THE Thread

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

The floccinaucinihilipilification set in as soon as i saw the word impanate.

 

[Chevillac 5,000+ posts]

Why don't you do internet calling, Prowler? My brother and all his friends use ventrilo to talk over the net while playing games.

Defintely. Or skype, I used to use that. Really yahoo has voice with it now too. It actually always did, so I dont know why its a big deal now.

That means Sean Prawn is gonna die //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crying.gif.ec0ebefe590df0251476573bc49e46d8.gif :crying: //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crying.gif.ec0ebefe590df0251476573bc49e46d8.gif

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

I bet they do LOVE you...anyways If she never left Australia how did yall meet? sorry to pry, you dont have to answer if you dont want to

Wow, dude....as many times as I have related this story and as much time as you spend on the forum I figured you'd have run across one or more versions of it by now! And no, I do not mind telling it as it is nothing that I am ashamed of (I did marry the woman, after all....she must have made at least a minimal impact on me, eh?)

Okay ~ here's the somewhat abridged version ~

When I first had access to the 'Net on a regular basis I became somewhat of an addict to chat rooms, as so many people do. My chat server of choice happened to be Yahoo! Well, if you don't know, Yahoo! gets the funding for its chat servers from advertisements and a good many of these advertisements unfortunately are for various **** sites (ergo: the Click On Me To See My Site! garbage you see too often in chat rooms on Yahoo!)

There's not much you can do about them if you are logging into chat directly through Yahoo! but if you're using an external chat client program like CheetaChat or something akin to it you can set filters to eliminate the **** ads from your awareness by setting filters that trigger on certain words or series of words.

When my wife first encountered me in a chat room it was fairly obvious to the casual observer that I was somewhat of a chat 'veteran' and kindof knew the ins and outs so she sent me a private message asking if I knew how to get rid of the **** spam. Since I did and full well understood how aggravating it could be I took her through the steps to set the above-mentioned filters figuring that the conversation would be over quickly after that with a "Thank You" or similar and she would be on her way.

It didn't quite work out that way.

What I assumed would be a fairly quick and unimportant conversation turned into an hours-long chat. The next night brought about another hours-long chat and the same for the next several nights in succession.

After talking online and over the phone for several months I knew that I had fallen madly in love with her (or what I thought I knew her to be at the time but who knows when it's someone on the 'Net, right?)

In 2001 I went to Australia for three months to be with her so we could see if it worked as well in person as it did online and over the phone.

It didn't.

It was unimagineably better //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/thumbsup.gif.3287b36ca96645a13a43aff531f37f02.gif

In 2004 I went back to Australia to help finalize plans for our wedding and to get some details sorted that required my presence.

In 2005, as many of you know, I went over for a third time to actually get married (Oct 15, 2005 to be exact).

As i am madly in love with my wife and she does not wish to leave Australia (and after having spent some time there I cannot say I blame her one little teeny bit!) the plan has been all along for me to move there rather than her move here.

The city where I will be living in just beautiful....no matter where you are in town you're only 20 minutes from the beach, food is cheap, people are friendly, and all the women have that incredible (to me, anyway) Australian accent FTW!!!!!

Obviously seeing as it is a several years long relationship and process at this point there is an incredible amount of detail left out of the above but it's complete enough to get the idea //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[Chevyaudio 5,000+ posts]

Indeed...sound great prowler, Im happy for ya dude, so are you leaving the Geo Rolla behind?

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

Indeed...sound great prowler, Im happy for ya dude, so are you leaving the Geo Rolla behind?

Yup - it would cost almost as much as the car is worth to ship it then you have to take into consideration the modifications it would require to be legal to operate on Australian roadways and it just wouldn't make sense economically.

All the audio gear will get uninstalled and the car will be sold.

 

[Chevillac 5,000+ posts]

Yeah prowley, I think you have told that story a few times.

Oh, i forgot to tell you, everytime you make a post, it seems like you age. You have me thinking you are like 42 right now.

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Just playin

 

[Chevyaudio 5,000+ posts]

Yup - it would cost almost as much as the car is worth to ship it then you have to take into consideration the modifications it would require to be legal to operate on Australian roadways and it just wouldn't make sense economically.
All the audio gear will get uninstalled and the car will be sold.

what about the newly purchased wheels?

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

'Villian, I feel like I'm in my forties some days. I work long ass hours and I miss my wife dreadfully.

Going to bed alone sucks.

Going to bed along when you're madly in love with/married to someone (who reciprocates the sentiment) REALLY sucks and, I think, artificially ages you.

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

what about the newly purchased wheels?

The only thing in or on the car that will go with me is the audio.

The new rims, the full set of OEM wheels, the alarm, tint, etc etc etc all goes with the car if/when it sells.

 

[Chevyaudio 5,000+ posts]

'Villian, I feel like I'm in my forties some days. I work long ass hours and I miss my wife dreadfully.
Going to bed alone sucks.

Going to bed along when you're madly in love with/married to someone (who reciprocates the sentiment) REALLY sucks and, I think, artificially ages you.

I dont want to preted like I know that feeling, because I know marriage is a completely differnt ball park...but Ive been dating the girl im with now on and off for 3 years...and It is really hard being away from her

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

Yup - it would cost almost as much as the car is worth to ship it then you have to take into consideration the modifications it would require to be legal to operate on Australian roadways and it just wouldn't make sense economically.
All the audio gear will get uninstalled and the car will be sold.

Make sure you buy all the audio stuff you want before you go over //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif...

Prolly not cheap to import more "specialty" brands... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

nG

 

[Chevillac 5,000+ posts]

'Villian, I feel like I'm in my forties some days. I work long ass hours and I miss my wife dreadfully.
Going to bed alone sucks.

Going to bed along when you're madly in love with/married to someone (who reciprocates the sentiment) REALLY sucks and, I think, artificially ages you.

I feel a fraction of your pain. I was in a long distance relationship once, nowhere near as serious as yours, hence the fraction of me knowing what you are going through. THat sucks. But think of how sad all of us (forum members, especially me) will be when you leave us for your wife. You say youll come back, but once you start getting nooky and QT with your wife you will forget us. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crying.gif.ec0ebefe590df0251476573bc49e46d8.gif :crying:

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[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

I personally hate women...

ATM...

nG

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

BTW, when WILL you be making the move Prowler?

nG

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

Most days I feel like I've been married to her since I met her. Once I began to really get to know what she was about (after countless hours of "deep & meaningfuls" online) I knew she was who I was meant to be with.

Once I met her in person it was that much more of a certainty.

But! This course that she and I embarked upon years ago was one that we undertook with full knowledge of how bad it would **** and the sacrifices we would have to make for it to work.

The upside to it is that we truly know how to communicate with one another. Years worth of having no option but learning to effectively communicate with one another will do that for ya!