#4477758 - 06/12/19 05:31 PM
How many SimHq members do you know/ have met in person ?
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The count is now 7 for me.
Just flew up to meet shan2 in Atlanta. As excellent a fellow in person as you would think from reading his posts.
Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Someday your life will flash in front of your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.
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#4477761 - 06/12/19 05:35 PM
Re: How many SimHq members do you know/ have met in person ?
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Well then, we shall have to arrange a meeting.
Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Someday your life will flash in front of your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.
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#4477842 - 06/13/19 02:18 AM
Re: How many SimHq members do you know/ have met in person ?
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Just two... But, such great people it's like meeting the coolest stranger you could ever imagine and, they are everything they claimed to be. Try that on a social media website! Almost made it to three members but we ended up butting heads over trivial crap now that I look back. Many here I'd love to meet and have a few with...maybe even a few too many with. More than a few who are no longer with us and, whom I am truly sad I never met.
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#4477844 - 06/13/19 02:23 AM
Re: How many SimHq members do you know/ have met in person ?
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I wanted to.. but cant anymore.. there will be fistecuffs with half yous'.... LOL
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#4477861 - 06/13/19 04:25 AM
Re: How many SimHq members do you know/ have met in person ?
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Very cool thread. Let's have a meet-n-greet in Pensacola or Dayton (my preference...F-22/F-117), or at any of the other major aviation museums!
Meeting a SimHQ poster in person only happened to me once around 2004/05 (I think), his name also being Mark in Jax., FL (infrequent poster). He was heavy into FreeFalcon and was willing to part with his Jane's USAF which was tough to find at the time. Wife and I drove out to his house on the other side of town to get it. He wouldn't take any money for it, but it was lunchtime and he agreed to let us treat him to BBQ near his home. Had great conversation about flight sims, wife being a quiet trooper just letting us jabber on. He disappeared off the board soon afterwards.
Thanks again for the Jane's USAF, Mark in Jax. I still have the orange CD you gave me with all the FreeFalcon stuff plus everything supporting SP3.
EDIT: Cool, I found him in the User List...
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#4477862 - 06/13/19 04:27 AM
Re: How many SimHq members do you know/ have met in person ?
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I'm very glad to hear you had a good time with shan2 OG!!
I've only met one SimHQ member in person and actually he's a former member, not current. You even went to school with him, yes?
The rusty wire that holds the cork that keeps the anger in Gives way and suddenly it’s day again The sun is in the east Even though the day is done Two suns in the sunset, hmph Could be the human race is run
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#4477871 - 06/13/19 06:42 AM
Re: How many SimHq members do you know/ have met in person ?
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Only one that I know for sure that is a member here Stewie http://SimHQ.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/users/219/stewie Great guy, stayed with him and his family on my way to the 2003 flight sim show, gave me a much needed break from looking after my terminally ill mother who passed away a few days after I got back home. I'll be forever grateful for his hospitality when it was a very trying time of my life. Now if you had said Frugal's Forums then I have met quite a few of them
Chlanna nan con thigibh a so's gheibh sibh feoil Sons of the hound come here and get flesh Clan Cameron
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#4477880 - 06/13/19 08:21 AM
Re: How many SimHq members do you know/ have met in person ?
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Only one that I know for sure that is a member here Stewie http://SimHQ.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/users/219/stewie Great guy, stayed with him and his family on my way to the 2003 flight sim show, gave me a much needed break from looking after my terminally ill mother who passed away a few days after I got back home. I'll be forever grateful for his hospitality when it was a very trying time of my life. Now if you had said Frugal's Forums then I have met quite a few of them Heh, I know Stewie too he actually stayed at MY house, I think it was when he was on his way to a new life in Spain. Long time ago. Lovely guy. I know a few members here because of my association with Frugalsworld, and met a good few of them too at various sim shows. Actually I even work with one SimHQ member
"They might look the same, but they don't taste the same."
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#4477889 - 06/13/19 09:31 AM
Re: How many SimHq members do you know/ have met in person ?
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Quite a few of fellow 'Squadron' members who happened to be members here also in the grand days when IL2 was at it's peak. I remember a traumatic time at a Flight Sim Exhibition risking a punch in the chops asking various tonsorially challenged attendees: 'are you Slaphead?' whom I had arranged to exchange some peripherals with there. Also met Oleg himself!
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#4477895 - 06/13/19 10:50 AM
Re: How many SimHq members do you know/ have met in person ?
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Heh, I know Stewie too he actually stayed at MY house, I think it was when he was on his way to a new life in Spain. Long time ago. Lovely guy. I know a few members here because of my association with Frugalsworld, and met a good few of them too at various sim shows. Actually I even work with one SimHQ member Met Frugal himself along with a few others, and we had an all night session the night before the flightsim show at the Hilton at Birmingham airport, it was time for the show to open by the time I got to my bed From that "session" Real Simulator took pics of me using their F-16 rudder pedals and used that on their website for a few years - fame at last
Chlanna nan con thigibh a so's gheibh sibh feoil Sons of the hound come here and get flesh Clan Cameron
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#4477899 - 06/13/19 11:34 AM
Re: How many SimHq members do you know/ have met in person ?
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I'm very glad to hear you had a good time with shan2 OG!!
I've only met one SimHQ member in person and actually he's a former member, not current. You even went to school with him, yes? I've known Jedi Master since jr. high school so that would be 1986!
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
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#4477900 - 06/13/19 11:36 AM
Re: How many SimHq members do you know/ have met in person ?
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Met three fine guys... LukeFF, Ian Boys, and Bones. Some really nice memories there. I've not met Bones in person yet but he seems to be a great guy. I fly DCS with him on a weekly basis.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
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Exodus
by RedOneAlpha. 04/18/24 05:46 PM
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