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    Quote Originally Posted by gabosaurus View Post
    Gunny, thanks for your sweet and thoughtful reply. But flattery will get you nowhere. Yes, my daughter does exist. Just like your daughter exists. My kids recently celebrated her 21st birthday. How's that for time moving forward? If she were home now, she would join me in wishing you a happy father's day. Never change your loveably crusty curmudgeon self.
    I remember when you were predicting (hoping ?) that my sons would grow up in a broken home. You will be disappointed to hear that such a thing never happened. Viva machismo. Is your middle name Karen?

    Now my life simply bolls down to preparing for retirement in a few years. In fact, I'm going to be a grandpa in a few months.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gabosaurus View Post
    Tell ya what Gunny. Why don't you post while pretending to be your daughter. Then I will put my daughter on and they can pretend to converse with each other.
    Why? I quit trying to be someone else back in the 60s when I quit playing cowboys and indians.

    Lying is bad business. Tell one and you doom yourself to spiraling down an expanding trail of lies and you always expose yourself in the end. Get caught once lying or stealing and you are a liar and thief for the rest of your life.

    The only answer I can come up with for why a well-known, long-time member whose patterns are documented by years of mostly nonsense would even try such a stunt on a board as small as this one is an utter contempt and disdain for the intelligence of the people who post here.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tailfins View Post
    I remember when you were predicting (hoping ?) that my sons would grow up in a broken home. You will be disappointed to hear that such a thing never happened. Viva machismo. Is your middle name Karen?

    Now my life simply bolls down to preparing for retirement in a few years. In fact, I'm going to be a grandpa in a few months.
    Grandpa is a polite term for co-conspirator and enabler
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    Quote Originally Posted by gabosaurus View Post
    Tell ya what Gunny. Why don't you post while pretending to be your daughter. Then I will put my daughter on and they can pretend to converse with each other.
    Can they both live in Southern California?

    Then they can both graduate from a very prestigious university. Almost no one can get into those, you know.
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    OK ... a little off topic .... talking about children and grandchildren. My granddaughter graduated from UofA and is now attending NYU getting her Masters in teaching. Oh, as well as raising a 5 yo at same time.

    Yeah, I'm bragging.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NightTrain View Post
    Can they both live in Southern California?

    Then they can both graduate from a very prestigious university. Almost no one can get into those, you know.
    Any degree one gets is worthless until one graduates from the School of Hard Knocks. While your comment is meant as a put-down, we live in an age where exactly what you suggest can happen. Competence is no longer a factor, checking all the "woke" boxes is all universities care about these days. I offered to facilitate my oldest son getting a degree in Mexico, Tecnológico de Monterrey to be exact. I don't trust USA universities. He decided that certifications are a better option. Time and effort spent on a degree is better spent becoming a noteworthy GitHub contributor. Being strong on GitHub will get you to a six-figure income way faster than a college degree ever could. A strong GitHub presence paired with being certified as a Kubernetes Application Developer is a powerhouse. Check pay rates for a Microservices Architect to get an idea.

    https://www.talent.com/salary?job=mi...0%20per%20year.

    The average microservices architect salary in the USA is $150,000 per year or $76.92 per hour. Entry level positions start at $140,000 per year while most experienced workers make up to $175,500 per year.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NightTrain View Post
    Can they both live in Southern California?Then they can both graduate from a very prestigious university. Almost no one can get into those, you know.
    Certainly you couldn't. But that is why you live in Alaska. You don't need a college degrees to climb telephone poles in Utqiaġvik.My family is real. Perhaps your family is not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gabosaurus View Post
    Certainly you couldn't. But that is why you live in Alaska. You don't need a college degrees to climb telephone poles in Utqiaġvik.My family is real. Perhaps your family is not.
    Living in Southern California is no big feat. Just ask anyone in the photo below:


    Besides that, the address from the IP doesn't lie. How are things going in Pasadina Texas, NOT California?

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    Quote Originally Posted by gabosaurus View Post
    Certainly you couldn't. But that is why you live in Alaska. You don't need a college degrees to climb telephone poles in Utqiaġvik.My family is real. Perhaps your family is not.
    Because gabby CLAIMS to have any kind of DEGREE means nothing today.
    But we need to thank GABBY for showing how low that hole full of BS GABBY occupies...will just fill up with more BS for GABBY to breath with so many DEGREES that mean NOTHING.
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    But despite all of that. I will never lower myself to the level of Liars, Haters, Cheats, and Hypocrites.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gabosaurus View Post
    Certainly you couldn't. But that is why you live in Alaska. You don't need a college degrees to climb telephone poles in Utqiaġvik.My family is real. Perhaps your family is not.
    How original. "I'm rubber you're glue .... "

    Childish.

    Trying to insult someone who unlike your President actually works on infrastructure to improve peoples' lives? Priceless and oh so par for the course coming from a lib who just blows smoke about doing such things.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gabosaurus View Post
    Certainly you couldn't. But that is why you live in Alaska. You don't need a college degrees to climb telephone poles in Utqiaġvik.My family is real. Perhaps your family is not.
    He lives in Alaska doing what no one in your family, degree or not, does to keep people connected to the world.

    I would depend on NT in an end-of-the-world scenario way before I'd ask someone like yourself just because they have a degree.

    BTW ... I've met NT's family. Really good people with a lot of heart you can depend on. Very real.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gabosaurus View Post
    Certainly you couldn't. But that is why you live in Alaska. You don't need a college degrees to climb telephone poles in Utqiaġvik.My family is real. Perhaps your family is not.
    But I do have a degree. I also spent 5 years as an apprentice learning how to climb poles, run a myriad of heavy equipment, fusion splicing fiber optic cables, building and integrating high frequency microwave systems on remote mountaintop sites and setting up satellite shots to a bird in geosynchronous orbit 22,000 miles in the sky with a 6' dish.

    On the other hand, maybe I missed my chance to be a high school counselor in an inner city public high school in Houston while lying about living in California and creating bogus profiles in further attempts to win a debate - any debate, on any subject - and failing miserably every time.

    Every. Single. Time.

    The problem with constantly lying is that you have to keep track of all your lies, and that's impossible. Sooner or later, you'll out yourself for the fraud that you are. You've been caught dozens of times and you're not smart enough to improve even that basic shortcoming to grow as a person.

    It's not a good look. Think about it.
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    Gabby does have a few degrees.

    1. For Investigating why California Worms never go to the beach.
    2. For Learning why common house flies ignore the California Carbon rules for Elite Hollyweird Celebrities who think their SHIT DOESN'T STINK.
    3. For the art of Patronizing, and Condescension of anybody who makes it possible for people like GABBY to survive after SNOBS realize they know nothing useful beside how to identify the reasons for their own stupidity.
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    Rick is smart enough to do a complex and very complicated job. But not smart enough to understand how a proxy server works.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gabosaurus View Post
    Rick is smart enough to do a complex and very complicated job. But not smart enough to understand how a proxy server works.
    It only took you 18 years to figure that whole proxy routine out.

    Still got caught though, didn't you?
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