Happy Thanksgiving, All!
See, what am I thankful for this year...
1. A heck of alot of Howard/ Conan stuff coming out, for one thing. It's kinda like that song, "I was country when country wasn't cool," but now it getting cool again. A resurgence of Howard, but a better one this time. A golden age?
2. A board full of other gents I can chat with about one of my favorite subjects that takes up way too much of my time. But hey, at least you guys not only listen, but you converse about the same thing. I try too often to bring up REH with real people and kinda get blank stares that are ready to move on to the next topic. Besides, I don't have to go out to hang out with you guys, so you're cheap too! Ah, conan.com, good on the budget.
3. Oh, yeah, and the boy.
Now, time to fast for tomorrow's big feast! Cheers, amigos!
Happy Thanksgiving
Started by Winterghost, Nov 23 2006 03:35 AM
32 replies to this topic
#1
Winterghost
-
- Members
-
- 969 posts
Mauler of Shadizar
- Gender:Male
- Location:Los Angeles area
Posted 23 November 2006 - 03:35 AM
#2
Guest_Tu for Kull_*
Guest_Tu for Kull_*
-
- Guests
Posted 23 November 2006 - 03:46 AM
Happy Thanksgiving, All!
See, what am I thankful for this year...
1. A heck of alot of Howard/ Conan stuff coming out, for one thing. It's kinda like that song, "I was country when country wasn't cool," but now it getting cool again. A resurgence of Howard, but a better one this time. A golden age?
2. A board full of other gents I can chat with about one of my favorite subjects that takes up way too much of my time. But hey, at least you guys not only listen, but you converse about the same thing. I try too often to bring up REH with real people and kinda get blank stares that are ready to move on to the next topic. Besides, I don't have to go out to hang out with you guys, so you're cheap too! Ah, conan.com, good on the budget.
3. Oh, yeah, and the boy.
Now, time to fast for tomorrow's big feast! Cheers, amigos!
Greetings!
Atta boy,winterghost!Again,well,said!Well,we all have alot to be thankful for.The REH coming out,the excellent folks on this forum,swords,and the son,and,....enlightenment
Tu (tanks)
#3
Strom
-
- Admin
-
- 7,941 posts
Fearing No Evil
- Gender:Male
- Location:Michigan, USA
Posted 23 November 2006 - 03:43 PM
Well said WG and Tu! Happy Thanksgiving to all the great members and quests to the REH Forums!
And remember - any day above ground is a good day!
How did the Mayflower show that it liked America?
It hugged the shore
What's the key to a great Thanksgiving dinner?
The turKEY
Hope everyone has a great day!
And remember - any day above ground is a good day!
How did the Mayflower show that it liked America?
It hugged the shore
What's the key to a great Thanksgiving dinner?
The turKEY
Hope everyone has a great day!
#4
Almuric
-
- Members
-
- 2,781 posts
Sword of Crom
- Gender:Male
Posted 23 November 2006 - 05:52 PM
Living in the free world. Not everyone gets that chance.
"It is more than a mortal sea. Your hands are red with blood and you follow a red sea-path, yet the fault is not wholly with you. Almighty God, when will the reign of blood cease?"
Turlogh shook his head. "Not so long as the race lasts."
--- The Dark Man, by Robert E. Howard
Turlogh shook his head. "Not so long as the race lasts."
--- The Dark Man, by Robert E. Howard
#5
budgie
-
- Members
-
- 2,187 posts
craven idol maker
- Gender:Male
- Location:Scottish Borders, Scotland
Posted 23 November 2006 - 11:41 PM
Living in the free world. Not everyone gets that chance.
Especially the Turkey
budgie
Electric Scotland.com - For everything about Scotland online
Scifi Scotland - For everything about me and what Im into!!
#6
AMRA_thelion
-
- Members
-
- 225 posts
Warrior
- Gender:Male
- Location:Richmond, VA USA
Posted 24 November 2006 - 06:41 AM
I'm thankfull for: my father's winning battle with non-hodgkins lymphoma, for mine and my family's health, my job, this forum and all of you that contribute. Because without you guys there wouldn't be such a great vent/distration from my torrential life.
"With a savage wrench Conan twisted Baal-pteor's head around until the ghastly face leered over the left shoulder, and the vertebrea snapped like a rotten branch."The conquering sword of Conan.
#7
Carlos
-
- Members
-
- 142 posts
Warrior
- Location:Hudson Bend, TX
Posted 12 December 2006 - 06:04 AM
One of my psyck friends sent this to me. Thought I'd share it.
Edited by Kortoso, 12 December 2006 - 06:18 PM.
We live so other may die. UnOfficial Motto of the USAF AMMO Troops
#8
Kortoso
-
- Members
-
- 10,400 posts
-=Reiver of the Western Marches=-
- Gender:Male
- Location:Northern California
#9
jackx
-
- Members
-
- 278 posts
fvror tevtonicvs!
- Gender:Male
- Location:Germany
Posted 12 December 2006 - 06:23 PM
What? An entire family and just one casualty? That's appallingly suboptimal... I'd have thought that after all your backyard training you'd be more proficient in carving a bloody path through your kin
no truth - no justice
all false belief
blinded by morality
there shall be ... no peace
no peace!
#10
Dragon Girl
-
- Members
-
- 616 posts
MOAR KOFFEE!
- Gender:Female
- Location:teh Arizona
Posted 13 December 2006 - 12:59 AM
By Mitra, that is awesome! Where can I see a larger version of it? And where can I buy a poster of it?
Where can I see a larger version of it? And where can I buy a poster of it?
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying." ~ Woody Allen
#11
Carlos
-
- Members
-
- 142 posts
Warrior
- Location:Hudson Bend, TX
Posted 13 December 2006 - 01:32 AM
My friend said he found it on someone's myspace page. I believe that it is a Frazetta movie poster or book cover.
We live so other may die. UnOfficial Motto of the USAF AMMO Troops
#12
PainBrush
-
- Members
-
- 4,711 posts
In Memoriam: 2005-2009. Bastard son of a thousand nations!
- Gender:Male
- Location:Suburb of Detroit
Posted 22 November 2007 - 05:59 AM
Edited by PAINBRUSH, 22 November 2007 - 06:01 AM.
" You have a good point there,...put your helmet on & no-one will notice it ."
" Look for a long time at what pleases you... and longer still at what pains you "
So THIS is civilization ??!??!......
~ FUTUE EOS SI NON CONCIPERE IOCULARUM ~
#13
Ironhand
-
- Members
-
- 7,919 posts
The Mad Playwright
- Gender:Male
- Location:Saint Louis, MO, USA
Posted 22 November 2007 - 09:40 AM
Happy Thanksgiving.
I'm grateful that my spine is recovering from stenosis, and I'm grateful to my chiropractor and my physical therapist, and that I will hopefully soon be returning to work.
I am grateful to my nephew who is helping me build a website where I can put updated versions of my screenplays.
I'm grateful that my spine is recovering from stenosis, and I'm grateful to my chiropractor and my physical therapist, and that I will hopefully soon be returning to work.
I am grateful to my nephew who is helping me build a website where I can put updated versions of my screenplays.
"Did you deem yourself strong, because you were able to twist the heads off civilized folk, poor weaklings with muscles like rotten string? Hell! Break the neck of a wild Cimmerian bull before you call yourself strong. I did that, before I was a full-grown man...!" - Conan, in "Shadows in Zamboula", by Robert E. Howard
"... you speak of Venarium familiarly. Perhaps you were there?"
"I was," grunted [Conan]. "I was one of the horde that swarmed over the hills. I hadn't yet seen fifteen snows, but already my name was repeated about the council fires." - "Beyond the Black River", by Robert E. Howard
Read my Conan screenplays at The Scrolls of Ironhand (in particular my transcription of THE FROST GIANT'S DAUGHTER in Act II of "The Snow Devil") at
http://www.scrollsof...d.us/index.html or at
http://www.delicious...ic=ConanProject
"... you speak of Venarium familiarly. Perhaps you were there?"
"I was," grunted [Conan]. "I was one of the horde that swarmed over the hills. I hadn't yet seen fifteen snows, but already my name was repeated about the council fires." - "Beyond the Black River", by Robert E. Howard
Read my Conan screenplays at The Scrolls of Ironhand (in particular my transcription of THE FROST GIANT'S DAUGHTER in Act II of "The Snow Devil") at
http://www.scrollsof...d.us/index.html or at
http://www.delicious...ic=ConanProject
#14
Adam
-
- Members
-
- 112 posts
Warrior
- Location:Poland
Posted 25 November 2007 - 10:46 PM
Hi everyone!
I do not celebrate Thanksgiving as I'm Polish but would like to wish you all:
Happy Thanksgiving!
I do not celebrate Thanksgiving as I'm Polish but would like to wish you all:
Happy Thanksgiving!
#15
yimsha
-
- Banned
-
- 252 posts
Adventurer
- Gender:Male
- Location:Coventry uk (reluctantly - geordie by birth and heritage
Posted 25 November 2007 - 11:12 PM
Is this the traditional way of marking Thanksgiving then? Bleeding obvious really, but not being a colonial ( 
) I wasn't aware of it.
) I wasn't aware of it.
'who dies first?'
#16
PainBrush
-
- Members
-
- 4,711 posts
In Memoriam: 2005-2009. Bastard son of a thousand nations!
- Gender:Male
- Location:Suburb of Detroit
Posted 26 November 2007 - 03:57 AM
Is the Harvest-Home festival still celebrated anywhere in the Isles ?
" You have a good point there,...put your helmet on & no-one will notice it ."
" Look for a long time at what pleases you... and longer still at what pains you "
So THIS is civilization ??!??!......
~ FUTUE EOS SI NON CONCIPERE IOCULARUM ~
#17
Kortoso
-
- Members
-
- 10,400 posts
-=Reiver of the Western Marches=-
- Gender:Male
- Location:Northern California
Posted 26 November 2007 - 06:15 PM
Is this the traditional way of marking Thanksgiving then? Bleeding obvious really, but not being a colonial (
Well, that and the conspicuous consumption. We had dim sum rather than turkey this year, much more fun!
#18
yimsha
-
- Banned
-
- 252 posts
Adventurer
- Gender:Male
- Location:Coventry uk (reluctantly - geordie by birth and heritage
Posted 26 November 2007 - 06:29 PM
Is the Harvest-Home festival still celebrated anywhere in the Isles ?
not particularly. some christians practice a harvest festival type thing, which is another pagan tradition swiped by them, but generally, not much.
'who dies first?'
#19
Kane
-
- Members
-
- 3,283 posts
The Dark Prometheus
- Gender:Male
- Location:Columbus, OH. USA
Posted 09 February 2008 - 06:25 PM
I'm necroing this because of events from this past week and the past year.
This time last year I had finialized a divorce and was well on my way to returning to a full fledged binge drinker. A situation that, imo, led to some of my later health problems.
Though luck or divine intervention, possibly both, I met a woman who shared my love of science fiction and fantasy. In addition, she had the ability to look past my less then charming exterior and decided that I was a person worth her interest.
In fact, I interested her enough that she stuck with me through my stroke and recovery. A thing that is beyond amazing given that I know that I was all but impossible to put up with for more then a few months.
Last month she surprised me even more when she said; "I Do", and became my wife.
So first and foremost, I am very thankful for you Samantha. You've proven to me that there is always hope and that no matter how much a person might give up on themself, there are those who will never give up on them.
This was reenforced this past Monday when I was once again in surgery.This time to have my gall blader removed. It was sudden and completely out of the blue. But she was there when I went into the operating room and there when I woke up in recovery.
The second thing I'm thankful for is all of you. Even at my worst reading the posts on this forum reminded me that there is a hugh fandom for Howard and all things sword and sorcery. It helped to know that I was not alone in my love for both the author and the genre that he helped to create. So know that what to some of you is just a hobby or interest helped a stranger get through the worst time of his life. Thanks.
I know that I have not been on this forum as much as in the past. I hope to remedy this soon. I've been re-reading the stories, I've been going over the posts, and I'm ready to come back with a vengence.
In typing this I realized something. Being thankful is not something that should be limited to a single day of the year. It should be an on going process. Everyday we do things that effect other people and, in course, we are effected by the people around us. Big or small, we need to take the time to say thank you to those people out there who do help to enrich our lives.
So once again, thank you to the members of conan.com and thank you Samantha. I doubt I'd be here if it was not for all of you.
This time last year I had finialized a divorce and was well on my way to returning to a full fledged binge drinker. A situation that, imo, led to some of my later health problems.
Though luck or divine intervention, possibly both, I met a woman who shared my love of science fiction and fantasy. In addition, she had the ability to look past my less then charming exterior and decided that I was a person worth her interest.
In fact, I interested her enough that she stuck with me through my stroke and recovery. A thing that is beyond amazing given that I know that I was all but impossible to put up with for more then a few months.
Last month she surprised me even more when she said; "I Do", and became my wife.
So first and foremost, I am very thankful for you Samantha. You've proven to me that there is always hope and that no matter how much a person might give up on themself, there are those who will never give up on them.
This was reenforced this past Monday when I was once again in surgery.This time to have my gall blader removed. It was sudden and completely out of the blue. But she was there when I went into the operating room and there when I woke up in recovery.
The second thing I'm thankful for is all of you. Even at my worst reading the posts on this forum reminded me that there is a hugh fandom for Howard and all things sword and sorcery. It helped to know that I was not alone in my love for both the author and the genre that he helped to create. So know that what to some of you is just a hobby or interest helped a stranger get through the worst time of his life. Thanks.
I know that I have not been on this forum as much as in the past. I hope to remedy this soon. I've been re-reading the stories, I've been going over the posts, and I'm ready to come back with a vengence.
In typing this I realized something. Being thankful is not something that should be limited to a single day of the year. It should be an on going process. Everyday we do things that effect other people and, in course, we are effected by the people around us. Big or small, we need to take the time to say thank you to those people out there who do help to enrich our lives.
So once again, thank you to the members of conan.com and thank you Samantha. I doubt I'd be here if it was not for all of you.
"I vanquished Law once, I'll conquer yet again--
And force upon Mankind the Freedom he fears--
And dead gods I will again defy?"
And force upon Mankind the Freedom he fears--
And dead gods I will again defy?"
#20
Crom
-
- Members
-
- 3,977 posts
Honored Cimmerian
- Gender:Male
- Location:Canada, Eh.
Posted 09 February 2008 - 07:38 PM
Well said. You've been through a lot, and it's nice to see things going in your favour. And a big congrats on your marriage.
