...Perhaps this account might be of interest to friends especially in the UK...
The Blackfoot Chief Chronicles
20. Repair of the Great Smoothness (a copyrighted but upublished account of the times)
SHERLOCK HOLMES wrote, "It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. Insensibly, one begins to twist the facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. It biases the judgment."
My Story Experiences are all true accounts and I am very much aware of what is and what can be concerning those things that I relate.
Within the aggregate of all things there is a remaining space where numbers run out and cease to exist, which is 1/6 of 1 percent of the aggregate. Within this highly unstable portion we find answers for that which has gone amiss.
This is why the perfection of things change and why we are sometimes able to change what is available to us in a given space and time. An example of this might relate like this, "You have two pieces of rope and you tie them together to make one long enough for an intended purpose". You accomplish this by tying them together with a knot. Therefore you have repaired it for the intended purpose. The knot is therefore the variable and also a good gamble for the ropes continuance in its new length. However it may not look pleasing and perhaps it might cause a problem if you tried to slide something by it.
Within this 1/6 of 1 percent of the aggregate where numbers cease to exist, nothing remains continuous forever, like our clothes, our colors, our languages, also what and who we are as mankind. As relating to the spirit of mankind and forever as “in god we trust”, we have, we will and we shall focus corporately in the creation of many things have and that will replenish eternally. The bottom line being that “we must relate to change and replenish or endure always that which we are not accustomed”.
About The Great Smoothness
!There were holes in the floor of heaven!
Sometimes referred to as "The Plastic or in older times what was formally known as "The Great Smoothness" which is a great plastic sheath covering and separating the times. Like a one way mirror “upward and onward” stealth and untouchable from the underside, the side from which life normally presents itself.
With the exception of any breaching or tares from the top side, this "Cellophane like Sheath" functions like a mirror reflecting only one way, 26 to 28 ft above normal ground level creating our sky and universe in our combined realities of the normally accepted "forever & always".
Discovery of the sheath by my family in the late 1940's o9f that time, led us to a necessary decision to repair damages previously done to portions of the sheath by unknown travelers and possibly looters who had torn the sheath in many places throughout what we know as the Security Continuance Plastic of the many times and places of mankind.
The length of the repair involved many years, lifetimes with the direct understanding of eternity itself. It was a security repair that was very much needed and long overdue. We do know that this most necessary "repair action" has made a difference concerning the greater possibility of more dire states of friction and upheaval in the overall trend of things.
I could just as easily say its all "fiction" and leave it at that. However none of this relating is "fiction". And I have no direct way of officially relating the many things that I write as the “gospel truth”, however this story in particular I did learn in it’s entirety with much “hands on experience”. Being more honest than modest “I am the single most knowledgeable man” of major times and places of mankind within the aggregate of creation “A to Z” with no exceptions. This includes the forever future and the futures of mankind, etc. etc. and etc.
There are many things in controversial claims of knowledge concerning the unknown. Further meaning that if we were in more true knowledge of these things, possibly science, technology and mankind in general might have more longevity in expedient directions of discovery than we have previously known. Only time will tell concerning that which I relate a steadfast truths, however it would be to a much greater expedience if those thing that I relate were received now rather than later.
Concerning all my related documents and stories: "Being more honest than modest" I am the single most knowledgeable man in all of creation concerning many things that have remained in controversy throughout the ages...Well, because I know the pasts and futures of mankind in a far less mysterious way than most, “even my own”!
The references for my writing are from a most complete and rounded format of the entirety or aggregate of creation, geologically and otherwise A to Z...or what is past present and future.
Concerning the usual country, state and world governments. Governments are rarely informed or trusted in actual creation matters, this being a long standing "rule of thumb" down through the ages.
Continuing With
Making repairs on the floor of heaven or what is formally as “The Great Smoothness”, now known as the plastic ( what is our security perimeter ) and is "26 to 28 ft above normal ground level". This makes possible our sky and universe.
The following documentation is in part explanation concerning the "Plastic" or stealth-like sheath that lies 26 to 28 ft above normal ground level. This concerns its most recent repair changes and otherwise to include events of personal experiences that I have chosen to relate.
There were only two of us working to repair the damage on the continuance sheath where others in the past discovering it's presence had hastily and carelessly created rips and tares in various places for whatever reasons they had for doing so. Although, these hasty plunderings seemed to have been made at some length prior to the time that we discovered them. We were still in concern about the reasons for those rips and tares not being honorable.
And of course being even more concerned that these already created "rips and tares" might be used as entrances and exists to this time and others. All this we know was possible from our prior experiments with Time on/and/under the Plastic before we began the great repair.
And it was easy to ascertain that any past security concerning the sheath had seemingly never entered into the plan of it's original creation and purpose other than the natural effect of it's placement. If there were any actual plan of security concerning it, it must have been long ago and long forgotten.
So we elected to repair the damage done to the sheath no matter how long the repair might take because we knew how to live and work on the plastic without “time” being a dire consequence. We could enter the sheath in any particular place in time and remain for any duration upon the sheath and return to the place of entry. We learned about the sheath and how to repair it literally from trial and error. We learned how to make repairs "by hand" without leaving a seam or an incriminating mark that could be detected from either side of the continuance sheath.
Meaning that once the repair was completed from the top side of the sheath, it would make re-discovery of it impossible from the underside side. We conducted a few experiments moving things from one time to another "using the sheath" and discovered that in doing so "sometimes" it would cause drastic changes related to increasing violence and discord among the "now" of the time from an object came.
These "simple" but effective experiments and what occurred because of them we were able to confirm mostly through radio broadcasts concerning the everyday news and current events of that Time (late 1940’s).
It wasn't what I would call "fun" and it was a bit trying at times regardless of the "forever' aspect that being upon the sheath afforded. The project from beginning to end became a great dedication of concern and responsibility for what we had undertaken.
After our seemingly time-less research "learning about the sheath" we set about the repairs basically in quarters until it was completed. During the first quarter of the repair we worked together for companionship, learning and helping one another from time to time. As we became more experienced we decided to separate, each being responsible for the completion of a quarter. This left one remaining quarter to be completed.
I was "6" yrs of age..."there was no physical aging on the plastic and my adult partner during this unusual event was my unusual Mother. Mom and I conversed briefly before the last quarter of the sheath was to be finished. She related to me that she was tiring of the crusade and needed to get back to her everyday desires concerning life at the old farmhouse. She related that she would seal up the last remaining dimensional tare that extended through the 2nd floor hallway ceiling of the farm house before she returned for the last time. This where we first gained access the plastic.
My adult partner "Mom" and I had worked together for a very long time on the Plastic and we were both very much adults concerning one another and what we were about. For purposes of returning home (beneath the sheath) no matter how long we were gone, we were always able to return back on the same date and time from which we had departed. It had been my wish to stay and complete the repair of last quarter.
She related that I didn't have to complete the remaining quarter because after a brief inspection of it, it appeared to contain no breaching and there were no visible signs of life beneath. Anyway, as far as any temporary inspection of it might have revealed. “However” she stated: "I know its important to you that the repair be completed as planned" (meaning we had first decided to inspect and cover everything). As we adjourned "this" our last meeting, I went my way to complete what I deemed necessary for the completion of the repair.
We never engaged or gave acknowledgment to anyone during our repairs. However, we would occasionally come down in different places when no-one was present to acquire simple tools and things we needed for those continued repairs...
First Contact with friends from the future
"Unknown to me" some children at the far end of the last quarter that I was repairing did see me during portions of those repairs. This had occurred on occasion "from Time to Time" in this particular place at the far end of time. It resulted in rumors of a great hairy ape like god creature the children called Nebogipfel that appeared in the skies over that area from time to time.
They were actually seeing my shadow 26 to 28 ft above normal ground level as I was closing a few breaches in the plastic. This involved a number of years for them. Please understand that time on the sheath "from place to place" is not as much of concern as the lengthy difference that presents itself in contrast beneath the sheath.
As related to me by the adults of that time, their children had many stories concerning a strange figure they had seen from time to time from the fields in the skies of that time. This figure that they had named "Nebogipfel" was a kind of God to them. The figure of course being "yours truly".
The Story Begins
They were much like our children of the late 20th century as they were playing in the fields of their time. I didn't see them at first because I was busy with the repair and I still have no memory of seeing anyone "ever" in the fields below during that time. Because some of the adults had been complaining because of their seemingly made up stories, they ran to the nearby town “on this occasion” to inform the adults. Saying they had seen their secret mystery god "Nebogipfel" in the skies over the fields once again. Because of the disbelief of their stories they didn't wish to keep it a secret from the adults as in before times.
The adults came immediately and haled me, asking me to come down. However I was cautioned never to acknowledge strangers during the repairs and I could have easily covered the tare quickly "as usual" and vanished from their site. But I was impressed by the love and concern they were showing. Because of this I untied the long rope from about the waist of an old field jacket that I had appropriated while searching for tools during other portions of the repair. I lashed one end of the rope to a torn edge of the breached plastic and ascended to the tall grassy field where "to my surprise" they caught me gently in their arms as I climbed down the rope. I was only "6" and small for my age. I had been a child of six for a very long time and I was hoping it was not going to end because of my decision to stop for a visitation.
I stayed with them for three days, sleeping most of the time. They had a security guard with me constantly. They gave me a complete physical exam saying that according to their "Atomic Saliva Test", I hadn't eaten or had anything in my mouth, not even my fingers, for at least 6 months. They said that when they first created their "Atomic Silvia Test" (they called it) they had no practical reason for having to go beyond 6 months and therefore it wasn't accurate beyond that length of time.
They related that I was in excellent health. Although they were more advanced than us they were still "in the dark" as to how it was possible for someone to work and exist in a "forever sense" without sleep, food or water and without attending to normal body functions "day by day". Later on they may have discovered the reasons. I was going to explain it to them, however as I began thinking it over "I didn't really know where to begin".
However with the confirming results of the atomic saliva test and some psychic investigation into the matter, they began to research and document the occasion because it was in positive link to them concerning a number of things in controversy in that Time.
They wanted me to remain with them and not return to my time. They said they did not wish to intimidate me concerning the matter and my decision would be honored. I choose not to remain with them because I was dedicated to completing the repair work on the Plastic.
They gave me one small cup of black coffee after placing me in one of their dwellings with a security guard. After drinking the coffee I soon went to sleep. They did not feed me or give me anything more to drink for the 3 days that I remained as their guest...I was only awake for about 4 hours of my 3 day visit. They said that they didn't want to upset my chemical balance by feeding me because I had elected to return to the plastic.
Referring to the plastic, they said they had reason to believe that “something of that nature” existed but didn't know exactly where it was or how it existed.
They related that to the west of their creation was a great abyss and that it was impossible for them to exist within it. They said we have one enemy "The Trolls" and they can exist in the abyss. Further relating that they had an atomic war with them shortly after they first arrived for possession of the land on which they then lived.
Further relating they had won the first conflict with the Trolls for rights to the land. They said there would be a final conflict with the trolls and they had only a fifty-fifty chance of winning. For this reason they ask me not to cover the area were the abyss joined their occupation at this far end of time.
They said when the trolls come for the last time and we know they will “although we will know well in advance of when they arrive” as a matter of pride we would like to physically be able to see them coming! Saying once again that they had only a 50/50 chance of winning the next and final conflict with the trolls for rights to the land "they will come anyway".
They related that my job on the plastic must be important, saying to me: "Therefore it will be your decision should you cover the area or not "They said". I made it a point not to cover that area and stayed at a distance from it to ensure that I would not.
They remarked at one point that I had the continence of a 26 yr old male of their time, however I was only a child of "6". I understood it to be a compliment and I received it as such.
I had lived for more than many years on the plastic "but for all practical purposes" I was still a only child of "6". I had made that my life and I accepted it in that light. I do remember it all very well and it was not exactly "a piece of cake" as I sometimes make it sound. I do know that I have never experienced so much time in strife and loneliness in the form of a man child as I first blindly endured the great longevities in the first beginnings of those repairs. By the time the repair of the last quarter came into view I was well seasoned concerning the matter. The repair of the last quarter was quite lengthy but I welcomed the challenge and as I’ve related it was rather interesting.
I was indeed "6" yrs of age for a very, very long time. Because once you conquer your desires "on the Plastic" concerning the need to eat, sleep or give heed to bodily functions, "the body doesn't age" as long as you remain on the Plastic. Also concerning a tolerable mental state for this adjustment, at first requires also a lot of practice, paying attention to what must be accomplished, fueling incentive to continue from feelings denied and learning to endure because of prime dedications to the task at hand.
These people had actually detained me for the 3 days without my consent "allowing me to sleep". They informed me of this later. They did so because they were creating a surprise for me! The surprise was an "Atomic Heat Sealer created for me to aid me in my repair work.
It was light gray, about 4 ft long, 8 inches wide and 4 inches deep, ultra light weight and attuned to my senses so no-one else could use it. It had a long slit in the bottom where it would attach and draw to the Plastic "effortlessly stretching" and sealing without leaving a seam...Before the gift of the Atomic Heat Sealer, all of this I learned to accomplished by hand. The Atomic Heat Sealer made the job effortless and required only 1/5th of the time.
On one end they added a continuously changing Kaleidoscope that could be easily viewed through the open clear plastic lens at it's lower end. They created this for my amusement "they said", adding that should I want to take a break, I could amuse myself with the kaleidoscope (however, I never took breaks). They said, so that I would remember them and know that they are a people of good intent.
They said: "We are going to trust you with this"! We are only asking that you to do one thing concerning this trust. Saying, when you have finished repairs, leave the Heat Sealer on the plastic and do not take it back with you back into your time. Saying further: "We have ways of returning it to our own Time". It’s a matter of security with us "they said"!.
I once stopped and looked at the continually changing patterns of the kaleidoscope sometime after returning to the repair. What a fascinating toy I thought. I then made a mental note to indulge myself later when the repairs were finished. When my work was completed I did so. I then left the Atomic Heat Sealer laying on the endless Plastic as I had been instructed...and returned to my Time of 1948, 11700 E. Grand River Rd. (old highway 16), about 5 miles south east of Brighton, Michigan USA (It is “now” primarily a ski resort town).
...Explaining somewhat further about how the mechanics of the repair was accomplished...
The plastic will replace itself when it is pulled or stretched to accommodate the distance from one edge to another. It being possible to stretch and attach one edge to another "without a seam" by binding, pressing and holding the two exposed edges together “making sure they meet evenly and touch in the same way” then suddenly "letting go" of both edges at the same time as it quietly snaps together without leaving a seam.
It takes awhile to get the knack of it "not to mention" that the "Plastic" is exactly like cellophane in physical signature with the exception of it actually function which is like a one way mirror reflecting what should be above in a combined effort of forever and always. It separates time from time allowing a day by day signature of life death and rebirth so long as it exists.
The plastic being the thickness of cellophane and of the same/same similarity signature. However because of dimensional placement and attributes it creates a one way mirror 26 to 28 ft above normal ground level. From beneath it, it sustains what we know as the natural creation of things and reflects one way "upward and onward" creating our sky and universe. Beneth this plastic (where we exist) it is stealth and untouchable unless a tare or opening has been created from the other side, exposing it to the "now".
Once on top of the Plastic, it is indeed a kind of neutral zone with "semi- twilight visibility being no-more than 10 to 12 ft in any direction. It boarders, covers, protects and segregates the times and places of mankind, even separating individuals in many remote privacies "one from another". Also making possible the thing we know as "life and death" to continue without dire concerns of actually perishment and unwanted invasions from one another. This would involve dire conflicts without death, generating old beginnings of actual hell fire and brimstone situations of much evil that most always relate in perishment irreversible for more than many.
...More about...My friends I visited in the future...
They told me of the time they came from and why they departed and moved to the place where they were at the time of my visitation. They said that beginning experimental applications of atomic energy with it's destructive and sometimes uncontrollable forces was the reason that first drove them from the mainstream of mankind to discover the place in which they then existed.
They talked about how they lived, about their profound knowledge of atomic energy, saying "We first learned it's standards for the purposes of war”, adding that they wished it were possible for them to have learned the peaceful standards first. Saying we still do not yet know all the peace time standards but we have been learning about them.
My visit had inspired reason for them to research and document the occasion giving way for construction of a book concerning their ideas about the plastic that I was repairing" they said". And it was related that this was normal protocol of their time for conveying information and knowledge to their public.
They maintained they had the best psychics and writers in creation as they know it. They stated that they were preparing a book concerning the plastic that I was repairing and when the book was completed they wanted me to receive a copy of it.
They said: "You will receive the book when you are 53. They said not to be concerned about this "we have ways of making it happen"! They further related that I would come to a bad state of affairs at the age 53. Saying further that they picked that particular time of my life for me to receive the book because "they said" we thought it might offer some comfort for you during that time. During that time when you read the book you will remember us and know that we are a people of good intent". Later when I was 53, all came to pass as they had said. I did read the book, remembering them and indeed it was a great comfort to me.
They related that they couldn't trace my life beyond 57 yrs of age, saying they didn't know what happened to me after that. They said I wasn't dead but I was just no-where to be found. The add about reason is because of the “now” presence of the great tributary flux effected by the last changing of the great abyss within the aggregate of creation. This is called the green arrow of creation (something passing once). Everything they have related to me has always been most correct!
About the book they (my friends of the future) were constructing at that time to convey their ideas concerning the plastic “they said” they would make it possible for me to receive a copy of that same book when I was "53"...The name of that book came to be "The Time ships" by Stephen Baxter, published in this time of our late-20th century.
However because of: “the tributary flux effected by the last changing of the great abyss, effecting mostly the estates of mankind”. This began on or about the year 2000 AD, extending 26 to 28 years to the farthest branching of great tributary flux which concerns “endings and/or continuations” within the entirety of all times and places because of the approximate 30 years needed to complete the final changing of the last abyss.
My friends I visited at the far end of time related that I would recognize the book they were creating by the name "Nebogipfel" that would be in the book. They said: "This is the name our children gave to you after seeing your shadowed figure "hi in the air" over the fields many times before we discovered your presence.
Reiterating just a bit!...I became acquainted with these unique people during my solo completion of the repairs on the remaining quarter of the Continuance Sheath/or Plastic in the late 1940's of this time. They were in orchestration of the original document and placement of the information which was later completed by Mr. Stephen Baxter for the novel “The Time Ships”.
It occurred to me much later as I was reading “The Time ships” that it was so unique that the spokesman for that time was none other than the same “Mr. Stephen Baxter” of Today. You must understand that some things are just around the corner and true understandings of many situations are sometimes a one way street. Anyway, I will further attempt to explain?
As I was reading the novel as I recognized Mr. Baxter as the spokesman from that future time from his picture in the back cover of the novel “The Time Ships”. Once again, you must understand that because of the last changing of the great abyss, beginning on or about the year 2000 AD. has caused a great tributary flux lasting 26 to 28 years at the outer most branches. This in turn has caused the time I visited concerning Mr. Baxter to exhibit a “4 to 5 way split” in a kind of branching of dualities of similar. The “flux” effecting of course “not just Mr. Baxter” but many times, places and people “in many ways” of mostly the creation estates of mankind.
To totally explain what is not accepted as present day knowledge “concerning the above” might require a great deal of time, space and schools of special learning depending upon strength of character and expertise. Anyway, I am familiar with the differences of such things in the above! And should this document reach the time and place of the real Mr. Baxter in the positive of the above relating, then al is well!. And ?possibly? “All is Well” Anyway ! However from personal acquaintance concerning these things I am also aware of truth of these differences.
They lived in one of the most remote and farthest reaching areas of time under the plastic. They are indeed as they had said "A people of good intent", peace loving, and kind hearted.
Best Wishes From...The United States Blackfoot Chief~Conrad M Cummings
Author's ending note and confirmations
If you care to read further
The account related below is in confirmation to the book that I was to receive when I was 53. And that I did receive "just as they had said"! ...
During the late summer of 1995, I relocated from California to Springfield, Missouri which is the center of the world Bible belt.
In the Springfield area during that time stores had began to take all diverse reading material off the book shelves because of a religious conflict in the bible belt. I was looking for a good science fiction novel to bide my time. However I could find none because of a religious conflict condemning science fiction as immoral and perverse materiel. I finally found one science fiction novel that someone had dared to leave on their shelf and only one!
Reiterating what these Stephen Baxter people of the future had said concerning my receiving of particular information in a book (which has now been named The Time Ships) that they originally put together with the expertise of the best authors with channeled information from the greatest psychics in creation.
After reading a portion of the novel, it was easily recognizable as the same book related in the above story...because of the name “Nebogipfel” that I recognized when I began reading the book...Recognition of the name immediately restored my memories of times past concerning them.
The Time Ships Novel contains many things directly related to the plastic security sheath that I repaired in the late 1940's. Its true correct and ancient name being "The Great Smoothness" which is a the Security Continuance Sheath that is referred to as "The Plastic" in the English science fiction “which is in truth is more fact than fiction” or what is "The Time Ships" by Stephen Baxter.
The manuscript for that particular novel was placed inadvertently within this time to be found and later published. The details of this were not mentioned to me during any of the conversations with those instrumental in the original creation of the manuscript for the story. These things were later defined in this time by Mr. Stephen Baxter himself. Because of dualities of similar coupled by the great changing of the abyss I believe that the majority of past memories are less to be present concerning the Mr. Baxter of this time. Even so, the Stephen Baxter of this time should be commended for his written contributions as great prep for those present day and onward.
The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter is indeed as strange and interesting as the Charing Cross Rd bookstore account of how English author "Stephen Baxter' had been given some unclaimed manuscripts by the owner of a small secondhand bookshop, situated just off The Charing Cross Road in London, that had been bequeathed to him by a friend as 19th century fact fiction...and then given to Mr. Baxter because of his great interest in 19th century fact fiction...The remainder of this information is better defined in the Editor’s Notes at the beginning of the l995 Harper Collins Novel "The Time Ships" by Stephen Baxter...
Thank you Mr. Stephen Baxter for your novel: "The Time Ships"...! The Novel being great prep "especially in these times" and is written in a style that I relate to as: "Very Well done"!...And just to mention "The Ending" of the Novel suddenly and very nicely becoming the beginning of a Love story...
This Chronicle Story is dedicated to Mr. Stephen Baxter
The following is for the more concerned and/or advanced within the aggregate of creation.
Relating the latest in actual Creation News...Concerning the fate of a small expanse of our forever security sheath or that which exist stealth as our security perimeter "upward and onward" 26 to 28 ft above normal ground level.
...relating to this "Time" as a marker being in proximity Times of the original marker millennium year of 2000 AD...It has been in direct knowledge that portions of the continuance sheath have been taken as security coverings for some of the smaller, secretive, but very wealthy and newly erected eternal estates..."Concerning any profound importance of this knowledge"..."3" of these estates are rather outstanding, each one being individually owned/and/or maintained by small but very wealthy groups or "individual corporatists" that have broken off from their original beginnings.
These smaller but new and usually wealthy creations exist on a long "finger like" peninsula, formally in relation to the following geological named creation places within the aggregate. These are The Big Red Crown Territory, The Tower Area and The Area of the Ditch, jutting out from the vast Desert Territory of the old Creation...This "finger like" island having the Wilderness Area on one side and the endless Badlands on the other...in example this is similar to the way Florida is attached as a peninsula of North America.
Because of the quick fix construction of these New estates with their plastic coverings in thrown over tent like signature, securing their perimeters "all being basically in a row"...The plastic coverings "of course" making it possible for these new creations to exist as life sustaining continuances...and because of the "thrown-over" effect of the tent like coverings sustaining these places from normal detection, the area has been dubbed: "The Row of Tents"!...but is most often referred to as "Tent Row"... !
American Chieftain~Conrad M Cummings
Huh?!?! Somebody read all that and give us the Readers Digest version.
Yea, I know, Jabber. He thinks this is his local community college! 
quote:Originally posted by Jabbergah:
Huh?!?! Somebody read all that and give us the Readers Digest version.
See why we thought your essays were tiresome Jab
although, you have nothing on this bloke 
What?? >I< thought my essays were interesting, and were at least topic appropriate.quote:See why we thought your essays were tiresome Jab
Maybe the above dissertations (1 or 2 esses??) are topic-appropriate, too -- I didn't bother to read to see! I think even my longest were only a fraction in length of the above! NOOO!!!!quote:If you care to read further
quote:Within the aggregate of all things there is a remaining space where numbers run out and cease to exist, which is 1/6 of 1 percent of the aggregate. Within this highly unstable portion we find answers for that which has gone amiss.
That's the thing about missing objects. You put 'em down exactly where you can find them again and you can't!
Moved a chest of drawers yesterday and what do I find? Half the things that have gone missing in this house since time began. What is really sad is finding that vital bit from a toy I should have mended two decades ago.
On that subject - have any of you still got a box with bits of broken toys that you should have mended before they left home and got married? I have - little legs from dolls house chairs, bits of play people, broken springs from trains that will no longer "chuff" around the sitting room floor and worst of all evidence of the family curse.
You don't have one? We do. My father helped me build three quarters of a plane that never flew and I have done the same for my son. A small model aircraft engine sits on a shelf in my shed - mute evidence of an incompetant model kit assembler - me!
I have promised my son, that when they have a child, I will bring a different present - a brand new model aircraft kit! He will then have approximately ten years to try and beat the curse!
Paul
Oh my! I can't say that I do!
ATTENTION...
?...Oh no, has the great class with it's more than many words of wisdom been dismissed for today dearest children of many wishes...?
!However I do congratulate you for your more thoughtful and less aggressive replys!
!...Good Returns...!
...#Just being honest, ya#know, but yall are all a bit stiff necked#...
Perhaps ya might try movin yer heads a bit more from time to time...or maybe if ya took a big dump it might relieve some of the internal pressure on the common sense portion your thinker.
On the kindness of that note “Please Remember” these ancient words of wisdom and quickly place a great big smooch on my behindy!
...You have no idea how much I thank yall for your indigenous concerns...
From “more indigenous than you”, Yada, Yada and Yada!
...Actually I believe your all great souls and individuals of good character...right down to the fishy lookin pic of the little peanut blond with the big heart of many forgivenesses...
SOooo...“Like it or not, I love ya all”!...Blessings of many lifetimes and good fortune to you!
The American Chieftain~Conrad M. Cummings and Family St. Louis MO. USA mostly all darn day!
?...Oh no, has the great class with it's more than many words of wisdom been dismissed for today dearest children of many wishes...?
!However I do congratulate you for your more thoughtful and less aggressive replys!
!...Good Returns...!
...#Just being honest, ya#know, but yall are all a bit stiff necked#...
Perhaps ya might try movin yer heads a bit more from time to time...or maybe if ya took a big dump it might relieve some of the internal pressure on the common sense portion your thinker.
On the kindness of that note “Please Remember” these ancient words of wisdom and quickly place a great big smooch on my behindy!
...You have no idea how much I thank yall for your indigenous concerns...
From “more indigenous than you”, Yada, Yada and Yada!
...Actually I believe your all great souls and individuals of good character...right down to the fishy lookin pic of the little peanut blond with the big heart of many forgivenesses...
SOooo...“Like it or not, I love ya all”!...Blessings of many lifetimes and good fortune to you!
The American Chieftain~Conrad M. Cummings and Family St. Louis MO. USA mostly all darn day!
What is all this BS? Is AS going to let this person keep loading crap into the forums? 
Aussie girl may I add a few lines to add to your confusion?
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
Not me I'm afraid:
Lewis Carroll - from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872.
Ah well, if you can't beat 'em join em.
Its all a sort of madhouse here any whay hey!
Paul
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
Not me I'm afraid:
Lewis Carroll - from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872.
Ah well, if you can't beat 'em join em.
Its all a sort of madhouse here any whay hey!
Paul
quote:...#Just being honest, ya#know, but yall are all a bit stiff necked#...
Perhaps ya might try movin yer heads a bit more from time to time...or maybe if ya took a big dump it might relieve some of the internal pressure on the common sense portion your thinker.
Camera I see your point but I do take offence to the above. Guests and/or new members visiting this forum would not be impressed reading unintellectual garbage like this
Not true - there are viruses (viri?) around that record key strokes but you have to have the virus on your PC for that to work!quote:Originally posted by Mrs.M.:
I think someone posted that you should not even answer them at all as they can sometimes pick up things just from your typing.
When I was on my Computer Science course in about 1980 I wrote a program that mimicked the log on 'screen' (it was on teletype but you know what I mean) and it recorded the next user's id and password into a file then logged off. I was then able to log on as them and steal their 'budget' (ie. time on the mainframe). Somehow I came top in my class! I guess this was an early example of phishing!
[_ONE OFF VIRUS CHECK_] <-- check for viruses here!
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You know, someone needs to tell eBay that you cannot because I recently got a warning email from them that stated you could!
I had the same one - what it says, as I remember, is that a virus is sometimes attached which will allow key-strokes to be recorded. Ergo, if your emails are filtered by AVG or equivalent then the risk is zero!quote:Originally posted by Mrs.M.:
You know, someone needs to tell eBay that you cannot because I recently got a warning email from them that stated you could!
Same word in both medical and internet circles - viruses seems more acceptable in both worlds these days!
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quote:Originally posted by region2:Not true - there are viruses (viri?) around that record key strokes but you have to have the virus on your PC for that to work!quote:Originally posted by Mrs.M.:
I think someone posted that you should not even answer them at all as they can sometimes pick up things just from your typing.
When I was on my Computer Science course in about 1980 I wrote a program that mimicked the log on 'screen' (it was on teletype but you know what I mean) and it recorded the next user's id and password into a file then logged off. I was then able to log on as them and steal their 'budget' (ie. time on the mainframe). Somehow I came top in my class! I guess this was an early example of phishing!
[_ONE OFF VIRUS CHECK_] <-- check for viruses here!
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These dreadful little beasties are known as 'Trojans' cf the siege of Troy.
They usually arrive by running a link from a website, maybe by email when users are a bit careless or think they have found a free lunch.
They sit on your computer and wait for a particular window, such as your ebay login form, and grab the keystrokes.
Less sophisticated ones just simulate a Paypal/bank/ebay form, and grab the details.
Moral?
Be aware what is on your PC - cookies, registry entries, startup programs \Program Files\, Task Manager processes, everything.
Anything you do not recognise, google it!
Good idea, Mike.I simply don't open it. If it is from eBay, it will be in my messages on my eBay page. I also do have virus protection.
Not feasible and somewhat pointless when you can use adaware or spybot to check your PC for you.quote:Be aware what is on your PC - cookies, registry entries, startup programs \Program Files\, Task Manager processes, everything.
Anything you do not recognise, google it!
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Right on. But any messages that claim to be from ebay that I am not expecting get sent to spoof@ebay.com. I do the same for Pay Pals
spoof@paypal.com.
Also, whenever I leave a web site, I delete all cookes. Then I go to the next one.
That is in addition to my spyware and AVE.
spoof@paypal.com.
Also, whenever I leave a web site, I delete all cookes. Then I go to the next one.
That is in addition to my spyware and AVE.
Why? Cookies serve a useful purpose so, unless you're paranoid you are wasting your time. Sounds like you're well protected (I use AVG, Ad-aware and Zone Alarm, all free!) so why bother.quote:Originally posted by I'd rather be shopping:
...whenever I leave a web site, I delete all cookies...
Please read [_THIS_] and then make an informed decision... (for some reason this forum puts an underscore into the link so you'll need to delete that from the address to get it to work ie. http://www._c... becomes http://www.c...)
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originally purchased an all in one security program which did not do the job properly so I sought advice from tech support service provider to determine what I need to protect puter...their suggestion, AVG, Ad-aware, Zone alarm, and Spybot. Anyway have downloaded all these and it is amazing what 1 misses the other will pick up...hope they have caught them all would hate to think I would need any more programs and spend a lot of my life running scans
BTW as I am new to ad-aware do you just leave everything in quarantine or delete them as they are placed there?
originally purchased an all in one security program which did not do the job properly so I sought advice from tech support service provider to determine what I need to protect puter...their suggestion, AVG, Ad-aware, Zone alarm, and Spybot. Anyway have downloaded all these and it is amazing what 1 misses the other will pick up...hope they have caught them all would hate to think I would need any more programs and spend a lot of my life running scans
BTW as I am new to ad-aware do you just leave everything in quarantine or delete them as they are placed there?
quote:Originally posted by I'd rather be shopping:
Right on. But any messages that claim to be from ebay that I am not expecting get sent to spoof@ebay.com. I do the same for Pay Pals
spoof@paypal.com.
Also, whenever I leave a web site, I delete all cookes. Then I go to the next one.
That is in addition to my spyware and AVE.
I only delete cookies that I do not require or do not know about. Some of the ones I have are needed.
How do you determine which ones you need?quote:I only delete cookies that I do not require or do not know about. Some of the ones I have are needed.
quote:Originally posted by Jabbergah:How do you determine which ones you need?quote:I only delete cookies that I do not require or do not know about. Some of the ones I have are needed.
Personally, I like the choc chip ones
quote:Originally posted by Jabbergah:How do you determine which ones you need?quote:I only delete cookies that I do not require or do not know about. Some of the ones I have are needed.
Jabber
In most cases, the filename will tell you.
For example, Mike@medmaw[1].txt I know is a Medmaw cookie that I need for clock materials.
Also, look at the dates. If in doubt, open the file in Notepad or similar.
A cookie can have anything the supplier wants to put in, but nearly always there is a URL there.
HTH