Hey embear!

“Who you callin redneck?”

“em--
you ask my options? one number. 23.”

“you will never get it, bpusher!! never, never in a miiiiiiiilion years!”

“lol no doubt.”

“Hey, did you get my last email message?”

“just responded. :)”

“lol ok I see it!”

“And I have replied!”

“Yam, does that mean he was 23 yrs old. Going for those kids eh :)”

“that would be too easy, ewk. :)”

“Yam you know you look so young. After all people thought you were my daughter :(...gasp”

“Ewk - I'll bet that was a funny sight. Yam immediately started beaming and you immediately started frowning.”

“heehee. that is a classic.”

“dayhiker, it was funny.

trekkngirl, yam and myself were dayhiking in the Red River Gorge. Then here comes this kid with his father and he says "Look dad their is another kid with her parents out hiking"...lol”

“"Buffalo River Psycho still has his girlfriend."

Please break glass and call me if that dude ever comes around or near you ladies again.”

“I knew too ladies in college that were asked if they were mother/daughter. They were the same age. The one who looked older was not amused. From her telling the story I thought she'd been in the Navy. I did learn a few new words that day.”

“BB--you just may be getting a call from me next Tuesday night.”

“So is this Buffalo character someone who thinks he's a playa, but is really just an obnoxious chauvenist?”

“yes - details details - divulge pls”

“"Cranking away on the Enigma machine to decode that one"

bloodpusher
11:14:25 AM
10/01/04

Good golly Miss Molly! I didn't think anyone else knew about the Enigma. I learned about it in Cryptology. It's the most famous cipher mahine in history to date. When Polish cyptographers broke the code, it's estimated to have shortened WWII by 2 years.

Yikes! I'm scarin' myself.”

“lol, yah skiracer...

Remember a couple years ago when they made that movie about the Americans being the first to get an Enigma machine from a sub, and the Brits got all pissed about it, because they were the first ones?

The Poles had them all beat.”

“shush now Bit ;op”

“The poles being part of the Brit operation at Bletchley ; op - you know, before you guys joined the party.”

“Lend-Lease Act.”

“;P”

“So much for polyalphabetic substitution ciphers that use emechanical rotors... ;-)

The Enigma had a U.S. Patent and was produced for the commercial market in 1923.

Instead of being "TT's foremost purveyor of crap", maybe I'll become TT's foremost purveyor of inane facts I had to learn for a stupid systems security cert.”

“yes, those WW1 detroyers were a huge committment ;op”

“This has to be the greatest thread degeneration ever!”

“From hot chick to psycho drunken women abusers to WWII cryptic code discussions! OMG, outfriggin'standing!”

“Shall we change the topic to Turing and Von Neumann? lol...”

“Like other threads are any different...”

“Nah... let's talk about Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (commonly known as the Orange Book) and the different protection levels.”

“Another Orange Book?

I haven't done any security work in ages.”

“It's probably the same one developed in the 70's by the DoD.”

“Oh, I was talking about the other two Orange Books I've heard of.

One is the Orange Book CD format.

The other I was thinking of was the old VMS documentation, which used to be in orange binders, thus the term BOB for Big Orange Book. This led to conversations like this:


Programmer 1: Hey, how do you do such-and-such in DCL?

Programmer 2: Go ask BOB.

This was a pre-Unix method of saying RTFM.”

“you guys are so L33t!!...lol


BOOBS!!”

“hey embear! it's time you return the Nun Bun! that's just wrong you stole it from Bongo....”

“LOL at YAM!”

“hahahaha! I think it was Joe! Hes the one that goes there all the time....

hey yam....where are u? In the big city?”

“Hey embear.

(just wanted to say 'hey')”

“joe said he showed up there and it was closed due to the theft.

i got back to maine from minnesota late last night. head to tennessee on friday. woooooooooooooooooooohoooooooooo.”

“yay! well call me up when you get here. My phone # is the same.”

“Gonna be a big new year in nashville!”

“Wut de #&%!$ is the Nun Bun??

Yam-a-lam-a-ding-dong!!!”

“Hi Embear and Yamster!!!

Em, wanna do Grand Staircase this summer?? I sent email to Lizs I don't think she reads anymore. Ha ha!”

“Hell yeah Tango! Its only about an 8-9 hr drive from me i think. I would love to go back!”

“I would return it for the reward for sure. What ever you do don't eat it, it is over 9 years old!!!!....

That reminds me of the Seinfeld episode when Elaine eats the famous, but very old, piece of cake. Petermen catches her in the act with a hidden camera and tells her that she will get all the punishment she deserves when that piece on cake takes effect!
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“Hi Em! Miss ya. And, I miss the 2AM drunken phone calls... lol”