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Savor Dam wrote:I, too, have been mystified why there are multiple FB groups for the same interest group. It is not as though they represent sub-populations like the Gravin Threndor gamers; all groups seem to represent the whole KW continuum...
I actually had no intention of creating a group when I made mine after Elohimfest. I thought I was creating a grouping of contacts for myself so I could keep track of everyone from the partay. Turned out I actually created a real group.
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Savor Dam wrote:I, too, have been mystified why there are multiple FB groups for the same interest group. It is not as though they represent sub-populations like the Gravin Threndor gamers; all groups seem to represent the whole KW continuum...
I actually had no intention of creating a group when I made mine after Elohimfest. I thought I was creating a grouping of contacts for myself so I could keep track of everyone from the partay. Turned out I actually created a real group.
Ummmm....maybe because you submitted a post here that said "join up even if you weren't there?"
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bossk - would you clear up a debate between mrsnull and myself?

for all these years i have pronounced your name as one syllable. julie says i should pronounce it "boss k" so which is it? thank you.

damelon : same thing, how do you pronounce. because i like julie's version better than mine.

and to explain, i know we were introduced at e-fest. but at any given time i need a working knowledge of 80-100 inmate names. plus forty or so coworkers. plu sthe people i know in real life. i have only so much memory. inmates find it odd that when they stop working for me, unless i have known them for years, i usually forget their name quickly.

i also can only remember three phone numbers at any given time. and one of those is my phone number from when i was a kid. the other two are julie's work and cell phones. i don't even know my own number and i have had it for years.
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I can say for Bossk that it is definitely one syllable, as it is based off of this guy from the Empire Strikes Back:

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Then again, maybe I've had it wrong all these years. Then again, I found someone else pronouncing it the same as we have; to rhyme with "mosque."

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thanks - i get to tell julie i am right. :)

have you read this yet?

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not a huge star wars fan but really enjoyed that. tells the back ground of the bounty hunters.

also really enjoyed this one...

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the story of those at the Mos Eisley bar.

i also liked IG-88 and just found out a Mos Eisley Cantina drink dispenser was used as its head.
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I haven't read those, although I have read a couple of the Bounty Hunter Wars books, starting with this one:

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It wasn't bad, but just not a fan of reading about spaceships and such, typically. It was fairly entertaining though, but not enough for me to pick up any more books of.
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the ones i posted go into depth about the characters. i also dislike hard science fiction. but i found thos eto be entertaining,
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Yeah, glad Cag cleared all that up. I so often just throw the first thing I think of into the blank when I have to pick a forum name, and then it sticks, of course.

Luci also likes to say "Boss K" so I told her at the 'fest that it meant I am "boss of things that can be measured in thousands". Since you're a baseball fan, I can also be "boss of strikeouts".

Vraith - I thought I was just tagging my contacts. When people started posting things in the group, I realized what I had done and decided to go with the flow, so I invited everyone to hop aboard. It doesn't matter how idiot-proof someone makes an internet doohickey, I will find a way to misunderstand.
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sgt.null wrote:bossk - would you clear up a debate between mrsnull and myself?

for all these years i have pronounced your name as one syllable. julie says i should pronounce it "boss k" so which is it? thank you.

damelon : same thing, how do you pronounce. because i like julie's version better than mine.

and to explain, i know we were introduced at e-fest. but at any given time i need a working knowledge of 80-100 inmate names. plus forty or so coworkers. plu sthe people i know in real life. i have only so much memory. inmates find it odd that when they stop working for me, unless i have known them for years, i usually forget their name quickly.

i also can only remember three phone numbers at any given time. and one of those is my phone number from when i was a kid. the other two are julie's work and cell phones. i don't even know my own number and i have had it for years.
I say "bosk" and "dame-lon"
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Cagliostro wrote:I haven't read those, although I have read a couple of the Bounty Hunter Wars books, starting with this one:

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It wasn't bad, but just not a fan of reading about spaceships and such, typically. It was fairly entertaining though, but not enough for me to pick up any more books of.
I had high hopes for those, because I read a K.W. Jeter book ("Goodbye Horizontal") that I thought was pretty prescient. I guess the strictures of writing within the Star Wars universe made these a bit more difficult to get right, because I eventually got bored and quit reading.
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Heh, I've always pronounced Bossk's name as Boss K too.

Damelon, I pronounce like the TC character Dam-a-lon
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sindatur wrote:Heh, I've always pronounced Bossk's name as Boss K too.

Damelon, I pronounce like the TC character Dam-a-lon
Huh...I always pronounced them Smith and Jones.
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I'm on team bossk (rhymes with mosque) and team Dam-eh (rhymes with meh) -lon.....
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bossk - too bad i can't do a backwards k, eh?
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Cameraman Jenn wrote:I'm on team bossk (rhymes with mosque) and team Dam-eh (rhymes with meh) -lon.....
^what Jenn said^
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Cameraman Jenn wrote:I'm on team bossk (rhymes with mosque) and team Dam-eh (rhymes with meh) -lon.....
Yep, me too.
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Jenn has Damelon right. Three syllables. Dam e lon. All short vowels.
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Damelon wrote:Jenn has Damelon right. Three syllables. Dam e lon. All short vowels.
julie was right then - thank you. :)
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I think I sent a request to join the Watch FB page the other day but perhaps it didn't work. Nothing's happened.
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