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Sad But True Quotes

Mr Papa — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:55:56 +0000

A friend sent me the quotes below today. I don’t usually post these kind of things, but frankly, today, they seem kind of apropos. I also don’t know if they are all “real” quotes or made up.

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress. — John Adams
If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if
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Obama – Halloween Scary

Mr Papa — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:35:28 +0000

I really need to take the time to do a family update post and try to avoid a lot of political posts, but with a critical election only two weeks away, I came across this video on youtube and just had to throw it up here as it sums up Obama, in my opinion, fairly well – scary!

Click here to view the embedded video.

Now, I am not a complete lover of McCain, that is for sure, but I clearly
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New Dance Site Launched

Mr Papa — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:06:09 +0000

Okay, time to reveal where I have been lately. Suzanne decided that the dance studio she and the kids go to needed a new and improved website. To be honest, they did. The previous one was fixed html and very, very slow due to incredibly large images (30 MB+) being show as thumbnails.

Anyways, she talked to the owner and “volunteered” me to work on a new website for her. I didn’t kick and scream very
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Wordsplosion!

Mr Papa — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:55:32 +0000

I stumbled upon a pretty neat site the other day. It’s called Wordsplosion.

According to their site, “Wordsplosion brings you the best of the worst of the world of grammatical errors, punctuation gaffes, misspellings, typography etc. We call this family of textual catastrophes â€œwordsplosionsâ€.

They have some pretty funny signs and other total misuse of words. And if you aren’t sure what’s wrong with the words or phrase, they have a link that tells you what’s
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New You Tube Creation

Suzanne — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:52:03 +0000

OK, we were totally silly this week and created another comedy/horror video for YouTube. Keep in mind that this all came from the mind of a 10 year old.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Cruise Talk Central Getting Noticed Again

Mr Papa — Sat, 17 May 2008 08:00:08 +0000

I know I have said this before, but our Cruise Talk Central site continues to grow in popularity. You have probably heard in the new recently about the lady that went overboard on the NCL Dream Ship. Well, yesterday Suzanne wrote a blog article about the incident.

It has been a popular post in terms of number of people viewing it. In addition, if you searched on the CNN.com site for information
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Little Known Naval History

Mr Papa — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:04:55 +0000

This is probably old, but I hadn’t seen it before. Actually, I don’t even know for sure its true, but it did come from a former Naval officer. Even it its not true, it made me smile, so I thought I would share it with my readers.

The USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) as a combat vessel carried 48,600 gallons of fresh water for her crew of 475 officers and men. This was sufficient to last six months of sustained
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Everybody’s Famous For 15 Minutes (or more) on YawpBox

Mr Papa — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:15:33 +0000

I had a goofy friend in college who thought Andy Warhol was the most visionary artist ever. My friends even cried the day he died. Maybe my friend was just as visionary, because Warhol’s famous saying that everyone is famous for 15 minutes seems more true today than ever. That saying reflected Warhol’s ability to see the beauty and art in common objects like soup cans and bananas. The website YawpBox
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It’s A Wonderful Life – The Alternate Ending

Mr Papa — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:04:58 +0000

Last night, Suzanne and I watched the Christmas classic “It’s A Wonderful Life”. It is a must watch every Christmas season. While watching the movie, Suzanne recalled watching a Saturday night skit where they had an alternate ending of the movie.

I had never seen the alternate ending before so we went searching for it and found it over on Youtube. Now, this isn’t really an alternate ending, but a parody of an alternate ending. Still it’s funny
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Mr Papa – Rare Beef!

Mr Papa — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 04:17:20 +0000

I have posted recently about the huge amount of spam I receive here at Mr Papa’s World. The spam continues. Another thing that has been quite prevalent, even more so over at Cruise Talk Central has been content scraping. Content scraping is the stealing of content from one site and publishing it on another site. It’s usually done by scraping a site’s RSS feed.

I also like to monitor my site stats and see
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Detroit Lions Putting It All Together

Mr Papa — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:51:05 +0000

I am feeling a bit giddy today. Thus far, this has been a tremendous season for the Detroit Lions. With yesterdays 44 – 7 blowout of the Denver Broncos, they improved their season mark to 6 – 2.

One of the best things about their emergence this year is the complete surprise they have caught the football press. Of course, I never would have predicted the start they have had, but I did think an 8 – 8
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Busy Times With Websites (and small family update)

Mr Papa — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:51:16 +0000

Wow, what a busy time… I recently launched a couple of new sites, Lords of Seis and Lions Fans Online and that took up some time. But the biggest drain over the last week has been moving my stuff to a new server.

I was starting to reach the limits of my allowed bandwidth and disk storage, plus I was getting these very annoying internal server errors on my sites – mostly in the admin
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New Detroit Lions Fan Website

Mr Papa — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:39:07 +0000

Yesterday, I launched my new Detroit Lions Fans website. The site is currently part blog and part forums with a bunch of other features thrown in. I plan to add many more features over time, but I wanted to get the site launched since I didn’t get started until after the start of the season and didn’t want to lose too much of the season.

i know, I am a geek and have too many websites, but it keeps
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World of Warcraft Guild

Mr Papa — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:11:11 +0000

My fun with World of Warcraft continues. I have gotten my main character up to a level 17 Shadow Priest. It’s a long ways to the top at level 70, but I am working my way there.

I mentioned in an earlier post that I was working on a new website. The new site is for the guild that I have joined as part of my World of Warcraft adventures. I have been playing with a co-worker
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World of Warcraft

Mr Papa — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:44:52 +0000

Lately, I haven’t played much America’s Army (AA). In fact, I think I have played twice in the last six months. Most of this was due to internet issues with my provider. He panicked one day when he had some port scans going on and closed everything down. Ports required to be open for me to play AA (as well as some other internet applications) would no longer function
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Cruise Talk Central Getting Noticed

Mr Papa — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:31:35 +0000

As some of you know, Suzanne and I also run a cruise blog over at Cruise Talk Central. At that site, we blog about our cruise travels and have information available for other cruisers researching cruising. We have photos, videos and reviews of the cruises and excursions that we have done. We also list the latest cruise industry news.

Well, recently, Cruise Talk Central has been getting some notice. We are able to generate a
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The Modern Media Reports on the WWII Normandy Invasion

Mr Papa — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:10:08 +0000

Here at Mr Papa’s World, I don’t normally delve into the World of politics, but on the rare occasions that I have, it’s quite obvious that I am a Conservative. While reading a bunch of the blogs I normally review on a daily basis, I came across the following video.

The Combat Report spent some serious time and created a video to show how our modern, liberal media just might report on the World War II invasion of
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Trying out Twitter and Family Update

Mr Papa — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:48:34 +0000

One of the recent rages on the net lately has been Twitter. Thus far, I have been able to resist getting into it, but last night, I took the plunge and signed up. My tweets are now available here at Mr Papa’s World in the right sidebar or on My Twitter Page. Feel free to add me as a friend if you use Twitter. I can’t guarantee that I will stick with this, but
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Cruise Talk Central Redesign

Mr Papa — Sun, 20 May 2007 21:35:55 +0000

My internet connection got stable enough for me to launch the redesigned Cruise Talk Central today. My speed still sucks, but at least it held long enough for me to do the upgrade.

I redesigned the site to allow for easier navigation, more straight forward grouping of information and to give Suzanne a place to upload some videos of our cruises. Plus, I wanted to give the site a more professional look. If you get a chance,
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158th Website Relaunched

Mr Papa — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 06:31:33 +0000

Sorry for having been mostly silent lately, but I have been hard at work relaunching my America’s Army clan site, The 158th Regimental Combat Team.

Our clan has used the same basic site design for the last 18 months. It was time to do something different. I spent the last couple months coming up with a new design. The previous design was dark and very AA related. I wanted something less dark and more professional
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