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Archive 1: Dave1185 MMVIII
Archive 2: Dave1185 MMIX
Archive 3: Dave1185 MMX (NB:Donkey years ago, I fried two 166mhz Pentium MMX in my many attempts of overclocking them first to 180mhz, then to 200mhz. It worked~! When I found the Celeron 300A, the rest became history. Ahhh... good times~!)
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What is the Secret?

Wikipe-tan's advice to garbage trucks, trolls, vandals, Republicans, and other malcontents:

NOTE - I'm currently... 1.) in the midst of discharging my duties as an Administrator of an estate, and 2.) swamped with several projects in the hangar. Hence, I will have a reduced time slice for Misplaced Pages. );
--Dave 11:19, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

“

Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they look for a place to dump it. And if you let them, they’ll dump it on you. So when someone wants to dump on you, don’t take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Believe me. You’ll be happier. --THE LAW OF THE GARBAGE TRUCK

”

To all the garbage trucks I've offended unwittingly, I just want to...

Have a nice day~!

Was he parsley, sage, rosemary or thyme

Hi Dave. I really wanted to use a industrial cleaner strength version of Troll-be-Gone on Herb's errant nonsense on your page yesterday but as it involved a bogus 3rr report I thought it was better if you were able to track the whole thing. Have a great weekend. MarnetteD | Talk 20:00, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, I left it for the same reason, but I really wanted to stomp it! - BilCat (talk) 21:34, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

• Nah... he's none of all those, just one very pungent clove and in the part of the world where I come from, they use it to make clove cigarettes. Stinks~! Thanks again, guys~! --Dave 10:21, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXXXVII, June 2013

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new Featured and A-Class content Book reviews: Works on the RNZAF, World War I in the Baltic, and British battleship construction Op-ed: Anchors Aweigh for the Majestic Titans

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The Bugle: Issue LXXXVIII, July 2013

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new Featured and A-Class content Book reviews: Nick-D looks at Australia's frontier wars Interview: What Wikimedia chapters can offer military history editors

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Yep

Thanks, Dave. I did the best I could; my template drop-down menu stopped working a few days back. I haven't messed with my preferences other than to disable Visual Editor. Do you think that could be the problem or is a browser incompatibiity more likely? Tiderolls 17:28, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

• Not quite sure about your side but from time to time I do run into the same problem as you did just now (assuming that you're running Firefox like me, and you can forget about Opera!), though that's nothing which a complete system reboot cannot fix. Anyway, I saw the earlier CN tag and went in search for sources when I noticed you've already done so. Got down to tweaked it a wee bit and was about to thank you when you drop by here. Thanks again~! :) --Dave 17:46, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Ping!

SAF article

Dear Dave,

The August/2013 issue of AirForces Monthly has a large article/profile of the Singapore Air Force.

Jack E. Hammond --Jackehammond (talk) 11:11, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

• Hey Jack, thanks for the headup and I'm really looking forward to the current issue. Apologies for the late reply, I've been rather busy with the legal proceedings of my late uncle's estate these few days, hence haven't been online for almost a week now so you'll have to excuse me if I've left somethings out. Best and cheers~! --Dave 16:42, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

Typhoons in a teapot...

More from a regular here. Gave a final shot at getting through but ready to throw in the towel! - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 19:23, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

• As I recall my earlier discussion with BilCat (somewhere before September two years back): "... our sentiments exactly~!" --Dave 06:13, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXXXIX, August 2013

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new Featured and A-Class content Book reviews: Nick-D looks at the death of Osama bin Laden Op-ed: Sturmvogel_66 presents his secrets of prolific contribution

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Dropping by to say hi

....and equally quickly sodding off again. I see nothing changes. Wee Curry Monster talk 16:59, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

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