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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: goat10 on August 29, 2000, 10:00:00 PM
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Just a thought I had.
We fly (cyber fly) together a lot, Rooks, Knights and Bishops from all over the world.
I would, and I think some of you would like to know whom we are flying with and against. I think it would ad some fun and interest to the sim too know who we are. So to start it off……
Mark Seitz
Laguna Niguel Ca. USA
39 years old
I work for a homebuilder, Taylor Woodrow Homes.
I am married with two stepdaughters and three Grand children.
Interests include: Motorcycles, CART and F1 auto racing, SCUBA Diving, Skiing, and computers and a little guitar (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
I get up at 5:00 am on Sundays to watch the live F1 feed from Europ (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/redface.gif)
I don't do much SCUBA and I can't play anything on my Guitar, but I am trying (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
And now Its your turn. Add what you want, say what you want, but let us know who you are (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
I know this sounds corney but who knows you might find someone living close to you.
Oh and one last thing;
How did you come up with your name?
Goat10:
Mountaingoat Bike Co. A try at being self employed and 9 other Goats.
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I Hate It When That Happens!
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The ragin cajun of aces high
John J. Savant Jr.
Haughton Louisiana USA
Interests:hunting,compition shooting,guitar,flying,gunsmithing,weight lifting,cooking and fishing.
favortie games: rogue spear(cause its so easy to cheat (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)),Delta force series and aces high.
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"..he shoots fire out of his eyes and lightning bolts out of his arse..."
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Im Newu643 (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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Think this ones been done sometime ago, but why not.
Pete Glassey
Mt Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand.
28 years old
Work for a local IT company as a Consultant/Programmer C/C++ COM/ATL and database stuff.
Interests include: General abuse of alcholic beverages and WHY. Drums, Music, arty toejam blah de blah...
there...
Spatula
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John Sanderson
New York, NY, USA.
16
Student
Interests: Computer games, WW2 history, music...
Favorite comp games; Aces High, Rogue Spear(sux now though too many cheaters).
Looking forward to; Shadowbane, Tribes2, TF2, Anarchy Online, WWIIOL.
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Geschwaderkommodore JG 54
"Grünherz"
(http://pobox2.zyan.com/~nath/haha.jpg)
Aces High Scenario Corps
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Nath is a f00kn'n brat, and that's why I hate being shot down by him (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
Claus Lisberg
25
Geek wannabe (comp. sci. student)
Scuba diving and skydiving are my prime interests, and I fill the in between time (which there is lot of when you're poor) with various sims.
Known as Santa by my friends, due to name, not deed (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) (one of my best pal is known as Satan, so it is fitting). StSanta to illustrate my divine nature.
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StSanta
JG54 "Grünherz"
"If you died a stones throw from your wingie; you did no wrong". - Hangtime
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Marco Jansen
29 operator
live together with my girlfriend
hobby (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)riving my VW1303,music,drumming,modelling litle planes
,sex (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif),computer simulation especially wo2 props .
my favourite sims AH, EAW, tankplatoon
I fly wo sims. because i admire those wo2 pilots they where very brave guys. And i think a good dogfight is a kind off art.
I'm trying to be gentle within the MA but i caught myself not being that always , than i start to begin too whine a litle i hope it get's better again (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
I found out AH is a very hard place for beginners but i hope we can get more new players.
AH is extremely good so it has too (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
S! chaps
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Look at this thread Goat (same question) : there are a lot of us inside.
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/Forum1/HTML/001488.html (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/Forum1/HTML/001488.html)
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That thread takes forever to load.
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Ok...
I'm Sean McNulty and I'm 31 years old. I am an architectural draftsman/designer and I work out of my house (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) I play guitar and computer games when I'm not working. Favorite games are AH and Counter Strike.
udie
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Ron Fanning
Age 53 going on 16
Colorado Springs, CO
Service Manager for industrial machinery manufacturer.
Hobbies: Analog electronics, guitars (as a player I make a heck of a repairman), high end audio (former tech mgr at Jeff Rowland Design Group). And #1 hobby, Fantasy Flight, a "living history" group. we dress in authentic WW2 AAF uniforms and fly to airshows in a couple of T-6's and a C-45. Eat yer hearts out, it's even cooler than it sounds.
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Jus' cause yer paranoid don't mean I ain't out ta getcha.
GronK
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Michael "Vila" Smith
34 yrs old
Waldorf, MD (near Washingotn DC)
I'm married, no kids yet
I'm a civilian Flight Test Engineer for the NAVY. (Testing avionics on the F/A-18 primarily)
Obviously, my main interest is simming. My other favorite sims are: Janes F-18, and the Rainbow 6 series (but I suck at FPS's (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif) ).
My other interests are: ancient and medieval history, celtic music, calligraphy.
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Matt "SOB" Hoffman
25 yrs old
Portland, OR
Not married, no kids
IS Network Admin
Interests: Dr Pepper, Gadgets, music, web design, and a sick facination with infomercials.
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Larry McCoy
Santa Rosa, CA
6'1" 165 lbs
Blue eyes, brown hair, and a 99% white beard..
Hobbies include; AH (of course),Foot combat in full medieval Armor, (Society for Creative Anachronism)
music, woodworking, sex, etc.. (not neccessarily in that order...)
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GreyBeard, Squadron Leader
Commander, "E" Flight, Aces High
Senior Staff Council
"The Skeleton Crew"
"Fly with Honor"[/i]
"Keepin' the Faith"
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posted in the other thread that naso pointed out, but i guess i can post here too (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
Mike Directo
Toronto, Ontario Canada
27 years old
in the IT biz maintaining government intranet sites (but not really doing much work)
living with the girlfriend
interest include motorcycles, fighter jets and just recently WWII planes, computers and useless knowledge stuff.
got the handle Wiz after borrowing a friends nickname Wizard of Clay, but that was too long for me to type so i shortened it to just Wiz.
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Jason Clarke
Oakham, Rutland, England (lovely area with hundreds of former WW2 airfields scattered close by!)
Age - 27, semi-single (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
Work as a Civil Servant for the Ministry of Defence at a local RAF base working in admin/computers etc.
Interests - History (mostly WW2 and Peninsula War (Naploeonic)), Astronomy, Guitars (especially acoustic), music, real ale (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) , science, technology, engineering/mechanics, dare I say Impressionism art and finally kebabs (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
'Nexx'
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Louis Harder.age 42//married with six kids
Lloydminster.Alberta, Canada
Assistant mng, mechanic, and whatever else at
tire and automotive repair shop.
hobbies, golf, computers and finding quiet places with no kids. Favorite games Delta Force 11 and AH.
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Kevin
Alberta, Canada
37
Work for a local AMO as a tinbasher
Like flight sims, 3d modelling and animation,computers (although the 3d stuff has fallen off since AH came out (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) )
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griz
THUNDERBIRDS
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Kevin "Yeager" Hall
Age: 36
Status: Married with one child.
Work: Boeing - Customer Training
Hobbies: Fine scale modeling, Musician, target shooter/reloader, history of America at war/aviation and of course combat sims.
Politics: Conservative independant.
Favourite music: Yes
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Name: Arizsun "Karnak" Ahola
Age: 27
Ancestry: Finnish
Location: San Rafael, CA
Status: Very single
Work: QA Engineer
Hobbies: History, Computers
Politics: Social Liberal, Fiscal Conservative
Sisu
-Karnak
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Name: Tony Davis
Age: 25
Location: Essex, England
Work: Games Designer
Hobbies: Guitar, football, 3D graphics, video editing, Essex girls (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Handle came about `cos my dog was looking at me when I had to come up with one.
Wilfrid
99th Raging Rooks
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Mark Weiss
Deale, MD
19 years old
Currently unemployed, going to college full time.
Hobbies: Street racing, clubbing(err is that an interest?), and just being a teenager. :-)
Computer science major(trying anyway...)
-SW
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Bernie Failing
Age: 27
Married with 2 kids
Edmonton, Alberta
Work: Exterminator
Hobbies: Auto Racing, my kids and beer.
My handle is an old name my brother used to tease me with.......
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Trey Wells, 33 years old
12 years USAF, all in munitions (ammo troop)
married
3 boys under 7 years of age (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
hobbies-- reloading mettalics, deer hunting, all other hunting, fishing, used to build Hotrods but cant afford the amount it takes to go fast (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) AH is fun.
ACtive in local Church. I love Jesus (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
need to send StSanta some literature (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
ammo
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Jeff “Mox” Bell
Dallas, TX USA
29 years old
IT Director for a Dallas Law Firm
(Wide Area Networking, switching, routers, design, etc.)
Married almost 6 years
3 boys (2 cats and a dog) No human children!
Interest: Computers, Beer, Good Gins, Good Wine, Cars (German), Golf, Beautiful woman (just get to look these days), Computer Games, Soccer (just watch these days), military planes (all of them).
Big computer game fan and tester. I’ve been a part of the design and test teams for the following games (I’m sure you’ve heard of a few).
Alpha-Beta Tester of games: Ultima Online (closed) Alpha, Everquest (closed) Beta phase 1.5, Allegiance (closed)Beta 0, The Claw, Subspace (closed)Alpha, Asheron’s Call (closed) Beta, and a few other smaller games and of course there’s a few I cannot mention due to the NDA.
New to online multiplayer flight sims and I’m completly hooked.
Mox is from Magic the Gathering a collectable card game. I used to play Magic some time ago and typing this reminds me I need to sell all my old cards (I have thousands)!
Mox
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Hans M. Weaver
Kirkland, Wa.
age: 52 (day and a half older than dirt)
Work for the Boeing Commercial Airplane Group Twin Aisle Division in Everett Wa.
Interests: Nostalgic Hot Rods (50s 60s) and WWII combat flight sims.
Been flying AH for three months now, having a blast most of the time. More into the missions type thing rather than the furballs. Still got a lot to learn about how the game works.
cya up!
...Weave
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L. Mark Luper
Fort Worth, TX
54 years old (2 days older than dirt)
Process engineer for a local aluminum foundry specialising in rapid prototyping
Married 34 years this comming December 22, two daughters, one son in law and 4 grandchildren
Hobby is hobbies, rc, guns, reloading, skeet and trap, motorcycles, cars, was a Service Manager at a computer store for a while, love computers, play AH and Nascar 3 online.
Love most kinds of music but am partial to classical music (the dead guys).
I always used my real name online in WB(was MRK2 then changed it to Mark when I was able to) and flew that for about four years and used it again in here but added the AT when I did some of the alpha testing for AH.
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MarkAT
"It is not the critic who counts,
it is the man in the arena..."
Teddy Roosevelt
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Mike "Maverick" Barr
Age 46 (Way younger than dirt), going on 17.
Married with one 14 year old boy (mine) 2 step kids 5 grandkids, one dog, 2 cats and a lunatic ferret.
Retired Army Reserve LTC Armor
Retired Police Officer (almost 13 years on motorcycle alone before being disabled on duty)
As of the 31 of August unemployed (my choice temporarily)
Hobies: Flying my Piper Comanche, SCUBA, Shooting sports, reloading, Motorcycling (BMW K75RT), Computer games like AH and Tribes (I LOVE being a sniper), traveling in the comanche, amusement parks with roller coasters, and a few other things I can't think of right now.
Politics, Republican (moderate) Gun Owner (strict fundamentalist). (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/tongue.gif)
Handle chosen as I have always been a solo type of guy including while a Police Officer, and I was Maverick in the early 13th TAS days of AW.
Favorite part of AH at this point is TA for the fast turn fights / furballs.
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(http://www.geocities.com/tas13th/sqsig/mav13.jpg)
No Mercy Asked, None Given, Just pass the ammo
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Ken `Sundog' Scott
Location: Griffith, IN (N.W. Indiana about 30 miles from Chicago)
Occupation: Engineer (Aeronautical Engineer by degree..working as a M.E. for an `Inline Web Press Manufacturing' company in a Chicago suburb)
Status: Single
Interests: AVIATION!!! Give me planes! Specifically combat aircraft. I also love music with great drummers, which tends towards prog/rio type bands like King Crimson, Univers Zero, Simon Steensland and loud pop guitar bands like My Bloody Valentine, Swervedriver, and Smashing Pumpkins (Trans Am is a very cool band too...soo many CD's..soo little time..except for AH). I also love F1 (U.S. Grand Prix in a few weeks...woohoo!) and CART Racing.
I Love AH because: It is a great game to fly missions in. I usually don't fly one plane enough in AH because they are so well modeled I like to check them all out.
Politics: Independent
Addictions: Aces High....I can't wait for my 1.04 fix...jonesin' already.....
(http://www.devildogs.com/vmf111/sdsig2.gif)
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OK here goes....
wayne weimer 50 years old, General turn supervisor Ironmaking WCI Steel Inc.
Metalurgist
LOL married 3 times, divorced the same, women have no sense of humor, and next time I'm not getting married, going to find a girl I don't like and buy her a house instead.
daughter 29, Son 26, and a 10 years old Son (oopsss)
Hobbies: Golf, Sports cars (just bought a new BMW Z3 roadster convertible) ya can do that when you're not married <G>history political and social, aircraft modeling, and belong to a group called "friends of the Wright Patterson air force base Museum" been a WW2 aircraft hobbiest for over 40 years.
Hajo....nickname of Hans Joachim Hermann, leader of the JG/300 wilde Sau
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Name: Phillip Artweger
Located: Vienna, Austria (the one without Kangaroos)
Age: 23 (and single)
Work: Engineer for 737 Powerplants / APUs at Lauda Air
Hobbies: Flying -> Glider aerobatics, glider towing, etc.. as often as possible and i'm kindda infested with the BIGGER, OLDER, LOUDER Bug e.g i love old planes with radial engines... heck i love ALL vintage airplanes
Cyas UP there
DW6
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I guess I'm one of the few young'ns.. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
Manuel Rivera
18 - Puerto Rico - living with girlfriend
Aviation student, love it.
Hobbies: My girlfriend, combat aviation, racing in my 1983 'vette, AH, SCUBA, Paintball, and computer games.
thats all for now.
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Name: Filip Demianiuk
Located: Warsaw, Poland
Age: 23 (and single so far)
Work: Computer graphic artist/DTP operator
Hobbies: Sex, Beer, Vodka, Grappa and Cartoons (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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Ripsnort
Age: 40
Status: Married with 2 boys ages 2 and 4, 4 yr. old flys Warbirds quite well.
Work: Boeing - Engineering Applications Analyst.
Hobbies: Weight lifting, hunting, fishing,(30 acre ranch in Montana), vintage aircraft, ex-skydiver, water skiing, snow skiing, snomobiles,and computers.
Politics: Conservative
Favorite music: All of it except hardcore rap.
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Conserve *this*
<obscene gesture>
Finally got it out of my system (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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StSanta
JG54 "Grünherz"
"If you died a stones throw from your wingie; you did no wrong". - Hangtime
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ok john c yates from sa tx im a maint. electrician i like flight sims golf bird hunting deer hunting hunting in general fishing and anything else you can do outside. im 33 married with one child
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jcy19 | ||AirWolves| |
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Age 29
Married 5 years
4 year old son that is going to have to relearn his a/c models since I have just left FA2.
Ex-college football player with a long standing dream of still becoming a professional athlete....not likely to happen though. I work for a very small international company, Esser Twin Pipes as the Logistics Coordinator.
Likes:
hunting, fishing, family and more family and lastly AH
Dislikes:
Customer Support at MS Gaming Zone...They suck all around.
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Maj. LJK_Reschke
Jagdbomber I-31, StaffelKapitaen JaboStaffel Ein
Kommandeur Jagdbomber, LuftJagerKorps
www.luftjagerkorps.com
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SSgt. Kristen D.J. Smith
USAF (Enlisted)
Aircraft Electrical/Environmental Craftsman
currently work on KC-135R aircraft
Stationed at RAF Mildenhall, UK
27, Married, NO KIDS (yet) (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Thats me
Kronos
CO - 99th "Raging Rooks"
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Ok, I'll bite. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Justin Bloom
Age: 20
Veneta, Oregon during summer
Corvallis, Oregon during college term
Electrical Engineering Junior at Oregon State University
Currently working at Norvac Electronics (Eugene) over the summer. (We sell electronic parts like caps, resistors, transistors, etc. ) Manage Campus Electronics store during school year.
Hobbies: I used to have some, then I found AH. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) Now my days generally consist of: Eat, Sleep, Work, Play AH. I always have been interested in Electronics and Aviation.
Due to my total lack of imagination when it comes to interesting names, I just put my last name and my dorm room number together when I started AH back in beta, hence bloom25 (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/rolleyes.gif) The second day I played AH I joined the THUNDERBIRDS and was hooked from then on.
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bloom25
THUNDERBIRDS
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Aces High call sign? It's significance?
Naso = nose
Aces High squad
4° Stormo Caccia Terrestri
Name
Francesco S. Cantella
Age
35
Live
Pozzuoli, (near Naples), Italy
What do you do for a living?
Analyst programmer (better in the first than in the second)
What is your marital/family status?
Single, generally (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
Living with a beautiful dog (Rott/german sheppard mix)
What schools have you attended?
Not enough to be a Doc in Paleontology (you know? Dinosaurs!).
What degrees do you have?
See above
What are your hobbies?
Make bored womans happy again (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif), drink, eat, read sci-fi, archeology, WW2 history, hystory, sociology (little), martial arts (suspended at the moment (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/frown.gif)), sail, drive cars, motorbikes, take fines (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Other interesting things about myself.
I will explain only to a woman, in private. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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Name: Rosco P Coletrane
Location: Hazzard County USA
Occipation: Sherrif of Hazzard County
Marital Status: single, no kids except for my dog flash.
Intrests: chaseing the Duke boys, setting up speed traps and taking orders from my little fat buddy.
(http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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Name: Tony Arnone
Grosse pointe Woods Michigan, USA
48 Years old
Attorney, civil litigation (defense)
Intrests include: Boating, Martial Arts, Drinking, and wondering why my bellybutton has so many holes in it when I'm in the MA.
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tronsky
Christopher King
Sydney, Australia
30 in 7 days
Married in 3 months...
Works: Operations, Ansett Airlines
Plays: HalfLife-CS, UO, Warbirds, R6/RS
and of course AH
Likes: Puters, Wine, Women, and song..
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