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Fu Mangrood!
Topic Started: Mar 13 2010, 05:46 PM (22,178 Views)
panzer the great & terrible
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The seeds of decay are here as well as in Grood's site. We could use a little guidance, but I don't think we're going to get it from a guy speaking in the name of unity for a nutcase who ripped us off. We'll all probably be dead -- I'm 68 -- before part three of The Masked Rider comes out, and who knows how botched it will be (if it ever does come out) with more of Eric's creative idiocies. The actual film continues to rot because of improper storage, so it will never be adequately preserved. I'm ashamed to live on the same lost planet with Dr. Grood.

Now do you want to know what I really think?
Life is just a bowl of cherries, it's too mysterious, don't take it serious...
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williejg
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I'm sorry if I gave you the wrong impression with my last post. I do sincerely wish we could be a single community again. And, I'm speaking for myself--not for Eric. I miss the interaction with those of you I know, yet how can I participate when you're dead set against Eric. I am a member of this site and the SS. I consider Eric as a friend. He has never done anything evil to me. I understand how you guys must feel about him considering the events you describe. But he has never treated me that way, so I guess it's just hard for me to accept that we can't somehow overcome this. But, I guess I'm wrong. It seems your feelings are just too deeply ingrained. Don't take me the wrong way. I'm not judging you. I just regret that we can't get by this. And after reading all the posts on this thread, it simply looks to me like you're headed for another war-- amongst yourselves. If you enjoy ripping on Eric and arguing amongst yourselves about him that's your choice, and I'm not trying to give you guidance. It's just unfortunate that it will keep me and a few others from feeling comfortable posting here. I guess it is was it is. I had hoped for more.

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Barcroft
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Willie,
As you're well aware the problem with Eric is well documented. No matter how hard you try things will never be the same because as far as he's concerned anybody who questions him is wrong and the way he strikes back is to ban anyone who questions what he does. Luckily I chose not to participate in the "Masked Rider" and just this one instance has caused major problems as Panzer has already alluded too. The majority of the former Squadron Members chose to either post here or at Todd's site and we've been content in doing so. And as far as the chats that were once prominent on Eric's site, they are now done on the Serial Family site run by 3 former Squadron Members including yours truly, so for lack of something better to say Eric's site is just not as relevant as it used to be and he's got nobody to blame but himself.
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Pa Stark
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Willie,

I just wondering if you know Eric personally, have met him and spent time with him? Almost all of us have not only have hung out with him, and just like you, we all considered him to be our friend.
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williejg
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Hi gents~I tried, but I guess I'll give it up as my final effort to reunite our factioned community. I would like to thank you all for at least reading my posts and being honest with your replies. I can understand everyone's point of view, and accept them. And I hope you all can see my point of view and wishing we could regroup, but I guess that just won't happen.

I'd like to especially thank Pa Stark, as you seem to grasp my point of view more readily than the others.

I'd also like to thank Laughing Gravy for tolerating this, and for removing the last post. I doubt it will help me very much, as Todd has promised me via PM to continue to insult me. The funny thing is, that Todd's opinions and/or insults no longer have any meaning to me.

Thanks Gang,

willie
Edited by williejg, Jan 30 2012, 04:05 PM.
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panzer the great & terrible
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It will keep happening. Grood snowed this dude the same way he snowed us. He's a nice guy and Dr. Evil has convinced him we are the ones at fault for the split -- but we know it'll happen to him, and then he'll join the club.

When Gravy split the Squadron, I should have split with him, but I was optimistic like this gentleman and hung around hoping to patch things up. My bad.

What point would there be in everybody who likes serials being one happy family anyway? We are by definition weird, or we wouldn't like serials in the first place. I mean, come on, people: they're terrible movies, except for a very few, and even those are just OK.
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Sgt King
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JUST OK? JUST OK? I'm bet you wouldn't say that to Spy Smasher or to MY face!!
I just may have to pay you a visit Chino Boy!
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williejg
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Mr Panzer~I take great offense with your post!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I firmly disagree with your statement that there are only a few worthwhile serials, and that they are just OK. Sounds to me like you're serialed out. There are many, many serials that are great, some even coming close to Movie status!

Gotcha!! Bet you thought I was going to take issue with the rest of your post. LOL. Everyone's entitled to their own opinion.

Later,

willie
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panzer the great & terrible
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Just trying to get you guys started -- 'scuse me.

Seems like maybe we are one happy family after all...
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Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer
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I've been absent from the site for awhile. Anything NEW happening?
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
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JazzGuyy
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Same old same old.
TANSTAAFL!
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mort bakaprevski
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williejg
Jan 30 2012, 04:03 PM
Todd has promised me via PM to continue to insult me.
That's funny, 'cause that’s virtually the same thing he told me when I wrote him a PM trying to bury the hatchet. Obviously, I shoulda buried the hatchet in a portion of his anatomy.

Trust me, if I had known the foofoorah my initial post would cause, I wouldn't have made it in the first place. Just seemed like an interesting thing Grood had done & something which might spark an intelligent discussion (something which has been sorely missing around here lately). Lesson learned!

And P., I too think I am "serialed out." If I remember correctly, KanSmiley said virtually the same thing in one of his last posts. It happens!!
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Todd 3D
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Well, now, mort, that's funny because in re-reading my pm to you, it specifically states that I hold no personal animosity towards you. It does suggest that you shouldn't ask questions you are going to reject the answers to. It also goes on to point out that sites that use two minute clips get ordered by copyright holders to delete those clips all the time. Someone else in this thread mentioned youtube as an example and, indeed, it is the best example to be given. Now, how you arrive at that equaling that I am going to "continue to insult" you, I don't know. But I suggest you rethink the statement of burying the hatchet in a part of my anatomy before you give me just cause to truly get angry with you.

Indeed, Gravy, I suggest deleting mort's wildly inappropriate commentary.
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Todd 3D
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Panzer, I won't go so far as to say I am serialed out, but they aren't as much fun for me anymore. That might have something to do with the death of 39 O 13 since he and I watched the things together constantly.
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I stay out of this argument and any threads about Grood unless somebody brings something to my attention or I spot something I don't like. I don't like it when one Balconeer insults another. I've invited Grood to post here, and he won't, by the way.

Seems like most everybody has something better to do than insult people who are insulting people who are insulting people who are insulting Grood. You could be watching rotten Hammer noirs, for one thing. Sheesh.

Serialling out? Hmm. Interesting. As ya'll know, they're a valuable part of our Friday night movie parties, but other than that I don't watch them unless I get a new one in the mail and then I watch enough to review it for my website. I just have too much other stuff to watch and not enough time to watch everything right now. Blame the Warner Archive, it's all their fault.

We're gonna be watching Terry & the Pirates next on FNF; they should enjoy that, they loved The Spider Returns.
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