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Coffee House => Coffee House Boards => CH / General => Topic started by: blobrana on December 20, 2004, 06:06:54 PM
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@moderators and viewers,
Hum,
After reading PMC`s touching Christmas speech, I was wondering if A.Org is going to have any award ceremonies? (Virtual awards of course - nothing `official`/or requiring work).
Like for most posts, best avatar, most impassive picture upload, scariest post etc…
Any other ideas…?
or nominations?
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OK. Let's see. I would nominate:
Glaucus - for Political Prowess
Karlos - for Chemical Conquests
Cymric - for Quantum Quarkiness
Blobrana - for being Simply Celestial
Fluffy - for his avatar. (I always did like rabbit ... uh, rabbits :-D)
Wilse - for his Cutting-edge Commentary
PMC - for his Historical Hints
Tigger - for his Conservative Contrast
KennyR - for his Scientific Sidelights
ah, yes
X-Ray - for his Medical Missives
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Cecilia:
for being hot-headed and short of words (but not short of meaning),
and being an artist :love:
Punkie:
for being a real sweetie
Wilse, Glaucus & Karlos:
for reminding me a gazillion times again why I am a leftist, and giving me a gazillion arguments (apart from my core beliefs/thoughts)
T-Bone & X-Ray:
for really challenging those arguments,
Whabang, PMC, Cyberus, Odin & Bloodline:
for being a sweetie, and always in for an easy chitchat :pint:
Blobrana:
for her subtle humour and eccentric way of, well, dealing with everything
BJJones:
for his wisdom and his (different, well, different than mine) approach of life
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Yikes!
In no particular order:
Piru - For always having a say in technical debates.
Speel - Every community should have one!
BJ, Red, and T-bone - For giving evil capitalism a nice form.
Dan - For helping me turning every thread to be about Swedish local affairs.
Cecilia and Blobrana - For always remining us about the fact that men are boys with more expensive toys.
Odin and Cyberus - For being language fascists.
PMC and Adz - For helping me keeping the Friday-threads alive.
Karlos and Wilse - For the groaners.
and finally...
Bloodline - For the sock! :lol:
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Hum,
how about something like this?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/blobrana/Aaward.gif)
Runner up Award (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/blobrana/aorgaward300.jpg)
superduper award here (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/blobrana/aorgaward.jpg)
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whabang wrote:
Odin and Cyberus - For being language fascists.
:lol:
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Robert17 for always asking noob questions... :-D
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My nominations:
Most posts?
It's a flip between Whabang and Blobrana. Hell, let's just award something to the pair of you... You've both made me laugh my socks off and have been an education too.
Best Avatar?
Karlos. The anvil/poster/sock one still has me chuckling. Blob's Spitfire avatar was good.
Most impressive picture?
X-ray and his gatling gun. I want one of those bolted to the front of my car, together with a gunsight on the dashboard...
Scariest Post?
Hmm, there's many. I think Bloodline's frank admission about his sox life was quite scary, although Blob's contribution to my "Confidence" thread was a prophecy that thankfully did not come to pass. The political ones are usually scary in some form or another but for slightly more serious reasons.
Best biking related avatar?
Me.
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My nominations:
DalamarS with a stonking 18010 units at Amiga Seti @ home (http://setiathome2.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_181273.html)
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PMC wrote:
Best biking related avatar?
Me.
What? You mean it is not some kind of alien insect? :-D (Took me a couple of weeks to figure out what it was. Had to think back to my Schwinn 10 speed I had 25 years ago.)
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bjjones37 wrote:
PMC wrote:
Best biking related avatar?
Me.
What? You mean it is not some kind of alien insect? :-D (Took me a couple of weeks to figure out what it was. Had to think back to my Schwinn 10 speed I had 25 years ago.)
Hehe! I think it's rather cool. I saw one in the bike shop and had to have a pair fitted to my new MTB. They're made of machined alloy and have little fluid reservoirs mounted next to the brake levers...
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@ PMC
Do you do any serious distance biking? Or are you one of those RICH people that can afford fritter away money on high quality inanities? :-)
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I nominate everybody for making the place what it is :-)
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bjjones37 wrote:
@ PMC
Do you do any serious distance biking? Or are you one of those RICH people that can afford fritter away money on high quality inanities? :-)
Nope am by no means rich!
I do cover a fair distance, but when you're hurtling down the side of a mountain and the terrain is wet / gritty then rim brakes tend to be completely ineffective in comparison.
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@PMC
If you do not mind my asking, what kind of bike do you have? I grew up with Schwinns and I loved them. I do not currently have a bike but have been considering getting a good mountain bike. Can you make any suggestions?
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Karlos wrote:
I nominate everybody for making the place what it is :-)
I nominate me, for being a w@nker ;-)
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bloodline wrote:
Karlos wrote:
I nominate everybody for making the place what it is :-)
I nominate me, for being a w@nker ;-)
The sock thing was the best laugh in absolutely ages. The stuff of legend :-D
(get it? leg end - groan)
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I nominate myself for grumpiest tyrannical dictator :P
Too bad this wasn't brought up two months ago, we could actually make a go of it.
Wayne
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bjjones37 wrote:
@PMC
If you do not mind my asking, what kind of bike do you have? I grew up with Schwinns and I loved them. I do not currently have a bike but have been considering getting a good mountain bike. Can you make any suggestions?
Hehe, of course not!
I've a 2004 Specialized Enduro, which is a much better bike than I'll ever be a rider. The Enduro features 5 inches of suspension travel at either end, four pot hydraulic disk brakes, 27 gears and is made out of aluminium.
As for a good MTB, you can't go wrong with Specialized. The Hardrock is entry level and although it's rather brutal is an excellent bike. The Rockhopper is next up and is a much more comfortable machine.
try this link www.specialized.com
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Wayne wrote:
I nominate myself for grumpiest tyrannical dictator :P
Too bad this wasn't brought up two months ago, we could actually make a go of it.
Wayne
Perhaps we could have the annual awards in February then :-D
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Karlos wrote:
Wayne wrote:
I nominate myself for grumpiest tyrannical dictator :P
Too bad this wasn't brought up two months ago, we could actually make a go of it.
Wayne
Perhaps we could have the annual awards in February then :-D
I vote for March.
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bloodline wrote:
I vote for March.
Well, I was thinking 2 months time from today, but yeah, why not?
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I vote that anyone with more than 1000 posts be excluded from the awards to prevent all the typing-happys winning everything :-P (all nominees so far have been high-posters :-D ).
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Karlos wrote:
bloodline wrote:
I vote for March.
Well, I was thinking 2 months time from today, but yeah, why not?
Hmmm.... Mid March between 12th and 14th
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Just give the award to X-ray.
He is this site's young and rising star.
In a short period of time since he joined us, he managed to turn quite a few heads towards his direction, and the post count reflects that.
I don't think that it would be fair for some old and boring poster to snatch the award away, yet again. :-)
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bloodline wrote:
I vote for March.
Not sure I know him, how many posts has he made?
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Cyberus wrote:
bloodline wrote:
I vote for March.
Not sure I know him, how many posts has he made?
Yep, Cyberus is back. :-D
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@Cyberus:
Not sure I know him, how many posts has he made?
Just the one but it was a cracker.
I have my usual favourites (I won't name you lot because I'll no doubt miss someone out) but this year I've really noticed these guys who I hadn't seen that much of before, if at all:
Blobrana - hum... what a mind and from my part of the world too. And pretty. :-D
Bjjones - Possibly the most open-minded, right-wing, Christian, republican person I've ever had the pleasure of talking to.
Eyso - Off the wall and always makes me smile.
X-Ray - Groaners and a good balancing force in any fire-arms debate. And he does the same job as me burd.
And of course, the one, the only, WAYNE HUNT, without whom none of this would be possible.
And cheers to everyone else for keeping the site so diverse.
:pint:
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You know, if we did implement some award system, you could have equivalent awards for people in different rank ranges.
That way there's no post count advantage. You wouldn't want as many divisions as there are ranks - maybe gather all the folks with 1-499 posts into one group, all the people from 500-999 in another, then 1000-1999, then 2000-3999, then 4000+
You'd then have exactly the same sort of awards for each category.
Or am I taking this a might too serious? :-D
You could still have special awards for various things applicable to all of the users, such as "best disinherited demi geordie by the handle karlos" and so on :-D
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I'm going back to the Island over the new year. I'll keep and eye open for the sock.
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Karlos wrote:
I nominate everybody for making the place what it is :-)
I second that :pint:.
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in addition to Blob's very lovely Awards, we should make a statue of THE SOCK and give that out!
hmmm, that gives me ideas about what to do at this springs AmigaEast convention. :-o
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(http://www.screenindia.com/international/grfx/20040312/i1.jpg)
Jeez, I can't believe that Lord of the Rings won even for the best Amiga.org member!
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Wayne wrote:
I nominate myself for grumpiest tyrannical dictator :P
Hell no! MikeyMike's much better at that! ;-)
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cecilia wrote:
in addition to Blob's very lovely Awards, we should make a statue of THE SOCK and give that out!
Makes a good change from the usual wooden spoon ;-)
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Vincent wrote:
Makes a good change from the usual wooden spoon ;-)
That bad, eh? Still, after five years of abuse, I expect that the abrasive qualities of the sock require that one takes some precaution against the pain induced by chafing.
Bite down hard, they say...
:lol:
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I nominate myself for the title of:
'Most Ignored Viewpoint of 2004'
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JonoPike wrote:
I nominate myself for the title of:
'Most Ignored Viewpoint of 2004'
Just because you weren't banned yet? :-D
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Karlos wrote:
That bad, eh?
I don't know which is more solid though :-P
Took me a while to think of solid there, less groan inducing than harder or stiffer :lol:
Speaking of groan... I should get some kind of special award for suggesting the name "Groaner's Corner" :-P
--edit--
No, not the Sock award :-P
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whabang wrote:
Wayne wrote:
I nominate myself for grumpiest tyrannical dictator :P
Hell no! MikeyMike's much better at that! ;-)
Well at least I got a mention :-)
I'll just mope in the corner now.
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Vincent wrote:
Karlos wrote:
That bad, eh?
I don't know which is more solid though :-P
Took me a while to think of solid there, less groan inducing than harder or stiffer :lol:
You could have also opted for:
Sturdy, rigid, inflexible.
Even "load bearing" would be appropriate on at least 2 levels... (after all, the sock certianly bears a few of bloodlines loads, does it not?)
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Karlos wrote:
Even "load bearing" would be appropriate on at least 2 levels... (after all, the sock certianly bears a few of bloodlines loads, does it not?)
That's the kind of level I was trying not to go to :-P
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Greetings,
My vote would go out to Wyane and his group. Keeping A.Org nice and tidy despite cleaning up after the threat of socks lying around the place :-P
Cheers! :pint:
I don't know what I'd do without this site and all the ppl here. :-)
Regards,
Gizz72
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Everyone...? All together now.... 1.... 2.... 3....
Aaaawwwwwwwwww!
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together with a gunsight on the dashboard...
Get a Benz! :-D
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smithy wrote:
I vote that anyone with more than 1000 posts be excluded from the awards to prevent all the typing-happys winning everything :-P (all nominees so far have been high-posters :-D ).
No. Bjjones37 nominated me for 'quantum quarkiness', but I'm not exactly sure yet whether that is a Good or Bad Thing :-D. In fact, I'm not even absolutely sure why I am nominated for that title.
Hint: the last line was a joke.
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The PMC award for the finest moderator on A.org goes to....
[phone rings]
Ooops, got distracted there...
Right, where was I? Ah yes... The finest moderator on A.org. Well it can only be...
[phone rings again]
Damn! I've forgotten where I got to...
Oh well, you're all my fave moderators here.
:pint:
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Cymric wrote:
No. Bjjones37 nominated me for 'quantum quarkiness', but I'm not exactly sure yet whether that is a Good or Bad Thing :-D. In fact, I'm not even absolutely sure why I am nominated for that title.
Hint: the last line was a joke.
Come on Cymric, you know I really liked the posts you put up on Quantum Mechanics! :-)
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=12481
Unless you were ignoring my posts. :-(
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Oh, that post :-). No, I wasn't ignoring your replies, I had merely forgotten I wrote it.
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Cymric wrote:
Oh, that post :-). No, I wasn't ignoring your replies, I had merely forgotten I wrote it.
:-)
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I'd have to say that I'd want Tigger T Bone Wayne and Cecilia to all get awards simply for challenging my (wrongly) pre concieved ideas about America. Without their help and that of fellow yanks, I suspect I would have a much less open mind about the American people then I otherwise do!
So even if you don't win anything, I thank you all :-)
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Just visited the "Faces of Amiga" site. Not a bad looking bunch, once I got over the shock. I mean, really, am I the Only one that looks like his avatar? Had a look at PMC's picture. Figure's. Really pretty park but the only part of him you can make out clearly is his bicycle!
And Blobsie! I sure hope she finds her PhD prince someday. I'd send mine up but y'all already know what I look like. 'Sides, I couldn't figure out how. :-D
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the_leander wrote:
I'd have to say that I'd want Tigger T Bone Wayne and Cecilia to all get awards simply for challenging my (wrongly) pre concieved ideas about America. Without their help and that of fellow yanks, I suspect I would have a much less open mind about the American people then I otherwise do!
So even if you don't win anything, I thank you all :-)
Well, at least I lived up to your expectations. :-D
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bjjones37 wrote:
the_leander wrote:
I'd have to say that I'd want Tigger T Bone Wayne and Cecilia to all get awards simply for challenging my (wrongly) pre concieved ideas about America. Without their help and that of fellow yanks, I suspect I would have a much less open mind about the American people then I otherwise do!
So even if you don't win anything, I thank you all :-)
Well, at least I lived up to your expectations. :-D
I knew I'd forget someone, indeed I should by rights have added both you and Fade to that list :-D
I love you all :-)
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bjjones37 wrote:
Just visited the "Faces of Amiga" site. Not a bad looking bunch, once I got over the shock. I mean, really, am I the Only one that looks like his avatar? Had a look at PMC's picture. Figure's. Really pretty park but the only part of him you can make out clearly is his bicycle!
And Blobsie! I sure hope she finds her PhD prince someday. I'd send mine up but y'all already know what I look like. 'Sides, I couldn't figure out how. :-D
I'll have you know that I look like my avatar!
:-D
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I look just like my Avatar too... honest :-p
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Wain wrote:
I'll have you know that I look like my avatar!
:-D
You're right! The resemblance is amazing! Got to give credit where credit is due. BTW, was my coat properly properly brushed for my picture?
Got to get back to my whittling. But before I go, Merry Christmas Wain. :-)
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bloodline wrote:
I look just like my Avatar too... honest :-p
Told you once already Matt. Stop it, you're making me dizzy. Getting all cross-eyed now.
Merry Christmas Matt. :-)
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@ bjjones37
Hellooo?!?!?
I look exactly like my avatar does! (It's Arne Duck, for you non-swedes out there.) :-D
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I think the highest award goes to Wayne, simply for putting up with us yahoos! :-D
- Mike
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bjjones37 wrote:
bloodline wrote:
I look just like my Avatar too... honest :-p
Told you once already Matt. Stop it, you're making me dizzy. Getting all cross-eyed now.
Merry Christmas Matt. :-)
Indeed, Merry Christmas.
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Wain wrote:
bjjones37 wrote:
Just visited the "Faces of Amiga" site. Not a bad looking bunch, once I got over the shock. I mean, really, am I the Only one that looks like his avatar? Had a look at PMC's picture. Figure's. Really pretty park but the only part of him you can make out clearly is his bicycle!
And Blobsie! I sure hope she finds her PhD prince someday. I'd send mine up but y'all already know what I look like. 'Sides, I couldn't figure out how. :-D
I'll have you know that I look like my avatar!
:-D
Well, I look like my av too, in a certain sense
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Hey, I suggested this awards thing ages ago. I should get the credit for some of it.
I gon't give a sh*t what anyone else thinks, this was my idea originally.
P.S: I AM NOT A TROLL
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Yes, congratulations on inventing that age-old concept, the award "thing."
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@ Sumner
According to the patent office and the UK copyright laws, you have 10 days to challenge someone if they have put a serviceable idea in the public domain. Now let's see...Blobzie posted it on the 20th of December and you have done your "Johnny-come-lately-and-indignantly" stunt on the 1st of January.
Sorry, pal, but that is more than 10 days, so just pipe down and let Blobzie handle the awards.
I mean you can't really try to hijack an idea that Blobzie had last year already, can you?
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@X-Ray
Erm, I came up with this in January/February 2004, but got told off for trolling for suggesting the idea.
And it's SUMNER7 to you if you can't read.
@punkie
Hope you got my e-mail ok, and I hope you like my raps.
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@ Sumner
January 2004, you say?
Aw, man, you unlucky fellow. According to my sources, if you leave the idea in the public domain for a year, it is considered spent, and a new proposal can be made.
Sorry, man. It seems your timing is a bit off. But on behalf of all the users here, let me give you an award...
I hereby give Sumner the award for "Belated Appeal of the day".
Don't worry, there's always 2006. But for now, this thread is Blobzie's idea.
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:lol:
No Chris, I didn't get an e-mail from you. Hope it wasn't important!
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ah....it's the 1st day of the new year and the children are already fighting!
Home, Sweet, Home!
:lol:
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time to get in there and start banging heads together then babe....
:-)
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that_punk_guy wrote:
:lol:
No Chris, I didn't get an e-mail from you. Hope it wasn't important!
It was VERY important actually Punkie. Can you p-mail me your e-mail address so I make sure it gets to the right place.
Cheers,
Sumner7
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X-ray wrote:
@ Sumner
@X-Ray
There is a 7 in my username you know, you blind git!
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is the "7" your IQ???
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No, but it's my lucky number..... :lol:
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Then how come you only have 6 of those little dancing ponces in your signature?
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X-ray wrote:
Then how come you only have 6 of those little dancing ponces in your signature?
He is the 7th :lol:
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With respect Sumner, you really need to chill out.
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that_punk_guy wrote:
Yes, congratulations on inventing that age-old concept, the award "thing."
:lol: I think you have crushed sumner7's confidence not getting his (c)raps. He spent so long writing these raps. :-( I think he wants to impress you. And it IS impressive for sumner7. :-)
Regards,
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sumner7! Get rid of my picture! You're not me.
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Ok. enough. Stop being the little children you all know you can be. Get back on topic, or I'm closing/deleting this thread.
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Wayne wrote:
With respect Sumner, you really need to chill out.
Wayne, I know you are Webmaster, but you do remember me creating the amiga.org awards thread last January, don't you??? In fact, I think you deleted it.
And anyway, you can talk. JonoPike showed me the p-mail you sent him and you were far from chilled out. Take a break, man.
CU_AMiGA wrote:
sumner7! Get rid of my picture! You're not me.
No, but I took the pic. :lol: