I often thought I should "reintroduce" myself since so many things have happened since my first post under this forum, not the least of which was the Cancer coming back BIG time and needing disfiguring surgery which also stripped me of my ability to swallow plus imposed a PEG upon me against my will.

I urge all new comers who first post on this "Introduce Yourself" forum to take a gander at the excellent factual information that OCF provides on its main web page. It is a distillation of the wisdom of the OCF forum combined with hard science. I confess it is usually not until Brian Hill posts a link to a particular page that I read it, but hey, do as I say, not as I do

Primarily, I want to take this opportunity to explain my signature line. Now please, newcomers, take a few minutes and develop a signature line. I think that a thousand of DavidCPA;s posts have been to GENTLY REMIND new posters of the importance and utility of a signature line here on OCF. Most first posters go naked. It's not hard, just fill it out when you register and you can easily update it as things change.

Now after a surprising number of PMs on this subject, I am going to set the record straight on why my signature line says I am an "Old Frack"
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Old Frack has a two party story
Part one Battlestar Galatica (BSG)was a sci fi show set involving spaceships & cyborgs etc which used the word "Frack" in all its dialogue as the futuristic version of our more common 4 letter anglo saxon verb.It was a way to let the characters all use obscenity in most of their scenes without having to bleep it plus it neatly avoided the censors while being blatantly obvious. It was named by Rolling Stone as the best TV show last year and the cast was even invited to the United Nations to make a presentation on human rights.
Part two was a bit by George Carlin, the now deceased 60s comedian who had lots of funny bits including in 1972 "7 Words you can Never Say on TV" which ended up in a famous 1978 US Supreme Court case in which a narrow 5�4 decision by the justices affirmed the government's power to regulate indecent material on the public airwaves. Up until his death last year, he still did TV specials and one of them I saw was where he ranted that he was tired of young people calling him an "OLD FART", that he was instead an "OLD F**K"
While I loved it, I did not think the OCF board would really be the place to use even the asterisked version above. So I settled on OLD FRACK, since it had been deemed acceptable by even the United Nations.[/quote]

I was delighted beyond belief to hear that a Google search on "Old Frack" brings up my OCF posts as the number one result.
Charm

That's not the answer you gave me. This explains it all.

Since OLD FRACK is taken, I guess I Have to be OLD FART.

If you read my posts, I too an avid friend of BSG and the thinking persons story line that got me addicted to the show and the Frack word, I still use it today with people w/o thinking, and many of them do not understand. The sequel (actually prequel) series Caprica starts in a week or two on the SiFi channel, using the same writing team, I am confident that frack will continue to be the convention, replacing again the more common F word.

On that note, I had one of those days today when everything was all fraked up. I came out from Starbucks on the way to work, to find out that some stupid frack, driving a big fraking Escalade, had opened his door, and having to step way down to the ground because of his 22" inch fraking ghetto wheels, lost control of his door and put a fraking dent in the side of my car. FRACK!

Now the truth comes out. I have new word that I can use now. Like, I hate this fracking disease. Thanks, I will be using it and my husband will know what it means because he love BG. I never did get into it. Oops! Thanks for explaining to us how you became old frack.

Brian and Charm - and anyone else that wants to understand what BSG is all about - take a look at this - think you'll get a kick out of it!
"What the frak" Battlestar Galactica recap:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grfI3Yv6T0Q

I love this video - starts with an explanation of "frack", Key phrases "Bad Boomer", "Hot Ceylon" etc! Enjoy!

Ginny

thanks so much for the BSG refresher. I had forgotten about the future anti-cancer drug that was not only hallucinogenic but gave you accurate visions of the future. Too bad my MO was not able to prescribe that for me.

I'll share that my first experience with you Charm and I'm sure you remember it as well, I knew I'd found someone very much like myself. I'm glad to count you among the heroes of mine on these forums and a fellow Frack!

We are men of action, as hard as nails and the disfigurement only adds to our warriors image! A guy saw me in the gym and said "man, it looks like you've been through some shit! Was it Irag?" Just think of the stories we can tell!

A variation on that comment has come in several forms to me. You look like you came out second place in a knife fight..... You look like you've been shit at and hit (by a friend and said in true jest).

Eric

You silver tongued devil. I was so glad to read in your posts that you finally kicked the F-patch. Although I can not but help thinking you are not really testosterone deprived.
Charm

Brian

Ain't that the truth. I can say without fear of contradiction that being MALE has a distinct advantage when it comes to scars. I really feel for all the female OCF members who have undergone what you, I & Eric have endured. At least we can laugh about it easily. Our sisters at OCF do not have it so easy.
Although my PEG with the Y extender dangling at the gym does elicit many more comments than my Frankenstein neck scars.
Good to hear from you
Charm