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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Martinus on July 18, 2005, 10:20:22 am

Title: Where in the world is... you.
Post by: Martinus on July 18, 2005, 10:20:22 am: [color=66ff00]I figured it might be interesting to use google maps to point out where we all are.

//maps.google.com

To see roughly where I am type in Belfast and scroll left and down a bit until you find a place called Lurgan in 'map' view. You have to be 6 notches down on the magnification bar to see the label.

Not surprisingly, it's a lot lower resolution than the U.S. but it's enough to show what the area is like. :nod:
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Post by: kasperl on July 18, 2005, 10:27:10 am: Can't find the place, sorry....

It doesn't seem to have any maps for the Netherlands, either.
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Post by: Martinus on July 18, 2005, 10:31:29 am: [color=66ff00]Strange indeed, Netherlands gives nothing yet Amsterdam works. :confused:
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Post by: vyper on July 18, 2005, 10:33:00 am
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Post by: vyper on July 18, 2005, 10:37:02 am: OI, how come Barrhead has more detailed maps than Glasgow?
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Post by: aldo_14 on July 18, 2005, 10:37:45 am: Precision targeting.
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Post by: Martinus on July 18, 2005, 10:38:51 am: [color=66ff00]brings an entirely new meaning to 'I can see your house from here'. :)

Seems only major cities have full resolution, they're the ones picked out in a darker colour at lower zoom levels.

EDIT: Strange, you're right Vyper. Perhaps they're doing full res on clear days as they are able?
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Post by: Lt.Cannonfodder on July 18, 2005, 10:40:29 am: I won't give you a more precise shot, but my house is somewhere on this pic. I can even see our car :D

(http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/1650/ltchouse7fm.th.jpg) (http://img117.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ltchouse7fm.jpg)
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Post by: vyper on July 18, 2005, 10:46:36 am: Quote
Originally posted by aldo_14
Precision targeting.

For buckfast drops.

Mind you, you can clearly see the Gleniffer Braes and certain dogger's points...
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Post by: Nuclear1 on July 18, 2005, 10:47:52 am: (http://freespaceserver.cjb.net/gti/maphouse.gif)

The map is obviously several years old. My house is finished, but all the others (which are done by now) are not even begun.
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Post by: Martinus on July 18, 2005, 10:55:05 am: Quote
Originally posted by vyper
*snip* and certain dogger's points...

:lol:
[color=66ff00]There's one about 20 minutes drive from my house too near a marina.
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Post by: Liquid Fire on July 18, 2005, 11:12:19 am: My house (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=16920+sheldon+rd+los+gatos+ca&ll=37.222914,-122.000170&spn=0.003730,0.005239&t=k&hl=en) (the pointer is at the start of the driveway, so yes my house is the one slightly down and to the right.)

If you zoom out a bit, you can catch some of the awesome view of the entire valley that I have :D
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Post by: Black Wolf on July 18, 2005, 11:12:41 am: Heh - this is cool. Unfortunately, it doesn;t have any real maps of my house at home, but the pics of the uni go up to the highest detail setting :)

See that H shaped building in the top left? That's where I have most of my classes. It's a 2 minute walk :D
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Post by: Taristin on July 18, 2005, 11:14:51 am: Download google earth, tis better than the map proggy :nod:
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Post by: Fragrag on July 18, 2005, 11:15:15 am: I'll use Google Earth, as there are maps for Belgium there, abeit pretty low res, thats why I'll post my old house in America too

My house:
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/8580/myhouse0kx.jpg

My old house:
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/5495/oldhouse2ai.jpg
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Post by: vyper on July 18, 2005, 11:21:13 am: Quote
Originally posted by Liquid Fire
My house (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=16920+sheldon+rd+los+gatos+ca&ll=37.222914,-122.000170&spn=0.003730,0.005239&t=k&hl=en) (the pointer is at the start of the driveway, so yes my house is the one slightly down and to the right.)

If you zoom out a bit, you can catch some of the awesome view of the entire valley that I have :D

Rich bastard :p
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Post by: Nuclear1 on July 18, 2005, 11:32:33 am: Quote
Originally posted by Liquid Fire
My house (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=16920+sheldon+rd+los+gatos+ca&ll=37.222914,-122.000170&spn=0.003730,0.005239&t=k&hl=en) (the pointer is at the start of the driveway, so yes my house is the one slightly down and to the right.)

If you zoom out a bit, you can catch some of the awesome view of the entire valley that I have :D

*is now jealous of LF's valley*

Now that I have your address... ;7 :drevil:

;)
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Post by: Taristin on July 18, 2005, 11:39:10 am: I was zooming about in google earth a few days ago, and decided to zoom over Brisbane, Australia, to see if I could find Grug's house on the map.

I think I did.
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Post by: redsniper on July 18, 2005, 11:52:05 am: LOL?
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Post by: Nuclear1 on July 18, 2005, 11:56:10 am: I'm... not sure what to make of... that. :wtf:
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Post by: StratComm on July 18, 2005, 12:03:33 pm: At home in Teh Boonies! (http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=35.615789,-80.700585&spn=0.065060,0.085316&z=3&t=k&hl=en) (if you can't see anything, zoom out one click), not much in the way of low-level shots so you can just barely make out the patch where houses might be.

And at school here (http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.000084,-78.938763&spn=0.008132,0.010664&t=k&hl=en)
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Post by: Rott3 on July 18, 2005, 12:11:36 pm: To Raa: I think you didn't find Grugs house. The thing you found IS Grug. That :thepimp: is humongous.

Why doesn't it have any hi-res pics of my house, or even my country? I'm sad.
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Post by: Lt.Cannonfodder on July 18, 2005, 12:16:28 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Rott3
Why doesn't it have any hi-res pics of my house, or even my country? I'm sad.

Maybe there's nothing to see? *runs*

;)
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Post by: Rott3 on July 18, 2005, 12:32:27 pm: Damn you Finnish people. You come here and buy all of our beer and then you mock us :p
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Post by: Deepblue on July 18, 2005, 12:42:04 pm: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=12107+194th+Ave.+NE+Redmond,+WA&spn=0.007328,0.007135&t=k&hl=en

Now, was that a good idea...
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Post by: vyper on July 18, 2005, 12:44:23 pm: *prepares Teh Nuke*
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Post by: Martinus on July 18, 2005, 12:45:14 pm: [color=66ff00]*Listens for the sound of someone warming up an orbital beam cannon*

No?

Looks like you're ok.
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Post by: Thorn on July 18, 2005, 01:15:25 pm: This picture is obviously over a year old, as the set of buildings I live in is still under construction in it.
http://uploads.hexellent.com/userfiles/Thorn/myhouse.jpg
Just to the right of the red thingy, you can see one completed building, half of the one I'm in, and the space for the third.
The big white building is a high school, and to the left is a Home Depot.

And this is how to get to DB's place from my house.
http://uploads.hexellent.com/userfiles/Thorn/metodb.jpg
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Post by: Deepblue on July 18, 2005, 01:25:10 pm: Oh noes!!!111222

:lol:
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Post by: Martinus on July 18, 2005, 01:34:18 pm: [color=66ff00]Thankfully I don't live near a major hardware store, otherwise I'd have built that stargate by now.

I just don't have a bedroom big enough to take a 7 odd meter diameter ring and the electricity bill would be apocalyptic.
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Post by: Cobra on July 18, 2005, 01:39:15 pm: (http://img325.imageshack.us/img325/6127/house9ay.jpg)

Hemet, California. Punks live on devonshire (i can hear their ****ing bass. what a headache.)

but yeah, it's a good place, but sirens galore on the 4th of July.
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Post by: Nuclear1 on July 18, 2005, 01:42:21 pm: Party at DB's house! :D

(http://freespaceserver.cjb.net/gti/todbshouse.gif)
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Post by: aldo_14 on July 18, 2005, 01:44:15 pm: ...
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Post by: Deepblue on July 18, 2005, 01:49:03 pm: Quote
Originally posted by nuclear1
Party at DB's house! :D

(http://freespaceserver.cjb.net/gti/todbshouse.gif)

:lol:

I knew it was a bad idea!!!

Now I have to relocate and return to my formerly shadowy existence. :nervous:
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Post by: Liquid Fire on July 18, 2005, 02:06:46 pm: Quote
Originally posted by vyper

Rich bastard :p

No, just a small house on a hill. Now the people below me who own that big meadow with the horses? They're rich.

Quote
Originally posted by nuclear1

Now that I have your address...

The fact that your name is nuclear1 is now somehow incredibly terrifying to me.
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Post by: Nuclear1 on July 18, 2005, 02:08:19 pm: Exactly.

*prepares The Arsenal™*
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Post by: achtung on July 18, 2005, 02:10:50 pm: I used terraserver. Because Google's pic is awful for my area.

(http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/8070/better19iu.th.jpg) (http://img169.imageshack.us/my.php?image=better19iu.jpg)
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Post by: Hippo on July 18, 2005, 02:35:42 pm: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.726141,-70.988996&spn=0.007012,0.010131&t=k&hl=en

That thing in the middle is the elementry school... I'm about half and inch up... (or two houses down the street, same side)...
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Post by: FireCrack on July 18, 2005, 03:06:51 pm: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1026+eyremount+dr+v7s2b3&ll=49.350425,-123.137995&spn=0.007420,0.010111&t=k&hl=en

My old house is also visible in that pic, towards the right of the image there is a lot without grass (dirt instead) old house is just to the left of that one (whitew square in backyard)
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Post by: Carl on July 18, 2005, 03:52:20 pm: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/Carltheshivan/d915b801.jpg)

Gee whiz, Carl! why is your picture so much more zoomed in than ours?

Because HLPeople, i used http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ which zooms in twice as much as google!
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Post by: Nuclear1 on July 18, 2005, 04:22:25 pm: And Terraserver also uses much more outdated maps than even Google! :p
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Post by: Hippo on July 18, 2005, 04:27:14 pm: And puts me in black and white! :p
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Post by: FireCrack on July 18, 2005, 04:30:46 pm: And actualy google zooms in more than that anyways...
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Post by: aldo_14 on July 18, 2005, 04:46:42 pm: And Terraserver only covers the US
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Post by: Sandwich on July 18, 2005, 04:57:10 pm: Quote
Originally posted by aldo_14
And Terraserver only covers the US

What he said.

Google Earth and NASA's WorldWind are superior because they don't falsely advertise - UNLIKE M$'s TerraServer. "Terra" my arse.

Anyway, I'm trying to learn the lat/long of my house by heart. It's hard: Lat 31�1.42"N, Long 35�44.32"E - according to Google Earth. Worldwind has me at 31.73531/35.19558. Weird.
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Post by: Nuke on July 18, 2005, 04:59:54 pm: bah, alaskas sattelite photos are too low res.
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Post by: Deepblue on July 18, 2005, 05:53:44 pm: Hehe, I bet terraserver has very detailed pics of Redmond... *goes and looks*
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Post by: Unknown Target on July 18, 2005, 07:14:15 pm: Try earth.google.com if you have broadband. It is WAY cool.
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Post by: Krackers87 on July 18, 2005, 07:15:00 pm: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=layton+dr,+springfield,+va&hl=en
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Post by: Carl on July 18, 2005, 07:16:57 pm: Quote
Originally posted by FireCrack
And actualy google zooms in more than that anyways...

errr, no it doesn't.
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Post by: Unknown Target on July 18, 2005, 07:46:52 pm: Terraserver only covers the US - and only the continental US/Puerto Rico/Hawaii at that.
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Post by: Nuke on July 18, 2005, 08:03:27 pm: google earth still doesnt have high res maps of my area. the topograpgy is kinda cool though. nasa's app should have better piccys though.
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Post by: Carl on July 18, 2005, 09:00:30 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Unknown Target
Terraserver only covers the US - and only the continental US/Puerto Rico/Hawaii at that.

But that's all of the world :nod:
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Post by: Nuclear1 on July 18, 2005, 09:41:58 pm: *smites Carl*

*backs off as Carl recoils and points his Big Shivan Plasma Death Ray of Doom™*
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Post by: Kosh on July 19, 2005, 12:22:36 am: Here is where I will be going

(http://maps.google.com/maps?q=nanjing&spn=0.165035,0.240704&t=k&hl=en)
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Post by: Nuke on July 19, 2005, 12:24:34 am: not even worldwind shows my locale in any level of detail.
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Post by: Bobboau on July 19, 2005, 12:49:56 am: yay! now I get to stalk you all!
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Post by: Admiral LSD on July 19, 2005, 02:27:21 am: "Home":

(http://members.westnet.com.au/iweber/home.jpg)

It's a fairly outdated pic, for one thing the vacant block next door now has a house on it, but it's more than Google could do.

My current place of residence, though, is here:

(http://members.westnet.com.au/iweber/vickery.jpg)
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Post by: redmenace on July 19, 2005, 08:13:06 am: Believe it or not, that is part of northern virginia. Amazingly, part that has not been developed. Matter of fact I found black widows in the garage when we moved in. :nervous:
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Post by: Hippo on July 19, 2005, 08:14:47 am: Black windows? In case of air-raid? :wtf:
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Post by: Sandwich on July 19, 2005, 08:51:09 am: Black Widows.
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Post by: Hippo on July 19, 2005, 08:53:53 am: Oooohhhh... :nervous:

Wow... really screwed that one up... :p
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Post by: Taristin on July 19, 2005, 08:55:05 am: Shpydairs.
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Post by: kasperl on July 19, 2005, 02:24:07 pm: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=amsterdam&ll=51.406145,5.565004&spn=0.040688,0.060176&t=k&hl=en

Somewhere in that picture, perhaps.

I'd had to make a rough geuss by using Amsterdam as a keyword, which is halfway accros the country. I'm hoping I picked the right blobs as cities for reference.
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Post by: übermetroid on July 20, 2005, 10:10:43 am: Right in the middle there.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=boulder+creek,+California&ll=37.174956,-122.139183&spn=0.004831,0.007522&t=k&hl=en
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Post by: Clave on July 20, 2005, 05:07:32 pm: I live near the river:

(http://www.altgame.net/imagedump/abode.jpg)
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Post by: Nuke on July 20, 2005, 05:12:56 pm: (http://www.game-warden.com/nukemod-cos/Images/elcrappo.jpg)
this is the best i can do, behold the desolation!
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Post by: Clave on July 20, 2005, 05:18:35 pm: Cool! :cool:
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Post by: Nuke on July 20, 2005, 06:33:30 pm: btw the glacier is on the other side of thunder mountain (the one in the upper left corner) from here.
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Post by: Axem on July 20, 2005, 06:44:24 pm: Axem lives here.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/NarfPics/axemhouse2.jpg)
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Post by: Fenrir on July 20, 2005, 06:54:21 pm: (http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/3475/myhouse1at.jpg)

Yups...
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Post by: Gortef on July 21, 2005, 04:15:22 am: (http://koti.mbnet.fi/gortef/my_house.jpg)

That's the spot. Free tennis courts and a park right next to it. Markets are also nearby. It's a nice place to live.
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Post by: karajorma on July 21, 2005, 04:37:57 am: I'd be careful Gortef. Looks like someone's got a laser sight aimed at you :D
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Post by: adwight on July 21, 2005, 09:21:28 am: My House (http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=4&S=8&Z=12&X=8679&Y=89400&W=1&qs=%7cAmerican+Fork%7c%7c) is the one in the bottom left portion of the middle, that looks sort of like an upside down L. You can see my blue car parked in the driveway.
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Post by: pyro-manic on July 21, 2005, 12:34:18 pm: Bah. Maps.google and earth.google use the same crappy resolution shots of my area. Anyway, here's a photo of the general area - this is as nice as I could get it to look...

Map:
(http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/7500/bend9ug.jpg)

Photo:
(http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/3246/bendphoto19cw.jpg)
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Post by: Ulala on July 21, 2005, 02:15:39 pm: (http://server2.uploadit.org/files/Ulala321-osu.jpg)

Okay, so I don't have a parking permit yet (they're like $140! per year!), so my car is a ways off. And technically I'm not moved into the dorm yet.. that happens in September, so no stalking me until then. :nervous: And you can see the building I work in, my office is in the basement, lol. So I have a very close-quartered little life here on OSU's campus (that's Oregon, not Ohio). :p Wish I could show you more of our campus, it's quite beautiful, but my host only allows 200k size images. :doubt:
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Post by: WMCoolmon on July 21, 2005, 02:31:14 pm: Hmm, I wonder what my place looks like from Google maps...

(http://fig.cox.miami.edu/~cmallery/150/scimeth/impactimage.jpg)

OH NOESSSS!!! :shaking:
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Post by: Nuclear1 on July 21, 2005, 02:35:10 pm: *looks at picture*

Tsk, tsk... it's always so sad when a forum member gets nuked by a meteor. :nervous:
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Post by: redsniper on July 21, 2005, 02:37:30 pm: R.I.P. WMC :(
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Post by: karajorma on July 21, 2005, 02:57:39 pm: Nice try at faking your own death but you don't get out of working for the SCP that easily WMC. :p
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Post by: Clave on July 21, 2005, 05:22:32 pm: It was too obvious, you should have used a subtle photo of somewhere not your home....a bit like I did...:nervous:
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Post by: aldo_14 on July 21, 2005, 05:23:58 pm: Quote
Originally posted by nuclear1
*looks at picture*

Tsk, tsk... it's always so sad when a forum member gets nuked by a meteor. :nervous:

Sorry, my finger slipped.
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Post by: Clave on July 21, 2005, 05:25:29 pm: That wasn't your finger...
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Post by: aldo_14 on July 21, 2005, 05:34:05 pm: Meteors; Gods ejaculate

(I'm going straight to hell for that one......)
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Post by: Clave on July 21, 2005, 05:40:48 pm: Haha - I gave up worrying about that sorta thing when I was 10...
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Post by: Gortef on July 24, 2005, 10:31:49 am: Quote
Originally posted by karajorma
I'd be careful Gortef. Looks like someone's got a laser sight aimed at you :D

Yea I noticed. I was wondering the other day why there was a big red dot on my floor...