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ScottMoney
03-28-2005, 11:31 PM
So where are you guys from?

I'm from Oklahoma City
Dr_simon
03-30-2005, 02:58 PM
Im originally form Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in the UK though I've been living in Iowa City IA for the last 5 years. It is different but still very cool !
Homebrew1709
03-30-2005, 02:59 PM
Baltimore, Maryland holler!
Jolly McJollyson
03-30-2005, 03:02 PM
Im originally form Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in the UK though I've been living in Iowa City IA for the last 5 years. It is different but still very cool !
Wooooo! America!

I'm from Norfolk, Virginia, but during the school year I attend Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Felt that 750 miles was a good distance to travel.
Cryptic Excretions
03-30-2005, 06:45 PM
Well, I had a very large paragraph of absolute nonsense regarding me being a test tube baby, but I decided it was just getting stupid so I'll settle with saying I'm from Ohio.
Raskolnikov
03-30-2005, 07:32 PM
Felt that 750 miles was a good distance to travel.
And by now, you know better.


I'm from somewhere in the hills of Vermont, but I wish I was back in South Louisiana.
PonyOne
03-30-2005, 08:05 PM
I'm from Seattle, WA originally. Now I live in Venice Beach, CA. I've moved cross-country four times; so I've travelled about 10,000 miles in all my moves... yippee!!

needless to say the mrs. and i are planning another move within a year and a half... back across the country :D
Lordathestrings
03-30-2005, 08:21 PM
I'm from Seattle, WA originally. Now I live in Venice Beach, CA. I've moved cross-country four times; so I've travelled about 10,000 miles in all my moves... yippee!!

needless to say the mrs. and i are planning another move within a year and a half... back across the country :DWhat. there's nothing interesting in between? :confused:


I'm originally from Kingston, Ontario.

Then I was from Ottawa, Ontario.

And now I'm in Calgary, Alberta. :D
PonyOne
03-30-2005, 08:27 PM
[font=trebuchet ms]What. there's nothing interesting in between? :confused:
cows & corn :D no i actually love the trip a lot, i'd do it three or four times a year if i could afford to, but all my family is located in the Blue States, and most of the work I'm looking at is in them as well.

i'd actually consider Chicago; it's a cool town, i like it a lot. but right now... well... my g/f's mom is not doing well healthwise, and my mom isn't doing so great with my dad being gone so we may move back out to MA as soon as this fall.

after that, who knows?
crazywolf
03-31-2005, 01:12 AM
Michigan. Have lived in three cities around detroit.
ScottMoney
03-31-2005, 01:15 AM
you guys are all over the place. I've never lived anywhere but oklahoma city.
ranma187
03-31-2005, 02:20 AM
I lived in calgary alberta but recently i am in chilliwack b.c. Yes i do live in canada. and no i don't like hockey.... or curling.
moody_fa_loonie
03-31-2005, 07:20 AM
im from moosonee, ontario (small town in the north) and now im in thunder bay, ontario :D
kingdavid
03-31-2005, 10:20 AM
Thika, Kenya.
I've lived here all my life. In the town with my mom, "upstate"(we call it upcountry here) with my grandma.
Polera
04-06-2005, 09:13 PM
Toronto, Ontario....for those who dont know...Canada
guitarfreak141
04-06-2005, 09:16 PM
Im from Michigan
rockonman
04-06-2005, 09:21 PM
The backwoods of West Virginia, going to college in Huntington, WV at Marshall University.
iiholly
04-06-2005, 09:24 PM
my mother....

Leesburg, Virginia... or maybe it was Purceville... hell if i know I didn't even know it was April. I currently live in the boondox or near Winchester, Virginia.
SG Supreme
04-06-2005, 10:03 PM
Vancouver, B.C. eh?
crazywolf
04-06-2005, 11:26 PM
Im from Michigan
what part?
6strngs_2hmbkrs
04-06-2005, 11:31 PM
Vancouver, B.C. eh?
you know what? I was just about to post a reply asking one of these people from canada to say 'eh?' for me... but you already did... awesome. if I were to ever go to canada, it would be to hear someone say that, or to drink before age 21 ;)

me? I'm in north california, originally from pennsylvania. I used to live about an hour from philedelphia, and now I live about an hour from san fransisco... lot's and lot's of people with rainbows on their cars around here, if you know what I mean...
chucklivesoninmyheart
04-06-2005, 11:33 PM
hey KD,ive heard some parts of africa are brutal(like you should carry a gun with you at all times kind of bad).Is that true?I know the continent is huge,but still.Whats the commerce like?Are there lots of native africans and villages?

I wan't to marry myself a nice red head irish or scottish woman and live in either place...
Raskolnikov
04-06-2005, 11:39 PM
Chuck: There's a South African company that is manufacturing FLAME THROWERS that mount on the underside of cars as an anti-car jacker measure.


lot's and lot's of people with rainbows on their cars around here, if you know what I mean...
About three or four years ago, I went to park so I could pick my girlfriend up from work or drop her off and I noticed a bumper sticker on the car in front of me that featured a drawing of a car being towed and the words "I can't even park straight."
6strngs_2hmbkrs
04-07-2005, 12:01 AM
Chuck: There's a South African company that is manufacturing FLAME THROWERS that mount on the underside of cars as an anti-car jacker measure.
aww, I want one!!!!
About three or four years ago, I went to park so I could pick my girlfriend up from work or drop her off and I noticed a bumper sticker on the car in front of me that featured a drawing of a car being towed and the words "I can't even park straight."
LMAO
7-stringer
04-07-2005, 12:03 AM
El Paso, Texas
I can honestly say it sucks and could be more appropriatley labeled Hell Paso. About the only thing it has going for it is that there is no humidity.
Leedogg
04-07-2005, 12:08 AM
Originally from Youngstown, Ohio. Did my 5 years of college at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. I just moved to Memphis, Tennessee 3 months ago and have to say it's a lot better than Ohio (at least weather-wise).
ScottMoney
04-07-2005, 12:22 AM
That's cool Leedog what'd you study? I'm doing engineering at the University of Oklahoma
silentmusic
04-07-2005, 04:11 AM
Im from Ireland the land of saints and scholars and me :D
chucklivesoninmyheart
04-07-2005, 06:18 AM
Hey,is Ireland fun?Is there a lot of cute red heads?
Leedogg
04-07-2005, 08:32 AM
That's cool Leedog what'd you study? I'm doing engineering at the University of Oklahoma

What type of engineering? I got a degree in Computer Science, BSCS.
AIC
04-07-2005, 10:26 AM
I'm from Denmark
ScottMoney
04-07-2005, 11:06 AM
Petroleum, I'm not diggin it right now :P I'm just doing stupid gen eds... chem geo econ
PRSplaya
04-07-2005, 11:51 AM
I'm from the "Dirty South" a.k.a. Mississippi. Lived here all my life.
silentmusic
04-07-2005, 12:03 PM
Hey,is Ireland fun?Is there a lot of cute red heads?

Yep Ireland is fun, about the same amount of redheads as anywhere i guess and there a few cute redheads yep :D
Hammurabi
04-07-2005, 12:10 PM
cows & corn :D

As a lifelong Iowan I would like to assure you all that we have many more attractions here than cows and corn. For example, we also have soy beans and pigs. We also have some of the world's finest meth labs.

No, seriously. Iowa's only real claim to fame is that the guy who wrote the "Rambo" series lives in Iowa City. I'm planning on living in London next spring, that'll be a nice change from the midwest.
R. Shackleferd
04-07-2005, 02:18 PM
I'm from between Houston and Galveston. East Coast, West Coast..nah, it's all 'bout 'da Gulf Coast ya'll!
ranma187
04-07-2005, 03:36 PM
I'm from Denmark


Cool! i hear denmark has quite the metal scene!
6strngs_2hmbkrs
04-07-2005, 04:08 PM
As a lifelong Iowan I would like to assure you all that we have many more attractions here than cows and corn. For example, we also have soy beans and pigs. We also have some of the world's finest meth labs.

No, seriously. Iowa's only real claim to fame is that the guy who wrote the "Rambo" series lives in Iowa City. I'm planning on living in London next spring, that'll be a nice change from the midwest.
I have a friend who moved to iowa about 2 years ago, I rarely talk to him anymore... but I can assure you, as I have driven from california to pennsylvania and back, on more than one occasion, the the only thing in between is cows, corn, and desert, and annoying road work... in PA, there is at least a big bell with a crack in it, and the betsy ross house... and stuff... and in california there is a TON of stuff to see, nature people can check out yosemite (extremely beautiful by the way, even more beautiful at the top of a 17 mile hike up a steep mountain known as 'half dome') and then there is so many kinds of musuems in san fransisco. and there is the san diego zoo... there is just so much stuff in california... most other states are pretty boring, notice how I say most other states, there are a few with something to see... but mostly just cows and corn..
Hammurabi
04-07-2005, 04:12 PM
Nebraska is way more boring than Iowa, just for reference.

Edit- this was my 1kth post. Woohoo.
6strngs_2hmbkrs
04-07-2005, 11:31 PM
Nebraska is way more boring than Iowa, just for reference.
all I can tell you about nebraska is that it has some monster sized bugs that actually leave blood on your windsheild when you hit them...
PRSplaya
04-08-2005, 07:30 AM
yeah, well, we've got mosquito's that are big enough to carry you off, and some other mutant critter's.
Dr_simon
04-08-2005, 07:45 AM
No, seriously. Iowa's only real claim to fame is that the guy who wrote the "Rambo" series lives in Iowa City. I'm planning on living in London next spring, that'll be a nice change from the midwest.


Most of the people out side of Iowa City seem to think they are staring in the film !! Truly bizarre !!

I spent 12 years in London.

What can I say, it is very different ! 25 million people in one big city !!

Very expensive, dirty, exciting (if you like that kind of thing) and fast moving. You can get whatever you want !
kingdavid
04-08-2005, 11:43 AM
hey KD,ive heard some parts of africa are brutal(like you should carry a gun with you at all times kind of bad).Is that true?I know the continent is huge,but still.Whats the commerce like?Are there lots of native africans and villages?...
I made the mistake of clicking on "remember me" when signing into GT at the public cybercafe I frequent, thinking I'm the only one this side of the Sahara who comes here, but apparently someone, at least inadvertently, opens the website after me, so when I sign in, it thinks I was here more recently than I was, and when I click on "new posts", I miss some stuff.
So sorry for the delayed reply.
Now, if there's a civli war going on, what do you expect to happen? In places like somali, you carry a gun if you live there. Otherwise if you're visiting, you're probably gonna need escort in the form of a pick up truck loaded with AK47'ned militias, with one of those sub machine guns mounted at the back. In places like Kenya, most places no one has ever seen a small firearm, with most policemen carrying G3's with them. In some parts of Kenya, you need armed police escort (in the North Eastern province) in view of the threat of some originally separatist guerillas called "Shifta's". Most places where there's no war going on are cool, but those with wars are not. Then of course, like in all urban areas, there's the uber rich suburbs, where the diplomats and such like live, on the one hand, and the uber seedy slums on the other hand. The ghettos, so to speak. Tho I have to say, when I see an American "ghetto" in a movie, and I see dudes driving and watching TV, I'm like, some people should do a bit of travelling before they call their hood a ghetto, assuming the word implies an area of extreme poverty and hardship and crime and what have you.
Leedogg
04-08-2005, 11:50 AM
yeah, well, we've got mosquito's that are big enough to carry you off, and some other mutant critter's.

No crap man. The bugs down here are gargantuan compared to the critters I was used to in Ohio. Must be the nicer weather.
PRSplaya
04-08-2005, 01:22 PM
No crap man. The bugs down here are gargantuan compared to the critters I was used to in Ohio. Must be the nicer weather.
You gotta love the South :D
PonyOne
04-08-2005, 01:41 PM
[QUOTE=kingdavidTho I have to say, when I see an American "ghetto" in a movie, and I see dudes driving and watching TV, I'm like, some people should do a bit of travelling before they call their hood a ghetto, assuming the word implies an area of extreme poverty and hardship and crime and what have you.[/QUOTE]
i guess a lot of it is all relative but yeah, in a lot of urban areas, they have it okay compared to some of the rural ghettos... people don't seem to realize it but there are areas in the US that still have no power, no water, and no schools that are in the middle of nowhere.

i'd love to visit Kenya and Tanzania someday. it's on my "to do" list.
Raskolnikov
04-08-2005, 04:18 PM
You gotta love the South :D
My first summer in Louisiana was in the midst of that bigass West Nile outbreak.

Fun times.
kingdavid
04-09-2005, 02:01 PM
...i'd love to visit Kenya and Tanzania someday. it's on my "to do" list.
And when you do, unlike one Eggmeister, make a point of letting me know. It would durn cool meeting someone you met on GT. And maybe by the time you do come, I'll have steady gigs and all going, and I'll intoduce you to the people and then we'll do a song or two!
How cool is that?