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Re: A great loss...

Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 9:01 pm
by Fangbeast
And that shaving Gerbils shit, Man I am still wiping the tears of laughter away after that :)
You think that's funny??? srod is so mathematically inclined that he shaved my entire crop into neat little squares!! They look like a national gerbil chess convention!!

Then I found a couple with a 3d chess set ferret glued to their backs and I lifted up one corner to find NetMaestro's copyright.

What a mess.

Re: A great loss...

Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 10:01 pm
by LuCiFeR[SD]
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA :)

Re: A great loss...

Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 10:07 am
by RASHAD
Great loss indeed
srod at least visit the forum and answer the questions for not more than 50 lines post
First there was Sparkie then Kale then KG and now srod
BTW Where is KG?

Anyhow good luck mate ,you deserve it no doubt

Re: A great loss...

Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 10:47 am
by c4s
@Rashad
I think KG left for good after some trivial issues in the german forum.

Re: A great loss...

Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 3:13 pm
by Vera
@ c4s
sorry - but ongoing accusations can't be called trivial

I still miss Kaeru :(


@ srod
Wishing you happy success with your new enterprise / regarding livestyle ;)
and hope there's enough time left over for your favourite 'wet mountain climbing' :mrgreen:

Thanks for all the valuable support and hints you've spread all those years.

regards ~ Vera

Re: A great loss...

Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 7:58 pm
by Inf0Byt3
Never thought this would happen, but i hope that Stephen won't be able to resist the temptation to open the IDEs of future PureBasic versions. This forum owes a lot to him and he's been a great help for all of us at the expense of his time.

I wish you the best of luck with the new business Stephen :).

Re: A great loss...

Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 2:31 pm
by nhokem
srod wrote:
Fangbeast wrote:
This will also give me time to get to grips with those sheep that fangbeast keeps sending me. The bastard never told me that you had to feed the damn things!
We had a gentleman's agreement that would wouldn't sneak into my yard at night and shave my gerbils (and whatever else you did to thoroughly traumatise them) you pervert!!

Feeding them is the least you can do as I have almost no money left to pay the gerbil psychiatrist specialist. He costs a bleedin' fortune and he sheds fur all over the place damnit!
I am no gentleman, no sir! As for the gerbils, well you left the gate open! What's a non-gentleman supposed to do? You dressed that gerbil up deliberately to look like Kate Beckinsale just to entice me in you swine and it took me nearly 3 years to escape. Do you know how sharp their claws are? And as for the teeth... srod shudders.

:)
...and as a parting gift (well, not actually parting as he did say he'll still peruse the forums), he leaves the world a new link to click on when they search the net for Kate Beckinsale... :)

best of luck Stephen!

Re: A great loss...

Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 3:27 pm
by sphinx
Sorry to know that but,anyway, good luck Stephen.

By the way, what is your plan for your commercial products especially Artctic Reporting Suite?!

Re: A great loss...

Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 3:36 pm
by Fluid Byte
Well, it's pretty sad but "a great loss"?

Doesn't this better fit for a funeral rather the occasion of somebody leaving an internet forum for a nice programming language?

Re: A great loss...

Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 3:52 pm
by C64
I thought it was a funeral notice at first, too.

Re: A great loss...

Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 5:05 pm
by Little John
Fluid Byte wrote:Well, it's pretty sad but "a great loss"?

Doesn't this better fit for a funeral rather the occasion of somebody leaving an internet forum for a nice programming language?
Of course, "loss" or "great loss" can refer to the death of a person, but it doesn't necessarily have to refer to a death. "Loss" can also mean e.g.
the disadvantage that is caused when somebody leaves
If in doubt, look into a good ditionary. ;-)

By the way, I think netmaestro is a native English speaker, so I'm pretty sure he knows what he is writing. ;-)

Regards, Little John

Re: A great loss...

Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 5:09 pm
by IdeasVacuum
It is a phrase commonly used when a death is involved, but it's equally common when, say, a footballer has a long-term injury and can't play for some time. So, let's think in terms of the latter :mrgreen:

Re: A great loss...

Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 5:15 pm
by Fred
Good luck with your new project srod !

Re: A great loss...

Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 6:17 pm
by IceSoft
Can we close it now?

Re: A great loss...

Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 7:32 pm
by IdeasVacuum
...or bury it? :mrgreen: