You guys notice he hasn't been in for about four days?
I wouldn't consider a few days anything to worry about. Could just be connection problems or got really busy doing something. I wouldn't start to raise an alarm until somebody has been gone a week or more.
Well, RC has health issues and was hospitalized the last few times if I remember correctly. I hope everything is ok.
I seem to remember that one of his sons kept us updated last time he was really ill
Hopefully it's nothing serious. I have a phone number for him, but it's been a while since I called him, so not sure if it's still active
Hoping the best for him too.
Yeah, now I'm starting to be apprehensive.
I spoke to Ronnie tonight. He is recovering from major surgery in good spirits.
He won't be home for a couple of weeks. I expect he will see this thread when he returns.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 18, 2024, 11:28:42 PM
I spoke to Ronnie tonight. He is recovering from major surgery in good spirits.
He won't be home for a couple of weeks. I expect he will see this thread when he returns.
Thanks AHD 🙂🙂🐢
Thanks so much for the update. I was very worried. I know his health isn't good.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 18, 2024, 11:28:42 PM
I spoke to Ronnie tonight. He is recovering from major surgery in good spirits.
He won't be home for a couple of weeks. I expect he will see this thread when he returns.
Thank you, AHD. I was checking in for news daily.
I wouldn't be surprised if he outlives the resty of us.
Quote from: Alex on April 20, 2024, 08:00:25 AM
I wouldn't be surprised if he outlives the resty of us.
"Jefferson still lives."
John Adams, July 4, 1826
Hey, (you know who you are) you owe me a dollar!
^ The powers of survival resident in that man will always trump the wisdom of the house. :lookingup:
Must we?
Ron should be home by Tuesday night! :thumbup:
That's good to hear!
IM BACK! IM BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN!!! Minus one leg, but feelin' 10 years younger!
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 25, 2024, 11:45:03 AM
IM BACK! IM BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN!!! Minus one leg, but feelin' 10 years younger!
Sorry about the leg RC but good to have you back, brother: the place isn't the same without you 🙂🙂🐢
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 25, 2024, 11:45:03 AM
IM BACK! IM BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN!!! Minus one leg, but feelin' 10 years younger!
Time to quote a Prince song. Been saving this for a while.
Ronnie talk to Russia before it's too late, before it's too late befoooooore it's too late
Ronnie talk to Russia before it's too late, before they blow up the world!
Welcome back man! Been doing the months of antibiotics for foot osteomyelitis thing? :(
^Naw- moriphone! But I quit that worthless s**t! Got no foot in pain no mo"! I'm ready to rock and roll!
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Quote from: RCMerchant on April 25, 2024, 01:19:46 PM
^Naw- moriphone! But I quit that worthless s**t! Got no foot in pain no mo"! I'm ready to rock and roll!
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😊😊😊🐢
Welcome back. Been missing you.
I been missing you folks as well!
^ For some f**king reason, It logged me in under 'Ronny" :question: But I fixed it!
Anyway- I will be so glad to sleep in me own bed tonite!
welcome back again, again (slight return) :thumbup:
Welcome back, RC. I thought of a dark joke or two I think you would've appreciated, but decided it was better to just let you know how happy we are to have you back. In many ways, you're the heart and soul of this place.
(https://preview.redd.it/the-exquisitely-handsome-b%C3%83%C2%A9la-lugosi-v0-zm7d7t9ksgga1.gif?width=540&auto=webp&s=bc9c492bb69d41e1d04b6d583ea4d7d9ead5d501)
Welcome back Ronnie!
Quote from: Rev. Powell on April 25, 2024, 04:52:09 PM
Welcome back, RC. I thought of a dark joke or two I think you would've appreciated, but decided it was better to just let you know how happy we are to have you back. In many ways, you're the heart and soul of this place.
(https://preview.redd.it/the-exquisitely-handsome-b%C3%83%C2%A9la-lugosi-v0-zm7d7t9ksgga1.gif?width=540&auto=webp&s=bc9c492bb69d41e1d04b6d583ea4d7d9ead5d501)
Hey- let 'em rip! Me son and I have been doing one-legged one liners since I got it done!
Anytime I disagree with you, I will say...
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 25, 2024, 06:14:17 PM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on April 25, 2024, 04:52:09 PM
Welcome back, RC. I thought of a dark joke or two I think you would've appreciated, but decided it was better to just let you know how happy we are to have you back. In many ways, you're the heart and soul of this place.
(https://preview.redd.it/the-exquisitely-handsome-b%C3%83%C2%A9la-lugosi-v0-zm7d7t9ksgga1.gif?width=540&auto=webp&s=bc9c492bb69d41e1d04b6d583ea4d7d9ead5d501)
Hey- let 'em rip! Me son and I have been doing one-legged one liners since I got it done!
Oh, I couldn't do it now that I hear you have a leg up on me.
You don't have a leg to stand on!!
Hey, them jokes get me hoppin' mad! :tongueout:
Now ZZ Top has to change it to "Leg."
^Oddly enuff, I have ZZ TOP tattoted on my left ankle. No joke. (I did it when I was very young and drunk. Also no joke)
I had nothing tattooed on my right leg! They took the wrong one!
Glad you're back and doing well! My brother just lost a leg too. Did you ask if you could take it home?
Glad to see you're back in ... mostly one piece.
Just don't get into any ass-kicking contests. I do have to ask though, do you now get half off on shoes?
Quote from: Paquita on April 27, 2024, 09:26:14 AM
Glad you're back and doing well! My brother just lost a leg too. Did you ask if you could take it home?
I Thought about it! Give my dog a meal!
Quote from: Alex on April 27, 2024, 10:42:07 AM
Just don't get into any ass-kicking contests. I do have to ask though, do you now get half off on shoes?
Hmmm....that's a thought! I will be getting a prosthetic in 6 months. I really wanted a peg leg, though. ARRRR!
Damn, sorry to hear about your leg. Here's a big
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When I asked AI to come up with an image of RC Merchant with a peg leg, this is the best it could come up with:
(https://img.craiyon.com/2024-04-27/ygWN7A1JQMKtdn65C3-bPw.webp)
Hmmm...a pegleg with a pegleg?
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I think it was an episode of The Thing, this one cartoon teenager disguises himself as the ghost of a pirate captain by tying a toilet plunger to his knee.....
^ Hmmm! That's an idea I may try!
I'm gonna get roasted for this, but I've watched this exact same pattern play out with RC for literally years. I mean, I respect the guy's history and all, but, face it, he plays this forum like it is a fiddle and he is Doug Kershaw.
Starts a topic knowing it will start arguments. Arguments ensue. He gets blamed. "Oh, I'm sick/ill/a drunk/in the hospital" Everyone feels like poop for being honest, and everyone bends the knee.
Rinse and repeat. And All Hallows Day being there to boost RC? No shock, since they both make this forum miserable with their self-involved nonsense.
I'm gone again. Not to avoid answering legit arguments. Just avoid this cycle of "RC is an ass, then let's defend the guy who stirs up the trouble to begin with as if he is a sweet innocent." His health has ALWAYS been an issue. Get over it.
Well, good day to you too! :lookingup:
Just because your an insignificant worm of a human with no personality to speak of that gets no attention-get over it yourself.
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Quote from: javakoala on April 28, 2024, 04:37:32 PM
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I'm gone again. Not to avoid answering legit arguments. Just avoid this cycle of "RC is an ass, then let's defend the guy who stirs up the trouble to begin with as if he is a sweet innocent." His health has ALWAYS been an issue. Get over it.
Oh you're gone...? This particular topic was started by ER. Another member wrote to me about Ron's absence, so I reached out, spoke to his son, and got in touch with Ron. You're around long enough to know who doesn't like whom, yet we still remain a squabbling family. We care. Why wade in?
Ron and I have been friends at this forum years before you joined. I don't see you inserting yourself much around here, even to defend or complain. Where ya been? I had thought you were cool!
You're just stupid. :bluesad:
Quote from: javakoala on April 28, 2024, 04:37:32 PM
I'm gonna get roasted for this, but I've watched this exact same pattern play out with RC for literally years. I mean, I respect the guy's history and all, but, face it, he plays this forum like it is a fiddle and he is Doug Kershaw.
Starts a topic knowing it will start arguments. Arguments ensue. He gets blamed. "Oh, I'm sick/ill/a drunk/in the hospital" Everyone feels like poop for being honest, and everyone bends the knee.
Rinse and repeat. And All Hallows Day being there to boost RC? No shock, since they both make this forum miserable with their self-involved nonsense.
I'm gone again. Not to avoid answering legit arguments. Just avoid this cycle of "RC is an ass, then let's defend the guy who stirs up the trouble to begin with as if he is a sweet innocent." His health has ALWAYS been an issue. Get over it.
Was a thread of RC joking at his own expense till your post, right?
Life is too short to be so angry over nothing.
Back to the topic. I don't bend the knee to RC. Presumably he, however, had a BKA (not an AKA) and can *still* bend the knee.
If RC were cast in Fellowship of the Ring, he'd be cast as Legless. Cough. Legolas.
Hmm, someone seems a bit pointless and petty today. Oh well, move along. Hope you feel that you've gotten enough attention.
Well, I've ruined 6 pairs of pants already. Cutting the leg to length. I get me staples taken out today!
Thanks for all you folks (well, except one guy) kind concern. Like Hallows said, we may disagree and fight on occasion, but you folks really are a second family to me. I don't see to many people anymore in my waning years, even less now that I kicked the bottle to the curb, and I always find refuge from the storm of life here.
Again...thanks.
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Quote from: RCMerchant on April 29, 2024, 07:12:17 AM
Well, I've ruined 6 pairs of pants already. Cutting the leg to length. I get me staples taken out today!
Thanks for all you folks (well, except one guy) kind concern. Like Hallows said, we may disagree and fight on occasion, but you folks really are a second family to me. I don't see to many people anymore in my waning years, even less now that I kicked the bottle to the curb, and I always find refuge from the storm of life here.
Again...thanks.
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Sending hugs and good wishes, Ronny 😊😊🐢
QuoteWell, I've ruined 6 pairs of pants already. Cutting the leg to length. I get me staples taken out today!
My dad has one leg. Rather than cutting his pants off, he always just tied the leg of the pants in a knot.
Quote from: chainsaw midget on April 29, 2024, 09:21:07 AM
QuoteWell, I've ruined 6 pairs of pants already. Cutting the leg to length. I get me staples taken out today!
My dad has one leg. Rather than cutting his pants off, he always just tied the leg of the pants in a knot.
That's an idea! Cuz I'm gonna get fitted for a fake leg in 6 months!
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 29, 2024, 07:12:17 AM
... I kicked the bottle to the curb...
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...And the leg went with it...? :bluesad:
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 29, 2024, 10:32:25 AM
Quote from: chainsaw midget on April 29, 2024, 09:21:07 AM
QuoteWell, I've ruined 6 pairs of pants already. Cutting the leg to length. I get me staples taken out today!
My dad has one leg. Rather than cutting his pants off, he always just tied the leg of the pants in a knot.
That's an idea! Cuz I'm gonna get fitted for a fake leg in 6 months!
You need to get multiple artificial ones, each with some different hidden ability. We will make a super villain out of you yet.
You know, PLANET TERROR has some great suggestions for creative limb replacement . . .
^ Not a gun guy myself, anymore. But I could use it to hunt wabbits!
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 30, 2024, 06:04:26 AM
^ Not a gun guy myself, anymore. But I could use it to hunt wabbits!
Or zombies!!!
Quote from: indianasmith on April 30, 2024, 06:16:52 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 30, 2024, 06:04:26 AM
^ Not a gun guy myself, anymore. But I could use it to hunt wabbits!
Or zombies!!!
Cover all bases, go for zombie wabbits.
Quote from: indianasmith on April 30, 2024, 06:16:52 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 30, 2024, 06:04:26 AM
^ Not a gun guy myself, anymore. But I could use it to hunt wabbits!
Or zombies!!!
*Uncle 🧟♂️ ducks for cover * 😉😉
Hello again, RC. It's nice to have you back. I'm sorry you lost a leg, but you seem to be taking it well. I'm glad you don't have to feel pain in that foot anymore.
^ I have a little "phantom" pain- but nowhere like it was in real life.
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 30, 2024, 09:43:48 AM
^ I have a little "phantom" pain- but nowhere like it was in real life.
Could you hire a ghost surgeon to amputate the phantom limb?
It's strange- I always laughed at the idea of "phantom" pain. How could you feel something that's not their? But it's REAL enuff, by gum.
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 28, 2024, 05:18:28 PM
Well, good day to you too! :lookingup:
Just because your an insignificant worm of a human with no personality to speak of that gets no attention-get over it yourself.
I've had better from people with mental disabilities. Oh, right, that's a bit on the nose.
I would rather have no personality than one comparable to a dose of the gleet mixed with a heroin withdrawal and raging diarrhea. Please, get upset if this fits.
You see, I don't care about you. Your words mean nothing. You do your thing, Ronny, and be happy. I just wanted to point out an annoying pattern of behavior here, and so nice to see everyone do what was expected. Not an insult. Just a poke to make you stop and take a look at what happens here. Not that anyone really cares. Not even me. I just like to make folks as miserable as I have felt my whole life.
Happy now?
Until next we meet....
Get help.
Quote from: javakoala on April 30, 2024, 10:54:51 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 28, 2024, 05:18:28 PM
Well, good day to you too! :lookingup:
Just because your an insignificant worm of a human with no personality to speak of that gets no attention-get over it yourself.
I've had better from people with mental disabilities. Oh, right, that's a bit on the nose.
I would rather have no personality than one comparable to a dose of the gleet mixed with a heroin withdrawal and raging diarrhea. Please, get upset if this fits.
You see, I don't care about you. Your words mean nothing. You do your thing, Ronny, and be happy. I just wanted to point out an annoying pattern of behavior here, and so nice to see everyone do what was expected. Not an insult. Just a poke to make you stop and take a look at what happens here. Not that anyone really cares. Not even me. I just like to make folks as miserable as I have felt my whole life.
Happy now?
Until next we meet....
Not everyone can help being a loser. No one needs to advertise it. Since there was no argument on this thread the only thing you came here to do was cause one. Sorry, but you are fooling yourself there claiming some higher purpose beyond that. Grow up.
Shame it didn't occur to you that by making these posts rather than making people as miserable as you say you are, that you might just be making people laugh at you.
RC, anytime you feel down just remember there is someone out there who is incredibly jealous of you. Draw strength from that in the dark times.
Java's babbling means less than nothing to me. If the guy gets his rocks off on dumping on me, let him get his jollies.
Misery may love company, but it sends out really pathetic party invitations.
Yeah, the guy's a miserable little twerp. Got nothing better to do than try and get my goat. Fvck 'em. :lookingup:
Truly, you are a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest. Hope you win, RC.
And I don't care what any of you think of me. I am near death, so it doesn't matter. Nothing matters. So get bent with your self-righteous nonsense. You've spent a lifetime worrying about every single wrong thing.
Oh my god. I haven't laughed so much since -- I dunno, maybe the first time I saw "Airplane"!
Egos are more fun to eat than Eggos.
Sorry to hear your near death. All this bulls**t aside, that is never a good thing to hear about anyone.
Quote from: javakoala on May 06, 2024, 11:28:49 PM
Truly, you are a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest. Hope you win, RC.
And I don't care what any of you think of me. I am near death, so it doesn't matter. Nothing matters. So get bent with your self-righteous nonsense. You've spent a lifetime worrying about every single wrong thing.
Oh my god. I haven't laughed so much since -- I dunno, maybe the first time I saw "Airplane"!
Egos are more fun to eat than Eggos.
Well at least we managed to stop you being so f**king miserable your entire life then. :bouncegiggle:
in the grand scheme of time immemorial, all of us are 'near death' from the moment we're born...
that's why it's so important we spend every precious moment watching the very worst movies possible.
Quote from: javakoala on May 06, 2024, 11:28:49 PM
Truly, you are a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest. Hope you win, RC.
And I don't care what any of you think of me. I am near death, so it doesn't matter. Nothing matters. So get bent with your self-righteous nonsense. You've spent a lifetime worrying about every single wrong thing.
Oh my god. I haven't laughed so much since -- I dunno, maybe the first time I saw "Airplane"!
Egos are more fun to eat than Eggos.
Taking you at your word that you're miserable, near death, etc.... why attack someone else? Why not unburden yourself and get some sympathy? You're posting here, so you don't want to be banned. There is a rule against personal attacks, though.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on May 07, 2024, 08:04:10 AM
... There is a rule against personal attacks, though.
Oh yeah? Who is going to enforce it? :smile:
Quote from: Allhallowsday on May 08, 2024, 01:49:28 PM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on May 07, 2024, 08:04:10 AM
... There is a rule against personal attacks, though.
Oh yeah? Who is going to enforce it? :smile:
Unlike you and I, the Rev has some delicacy.
I think Javakoala can say anything he wants. I admire honesty, which is a lost factor of this forum. I believe him, and we should hear him.
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