Where are you?

[Vlip]

Frankfurt!
You went to Neuchâtel? Then you should know about my Town, La Chaux-de-Fonds, who is the second biggest town of this Neuchatel state.
It's not more than 22 km away from Neuchatel.

Yverdon is indeed a nice city, and Lausanne has a nice waterfront, but you missed some of the beautifullest part of switzerland if you haven't seen Gruyère (Home of Fondue and "double crème de gruyère"), Morges (The beautifullest waterfront I've seen on the Leman Lac[my idea of this waterfront might have been distorted because I went their only once on a army permission, and when you go out from the army everything looks beautiful [especially girls ;-)]]) and some parts of the german speaking switzerland (like Ballenberg).

Vlip

[Jorden]

If you ever get to Holland in the future, Holly,

Bet you'll all be glad when I get to Holland, and there's less to explain, huh?

We have the "provinces" Groningen, Friesland, Noord Holland, Zuid Holland, Zeeland, Noord-Brabant, Limburg, Utrecht, Overijssel, Gelderland, Drenthe. And these days Flevoland might be the 12th

Jord

[Dyre]

Im at my computer.
Which happens to be in my room.
Which is in my house.
Which is in RoseDale
Which is in Bakersfield
Which is in Kern County
Which is in Southern California
Which is in The Westen US.
Which is in North America
Which is on Earth.
Which is in the Milky Way
Which is in a Very big galaxy.

[Rags]

Casper, WY...whose altitude is a wee bit higher than a mile And the wind is even more extreme

Rags

[Frankfurt]

Vlip: I actually went to chaux-de-fonds with my parents when they visited...unfortunately it was a rainy day...anyways, i have been to Gruyere (the original location for Fondue...comeon! although i dont recall ever having the double creme de Gruyere) (sorry about accents, using a US keyboard layout)
I went to some beautiful italian cities in Switzerland...the name escapes my memory at the moment, i also thought that Zurich, Bern and so on were nice towns as well..the Bier Gardens (i hope i got the name right, my German is a little lacking...especially SweizerDeutch...considering when i was learning it i was learning High German)
I just wish i could remember the other places i went to...like during my orientation trip i went into the -german- part of switzerland...to a mountain resort and hiked through a mountain (real rare in switzerland *grin*)...just came to me...beatenburg (or something similar...anyways) I also went to some smaller communities but as i said, the name escapes me.

Frankfurt

P.S. About these last two messages i didnt speak french because i am not all that good at writing it...i even took french while there, but it didn't help I can speak it extremely well though.

[Vlip]

Frankfurt, if you saw La Chaux-de-Fonds by a rainy day I believe you don't found it beautiful, I understand, La Chaux-de-Fonds is an ugly town during bad weather but has some cool spots when it's sunny (Especially the "Vue des Alpes" from wich you can see the whole Switzerland in front of you).
I think I didn't make me clear enough about gruyère, I didn't mean that it was the motherland of Fondue, but it's a place where you can find some of the best you can have in Switzerland. In fact a fondue from their plus Strawberries with double gruyère cream will surely knock your stomach down for a day or two. It's maybe so good but it's also so heavy ;-)

An Italian City, you mean a city from Tessin?
Lugano, Locarno, Bellinzona?

I don't really like Zürich (which is not our capital (nor Geneva) I need to tell again and again to americans ;-)) it's to much of a modern city, I like cities with an historical past like Bern. Bern is beautiful.


You hiked in a mountain ? Where did you find one? They are so few here ( I just have my whole horizon filled with them, quite a nice sight ;-))

Don't worry about you not posting in french, I understand that few people wants to write it. I don't really care because most of my lessons at the EPFL are in english (especially my programming course).

Fun to speak with you ;-)

A+, Vlip

[Muad'Dib]

UCLA, Westwood, California. About 15 min from the good ol Santa Monica Beach witch contains the nasty little Santa Monica Pier whom you most likely have seen in movies. About 15 min away from Hollywood where there is absolutely nothing to do. And at about the same amount of time, I could actually walk down to class (I live on campus btw) - assuming I wasn't off wasting my time trying to find something to do at a more interesting location....

Dimitri

P.S.: Sometimes I live in Camarillo about an hour north of here with my Grandma.
P.P.S.: And every once in a while I live in Dara, Greece which is in Arcadia.

[Gurm]

I'm from a small planet circling the red star known to humans as Betelgeuse. Originally, I was from the 7th planet circling Betelgeuse, until my family had to relocate due to the "Great Collapsing Hrung Disaster". I was nicknamed "Ix" by my schoolmates on Betelgeuse 5, which in the local dialect means something to the effect of "Small boy who cannot adequately explain what a Hrung is, nor why it should choose to collapse on Betelgeuse 7".

Eventually, I got a job working for a major intergalactic publication, and now I'm undercover here on Earth. The original entry in my publication's database for Earth was "harmless". I have updated this substantially, however the editors chose only to amend it to "MOSTLY harmless".

- Gurm

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[agallag]

Nice to meet you Ford, er, I mean, Gurm. Anyhoo, I'm only the second canuck to report in here, from Toronto, ON, Canada.

Andrew

[T'kul Bastile]

469th Plane of the Abyss. I may have to move to the 470th though. It is a bit warmer there.

[Frankfurt]

Vlip: When i get back to my main computer, ill add you to my ICQ list and then i can talk about switzerland with you there (i get the impression we shouldnt be wasting valuable post space talking about a country when we can just as easily do it on ICQ

as for Gurm and T'Kul, i'm glad to see that you were able to release that sort of rather 'secretive' information to the rest of the ppl on the MURC forums...now, lets just hope you don't get caught

Frankfurt

[Laurie]

Third Canuck reporting in. Victoria, B.C. Canada


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The more I know, the more I know I don't know.

[Jake]

Were are all the Danes? Hmmm...

I'm from The City of Smells aka. Esbjerg, Denmark. Nicknamed so because of the smell comming from the large fishing port and industrial processing factories of the same. (used for fodder for farm animals). I live with my girlfriend Sys (One DOS command I'll NEVER forget) about 100 yards from the harbour edge, which is actually a nice place to take a stroll on a sunny sunday like yesterday was. And it doesn't smell nearly as bad here anymore as a lot of the factories have installed air filtering systems within the last 10 years.

I study to become a systems analyst and programmer. Will (hopefully) be done by December. Whoohaa! Time to make da BIG dough!

My life adheres almost perrfectly to the common belief that everything in Denmark is small. Our appartment is 54 square meters large and I drive a Nissan Micra 1.3.

For the Americans: Yes, In Denmark most people drive cars with engine volumes below 2 litres as cars are F****N expensive due to our enviroment protection laws that tax cars by how much they pollute. Thus cars with big engines that pollute more are MUCH more expensive. I had to shell out about $15000 for my Micra. Baaawaaaahh!!!! I WANT A V12!!!
(Depressed as I saw a Mercedes V12 coupe today in Copenhagen. Mofo costs at least the equivalent of $400000 here, maybe more)

The only thing that is not small in Denmark is our EGOS! Yes, we are better than everyone else at whatever we do! (Bang & Olufsen, LEGO, Royal Copenhagen, Danish Design) Or at least so we like to think. But when it comes to our own the Danish Jantelov (Law af Jante) dictates that "Du skal ikke tro at du er noget!" which means something like "Don't go around thinking you are SOMEBODY cause your a NOBODY!". Kinda keeps people from bragging too much...

You must be sleeping by now!

Regards,

Jake

[Jammrock]

For fadens man, you forgot Ecco shoes!!! I love Ecco's! I bought my first pair on Bornholm 4 years ago, haven't bought anything but Ecco's since.

I am not from Denmark, actually far from it, but I am half Norwegian.

I am from Overland Park, Kansas in the good ol' USA, etc...

I lived in Denmark while on a relegious mission for my church (a hand shake to anyone who can figure it which one). I lived in Esbjerg (beautiful city, but nasty winds and smells sometimes), Nørrebrog (basically Copenhagen), Skive, Amager, Randers and Bornholm (some of the most beautiful scenery I have ever seen is on that island. Highly recommend stopping by if you are sailing around the Baltic Sea).

Some day I'll go back and visit Scandinavia again.

Since the Dutch are on the pronunciation kick, try pronouncing: Rød grød med fløde på! Hell, if you can figure out how to phonetically spell it I would be impressed.

Jammrock

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[Jorden]

I wonder what flows in that river... my Babelfish couldn't translate the river part from Norwegian, but it did in Danish

as for the phonetic part... no thanks

Jord.