Hey guys!

Ok, the older folks here will know I used to hang around quite a bit, then disappear, then reappear as if I was just here yesterday.  (Ringing bells now, TP? lol)  They'll also know I used to reside in England - but now I'm sitting at the foot of the Rockies in Colorado.... and yes, it was a long walk 'n' swim!

Anyways, there's new names a'plenty here since last time I was around, so does anyone else think it's a good time for a quick recap and re-introduction for everyone, make sure we all know each other?!? I love knowing where everyone is from without having to trawl through profiles and my memory is shi....erm, pretty bad, so a single place of reference is cool.

Yeah? No?  I get upset when people don't agree with me, mind........ lip starts to quiver

he he he

Mike (",)

BTW, where the hell is Dandy?!? lol

I always love these type of threads...It's good for the community..It's a good way for the new member to get to know each other..It's also a good way to catch up with old friends..

As for me...I'm in the middle of Upstate/central NY state..in the US of A

There are probably as many cows as people...

Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. And NO I do NOT live in an igloo. I used to live in Vancouver, moved about 5 years ago.

Hi Mikey Good to see yer 'ere !

I am from good ole Blighty where 57% of the population want live somewhere else and we will do that just as soon as we can get out of this car park on the M25. 

Hey Pushy!  Thanks for the compliment bud!  I saw New York from the plane on my way out the first time and one my way in again......and while I sat on the flipping runway for over an hour waiting for a storm to leave so WE could..... pah.

Hi Rad!  So, from your comment I take it that people living in Vancouver live in Igloos then?!?  I like Canadians.  They're good fodder for South Park........ ;-)

Hey, Onslow baby!!! Wanna kiss to go with that hug, laddie? puckers up

Nah, just kidding........ don't like the way you use your tongue.... :-p

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Eastern Sierras, California, just a hop, skip, and a jump from Yosemite National Park!
Jump for joy, that is!!!! :)

**Radlafx..

You and I are probably not that far apart...**

Bruce.. We are about 6 to 8 hours (in driving) apart. you are closer to marlene though.. Uhoh here we go again ..remember last time we did this... badum buadum..dum..dum..dumb.

western washington state.....45 miles from Mt Rainier National Park....25 miles from anywhere  :)

:((( I'm very far from usa or canada.....

Hi ya Mike

Yeah I remember yoouuuuu oh sorry thats a Frank Ifield song lol

Swindon UK

We have more pigs than people... and most of the time it's a hard count to keep them apart... Flanders, Belgium, Sir..! (the Dutch-speaking lowlands!) And yes, hard to believe, but the Capital of Europe and NATO (Brussels) is just 10 km away...

Hiya Mike....how can anyone ever forget you?

LMAO @ Richard! :biggrin:

Me..... i live outside a town called Örnsköldsvik on the swedish eastcoast....up north. Yellow house.....garage...huge lawn......i live next to Ulf actually....he´s the one with a grey house...although it used to be green. But he painted it last year....and there also used to be.....sigh...and now i need to get back to work...siiiiiiiiiiiiigh. :sad:

Hi Mike.

I'm Marlene.I think we 'met' here briefly,once before. I'm in Merrick,Long Island...about 40 minutes from Manhattan.It's about as suburban as you can get...Think 'The Wonder Years',(if you know that old tv show) and you get a pretty close idea.

The only thing we have that probably rivals people in population,is squirrels...at least in my yard...and attic...sigh... :^/

LOL at you and Richard.You two seem rather 'cosy',lol. ;^)

Bruce,where are you in NYS?

Andreas...You live next to Ulf?Ulf and I go way back!I didn't know!Tell him I say,hej!

And Rad...shhhhh...let's not start that again,lol.  (badum badum)  ;^)

Two people in every one is a schizophrenic.
 

Hello to everyone, I'm Manning and I live in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The point of interest here is the intersection of Interstate Highways 40 and 35, which translates to "it's easy to visit Anyplace Else", LOL.

Hey Mike,

Eastern Connecticut, Usa. 40 minutes from the shore, 2.5 hours from NYC.
Only other place I'd prefer to live......Zackos' vacation Pics.

Rod

You and me both Rod.

For me it's a little gray house on a cliff in Pennan,Scotland....I'd move there in a heartbeat.:wub:

Hmm, this is frightening - too many people still remember me....... survival might be a challenge ;-)

Hi to anyone that doesn't know me, and don't believe what the others say.  I'm much different now that I'm out.

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Hahaha, I still remember you too. You are just no longer such a rabble rouser, heheh. ;^P Boca Raton, FL USA -- right in the path of Ernesto. Please excuse me, I need to go put some hurricane shutters up after I get outta work... ...and oh, a place I'd love to be -- how about in Hawaii with Dave and Errol and some of our other photo friends there. :)

Quote - Hmm, this is frightening - too many people still remember me....... survival might be a challenge ;-)

Hi to anyone that doesn't know me, and don't believe what the others say.  I'm much different now that I'm out.

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Out from where? The closet? :blink:

You came out Mikey ?

Gissa kiss !

Gissa kiss...

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL! I'm sorry, I can't help but laugh and think of that Family Guy episode where Stewie is doing that techno drumbeat and Brian's cousin and boyfriend start dancing... ;oP [EDIT] Yes Andreas, at the restaurant during dinner, when Stewie breaks into that cool beatbox techno thingy. If I ever want to make myself smile, I just do it myself, hahah.

LMAO!!!! HAHAHA!!! At the restaurant right? Sigh....are we geeks or what? :rolleyes:

I don't know that one...sniff...pout.... I thought I saw them all...:m_bawling:

I'm Rich - well my name is anyway.  From UK - live in Stratford Upon Avon (England) with more japanese tourists than you can shake a stick at and at uni in St Andrews (Scotland) with more American blondes (left over from the prince william chase) than you can shake a stick at.

I'll continue the trend of saying preference of living place and i would have to say somewhere warm and spanish speaking - central america maybe... that or zacko's holiday snaps ;)

How cool and  interesting.The lovely  'home' of Shakespeare.I'll bet you get your share of tourists,Rich.And how ironic that this thread is called,"Wherefore art thou?'...

Edit:Oops.It's not.It's 'Where art thou?'.Duh! ( Which makes more sense,because 'wherefore art thou' means ,'why are you'  which would be a whole different thread,I think,lol. )

Nevermind.

Ok, I'm most definately NOT out of the closet..... I'm staying in there... snigger  Erm, I suppose I'd better point out to anyone taking me literally..... sorry to dissapoint Onsy Baby but I still just go for the girls......

Rich - "somewhere warm and Spanish speaking" ......... Come to Colorado ;-) roflmao

he he he - Marlene, if it was 'wherefore' it would be a difficult one for ME to answer, I still haven't worked it out myself.......

Teepee, I wouldn't have been last time if it wasn't for a certain antipidean..... no, I'm not even gonna go there.......

And Zack, yup. U R G33KS. :-p

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Mike, joking aside, southern USA (not "The South") but say arizona / new mexico / california might be somewhere i could put up with living :)

Marlene - 3.5 million each year come through this town of about 30-40k inhabitants :blink: and it is a local secret that they are showing the wrong house as being his wife's (Ann Hathaway) yet still they flock to it :biggrin:

Onsy baby????????????OMG!!!!HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! (wipes tears from eyes)HAHAHA!

Deep breaths....haha... ha...ha.....ha......ha......................ha....................ha...............................ha.......

Okay,better now....whew! LOL.

Mike,re:wherefore art thou...you are not alone.Trust me.I have no idea 'why' I am,either,lol.

And LOL at Rich.I'm not surprised.We have places like that in the US,too.But wow,those numbers are pretty staggering considering the population size!

(Rushes to look up 'antipidean'....)

;^P

he he he -  you're on a wild goose chase...... it's antipodean, my fingers went awry on the first attempt...........

Just thought I'd get that in before someone corrected me and make look like a fool!

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LOL well that explains it.I couldn't understand why you would be against ,(anti-) a certain form of spruce tree,(Pidea glauca),lol. ;^P

I do hate spruce trees.... nasty, vulgar things..... never have anything nice to say about anyone....
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Ooh I didn't know.Thanks for warning me of their evil natures. ;^)

Um... what was the question??? OH YEAH!! Hi Mike... I "met" you in my Jerry Uelsmann thread! I live in central Minnesota (pronounced Minnie SOH-tah with a FAR-GOH accent...lol) and work in one of the many suburbs of Minneapolis. I felt so lonely as the only Minnesota until I met Denger, and Tizzjezzme (sp) and Digimon! So, lookout... we come in hoards and sometimes do funky dances in restaurants... lmao... We brag about surviving 40 below wind chills, the ten thousand lakes, Mall of America, a Giant twine ball - and ...oh yeah... mosquitoes that carry off your young. Cheers! Jodie

I am a gentlemanly southern boy. That means the South in USA. The state of Tennessee, not a hillbilly but close to that. We are fine folks. We do have teeth, wear shoes and do not do moonshine.  How 'bout y'all?    Actually, born on a table where my mom had to stop to have me emerge..then to Tennessee.  Our family is not inbred. We chose the best ladies and the best men from other families..     TomDart.

Actually, raised in a secretavive science city..not like the surroundings at all.  Don't live there now.

Tom..I  came close to moving to TN at one time...before I took the job at the casino i work at now..I was looking at work in the Pidgeon Forge/Gattlinburg area..

one of my best friends lives in Nashville..Wonderful state..

Jodie..your cracking me up...

been to that state a few times in the early 90's while touring..Infact I broke down leaving the twin Cities...broken tie rod...I spent 8 hours just over the wisconsin border waiting for the rental company to come get me..
very pretty counrty...
But here in upstate NY...we get quite cold and plenty of snow too..So I feel your pain on that...

Marlene, I'm about halfway betwen Syracuse and Utica...the middle of nowhere...if it wasn't for the casino I work at...there wouldn't be much around here..Including me !!

Jodie, big Hi!  My better half is originally from Minnesota - she mentions a burg called Pine City sometimes, among other places.  Anyways, she used to be a wench at the fencing booth up at the Ren fair - now she's a ticket wench at the Colorado one.  Oh, and yeah, she does think that I don't know what a winter is....

Tom, my old cobber....... I know about you..... though the secret society comes as a suprise - a story for some future time? Good.

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BTW, Is there no Photography Chat feature any more? We used to have some wild times there.
AND WHERE IS DANDY?!? lol

Hi I'm Paul, I live in Scottsdale Arizona, where the days are HOT and the Nights are even Hotter..

We'll be singing Perry Como songs next ...........

She sipped a Minne sota

She sipped a Minnesota

She sipped a Minne sota*

That's what she did sip

* *Only kiddin' Jodie - great thread Mikey.

*Sittin' in a sleazy snack bar suckin' sickly sausage rolls *

Slippin' down slowly , Slippin' down sideways

Think I'll sign off the dole .

I am of French origin and I lived in France, in Saudi Arabia (hoffof: 250 km from the Kuwait), in Singapur (in the singapur capital), in Zaïre (Kinshasa), Portugal (Serpa) and now I live, since 6 years, in Spain (Seville).

I don't know the usa, only altlanta buit for the olympic game and very much :(

hugs all the world

He he, yeah, many new names, and some posting more frequently than others. I'm estivating but sooner or later I will awake and restart posting....

Living here in the center of the Netherlands, a tiny spot somewhere on the map where the capital E marks the collection of countries better known as Europe. :)

Jan-Carel

LOL@richard. Oh yessss... I did sip my "Minnie soda" yesterday. But then my cousin dumped my drink (wine) down the drain and mixed up something with Absolute Vodka (grapefruit flavour!). Ummmm.... no thanks. I agree about this being a great thread. It is really nice to get a glimpse of where everyone is from. My only question is.... WHO IS DANDY??

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