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Iltis · #1 22-01-2008, 19:47

Happy Birdy Snakebite - have a great day

snakebite911 · #2 22-01-2008, 21:55

Thank you, (all?)

Just got home from work, now awaits a better dinner with some plonk, and a relaxing evening, have to work tomorrow, so no big celebrations.

Would have made the day perfect if I could have spent it at MTB with a huge Barbeque, (and lotsa booze) and then left for my Summer Suite at SB with a couple of LBFM's for a vigorus night's excercise!

Well the chow awaits, see you in april

georgelondon · #3 22-01-2008, 22:07

have a great birthday

dawsey · #4 23-01-2008, 03:23

Happy Birthday snakebite

I hope you have a great day

BTW, do you take your boardname from the UK drink snakebite? I did wonder 555

snakebite911 · #5 23-01-2008, 03:37

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Originally Posted by dawsey

Happy Birthday snakebite

I hope you have a great day

BTW, do you take your boardname from the UK drink snakebite? I did wonder 555

Thanks! No, not from the drink. Late nineties a company named Iname started a web based e-mail service where you could choose from lots of different endings ie: @doctor.com; They also had @snakebite.com, which I choose, they also had a deal with the 100 000 first customers got a lifetime, free, account. Anyhow, I kept the snakebite, using it as a netname all over, until others also started using it, then, instead of going snakebite 1-2-3 and just trying for the first empty one I went with 911 (after the car, not the date, probably started using it in 98' or so.) So, thats the whole story of Snakebite911.

dawsey · #6 23-01-2008, 03:42

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Originally Posted by snakebite911

Thanks! No, not from the drink. Late nineties a company named Iname started a web based e-mail service where you could choose from lots of different endings ie: @doctor.com; They also had @snakebite.com, which I choose, they also had a deal with the 100 000 first customers got a lifetime, free, account. Anyhow, I kept the snakebite, using it as a netname all over, until others also started using it, then, instead of going snakebite 1-2-3 and just trying for the first empty one I went with 911 (after the car, not the date, probably started using it in 98' or so.) So, thats the whole story of Snakebite911.

Ah right, thanks for the explanation.
While I'm being a nosy sod, your English is too good for a Noggie. Are you English, living in Norway?

I know another BM from Norway, Junkhouse, who has great command of English language, but thought maybe he was a one off.
No need to answer if you prefer.

snakebite911 · #7 23-01-2008, 04:07

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Originally Posted by dawsey

Ah right, thanks for the explanation.
While I'm being a nosy sod, your English is too good for a Noggie. Are you English, living in Norway?

I know another BM from Norway, Junkhouse, who has great command of English language, but thought maybe he was a one off.
No need to answer if you prefer.

Not english (perish the thought), born and lived all my life in Norway, however, as usual there is an explanation. The part of Norway I live in has had a huge emigration to the US, people going back and forth for the last 150 years.
My great -grandfather and his siblings went over in the 1880ies, participated in the Klondike, took land, worked on the railroads and so forth. My grandfather was born in the US, and came back to Norway to take over the farm that his father had bought with money made in the goldfields.
My dad was born here, but went over for 10 years, spent four of them in the Navy, and came back again for the farm. His brother and sister live in the Seattle area. My mothers aunt left and married a Mormon in Salt Lake City, so there I have a huge family as well. I've been visiting the US 8-9 times for three weeks to a month each time since I was 5, and every summer for as long as I can remember we've had american visitors staying for a few weeks. I have more close family in Seattle than in Norway.
Also, I am the proverbial bookworm, and since I was fourteen I have mainly read English books. (Hundreds!) Give me two weeks to get into the groove in the US, and I have trouble explaining to people that, "No, Im not an American, and I come from Europe,and no again, not England." When it comes to supremacy of the English language, I rock.

All typing mistakes due to new keybord with wave-form from Logitech, which means that my fingers doesn't always hit the right key.

dawsey · #8 23-01-2008, 04:14

Interesting background you have snakebite. Thanks for the detailed info.
No wonder your English is so good!

Anyway, enjoy the remainder of your birthday

snakebite911 · #9 23-01-2008, 04:17

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Originally Posted by dawsey

Interesting background you have snakebite. Thanks for the detailed info.
No wonder your English is so good!

Anyway, enjoy the remainder of your birthday

I will!