an open letter to Catman
Jul 29, 2000 | 5:45 pm
#32
Join Date: Apr 1999
Location: Homosassa, FL & Ringwood, NJ -UA-G(Lifetime); SPG-Plat (Lifetime)
Posts: 6,122
I can only concur with Rudi and the others.
You can't please everyone, but 99.99999999%is pretty darn good. Focus on the good and ignore the bad. These people will all eventually go away but your friends will always be with you.
You can't please everyone, but 99.99999999%is pretty darn good. Focus on the good and ignore the bad. These people will all eventually go away but your friends will always be with you.
Jul 29, 2000 | 6:42 pm
#33
Commander Catcop
Join Date: May 1998
Posts: 10,259
THANK YOU AND MEOWY THANKS TOO!!!
I give a big EIGHT PAWS UP To all of you and all my Flyertlalk Friends.
Thank you Dear Rudi, I bought a frame for your e-mail to me. I'm saving it and everytime i get upset I will look at it and taking ling's advice take a deep breath.
One of my new mottos )and the Commander's) will be:
I must ignore flaming threads.
EXCEPT: If it is against someone I care about. Then I will do it gracefully like Yaz jumping on top of the computer.
Arturo: If you were here in baltimore I would hug you an dbuy you a bottle of Jose Cuervo.
I shocked you into learning English!
Thank you all. I am "the richest person in the world" (James Stewart, 'It's a Wonderful LIfe," 1948.)
I give a big EIGHT PAWS UP To all of you and all my Flyertlalk Friends.
Thank you Dear Rudi, I bought a frame for your e-mail to me. I'm saving it and everytime i get upset I will look at it and taking ling's advice take a deep breath.
One of my new mottos )and the Commander's) will be:
I must ignore flaming threads.
EXCEPT: If it is against someone I care about. Then I will do it gracefully like Yaz jumping on top of the computer.
Arturo: If you were here in baltimore I would hug you an dbuy you a bottle of Jose Cuervo.
I shocked you into learning English!
Thank you all. I am "the richest person in the world" (James Stewart, 'It's a Wonderful LIfe," 1948.)
Jul 29, 2000 | 8:43 pm
#34
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: controlling the internets from an underground bunker
Programs: So l33t that I don't need a wallet full of cards to prove it. Black is the new Gold.
Posts: 3,041
Originally posted by Catman:
I give a big EIGHT PAWS UP To all of you and all my Flyertlalk Friends.
I give a big EIGHT PAWS UP To all of you and all my Flyertlalk Friends.
Catman, you're the best. Had a GREAT time today.
Jul 29, 2000 | 8:46 pm
#35
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Naples FL, Munich DE
Programs: UA MM, AA 2MM, Marriott LT Titanium, Hilton Gold
Posts: 6,816
Catman - This is one of those times I regret only being able to check the "top" (@Talk) boards about once a week. Although I seldom do "ditto" posts, I would have been the first to echo Rudi. In sum:
1. Don't take it seriously.
2. Don't take it personally.
3. Don't stop being "you".
1. Don't take it seriously.
2. Don't take it personally.
3. Don't stop being "you".
Jul 29, 2000 | 9:47 pm
#38
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Canada
Programs: AC SE 2MM, HH Dd, Bonvoy G; IC S; AA; DL
Posts: 14,496
You know the BlondeBomber's in your corner--who couldn't respect a guy who proudly wears cat hairs on his collar.
Remember, there's always a warm place to come to in Calgary (even in the middle of winter!).
Remember, there's always a warm place to come to in Calgary (even in the middle of winter!).
Jul 29, 2000 | 9:47 pm
#39
Join Date: Apr 1999
Posts: 3,709
An emphatic HEAR HEAR to this online petition! The FT community is severely diminished by missing one of our "elder statesmen"!
And KEEP THE CATCOP!
The Catcop is not some jack-booted thug looking to censor the board. It is akin to your spouse kicking you under the table when the taste in dinner conversation starts to go awry.
And this is coming from someone who (A) is a libertarian by nature, (B) has the shin bruises to know of what I speak re: spouse kicking you under the table.
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"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own."
And KEEP THE CATCOP!
The Catcop is not some jack-booted thug looking to censor the board. It is akin to your spouse kicking you under the table when the taste in dinner conversation starts to go awry.
And this is coming from someone who (A) is a libertarian by nature, (B) has the shin bruises to know of what I speak re: spouse kicking you under the table.
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"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own."
Jul 29, 2000 | 10:24 pm
#40
In Memoriam: Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Location: LGB/LAX
Programs: UA 1K, SPG Plat
Posts: 1,853
As the only 5 TIME ACTING COMMANDER CATCOP, I have always felt proud when Mark has asked me to take the duty while he was out 'catting' around with other FlyerTalkers! But I am even prouder to say that Mark is a very good friend of mine!
I had the unexpected pleasure of meeting The Catman at SeaTac and we have been friends ever since. It was so much fun watching him drink his first dirty martini in Seattle and who can forgot the PIP?
Mark, hang in there and don't sweat the details. Just enjoy your friends and always know that you pretty much have a friend in each town!
I had the unexpected pleasure of meeting The Catman at SeaTac and we have been friends ever since. It was so much fun watching him drink his first dirty martini in Seattle and who can forgot the PIP?
Mark, hang in there and don't sweat the details. Just enjoy your friends and always know that you pretty much have a friend in each town!
Jul 29, 2000 | 11:56 pm
#41
In Memoriam
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Seattle
Programs: Ephesians 4:31-32
Posts: 10,690
Ditto to all the above.
Catman here's my philosophy (which I keep telling you, already)
"Always love your friends and have as much fun playing with them as possible. Always, ignore your enemies unless they try to steal your diamonds or your upgrades, or are trying to give you lots of money--then pay attention."
Drink good wine, eat good food, laugh a lot, learn a lot, dance a lot, and travel as much as you can. Save your fretting for the folks you really love.
Catman here's my philosophy (which I keep telling you, already)
"Always love your friends and have as much fun playing with them as possible. Always, ignore your enemies unless they try to steal your diamonds or your upgrades, or are trying to give you lots of money--then pay attention."
Drink good wine, eat good food, laugh a lot, learn a lot, dance a lot, and travel as much as you can. Save your fretting for the folks you really love.
Jul 30, 2000 | 2:59 am
#43
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Lincoln, NE (OMA or LNK)
Programs: UA, AA, DL, Starwood/Marriott, Hilton, IHG
Posts: 1,345
Catman, you are the best! Had I not joined the get-together in Miami and had such a great time, it is a given that I would not have been in Montreal! Because of you, I went from being a lurker and a rare poster to being more involved as part of a wonderful group of flyers! Don't let the turkeys get you down. You live my motto, "If you can't do it right, don't do it at all."
And, FQTV, in the words of the now immortal Walter Matthau in Grumpy Old Men, "Eat My Shorts!"
And, FQTV, in the words of the now immortal Walter Matthau in Grumpy Old Men, "Eat My Shorts!"
Jul 30, 2000 | 7:40 am
#44
In memoriam
Join Date: Aug 1999
Location: Danville, CA
Programs: AA EXP - UA *G MM - HH Diamond - Hertz PC
Posts: 3,242
Mark:
Without the Catman and Catcop FT would just be another clone of rec.travel.air. 98% of whats posted on r.t.a. consists of flames or posts that are not relative to the topic at hand. Catcop keeps us focused, and frankly without you FT just wouldn't be the same.
You've contributed greatly to the persona of FT, and I for one would be greatly disappointed if you allowed a couple of detractors to push you off FT. If you allow that to happen then the foxes will have taken over the henhouse (or cathouse, as the case may be )
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Robert Johnson
danville 1K
[This message has been edited by danville 1K (edited 07-30-2000).]
Without the Catman and Catcop FT would just be another clone of rec.travel.air. 98% of whats posted on r.t.a. consists of flames or posts that are not relative to the topic at hand. Catcop keeps us focused, and frankly without you FT just wouldn't be the same.
You've contributed greatly to the persona of FT, and I for one would be greatly disappointed if you allowed a couple of detractors to push you off FT. If you allow that to happen then the foxes will have taken over the henhouse (or cathouse, as the case may be
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Robert Johnson
danville 1K
[This message has been edited by danville 1K (edited 07-30-2000).]