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Outdoor Board
 | re: Recommend me a EDC pocket knife - Ace Midnight on 5/22/13 at 11:02 pm [quote] Very few knives with match how smooth a Pentagon Elite opens.[/quote]
I've handled hundreds of folding knives over the years - the Pentagon Elite is THE smoothest opening and closing knife I've used....
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Outdoor Board
 | re: Recommend me a EDC pocket knife - Ace Midnight on 5/22/13 at 10:41 pm [quote]Team SOG checking in
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If I had to recommend an EDC other than Benchmade Presdio or mini Presidio, I would suggest a SOG Pentagon Elite - my favorite knife that I no longer own....
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Outdoor Board
 | re: Recommend me a EDC pocket knife - Ace Midnight on 5/22/13 at 10:22 pm [quote]I have a benchmade minigriptilian (sp?) that I really like.
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This - or a mini Presidio - I really like the axis knives from Benchmade, and chicks dig the butterfly.
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Political Talk
 | re: Louisianans: can the GOP defeat Landrieu in 2014? any decent candidates? - Ace Midnight on 5/22/13 at 8:56 pm [quote]Unfortunately, she will probably skate through again.
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Yeah, that 102% of the New Orleans vote comes in handy every 6 years for her, doesn't it? :lol:...
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Movie/TV Board
 | re: Star Trek into Darkness: Discussion and SPOILERS thread - Ace Midnight on 5/22/13 at 11:46 am [quote]Alright Ace, not sure if you have done it in a previous post but if you would please lay out for all of us the ideal casting, plot line and original show elements that would be in your ideal Trek movie.
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I'm not certain this would have a wide audience. I'm afraid it would not be ...
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Outdoor Board
 | re: Best remedy for red bugs / chiggers - Ace Midnight on 5/22/13 at 9:21 am The clear fingernail polish is good for individual sites, and the medicated Chiggaway is just that - medicated clear fingernail polish.
However, I stumbled upon a remedy that works pretty tried and true - I discovered during the early portion of my military career.
I would come in from the fie...
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Movie/TV Board
 | re: Committing M/TV Suicide - Ace Midnight on 5/22/13 at 9:17 am [quote]Breaking Bad gets better and better. Best show on TV since The Wire.
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I'm here as well - I have Breaking Bad, The Wire and The Shield as my top 3 hour-long dramas of all time, with Hill Street Blues rounding out the top 4. The Shield is probably my number 1 - I like Mad Men, do...
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O-T Lounge
 | re: Tech Help: how to convert a .264 file to .AVI - Ace Midnight on 5/21/13 at 1:20 pm [quote]just as an fti, handbrake didnt work. ended up finally getting in contact with the home owner and got the model of the security system and found a converter on their website. [/quote]
So, it was a proprietary video encoding system. THAT's probably why VLC didn't work in the first place. ...
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O-T Lounge
 | re: LUNCH THREAD The "it's a tradition" edition. - Ace Midnight on 5/21/13 at 12:12 pm Redneck sushi - in the Garden State, no less....
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Political Talk
 | re: Benghazi WAS about selling StA missles to AQ - New Whistleblowers - Ace Midnight on 5/21/13 at 12:07 pm [quote]you always seem to know some good inside baseball...why do you think so?
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The only thing that doesn't ring true is the date - September 11 - other than that, you have the Ambassador out in Benghazi (rather than in Tripoli).
The rumor (and seriously, it is just that) goes that S...
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Political Talk
 | re: Benghazi WAS about selling StA missles to AQ - New Whistleblowers - Ace Midnight on 5/21/13 at 11:36 am [quote]I've never heard of PJMedia. If these allegations are true, they would be massive, but this seems awfully big to break on PJMedia.
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We heard all of these allegations, albeit RUMINT, in September and October of last year. I'm fairly certain this is substantially correct....
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O-T Lounge
 | re: Tech Help: how to convert a .264 file to .AVI - Ace Midnight on 5/21/13 at 11:26 am Handbrake...
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O-T Lounge
 | re: Female chiropractor. - Ace Midnight on 5/21/13 at 11:25 am Kelly Boisvert Faircloth (Alexandria - her father was a chiropractor and her husband was once counsel to Governor Jindal).
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Music Board
 | re: Best Song Of all time - Ace Midnight on 5/21/13 at 8:12 am Photograph - Def Leppard
[link=(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ5bS3_BCDs)]LINK[/link]...
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Movie/TV Board
 | re: List of great WW1 movies - Ace Midnight on 5/21/13 at 5:36 am [quote]Nobody has mentioned Lawrence of Arabia yet.
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Yeah - that's because people don't think of it that way. But you're right - probably the most acclaimed film covering the Great War....
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Movie/TV Board
 | re: List of great WW1 movies - Ace Midnight on 5/20/13 at 10:14 pm The Lost Battalion is a good, fairly recent film - albeit made-for-television.
Rick "don't call me Ricky" Shroder really gave a good performance....
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O-T Lounge
 | re: 30 years gone - 05/14/1983, Connie Smith,Tioga High School student murdered... - Ace Midnight on 5/20/13 at 10:07 pm [quote]Or maybe that girl committed suicide[/quote]
Connie? Who kills herself with a knife?
Unless you mean Aragon (by Prestridge)? Do you have any idea the condition that girl was in when she was found?
Maybe you were looking for another thread....
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O-T Lounge
 | re: 30 years gone - 05/14/1983, Connie Smith,Tioga High School student murdered... - Ace Midnight on 5/20/13 at 10:03 pm [quote]Cheerleader with crazy laugh?[/quote]...
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O-T Lounge
 | re: Starting to Work Out, Any advice? - Ace Midnight on 5/20/13 at 8:54 pm Go slow. You don't want to get hurt just starting out. Give everything about 6 weeks before making changes, or significantly amping up the intensity....
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Movie/TV Board
 | re: Star Trek into Darkness: Discussion and SPOILERS thread - Ace Midnight on 5/20/13 at 7:52 pm [quote]Sit back and be entertained and try to enjoy life once in a while.
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I wasn't entertained by the first film - after Thor got killed, it was completely "meh".
I just don't have the time to waste on more of this.
[quote]You are a hater. Like many wild eyed fanboys before you wh...
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Movie/TV Board
 | re: Star Trek into Darkness: Discussion and SPOILERS thread - Ace Midnight on 5/19/13 at 7:46 am [quote]I just said it is incredibly stupid to stroll in here and offer a critique of the film that you haven't seen.
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My "fans" are telling me I will hate it. They're referencing me in the threads. I restate my general objections to what Abrams has done. I stand by them.
The first ...
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Political Talk
 | re: Gun ownership denials starting: 20% of Americans to lose rights to own guns - Ace Midnight on 5/19/13 at 7:43 am [quote]Just dumb, if it is, unless the IRS-agenda people are involved.
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Why do you think they're seizing all the medical records?...
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Political Talk
 | re: Will the USA ever collapse alas the Roman Empire? - Ace Midnight on 5/19/13 at 7:40 am [quote]I love the United States deeply and passionately[/quote]
I do, too.
However, as to your original point - we are already in a full free fall, much like Rome in the late 3rd century. The similarities are striking - Rome was so strong they barely noticed the loss of altitude until they hi...
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Movie/TV Board
 | re: Star Trek into Darkness: Discussion and SPOILERS thread - Ace Midnight on 5/19/13 at 7:37 am [quote]For you to make that statement you either didn't see the movie you are judging, or you are completely blinded by fanboyism and your reaction to the first.
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Why in G-d's name would I watch a sequel to a movie I completely detested? What kind of masochist would do something like t...
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Movie/TV Board
 | re: Star Trek into Darkness: Discussion and SPOILERS thread - Ace Midnight on 5/18/13 at 9:41 pm [quote]still fighting the good fight [/quote]
I'm seriously, seriously tired of seeing the trailers.
However, I'm pretty sure FF6 and Lone Ranger will be even worse films....
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Movie/TV Board
 | re: Star Trek into Darkness: Discussion and SPOILERS thread - Ace Midnight on 5/18/13 at 9:37 pm [quote]Oh, and by the way, for those of you that don't like the [b]complete conversion of Star Trek to a mindless, action-oriented, soulless shell of TOS, without any of the elements that made TOS, the characters from TOS and the TOS films special[/b], you'll hate it.[/quote]
FTFY - (And, for th...
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O-T Lounge
 | re: Have you bought a Powerball lottery ticket this week? - Ace Midnight on 5/18/13 at 9:19 pm [quote]pretty sure everyone knows the odds are vastly against them[/quote]
The odds are statistically the same if you buy a ticket or not.
[quote]but you might as well throw your hat in the ring. ya never know...
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The only difference is you [i]can[/i] win if you buy a ticket. You ...
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Political Talk
 | re: The liberal union behind the IRS - Ace Midnight on 5/17/13 at 2:30 pm [quote]How else would you exploit your employer while performing at a mediocre level?
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It also protects against arbitrary and capricious abuses of discretion....
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Political Talk
 | re: The liberal union behind the IRS - Ace Midnight on 5/17/13 at 1:18 pm [quote]With this attitude, I don't see you getting a blackberry.
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Don't need one. Nobody ever calls me and emails are only bad news. :pimp:...
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Political Talk
 | re: The liberal union behind the IRS - Ace Midnight on 5/17/13 at 12:44 pm This is where I have to interject. I am an NTEU member. I do not agree with the heavily skewed political donations and certainly cannot endorse the beyond clear misconduct by the Tea Party/Patriot targeters. However, my union rep barely communicates with us, beyond the monthly newsletter and occa...
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