Traveling with the ball...

Xpilot Summercamp 1999

Skallerup, Denmark, 23th - 29th of July 1999
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Below are some pictures taken with a digital still camera at the summercamp. Thanks to Wilfried Solbach (Deutsche Welle) for leaning it to me during those days I attended. Just click on an image to view it at full size. If you scale a picture down to half size, it usally gets sharper. Peoples names are always from left to right as they appear in the picture. Missing events are soccer match and the bath in the north-sea (you know, these norwegians bath in icy water holes, so the sea was actually very warm for them). Missing people are Reagan and ?

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0001 Rm: The first picture was taken from Airflys map of Europe to see if the camera actually works and the batteries are full. The summerhouse is on the north-west of Mors, just near Dragstrup.
0002 Rm: There is actually no photo of Airfly picking me up in Hannover (Germany), because the camera sucks without enough light and I had no nerves to use the flash. So the first picture was taken very early in the morning, when we already drove through denmark; indicated by a higher itemWindmillProb.
Kosh: Sweden needs to apply the danish itemWindmillProb patch...
0003 Rm: The sun looked so promising, I just had to picture it. And yes, the camera is able to see directly into the sun without tricks. The drawback is, that the CCD-sensor is really slow at taking a picture, so moving objects (or a moving camera) are no good targets.
0012 Rm: Beside what is shown above, I did not take any picture of the journey. Finally, we found a house, which matched Mouses description very close. But would this be the right house? It had no car in front of it and nobody came out. Or did we arrive too early?
0005 Rm: We were not quite sure, that we were at the right summerhouse and double-checked the house-number. After all, Daimis are usally no sitters and we expected them to get out of their base as soon as we are on their radar.
Mighty mouse: Well we haven't upgraded to 4.u.3 yet, so all we got was lots of white dots on the radar.
0004 Rm: There was no other way to find out than to get off the Airmobil and to go inside the house.
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0008 Rm: It turned out, that the two Daimis (both not shown until later) just were lagged due to the fact that they tested the beer the night before to ensure it would be good enough...
0014 Rm: Quite a nice house and the sun was still shining.
0006 Rm: The view from the terrace into the garden, where the tents were placed (actually some people still have the pleasure to be there while I am typing this text).
0010 Rm: Behind the garden, there is a passage to the sea.
0011 Rm: This is the other side of the summerhouse, seen from the garden.
0007 Rm: Mighty mother visited us that morning to bring some things for breakfeast.
0009 Rm: Mighty Mouse, Airfly and Cheater. (From left to right.) Well, immediatly after breakfeast I went to have some sleep, and took no pictures for several hours.
0015 Rm: Hurray, Mighty brother brought his computer (plus the norwegians).
0017 Rm: Mighty Mouse, Trooper, La Cream, Obi-Wan, Kogi, Masterspy
Kosh: Why isn't the Local Wusses beating the shit out of the lonely Daimi Filth? ;-)
Kogifilur: Obviously, Local Wusu
Kogifilur: It wouldn't be nice to beat them a 3rd time?
0018 Rm: Obi doing the first try to build a norwegian base.
Obi-wan: Do or do not, there is no try! (Yoda expression)
Kosh: Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side (Han Solo expression)
Kogifilur: Tent of hell. Obi sealed off the tent - effectively preventing airflow. I don't know what obi breathes, but I really prefer fresh air instead of ancient farts.
Kosh: Ancient farts? Did you bring Yoda? ;-)
0019 Rm: Masterspy and La Cream
Masterspy: Ack, that tent really sucked...
Kogifilur: Well, the ants really liked it..
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0021 Rm: Discussing the strategy for the rest of the day.
Masterspy: Something like: "How many beers do we need?".
0022 Rm: The sun was covered by clouds and we still did not have a sign of life from Pingo. We tried to use the zoom of the camera to search for him while driving to town for shopping.
0023 Rm: This is how JPEG thinks the top of a bridge could be constructed.
0024 Rm: Back from shopping, the computers were connected to each other, building a network.
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0026 Rm: It required some work to have machines for decent xpilot playing. In the end, Linux was installed everywhere (unless already pre-installed).
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Masterspy: Claus looking a bit paralyzed. I can imagine his thoughts.."Hm, was this a good idea?". Well, Claus, it was good not all 1500 showed up, or what? :)
Rm: What I didn't mention yet... I wasn't quite sure all the relevant people were aware of the meeting. So I made an agreement with the IEEE to publish some of their security paperwork and announced that on Bugtraq. 26.000 subscribers and I had a small notice about the camp in my signature. However, this was no win. :)
Mighty mouse: "FAINTING_MOUSE_SOUND"
0028 Rm: Pingo announce his arrival via his mobile phone and some of us went to the beach. It was raining and I had no chance to keep the lenses of the camera dry.
0029 Rm: Finally we saw him.
Pingosvin: Had constantly windspeeds between 10 and 13 for the last 3 days.
0030 Rm: What was even more wet than the camera was Pingo.
Pingosvin: At one point I thought they were making a feature of my trip for National Geographic.
0032 Rm: More a ship-shape for traveling on water than through bloods music.
Kosh: How many definition points in that shipshape Pingo? ;-)
Pingosvin: Do I ask you for details of the swedish Saab fighters? Or Reagan about how the F16 works? Don't ask a commie to reveal the secrets of the MIG-yak.
0033 Rm: Party-time.
Masterspy: Hm, is this supposed to be my master, he who taught me all...
La cream: I can see the resemblance already.
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Kogifilur: Sometimes your outward apperance reflects your inner being - and sometimes it does not. Would you really belive that Cheater is an old cozy grandpa?
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Kogifilur: ....and I thought other people looked stupid...
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Kogifilur: I always believed MM greatly exaggerated Pingo's devoutness to the Communist Manifesto. But clearly, one who goes paddling for 3-4 weeks in a row must indeed by a commie.
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Mighty mouse: Next time, bring your sister!
Masterspy: Ok, I'll try introducing her to the world of XPilot. Or perhaps I'll show her a picture of you Mouse, and she'll be on the next plane down.
Kogifilur: She really looks nice!
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La cream: Thanx to MM & Cheater I mastered many more techniques for opening beerbottles before the summermeeting came to an end
Mighty mouse: If you win the lottery you might even get a chance to exercise them.
0042 Rm: Flower and Bugi arrived later on that day.
Mighty mouse: Not to forget that they ate pizza's, and missed the last LARDBUS.
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0044 Rm: Loading the batteries of the mobile phones.
0045 Rm: Quite a few tents were build in the garden at that time.
0046 Rm: The number of empty bottles increased rapidly. (Well, these are actually 0.33 bottles, not 0.5 as in germany.)
Masterspy: Oh, so there is my lighter. I stole one of Cheaters so it doesnt matter.
0047 Rm: His face expressed satisfaction about the working computers.
0048 Rm: Guess what? Nobody had brought along a teamcup-map, so Flower had to reconstruct it from old BM2.
Kosh: I bet Flower knew the TeamCup map inch by inch ;-)
Mighty mouse: Actually it turned out to be quite a hard task, there was alot of discussion until you swedes arrived with a printed version of the realmap.
Kosh: And still...that printout only covered like 60% of the map...
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Masterspy: "Sucking Obi talking to the fuels," -- Airfly's smaching remark.
0050 Rm: Even the swedes arrived in the meantime. Luckily they did no suicide attack, e.g. crashing with their car into the front of the house or so. (Obi, Spy, Flower, Kosh, Adamel, Trooper)
Kosh: I was ordered not to suicide while in the car...
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0052 Rm: Gremlin. Despite his promises, he wasn't annoying at all.
Kogifilur: Yeah, I can't believe that Gremlin is a full-blooded swede. He even looked a bit embarrassed when I confronted him with this highly popular 'flying-fast-and-surviving-0,1%-tactic (which of course is just a more roundabout way of saying S.....). Perhaps he has seen the Light. Preacher really should have a macro saying 'Suiciders, amend your ways.'
Gremlin: I heard a lot of jealous comments regarding my playing style. But of course all people can't have my style.
0053 Rm: MasterSpy, Kosh
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Kogifilur: Flower is saying: I bet I can do this ball run in 43 frames. I'll just have to do a tripple bounce and throw the ball in a curved fashion. Obi replies thoughtfully: Do you think we have to switch on the monitor for this ball run?
Kosh: Just use the Source boys! (i.e. do a serverhack) =)
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Kogifilur: The not-so-great masters of xpilot is closely scrutinizing Flower and Obi, or is Kogi thinking about porn again while Trooper is thinking...?
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Masterspy: Ok, look here guys. Don't never ever go into a drinking contest with Christoff the Airfly. It would be a mistake I fear..
Kogifilur: Yeah, he could probably drink all of the beer in Denmark, and then drag us out for a nice little soccer match!
0057 Rm: Even Heimdahl made a short visit on Friday to see us. (Airfly, Heimdahl, Obi, Bugi)
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La cream: This couch isn't nearly as comfortable as it looks. Believe me, I spent many hours there
0059 Rm: The tent of the swedes. "Home of extreme wussiness" ;-)
Kosh: Ha! Our tent dominated the whole yard!
Kogifilur: This could be a nice picture - if the ugly red tent in the middle was removed from it. Rm should at least manipulate the image so the tent LOOKS green.
La cream: Reminds me of a circus tent... probably filled with sideshow-freaks too :-)
Kosh: You don't see the beauty of it: Kosh is overlooking the consruction of our organic tent. Unfortunately we forgot our Lightwave textures to put on it...
Gremlin: Unfortunately the tent could not resist the danish acid rains so it colored Preacher blue. He was somewhat annoyed for a while :-)
0074 Rm: Hm, has this something to do with the university of Arhus (DAIMI)?
0060 Rm: Preachy, preachy, preachy, here are some "daimis" to eat (actually Kosh said that).
Kosh: Well, actually not. Rm did. But I had the Daim(i) Filth in the power of my hands =)
0061 Rm: Our strategy was to bore Preacher to dead with this joke, but he gave us a smile.
Preacher: Always smiling when having fun :-)
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0063 Rm: Now we know how the alien looks like.
Kosh: The human vision input detection units are easily fooled.
0064 Rm: Kosh continued base-sitting.
Kosh: Is it a Vorlon? Is it a Corinthian smuggler? No, it's a keyboard suicider!
0065 Rm: The absence of a chair did not stop Flower from playing.
Kosh: What will stop Flower from playing? Armageddon?
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Masterspy: Hm, is Flower human?
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Preacher: Jeeezzzz...I have never looked good on a picture. What more can I say.
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Masterspy: Kogi.. Impress me!
Kogifilur: I think I did the 'Kogi fumble' when Spy was watching!
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Masterspy: This looks more like the Kogi I know.
0078 Rm: Hands of magic ballhandling. (Flower)
Kosh: I would like to cut those hands off ;-)
0079 Rm: I think these hands of death also killed my mouse.
Kosh: Too bad you don't have a Mighty Mouse ;-)
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0084 Rm: Svenske arrived on Saturday.
Svenske: Oh, i remember, walked the last 5 km from Solbjerg and tried to go a shortening through a wheat field (or two, or three..), good idea :-| .hot day
Masterspy: We had a really nice duel one morning 0600-0900. Only got one hour of sleep before the sun came up and made the tent into a stove :( Damn Svenske, make it easier for me next time.
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0087 Rm: I'm not quite sure if Bugi did the steering with pure concentration instead of input devices...
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Preacher: looking on xpilot or pornopictures, take a guess :-)
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0091 Rm: Communists do not take sunmilk to get a decent red sunburn?
Pingosvin: Notice how the commie wears a MicroSoft shirt. I mostly did that to annoy Cheater. And then it was the only semi clean and dry shirt I had.
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Svenske: ``Of courshe...'' !!
Masterspy: Hehe, be careful Svenske. Don't think Kogi enjoyed that remark :)
Svenske: The Spy might be right - couldn't resist, Kogi! I really love it.
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0098 Rm: Paper was rare and so were pens.
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0100 Rm: Mighty brother.
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0106 Rm: There were times when you heard nothing but the mixed sound of different mouseclicks.
Kosh: Are my keyklicks that silent? ;-)
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Mighty mouse: I think i played 43.513% of my maximum capability in this game.
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Svenske: Just had to get off and take a look into the mirror: (apart from not looking that moron like,) phew! i seem to have that red eye _only_ when _playing xpilot. (who the fuck is `terminator')
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Kosh: We forgot our cloaking device...
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0120 Rm: Pingo always appears on the most colorful pictures.
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Svenske: No doubt - stomach probs after a beer fight vs Airfly.
0129 Rm: Gremlin gave me a chance to adjust the camera for the portraits (in the meantime, he shaved himself).
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0131 Rm: Pingos ball-handling.
0132 Rm: Gremlins ball-handling.
0133 Rm: Flower and Preacher handling multiple balls.
Preacher: Anyone dare challenge us ??
Kosh: Why do you both look like you need to take a shit??? ;-)
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Kosh: Obi demonstrates the Dance of the Jedi High Council.
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Preacher: <2>--I have their ball, keep 'em busy!--<2>
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Kosh: Yep, I look like a happy retard =)
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Kosh: I'm wearing a Phantom Meance T-shirt...so now you know I'm a fanatic =)
Rm: Thanks for pointing that our, I wouldn't have noticed otherwise.
Kosh: Well, it was for those who weren't there...it's hard to see the T-shirt text on this picture. Anyway, I've already booked a place in the midnight ticketline on Thursday =)
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Kosh: Oh no! I'm on Kosh's team!!! (what is exactly what happened)
Svenske: Hehe, the only advantage of playing alone: people can't see me doing this. I can't hit my computer nor the table because my box then immediately freezes and reboots and i have to keep alive my only properly working mouse (the damn opticals are already lurking around me). Kosh had to stand my partnership with humour: i forgot to configure `lockClose' on which i rely and was almost blind when feeding myself to Cheater, hell
Kosh: Yes, as usual we have good excuses for losing...
0158 Rm: Brave Kogi, he gave everything for the camera (before that, he gave everything for the fishes).
Kosh: Weak norwegians...can't hold their liquor (or balls) ;-)
Kogifilur: I didn't feel like a living dead, but as a dead living!
Mighty mouse: With a red wig and Rob Zombie would call it a "Living dead girl". For those of you who didn't know it, the music you learned to hate was primarily White/Rob Zombie
La cream: And you can blame me as alcohol always turns me into the self-appointed DJ
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Masterspy: To bad I can't handle the ball as well in Xpilot..
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Kosh: Not only Cartman knows how to do the German Dance...
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Preacher: No fast ballruns here.
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Svenske: Hehe, Oh! i actually _do look like a moron on all pics. This time it must have been due to that evil good ballhandling i always had to watch at the summermeeting
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Kosh: Vorlon horizontal powerstand.
0174 Rm: Flower Use a mouse continuesly Use a mouse influenced Use a mouse the Use a mouse keyboard Use a mouse players.
Kosh: Flowers filthy Shadow hypnological bullshit technology did not affect me. I promise to destroy The Shadows using nothing else than keyboard!
Svenske: Kosh, i found out about your tricks at the meeting and will force you to switch to mouse, you'll have no chance otherwise! :)
Kosh: Fool! I only showed useless stuff. My dark inner secrets are safe until the XPilot 2000 Cup - The Final Battle.
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Kosh: Where's the sauna and vodka???
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0193 Rm: Hey Masterspy, you never told us you act in those cool fast-cut music-videos.
Masterspy: Oh, shit. I really do look stupid with those glasses. Anybody want them?
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0195 Rm: That afternoon we had a great discussion about the future of xpilot. Should we port it to the nintendo to gain mass attraction?
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Kosh: Ahhh...I just killed that f****** Passenger!!!
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0199 Rm: Mouse and Cheater managed the grilling.
Masterspy: Actually Claus really has great cooking skills. This meal was excellent.
Kogifilur: Yeah, Mouse impressed with his cooking skills after grandmaster Winni left. Mouse is man of many talents.
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Preacher: Even a PREACHER needs food!
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0209 Rm: Obi murdering Flower. And I thought he would be on the good side of the force.
Obi-wan: I am on the good side, Flower is a member of the new Swedish/Finnish XPilot Empire. As everyone knows the Jedi Masters mission is to defeat the empire ;-)
Kosh: Flower is also a Shadow traitor. So now you see how disgustingly evil he is. We must all gang up on him on Blood's =)
0210 Rm: Evil Obi preparing the xpilot cup for that day. (Seems I messed up the order of the pictures slightly.)
Obi-wan: Heheh, of courshe, no camp without a small tournament. As the tournament wasn't finished, I as the arranger, was of courshe the winner ;-)
Mighty mouse: As the supreme camp arranger, i question that obi. MM + Masterspy are official winners!
Masterspy: Mwell, of course Mouse. Anyone actually got a different opinion??
Mighty mouse: You know the old saying "mighty moose just can't lose"
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0213 Rm: The notepad was not much larger than Flowers hands, but it ran Xpilot decently (Flower said, with a bigger monitor, he had to move his head/eyes too much and so he uses such a small window for playing anyways.) The monitor in the background duplicates the screen for spectators.
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Masterspy: Cheater! No more tequilas for you my friend.
Cheater: WHAT? Oh... :-)
0294 Rm: I was disappointed to find out, that Randy West is actually no female danish pornstar.
Randy west: I would have come if Lisa the horny redhead had shown up.
Kogifilur: I talked to Lise the other day, but she was busy preparing for her newest film: 'Redheads clearly have more fun.'
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Kosh: Plassi had the coolest hat!
Svenske: This in connection with his incredible [untranslatable]``Na waartet, Euch komm ich bei! ... Euch mach ich lang!'' made it hard for Winni (Rm) and me standing behind him to keep our composure. hehe
Rm: This way Plassi also had the coolest German sayings.
Plassi: I am from Westphalia -- we know when we have to wear helmets.
Mighty mouse: Well i think the new killer swear word "Tittenfischtasche" (germans help me out here) was pretty awesome too..
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0222 Rm: The sign reads "Xpilot, please do not disturb."
Masterspy: La Cream made this for me after I kicked him out of my room for disturbing me during a match vs Flower and Kogi.
Kogifilur: hehe, and some people say that xpilot is just a game!
0223 Rm: Due to the fact that I took most of these photos, a picture of me is very rare.
Kogifilur: Grandmaster Winni was so busy preparing food for his starving children that a picture of him is a collector's item.
Masterspy: Ack. Why do I get hungry when I see this picture.
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Kosh: I thought Passenger was gonna be an asshole, but he was quite cool and laidback.
0226 Rm: Others have toilet paper on the backtray of their car, this guy takes a java-book.
0227 Rm: Plassi brought along some german beer ("Dom Kölsch" actually resides 50 m behind the computer where I'm typing this text.)
Mighty mouse: And a suspecious fluid meant to make us go puke in the woods.
La cream: I remember that "German Hellwater". It almost worked...
Plassi: I have "forgotten" the rest of it right there ...
0228 Rm: And Plassi also brought some evil beer 10 km from the north (from the Cologne archenemy Düsseldorf)
Masterspy: Plassi is also a great driver. Thanks to his speedy Plassomobile we managed to catch the bus in a nick of time when we were leaving.
Plassi: It was a very new experience for me to drive with not seeing anything but huge knapsacks or finish heads in my backview.
0229 Rm: Sunset at the danish beach.
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0234 Rm: This remindes me of a poker game in some kind of western film.
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Mighty mouse: If it was a western then it was a mexican western. (7 bottles of tequila)
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0266 Rm: Pingo left on Monday morning.
Pingosvin: I had enough of you guys ;)
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Kosh: Preacher, Kosh and Passenger says bye to Pingo (did we drill a hole in his canoe? Only Pingo knows) =)
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Plassi: It was as cold as it looks like...
0241 Rm: Masses of jellyfishes were pushed to the beach by the strong wind.
Plassi: There were also two dead seagulls ...
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Kosh: Backshoot the commie! ;-)
Pingosvin: Can't you see that's a kevlar vest?
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Pingosvin: I was picked up by a Chinese submarine two kilometers of the coast. Special mission in Taiwan etc..
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0245 Rm: Come on guys, get ready.
0246 Rm: Trooper, Pingo, Airfly and stupid me are missing on this group picture (afterwards I knew how to activate the auto-trigger).
Kosh: The few and the proud.
Plassi: Do you see the big red flag ?
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Masterspy: How can this guy call himself a mouse? Mighty Moose is more appropriate I think.
Preacher: The moose is loose...
Mighty mouse: That would be more like "pretty moose is pretty loose"
0263 Rm: Gremlin wanted to have this picture as some kind of evidence.
Mighty mouse: We still don't quite believe the authentics of this picture. We'll let the technicians at the Daimi lab have a look at it.
0278 Rm: Yes, this are some pictures of the route back to germany.
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0292 Rm: Gosh, I was tired. But with that expensive equipment in my bag, sleep was out of question.
0293 Rm: In the train from Hannover to my hometown Köln, this boy was interested into the laptop and the camera. The games on his CD (worms and something else) wouldn't run under Linux, so we played Xblast against each other. All men in the train partition looked very interested and I believe I could have sold gaming on a per-round basis to them. Do I need to mention, that I showed xpilot to René?
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