SnowRanger -> RE: Lack of male slaves (3/29/2011 3:04:11 PM)
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I must be an extraordinarily lucky man! Hello A/all, I'd like to address both the O.P. and Andrew215 with what follows. During, and immediately after my "Second Thoreau Period," I happened to encounter an rather odd group of people. These people spent their days using pans and pumps and some form of sifting screens to sort through the rocks and sand in the streams of Northern California. Please stay with me. I really am going some where with this. The people I am referring to would (and, I'm sure still do) sift through all of this sand and stone to find those very few nuggets that contained a shiny yellow metal. At the time, I thought that it looked like a hell of a lot of work and disappointment. Now days that yellow metal is worth fourteen hundred dollars an ounce! I can only wonder at how many tons of rock and sand these people had to sort through to find the ounces they seek. That's the major part of what I am trying to say. What ever it is that you seek; you sift through tons to find ounces. To make it even more complicated, what is a nugget for one may not be a nugget for another. I have been on CollarMe since the end of May 2008. I wish that I could tell Academy, "Hey! I've been here the whole time!" Truth be told, I have been absent from CM more often than present. In the winter, obviously, I tend to other interests. Other times, my job worked me twelve hour day upon twelve hour day for weeks at a time. Sometimes... I was absent from CollarMe out of sheer despair. ...Stella... What can I say?.... I NEVER DOUBTED that there were plenty of, what are for me are, nuggets here on CM. I have corresponded with a lot of you and met a few to boot. No doubt, I have been picked up and discarded as a simple rock numerous times. Finally, someone picked me up and saw a nugget. Nuggets finding nuggets... It's a TALL order. Mike SnowRanger
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