This is not a poll...

[motub]

Well, it's nice to see my dearhearts have been entertaining yourselves while I'm trying to get the heck out of this filthy town....

Lessee, I have a little catching up to do here...

dZeus: How are things in Enschede at this time? I take it that you and yours were not hurt in the disaster, and your home survived as well, I trust?

SteveC: yeah, you did it before, but at least Alec is asking an honest question, instead of helping his friend troll for a life-partner ....

Maggi: Who knew? Damn, I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to 'boot you up'; now you've got me curious !!!

FaRaN: I beg you, please do not bring up the "inches or cm" question...I'm having enough trouble with degrees F and degrees C.... not to mention "sch"....


***DRINK COKE***?????

o-KAAAAAY.... anyway, guess it's my turn:

Nationality: born American, naturalizing Dutch
Residence: currently Brooklyn, NYC (for 2 more days), thereafter Oosterhout, Netherlands
Race: Negroid
Genital size: hmmmm, check your assumptions, "gentlemen"... girls have 'measurements'. And mine are good enough for government work (not to mention my fiance).
Religion: Pagan, heathen, magic-user, urban shaman, all-around spiritual chick and sister of the moon.

Oh, and Alec, it's your lucky day.

You are exempted from death, because as it happens, I <u>loooooooove</u> Excel spreadsheets... you should have seen my "budget.xls" back when I was heavily into 'upgrade mode' and needed to keep track of my credit card balances... ah, those were the days....

Naturally, this exemption only lasts till you do something stupid .

Kisses, all! I'll say 'ta' before I go (or rather, dismantle the PC)....

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Holly

[dZeus]

Say dZeus, can you tell me where you got that, as we know Ant looks for ways of making some money on the side, yet I didn't know he was in this sun-block thing as well

Good idea!
I'll try to have patent on this new invention (ant-burn), and of course the money I make with it will go to murc.

But it is not only good to block the sun with it! If you ise it, you can safely sleep in the home of ants (mierenhoop in Dutch), without being bothered by the pain of the stings of the ants, because you'll get used to those if you use ant-burn regularly.


dZeus: How are things in Enschede at this time? I take it that you and yours were not hurt in the disaster, and your home survived as well, I trust?

Well.... I live on the university campus in Enschede, 3 kilometers from the source of the explosion. There were 2 very loud bangs when it exploded, and I first thought a fighter-plane went past mach-1 (either as a joke or by accident, for that is strictly forbidden above habitated areas), since I only live 1 kilometer from a military airfield were a lot of the Dutch F-16 fighters are stationed, if not all.

When the second explosion took place, we saw a enormous dust-cloud coming into the sky, and I and the people living in my house, as well as all the other people living on the campus thought: WTF!?!?!?! so lots of us cycled or walked into the direction of the cloud, which was getting larger and larger... after walking 1 kilometer, we found cardboard boxes which said "SE Fireworks, Tollenstraat 5" (or another number), and we immediately new that was the thing that exploded of course. Just moments before we thought the Grolsch beer-brewery might have exploded (which is the best beer made in Holland btw). We gradually walked further on, and we saw pieces of solid concrete lying on the streets, sometimes as large as half a meter in diameter. The rest you probably have seen on television.

The closest I got to the source of the explosion was about 300 meters, and a complete street of houses was standing in front of the collapsed area. I only sawthat the Grolsch brewery was on fire, and 100 meters to both the left and right of it lots of smoke was coming into the sky. So I imagned what the fire must have been at that point. Then lots of dust (roet) came down, and we went back, because we did not want to hinder the fire-corpses in trying to stop the fire.


The feeling you have when you experience a event like this is very odd.... almost impossible to describe. You are full of adrenaline, and also you don't realise what might have happened.... you only see the fire and the effects of the devastating explosion.... only afterwards when watching television, you gradually realise what has happened over there....

[Alec]

This is not a poll...

These forums are great as a channel to connect people from the four corners of the world. At first, I would pay attention to Matrox-related stuff only, but the Soap Box is a very good way to make people talk abot anything that comes to mind.

I wonder how many countries are represented here and how many people of each. It´s a lot of trouble reading everyone´s profiles and some don´t have nationality.

So, people of every colour, of every creed, of every gender, of every genital size, feel free to express your nationality in this thread, OK? Motub will be so kind as to make an EXCEL worksheet in the end, with the statistics.

P.S. Motub: don´t kill me, please.

[This message has been edited by Alec (edited 21 June 2000).]

[The Rock]

Damn. For a Matrox forum, there's a serious lack of canucks in here.

Living: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Gender: too damn white.
Genital Size: I refuse to answer this question on the grounds that the answer may tend to incriminate me.
Creed: buy a new computer toy every 2 weeks or suffer horrible withdrawal.

The Rock
www.3dforce.com

[Ghydda]

Living: Herning, Denmark (danish - ain't that something you eat?!!?)
Gender: male
Colour: Male... yep! def. male
Genital Size: Does Force Feedback ring a bell?
Creed: Oh, tough one, but it has to be my soldering iron.

CUL8R

[Jammrock]

Ghydda,

Isn't the whole joke:

(Big Fat American Slob Sitting on the Porch) BFASSotP: What kind of language was that?

(Dane Who Looks Like an American)DWLLaA: Danish!

BDASSotP: Danish? Ain't that something you eat?


To everyone else,

Yes I know creed is your relegious/cultural beliefs, but I was just being silly. Mainly because I really can't stand the band Creed. I think they suck!

Jammrock

[Gurm]

Name: Gurm. Was that so hard? Ok, fine it's Jason I. Goldovitz. Although lately I've gone by J. Isaac, just to be contrary.

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Soon relocating to Eastern Pennsylvania.

Sex: Several times a week (see marital status below). Oh, you mean GENDER? Well, male - last time I checked. Hold on... hmm... yup, still male. But isn't there just a little bit of woman inside all of us, yearning to be free?

Marital Status: Married, so far. No kids, two cats.

Color: White. Pasty white. Pasty "Jew who doesn't get enough sun" white.

Nationality: I like to consider myself a member of the race of man. However, I am Russian-Jewish crossed with New England Swamp-Yankee. Go figure.

Political Affiliation: Bill Clinton should be executed for crimes against humanity. Most of these crimes involve REALLY REALLY HIDEOUSLY UGLY WOMEN. I'm sorry, as Governor he should have been able to do MUCH better than Paula Jones. And we won't even start on Monica. Oh, wait... am I digressing again? Oh ok. My political affiliation is independent. More conservative than the idiotic bleeding heart liberals, more liberal than the right-winger repressed prude bastards.

Creed: "Can you take me higher? To a place where..." oh, wrong Creed? Dammit. I'm a nonpracticing secular buddhist of convenience. No, really!

Genital Size: Big. Really big. So big that young girls faint at the very sight of it, and grown women have been known to run away shrieking. Honest! I swear!

- Gurm



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

[Himself]

Living: Yes
Location: Canada
Gender: No human equivalent.
Colour: Mauve and Pink.
Genital Size: Which one?

[Ghydda]

Living: Herning, Denmark (danish - ain't that something you eat?!!?)
Gender: male
Colour: Male... yep! def. male
Genital Size: Does Force Feedback ring a bell?
Creed: Oh, tough one, but it has to be my soldering iron.

CUL8R

[Alec]

Go on, keep going...