What I love the most about PA...
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Topic: What I love the most about PA...
Posted By: The T
Subject: What I love the most about PA...
Date Posted: December 08 2006 at 22:59
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Yes, what it is? ------------- 
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Posted By: Arrrghus
Date Posted: December 08 2006 at 23:02
The first three, and and the VR, and all my buddies in the VR!  to you guys! Btw, Zappa pwns. Prog pwns. I love this site. ------------- 
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: December 08 2006 at 23:03
How do I meet a person's opinion? 
I get on PA because I'm compiling a List of Enemies of The State for the United States of America for $20.
Also, I'm a Russian spy. Been checked for radiation lately? ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: December 08 2006 at 23:03
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I used this site for quite bit as a resource,but after awhile I wanted to talk to people that really dig the same music I do,because none of my friends or family are too crazy about the stuff I listen to. -------------  |
Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: December 08 2006 at 23:06
Instead of repeating, I'll just quote this.  -------------   RIP in bossa nova heaven. |
TheProgtologist wrote:Posted By: Arrrghus
Date Posted: December 08 2006 at 23:07
I also joined the site to escape militant beavers.  -------------
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: December 08 2006 at 23:15
Getting a little lazy,Mr. Bern?? Rest yourself,you must be tired after all this typing.  ------------- |
Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: December 08 2006 at 23:30
Will do! ------------- RIP in bossa nova heaven. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: December 08 2006 at 23:33
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: December 09 2006 at 07:40
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I really come here to see the lady's butt in Bern's sig. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: December 09 2006 at 08:29
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First two I guess, but lately mainly the first one (and occasionally an addition to one of Mandrakeroots Just for fun threads
) EDIT: I forgot to mention that studying behaviour of Canadian web surfing progheads is an interesting hobby on the side. ------------- http://www.iskcrocks.com" rel="nofollow - ISKC Rock Radio I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: December 09 2006 at 08:41
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The chance to talk about Prog Music. Although we appear to be quite a
few, Progheads are pretty difficult to find in the real world. This
forum provides me with the opportunity to talk to people with roughly
the same taste, which is great. Thanks to the forum I've also
discovered more lovely Prog artists (moreso than through the main site,
actually), and also a couple of fine non-Prog artists. |
Posted By: Spacemac
Date Posted: December 10 2006 at 21:32
| The opportunity to research about prog music |
Posted By: Spacemac
Date Posted: December 10 2006 at 21:33
| ....The chance to talk and discuss about music... |
Posted By: Spacemac
Date Posted: December 10 2006 at 21:34
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...It gives you the chance to "meet" people and their opinions too
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Posted By: tardis
Date Posted: December 10 2006 at 21:35
| It gives meaning to my life. So please, please don't ever shut PA down. Or I will suddenly encounter a vacuum in my existence and be forced to contemplate suicide while listening to Green Day. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 10 2006 at 21:38
Yes this can be quite an issue...sometimes I have to avoid playing certain bands as to not scare people away. |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: December 10 2006 at 21:38
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Even when the "The opportunity to bash Phil Collins almost daily..." option is tempting Iván ------------- 
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, I will go with 1, 2 and 3.Posted By: progadicto
Date Posted: December 11 2006 at 02:39
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1.- and 2.- but mostly 1.-
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Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: December 11 2006 at 02:45
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Where's the Moody Noobs? Oh well...the penultimate one I guess. ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: December 11 2006 at 02:48
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mainly the second. without research (or knowledge in the background), I opted for a community of music connoiseurs.
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Posted By: toolis
Date Posted: December 11 2006 at 03:08
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i thought i knew a lot about prog before i found out about PA...little did i know...so the first one.. ------------- -music is like pornography... sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more... -sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue... |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: December 11 2006 at 03:21
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First three options. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! http://www.last.fm/music/Exerior" rel="nofollow - EXERIOR Experimental tech/death/progmetal from Norway! |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: December 11 2006 at 13:49
Haven't seen many beavers, have you?
 The critter with the bazooka, above, is a prairie dog, not a beaver!
 (In any case, beavers prefer to use submarines when they go to war.)
Prairie Dog:
 (note dry fur, & short, fuzzy tail)Beaver:
 (note wet fur, & broad, flat tail)The beaver is also much bigger.
Thus concludes the lesson! ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: December 11 2006 at 13:57
You forgot the beavers have big teeth to chew on trees to make their dams. |
Posted By: Frasse
Date Posted: December 11 2006 at 13:59
I'm tempted to post something inapprociate about beavers, but I'll try to restrain.
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: December 11 2006 at 14:03
No, I didn't forget that-- I just didn't include it.
There are many in my area, and the beaver is our national symbol. 'Tis a creature I know well -- wet, or otherwise. ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: December 11 2006 at 14:10
The way I see this is: The United States is the bald eagle on the top of the tree. It eats beavers. But one day the beaver wll eat the tree the bald eagle lives in and thus the beaver will beat the eagle. And you totally forgot about them eating trees. Don't deny it. |
Posted By: Frasse
Date Posted: December 11 2006 at 14:40
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: December 11 2006 at 16:14
Actually, your national symbol is a scavenger as well as a hunter. (It's mainly the former.)
 Its food of choice is dead fish, and it can only lift up to four pounds, and thus could not lift a beaver (average weight 35 pounds, though they go up to 80 pounds), even if (a huge if!) it could manage to kill one. Thus, the only way an eagle gets to eat beaver is if it finds a dead one.
And the beaver only eats choice parts of the tree (bark, tender new shoots, leaves, roots, seeds, etc.). When it gnaws down a tree, it is not eating it, but harvesting it for later feeding upon the bark, or for use in dam or lodge construction.
Did you know that sometimes if a bald eagle grabs a fish too big for it to lift, it may end up in the water? The bird is apparently a strong swimmer (it uses its wings!), but hypothermia may then kill it.
There are lots of these majestic birds where I come from -- they like cliffs and beaches, because there's lots of dead fish there to scavenge. I managed to get really close to one that was standing on a beach a couple of years ago. I was relieved when it took off, because the closer I got to it, the bigger it looked -- and it's huge! (If not as fierce as its reputation, and use as your national symbol might suggest.)
Nyah nyah nyah, etc,
Prof. Picky P. Peepeepants
Google is a wonderful thing: http://wonderclub.com/Wildlife/mammals/beaver.html - http://wonderclub.com/Wildlife/mammals/beaver.html
http://www.baldeagleinfo.com/eagle/eagle3.html - http://www.baldeagleinfo.com/eagle/eagle3.html ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: December 11 2006 at 16:17
Your spelling is inappropriate enough, I assure you!
------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: December 11 2006 at 20:47
pretty much what I wanted to say ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: December 11 2006 at 20:51
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Went with the first option. I've discovered some great music through this site and look forward to an even better 2007, with new releases by Neal Morse, Marillion, IQ, Pendragon, and Porcupine Tree. And those are only the ones I know about. And anyone who picked option 4 REALLY needs to move on. E ------------- 
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: December 11 2006 at 23:29
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The feeling of community.
I came for the music -- I stayed for the people.
------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: December 11 2006 at 23:35
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: yarstruly
Date Posted: December 12 2006 at 10:32
| I like to gab about music, especially my favorite styl! |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: December 12 2006 at 10:37
Well said, Peter - though sometimes it is the people who make me want to run away and never come back! |
Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: December 12 2006 at 10:42
that's what i love about PA - you go in expecting to talk about music then you find.....the difference between Prairie Dogs and Beavers.. ??
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: December 12 2006 at 10:47
What's to stop the eagle from just flying to another tree? ------------- |
Posted By: eugene
Date Posted: December 12 2006 at 10:49
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Research, and more research, and always research, and nothing but research, ...oh well... and some opportunity to bash someone or something, but it's not compulsory really, as I have similar opportunities in other parts of my life as well...
So research then. ------------- carefulwiththataxe |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: December 12 2006 at 10:53
I come here for music and end up fighting for politics
 . Love it too!!But the forum is also uneven, some weeks, nothing is happening , others there's too much to keep track of everything ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Trickster F.
Date Posted: December 12 2006 at 10:55
Should have let me know earlier. ------------- sig |
Posted By: eugene
Date Posted: December 12 2006 at 11:07
sorry it happened without a warning that time...
but could you tell me what's in your sig? ------------- carefulwiththataxe |
Posted By: Scapler
Date Posted: December 12 2006 at 21:26
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I have to say, I have met a lot of interesting people on the Archives
------------- Bassists are deadly 
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Posted By: Howe Protege
Date Posted: December 13 2006 at 13:43
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Finding new bands in the massive discography
------------- My favorite pasty faced British pal. 
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: December 14 2006 at 07:54
Couldn't have said it better myself, Peter - I've made some good friends in my time here. But Rafaella - that's rich coming from someone with "Dominance & Submission" as their signature (had we known you were like that, you'd have been asked to join sooner  ) Beat me, mistress, Beat me - treat me rough & call me Barbara. ...ahem  -------------  Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |