This is the time of the year when it happens, if it's going to happen.

Keep your powder dry Tiger fans. We have an electric staff and momentum.

(can I get a yep?)

Hell Yep!!...tell me what you know

TigerPride96 is wondering what the original post here looked like before the edit. Hmmmm!

ok

Don't mean to mislead. I have no specific knowledge of any commitment in the chamber. But I've been a recruiting junkie for a long time, and I have that itch. Part of it is the 2011 prediction. Part is all the new names starting to bubble up. Part of it is how close the early period is now. I FULLY expect this forum to be an exciting and excited place very soon.

(11-05-2009 10:59 PM)tigers1985 Wrote:  Don't mean to mislead. I have no specific knowledge of any commitment in the chamber. But I've been a recruiting junkie for a long time, and I have that itch. Part of it is the 2011 prediction. Part is all the new names starting to bubble up. Part of it is how close the early period is now. I FULLY expect this forum to be an exciting and excited place very soon.

Are you Tigerscane? ;-)

I too am expecting something to happen during the early signing period.

(11-05-2009 11:47 PM)hsvtiger Wrote:  

(11-05-2009 10:59 PM)tigers1985 Wrote:  Don't mean to mislead. I have no specific knowledge of any commitment in the chamber. But I've been a recruiting junkie for a long time, and I have that itch. Part of it is the 2011 prediction. Part is all the new names starting to bubble up. Part of it is how close the early period is now. I FULLY expect this forum to be an exciting and excited place very soon.

Are you Tigerscane? ;-)

Nov 10.


(just kidding)

hope you are right though

Yep.

This board has been pretty boring (interesting bs from cane) but Im ready for some solid recruiting info

(11-06-2009 12:57 AM)MOVES Wrote:  This board has been pretty boring (interesting bs from cane) but Im ready for some solid recruiting info

Well, get on the MOVE....

You really didnt say anything in your post.

And I don't know what "Keep your powder dry" means. Sounds illegal.

If someone new had posted this, they would be getting bagged on. Not saying I agree with that, but that is what would have gone down.

(11-06-2009 03:35 AM)Dynamos Wrote:  You really didnt say anything in your post.

And I don't know what "Keep your powder dry" means. Sounds illegal.

(11-06-2009 03:50 AM)TigersSpin Wrote:  If someone new had posted this, they would be getting bagged on. Not saying I agree with that, but that is what would have gone down.

you joined in march. lol. you are still NEW yourself there spin.

(11-06-2009 03:35 AM)Dynamos Wrote:  You really didnt say anything in your post.

And I don't know what "Keep your powder dry" means. Sounds illegal.

The saying originally comes from the olden days of flintlock rifles, when wet powder meant you were defenseless. "Keep your powder dry" would be more or less equivalent to saying "take care of yourself" or "be careful" to a friend as you were parting company.

You're welcome for the history lesson.

I'M HARVEY MILK AND I'M HERE TO RECRUIT YOU!

(11-05-2009 10:14 PM)tigers1985 Wrote:  This is the time of the year when it happens, if it's going to happen.

Keep your powder dry Tiger fans. We have an electric staff and momentum.

(can I get a yep?)

Better yet a Rep!

(11-06-2009 08:38 AM)phototiger Wrote:  

(11-06-2009 03:50 AM)TigersSpin Wrote:  If someone new had posted this, they would be getting bagged on. Not saying I agree with that, but that is what would have gone down.

you joined in march. lol. you are still NEW yourself there spin.

Did I say I wasn't?

This month sure has been loooooooong

I'm ready for any exciting news.

Sin and salvation walk hand in hand
Right past the jury to the promised land
And I've been in prison baby most of my days
Must be these reckless ways

God and creation roll side by side
They wave to the jury and the gates open wide
And I've been hard and ancient like dinosaur bones
Hiding under these stones

Restless days
Feel like I'm falling away
Restless nights
When you're holding me tight
Restless world
I thank God for my girl
Restless days

My salvation runs hot and cold
I plead to the jury I know I borrowed I know I stole
And I've been trying your honor in so many ways
Must be these restless
I guess it's these restless
I know it's these restless days
Restless days

Tigerspin is definitely correct. With respect to everyone, too many folks are ready to jump posters with low counts (yes, I'm a low 'count poster, myself)!

(11-06-2009 03:50 AM)TigersSpin Wrote:  If someone new had posted this, they would be getting bagged on. Not saying I agree with that, but that is what would have gone down.

(11-06-2009 04:40 PM)LifetimeTiger Wrote:  Tigerspin is definitely correct. With respect to everyone, too many folks are ready to jump posters with low counts (yes, I'm a low 'count poster, myself)!

(11-06-2009 03:50 AM)TigersSpin Wrote:  If someone new had posted this, they would be getting bagged on. Not saying I agree with that, but that is what would have gone down.

Shut up you S-O..........

Just kiddin.

anyone who was a member of tigertalk gets a free pass!

Tigerderek,
Man, I remember when Lakeland was a real vacation for my dirt poor east Memphis family (we went twice!). All woods out there. Times change. Of course, I used to fish in Nonconnah Creek where Sam's is now.

Burcham

(11-06-2009 05:09 PM)LifetimeTiger Wrote:  Tigerderek,
Man, I remember when Lakeland was a real vacation for my dirt poor east Memphis family (we went twice!). All woods out there. Times change. Of course, I used to fish in Nonconnah Creek where Sam's is now.

Burcham

What did you catch in Nonconnah Creek, other than diseases????

CTG,

Back then (60's), it wasn't so bad. I caught catfish and some small bream. Camped across 240 from Sam's. Just woods then. I went to South Park Elementary School there!!

now that was a long time ago

Where did it go? Seems like someone I knew instead of my own life.

(11-06-2009 05:09 PM)LifetimeTiger Wrote:  Tigerderek,
Man, I remember when Lakeland was a real vacation for my dirt poor east Memphis family (we went twice!). All woods out there. Times change. Of course, I used to fish in Nonconnah Creek where Sam's is now.

Burcham

yea,i remember if you lived out here you had money.lol times have changed and i used to fish in the wolf river! long nosed gar ftm!

Those gar scared the crap out of me.

(11-06-2009 04:40 PM)LifetimeTiger Wrote:  Tigerspin is definitely correct. With respect to everyone, too many folks are ready to jump posters with low counts (yes, I'm a low 'count poster, myself)!

(11-06-2009 03:50 AM)TigersSpin Wrote:  If someone new had posted this, they would be getting bagged on. Not saying I agree with that, but that is what would have gone down.

Past reliability and accuracy of a poster is one of the few criteria that maybe applied to the worthiness of a speculative post. It takes time to build credibility and hence the tendency to view newcomers bearing new information with skepticism.

(11-06-2009 09:28 PM)tigerderek Wrote:  

(11-06-2009 05:09 PM)LifetimeTiger Wrote:  Tigerderek,
Man, I remember when Lakeland was a real vacation for my dirt poor east Memphis family (we went twice!). All woods out there. Times change. Of course, I used to fish in Nonconnah Creek where Sam's is now.

Burcham

yea,i remember if you lived out here you had money.lol times have changed and i used to fish in the wolf river! long nosed gar ftm!

Don't know if it's the same place but in the sixties Lakeland was an amusement park out I40 where I was Rancid Butterball. He was an old moonshiner who'd hold up the train and rob the kid's at gunpoint of their nickels and dimes. It supplemented that .60 an hour.

Yep. Remember it well.

Yep. Rode the train myself.

I remember riding the (real) train from Memphis to Collierville on a school trip in 1953, and thinking that was a big deal.

I also remember going to Lakeland Park on numerous occasions. If there was a train ride there, I don't recall it, but maybe I was too big to ride it by then. My sister lives there now with a view out her window across the lake to where all the rides used to be.

In college (before I transferred to Memphis State), one of my suite mates and fraternity brothers was Louis Garner, Jr. son of the guy who owned Lakeland.

All good times.

Huddlha,

You (Rancid Butterball) owe me ten cents! And please consider inflation and interest for these past 40 years, so we're probably talking $10,000! Man, that takes me back.

Burcham

(11-07-2009 07:15 AM)LifetimeTiger Wrote:  Huddlha,

You (Rancid Butterball) owe me ten cents! And please consider inflation and interest for these past 40 years, so we're probably talking $10,000! Man, that takes me back.

Burcham

Ha. It could've been a quarter. Course maybe you weren't skeert enough. Stick em up kids or I'll blow a hole in ya! Then firing that shotgun in the air to get em reachin way down. Everybody shivrin and shakin. Life was good.

Small world. Lots missing from then, but replacement is the nature of things. Fine with me!

old farts!lol

(11-07-2009 05:53 AM)TripleA Wrote:  I remember riding the (real) train from Memphis to Collierville on a school trip in 1953, and thinking that was a big deal.

I also remember going to Lakeland Park on numerous occasions. If there was a train ride there, I don't recall it, but maybe I was too big to ride it by then. My sister lives there now with a view out her window across the lake to where all the rides used to be.

In college (before I transferred to Memphis State), one of my suite mates and fraternity brothers was Louis Garner, Jr. son of the guy who owned Lakeland.

All good times.

Seems I remember riding over the lake out there on a ski lift type contraption. But, that was many, many beers ago.

I guess. On the other hand some things never change. Like in the words of Rancid Butterball re this upcoming Tiger season, "More! I want more!"

(11-07-2009 01:47 PM)dan o Wrote:  

(11-07-2009 05:53 AM)TripleA Wrote:  I remember riding the (real) train from Memphis to Collierville on a school trip in 1953, and thinking that was a big deal.

I also remember going to Lakeland Park on numerous occasions. If there was a train ride there, I don't recall it, but maybe I was too big to ride it by then. My sister lives there now with a view out her window across the lake to where all the rides used to be.

In college (before I transferred to Memphis State), one of my suite mates and fraternity brothers was Louis Garner, Jr. son of the guy who owned Lakeland.

All good times.

Seems I remember riding over the lake out there on a ski lift type contraption. But, that was many, many beers ago.

Then you rode right over "Ole Smokey", an incredibly cool train btw. It passed underneath the Brussel's World Fair Skyride out in the woods near the far tower. The lake had a pirate ship tooling around in it.

Yep. Now that is really BIG news.

I wasn't allowed to go to Lakeland as a kid. My mom thought i would get hooked on drugs out there.

(11-07-2009 01:55 PM)huddlha Wrote:  

(11-07-2009 01:47 PM)dan o Wrote:  

(11-07-2009 05:53 AM)TripleA Wrote:  I remember riding the (real) train from Memphis to Collierville on a school trip in 1953, and thinking that was a big deal.

I also remember going to Lakeland Park on numerous occasions. If there was a train ride there, I don't recall it, but maybe I was too big to ride it by then. My sister lives there now with a view out her window across the lake to where all the rides used to be.

In college (before I transferred to Memphis State), one of my suite mates and fraternity brothers was Louis Garner, Jr. son of the guy who owned Lakeland.

All good times.

Seems I remember riding over the lake out there on a ski lift type contraption. But, that was many, many beers ago.

Then you rode right over "Ole Smokey", an incredibly cool train btw. It passed underneath the Brussel's World Fair Skyride out in the woods near the far tower. The lake had a pirate ship tooling around in it.

Yep, I remember the Sky Ride, but not the train. Probably was too big to ride the train by the time I started going out there.

You can take a nice little hike and see the remains of the train tracks and sky ride. I take my dogs hiking through there. It's at the dead end of the street that the new shelby county fire dept. is located on. There is a path next to the tennis courts which leads in to the woods. The woods end where the sky ride would begin and then go across the lake. I can't think of the name of the street, but it's runs off Canada Road near Huff and Puff. The hike will bring back many memories. The tracks are on the right side of the path.