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Well, i don't think anyone really wants me to link Bruce Springsteen songs, in any case, he's from the Jersey shore, not from the foothills... er... I mean mountains....
CoALabaer wrote: Wargamers hate two things: the state of the game and change.
My cousin used to play with these guys when they were high school, they grew up about 45 minutes north of my hometown, and about 60 minutes outside Chicago.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
I was born in Mississippi, but didn't stay long. Over my life I've lived in Germany, Arkansas, Virginia, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Kentucky and California.
I've been in Connecticut the longest, so I call it home.
IAmTheWalrus wrote:I was born in Mississippi, but didn't stay long. Over my life I've lived in Germany, Arkansas, Virginia, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Kentucky and California.
I've been in Connecticut the longest, so I call it home.
Sounds as though your from a military family, were they perhaps at Keesler AFB in Mississippi?
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
I was born in Highland park. But 3 days later I moved to Australia and lived there for 6 years. Then I came back to the states. Then 3 years later I went back to australia and stayed there for 2 months. Then Came back to America. Then When I was 13 I went back to australia for 1 week. Then been in the states ever since. Still consider myself an aussie. Even though I lack the Aussie accent, but the culture sorta stuck on me. As People didn't understand me as a kid, so I had to get rid of it. My dad was a health care insurance guy. But his dad (my Grandpa) was a naval lituentat and worked for AT'T for a while then became a pastor.
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From whom are unforgiven we bring the mercy of war.
chaos0xomega wrote:I wish I had an aussie accent... ladies would be all over me... Hell, wouldn't mind being an aussie in general.
Haha. Girls don't know that I am an Aussie. But I can put on a Scottish accent. And it sounds like an awesome badass. Trust me, everyone says my scottish accent is so freaking close to an actual one, they tell me I should keep it on. But I can't it sometimes hurts to do it if I do it for too long, and I also can make my voice sound like other things. Thank you Australia you taught me how to mock other cultures by mimic their voices.
From whom are unforgiven we bring the mercy of war.
Born in Milan, Italy where I lived for 2 years. Moved to an aparment complex here in NJ, where I afterward moved the a house in an extremley close town.
My family tried moving last summer but we never got good offers and prices were raised to disproportional heights on houses we were interested in.
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Born in Cheshire, raised in Cheshire, live in Cheshire; same house for ~15 years and still not done any of it up due to lack of time and funds and family issues.
Closest place to where I live that I dare show on the internet is Stockport.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
I wasn't aware that there was any weather in Texas...I always assumed there was simply a giant attitude that hung over the state going randomly from mood to mood.
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I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
Abiline, Texas -> El Paso, Texas -> Mienz, Germany -> Arizona ->Ft. Lewis, Washington -> Seoul, South Korea -> Leavenworth, Kansas -> Ft. Wainwright, Alaska -> San Antonio, Texas.
Amaya wrote:Abiline, Texas -> El Paso, Texas -> Mienz, Germany -> Arizona ->Ft. Lewis, Washington -> Seoul, South Korea -> Leavenworth, Kansas -> Ft. Wainwright, Alaska -> San Antonio, Texas.
something Tells me you are or were a member of the military! or child of one. based on the the Korea visit, i'd say it was you!
"But i'm more than just a little curious, how you're planning to go about making your amends, to the dead?" -The Noose-APC
"Little angel go away
Come again some other day
The devil has my ear today
I'll never hear a word you say" Weak and Powerless - APC
Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Born in Barnstaple Devon, lived in Bideford, then Launceston in Cornwall till about seven years ago when I moved to Suffolk.
Although I've never lived there, I consider myself Welsh due to my dad's side coming from the valleys. In particular Porth in the Rhondda.
I often wandered into Barnstaple and Bideford when we used to go down to Devon on holiday; spent a few holidays at Combe Martin and the rest of them at Westward Ho! until some company decided to buy the waterfront in front of the holiday park and erect a huge load of expensive flats there, with work commencing during the holiday season.
I think the people we used to rent the shallets off just sold the company the land once that happened, and since then my Dad's sources down in that area say the place is a ghost town.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
Amaya wrote:Abiline, Texas -> El Paso, Texas -> Mienz, Germany -> Arizona ->Ft. Lewis, Washington -> Seoul, South Korea -> Leavenworth, Kansas -> Ft. Wainwright, Alaska -> San Antonio, Texas.
something Tells me you are or were a member of the military! or child of one. based on the the Korea visit, i'd say it was you!
Why couldn't it be both? Certainly Seoul implies that he was in the military (considering the Ft. Lewis, Ft. Wainwright, and Leavenworth references, I would say U.S. Army), but that doesn't mean that he went to all those places as a member of the military. Coulda gone to the first few places w/ his parents. After Mienz, parents/dad retires from the military, moves to Arizona. Amaya joins the Army, and carries on from there.
CoALabaer wrote: Wargamers hate two things: the state of the game and change.
I often wandered into Barnstaple and Bideford when we used to go down to Devon on holiday; spent a few holidays at Combe Martin and the rest of them at Westward Ho! until some company decided to buy the waterfront in front of the holiday park and erect a huge load of expensive flats there, with work commencing during the holiday season.
I think the people we used to rent the shallets off just sold the company the land once that happened, and since then my Dad's sources down in that area say the place is a ghost town.
Aye it's a shame, oddly, although I was in Bideford, both my Dad's brothers, and my late Grandmother all lived in Westward Ho. I spent many summers there as a young lad, staying with my Gran. I sadly haven't been in years, since she died really, in the late 90's, but I looked it up on Street View last year. Went to have a look at the old arcade down on the seafront across the park and almost spat my tea out at the sight of this ultra modern looking thingy sitting where it used to be.
It's changed a lot.
"That's not an Ork, its a girl.." - Last words of High General Daran Ul'tharem, battle of Ursha VII.
Two White Horses (Ipswich Town and Denver Broncos Supporter)
Amaya wrote:Abiline, Texas -> El Paso, Texas -> Mienz, Germany -> Arizona ->Ft. Lewis, Washington -> Seoul, South Korea -> Leavenworth, Kansas -> Ft. Wainwright, Alaska -> San Antonio, Texas.
something Tells me you are or were a member of the military! or child of one. based on the the Korea visit, i'd say it was you!
Why couldn't it be both? Certainly Seoul implies that he was in the military (considering the Ft. Lewis, Ft. Wainwright, and Leavenworth references, I would say U.S. Army), but that doesn't mean that he went to all those places as a member of the military. Coulda gone to the first few places w/ his parents. After Mienz, parents/dad retires from the military, moves to Arizona. Amaya joins the Army, and carries on from there.
Usually deployments to places like S. Korea are what they used to call "Remote Tours" or "Remotes". that meant military members only, no family.
"But i'm more than just a little curious, how you're planning to go about making your amends, to the dead?" -The Noose-APC
"Little angel go away
Come again some other day
The devil has my ear today
I'll never hear a word you say" Weak and Powerless - APC
Mordian Iron Guard - Major Overhaul in Progress 
I moved far!