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| 10 MAR 2003 at 1:40pm |
| Deleted User | Betje
PS: Be well (stay out of buses if you can...)
(1) Your English is magnificent (2 of my relatives are Dutch .......... single, not double :)
(2) Thanks for your very well intentioned advice ... I certainly know what you mean, and there hangs a short report ...............................................
~~ Although this is certainly not the place for politics, religion, sex, & so on, but just as a pure matter of fact. Last Thursday at just after 2:00 pm we heard a BOOM (not a computer game BOOM!).
~~It transpires that a suicide bomber blew himself and a #37 bus up about 300 yards from our apartment. It burst into flames and everyone on board was either killed or seriously injured & maimed, body parts scattered all over our main road!
~~At least three of our medical friends laboured all through the night trying to save lives, limbs & organs etc.
~~It shook us up a bit since #37 is the bus myself & wife & some grandkids use all the time ... none of us (fortunately for US) were on THAT particular one.
~~So far, there are 15 dead ... nearly all of them schoolchildren between the ages of 13 & 17 with a few roughly 20 yo students on their way up to University. Most of the schoolkids were from the school where several decades ago I used to teach (Physics) for 13 years, and to which we sent our 3 children.
~~On the whole, and with some exceptions, mankind's ethical standards have hardly improved, even if our technological abilities have raced onwards.
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| 10 MAR 2003 at 1:57pm |
mbc841Space Cadet
Posts : 194
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Online | 37 years old.
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| 10 MAR 2003 at 2:04pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By LenG (10 MAR 2003 1:39pm)
~~ Although this is certainly not the place for politics, religion, sex, & so on, but just as a pure matter of fact. Last Thursday at just after 2:00 pm we heard a BOOM (not a computer game BOOM!).
(etc,etc)
~~On the whole, and with some exceptions, mankind's ethical standards have hardly improved, even if our technological abilities have raced onwards.
Please LenG, don't do this.
Don't put this 'happy' topic in a hellish corner.
If you're a firm member of this community and want to share this awful experience, than make your own 'Of Topic' topic and don't shock us in threads like this.
My opinion.
(you can delete your post if you want, I will delete mine then)
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| 10 MAR 2003 at 2:43pm |
| Deleted User | My opinion.
I respect your opinion.
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| 10 MAR 2003 at 3:33pm |
| Deleted User | I feel left out. Everybody seems to fill in thier age and I didn't. Im going to be 24 in 8 days.
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| 10 MAR 2003 at 5:56pm |
RpauPrivate Detective
Posts : 439
Joined: 15 NOV 2002
Status : Online | 25 myself!!
“even the lover of the myth is in a sense a lover of wisdom, for the myth is composed of wonders”
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| 10 MAR 2003 at 8:04pm |
JoGuild Master
Posts : 3313
Joined: 3 NOV 2002
Location: AU, Qld.
Status : Offline | Hehehe!
Some may call it "Second Childhood"!
Gosh LenG it's so good to see so many older players and one's who don't mind others knowing their age. I felt a bit silly the first time I said I was 64 - but really what the heck!
This is one of the best things about this forum, the huge diversity in ages and cultures and the fact that generally speaking people respect others opinions and get on so well (I know there have been some exceptions but I always wondered if they were just trying to add a bit of interest, rather than causing trouble) Pity the rest of the world can't learn from our example - fat chance.
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| 10 MAR 2003 at 9:27pm |
| Deleted User | ~~Narji~~
Gee! --- you're just a kid ... 14 years behind me! :
Whatever your biological age is, if you play Quest/Adventure games YOU'RE YOUNG AT HEART!
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| 10 MAR 2003 at 9:35pm |
Randy-JAJourneyman
Posts : 1351
Joined: 11 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Hi Len!
Maybe I'm missing your post, but I seem to remember that you are in your 70's?
If so, you're still the youngest gamer at heart that I know and I mean that sincerely.
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| 10 MAR 2003 at 10:17pm |
| Deleted User | Thanks for those kind words, Randy.
Actually getting near to the 80's ... 78 to be exact!
I still turn out the odd walkthru & UHS-File, but find lengthy concentration more difficult of late.
But I've been increasing my previous beta-testing jobs over the past 9 months. The last 'commercial' one being "Law & Order", and then 3 'amateur' Freeware Games.
I'm actually better at those sorts of things than "solving" the games themselves. It's the truth!
BTW ... Have you completely recovered from your brush with mortality, not so long ago?
Best of health .... Len.
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| 10 MAR 2003 at 10:18pm |
JoGuild Master
Posts : 3313
Joined: 3 NOV 2002
Location: AU, Qld.
Status : Offline | Gee! --- you're just a kid ..
Gee I like that remark LenG
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| 11 MAR 2003 at 5:27am |
Randy-JAJourneyman
Posts : 1351
Joined: 11 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Len,
Well, unfortunately my brush with mortality may begin anew next week. The doctors have found something on my remaing 1/2 left lung and I'm going back into the hospital next week.
But the good news is that they don't yet know what it is, could be cancer, could be a tumor, could be a virus, could be an infection or could be scar tissue caused by the heavy doses of radiation I went through. So I am having breathing problems again.
But hey, I'm 47 now and I plan on being here for 48 on August 13th. did everyone noitice that date in case you want to send a present?). That was August 13th
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| 11 MAR 2003 at 6:19am |
mszvPrivate Detective
Posts : 751
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Randy, you take care. Let us know how it goes. We will be thinking of you.
Regards, mszv
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| 11 MAR 2003 at 6:42am |
JoGuild Master
Posts : 3313
Joined: 3 NOV 2002
Location: AU, Qld.
Status : Offline | Well, all the best for next week Randy and just look after yourself.
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| 11 MAR 2003 at 7:12am |
Friday the 14thSchattenjger
Posts : 2908
Joined: 5 NOV 2002
Status : Online | Yeah Take care and don't do anything stupid like walking through heavy radiation (why did you do that anyway??).
Don't you worry Randy, we'll probably have time to forget your birthday.
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| 11 MAR 2003 at 7:56am |
| Deleted User | [img]http://www.bareware.net/happyflower.jpg[/img]
May everything and everybody be with you, Randy
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| 11 MAR 2003 at 8:15am |
Friday the 14thSchattenjger
Posts : 2908
Joined: 5 NOV 2002
Status : Online | What's wrong with the roses you usually post??
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| 11 MAR 2003 at 12:13pm |
sennebecGuild Master
Posts : 3334
Joined: 15 NOV 2004
Location: US, maine
Status : Offline | i've said it before and i'll say it again...
LONG LIVE THE KING
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| 11 MAR 2003 at 1:08pm |
| Deleted User | Hey Randy, all the best. I don't know anything of your previous medical registry, but we'll all be thinking of you and sending good vibes...
BTW The way the British government are going at the moment perhaps my medical records will be available to pretty much any average hacker on the net!
Ah... the bush and blair administrations never cease to amuse me. Ignoring north korean missile tests? What next! ???
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| 11 MAR 2003 at 2:12pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | my warmest wishes to you randy!
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 11 MAR 2003 at 2:28pm |
dabomb765Space Cadet
Posts : 122
Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Wow. Im only 17 and I have been playing adventures since I was 10 years old. There really is a big age diffrence with adventure fans. When I went to best buy I saw like a 90 year old man in a wheelchair go to the games section and picked up Syberia and left.
Also I wish the best of luck to Randy.
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| 11 MAR 2003 at 2:37pm |
mbc841Space Cadet
Posts : 194
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Online | RANDY YOU'LL WIN!!!!!
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| 11 MAR 2003 at 2:44pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By dabomb765 (11 MAR 2003 2:27pm)
When I went to best buy I saw like a 90 year old man in a wheelchair go to the games section and picked up Syberia and left.
He did pay for the game, did he?
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| 11 MAR 2003 at 3:22pm |
| Deleted User | Don't wish to sound cynical --- but he possibly could have purchased it for a grandchild ... or more likely in his case for a great grandchild! :
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| 11 MAR 2003 at 5:53pm |
seikkailijaIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 9
Joined: 12 JAN 2003
Status : Online | Well, after reading these postings here, I think it´s quite possible that he (=the 90-year-old guy) bought Syberia for himself. Or maybe for his wife...
As I wrote earlier, I´m planning to spend my retirement days playing the latest Gabriel Knight games.
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