We are so pleased to have Winter Bear on board here. I know he is an intelligent, hard working and dedicated person who picked up very quickly. He is non judgemental and has a great sense of humor.

    As soon as we all got our feet wet together in a huge pond where Winter Bear was fishing for meal, we found out that bears can be nice..lol. I do believe salmon is his favorite fish or it could be tresha's cooking, waiting to find out.:wink:

    He is a great help and we look forward to Winter Bear being a great addition and member here at P.F.
     
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    Welcome, and best of luck WB.

    :thumbsup:
     
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    flounder In Memoriam Past Donor

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    Tresh was referring to me......you have to get to know the sick humor.....LOL

    Salmon?, I have a cousin Sam, nice guy but you would think by now they would have decided between fresh or Salt water,,naaa, not them!
    Eat all you want.....

    errr,,,...did I mention flounder has just been put on the endangered species List...Just thought you might be interested..
     
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    Well it's good to meet and welcome Winter Bear although I'm still a little shocked at having seen you for the first time a few weeks ago. Next week, we find out if Webrock is really MelloGuy's long lost twin brother from a different family and if Nightmare 515's plans to take over the world will come to fruition or will he be stopped by Talon and a gang of tap dancing mimes. Okay joking and off topic, but may as well have some fun with it. And good to have you along Winter Bear. Hope you enjoy it.
     
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    Baton passer.

    Sideways can be fun!!
    It's how I (usually) roll.
    Especially since the stroke.....

    Hey!
    What the hell did you do with the....**looks around** where the hell is it?!
    You've only been here, like, 49 minutes, how much did you help yourself too?
    Jeez.....

    flounder? Haven't you been asked repeatedly to not pimp out for family members? (without a healthy donation to the :trout: & :weed: fund that is)

    Seriously?
    You've already lost the orientation booklet?
    *sigh*
    Fine. But take notes this time:

    Go down the hallway located behind the :couch:.
    Find the seventh door on the right.
    Go through that door, down the steps, hang a left---go through the wardrobe (push on the bottom panel 4 times) and wait for the phone to ring.
    (Red phone only. NOT the purple phone. Don't ever answer the purple phone :bomb:)
    After you answer the phone and (properly) answer all 19 questions, a very nice man in a lab coat will be along shortly. {some of us tip him, some don't. Up to you}

    Follow the very nice man in the lab coat and he will show you to the Staff only coffee shop/Control position that determines the rules of the world and what's allowed on TV, who wins at sports, etc....

    There.

    Follow that?
     
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    Geez, maybe we should make that drama Redwolf was talking about. You wake up from your stroke, realizing Winter Bear took your locker away from you. And he's threatening to report the smell to the cops if you don't do things.

    This stuff practically writes itself.
     
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    Welcome WB!! Glad you are aboard to strengthen our site!!!
     
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    Yeah!
    And then when I go to hit him....er hand him, hand him the :trout:, you know, as a gesture of goodwill and all, he, he grabs it from me and smacks me upside the head with it!

    Felony by fish.
    Film at 11.

    (you're right. This script is practically written already! We need to find an agent....)
     
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    And then you get into a coma. And when you wake up, you learn that the fish was your son that was taken from you when you were a struggling 20 year old mom working part time as a waitress down at the diner WB went to.

    But yeah, we need an agent.
     
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    tresha New Member Past Donor

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    I remember now.
    Way back when.....there was this.....rather large customer that came in, constantly ordering "fish sticks and cream. FISH STICKS AND CREAM!!!" pounding on the counter, what turned out to be his hair spilling on the floor.
    I had to sweep constantly to keep up!

    Oh the horror...........
     
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    On the plus side, you used the hair to make a nice fur coat.
     
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    Which kept me warm as I was forced to wander the streets, looking desperately for a valid coupon that would allow me a spot of tea.
     
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    And as you scower the streets, looking for a dumpster with the remains of a scrap of food, you faint. You awake in the hospital, informed that you lost custody of your son. They assume because you bought a fur coat, you don't know how to care for your son. When you explain that it was from a bear in the resturtant, they throw you in the mental aslyum. The pills they give you slowly increase your blood pressure, until you finally have that stroke.
     
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