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Jada
Title: Chapter Rep
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RE: That time of year
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firstsonofsolo posted:
Hope asked a question, her question was aimed to let the candidates now what to expect to to convince myself to create an office of treasurer. Dustin is already on the thought of that so he needs no convincing.
I'd like to clarify that. My question was not to convince FSOS that the TFF needs a Treasurer. While I happen to think the TFF does need a Treasurer to track expenses involved in running the club my question had another purpose. It was to enlighten both candidates that being CR brings about a great deal of hidden costs financially and time wise. And unless you've been in the position YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE IN FOR.
To the Treasurer issue though, you can have a Treasurer without charging dues. I happen to be against charging dues because of the implied culpability.
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dialswiftjustice
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dialswiftjustice posted:
thanks Damian!
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cathiecat
Title: Tucson FF Historian
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RE: That time of year
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thatsMISTERwookiee posted:
Wow. 
As someone who would qualify under the heading of "costumer", I am really curious as to what functions/activities/get-togethers that the costumers shot down and wouldn't let non-costumers do/attend/perform. I am also curious as to what kind of "props" "non-costumers" would want to build.
Okay.. first let me say.. I did not make my previous post to upset anyone.. I was just answering the question that was asked about finances.. and then I skipped down and was stating what I was looking for in a CR which had nothing to do with the finances question at all.. everyone else was saying what they wanted in a CR .. so I figured I would say what I wanted and why I wanted it.. I was not attempting to start a war or even an arguement.. I actually thought most people were already aware of how I felt about the non costuming activities... I even prefaced what I wrote by saying I was looking for a CR that could manage to accomplish what I as CR had Failed to do.. In any event.. I am going to expand a little bit.. as a few of you requested both in person and in posts.. hopefully this will clear up what I was saying.. if not .. please feel free to ask more questions if this does not answer them.. and yes Dustin you are right...I did say what I said last week about Fan Force being a model Fan Force.. We are a model Fan Force in that We rose up from the ashes, from nothing, we started with one and gathered up people and before long we had three, then four, ect, then we became a fairly decent sized group with organization and we conduct meetings and we have events and we are friends and overall we are a model.. however we still have a lot we could learn, a main thing being overall balance and attention to what all of our members want as a whole.. not just individually.. it has been mentioned that the non costumers are the minority.. but actually it is about equal.. we have just as many non costumers as we have costumers..In actuality the non costumers are not necessarily non-costumers they are just certain members of the group that do wish to do other activities in addition to the costuming.. and the number actually might surprise you how many of them there are.. off the top of my head I can think of at least nine individuals right off that have always said they wanted to do other stuff besides the costuming. So really there is no minority/majority.. it is pretty much just an equal group of fan force members that have a lot of diverse interest of which costuming is a huge part of for many of them. I think some might have misunderstood my post earlier and thought it meant let's stop costuming.. that as far as I can read is not what the post said, in fact it said that costuming would always be a major part of this particular fan force as so many in this group do in fact love costuming and that is just the way that it is... to go a step further it is just a very integral part of this group and I don't think anyone could take it away and have this group survive. I do however think this group is now strong enough to be able to do more diverse activities and grow stronger from it. We don't have to have every single member show up at every single activity that we do any longer. The time has come when members can pick and choose which activities they want to participate in and feel comfortable doing so. RPG is a perfect example of this.
For another example of explaining what outsiders and some members have seen of our fan force.. We have made a point of telling people at the start of meetings that the Fan Force is not a costuming group.. and why do we do that.. well.. that's because as soon as we tell them that the next thing we do is speak for the next two and a half hours about pretty much nothing but costuming and costuming events.. a pretty major contradiction. I have heard it said by a member that it is a choice that a member makes to create a costume if they feel they have to do that to belong..not something we make them do.. but it still falls to the group to put ourselves out there in such a way to make the masses feel comfortable.. I want to know that we, as a group have done all that we can to welcome people and make them feel at home in our group.. not uncomfortable and not left out and certainly not feeling that in order to belong they need a costume.. We as a group have to take responsibility for the image we give to the community and it really doesn't matter what image we THINK we give to the community.. It's the image the community perceives from us that matters in the end, so whether or not we say.. well that's their fault if they felt that way.. it's not their fault if there is something we could have done to have changed that perception and we failed to do it, and most times.. there is always something more you could have done.. and it's normally something simple and overlooked. This is where I failed (and it sucks to admit it) within our group to accomplish that something that we still need to make the average Star Wars fan feel at home within our group and that is the image I would like to see the new CR help us grasp as a group .
Now, Jack you asked what specific activity I can recall that was shot down. I felt very strongly about getting Kids Activities off the ground before summer so that we would have it in place and ready to go before kids were out for summer so that when new kids showed up at the group meetings, or our own kids got out for summer holiday they would not be bored to tears by showing up at what they hoped would be a fun Star Wars meeting only to discover it was an adult business meeting they were attending instead, I think in retrospect I explained the idea poorly, I got the idea that Jack had an image of the group trapezing around giving the children of Tucson their own personal Star Wars Carnival.. and my idea was a much much smaller scale than I think I was portraying, but I was as usual perhaps explaining it too widely and too imaginitively perhaps. In any event.. two people did not like the idea...I pushed it and a few other people understood where I was coming from and wanted to discuss it and then another member said okay fine you want to do this.. let's shelve it for now and move on.. I did not want to move on.. however I have seen what happens when I try to push something further.. so I dropped the issue and we moved on to discuss more costuming events. I still stand behind this issue.. we need some activities for kids to do at meetings.. it is not fun for any kids, ours or teenagers to show up at what they are expecting to be a fun (for crying out loud.. it's STAR WARS)time for a few hours and find a group of adults talking about what time to arrive and what to bring and all the other boring stuff we talk about at our meetings.
I would prefer not to dig deeper and bring up more instances as it will only bug my brain to do so, suffice it to say it is has happened other times in the past and I would just drop the idea and let the group get back to discussing which corner of the sidewalk at the zoo to place the backdrop, or where specifically Vader should be standing at what specific time even though such things could have been left to be discussed at the end of the meeting perhaps.. we did attempt to try that idea and schedule a time frame for each agenda item to be discussed and then get the group to continue discussing that agenda item later. Kat tried to get the group to move on after a set amount of time.. however pretty much no one paid much attention to her or me and just talked over us, I think once or twice Amber helped us get everyone's attention to move on... After that meeting though we pretty much gave up on trying to get real control of time issues for agenda items.. which is something I am hoping a new CR can work on with Kat. She is more than willing.. I just for reasons I don't want to go into failed in that respect as well.
As for when I used the word PROPS to describe things we could make.. I myself made a lightsaber prop and then it set on my bookshelf for a year... I have seen lots of people enjoy making props just to have on display or to make as gifts.. however it would not be just props.. I just did not continue to expand on all the craft activities that I was thinking about.. such as props, miniature figurines, paper weights, frames, candles, soap, sewing (not necessarily costumes either.. I at one point wanted to get with Marlene and discuss the possibility of a Star Wars Quilt making party, but my health got in the way and it has never come to pass, does not mean I still don't ever think of it, I still would love it if Jack and Chris did a painting model/miniature type of activity, Frankie did another Jedi belt/ lightsaber activity (he has done it several times), Cheryl with doll making and sewing, just tons of different craft type activities..the list is actually endless of the things I wanted to do.. I wanted to have a day each month with a different activity set up. Though it became apparant that setting aside one day a month is extremely hard for some reason. Seems no one can ever be sure to have the same day available from month to month.. and then I ran into financial difficulties.. as most of these activities are going to run into money and I needed to know how much so the Fan Force could advertise on the web and daily star and tucson citizen how much it would cost.. but then I found out we could get the advertising for free and the space at a library for free to hold the activities at.. However I wanted to be able to pay for the first few activities up front myself to draw people in.. which in the beginning we did alright.. Frankie, Jake and I did well with the first big party.. we did not have a big turnout.. only 14 showed up.. but it was a great success.. we had huge (free I might add) publicity for out Revenge of the Sith opening night party and we gave away between Frankie, Jake and I several hundred dollars worth of stuff to people and that was a start to get our name out there to the community.. it would be nice if no money was required in order to accomplish the goal of presenting the Tucson Fan Force to the community but that is just not the case.. you have to have Capital to succeed at anything these days.. and so it goes.. and Chris is definitely right.. at this time Costuming is the best advertisement we have.. I however keep hoping that we can get more members with the Book Club.. there is a huge influx of people reading the EU these days.. they are everywhere.. and it would be great to find them with the book club.. anyway.. sorry.. I am digressing... I was just using PROPS as all inclusive.
Dustin.. you asked me about why I called us a machine. It's two folded.. the casual fun activities and then the planned activities for getting TFF members also. Just seems to me that once upon a time we did a lot more casual fun activities as a large group than we do now, or even planned fun simple activities..we talk about doing these types of things..and we still do them on occasion..but we don't do them very often under the TFF banner anymore, or certainly not as often as we used too.. we just go and do them as little groups, and yes I did tell you any three of us makes an event.. and it does... but that was for needed purposes of who can vote or what constitues a gathering.. not in order to get more people involved in the TFF or just to hang out,.. and promoted activities... we talk about doing doing them.. but we don't really do them as much as we talk about doing them.. we do so much planning and working on getting costumes ready and prepped for costuming events that no one has any real energy left over for anything else.. it is all anyone can do to get through each costume event and then get ready to plan for the next one.. that is why I referred to us as a Machine.. because there sometimes is just nothing left of us but the machine.. I remember when we were so excited after having an event for days afterwards we all had to continue to get together to discuss how exciting it was and plan an afterparty to discuss all the greatness of it.. and then afterwards all of us would post how much it meant to us to have been a part of it.. anymore we do so many events and they are all so close together no one gets a breather in between.. or rarely when they do.. to me.. that is what is a machine.. the warm fuzzies are not there.. just the mechanics. I would love to see the warm fuzzies back. At least some semblance of them.
I think when we do so many things so often we don't have time to really deep down enjoy what we are doing and share the moment with each other.. we just stress over getting it done and not making any mistakes and then thank goodness that is over with..
I will tell you this.. I will continue to go to every single costume event for the next ten years+ (as long as we continue to have them)that we do whether or not we do any other activities or not. I enjoy the costuming events.. I am merely saying I want to be a part of a more rounded group that does both and gives as much equal time to both as it can, so that new people that come into the group don't get a skewed view of what we are and they walk away excited to come back and not thinking.. wow.. that was just three hours of a business meeting.. what's in it for me? where's the fun???
You have to realize I have been listening to members of our TFF for the last Two years and I have listened to them, all of them and everything they have said, now perhaps they did not want me to take them so seriously, that would be a discussion for another day if that is the case, in any event I took what they said to heart and tried to be the best CR I could, I did not act on what I wanted for myself, I acted on what was best for the whole of the group as best I could. Then also I just spent a week at CIV meeting a lot of people... many many of which said they would love to be a part of a Star Wars fan club but were not so much interested in costuming.. and no.. these were not necessarily people from Arizona.. they were people from all over the world.. but you have to believe that if there are people in other places that are interested in Star Wars clubs then there have to be people in Tucson that are as well.. and we just have to get out there and find them.. and let's be ready for them with more than just costumes. That's all I am trying to say. I am speaking from what I am seeing and hearing.
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6/3/07 12:27pm
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Your big complaint is that we don't run a daycare center for members and babysit their kids during meetings?
Sorry, but I asked for ACTIVITIES, not a single activity.
"Meetings aren't fun for kids and teenagers." The monthly meetings ARE NOT MEANT to be fun for ANYBODY. Each monthly meeting is held to coordinate all of the FUN ACTIVITIES for the coming month. You can still enjoy the company of others and have a good time there, but the meetings are meant to work out details for the fun events.
AT THE MONTHLY MEETING YOU WORK OUT THE DETAILS OF:
when the RPG meets.
when the Book Club meets and discusses the latest read.
when people meet for Movie Night.
what charity events are coming up.
You complain about all the work on costumes recently. Maybe you heard of a little thing called Celebration 4 that has been consuming everybody's thoughts for the past 4-5 months? Maybe that had more to do with "a lack of time" for other things than you are allowing it to have.
I also found it ironic that one of the activities you cite for drawing in new people, RPG, announed at last night's "boring" meeting that RPG is full, will not be accepting any more players, and has no intention of expanding to another game. Please note; if no more new people show up because of RPG, please do not blame the "costumers" for this.
If you feel that your "daycare at meetings" idea is valid, then FIGHT for it. If you feel you have enough support for it, then bring it to a vote and let the majority decide. That is how things are done.
In MY opinion, these "boring" meetings are already running two and a half, three hours long as is. If we add games and sing-alongs, or whatever, to try to make them more "entertaining" for the younglings, the meetings could end up running half a day, or more.
If we hold meetings at a large enough facility, such as the library, then games and such could be brought, and the kids could go in one corner of the room and play while the adults handled the "boring" tasks of organizing and promoting this group.
Cat, you've got your opinions on how things are, and I've got mine. Your original post on this issue made it sound as though the costumers were shutting off all ideas that didn't involve costuming. I asked my questions because I wanted to see if you were right, and if you were right, then we, as a group, needed to change our direction. I read your second post, and reread it. If I thought you had answered my questions, I would not have posted this.
Love and Kisses, Jack 
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Gee, there are a lot of opinions here...
I'm going to have to side with Cat on the costuming issue. While I do enjoy a costumed charity event once in a while, it's not what I joined the group for; I joined to do social events with other Star Wars fans. It does seem to me that our main focus is on charity events (all of which are costumed). I love doing RPG, and I definitely want to do a book club once I get back in town. I noticed that when a few of you guys were listing non-costumed TFF events, some of these events were not TFF events (eg, Dustin mentioned Cat and Cheryl getting together and he and Frank going to a movie, and Mugen mentioned Order 66 meets (  )) Anyhow, I think it would be good if we have more TFF-wide social activities, stuff that doesn't need much planning.
There was also some discussion of retaining new members...I think a big part of getting people to come back is to make them feel welcome at the meetings, etc. In general I think the group is very welcoming on the boards (I remember feeling quite welcome when I first posted). At meetings, however, I think we (myself included) could improve in this area by paying more attention to the newcomers and trying to include them in our discussions.
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thatsMISTERwookiee posted:
Your big complaint is that we don't run a daycare center for members and babysit their kids during meetings?
No, I am saying we are supposed to encourage members to Tucson Fan Force of all ages.. not just adults.. and we don't do that.. we seem to only encourage adults.. every time kids show up I see grimaces on some peoples faces.. I start to wonder if people forget what Star Wars was created for. I brought up members kids because it would make it easier for those members to attend meetings if they knew there would be something at a meeting for their kids to do when they got there and not be bored for the two or three hours we are occupied.. also...originally our meetings were not all involved with planning monthly events.. that was and is not all that our meetings were originally supposed to entail.. it is simply what they have evolved into.
Sorry, but I asked for ACTIVITIES, not a single activity.
clarify this please.. I have missed this one.. sorry.
"Meetings aren't fun for kids and teenagers." The monthly meetings ARE NOT MEANT to be fun for ANYBODY. Each monthly meeting is held to coordinate all of the FUN ACTIVITIES for the coming month. You can still enjoy the company of others and have a good time there, but the meetings are meant to work out details for the fun events.
AT THE MONTHLY MEETING YOU WORK OUT THE DETAILS OF:
when the RPG meets.
when the Book Club meets and discusses the latest read.
when people meet for Movie Night.
what charity events are coming up.
this was not originally the case or the plan for TFF meetings.. this is just what our group has evolved our meetings into.. because it takes so long to get through our meetings there is no time left for anything fun afterwards.. when we first began our group we always tried to finish with fun stuff.. a movie or a meal, or a game, trivia, something.. such as last night when we went to Galactic Empire, which harkened back to the days of yore and I really felt that was a great improvement. It felt very much like old times, we knocked out the agenda as fast as we could and then we went and did something fun after.
You complain about all the work on costumes recently. Maybe you heard of a little thing called Celebration 4 that has been consuming everybody's thoughts for the past 4-5 months? Maybe that had more to do with "a lack of time" for other things than you are allowing it to have.
I am not complaining, I am observing and noting.. big difference.. and I am making a statement that it is sad that in the midst of doing all of this planning and working on costumes.. why couldn't we have gotten together and worked on costumes together in group settings and made enjoyable evenings out of it and watched movies or something of that nature rather than alone. Not constantly.. but it just seems like everyone holes up and stresses out alone on getting ready for events rather than enjoy times together getting ready for events and helping each other out.. or perhaps I am just asking for too much.. everyone always talks about "hey.. let's get together and work on our stuff" I have heard Chris numerous times say, come on over.. but rarely have anyone take him up on it.. I myself included I am ashamed to admit...but as I have said in previous posts.. it is all talk.. no action.. we talked about it.. but we didn't do it.
I also found it ironic that one of the activities you cite for drawing in new people, RPG, announed at last night's "boring" meeting that RPG is full, will not be accepting any more players, and has no intention of expanding to another game. Please note; if no more new people show up because of RPG, please do not blame the "costumers" for this.
I would love to start another RPG and if John would go for it then I would offer up my home for an extra night of it immediately.. I know that John has a full schedule with work though.. I will be ready for it as soon as we can/could find another game master though.. we did not say we had no intention of expanding to another game last night.. just that I don't know where to find a game master at this time to do so.. Again.. I have placed no BLAME on anyone.. I think people want to think I am placing blame and I have not. No one could find anywhere in any post I have made anywhere that I have placed any blame on anyone save perhaps myself when I said I failed to get some things accomplished for the group that I wanted to. I think people see the word costumer and just jumped to conclusions that there was a blame game going on and there simply isn't.. I am just making sure the group finally knows that there is a large group of members that wants to expand what we do to more than just costuming, charity and RPG and individual socializing. I answered a question that was asked of the members on the board.. the question was posed.. what would you like to see out of our new CR.. and I posted what I would like to see out of a new CR. Simple as that.
If you feel that your "daycare at meetings" idea is valid, then FIGHT for it. If you feel you have enough support for it, then bring it to a vote and let the majority decide. That is how things are done.
it is not daycare.. it is encouraging young members to join the TFF and giving them something to do at meetings that would encourage them to enjoy being at meetings so that they are not bored by discussing the majority of the items we discuss.. unfortunately a lot of the items we discuss get kind of boring. We get far to detail oriented on specific events, which I personally think could wait till later to be discussed... but that is a personal opionion and not really something that is relevant to this conversation or topic. As for a majority vote.. the kids of today.. well they are now and will be the Star Wars fans of Tomorrow.. and most likely they are to be the individuals that will run this group when we are gone.. I seem to recall someone having posted that they wanted to be sure that they could make our group work in such a way that hopefully when we are long gone the group can still function without us.. and let's be honest.. we all would love to see that happen.. and if it does happen.. who will be running it.. the kids of today most likely.. and I would like those individuals to know we want them involved now.. They should feel welcome in this group. I don't think the structure of our meetings as they are now (though last night was an improvement over the last several months, though still could be tweaked) encourages young people to want to be a part of our meetings. Also, these young people (13 yrs and up)will want a vote and in order to have a vote they have to attend meetings.. attending activities won't be enough, so we need something to get them at meetings.. I don't care if it is something on the side such as books, trivia and sketch pads for drawing or something during the meeting itself.. but something other than just the agenda worth showing up for each month. As for daycare.. for members that was neveran issue.. it's way to easy to just bring books or games or whatever for our own kids to keep them occupied.. that was just my ploy at attemting to get a sympathetic view on the situation and obviously it fell flat... but in any event I have always brought my kids and so has Amber.. I certainly think though that there should be something for kids to do at the meetings I just think it is unfair that at a Star Wars meeting that we have advertised from the Beginning when we very first met, from the very very beginning of the very first meeting we said they were kid friendly meetings.. and now suddenly I find out from members our meetings are not kid friendly and possibly better not to bring your kids..I admit that is rather shocking.. I have been putting every notice out for the last two years in all the free ads online and in the tucson citizen that our monthly meetings were family oriented and kids were indeed welcome. Quite surprising as the CR to find out I was wrong in something I had told the group from the start we were a family friendly group. It actually was never up for discussion or vote at all from the beginning of the start of the group. That was just the way it started when we first started it.. I brought my kids, Jada brought hers, Jerry brought his and we did activities for the kids, in fact the very first pictures we ever posted on photobucket were pictures of kids activities at one of our very first meetings and those photos are still there on our photobucket site. I am not sure when it changed to be honest.. someone failed to tell me when it did. We were always supposed to make kids feel welcome at meetings and accomodate them.. Some how we got away from it, perhaps when we started doing so many events a lot of stuff just began to slip away and we just stopped doing the extra stuff that we always had found a way to fit in before. I suppose I was attempting to give the group a bit more leeway with the decision making because I just assumed the group would understand what was needed. It honestly never occured to me that anyone was going to balk at encouraging Star Wars fans of all ages to attend meetings and make them feel at home by giving them something at meetings of their own to enjoy.
In MY opinion, these "boring" meetings are already running two and a half, three hours long as is. If we add games and sing-alongs, or whatever, to try to make them more "entertaining" for the younglings, the meetings could end up running half a day, or more.
If we hold meetings at a large enough facility, such as the library, then games and such could be brought, and the kids could go in one corner of the room and play while the adults handled the "boring" tasks of organizing and promoting this group.
I agree with you.. I am hoping the new CR can find a way to shorten the meetings so that there is time for something enjoyable during meetings and not all business. I like Damian's idea myself, which involved detail planning of specific events being made at a different date other than the actual meeting, or at least before the meeting or after the meeting. I personally don't find the meetings boring.. except for when we get bogged down by really really detailed issues such as where Vader should stand or where the backdrop should go.. I really think these type of items should be relegated to another time and I am fairly certain a lot of members agree with me on this.
Cat, you've got your opinions on how things are, and I've got mine. Your original post on this issue made it sound as though the costumers were shutting off all ideas that didn't involve costuming. I asked my questions because I wanted to see if you were right, and if you were right, then we, as a group, needed to change our direction. I read your second post, and reread it. If I thought you had answered my questions, I would not have posted this.Love and Kisses, Jack [/b]
I do wish everyone could see that it was not saying the costumers were shutting off ideas.. that was not what I was saying.. during meetings perhaps sometimes it went unnoticed but we would be discussing something like RPG or whatever.. and perhaps for some it was not interesting.. and they would say.. okay.. what's next on the agenda.. and it seemed that they would rush through any and everything that did not involve costuming.. yet when it was time to discuss a costuming event they were willing to discuss those events for twenty minutes at a time.. even when unbeknowest to them people were starting to stare off in space and most people were way ready to go on to the next agenda item.. I am sure it was not intentional.. but it made some people feel very left out and behind at meetings.. that our wants and desires for topics were being ignored in favor of just discussing costuming events.. in any event.. my post was not meant to throw any blame on anyone.. it was only meant to enlighten all of us that for the future many of us in the group will be looking to expand at meetings into more topics of interest to us and with all the detail planning that is given at meetings to costume events there is not a lot of time left over for anything else at meetings unless we make the meetings too long and no one wants to do that.. but everyone wants to have a chance and opportunity to discuss things that they are interested in as well. We are hoping that the new CR will be able to find a way to structure meetings so that everyone gets a chance to discuss activities that are of interest to them. This would include younger members as well. 
Cat
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Im not going to pick apart anyones responses ,or get into a long a long debate. I am just going to say this. Last year was fun. The meeting and events were fun. Everytime I got together with any of you, it was fun. Just because a few people feel their amount of fun has decreased does not mean the entire fan force has lost direction. If the Fan Force was not fun, I wouldn't be coming back, and I don't think anyone else would either. Regardless of what anyone thinks, it is fun to the younger generation, Otherwise I dont think we would see Mike, Gabe, Antone, or Brandon again.
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"There's no robot bug in Star Wars!" Kid to Tie Pilot
"Oh! You're hard!" Woman after hugging a Stormtrooper
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hal9k1
Title: Tucson FF
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dialswiftjustice posted:
Nursing!!!!!!!
Huh?
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dialswiftjustice
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it was a refresher of my joke at the meeting when Cat was describing her Emporer and Yoda Christmas scene just for levity.
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firstsonofsolo
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6/4/07 8:21am
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OK another thread has been started for meeting ideas and what nots please let us keep this about the voted and questions for the candidates for CR. We as a group have gotten off topic again.
We do need to discuss the voting issues and how to vote as well as getting some nominations going.
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hal9k1
Title: Tucson FF
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Date Posted:
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Nursing!!!
dialswiftjustice posted:
it was a refresher of my joke at the meeting when Cat was describing her Emporer and Yoda Christmas scene just for levity.
Ohhhh... ewwww. 
 
O, we (Chris?) got most of the odd stuff on the boards taken care of except the listing for the web site and now we're listed under SouthEAST.
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firstsonofsolo
Title: TFF President
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Alot of updates that I spoke with Birr about at C4 didnt even realise we are under SE now.......LOL maybe due to the twinning city???
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I am bowing out of the running for CR. This has nothing to do with the current controversy, but personal reasons, I would like to still serve as Event Coordinator if the position comes up for election or nomination.
Im not fan enough of the other stuff in the group to give them as much attention as they deserve. I dont want to risk fracturing the group. Chis is more of an overall fan. Im not, I personlly dont think I would be in the group if it weren't for the costumed charity events. I will still be a member, and serve as event coordinator if the group will have me
Even though I think I could do a good job as cr, I dont want to risk any lack of enthusiasm on my part for anything else to ruin anyones the enjoyment of the club.
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Title: Tucson FF
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dialswiftjustice posted:
I am bowing out of the running for CR. This has nothing to do with the current controversy, but personal reasons, I would like to still serve as Event Coordinator if the position comes up for election or nomination.
Im not fan enough of the other stuff in the group to give them as much attention as they deserve. I dont want to risk fracturing the group. Chis is more of an overall fan. Im not, I personlly dont think I would be in the group if it weren't for the costumed charity events. I will still be a member, and serve as event coordinator if the group will have me
Even though I think I could do a good job as cr, I dont want to risk any lack of enthusiasm on my part for anything else to ruin anyones the enjoyment of the club.
That has to be one of the most respectful things I've seen done for this group.
Total selflessness for the greater good of the group as a whole. 
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