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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Posted:
Well, since so many people had their intro threads wiped out and are starting new ones, I figure I could use these events to start my own, ultra-untimely intro, seeing as how I've been around HoP for like 3 years.
So then:
Name: Vance
Alias: Van, Vanize, Add, Zaidou (my 'African' name) ... oh, and I almost forgot, Pixie Banger! (don't ask if you don't really want to know).
Age: 34 (35 now)
Location: Potchefstroom, South Africa (WSW of Jo'berg) presently. Grew up in Houston, Texas. Most of my Family lives in Austin, Texas. I'm moving to Berlin, Germany in January for 2 years. (ok, been in Berlin for a year now)
Favourite Toys: sailboats (been sailing 29 years), surfboards (been surfing 19 years), poi (3.5 years) (almost 5 years now)
Occupation: Reasearch scientist (Ph.D. in space physics)
Hobbies: Too many - sailing, surfing, poi, scale models, travelling, collecting stamps and paper money from places I visit, Dungeons & Dragons, SCUBA diving, tropical fish, reading, painting, drawing, getting projects ready for Burningman, ....
Your favourite website/s: www.burningman.com
Music: I'll listen to most anything except modern country music. My favorites are classical (e.g. vivaldi, beethoven), trance, classic rock (led zep, hendrix, beatles), and what used to be called alternative (foo fighters, pixies, whale, ...)
Movies: blade runner (director's cut), strictly ballroom, band of brothers (more like a mini series I guess), amelie, ... er, I know there are more, but I can't think of them just now.
Books: mostly sci-fi, fantasy, and history.
Philosophy: Technological Gaiaism, Quantum Fatalism
Favourite Colour: Burgandy ( sorry Alice!)
Favourite Quote/Saying:
From a movie: "Gentleman, we have a blind date with destiny, and she just ordered the lobster!" - the Shoveler (Mystery Men).
From literature: "The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love" - W. Somerset Maughn
From personal life: "I was just telling Sara K. that I have no particular segway between being stone cold sober and really wasted. Then she kicked her glass of water across the room..." - Zouwera (Christmas day, 2002, west africa)
So that is that. We'll see if it goes anywhere, eh?
EDITED_BY: vanize (1111489303)
Well, since so many people had their intro threads wiped out and are starting new ones, I figure I could use these events to start my own, ultra-untimely intro, seeing as how I've been around HoP for like 3 years.
So then:
Name: Vance
Alias: Van, Vanize, Add, Zaidou (my 'African' name) ... oh, and I almost forgot, Pixie Banger! (don't ask if you don't really want to know).
Age: 34 (35 now)
Location: Potchefstroom, South Africa (WSW of Jo'berg) presently. Grew up in Houston, Texas. Most of my Family lives in Austin, Texas. I'm moving to Berlin, Germany in January for 2 years. (ok, been in Berlin for a year now)
Favourite Toys: sailboats (been sailing 29 years), surfboards (been surfing 19 years), poi (3.5 years) (almost 5 years now)
Occupation: Reasearch scientist (Ph.D. in space physics)
Hobbies: Too many - sailing, surfing, poi, scale models, travelling, collecting stamps and paper money from places I visit, Dungeons & Dragons, SCUBA diving, tropical fish, reading, painting, drawing, getting projects ready for Burningman, ....
Your favourite website/s: www.burningman.com
Music: I'll listen to most anything except modern country music. My favorites are classical (e.g. vivaldi, beethoven), trance, classic rock (led zep, hendrix, beatles), and what used to be called alternative (foo fighters, pixies, whale, ...)
Movies: blade runner (director's cut), strictly ballroom, band of brothers (more like a mini series I guess), amelie, ... er, I know there are more, but I can't think of them just now.
Books: mostly sci-fi, fantasy, and history.
Philosophy: Technological Gaiaism, Quantum Fatalism
Favourite Colour: Burgandy ( sorry Alice!)
Favourite Quote/Saying:
From a movie: "Gentleman, we have a blind date with destiny, and she just ordered the lobster!" - the Shoveler (Mystery Men).
From literature: "The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love" - W. Somerset Maughn
From personal life: "I was just telling Sara K. that I have no particular segway between being stone cold sober and really wasted. Then she kicked her glass of water across the room..." - Zouwera (Christmas day, 2002, west africa)
So that is that. We'll see if it goes anywhere, eh?
EDITED_BY: vanize (1111489303)
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Posted:
heh - there is a doctor here in germany that can stretch your legs a couple inches. no kidding. he gos in, chops your shin in a cuple places, grafts some bone on, and then fitss you with a brace for a couple months - and viola - you are a couple inches taller.
for the most part her does it for people who have one leg shorter than the other, but apparently he will do it on both legs if you really want to go through all that hassle and pain and expense.
heh - there is a doctor here in germany that can stretch your legs a couple inches. no kidding. he gos in, chops your shin in a cuple places, grafts some bone on, and then fitss you with a brace for a couple months - and viola - you are a couple inches taller.
for the most part her does it for people who have one leg shorter than the other, but apparently he will do it on both legs if you really want to go through all that hassle and pain and expense.
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
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Pooh-Bah
2,444 posts
Location: Bristol !!!!!!, United Kingdom
Pooh-Bah
2,444 posts
Location: Bristol !!!!!!, United Kingdom
Posted:
Yeah, let's chop skully up in the name of science!
Yeah, let's chop skully up in the name of science!
Gayle.....!
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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Posted:
well, I think it would be more in the name of vanity really...
well, I think it would be more in the name of vanity really...
-v-
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Super Gidg!!!!
8,506 posts
Location: Portland Oregon USA
Super Gidg!!!!
8,506 posts
Location: Portland Oregon USA
Posted:
Keep your hands off of Skully's legs! 
Skully! Are you getting this? They are going to make you *gulp* TALLER!!!! Oh horrors!!!
Remember short is beautiful.
Keep your hands off of Skully's legs! Skully! Are you getting this? They are going to make you *gulp* TALLER!!!! Oh horrors!!!
Remember short is beautiful.
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is NOT.
Proud member of the HoP DPS.
Sanity is a highly overrated state of mind.
I'm normal ... it's everyone else that's crazy.
Gidg
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Pirate Pixie Crew Captain
8,428 posts
Location: Wales
Pirate Pixie Crew Captain
8,428 posts
Location: Wales
Posted:
Ewwwwwwwwwww taller! I don't want to be longer legger! My legs are already long enough thanks. Its my body thats short! and NO Gayle you CANNOT chop my body in half! Grrrrrrr bad bad evil twin! You're not mean to be evil to me! Lets just pick on Vanize. Its easier..... after all he is a boy!
You are so right Gidg!
Ewwwwwwwwwww taller! I don't want to be longer legger! My legs are already long enough thanks. Its my body thats short! and NO Gayle you CANNOT chop my body in half! Grrrrrrr bad bad evil twin! You're not mean to be evil to me! Lets just pick on Vanize. Its easier..... after all he is a boy!
You are so right Gidg!
Feed me Chocolate!!! Feed me NOW!
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Super Gidg!!!!
8,506 posts
Location: Portland Oregon USA
Super Gidg!!!!
8,506 posts
Location: Portland Oregon USA
Posted:
Vanize doesn't need to be any taller.
Vanize doesn't need to be any taller. Growing old is mandatory; growing up is NOT.
Proud member of the HoP DPS.
Sanity is a highly overrated state of mind.
I'm normal ... it's everyone else that's crazy.
Gidg
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Pooh-Bah
2,014 posts
Location: Galveston, TX, USA
Pooh-Bah
2,014 posts
Location: Galveston, TX, USA
Posted:
This is true...maybe we could shorten his feet? I think he'd be ok with that.
This is true...maybe we could shorten his feet? I think he'd be ok with that.
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Super Gidg!!!!
8,506 posts
Location: Portland Oregon USA
Super Gidg!!!!
8,506 posts
Location: Portland Oregon USA
Posted:
*giggle* Cut him off and the knees?
*giggle* Cut him off and the knees?
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is NOT.
Proud member of the HoP DPS.
Sanity is a highly overrated state of mind.
I'm normal ... it's everyone else that's crazy.
Gidg
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Pooh-Bah
2,014 posts
Location: Galveston, TX, USA
Pooh-Bah
2,014 posts
Location: Galveston, TX, USA
Posted:
Oh no! His calves are quite sexy
Oh no! His calves are quite sexy
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Super Gidg!!!!
8,506 posts
Location: Portland Oregon USA
Super Gidg!!!!
8,506 posts
Location: Portland Oregon USA
Posted:
I guess we should mess around with those sexy legs.
I guess we should mess around with those sexy legs. Growing old is mandatory; growing up is NOT.
Proud member of the HoP DPS.
Sanity is a highly overrated state of mind.
I'm normal ... it's everyone else that's crazy.
Gidg
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Pirate Pixie Crew Captain
8,428 posts
Location: Wales
Pirate Pixie Crew Captain
8,428 posts
Location: Wales
Posted:
We can't mess with his sexy legs ??? *pouts and sulks* Pfffft there is no point in him coming to falmouth then 
*wonders off grumpily kicking stones and tutting*
We can't mess with his sexy legs ???
*pouts and sulks* Pfffft there is no point in him coming to falmouth then *wonders off grumpily kicking stones and tutting* Feed me Chocolate!!! Feed me NOW!
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Pooh-Bah
2,014 posts
Location: Galveston, TX, USA
Pooh-Bah
2,014 posts
Location: Galveston, TX, USA
Posted:
Well, I never said you couldn't shave or wax them, just that it would be difficult to do whilst he was spinning. Of course, you could probably manage to do so at another point. I'd suggest trimming the hair some before trying though.
And why would you want to mess with something that was sexy to begin with? But, if you are determined...
Well, I never said you couldn't shave or wax them, just that it would be difficult to do whilst he was spinning. Of course, you could probably manage to do so at another point. I'd suggest trimming the hair some before trying though.
And why would you want to mess with something that was sexy to begin with? But, if you are determined...
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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Posted:
women.... SHEESH!
women.... SHEESH!
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
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Pirate Pixie Crew Captain
8,428 posts
Location: Wales
Pirate Pixie Crew Captain
8,428 posts
Location: Wales
Posted:
Sorry Vanize... you know we are just winding you up don't you? I promise it will only be Bird I wax! but Shhhhh don't tell him!
Sorry Vanize... you know we are just winding you up don't you? I promise it will only be Bird I wax! but Shhhhh don't tell him! Feed me Chocolate!!! Feed me NOW!
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now available in "advanced"
6,086 posts
Location: Cornwall, United Kingdom
now available in "advanced"
6,086 posts
Location: Cornwall, United Kingdom
Posted:
My state of mind is not yours to define!
There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
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Pooh-Bah
2,014 posts
Location: Galveston, TX, USA
Pooh-Bah
2,014 posts
Location: Galveston, TX, USA
Posted:
there, there Bird. Think of what soft, smooth, sexy legs you will have after Skully has her way with you...
there, there Bird. Think of what soft, smooth, sexy legs you will have after Skully has her way with you...
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Super Gidg!!!!
8,506 posts
Location: Portland Oregon USA
Super Gidg!!!!
8,506 posts
Location: Portland Oregon USA
Posted:
Well Skully, there's messing around and then there's messing around.
Written by: Skulduggery
We can't mess with his sexy legs ???
Well Skully, there's messing around and then there's
messing around. Growing old is mandatory; growing up is NOT.
Proud member of the HoP DPS.
Sanity is a highly overrated state of mind.
I'm normal ... it's everyone else that's crazy.
Gidg
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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Posted:
shameless women!
(which is just the way I like 'em!)
shameless women!
(which is just the way I like 'em!)
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Posted:
and here it comes, here it comes, heeerrrrreeee iiittttt cooooommmmmeeessssss:
3000th post for vanize!!!!
Wooop!
and here it comes, here it comes, heeerrrrreeee iiittttt cooooommmmmeeessssss:
3000th post for vanize!!!!
Wooop!
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
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Still wiggling
5,967 posts
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
Still wiggling
5,967 posts
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
Posted:
Addict
Addict
Getting to the other side 
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Pooh-Bah
2,014 posts
Location: Galveston, TX, USA
Pooh-Bah
2,014 posts
Location: Galveston, TX, USA
Posted:
it just means you've spent far too much of your freetime online in the past 3 1/2 years.
it just means you've spent far too much of your freetime online in the past 3 1/2 years. AnonymousPLATINUM Member
Posted:
Wow!
Wow!
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Pooh-Bah
2,014 posts
Location: Galveston, TX, USA
Pooh-Bah
2,014 posts
Location: Galveston, TX, USA
Posted:
It looks like you will be next, mister.
It looks like you will be next, mister.
AnonymousPLATINUM Member
Posted:
Doh!
Doh!
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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Posted:
not far too much of my free time - far too much of my work time! almost no free time was involved!
not far too much of my free time - far too much of my work time! almost no free time was involved!
-v-
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Still wiggling
5,967 posts
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
Still wiggling
5,967 posts
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
Posted:
You work?! Seriously?! As in a job?
Wow. You learn something new every day
You work?! Seriously?! As in a job?
Wow. You learn something new every day
Getting to the other side
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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Posted:
hmph!
hmph!
-v-
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SILVER Member
15,417 posts
Location: South Wales
15,417 posts
Location: South Wales
Posted:
He does indeed have a job.
He is a scientist that programmes stuff.
Van, I think you are one of the cleverest people I know.
I shall expect to see you in Falmouth, if nt in Germany sooner.
He does indeed have a job.
He is a scientist that programmes stuff.
Van, I think you are one of the cleverest people I know.
I shall expect to see you in Falmouth, if nt in Germany sooner.
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old hand
863 posts
Location: Berlin, Germany
old hand
863 posts
Location: Berlin, Germany
Posted:
o... guys hanging together
you wanna come to Berlin?
o... guys hanging together
you wanna come to Berlin? What is psychology?- Looking for a black cat in a dark room. What is psychoanalysis? Psychoanalysis is looking for a black cat in a dark room -- in which there is no cat -- but finding one anyway.
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15,417 posts
Location: South Wales
15,417 posts
Location: South Wales
Posted:
Im planning on it at some point.
Im planning on it at some point.
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