The reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated ...

Xerxes · 3rd May 2002, 20:24

For the last month or two.., regulars to these forums have probably noticed the absence of their illustrious resident republican from these boards and late nite *******.

Late March, I was watching the A.I. DVD on my computer when suddenly the monitor went black. This surprise was followed by spark noises coming from my computer along with the light aroma of smoke.

I first thought a bug had crawled into the main power supply or something like that- but my tech support minded friend was able to rule that out. It turned out to be that the motherboard power supply had decided to go bad for no good reason at all. My whole computer was rendered useless by this.

Quite a technological tragedy- but also an opportunity- to buy a newer motherboard... and a pentium 1.8 ghz... and half a G of RAMBUS ram...

So my computer returns to its rightful place under my desk (You can tell it is the rightful place because there is a clean rectangle of floor space with no dirt or dust

). But more trials remain- I had to end up buying a new cable modem as well because the integrated network card on the new motherboard did not work with my older one.

So, 2 months and a grand and a half later.....

I hath returned.

Bilbo Baggins · 3rd May 2002, 20:29

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES

Welcome back friend.

Indyrod · 3rd May 2002, 20:33

Does that mean, you start the Classical MP3 of the week again? I kinda miss that, really.

SSJ4 Gogitta · 3rd May 2002, 20:37

Woooo!

Xerxs Man Returneth!

n_ick2000 · 3rd May 2002, 20:38

Welcome back

You would have been better off with an Athlon with DDR ram. Faster and cheaper.

apollos · 3rd May 2002, 20:40

Welcome back Xerxes!!

Do I know you?

papadoc · 3rd May 2002, 20:40

Welcome back my young conservative friend.
Dare I say this placed lacked balance without you???
Hmmmmm...maybe...
But randman did run kinda wild without you here.

Xerxes · 3rd May 2002, 20:46

Quote:

Originally posted by Indyrod
Does that mean, you start the Classical MP3 of the week again? I kinda miss that, really.

Yeah... its been stuck in Medieval period for quite some time now...

I am in the process of straightenning out all my online things... including that. But I need to clear out all the SIRCAM viruses in my e-mail before anything...

Quote:

Originally posted by papadoc
But randman did run kinda wild without you here.

He better straighten up, or it's off to the "Richard M Nixon Presidential Senior Citizen Work Farm" with him...

Tom · 3rd May 2002, 20:46

Quote:

Originally posted by n_ick2000

You would have been better off with an Athlon with DDR ram. Faster and cheaper.

I think X has Intel stock though... Welcome back X.

Xerxes · 3rd May 2002, 20:54

Jiminy! What a memory! Very impressive.

I have actually sold my intel along with a lot of other stock and have most of my money in metals at the moment... as the stock market has quite nasty of late.

3rd May 2002, 22:22

Welcome back X! The forums weren't the same without you. They lacked that evil touch you give them.

Bilbo Baggins · 3rd May 2002, 22:24

The music i am listening to fits Xerxes return perfectly

(Don Davies - The Power Plant)

ujay · 3rd May 2002, 22:25

Good to see you back Xerxes.

What with you and RM disappearing like that ... people were beginning to talk

UJ

rm' · 3rd May 2002, 23:03

Quote:

Originally posted by Xerxes
I have actually sold my intel along with a lot of other stock and have most of my money in metals at the moment... as the stock market has quite nasty of late.

Like you always said, if worst comes to worse, you can always build a house out of the stuff

Mail me, we've got a lot of catching up to do buddy.

Bilbo, watch out... you are outnumbered

Mizter_E · 3rd May 2002, 23:06

HOORAY! THREE CHEERS FOR XERXES!
HIP, HIP, HORAy!
Hip, Hip, HORAY!
hip, hip, HORAY!

..

..

*note to self..stop eating too much sugar..

Bilbo Baggins · 3rd May 2002, 23:07

I will stand proud

Xerxes · 3rd May 2002, 23:12

Its not all bad BB, you still have the power to rally all the forces of ignorance ...

griffinn · 3rd May 2002, 23:14

Now that the three musketeers have reunited, let the mayhem begin!

Bilbo Baggins · 3rd May 2002, 23:21

Quote:

Originally posted by Xerxes
Its not all bad BB, you still have the power to rally all the forces of ignorance ...

I knew that you would support me in the end

God i have missed these little digs. They kept me sane

Gonzotek · 3rd May 2002, 23:28

HUZZAH! Welcome back X-man!

-=Gonzotek=-

dylman · 3rd May 2002, 23:37

Jean-Marie Le Pen in France, 3 BNP councillors got elected today in Burnley, and Xerxes is back in the forums.

Of the three, I know which will strike the most fear into the liberals amongst us...

Sandman2012 · 4th May 2002, 00:01

Welcome back X. Enjoy your new machine. It sounds nice.

apollos · 4th May 2002, 00:10

Quote:

Originally posted by Sandman2012
Welcome back X. Enjoy your new machine. It sounds nice.

Me is sad

Me only has 400Mhz AMD K6, 8.8Gb HDD

Me wants new PC!

c2R · 4th May 2002, 00:27

Quote:

Originally posted by Xerxes
I hath returned.

Glad to hear you're ok and back in action.

It's good to have the corporate moderator back fighting all things socialist

fish · 4th May 2002, 01:01

Sex Rex

Shit! I lost your "Just call me sex rex" picture

Ahh well, welcome back

GoldenSphynx · 4th May 2002, 01:06

Quote:

Originally posted by Inatlantis
Welcome back Xerxes!!

Do I know you?

Yeah!!??

Xerxes · 4th May 2002, 01:55

Quote:

Originally posted by N e m e s s i s
sexrex! good to see you man. you had us worried. i went so far as to call your house to see if you were alive. (yeah yeah i know creapy stalker etc). aparently you were at school.

You sound serious... are you serious?

Tom · 4th May 2002, 02:11

Quote:

Originally posted by Xerxes
as the stock market has quite nasty of late.

Yeah my AMD has taken quite the hit, I'm sure my MRK has too but I don't look at that one too often.

Quote:

Originally posted by Xerxes
You sound serious... are you serious?

Be afraid, very afraid.....
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=84467

Tom

kljs · 4th May 2002, 02:41

Welcome back Xerxes!!!

henry3k56 · 4th May 2002, 05:26

Quote:

Originally posted by Inatlantis
Me is sad
Me only has 400Mhz AMD K6, 8.8Gb HDD
Me wants new PC!

Suck it up Inatlantis.
I have a 300mhz AMD k6 3.99gb hdd running Windows2k.

Well, welcome back Xerxes! Missed you while you were gone.

baafie · 4th May 2002, 06:35

Glad to see you back X. 'Tis been awhile.. we missed you

Atmo · 4th May 2002, 09:11

Welcome back Xerxes...

Xerxes · 4th May 2002, 10:22

Wow... i'm stunned...scared...yet touched... all at the same time. I can't believe you would really care about my absence... me. I exist as a spectre to all of you. I'm just a personality, attached to a screename... in a sea of thousands of anonymous monikers. A nameless generator of text that you happen to find half amusing...

Well this all comes at somewhat strange timing... as i recently had a close encounter with death of late.

I live with my backyard facing a street. Its mostly empty... people like to come down it going 50. Two weeks ago, sunday afternoon someone came across going 70 and crashed into the partition. It made a horrible noise- i simply had to go into my backyard ... and look though the shattered cinder block wall to witness a person lying on pavement in a pool of blood that surrounded his entire body. And the other body, hanging limp out of the side of the Chevy Tahoe- he was wiggling a little. But by the time I called 911 and returned, most of his blood had exited a gash on his head and was collecting in the cracks of the sidewalk.....and the gutter. He died in that short amount of time... just like that...gone.

But he ended up being the only casulty.

The next day I looked out and there were sobbing women and gangsterish skater teenagers there. I walked out and almost tripped on one of many virgin mary candles. The whole place in a DAY had been carpeted in posters...poetry...flower arrangements. His name was Luther... he was the star football player at the local highschool apparantly. Went too fast, tried to make a quick turn- and he rolled his fathers Chevy Tahoe. It mattered little to the many many teens who flocked to the site. It got quite popular. Eventually people decided to do away with posters and just wrote with chalk on to the opposing face of our wall. It got quite large over its 2 week existence. I couldn't walk to my refrigerator to get a glass of orange juice without seeing at least 2 teenagers praying or hugging or standing around, pacing and looking down. It was quite a draw.

And you have to wonder ... if you died at that very spot... would you get a vigil? Would people write poetry on printer paper and tape it to your wall? Would cars that pass by give you two short horn honks and a long one? Would they buy twelve dollar flower arrangements at the grocery store down the block and put them on the dislodged cinder blocks in your honor?

Would a person you said "Hi" to one time say a prayer for you?

I went out there once... to get a good look. Two teens in black were there praying. Quite solemnly... seriously. Then they lifted their heads and one walked over to me and asked if I had any smokes on me.

sgtfuzzbubble011 · 4th May 2002, 18:38

That's sad.

I'm glad that you're back with us, though.

Sir Killalot · 4th May 2002, 19:51

Welcome back Xerxes. You make the Forums a better place.

Sir K

<-- now tht Xerxes's back!

Scar Da Kookee · 4th May 2002, 19:56

Quote:

Originally posted by Xerxes
I hath returned.

Ahh Whammies in your avatar! Get em away! Get em away!

3rd May 2002, 20:24	#1
Xerxes Capitalist Alumni Join Date: May 2000 Location: my 4 Houses on Park Place Posts: 8,688	The reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated ... For the last month or two.., regulars to these forums have probably noticed the absence of their illustrious resident republican from these boards and late nite *******. Late March, I was watching the A.I. DVD on my computer when suddenly the monitor went black. This surprise was followed by spark noises coming from my computer along with the light aroma of smoke. I first thought a bug had crawled into the main power supply or something like that- but my tech support minded friend was able to rule that out. It turned out to be that the motherboard power supply had decided to go bad for no good reason at all. My whole computer was rendered useless by this. Quite a technological tragedy- but also an opportunity- to buy a newer motherboard... and a pentium 1.8 ghz... and half a G of RAMBUS ram... So my computer returns to its rightful place under my desk (You can tell it is the rightful place because there is a clean rectangle of floor space with no dirt or dust ). But more trials remain- I had to end up buying a new cable modem as well because the integrated network card on the new motherboard did not work with my older one. So, 2 months and a grand and a half later..... I hath returned.

3rd May 2002, 20:33	#3
Indyrod Major Dude Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana USA Posts: 687	Does that mean, you start the Classical MP3 of the week again? I kinda miss that, really. Indyrod AVS Presets Indyrod.deviantart.com Fyre Bird (One of the most downloaded Presets ever)

3rd May 2002, 20:38	#5
n_ick2000 Forum King Join Date: May 2001 Location: - Posts: 2,501	Welcome back You would have been better off with an Athlon with DDR ram. Faster and cheaper. \|

3rd May 2002, 23:06	#15
Mizter_E Rest Well Friend Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 393	HOORAY! THREE CHEERS FOR XERXES! HIP, HIP, HORAy! Hip, Hip, HORAY! hip, hip, HORAY! .. .. *note to self..stop eating too much sugar.. <lurk mode= on> Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine et lux perpetua luceat eis. Respitae en pacem, Robert. 1985-2002

3rd May 2002, 23:14	#18
griffinn Court Jester (Forum King) Join Date: May 2000 Location: Your local toystore Posts: 3,501	Now that the three musketeers have reunited, let the mayhem begin! The smiley slot machine! \| Quotable Blog

3rd May 2002, 20:29	#2
Bilbo Baggins Wind Chime of the Apocalypse Join Date: May 2000 Location: The Forest Posts: 17,228	YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES Welcome back friend.

3rd May 2002, 20:37	#4
SSJ4 Gogitta Followed by Gnomes (Forum King) Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: West Virginia Googolplex: 10^10¹°° FB:/SSJ4.DominusDeus DeviantArt: DominusDeus XboX GT: A Wild Meeseeks Playstation 4: DominusDeus Posts: 7,162	Woooo! Xerxs Man Returneth!

3rd May 2002, 20:40	#6
apollos Forum King Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Canterbury & Plymouth Posts: 4,176	Welcome back Xerxes!! Do I know you?

3rd May 2002, 20:40	#7
papadoc Comfortably Numb (Forum King) Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 4,619	Welcome back my young conservative friend. Dare I say this placed lacked balance without you??? Hmmmmm...maybe... But randman did run kinda wild without you here.

3rd May 2002, 20:54	#10
Xerxes Capitalist Alumni Join Date: May 2000 Location: my 4 Houses on Park Place Posts: 8,688	Jiminy! What a memory! Very impressive. I have actually sold my intel along with a lot of other stock and have most of my money in metals at the moment... as the stock market has quite nasty of late.

3rd May 2002, 22:22	#11
randman Guest Posts: n/a	Welcome back X! The forums weren't the same without you. They lacked that evil touch you give them.

3rd May 2002, 22:24	#12
Bilbo Baggins Wind Chime of the Apocalypse Join Date: May 2000 Location: The Forest Posts: 17,228	The music i am listening to fits Xerxes return perfectly (Don Davies - The Power Plant)

3rd May 2002, 22:25	#13
ujay Forum King Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: London Posts: 6,072	Good to see you back Xerxes. What with you and RM disappearing like that ... people were beginning to talk UJ

3rd May 2002, 23:07	#16
Bilbo Baggins Wind Chime of the Apocalypse Join Date: May 2000 Location: The Forest Posts: 17,228	I will stand proud

3rd May 2002, 23:12	#17
Xerxes Capitalist Alumni Join Date: May 2000 Location: my 4 Houses on Park Place Posts: 8,688	Its not all bad BB, you still have the power to rally all the forces of ignorance ...

3rd May 2002, 23:28	#20
Gonzotek Gunslinger Join Date: May 2000 Location: Terminus Posts: 4,693	HUZZAH! Welcome back X-man! -=Gonzotek=- I was away for a while. But I'm feeling much better now.

3rd May 2002, 23:37	#21
dylman Forum King Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Hawarden Posts: 2,115	Welcome back Jean-Marie Le Pen in France, 3 BNP councillors got elected today in Burnley, and Xerxes is back in the forums. Of the three, I know which will strike the most fear into the liberals amongst us... There's no need to tell me when I'm right; I operate on that principle exclusively and with absolute certainty

4th May 2002, 00:01	#22
Sandman2012 <3 foobar2k (Forum King) Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 3,203	Welcome back X. Enjoy your new machine. It sounds nice. pabook.net

4th May 2002, 01:01	#25
fish Pretty Cool Guy Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Cle, OH, USA Posts: 4,847	Sex Rex Shit! I lost your "Just call me sex rex" picture Ahh well, welcome back eh, heh.

4th May 2002, 02:41	#29
kljs Major Dude Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Kulim,Kedah,Malaysia Posts: 645	Welcome back Xerxes!!! I am just a normal person sitting on the bench and reading newspaper and having a cup of coffee. Why can't people see that?

4th May 2002, 06:35	#31
baafie feminazi (Major Dude) Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 1,767	Glad to see you back X. 'Tis been awhile.. we missed you

4th May 2002, 09:11	#32
Atmo The Freak (Forum King) Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 9,400	Welcome back Xerxes... :Psykotech:

4th May 2002, 10:22	#33
Xerxes Capitalist Alumni Join Date: May 2000 Location: my 4 Houses on Park Place Posts: 8,688	Mortality Wow... i'm stunned...scared...yet touched... all at the same time. I can't believe you would really care about my absence... me. I exist as a spectre to all of you. I'm just a personality, attached to a screename... in a sea of thousands of anonymous monikers. A nameless generator of text that you happen to find half amusing... Well this all comes at somewhat strange timing... as i recently had a close encounter with death of late. I live with my backyard facing a street. Its mostly empty... people like to come down it going 50. Two weeks ago, sunday afternoon someone came across going 70 and crashed into the partition. It made a horrible noise- i simply had to go into my backyard ... and look though the shattered cinder block wall to witness a person lying on pavement in a pool of blood that surrounded his entire body. And the other body, hanging limp out of the side of the Chevy Tahoe- he was wiggling a little. But by the time I called 911 and returned, most of his blood had exited a gash on his head and was collecting in the cracks of the sidewalk.....and the gutter. He died in that short amount of time... just like that...gone. But he ended up being the only casulty. The next day I looked out and there were sobbing women and gangsterish skater teenagers there. I walked out and almost tripped on one of many virgin mary candles. The whole place in a DAY had been carpeted in posters...poetry...flower arrangements. His name was Luther... he was the star football player at the local highschool apparantly. Went too fast, tried to make a quick turn- and he rolled his fathers Chevy Tahoe. It mattered little to the many many teens who flocked to the site. It got quite popular. Eventually people decided to do away with posters and just wrote with chalk on to the opposing face of our wall. It got quite large over its 2 week existence. I couldn't walk to my refrigerator to get a glass of orange juice without seeing at least 2 teenagers praying or hugging or standing around, pacing and looking down. It was quite a draw. And you have to wonder ... if you died at that very spot... would you get a vigil? Would people write poetry on printer paper and tape it to your wall? Would cars that pass by give you two short horn honks and a long one? Would they buy twelve dollar flower arrangements at the grocery store down the block and put them on the dislodged cinder blocks in your honor? Would a person you said "Hi" to one time say a prayer for you? I went out there once... to get a good look. Two teens in black were there praying. Quite solemnly... seriously. Then they lifted their heads and one walked over to me and asked if I had any smokes on me.

4th May 2002, 18:38	#34
sgtfuzzbubble011 Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 60,839	That's sad. I'm glad that you're back with us, though.

4th May 2002, 19:51	#35
Sir Killalot Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: The Warzone, Birmingham, UK Posts: 89	Re: Mortality Welcome back Xerxes. You make the Forums a better place. Sir K <-- now tht Xerxes's back!

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