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    The Countdown to Zero

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Last week I wrote in a post that there was only 5,046 players left in Uni 9. I checked just now and see we've slumped down to 4,877. That's a net loss of 169 players in a week. Let's assume for a minute that each player had 6 colonies; that's 1,014 fewer targets.

     

    At this rate of decline, it'll only take 29 weeks to completely clear out the whole Universe.

     

    Will there come a time, with only a few players in a Universe, that OGame will simply pull the plug on the server? - Is there any precedence for this kind of thing? The game is funded by advertising and will the advertisers one day say that they're not gonna pay for ads in a Universe with only a few thousand players.

     

    Then what happens?

     

    Is there anyway we can work to add more players to this Universe (kinda like recruiting christians for the lions, lol)?

     

    Thoughts, anyone?

    Application for D.a.r.k. in Uni 9

    in Clan Applications

    Posted

    Wow...

     

    So glad you decided to submit your application to join with the best

     

    Have I thanked you for your help with El Makedonero:) errr, yep a couple of time already... but thanks a million once again

     

    Your a great guy and I'm holding out the best of hopes for your app

    Happy Birthday Celebrimbor

    in Key Largo Beach Resort and General Discussion

    Posted

    Thanks to all of you...I had a great Birthday; family, friends, cookout and beer /beers

     

    What could be better! /thumbsup

     

    Your messages and wishes are all appreciated. :o

     

    Now with that said... I shall have no more birthdays, I am as old as old I will become. At my age, the clock the starts ticking backwards, so for the future, my HAPPY BIRTHDAY shall appear YADHTRIB YPPAH...

    "Flippin' the Bird"

    in Key Largo Beach Resort and General Discussion

    Posted

    I received this from a dear friend earlier today and thought this would make your day...

     

    I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the following, but it should to be true!

     

     

    Well, now...here's something I never knew before, and now that I know it

    I feel compelled to send it on to my more intelligent friends in the hope

    that they, too, will feel edified. Isn't history more fun when you know

    something about it?

     

    Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating victory

    over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured

    English soldiers. Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw

    the renowned English longbow and therefore they would be incapable of

    fighting in the future. This famous English longbow was made of the native

    English Yew tree, and the act of drawing the longbow was known as "plucking

    the yew" (or "pluck yew") .

     

    Much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won a major upset and

    began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at the defeated

    French, saying, "See, we can still pluck yew!"

     

    Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say, the difficult consonant

    cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodentals

    fricative F*, and thus the words often used in conjunction with the

    middle-finger-salute!

     

    Also, because of pheasant feathers used on the arrows for the longbow,

    the pluck yew gesture is also known as "giving the bird."

    Because the act of "giving the bird" is usually done in a waving to and fro

    motion, it is also known as "flipping the bird."

     

     

     

    IT IS STILL AN APPROPRIATE SALUTE TO THE FRENCH TODAY!

     

     

     

    And yew thought yew knew every plucking thing

     

    * labiodentals fricative F means: "friction between lips and teeth" secksy, heh! Those French anyway...lol

    Stepping In

    in DarkMatters: Introductions.

    Posted

    Hey esfan38

     

    It sure is good to see you here. I wanted to thanks again for the missle help on our little friend. Wanna do it again:) (insert evil laugh here)

     

    Stop by the bar and have a drink on the house, poke around the corners here - there's lot's of great stuff here.

    A Real Mafia Story

    in O'Malley's General Store

    Posted

    I grew up in a small sized city in upstate New York. I was buddies with a guy with a very Irish last name who had and uncle (about 10 years older) with the same last name (I shouldn't mention this name). My buddy's grandmother was an Antuzzi and was related to the Fusare's, D'ambrossio's and and Canistaro's. I remember meeting guys at birthdays, weddings and anniversaries whose nicknames were Fat Tony, Wiggles, and John the Buster or simply Buster for short. They all smoked cigars and these guys would congregate in the den or on the patio and talk real quiet. If we came too close they'd shoo us away or bribe us us with a little cash to disappear. Heck we could make $15 or $20 on a single birthday party just being kids...And Ya know, the wives were all named Connie, Maria or Marie - and they made tons of pasta with great homemade sausage and always canolis for desert. (When I saw the Godfather movie for the first time nearly laughed out loud - "Leave da body, grab the canolis")

     

    My buddy's Uncle and his father were in the demolition business - they'd tear down buildings with a big truck crane and recycle the debris - bricks, copper, cast iron, etc. As we grew up together and got into high school, my buddy would sometimes invite me to work with the crew after school and on weekends - just general labor stuff - shoveling, stacking bricks and separating copper from cast iron. I always got paid in cash.

     

    The business went very well for my buddy's uncle and soon he had a beautiful house, a great wife and two sweet kids. It seems he also had a lot of extra money - apparantly he would always get the better contracts for demolition work after some suspicious fire would gut the whole place - like a warehouse or a restaurant. With this extra money, he bought a downtown building and converted it into a top notch restaurant. I worked there, too, doing valet parking for some pretty rough looking guys from New York and New Jersey that tipped real good - I would often have to drive them home after a night of drinking - usually get a $20 for that and have to figure out how to get home by myself.

     

    Anyway, it seems my buddy's uncle took a liking to one of his resturant business partners' wife and they had an affair. Wouldn't you know it after about 18 months, they got found out and all hell broke loose. Seems his partner was a Cesaro and a made man from the Jersey Mob and was not forgiving at all. My buddy's Uncle found his car (a Lincoln Continental) burned to a crisp in the resturant parking lot one Sunday morning and had his dump trucks vandalized the following day (slashed tires, broken windshields and sugar in the gas tanks). He was called to meet with this Cesaro guy - who made him an offer he couldn't refuse ---- stop seeing the guys wife, sell his interest in the restaurant (for nothing), move out of town and never come back OR .... (you fill in the blank). They found Cesaro's wife dead of an apparent drug overdose about a month later; very mysterious...

     

    So, the uncle disappears and moves to New Orleans, leaving his wife and 2 kids without any income. His wife went to work as a teacher and some how kept the house together. The business equipment - the crane and the rest of the dump trucks were eventually sold off to pay his debts.

     

    About 5 years later, the grandmother becomes quite ill and passes on. I went to the funeral and saw the uncle there. He told me he had to contact Cesaro and ask permission to attend his own mother's funeral. It was granted on the condition, he was to leave the next morning. The uncle pointed out the car circling the funeral home and then the family's house later - the car had two goodfella's in it, just makin' sure the uncle wouldn't do anything stupid. He left the next morning...

     

    There's more...I told you the Uncle had two kids - two girls - well, one of them grows up to be an attorney and begins working in New York City for the then US Attorney Rudolf Guiliani - yep the former Mayor of NYC and the guy who took out the rest of the Mafia, John Gotti and the rest of that crowd. She did it to somehow get even with the mob for what happened to her father. The uncle is still in New Orleans or was last I knew and was working for HUD - tearing down buildings to make way for HUD homes...

    The official Gangstah Movie LIst

    in Media Matters

    Posted

    No question the best for me are:

     

    Godfather 2 - The consumate study of the mafia, the history, the whole Cuba thing. So real and powerful, great acting, plenty of action, super story and pure evil...

     

    Godfather - The original introduction, great flick. Brando as Don Corleone, just doesn't get any better that this

     

    Goodfellas - This is real stuff, Pesci was great!

     

    Donnie Brasco - Great study of the inner-workings of the mob.

     

    Casino - Pretty good, but Deniro was not believable in the role. Pesci was real darn good and Sharon Stone at her sexiest.

     

    I've always been real intrigued by the Mafia, probably because I knew a few goodfellas when I was in high school. I've got a few stories that could make a pretty neat movie...

    Celebrimbors Sig

    in AV/Sig Requests

    Posted

    I really like still. I checked the posting on OOF and tend to think the border suggestion may improve the overall effect.

     

    Schot - what about the size - Is it legal on OGame and will it be legal on this forum in the future?

    The truth at last: Gogo and his pants

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    *cough*

    *sputter*

    wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeze

     

    k rembmer that was taken at a rave

    heh, can I refuse to answer any questions under the fifth ammendment?

     

    Please?

     

    :D

     

    gogo

    gogo, the fifith ammendment is strictly a US thing, I'm not sure this is covered in the Canadian constitution, so beware and fess up!

     

    Yer fans deserve an answer!

    my long await attack on Prof H Farnsworth

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Ya know dan...

     

    I, too was in TOH0 for a sort while with my previous account and yer right, he isn't really a good leader...

     

    I've been watchin' him for a long time, but his fleet was just too big fer me. But, I'm growing a lot and one of these days, if he's still around, I'll get my chance at him, too. So I hope you get him full bore first.

     

    You only touched a small portion of his fleet, so I'd be very watchfull for the near future. He'll try, I know, to get back at you.

     

    He's a poor fleet saver and takes too many uncalculated chances. While he does have some power with his fleet, he has too many other things that attract his attention. He can be dangerous, when backed in a corner, but patience and perseverance prevail, on both sides.

     

    Nice hit, but there's more to him than meets the eye. Be Careful out there.

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