Oh my gossh, Minque .... I love it!! You look like the Patroness Saint of Chorrol ... .

And Megil .... how did I just know it?? ... And may I say "You loook marrrvelous, dah_ling!!!"



Come now, Milanius ... don't tell me you've never seen a burley female warrior??

I've never seen that site before. Are there really over 18,000 articles full of meaningless rubbish?! LOL!

Tihi , I take the Tommy Chong comparison as a compliment, had to look him up with google and he seems like a cool guy. Although I'm not into drugs you know .

So you looked right through me, I'm very calm & sedate, but the other side? Is it the heavy-metalish side? Couse that's more like a role than a side in me, I'm more a wannabe hard-rocker than an actual one .

Minque: Cool pictures! I'm a total dissaster when it comes to art so I'm in awe by your artistic skills .

PS. Woho! Glad to hear there are other Fair Trade sympathisers around here! I work quite a lot with it here in Sweden but it's not an easy task to have people buy something that is actually more expensive than they are used too... Cheap &%@#$.

This post has been edited by Bofra: May 30 2006, 12:16 PM

Wow...wow....wow............wow.....................................................
*bows down* this is, by far, the best artwork of one self I've seen for a long time.

I think it's photo-shopped, but I could be wrong...

I think Danny is right and I think that our Minque is a very talented photo enhancer with PhotoShop or whatever program she used.

Yes indeed, Bofra - the Tommy Chong allusion was a compliment. He is my favorite part of That 70's Show on TV. He and Cheech were hilariously, overblown hippies back in the day and their albums were icons of popular trends back then...but I'm pretty sure that neither of them is using or condoning drug use these days.

Tommy is a star on That 70's Show as already mentioned and Cheech Marin is a star on Don Johnson's show .. Nash Bridges. Tommy Chong's daughter was also a star in one of Arnold Swarzenegger's movies but I'd have to look up the title on that. It's the one where they take a helicopter to a Central American drug lords island or something like that.

But ... I'm drifting way offtopic, sorry!

Olav, that Goa Tze site was quite .... don't even know the word for it!

That sounds like Commando... and his daughter in that was Alyssia Milano, who is best known as Pheobe in Charmed (aka the one that doesn't look like a moose)

Really? I know Allysia Milano was his daughter in True Lies ... Arnold's leading lady in Commando is Rae Dawn Chong. That is Tommy Chong's daughter.

But that was a good lead that lead to the name of the movie. Thankx.

Yeah, she was the woman that Arnie basically drags around with him - not his daughter (who was held hostage, as I remember, by a Freddie Mercury lookalike).

Oh right Foster, now I remember it ... Arnie steals Rae's car, that's how they meet and then, yeh he drags her around with him. He does that in alot of movies it seems.

It's one way to pick up chicks, I guess.

Ok so these aren't pictures of me.. But of my two favourite places..



Firstly being my house, nice and quaint. Was built sometime before WWI I think. Lived there for... 15 years. About 10 years ago had a freak lightning storm that really did blow up half the house. Kitchen, Dining room, Den, all destoyed in like a second.



Place in the town I used to hang out at as a kid.. Lot of good memories there.. To many to list thats fo sure.

Just a little bit of life from the dirty south.

What a beautiful house Channler. It looks like a really cool place to grow up. What a freak about the lightning storm.

Our next door neighbors at our old house had a lightning stike right at their front steps - and it just crumpled the concrete away like it was nothing on the one side of the steps. That side looked like a truck hit it or something. But on the other side of the steps, the concrete flower boxes had their pointsettias in them just totally undisturbed - like nothing had happened.

I can believe lightning could demolish half a house. I just stay indoors and turn the lights off when thunderstorms start.

Nice house you live in channler! Wish I could post pictures of a beautiful house.. Well, I could but it wouldn't be mine .

Scary about that lightning... I'm happy no-one got hurt, because no-one got hurt right?

I just stay indoors and don't give a damn about lightning, it happens so seldom here and it rarely hits a house that it's almost boring.. Besides most buildings are prepared with those lightning-deductors that pretty much protects all electronic devices in the house.

Well what happened was that we had a floodlight attached to the side of our kitchen, and it acted as a lightning magnet. When the lighting hit the light, it caused our breaker, which had every single outlet rigged up on it to blow up, nearly taking off half of my hourse

hah, no one was hurt. But I've never seen my dad act so brave and what not. After he managed to get us out of the house and to the neighbors he ran back and started ripping out the insulation out of the part of the house that was still intact. That way a fire wasn't started.

Everything that was electronic was toast, tv's, computers, everything. Funny how I can laugh about it now, this room that my computer is in is one of those rooms to was exploded..

Well, lighting is the only natural form Of Plasma on Earth, so Rainer is not suprised that it can wreak so much havoc.

Rainer used to be well-informed on Meteorology, but he has lost a bit of that skill over the years.

Rainer's two biggest fears are Night-time Lightning storms, and Stinging insects. Rainer can never sleep when one of those storms come about, shaking the whole house.

this is all well and good folks, but can we please try and keep this thread about the pictures? Thanks in advance

Okay, pictures ... here is my sister Ginny & I at PF Chang's Chinese Bistro in Winter Park Village. She is on the left, me on the right and our waitress took the picture. I just love the food there, it's my favorite Chinese ever since the little family Chinese restaurant I used to work in for 3 years. My Chinese name is Wo Dib, which means butterfly (from the tattoo on my shoulder.)

chowing down at Chang's

My sister was visiting from Berkely, California where she lives. She's a graduate from that University and also a world traveler. Mostly to Europe, Italy is her favorite country because she gets to stay with her best friend at her grandparents house in Northern Italy ... but the farthest away she's been is New Zealand, where she spent 8 months with her company.

My hair got even longer than it is shown here - Cain loved it. But then before Christmas that year I had a haircut accident. I got it cut by a vietnamese stylist who didn't understand English so well and when I said cut it below the shoulders - she cut it above. Cain came flying acrost the salon shouting - but it was too late! Have any of you ever had a haircutting accident? They suck, huh? But luckily it grows back.

ps-we have weird hair in our family. Everyone was blonde when little and then it gets sort of muddy blonde when older. In the shade it looks brown, in the sun it looks a dark blonde. Don't even know what color you call it.

Mmm... Chinese food, yummy, it looks like you had a meal for like 10 persons on that table .

Haircut accidents? You bet I've had those, I haven't gone to the barbers for 3 years I believe, and it's mostly because of me being scared that they'll do whatever they wish with their sissors... Some people are afraid of flying, some of spiders, me, I'm afraid of barbers...

Nope, when I'll decide to cut my hair (not all of it, but a little bit) then I'll have to be very sure that the barber is a trusty non-criminal, non-insane, non-sadistic person.. I'll probably stalk her/him a few months before I decide to take it on.

Ok, here comes a couple of pictures, for the sake of this thread .

This is me and a very good friend of mine

And this is me and my parents

In both pictures I'm wearing my bachelor hat, it's a tradition that comes from the town I live in (Uppsala) but is celebrated in all of Sweden. We wear those the final weeks of High School and then (at lest in Uppsala) the whole city meets in front of the main Library where the University-principle bids everyone welcome to a life of more studies . And then everyone gets drunk. (Except me since I'm a teetotaller)

Edit: Those pictures were taken about one year ago, I don't wear braceletts any more

This post has been edited by Bofra: Jun 2 2006, 10:57 AM

Just one more little tiny off-topic comment:


I think the moderators on this forum are the kindest and most polite I've ever seen!