Just a thought on the first two pages of a seeming soliloquy.
There are two different blue buttons on this forum for "submit reply" function:
one is below the whole thread, the other is within the post itself. On a lot of forums, using the latter will tuck your reply under the post you are replying to, regardless of time tag. This leads to nested conversations.
This forum software does not seem to do that faithfully, hence I suspect that Dave replied to a number of posts with the belief that his reply to a given post would link to said posts.
I may be wrong, but I've seen different forum software handle post-reply visual presentation differently.
As to the conversation, sounds like some fun flying.
As to quotables, I like this bit from Dave:
Per Ardua Ad Everything
That's a keeper