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General Category => WELCOME CENTER => Topic started by: pkerot on April 11, 2020, 07:33:01 AM

Title: I was an old member
Post by: pkerot on April 11, 2020, 07:33:01 AM

Did something happen the old garage gazette? New owners or something? I still have my welcome email from 5-28-2012 but the forum says my sign in name doesnt exist so I have signed up again. Getting past the first 5 posts  was EXTREMELY difficult because it kept asking for a word related to 'Tractor car bus which is usually in a city'.  What is that about?

Title: Re: I was an old member
Post by: Heiny57 on April 11, 2020, 07:45:05 AM

Russian spies crashed the site! Rusty had to rebuild the bionic man.  :33:

 :welcome:

Title: Re: I was an old member
Post by: pkerot on April 11, 2020, 07:54:16 AM

Thank you. I grew up during the Cold  War when the media had everyone convinced that Russia was our worst enemy.  We have learned that Russias economy is so weak that it only equals one American state  and China is our real threat.  My grandparents  built a bomb  shelter in the 1950s. Thats how bad it was

Title: Re: I was an old member
Post by: DeadNutz on April 11, 2020, 08:06:32 AM

Welcome back. Our members were suffering from extreme withdrawal when the old site crashed due to an upgrade. Many people and businesses suffered.

Title: Re: I was an old member
Post by: Rusty on April 11, 2020, 12:40:46 PM

The data center the old site was in did a system upgrade the wiped over 2000 servers. They had been getting Ddos attacks the caused the remote backups to be corrupted. 

Title: Re: I was an old member
Post by: skfarmer on April 11, 2020, 03:08:00 PM

whatever the reason. welcome back!

Title: Re: I was an old member
Post by: pkerot on April 11, 2020, 05:04:38 PM

Thank you SK.  Is your screen name  for SK wrenches?

Title: Re: I was an old member
Post by: Rusty on April 12, 2020, 02:39:16 PM

God I want to make a Steven king comment.

Title: Re: I was an old member
Post by: pep on April 12, 2020, 03:00:58 PM

Quote from: pkerot on April 11, 2020, 07:54:16 AM

My grandparents  built a bomb  shelter in the 1950s. Thats how bad it was

A friend parents had one of those in the front yard, underground.

Instead of fire drills we had air raid drills, ready for this. Told to get under the desk, put hands on head.

Now we have a virus floating around and the world is deserted.

No wonder baby boomers are tuff, we had nails for breakfast.

  :38: Don't mess with a baby boomer :93:

Title: Re: I was an old member
Post by: muddy on April 12, 2020, 03:26:10 PM

I don't recall the user name, welcome back anyway.

Sent from the twisted mind of the Mudman

Title: Re: I was an old member
Post by: Lookin4_67GalaxieConv on December 27, 2020, 01:19:40 AM

The house I grew up in Michigan had a bomb shelter.  Built in 1966.

Title: Re: I was an old member
Post by: ken w. on December 27, 2020, 09:44:14 AM

  Around the time or Y2K I buried a bunch of 30 cal ammo cans full of survival items , canned Spam , ammo , bic lighter , etc. It was the thing to do back then. Now 20 years later , I don't remember where I buried them.  Oh yeah, welcome back to GG.   I hope I put a can opener in those ammo cans.

Title: Re: I was an old member
Post by: Lookin4_67GalaxieConv on December 27, 2020, 03:16:49 PM

Quote from: ken w. on December 27, 2020, 09:44:14 AM

  Around the time or Y2K I buried a bunch of 30 cal ammo cans full of survival items , canned Spam , ammo , bic lighter , etc. It was the thing to do back then. Now 20 years later , I don't remember where I buried them.  Oh yeah, welcome back to GG.   I hope I put a can opener in those ammo cans.

Reminds me of Vern's pennies!   :))