Thread: best way to mount game used sticks to a wall?

Originally Posted by nocturn

Sorry for Hijacking your thread 16.

No worries, you gave me some ideas. Also, this is LGK and I expect nothing else. At least the thread did not move on to be about cats or boobs.

boobs. I miss teh boobs.

Originally Posted by BeerMan

boobs. I miss teh boobs.

True! You COULD have hung your stick on these...

Originally Posted by nocturn

Funny! He won't gouge your eyes, He's a "Bush Fairy" from Botswana. He's in charge of fertility, nookie and all things "improper"...like me. LOL I can't remember his actual name though. From left to right: Mozambique Elder, Botswana Bush Fairy, Inuit Mask (Vancouver Isl), Samoan Eye Gouger, Samoan Mask, Maori War Mask, Samoan Chest Buster, Madagascar Sea Fairy (smells GOOD! Made of Sandalwood), Kenyan Medicine man mask. What sucks is I've seen a few variants of the Madagascar Fairy at Pier 1 over the past few years. Not EXACTLY like mine but pretty close. The sandalwood separates it from the pack though. Sandalwood is pretty rare in that size and pricey if you can find it. Mine also has coral and shell chips versus the egg shells on the one at Pier 1.

In retrospect, I really had a fantastic time in the CG during those years. I logged well over 300,000 miles flying and 29 countries. I was part of a 6 member NESU team thats sole job was Repair/Replace and Humanitarian. We traveled around the Pacific Rim repairing U.S. assets damaged by Typhoons, Tsunamis and other natural disasters. Loran, Omega Stations, Navigational Light Structures, etc. When we were done with those, we would rebuild local structures including homes and businesses. It was BY FAR the most satisfying position I ever had...dream job for a 20 something really. Although my wife didn't like me being gone as much as I was but we didn't have kids and she LOVED the bank I was making being a Geo Bachelor and receiving Haz and Flight Pay. Too bad the introduction of GPS made that detachment obsolete and they disbanded in 2000. Seems like yesterday. The people of the Mid and South Pacific are absolutely the most beautiful people on the planet...Bar none. Personality, humbleness, character, graciousness, love for people...they are at the very, very top of the chain. What they lack in physical treasures, they more than make up for in Love and Caring. My heart would just break for them after a Earthquake or Super Typhoon would come through and destroy their homes (and I use "homes" loosely) and families. People in this country have no clue what the true meaning of "poor" is, not at all. Our poor are spoiled rotten...Awww, No Cell Phone or Flat Screen? BITCH PLEASE! A Typhoon would kill half their extended family and they would smile and invite you into their home for a hot dinner, in which they would eat *after* you, knowing damn well that could be the last hot meal they'd have for 3 months. Unfounded, they treated us like kings. To the point that it would make some of us uncomfortable. We would fly in, repair the local Nav Light for 2 days and then fix their shack, shanty, tiki hut homes one by one for up to 10 days. We'd fly out to Yap and then to PI, Guam, Saipan or Kwaj, get drunk, restock the supplies and do it all over again for up to 3 months a trip. They're just on another level of Human Being. We, unfortunately are slipping in the wrong direction and could use the people of Micronesia and Marshall Islands as a baseline for how we should treat our fellow humans. [/end rant]

Sorry for the long post. Battling insomnia tonight.

nah, i totally agree. and it's nice to read stories of peoples' travels. i totally get what you're saying about what people perceive poor to be despite not really knowing what it's like to be poor... first world problems.
that sucks about how your madagascar fairy can be found at pier 1, but hey, like you said, it isn't real sandalwood. whoever buys it at pier 1 isn't going to have nearly as great a story behind its acquisition either.
it's funny, i was just passing a store in the mall that imports japanese goods and saw some wooden dolls that looked like the one i got during my travels and i was a little bummed at first. after reading your post though, i'm reminded that anyone who buys a similar doll to the one i have at that store isn't going to have the memories that go along with it so there's that.

also, i'm pretty sure that farrah pic more than made up for the hijack.