Any "Legacy Du'ers" here...who are just about at end of "Frazzle?"

[KoKo]

Waiting for Godot....Fitz to come forth with his indictments....Waiting for Bush with Miers and all his Social Security Denials and Budget Defictit to Implode along with Iraq Invasion and Occupation.

Waiting for the Repugs to be exposed as THIEFS of ELECTIONS going back to GORE/2000 and looking in awe at our "former hero Clinton" chatting up the Bushies and his wife that we SUPPORTED whoring it in NYC?

Does the world seem ever so "TOPSEY/TURVEY?" What has gone on ...in all the years we've been here "Manning the Fort" and hoping we would be able to turn the BIG GUNS ON...and finding we only have "pop guns?"

Where are you...."LEGACY FOLKS" with that HISTORY. :shrug: And, with the "pity knowledge" we all need to remember and to work with as we "try" to move FORWARD.

[Skittles]

1. OH TELL ME ABOUT IT

today (night worker) I dreamed of something in print "ROVE DODGES THE BULLIT AGAIN" and I went running for the TV *SHEESH*

[MuseRider]

2. What is a "legacy DUer"?

Just asking. :shrug:

It is driving me crazy, does that qualify? LOL. Pop guns indeed, that is what it has felt like but I am beginning to feel right now like I am locked and loaded with something I can barely hold up and know will kick my ass when fired.

[chiburb]

3. Not sure what "legacy" mean, but...

If you mean long-time DUers are finally seeing the chickens come home to roost, count me in!

[WilliamPitt]

4. What on earth is a 'Legacy DUer'?

Someone who's one here because their dad was on here?

[AgadorSparticus]

5. or their mother....LOL! Too funny!!!

:rofl:

[Walt Starr]

6. I think he might be talking about those of us on DU way back when

FREEPER ALERT used to be a common response to the incessent threads stqrted by Freeper disruptors.

:shrug:

[KoKo]

8. Scotch...

"Someone who's one here because their dad was on here?"

[WilliamPitt]

9. The reference

refers to kids who get into college because their parents went there and contribute money. The term is also used in fraternaties; a pledge whose dad was a member is termed a 'Legacy.'

[KoKo]

11. Yes...true..

but not in the context of my post...which was referring to something entirely different...I've changed the term "Oldie DU'ers" to "Legacy." Thought it had a nice ring to it. Sort of like fine "polished wood" something lovey and touchy with an "aged" quality that's admirable.

Now if you want to deny your fitting into that...it's okay by me.

[WilliamPitt]

18. No, no, I totally get it now

It is, flatly, a privilege to be a 'Legacy' here.

Cheers.

:toast:

[bobbieinok]

14. also in sororities

[Arkana]

7. I've been here about a year and a half--if that counts...

I was here for Selection 2004--I remember the disappointment when we realized that despite all our work, the fuckers found another way to steal the election. It was possibly the most depressing day of my life.

[proud patriot]

10. I'm a legacy in my own mind

:D

[KoKo]

12. GACK! So are you feeling "Frazzled"....and sort of stressed?

:patriot: back atcha! :D

[KoKo]

13. Okay...here we all are...."Legacy DU'ers" waiting for Fitz...and yet it

seems there are all these "loose ends" we've been faxing, phoning and e-mailing our Senators and Housemembers about...and signing Petitions for years about...Selection 2000, Selection 2002, Selection 2004, and the 9/11 Lies, Sibel Edmunds being stopped in her getting her "Truth Out," Election Reform, Investigations in Bush Criminality from the "get go" culminating in Gulf Disaster...and now stranded Americans in Cancun and all the crap we've lived through.

It would take pages to catalog his crimes against our Government and against our Humanity.

I just think that if it all comes down to Fitz Indictment wait...I wondered if "Legacy DU'ers" had felt it's worth the wait? :shrug:

Those of us here since shortly after "Selection 2000" to be precise. But if any others wanted to chime in...then okay. Our Legacy Folks are either out their partying, brain dead, too tired or "into other things."

Or, maybe this post isn't clear enough to get the point across. :D Possible.

[Carni]

15. I deliberately ignored the whole thing today

Last night I didn't sleep much...listened to all the crap on CNN about *Willllmaaaaaa!* (WISHING I could sleep)

Today I had a very bad day at work--I had one of those days where you want to maim people you don't know on the roads just for shits and giggles. Upon arriving at work I think I scared my boss, perhaps my irritation was showing (we'll see if I get fired tomorrow)

After all that hilarity I came home and put up Halloween decorations in my yard--they aren't the happy faced fall harvest pumpkin type things, they are dark and disturbing (Getting more so all the time)

Low and behold I finally turned on the television at 6:30 to hear more about what's going on with bush and his brain..sounds like the end of the bush admin at face value (if I swallow that AGAIN but who the hell can tell what the media's real agenda is--I certainly can't guess )

Base line I AM GOING OUT OF MY MIND...PASS THE VODKA! Arrrggghhh!

I have been on this roller coaster since 1998 and may appear on a corner near you soon muttering about UFO's and black helicopters if this issue is not resolved to my satisfaction.

[KoKo]

19. It's wearing us down, for sure.

I had trouble putting my Halloween Decs's out.

[MuseRider]

16. My youngest son

is a DUer so I guess he would be a legacy.

I am an oldie or maybe a middle child.

We have all our questions all our suspicions and all the facts. Not all of them will ever be addressed. I feel nuts about the whole thing. I just want enough to shut them down and make 2006 too certain for us to have it stolen. Anything more than that will be like an extra scoop of chocolate fudge ice cream.

Oh, and Cheney MUST be shamed and discredited.

[rppper]

17. if this is legacy criteria, count me in.....

i first logged onto DU after seeing their banner flash across the screen during bush's first inauguration....january or early february '01...there were less than a thousand registered users then...i've seen about 4 or 5 server/format changes...(we are still easier to navigate than freak-republik).seen some good posters come and go, get banned, get flamed and leave, thousands of disruptor's, du'ed a million online polls, fired off e-mails to at least a hundred senators and hate radio ass-hats, congratulated members, cried when they passed away. i have never missed a day here in 4+ years since i first logged on.

after all of the frustration of watching these animals run amok in my country, i feel there is a light at the end of the tunnel....i hope Fitzgerald's investigation nails this regime from top to bottom....all these years...they deserve it....for enron, 9/11, iraq, katrina, election frauds...all of it

[BiggJawn]

20. How about calling us "Plankowners"?

In the Navy, a crew member of a ship who is part of the original commissioning crew is referred to as a "Plankowner".

I signed up in late August 2001, not Day One, but pretty early just the same.

[KoKo]

21. Plankowner.....that's an interesting one...

Curious about where that name came from. Was it from the original shipbuilding days where everyone owned a piece of the ship...i.e. plankowner?

Do you know the history?


BTW...yes...you are a legacy...:-)'s....August 2001 is around when I signed up although was reading here through that Summer.

Anyone here over a couple of years has been through so much...:crazy:

[BiggJawn]

22. Straight from the Bosun's mouth....

A "plank owner" is an individual who was a member of the crew of a ship when that ship was placed in commission. In earlier years, this applied to a first commissioning; since then, it has often been applied to one who was part of a recommissioning crew as well. "Plank owner" is not an official Navy term, and has consequently been variously defined by different Navy units.
Plank-owner certificates are procured by and issued to crew members of the ship being commissioned; they are not officially issued by the Navy.
Some ships' crews design their own, while others purchase them from commercial sources. Perhaps the best-known of these are the ones sold by the United States Naval Institute. These color certificates can be obtained as blanks; if the purchaser wishes to provide the necessary information, they can be filled in for an additional charge.


Question:
As a plankowner, am I entitled to a piece of the ship when it is decommissioned?

In the case of ships with wooden decks, if the veteran has a plank owner certificate or statement of service showing that he was on the ship when it was
commissioned, the veteran can write to the Naval Historical Center's Curator Branch, and request a piece of deck planking. If the veteran meets the above criteria and the Curator Branch has possession of deck planking, the plank owner or his widow can receive a small section of the deck. For more recent ships with metallic decks, the Navy is regretfully unable to issue deck sections.