The Little Thread Which Grew - the Apollo '73 to Everything But

[Maria Cuervo]

Re: Unusual Befellows - This is really an odd mix.

Glad I could do a funny.
[video=youtube;K1vZq3bTS_Y]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1vZq3bTS_Y[/video]

One of my favorites is
"I can put a round through a flea's ass at 200 meters."

 

[Mick Wenlock]

Re: Unusual Befellows - This is really an odd mix.

One of my favorites is
"I can put a round through a flea's ass at 200 meters."

I like guns and shoot for fun and I doubt that I could be relied upon to put a round through an elephants ass at 20 meters. LOL

 

[Maria Cuervo]

Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973

[video=youtube;4KUpKXUSpfM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KUpKXUSpfM[/video]
Gorgeous

 

[lkwdblds]

Re: Unusual Befellows - This is really an odd mix.

I had downloaded pictures of that family a while back. Somebody took photos of the dead that looked as if the deaths occured a bit before the bunker actually fell. I could 't believe they would kill the children. I know Hitler's doctor was snuck out of that bunker onto a plane to Switzerland in the final moments. The children almost made it but momma changed her mind. Sick , dying for a lost dream.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ted-Goebbels-little-boy-Hitler-shot-head.html
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Eckart

Hi Hats, I found a picture of the 6 Goebbles children plus their half brother Harald. It is a pretty good shot of the entire family. The older kids were around 9 or 10 and realized they were going to be poisoned and put up a fight.

Here is a link to the photo of the 2 parents, the 6 kids and a step brother. Only the step brother survived WWII. https://www.google.com/search?q=jos...ikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FJoseph_Goebbels;800;597
Joseph Goebbles and his wife left some sort of statement declaring that they did not want their children to grow up and live in a defeated Germany without Hitler leading the nation. What a terrible scumbag Goebbels was. Many relatives of high ranking Nazi's survived WWII and lived long and fruitful lives in Germany. Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, the famous Desert Fox had a son Manfred who served as Mayor of Stuttgart, where Mercedes main plants are for many years all the way up to 1996. In fact Manfred Rommel lived all the way to Nov, 2013 when he died one month short of age 85. Here is a link to his data: https://www.google.com/webhp?source...32&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=erwin rommel's son
Lakey

 

[Leon-2]

Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973

I've always found Himmler to be the most interesting of all the top Nazis.

He came from no-place - what was he before? An agricultural guy or something like that. A woodwork teacher maybe. And he set up the entire SS running all of the Death Camps, running the entire Waffen SS, running the entire Ahnenerbedienst, running all of the alternative science and technology research - all from his desk . . . Kerrrist! Te guy was an AMAZINGLY competent administrator. Astonishing.

None of the other top Nazis ever liked him. Thought him a bit of a nutter who was not to be trusted.

An amazing fellow.

 

[strativarius]

Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRwR1kuejRE

 

[Hatshepsut]

Re: Unusual Befellows - This is really an odd mix.

Hi Hats, I found a picture of the 6 Goebbles children plus their half brother Harald. It is a pretty good shot of the entire family. The older kids were around 9 or 10 and realized they were going to be poisoned and put up a fight.

Here is a link to the photo of the 2 parents, the 6 kids and a step brother. Only the step brother survived WWII. https://www.google.com/search?q=jos...ikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FJoseph_Goebbels;800;597
Joseph Goebbles and his wife left some sort of statement declaring that they did not want their children to grow up and live in a defeated Germany without Hitler leading the nation. What a terrible scumbag Goebbels was. Many relatives of high ranking Nazi's survived WWII and lived long and fruitful lives in Germany. Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, the famous Desert Fox had a son Manfred who served as Mayor of Stuttgart, where Mercedes main plants are for many years all the way up to 1996. In fact Manfred Rommel lived all the way to Nov, 2013 when he died one month short of age 85. Here is a link to his data: https://www.google.com/webhp?source...32&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=erwin rommel's son
Lakey

There were warning signs early on with Goebbel's personality. His earliest love letters found go to auction.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...ters-reveal-tyrant-in-the-making-8168235.html

 

[lkwdblds]

Re: Unusual Befellows - This is really an odd mix.

There were warning signs early on with Goebbel's personality. His earliest love letters found go to auction.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...ters-reveal-tyrant-in-the-making-8168235.html

One week ago, we hit 2 miillion hits at about a quarter to midnight, PST. right now at 6:00 pm with 6 hours still left in the week, we are at 2,018,560. 18,500 to 19,000 in a week is well above our normal average. I can feel the energy picking up. Too bad we have to discuss the Third Reich so much, I'm one of the biggest offenders but Hats and Leon seem to both like the subject about as much as I do.

That subject has legs for some reason. It has been talked about for over 75 years new yet there always seems to be fresh material popping up about it. This week the highlight was the German Navy and their uniforms. Those sailor uniforms are really sharp. I love the fact that the T shirt has red horizontal strips on it and the collar is open so as to reveal the T shirt and the collar is wide. Then there is some sort of black tassle that dangles down from the seaman's cap to the rear of the cap. Then, last but not least, there is the name. Deutche Kriegs Marine, that is so much more impressive than just saying US Navy.

It seems to me that the British Navy had a pretty flashy uniform for sailors. The Japanese Navy's uniform was very plain. To be honest, I don't know what the Italian Navy's uniform looked like nor the soviet sailor's uniform. How about names, for the Soviet Union, it might be something like Sovietki Zee Brigadski but then they would abbreviate it to SZB.

If any of the names or uniforms are notable, I'll come right back here and post links to them. I am just sort of having a laughing fit of sorts, thinking about this silly topic.

Addendum. It looks like I was wrong on the stripped T Shirt. It seems as if the German Navy did not have that but the Russian Navy did. Also, the British Sailors uniforms and the USA Sailors uniforms were very similar except for the hats, the British hat is flatter. The Italians, as might be expected, have more stylish uniforms than the others.

Lakey

 

[Moderator 3]

Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973

One week ago, we hit 2 miillion hits at about a quarter to midnight, PST. right now at 6:00 pm with 6 hours still left in the week, we are at 2,018,560. 18,500 to 19,000 in a week is well above our normal average. I can feel the energy picking up. Too bad we have to discuss the Third Reich so much, I'm one of the biggest offenders but Hats and Leon seem to both like the subject about as much as I do.
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Lakey

I'm not trying to burst anyone's bubble so please don't take this the wrong way. I've refrained from mentioning this before but somehow feel obligated to point something out before anyone gets too carried away. The "# of Views" statistic is falsely inflated, due to various internet-related factors, it's a False Stat.

The thing you should acknowledge, take pride in and rejoice about in regards to the Apollo Thread are twofold;

1. It's the longest continuously running thread on ESMB and
2. As a result, it has the most replies.

I put both those things down to Lakey's husbandry, keeping the thread active and interesting to others and posting probably half of those replies himself.

Like I said, this is not to burst anyone's bubble or make less of the thread in any way, it's simply pointing out the truth of the situation.

 

[Rmack]

Re: Unusual Befellows - This is really an odd mix.

One of my favorites is
"I can put a round through a flea's ass at 200 meters."

Those are great.

For the best quotables ever, watch 'Full Metal Jacket' if you haven't. R. Lee Ermey is hilarious.

 

[Leon-2]

Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973

I'm not trying to burst anyone's bubble so please don't take this the wrong way. I've refrained from mentioning this before but somehow feel obligated to point something out before anyone gets too carried away. The "# of Views" statistic is falsely inflated, due to various internet-related factors, it's a False Stat.

The thing you should acknowledge, take pride in and rejoice about in regards to the Apollo Thread are twofold;

1. It's the longest continuously running thread on ESMB and
2. As a result, it has the most replies.

I put both those things down to Lakey's husbandry, keeping the thread active and interesting to others and posting probably half of those replies himself.

Like I said, this is not to burst anyone's bubble or make less of the thread in any way, it's simply pointing out the truth of the situation.

Stats being inflated and always false is done this way in the best traditions of the Church of Scientology.

 

[Free Being Me]

Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973

Carmelo, don't forget to mention the e-book that will be coming out shortly. Also we are planning an audio book so that you can hear the best of the Apollo thread while you are driving your car, working out, jogging or walking. There is even a movie deal in the works. Moe from the 3 Stooges will play Lakey and Travolta is being looked at for playing Carmelo. Both Candy Swanson and Reece Witherspoon are audtioning for the role of Sweetness and Light, the thread hostess in our early days.

T-shirts and coffee mugs are also in the works!

We are kicking around a slogan, so far the best we have come up with is, "Today ESMB, tomorrow the Internet!" (based on the German slogan 1932-1945).

[HIGHLIGHT]Of course the hits stat is the most important thing[/HIGHLIGHT], how could anyone believe otherwise?! One reason why I am ignorant is that when I go to read a book, I simply check to see how many pages it has and then go online to see how many copies have been sold. That's all I need to know before I check off the book as having been read. Maybe, if I actually read the book I might not be so ignorant.

Here's a tip, if you are considering which car to buy, no need to waste time reading up on various models or even bother test driving them or talking to owners. The key is to look up the sales stats for each particular model you are interested in. Let the public do your research for you, obviously, the models which sell the best are the best cars, save time and let the public do your vetting for you.
Lakey
P.S. I am only going to mention stats one last time and that will be if we break one million. Before that and after that I won't ever mention them again. If we reach one million, I will mention that event and look forward to a new round of critical posts. Don't forget, since I am ignorant, the various negative critiques have no effect on me.

What the heck is a thread hostess?

A Thread Hostess is the Apollo Thread OP's term for a refinement of what the OP calls "Vinay Tech" for bumping and extending one's own thread solely to perpetuate the Thread and get Stats that was employed during the old days aboard the Apollo Thread.

You have several folks that have the duty to comment on, schmooze, cajole, ack, etc anyone that posts on the Thread so as to elicit, solicit, encourage, etc them to post again and to look at the Thread at least once per day, thereby keeping the thread alive, creating more hits, having the Thread appear on the old ESMB Front Page nearly 24/7 and, as soon as possible, appearing on the top 10 list.

Face

Face tells it like it is.

 

[lkwdblds]

Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973

Stats being inflated and always false is done this way in the best traditions of the Church of Scientology.

I have fun mentioning the stats. It is such a nothing topic but is amazing that mentioning it always produces a huge negative reaction. Stats here are not being inflated artificially nor are they false. Also, this is not done in the best tradition of CoS. We got 18,600 hits here so far this week. What is false about that? How was it inflated?. We have only two stats, umber of views, number of posts and number of pages of text, Since there are always about 10 pages on a page of text, that narrows thing down to just two stats, number of replies and number of views. We don't put a push on to get them up every Thursday, we don't graph them, we don't assign conditions based on them. No one person is responsible for the stats, no one person controls the stats. No money is involved. Saying this is in the best traditions of the Church of Scientology is just not a true statement.
Lakey

 

[Rmack]

Re: Unusual Befellows - This is really an odd mix.

Glad I could do a funny.
[video=youtube;K1vZq3bTS_Y]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1vZq3bTS_Y[/video]

LOL! I'm leaning towards "I'm gonna kill you, your mamma, and all her bridge-playin' friends!"

Closely followed by "wanna go hoist some oysters?"

 

[lkwdblds]

Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973

Face tells it like it is.

A Thread Hostess is the Apollo Thread OP's term for a refinement of what the OP calls "Vinay Tech" for bumping and extending one's own thread solely to perpetuate the Thread and get Stats that was employed during the old days aboard the Apollo Thread.

You have several folks that have the duty to comment on, schmooze, cajole, ack, etc anyone that posts on the Thread so as to elicit, solicit, encourage, etc them to post again and to look at the Thread at least once per day, thereby keeping the thread alive, creating more hits, having the Thread appear on the old ESMB Front Page nearly 24/7 and, as soon as possible, appearing on the top 10 list.

Face

Face's first sentence is incorrect. Thread Hostess never had anything whatsoever to do with "Vinay Tech", Face's comment that I called Vinay's technique for bumping and extending one's own thread Vinay Tech is correct. I did create that name for the technique which I noticed that Vinay was doing on his own threads. Certainly I wasn't the only guy who figured out what Vinay was doing, probably some others also observed the technique and may have applied it as well. For several years now, I no longer have to use that technique to keep the thread going. The tech of search engines has improved in the last few years and now the search engines direct a steady flow of viewers here at all hours of the day so about 3 years ago I stopped using Viinay's technique.

Face's second paragraph which I put in bold letters above is not at all correct. We did not have several folks who were given the duty to comment on, schmooze, cajole, ack, etc anyone that posted on the thread. Carmelo and I did not hire anybody or ask for any volunteers to do any of the things which face mentioned. Carmelo, Sweetness and I tended to acknowldge virtually all the posters who wrote on the thread and were not attacking us: after I became good friends with Candy, she may also have acknowledged a lot of posters as well. So what is wrong with acknowledging people who write on your thread and give their opinion? That is just good communication. There is nothing there to bash or get upset about.

BTW, as regards what is meant by Thread Hostess. I bestowed that title on Sweetness & Light for 2 reasons. First, I was going to close out the thread at 7,200 hits and she talked me into keeping it going. Second, Sweetness used to greet every new reader with a big welcome and then give them a nickname. Also, she commented on almost all the posts. For those contributions to the threads success, I just began calling her the thread hostess. It was just a made up name made solely to thank Sweetness for her contributions.

In summary, Face made 2 correct statements on what we were doing in the early days of the thread while 4 or 5 of his comments were not at all true.
Lakey

 

[Gib]

Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973

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[lotus]

Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973

Face tells it like it is.

Dear FBM,

Are you attempting to prevent\deny this thread reaching St-Hill size ???? :confused2:

Come on - come clean!

 

[lkwdblds]

Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973

Stats being inflated and always false is done this way in the best traditions of the Church of Scientology.

Originally Posted by Moderator 3 View Post
I'm not trying to burst anyone's bubble so please don't take this the wrong way. I've refrained from mentioning this before but somehow feel obligated to point something out before anyone gets too carried away. The "# of Views" statistic is falsely inflated, due to various internet-related factors, it's a False Stat.

The thing you should acknowledge, take pride in and rejoice about in regards to the Apollo Thread are twofold;

1. It's the longest continuously running thread on ESMB and
2. As a result, it has the most replies.

I put both those things down to Lakey's husbandry, keeping the thread active and interesting to others and posting probably half of those replies himself.
Like I said, this is not to burst anyone's bubble or make less of the thread in any way, it's simply pointing out the truth of the situation.

Moderator 3 seems to know what he is talking about. I had no idea that the # of views stat is falsely inflated. I am sorry to hear about that. It's not that important to me but I would be interested to read more about the topic, I love Moderator 3's comments 1. and 2. and I like the reason he gives below for our threads #1 and #2 being high. Just two points, besides me, for about the first 4 years Carmelo contributed equal husbandry to me and he needs to get credit for that. Second, I've only made a bit over 6,200 posts total on ESMB, probably about 1,700 of those were made on other threads. This would suggest that I have made only about 4,500 posts on this thread and we have over 22,000 posts so I personally have written only about 20% of them.

In summary, I am glad to here about Moderator 3's comments and my bubble is not bursted by his or her post. I think all his comments are valid except for saying that I have written about half the posts here.
Lakey

 

[Rmack]

Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAzdgU_kpGo

 

[Free Being Me]

Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973

Dear FBM,

Are you attempting to prevent\deny this thread reaching St-Hill size ???? :confused2:

Come on - come clean!

Okay, okay. I'm the SP ruining everyone's eternity snatching those boots from the sky completely unimpressed with unprecedented highest ever stats. Send me to Ethics for a sec check, there be High Crimes afoot.