As I read The Lounge, The Lair and What’s Your Deal a number a times per day, I’m impressed at the depth of knowledge that is evident.

There are so many times where I see a subject in which I feel well versed only to open the thread and find a bunch of wizards have dwarfed my knowledge.

Keep up the good work boys and girls ‘cause I love saying “Holy Shit - I didn’t know that!”

Mike

I agree - hence my 'signature line'

great place to gain insight

(Of course I don't agree with everything written here but that's true of any gathering...)

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Agreed

My CUT was chosen for this very reason. Yes, membership has its privileges.

I have been on-line since 1999/2000, there is no other place like this.

Thank you Para!!

Same here.

None of us knows everything, but we all do

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Originally posted by P-220:
Thank you Para!!

The alpha and omega of this forum.
The knowledge of members here would never have the opportunity of being passed on without a culture that made it possible. The balance between permissiveness and control of the discussions here is unusual at the least and perhaps unique on the Internet.

And no matter how obscure, specialized, niche or nuanced a question may be, somebody will know the right answer as well as freely sharing it.

That, to me, is where SigForum knocks it out of the park.

Best place on the planet, bar none.

Seriously, it's tremendous how much I've learned here.

I'm currently waiting to see how the trash cans get separated....

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
I'm currently waiting to see how the trash cans get separated....

As the Dean said "Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son." So dubble ditto. While I am busy with all that, I too needsta know how those trashcans get separated.

If I needed advice from a physicist-engineer about the best wood for a handmade tenor ukulele, the ukulele being inlaid with a passage in Old Saxon that I'm not sure I've correctly translated, I'm pretty sure I could cover all of those bases with a single thread here. Actually, the third post in the thread would probably be somebody's offer to send the required wood if I'd PM an address.

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
I'm currently waiting to see how the trash cans get separated....

That's going to be one of those sayings that people here say but no outsider knows what it means. Sort of like "What color is the boat house at Hereford?".

"Let's separate trash cans, men!"

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Originally posted by DennisM:
Actually, the third post in the thread would probably be somebody's offer to send the required wood if I'd PM an address.

That's another thing that makes this place a GREAT place...

Paging Mike......
The molecular biologist/geneticist.

First example off the top of the pile.

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Originally posted by mcrimm:
As I read The Lounge, The Lair and What’s Your Deal a number a times per day, I’m impressed at the depth of knowledge that is evident.

There are so many times where I see a subject in which I feel well versed only to open the thread and find a bunch of wizards have dwarfed my knowledge.

Keep up the good work boys and girls ‘cause I love saying “Holy Shit - I didn’t know that!”

Mike

I feel the same way - often

Recently I read Airframe, a novel by Michael Crichton. Never would have known it existed if not seeing mention in the Boeing thread. Great book, and I thank the post, as longer narratives have proved difficult since the death of one near and dear.

The book begins with two quotes (what is the page before the story begins called, where a writer may reprint a favorite passage? Not the Prologue or Forward or "To Emily" or whatnot?

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“The irony of the Information Age is that it has given new respectability to uninformed opinion." Veteran reporter John Lawton, 68, speaking to the American Association of Broadcast Journalists in 1995” ― Michael Crichton, Airframe

Here as well.....I get all the real news here.

We be right smart folks.

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Originally posted by Woodman:
Recently I read Airframe, a novel by Michael Crichton. Never would have known it existed if not seeing mention in the Boeing thread.

I read that book last week after seeing it recommended here. Crichton did a great job keeping you guessing on that one.
Mike