So This Is How It All Ends

[3WE]

A comment on ITS

I don't know how many of us are aware that this is the second time that the "wisdom of ITS" has been wiped out.

I have no clue how much stuff ITS had written on his first go-around but he actually had a few short stories on AD.com about being hired by Lone Star airlines and then about a crash on a flight he was supposed to be on, and maybe one or two others.

Then ITS and Jet Captain got in a huge argument and both got banned, and I think they both requested that all their posts be deleted!

Then, the kinder, gentler ITS and Jet Captain returned to AD.com. ITS was much less wordy, but did come up with some great humorus stories such as "Gabe and ITS deal with an engine failure in a Cirrus without popping the chute", and then "Another color of Shade", which had just had an incredible ROFLMAO addendum of "ITS and Flyboy take it to FL 410, coffin corner and how do we access Wikipedia"

So, Shadey lovers and Shadey haters, this is the second go-around on Shade's posts going to hard-disk heaven, which may lend insight into his final short post "Poof" "In the Shade, changing fequencies, good day"

[Robert Hilton]

Well, you know, Carlos, seeing someone in need of his ironing pills... it made me miss you.

Welcome back.

Speaking of ironing, has Desky made it over?

[el]

Speaking of ironing, has Desky made it over?

Yes, he has.

[Robert Hilton]

Yes, he has.

The good ones keep coming.

[Digger]

Then ITS and Jet Captain got in a huge argument and both got banned, and I think they both requested that all their posts be deleted!

My recollection differs.

It was a prolonged public pissing battle between ITS and Norm, about some borrowed video tapes, that led to both of them being temporarily banned. It was during that time that ITS' posts disappeared, as did Melissa's. It took quite a while for ITS to return, and much of his content was simply cut and pasted material critical of Airbus, ballistic parachutes, whatever the conspiracy theory of the day happend to be.

It was only recently that he resumed the original storytelling that I found most enjoyable. (And if he was so shortsighted as to keep the only copies of those original works on the AD.com server, then I'm sure Observant Passenger would be willing to point out to him how stupid that was.)

[Brad1711]

My recollection differs.

It was a prolonged public pissing battle between ITS and Norm, about some borrowed video tapes, that led to both of them being temporarily banned. It was during that time that ITS' posts disappeared, as did Melissa's. It took quite a while for ITS to return, and much of his content was simply cut and pasted material critical of Airbus, ballistic parachutes, whatever the conspiracy theory of the day happend to be.

It was only recently that he resumed the original storytelling that I found most enjoyable. (And if he was so shortsighted as to keep the only copies of those original works on the AD.com server, then I'm sure Observant Passenger would be willing to point out to him how stupid that was.)

I had a copy of his European adventure safely tucked away in my hard drive. I put it up in the first page of this thread.

[Coyote]

I have been digging like mad to find his old "Trailerhouse" stories. I know I have them saved - somewhere in a mountain of archive CD's...

[ZilogMan]

Thanks, Brad. Good re-read...

[ZilogMan]

Hi Coyote!
OT: "you know who" is still around, and stable...

[Rex B]

It'd definitely be worse off if ITS decides not to stay on here (or migrate from there).

[(J)]

Rich History Can Be Found in This Thread

Another useful reference thread.
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These are quite simple to find. One simply clicks on the top of the "views" column to resort the threads by most commonly visited. Discussion from or about ITS consistently scores at the top.>>
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A note to the moderators. Your advertising revenue count goes up when ITS is in the house.>>

[3WE]

I had forgotten the skill that Half Bottle used to become the International-Super-Genious-Sade-novelette-writer-and-attention-whore-of-the-millenium.

Good stuff.

And, ITS. If you are listening, how about a simple "hello"