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08-12-2008, 02:46 PM
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Silver in My Silent Heart
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*thinks good things about everyone* I'll just say that everything/one was a very pleasant surprise. Deep and honest thanks to our three hosts, for the idea, for the courage, for the success and a job well done. Lily and Noggie, especially much respect and thanks to you for all the food. Rune and Leggie, I bow for the mead.
That's it, but if somebody wants to hear positive things about any of us, ask me yourself. Negative things about us are restricted to me.  Surprisingly the meeting resembled the Downs very little, but I still got an overdose of the Downs for the moment, I'll take a few more days of rest now and rather go to school. But first.... this and this, after which I was thrown out of my own house. 
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08-12-2008, 02:54 PM
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Mighty Quill
Join Date: Aug 2007
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Oh dear! That was a really weird movie...
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08-12-2008, 04:40 PM
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I too feel very distant and alone out here on the edge of all things, though I have to wonder if that might not be preferable to the insanity that seems to be overtaking the Finnish forests.
Nah, I'd rather be insane... I might be, too, since looking at those pictures my first thought was "looks a lot like a family reunion". Not that you all look alike, but there's definitely a visibly tangible community feeling there that borders on familial. Maybe one of these years I'll make it out to the "family reunion".
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08-12-2008, 05:28 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
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Anyways it was a very good downer meeting, I had of course already met Lommy and Spawn two years ago. . . but back then we only met for an afternoon. Everybody was very nice, all with their own kind of madness. It is hard for me to say how Greenie was compared to here, as I have had no interaction with her on the downs. Volo was kind of how I expected him to be, but he needs to put his foot down once in a while, otherwise those girls will surely walk all over him or at least drive him even madder.  Legate was somehow more quiet than I imagined, not that he was actually quiet. . . anyways I was really happy to see him picking up our crazy stories and continuing them, at times he even started them. I think it was him who started the story about the Czech window cleaners, who could not live if they got seperated from their windows. Both Aganzir and Nogrod was quite like their online selves, at least they where the kind of people I thought them to be. Of course it helps that I seldom go into details when I imagine how people are. Basicly Aganzir is a former KGB agent and and Nogrod is the human answer to Tom Bombadil.(this is good) It is too bad Annina is not a downer as she is really a funny girl, but she will probably stick to stalking the werewolf games. (Alas) I think this will do. . . I was not disapointed about any of the persons I met, infact this trip was greater than I could have hoped for.
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08-13-2008, 07:35 AM
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08-15-2008, 01:12 PM
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Alive without breath
Join Date: Jan 2003
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The blasted video won't work. Oh well.
Consider yourselves on the next front page, whatever happens.  I think that it is high time you Finlandians all came to Blighty for a visit. Or we should arrange a meeting of Downers in some random place... How about... Antarctica? The Penguins will be happy.
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08-15-2008, 01:16 PM
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Mighty Quill
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08-15-2008, 01:39 PM
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I still can't figure out what you guys are doing in that video. Could someone explain what y'all were doing with Thinlomien hitting that ducted tape pole with her head.
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08-15-2008, 01:47 PM
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Mighty Quill
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Last time I heard, it was raining though...But answering the first question, Lommy was simply protecting herself from the evil pole monster that comes out of the hands of random people at random times at random. Wow, I think that I used the word 'random' a bit too much in that sentence...
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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The sound on my computer was really bad, so I couldn't completely hear what they were all saying.Quote:
 OK, option number two: we all chip in and go on a cruise together around the Atlantic (actually that's not a bad a idea)! 
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08-15-2008, 02:11 PM
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Mighty Quill
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08-15-2008, 02:14 PM
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Shade with a Blade
Join Date: Aug 2007
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Count me in for the B-Downs Cruise.
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08-15-2008, 01:50 PM
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Join Date: May 2004
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Bermuda?
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Though if you really want a halfway point between European and North American Downers, Greenland would be our best bet. But that wouldn't exactly be fair to our friends from Australia and the Phillipines. Figuring them into the picture, where should we go? Perhaps central Africa.... Even better, I was thinking since we all seem to have such great chemistry....wouldn't it be wonderful if a bunch of BDers moved to some remote location and founded our own colony? It could work...
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Shade with a Blade
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08-15-2008, 03:46 PM
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Silver in My Silent Heart
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08-16-2008, 02:40 PM
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Legate: I'd be surprised if there wasn't a Downer article... Lommy: OH NO!!!  ... When did I become some sort of notorious bogyman?  I think us Downers going to Oxonmoot are going to have to have triple the fun just to compete with this...
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08-16-2008, 07:50 PM
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Mighty Quill
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But it'd be nice if I could go to Oxonmoot and meet other BDers...
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08-18-2008, 02:02 AM
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08-25-2008, 05:00 AM
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A Mere Boggart
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Aganzir, that group photo looks like it could be of a Viking Metal band or something. I'm trying to resist the urge to photoshop it
I just can't think what the band would be called. They'd be a bit more like Nightwish rather than Tyr or Finntroll I think due to the contingent of lasses. Maybe.......Barrowtroll, or Wightwish....*groan* I just posted this as davem and had to swiftly edit...bummox!!!! So no, davem has not suddenly developed an interest in metal, he mostly has to endure it
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