Welcome to the ReconoLodge!

[Arya]

I speak no Polish, but I know by the end of an evening Polish and English will be understanding everything just fine :))

LoL-the wonderful effects of alcomohol ;) Everyone's speaking the same language after awhile :)

[Fire Watch]

http://hannity.com/forum/showthread.php?p=8740590&posted=1#post8740590

lmao

[soupdragon]

Because by then they're both speaking the common language of 'drunk', right? ;)

;)

[Arya]

That's how I feel, the best memories of my holidays in Spain was talking ( attempting) to talk to the locals, I like to shop in the local shop etc, I just like to feel the different culture. Being in a big hotel with English bars and food , when say in Spain, eating and doing what you would do at home is sooooooooo naff to me!

Absolutely-git out there, enjoy the culture and people. That's the only way to truly experience another place :D

[gdoane]

i would love to run away and start a new life somewhere...

anyone wanna take in a single, double jointed, 30 yr old woman :))

Let me get this straight... a woman who can smack a guy upside the head forwards and backwards is what double-jointed means?

I can abuse myself just fine. Don't need a double-jointed woman for that.

[Jesso]

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b253/razberriez/103.gif

[morticia_28_358]

Let me get this straight... a woman who can smack a guy upside the head forwards and backwards is what double-jointed means?

I can abuse myself just fine. Don't need a double-jointed woman for that.

Gene, you need to get out more...

[Fire Watch]

The Sopranos are on..later.

[Arya]

Well, Gene may not-but I'm guessing there are many guys out there that don't mind that kinda abuse :lol:

[gdoane]

Gene, you need to get out more...

WHAT??? I just came back from a camping trip at Picacho Peak State Park with the Ahwahtukee Singles Club and I had two women asking me about the strange noises I was making in my tent this morning.

I had to tell 'em I was trying to get through World 5 of New Super Mario Bros. on my Nintendo DS and I was having a heck of a time getting through the snow levels.

Ain't that "getting out?"

I mean, if you've got women interested in your grunting sounds from your tent, that's a good thing right??

[darrkwolff]

Oh crap, Gene! I just about fell outa my chair! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/darrkwolff/rofl.gif

[morticia_28_358]

WHAT??? I just came back from a camping trip at Picacho Peak State Park with the Ahwahtukee Singles Club and I had two women asking me about the strange noises I was making in my tent this morning.

I had to tell 'em I was trying to get through World 5 of New Super Mario Bros. on my Nintendo DS and I was having a heck of a time getting through the snow levels.

Ain't that "getting out?"

I mean, if you've got women interested in your grunting sounds from your tent, that's a good thing right??

camping means to me that you should be roughing it.....not bringing the DS w/ u. secondly, if that's the cause of the grunts.......it wouldnt interest me in the least.

[goodlife]

ugh

[darrkwolff]

Picacho Peak? Isn't that in Arizona? :think:

[DALLAS1234]

WHAT??? I just came back from a camping trip at Picacho Peak State Park with the Ahwahtukee Singles Club and I had two women asking me about the strange noises I was making in my tent this morning.

I had to tell 'em I was trying to get through World 5 of New Super Mario Bros. on my Nintendo DS and I was having a heck of a time getting through the snow levels.

Ain't that "getting out?"

I mean, if you've got women interested in your grunting sounds from your tent, that's a good thing right??



:)) :)) :))

[gdoane]

Picacho Peak? Isn't that in Arizona? :think:

Yes, why yes it is. In fact, it is exactly 80.4 miles from my house. My 1984 Ford Bronco II has a trip odometer. It hasn't been calibrated in 23 years but it's still pretty much dead on every time I check it.

[gdoane]

camping means to me that you should be roughing it.....not bringing the DS w/ u. secondly, if that's the cause of the grunts.......it wouldnt interest me in the least.

THAT RIGHT THERE is the difference between women and men.

Let this be an object lesson...

The female here wants to be one with nature, to blend in and not disturb anything, to co-exist and find harmony.

I'm a male and I say SCREW THAT!!

Do you know how the West was won? Guys with guns and trains and wagons coming through and kicking ass, that's how the West was won. It wasn't about being one with nature. It was about giving a black eye to nature and saying "That's right, I'm doing this MY WAY!!"

You can't win by avoiding conflict. If you're not willing to win... you won't.

I went camping to have fun in a nature surrounding.

Goals:


Have Fun
See Nature
Kick Nature's AssCamping is about OVERCOMING NATURE. It's like winning the West. The harder you kick it in the pants, the cooler it is. That's a manly-man thing.

I was in the middle of the desert, on a Queen-sized double-flocked Coleman Mattress, in a 6' tall tent playing videogames and drinking Propel Melon energy drink.

I came, I saw, I kicked it!! Vini, Vidi, Vici bay-bee!

I love nature. It makes a great opponent.

[Arya]

THAT RIGHT THERE is the difference between women and men.

Let this be an object lesson...

The female here wants to be one with nature, to blend in and not disturb anything, to co-exist and find harmony.

I'm a male and I say SCREW THAT!!

Do you know how the West was won? Guys with guns and trains and wagons coming through and kicking ass, that's how the West was won. It wasn't about being one with nature. It was about giving a black eye to nature and saying "That's right, I'm doing this MY WAY!!"

You can't win by avoiding conflict. If you're not willing to win... you won't.

I went camping to have fun in a nature surrounding.

Goals:


Have Fun
See Nature
Kick Nature's AssCamping is about OVERCOMING NATURE. It's like winning the West. The harder you kick it in the pants, the cooler it is. That's a manly-man thing.

I was in the middle of the desert, on a Queen-sized double-flocked Coleman Mattress, in a 6' tall tent playing videogames and drinking Propel Melon energy drink.

I came, I saw, I kicked it!! Vini, Vidi, Vici bay-bee!

I love nature. It makes a great opponent.

Huh, and all this time I thought "overcoming nature" was scrounging up yer own vittles from what's around you, dealing with the rocks in your back while sleeping, and avoiding being eaten alive by skeeters (or worse) while camping....

Obviously I was wrong :lol:

[snow96]

WHAT??? I just came back from a camping trip at Picacho Peak State Park with the Ahwahtukee Singles Club and I had two women asking me about the strange noises I was making in my tent this morning.

I had to tell 'em I was trying to get through World 5 of New Super Mario Bros. on my Nintendo DS and I was having a heck of a time getting through the snow levels.

Ain't that "getting out?"

I mean, if you've got women interested in your grunting sounds from your tent, that's a good thing right??

Next time leave the toys at home gene!

[Fire Watch]

All I can say is "wow".

[thr3]

What is all this rickalodeon business?

[Fire Watch]

Its a conundrum.

[thr3]

oh. I think I need some lunch.

[Fire Watch]

That would probably be a good idea.

[thr3]

Yes, but I have a problem, the canteen is not open until 1.

[Fire Watch]

5 hrs, 15 minutes..that sucks

[thr3]

11 minutes actually.

[Fire Watch]

Yeah, for YOU and your crazy 7 hrs in the future time zone.

[thr3]

Well, the more advanced live in the future!

[gdoane]

Next time leave the toys at home gene!

I took a kite and flew it, and a mountain bike and rode it. Those are good camping toys. I wasn't even the only one with a mountain bike. Other campers bring those all the time. The kite was admittedly unusual for camping, but a kite is a celebration of nature.

Camping is about staring in the face of Mother Nature and saying "Ma, I've grown up and I'll do as I please now. Stop sending me to my room."

You gotta remember too, I'm a radio tech who takes 4x4 drives up the steepest mountain roads, to the highest peaks and through the roughest desert and I get paid to go beat nature with technology. It's fun! It's Daring! It's very, very MALE.

I love my toys. The less I suffer, the more I've told Mother Nature I ain't her baby anymore.

[Fire Watch]

Sounds like you had a great time. Did you take pics?

[gdoane]

Sounds like you had a great time. Did you take pics?

I did take a few. I had to promise that what happens at camp stays at camp though, so the picture of the guy with the glow sticks on his head shaped into McDonald's Arches will have to remain unpublished.

[Jesso]

'Morning boys

[Fire Watch]

howdy

[snow96]

I took a kite and flew it, and a mountain bike and rode it. Those are good camping toys. I wasn't even the only one with a mountain bike. Other campers bring those all the time. The kite was admittedly unusual for camping, but a kite is a celebration of nature.

Camping is about staring in the face of Mother Nature and saying "Ma, I've grown up and I'll do as I please now. Stop sending me to my room."

You gotta remember too, I'm a radio tech who takes 4x4 drives up the steepest mountain roads, to the highest peaks and through the roughest desert and I get paid to go beat nature with technology. It's fun! It's Daring! It's very, very MALE.

I love my toys. The less I suffer, the more I've told Mother Nature I ain't her baby anymore.

Those toys are okay, they get you out of the tent. Leave the battery operated toys at home.

On an off topic side note . . . . last week our radio tech was listening in his shop and came in and helped answer phones for me . . . . they tried to give him an hour dispatch pay on top of his regular pay but he wouldn't take it (Man he saved my life by coming in to answer phones!)

[goodlife]

Mondays....blah.

[Fire Watch]

yep

[goodlife]

so......

[Fire Watch]

far so good

[goodlife]

if you say so

[Fire Watch]

eh..

[goodlife]

yeah?
that was really profound, Ricky....;)

[Fire Watch]

lol..sorry, kinda busy here

[goodlife]

lol
me too
sigh

[goodlife]

guess what Ricky?
Looks like I'm going to be travelling through your neck of the woods quite a bit.
Looks like that's the quickest way to go to get to LaTech.

[Fire Watch]

LaTech?

[Andrew Jackson]

gud fred dis

[Fire Watch]

mmmk

[Andrew Jackson]

at least it is alive and moving

[goodlife]

LaTech?


Louisiana Tech University in Ruston. That's where Austin's going to college.

[Fire Watch]

How is that in my neck of the woods?

[goodlife]

Cause everyone says it's shorter to go through Jackson and then cut across I-20 than it is to go any other way.

[Fire Watch]

Jackson, MS US to

Ruston, LA US

Total Est. Time: 2 hours, 22 minutes
Total Est. Distance: 151.28 miles

about the same distance from your house to here..lol

[goodlife]

yeah..you're like halfway.

[goodlife]

does this link work?
http://www.mapquest.com/directions/main.adp?go=1&do=nw&rmm=1&un=m&cl=EN&qq=hltF3hzNT9tNhURP0HLlhh9UYBmHRqyBceg4Gkon14D8uew Lk7pjHQ%253d%253d&ct=NA&rsres=1&1y=US&1ffi=&1l=&1g=&1pl=&1v=&1n=&1pn=&1a=&1c=Mandeville&1s=LA&1z=&2y=US&2ffi=&2l=&2g=&2pl=&2v=&2n=&2pn=&2a=&2c=Ruston&2s=LA&2z=&r=f

[Fire Watch]

yup, halfway...I'd cut through the woods though to avoid Jack-Town

[goodlife]

Jack-Town?

[jakethe_snake]

whats up everybody?
hows Rickalodeon going?

[Fire Watch]

Jack-Town?
Jackson...you gotta stay strapped down in Jack-town

[Andrew Jackson]

solid

[Fire Watch]

liquid

[goodlife]

well I'd just be cruising through on the Interstate...right?

[goodlife]

Is a gel a solid or a liquid?

[Andrew Jackson]

push the pedal to the floor and don't look back

[Fire Watch]

Dont slow down in Jack-town.

[darrkwolff]

Yes, why yes it is. In fact, it is exactly 80.4 miles from my house. My 1984 Ford Bronco II has a trip odometer. It hasn't been calibrated in 23 years but it's still pretty much dead on every time I check it.

Thought it sounded familiar. I was stationed in Ft. Huachuca from 1991 to 1994 before I got medically discharged (blown out knees). Loved driving up Carr Canyon and being able to look out all the way to Tucson. :D

Got close to the top of that canyon one day and talked to a guy on the C.B. radio...and he was in Sitka, Alaska! :eek: For 30 minutes solid! Had a good signal that day.

What was even stranger was that he knew the guy that sold me the C.B. :cool:

[Fire Watch]

Go vote in my Homemade Peanut Butter vs Nutter Butter Cookies thread

[goodlife]

if you insist....sigh

[Gaby77]

Is a gel a solid or a liquid?

It is considered a solid.

[morticia_28_358]

hey Gene......

how bout this......when i go stay in the wilderness........i like to fish, hunt, shoot beer cans off of tree stumps.......

WTH is wrong w/ u........

i dont take electronics camping w/ me.

[goodlife]

Gene doesn't go anywhere without some electronic gadgetry.

[Gaby77]

I don't go anywhere where there's no cellphone reception.

[morticia_28_358]

yeah, really.....

how does one do that?!

[goodlife]

I'm agitated.

[Gaby77]

why?

[goodlife]

I dunno.

[Gaby77]

You can ban me if it'll make you feel better.

Just promise to bring me back!

[Gaby77]

Or ban Rick.

[jet]

Or ban Rick.


That would be hilarious but only if his reaction could be photographed and posted for posterity :cool:

[Gaby77]

That would be hilarious but only if his reaction could be photographed and posted for posterity :cool:

That would be priceless! Some way we can get a hold of his wife? :))

[jet]

That would be priceless! Some way we can get a hold of his wife? :))

With all of those cuffs, RR probably has a good hold on her already :evil:

[gdoane]

Those toys are okay, they get you out of the tent. Leave the battery operated toys at home.

I guess you'd have been really disgusted with me on the White Tanks New Years Eve camping trip then. I took my DLP Projector and a 6-foot movie screen watching the Ball drop in Times Square live using my HP Laptop as a TV receiver. The ranger saw that and said he ain't ever seen campers do that one before.

On an off topic side note . . . . last week our radio tech was listening in his shop and came in and helped answer phones for me . . . . they tried to give him an hour dispatch pay on top of his regular pay but he wouldn't take it (Man he saved my life by coming in to answer phones!)

Radio techs get paid a lot better than most dispatchers do, at least where I'm working. I probably wouldn't take the money either, not if I was getting my regular pay. I don't usually talk about pay with dispatchers because it would tick 'em off.

The closest I've ever come to helping out with dispatch was one of the operators wasn't able to get an emergency callbox to operate because she was making a basic mistake so to get the citizen some help right away, I just asked "do you mind if I do it?" and she shook her head "no" so I grabbed my portable and punched the sequence to open up the box and make the call connect. Turned out it was a guy with kids who had gotten stuck in the sand, had no water and kids in the car.

After the call was over, I politely told her what she did wrong... she wasn't waiting for the second call from the callbox. It repeats itself, transmitting twice and only after the second time does it go into receive mode for the call initiate sequence.

The callboxes go like this when the citizen pushes the "Help" button...

A voice tells the citizen "Please Stand By, Your Call Has Been Sent" (liars, it hasn't yet but it probably makes the citizen feel better.)

Then the radio in the callbox transmits a message over the air on a designated channel like "Emergency. Canyon Lake Callbox Number 312. Emergency. Canyon Lake Callbox Number 312."

For 15 seconds, the callbox will listen for the sequence (basically the number it says is the sequence). If it hears it, the call initiates and the dispatcher will say "Sheriff's Office, What Is Your Emergency?" and the citizen can push the button to talk, same button he used to start the thing.

If after 15 seconds the callbox hasn't heard anything, the callbox transmits the "Emergency" call again, twice and waits again. Over and over. The thing is like the Energizer bunny too, it will keep on going and it won't be ignored.

Usually if I operate the things it's because I'm doing maintenance to make sure the things work. It would kind of suck to have a citizen see one of these callboxes and push the button on a broken one with a real emergency.

It's an entertaining channel to listen to sometimes. So far "emergencies" I've heard have included:

A citizen reporting a vending machine for stealing his dollar. (Grand Theft Cola?)
A citizen requesting a deputy bring beer (he'd obviously had ENOUGH).
A citizen asking where to buy a fishing license at. (Not from the fish)
A citizen who needed gas for his boat (row, row, row your boat!)
A citizen reporting a UFO (Close Encounters of the Stupid Kind.)

The things people think are emergencies is just about comedy in and of itself.

[gdoane]

Gene doesn't go anywhere without some electronic gadgetry.

Ain't that the truth! Heck, that's why you'd never see me at a nudist colony. Where the heck could I carry a gadget with no pockets?

On second thought, don't answer that. :naughty:

[gdoane]

hey Gene......

how bout this......when i go stay in the wilderness........i like to fish, hunt, shoot beer cans off of tree stumps.......

Have you ever shot a full beer can? Yeah, I know, that's alcohol abuse but man is it funny. A .22 gives a better show than a .357 Magnum though. I like seeing the can rolling around fizzing out foam everywhere and the .357 just blows the thing up.

I like to do all of those things too, but I only hunt stuff I could actually eat. A Javelina is about as big as I'd go, because something like a deer for one guy to eat, I'd be eating deer for three solid months and I'd be so sick of deer that I'd never want to watch Bambi again.

WTH is wrong w/ u........

i dont take electronics camping w/ me.

I work on electronics for my supper. Pretty much every meal I've had for the past 20+ years has been paid for by my mad electronics skillz. It's part of who I am, it's part of my personality and it's my comfort zone. If I'm out without electronics, then I'd feel nekkid and uncomfortable.

Some people need coffee to function.
Some people need their cigarettes.
Some people need their jewelry.

Most people have crutches. Mine is electronics. It's a crutch which has served me well.

[Fire Watch]

I sense a disturbance in the force.

[darrkwolff]

I see what you did there. :think:

[Fire Watch]

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a373/reconrick/yodachillin_small.jpg

[darrkwolff]

:)) Yoda's estranged cousin, Bubba. :lol:

[Fire Watch]

lol

[gdoane]

Isn't that defamation of movie character?

[Fire Watch]

Very possibly.

[morticia_28_358]

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i45/morticia28358/yodasmoke.gif

i sparked his cig....

[Fire Watch]

Thats AWESOME!!!

[morticia_28_358]

i try!

[darrkwolff]

Isn't that defamation of movie character?

Bubba was in a movie??? :eek:

[gdoane]

Bubba was in a movie??? :eek:

Mostly jail flicks with sex scenes you'd rather forget.

[snow96]

I guess you'd have been really disgusted with me on the White Tanks New Years Eve camping trip then. I took my DLP Projector and a 6-foot movie screen watching the Ball drop in Times Square live using my HP Laptop as a TV receiver. The ranger saw that and said he ain't ever seen campers do that one before.

Now that's something that everyone could enjoy!



Radio techs get paid a lot better than most dispatchers do, at least where I'm working. I probably wouldn't take the money either, not if I was getting my regular pay. I don't usually talk about pay with dispatchers because it would tick 'em off.

I've seen the posting for ITS openings. Waaaaaaaaaaaay more than dispatch. But you know it was the thought that counts.

Only thing the tech did to help was answer the non-emergency lines.

Imagine PSAP for three counties, and Primary for all state agencies for seven counties. I'm the only body in dispatch. I take 8 9-1-1 calls of a blue pick up on it's top on highway x, and they had to drive to get cell phone service. Only three things the 8 agree on. 4 say the truck is empty, 4 say single male strapped upside down in seatbelt and bleading from the head. 5 different locations on where it could be in two different counties on the same highway. Then the Third county calls in they have two cars off. Now I'm calling and waking troopers up. Fire and medical rolling.
Fourth county is getting a report of a car on it's top in the median of the interstate. So I'm getting a trooper headed that way.
I hear the LT check on . . (running through my head oh **** why does he have to check on TODAY)
about this time the radio tech comes in and asks "need me to answer phones?"
Soon as he sits down, 9-1-1 of a possible heart attack in county number 5.

Ended up in 45 minute streatch, two injury accidents, three property damage only, a heart attack.
oooooh my head just thinking of that morning!

The things people think are emergencies is just about comedy in and of itself. If I only had a dollar for each one!

[goodlife]

Or ban Rick.

I should have done that before he got to my house that morning.
That would have been priceless when he picked up my laptop and tried to log on to get a banned message.. I could have been lying in wait with my camera...hehehe
Course he did have handcuffs.....:think:

[gdoane]

Now that's something that everyone could enjoy!

They did, and it was planned that way. It was the second time I'd done that and the first time wasn't planned at all but it's why the Awahtukee Singles Club knew I could.

What happened was we went to go camping, and everybody had planned on an evening by the campfire but Arizona had a drought so no campfires were allowed. No fun campfires, so we were discussing what to do without a campfire and I saw the power outlets and the big covered patio and thought "my projector and movie screen would WORK here!"

I didn't live very far away (about a half-hour) so I just ran home and got the stuffs and then set it up so if we couldn't watch a campfire, we could watch the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. It wasn't even planned, it just worked that way in a moment of inspired dementia.

I've seen the posting for ITS openings. Waaaaaaaaaaaay more than dispatch. But you know it was the thought that counts.

Only thing the tech did to help was answer the non-emergency lines.

Yeah, I'd suppose so. I'd be afraid I'd mess up on an emergency call and say something totally inappropriate. I'm not trained for that sort of thing and besides, if I actually started operating the equipment I'd probably find something I didn't like and go and change it around to suit myself.

I tend to make things more complicated than they need to be. Bad habit of mine, I'm a techie. Better to let the customer determine the level of complexities.

(snip)

Ended up in 45 minute streatch, two injury accidents, three property damage only, a heart attack.
oooooh my head just thinking of that morning!

I've seen personnel shortages in most of the dispatch centers around here and the reason why is that it's a high-stress job, the pay is crummy, it's thankless work and overtime is practically mandatory.

I wouldn't work that job for that money. I can operate the equipment, heck, I can FIX the equipment, configure it, integrate it and wire it too, but what I couldn't do is the talking calmly and rationally to people who aren't calm and rational. That would get really old, really fast.

My job is fairly thankless too, after all, most of the time when people think of the comm tech, it's when something is broken and they're not happy about that, but on the bright side I get to play with some of the COOLEST STUFF you ever saw!!

If I only had a dollar for each one!

I think it'd be a cool reality show.

America's Stupidest 911 Calls!

Dispatcher: "Hello, 911, what is your emergency?"
Caller: "My Cable TV isn't working and the game is on in three minutes!"
Dispatcher: "Sir, that is not an emergency. You need to call the Cable Company."
Caller: "Can you give me their number?"
Dispatcher: "Sir, that's 411, not 911."

[gdoane]

I should have done that before he got to my house that morning.
That would have been priceless when he picked up my laptop and tried to log on to get a banned message.. I could have been lying in wait with my camera...hehehe
Course he did have handcuffs.....:think:

Just remember not to IP Ban him at your house. That would make it difficult to make it back in to undo the deed.

[snow96]

I've seen personnel shortages in most of the dispatch centers around here and the reason why is that it's a high-stress job, the pay is crummy, it's thankless work and overtime is practically mandatory.

Actually our center is fully staffed. Fully staffed we have a single dispatcher on from midnight to 8am. We don't get over time :(( They do everything they can to keep us at 40/week.

And we occassionaly get our thanks. Every now and then a letter will come in through one of the agency thanking a dispatcher. We get a "YAZ" when that happens. Three YAZ's and we get a paid day off.

[gdoane]

Actually our center is fully staffed. Fully staffed we have a single dispatcher on from midnight to 8am. We don't get over time :(( They do everything they can to keep us at 40/week.

That's different. I've never been in a PSAP with less than two online and manned.

At least two of the PSAPs (not naming names) bought an "extra" position and then wound up having to run it not as a spare, but as a full-time operator position.

They're buying new ones, but they're finding out the hard way that these things aren't grown on trees. The new dispatch positions I'm putting in tomorrow, two Centracom Gold Elites, they're pushing $50,000 apiece. That's not including the $50,000 CAD system and phones, or the $30,000 furniture it's going on. With installation and everything, the ops are probably pushing a quarter-million bucks apiece.

It takes time to get all the parts and integrate it all. Even if you had the money to put down on the barrelhead today, it would still be three months at least to get a good dispatch position going.


And we occassionaly get our thanks. Every now and then a letter will come in through one of the agency thanking a dispatcher. We get a "YAZ" when that happens. Three YAZ's and we get a paid day off.

If we get a letter of thanks, our boss has a stroke. That just never happens.

[Fire Watch]

Lol..I know the feeling.

[goodlife]

what feeling is this that you are knowing?

[Fire Watch]

what feeling is this that you are knowing?
This one..

If we get a letter of thanks, our boss has a stroke. That just never happens.

[goodlife]

ahh...I started a section on our website where we post nice things people say to us and about us...accolades page. Wehn one of my employees receives a letter or email with praise..they send it to me and I put it up on the website...they like being recognized that way.

[gdoane]

what feeling is this that you are knowing?

Indigestion, most likely.

[gdoane]

ahh...I started a section on our website where we post nice things people say to us and about us...accolades page. Wehn one of my employees receives a letter or email with praise..they send it to me and I put it up on the website...they like being recognized that way.

We've got a wall with thank-you letters from various customers. The newest one is dated September 1999. It's gotten to be a bit embarassing. :redface:

[goodlife]

hahaha...Gene you should write a letter or a card and mail it over there so they will have something new to ptu on the wall!!

[Fire Watch]

Our letters arent avaliable for public viewing until all the agents referenced have retired.

[goodlife]

well who cares about them by then?

[Fire Watch]

?

[goodlife]

the letters Ricky...lol
pay attention already.
so why can't they just black out the names?

[goodlife]

but really...where would they stick them where they would be seen publicly anyway..
ok..next topic of the day.

[goodlife]

pick one

[Fire Watch]

Because they can contain sensitive information about informants, situations leading to an arrest, ongoing investigations, ect..

[goodlife]

makes sense.

[Fire Watch]

Yeah. I need more coffee..bring me some.

[gdoane]

Because they can contain sensitive information about informants, situations leading to an arrest, ongoing investigations, ect..


Oh, I can see that one...

"I would like to express my thanks and satisfaction for a job well done to Starsky and Hutch for the information they got out of their pimp informant Huggy Bear leading to the arrest and conviction of the dude that jacked my ride. Dude took my car and my date and drove 'em both into a lake! Made me look bad. Thank you, Starsky and Hutch!

Sincerely,
Ted Kennedy"

[Fire Watch]

There goes a perfectly good mouthfull of coffee..lol

[goodlife]

Yeah. I need more coffee..bring me some.


should I approach on my knees or is standing allowed? :rolleyes:
Shall I also stick around to hold the cup between sips?

[goodlife]

Oh, I can see that one...

"I would like to express my thanks and satisfaction for a job well done to Starsky and Hutch for the information they got out of their pimp informant Huggy Bear leading to the arrest and conviction of the dude that jacked my ride. Dude took my car and my date and drove 'em both into a lake! Made me look bad. Thank you, Starsky and Hutch!

Sincerely,
Ted Kennedy"

another great one from Gene.

Gene..I think we should start a collection of these out from nowhere posts you make. That would be hilarious.

[snow96]

That's different. I've never been in a PSAP with less than two online and manned.

Rural Utah :) We have three positions that are manned during peak times. Also the supervisor and manager can enter calls in the CAD from their offices.

At least two of the PSAPs (not naming names) bought an "extra" position and then wound up having to run it not as a spare, but as a full-time operator position.

Somewhat like our center. The third position is the "supervisors". But it is now filled by a regular dispatcher during peak times. We were supposed to move to a new building this July with 4 positions . . . . but the money for the remodel and move dissapeared.



Note Rural utah: One county we dispatch for has a land area of 2,466 square miles and a popularion of 2,450 :)

[goodlife]

aaahhhhhhh

[Fire Watch]

choo?

[Andrew Jackson]

dead fred

[Fire Watch]

Who is Fred?

[Andrew Jackson]

on another board

[Fire Watch]

Ah

[Beefcake]

So whats New In the land of Rick ..

[Fire Watch]

slow day actually..which is kinda nice.

[Beefcake]

:cool: Its a Monday for me .. So just trying to get caught up ;)

[snow96]

should I approach on my knees or is standing allowed? :rolleyes:
Shall I also stick around to hold the cup between sips?

No that is just setting yourself up for disaster!




Next he'll tell you what to wear while bringing the coffee :naughty:

[Fire Watch]

great idea...

[goodlife]

*ahem*

[Fire Watch]

Need a cough drop?

[goodlife]

I don't think a cough drop is what I need....

[Fire Watch]

A bullet?

[goodlife]

What?

[Fire Watch]

nm

[goodlife]

oh

[goodlife]

doesn't quite do it

[Fire Watch]

do what?

[pryncessbrooke]

Hey peopledeons!

[Fire Watch]

Hey chickalodeon.

[pryncessbrooke]

How's your dayalodeon going?

[goodlife]

do what?


doalodeon

[Fire Watch]

How's your dayalodeon going?
Greatalodeon

[pryncessbrooke]

Greatalodeon

Outstandalodeon!

[Fire Watch]

legendaralodeon

[pryncessbrooke]

Ok I'm over that! LOL

[Fire Watch]

Me too..kinda

[goodlife]

fruitcakealodeons!
hehe

[Fire Watch]

I need a Cokealodeon

[pryncessbrooke]

I need a Cokealodeon

I'm so happy I'm finally Homealodeon!

[Fire Watch]

Kinda early?

[pryncessbrooke]

I'm not feeling well!

[Fire Watch]

The tooth?

[pryncessbrooke]

No that problem is finally solved!
I've had like motion sickness today.

[Fire Watch]

You're ALWAYS sick.

[pryncessbrooke]

I KNOW! It's really starting to get on my nerves!

[Fire Watch]

I bet!

[pryncessbrooke]

I bet!

I don't, I'm not much of a gambler!

[Fire Watch]

I gotta bet for you

[Arya]

Don't do it Brooke :lol:

[Fire Watch]

**** blocker

[Arya]

:angel:

[Fire Watch]

lol

[melinda]

jak se mas!!

[Arya]

lol

Uh oh Ricko, I guess Brooke didn't take you up on your bet...

[DALLAS1234]

hey rickalodeonville

[Arya]

Theres a Rickalodeon here? :shifty:

[melinda]

I hope so...I have the wife beater.

[gdoane]

**** blocker

Tell me about it. You can't even describe the stuff in the ocean as sal****er.

[Fire Watch]

Uh oh Ricko, I guess Brooke didn't take you up on your bet...
How do YOU know? You been reading my PM's?:cool:

[melinda]

Tell me about it. You can't even describe the stuff in the ocean as sal****er.

it it's not sal****er...what is it?? :eek:

[Arya]

How do YOU know? You been reading my PM's?:cool:

Um, er, well, I'm a good guesser? :shifty:

[Fire Watch]

uh-huh

[Arya]

Well, ain't I???

[Fire Watch]

I dont reveal a ladies secrets.

[Arya]

Too bad her name doesn't start with "Victoria" eh? LoL

[goodlife]

Gene..what on earth are you talking about?
Guess what everybody?
My son's baseball team won the District Championship game tonight!!

[gdoane]

Gene..what on earth are you talking about?

Just one of the funnier casualties of the profanity filter.

Guess what everybody?
My son's baseball team won the District Championship game tonight!!

Do the winners have to pass steroid tests like in the olympics??

[goodlife]

Just one of the funnier casualties of the profanity filter.



Do the winners have to pass steroid tests like in the olympics??


I didn't even get the word!!
and no silly..no steroid tests!

[goodlife]

morning people of Rickalodeon..where is everyone and why was this thread on page 2?
Ricky..you're slacking.

[Fire Watch]

I'm off today..the interweb isnt my highest priority..lol

[FoxGranadaChuck]

morning people of Rickalodeon..where is everyone and why was this thread on page 2?
Ricky..you're slacking.

Good Morning, Leigh!!! I am glad to hear that your son is making it to a baseball championship! :clap: :clap: :clap:

[goodlife]

I'm off today..the interweb isnt my highest priority..lol

will ya quit calling it the interweb you big goober!

[goodlife]

Good Morning, Leigh!!! I am glad to hear that your son is making it to a baseball championship! :clap: :clap: :clap:

Good Morning Chuck!
It was an exciting game last night!
We don't know yet now who we play next...but winning Division Champs was pretty awesome!

[gdoane]

I didn't even get the word!!
and no silly..no steroid tests!

It's the kind of water you find in the ocean. It is also used to make a certain kind of taffy. Some people gargle with this kind of water. There are also tropical fish tanks full of this water.

[goodlife]

sal****er?

oh duh...that is goofy..I can fix that.

[gdoane]

sal****er?

oh duh...that is goofy..I can fix that.

I've never seen Goofy and Tinkerbell together. Could it be like a secret identity? Tinkerbell has been known to act Goofy now and again.

[goodlife]

testing..
saltwater

[goodlife]

all fixed.

[Fire Watch]

lol...good job wristwatch

[FoxGranadaChuck]

Good Morning Chuck!
It was an exciting game last night!
We don't know yet now who we play next...but winning Division Champs was pretty awesome!


I wish your son Godspeed in his next game. :pray: :pray: :pray:

[jakethe_snake]

what kind of game? I just got here..

[goodlife]

pay attention!
baseball!

[goodlife]

lol...good job wristwatch

who you calling a wristwatch!

[jakethe_snake]

pay attention!
baseball!

Hey for you'r information I was on another thread and just got here!

[Fire Watch]

who you calling a wristwatch!
You saltwater.

[Fire Watch]

Kind of a slow day around here.

[soupdragon]

It is? Twas fast and furious for me !

[Stuball]

Hasnt the health department closed this place down yet?

[Fire Watch]

No, I bribed them..and threatened to arrest their wives.

[darrkwolff]

Baseball what? :eh:

[Fire Watch]

How about them Chicago Bulls??????

[gdoane]

How about them Chicago Bulls??????

Bulls should be on ranches and not in cities.

[gdoane]

No, I bribed them..and threatened to arrest their wives.

So you're pulling a Groucho Marx deal of "Your Money Or Your Wife" there?

[soupdragon]

Poland was good :think:

[Gaby77]

Poland was good :think:

Yay!

[soupdragon]

Yay!

Good, but different, very different! Strange but not so strange :think: I'll have to go back for a second opinion :mrgreen:

[gdoane]

Poland was good :think:

The closest I've ever gotten was a Polish Sausage.

This Polish sausage was served to me, and I polished it off. I didn't understand what was Polish about this sausage I'd just polished off, so I asked the waiter what it is about the sausage that makes a sausage Polish.

He told me that it's because it's Kielbasa, it's Polish. So, apparently I polished off Polish sausage AND Kielbasa at the same time, so happy that I had killed two pork products with one stone, I asked for a Polish dessert to polish off, but alas, the waiter had no Polish desserts to offer. He did suggest a Danish, however.

[Fire Watch]

I went to school with a few Pollocks.

[Stuball]

I went to school with a few Pollocks.
Sidney Pollock was on The Sopranos a few weeks ago

[goodlife]

nightalodeon!

[Fire Watch]

Sidney Pollock was on The Sopranos a few weeks ago
I like The Sopranos.

[gdoane]

I like The Sopranos.

If that feeling were mutual, I'd be investing in tactical defense undergarment technologies.

Some people just make bad friends.

[gdoane]

Why can't you buy water at a soda fountain?

I go to a convenience store, and I want a cup of ice water.

Isn't that a simple thing? A cup, with ice, and some water. Why in the heck can't you buy that?

You have to buy water in a bottle. These places have soda fountains and thirty different kinds of soda pop, but heaven forbid you find Dasani at the dispenser.

Everybody knows the stupid bottled water came through a city water system and got processed anyway, so what's the big deal about putting it out as a choice on a soda fountain? I can get GATORADE at a soda fountain but I can't get Propel, and they're the same company. Something is inherently WRONG with that.

I just want a cup of ice and a soda fountain that has Propel Citrus Flavor dispensed at the push of a button. Is that so wrong?

[Fire Watch]

You ok there Gene?

[melinda]

Hey Rick! How's your thread?

[Fire Watch]

It's still alive apparantly.

[melinda]

good to hear........

[Fire Watch]

Always..but this thread will never die.

[melinda]

so at the time of the Apocalypse...this will still be worth saving?

[Fire Watch]

Abolutely..in novel form.

[melinda]

I'll have to buy a copy.

[Andrew Jackson]

Always..but this thread will never die.

i suspect that is true

[Fire Watch]

You're in the novel..you get a free copy.

[Andrew Jackson]

You're in the novel..you get a free copy.


the butler did it?

[Fire Watch]

What did he use?

[melinda]

You're in the novel..you get a free copy.

:clap: :clap: :clap:
thank you, sir.

[Andrew Jackson]

:clap: :clap: :clap:
thank you, sir.

you are in the centerfold;)

[Fire Watch]

:clap: :clap: :clap:
thank you, sir.
You're welcome. Thanks for your contributions.

[melinda]

You're welcome. Thanks for your contributions.

anytime...it's been fun.
I love being a part of history.......

[Andrew Jackson]

anytime...it's been fun.
I love being a part of history.......


so did Lee Harvey Oswald;)

[melinda]

so did Lee Harvey Oswald;)

trivia question: where did John F. Kennedy spend his last night before flying to Dallas?

[Andrew Jackson]

trivia question: where did John F. Kennedy spend his last night before flying to Dallas?

i doesn't know

[melinda]

i doesn't know

I do. ;)
we'll see if anyone else even cares enough to guess, and then I'll say.

[Andrew Jackson]

I do. ;)
we'll see if anyone else even cares enough to guess, and then I'll say.

Trivia is good fun for the whole family

[melinda]

and Rickalodeon is a good place to learn........

[jakethe_snake]

Hi, my name's Paul!

[Andrew Jackson]

and Rickalodeon is a good place to learn........

and i bet there is so much more i can learn

[melinda]

and i bet there is so much more i can learn

amazing all the crap I know.........

[Andrew Jackson]

amazing all the crap I know.........

i know sone crap myself

[Fire Watch]

hmm

[melinda]

hmm

I'm trying to teach some useless trivia on this historic thread...so Rick, do you know where JFK stayed the night before he was killed??

[Fire Watch]

nope

[melinda]

Rice Hotel...Houston

[Fire Watch]

What was he doing there? Marilyn?