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As expected we got most hits from those darn Yankees ;) <BR>And being a Dane myself, I&acute;m quite surprised over how &quot;many&quot; Scandinavians visits us! <BR>If any of you reads this, could you please identify yourself?! <BR>Cause I&acute;m interested in knowing how many of those visits are from fellow Danes!! <BR>:snow
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Mwuwahaha!! <BR> <BR>I can throw in useless trivia too. Did you know Afrikaans is very similar to Dutch?
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The trouble with Babylon5 though, is that the season starts of soooo slow, only halfway through it gets interesting.
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Even better, I can&acute;t even sign up because my primary email address (according to them) has invalid characters: zathrus@h-a-s.co.za <BR>Thats strange because I&acute;ve been using it for years... hmmm. Was a nice idea though. <BR>
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Damn, they&acute;ve got earthalliance.com, vorlonempire.com, zahadum.com, psycorps.com, etc... But no epsilon3.com <BR> <BR>oh well.
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Nasty place that, but your email address is just too cool. <BR>
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Babylon 5 is the best SciFi show out there, I watch it religiously.. however, my memory retention is worse then Mick Jagger&acute;s hence I forgot who the Zathros were. <BR> <BR>I have since hitch-hiked my way to Zahadum, but all it&acute;s quite here atm.. I think we may have to wait another 5000 years. If youre trying to reach me with any weird and whacky questions.. my email is <BR>grimspoon@zahadum.com <------ for real lol <BR> <BR>
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Sorry, it was 9 not 7.
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heh, well Zathr(a)s is actually a bunch(7 ?) of little guys (though we&acute;ve only seen two I think) that run around helping to save the universe from obliteration via the Shadows. One of them got sent 1000yrs along with Cmdr Sinclair to bolster the Minbari forces and supply them with a base of operations: Babylon4. <BR> <BR>Zathras: &quot;Great war. Terrible war. Much killings. Everyone fighting. A great darkness. It is the end of everything. Zathras warn, but no, no one listen to poor Zathras, no. Great war. But, great hope of peace. Need place. Place to gather, to fight to organize...to help save galaxy on the side of light. So they tell me. Must have. Or it is the end of all. The One leads us. The One tells us to go, we go. We live for The One. We would die for The One. We pull this place through time to save us all.&quot; <BR> <BR>Yes I watch way too much. But in my defence I&acute;ll state that this is one of the few things I _really_ watch. <BR> <BR>Escapism. <BR> <BR>
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/me jumps up and down with hand in air! I can answer &quot;Zathrus&quot; question! <BR>(...but on second thought) <BR> <BR>/me decides to let Z-man answer for himself. <BR> <BR>{:p
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hehe.. I am actually just curious where you got your nick from .. Zathrus!
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Crae: &quot;Did you know Afrikaans is very similar to Dutch?&quot; <BR> <BR>*omg* serious? :P <BR> <BR>Seriously though, with a little effort I can read Dutch text, pronunciation though, is a problem for me. Technically its thanks to our mutual ancestors that I&acute;m here, as my family descended from the colinists. <BR> <BR>
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Cape Town, South Africa. <BR> <BR> <BR>Who are the other two Africans? ;) <BR> <BR>
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Phf! :, <BR> <BR> I could have made another thread for this pointless bit of trivia. But instead I thought that this one was most appropriate. <BR> <BR>
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Not me. Why? Does he visit SkinBase too?
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Hey, who here knew that JRR Tolkien was born here in South Africa?
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You got <b>that</b> right crae! <BR>:snow
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Or in other words, it&acute;s a damn mess up there.
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Check this: http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=67724&amp;tocid=0&amp;query=scandinavia <BR> <BR>&quot;<b>Scandinavia</b>: historically Scandia part of northern Europe, generally held to consist of the two countries of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Norway and Sweden, with the addition of Denmark. Some authorities argue for the inclusion of Finland on geologic and economic grounds and of Iceland and the Faroe Islands on the grounds that their inhabitants speak North Germanic (or Scandinavian) languages related…&quot; <BR>
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What? Finland is not Scandinavian and Denmark is? Where&acute;s my dictionary...
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<b>Nordic</b>: <BR><i>Denmark <BR>Norway <BR>Sweden <BR>Finland</i> <BR><b>Scandinavia</b>: <BR><i>Denmark <BR>Norway <BR>Sweden</i> <BR> <BR>Faroer Islands still &quot;<i>belong</i>&quot; to Denmark, crae! <BR>:snow
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Oh, dig that, I get cut off for using an o with a slash. Continuing... &quot;where do the Faroer Islands belong to?&quot;
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Curious. I always thought Scandinavia was Norway, Sweden and Finland, while the so called &quot;Nordic Countries&quot; are Scandinavia, Denmark (including Greenland) and Iceland. Hmm, where do the Far
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