The Gang of Five

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Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Amaranthine on June 09, 2008, 08:29:44 PM
I was just wondering, Does anyone know any other members in real life as well as here? Heh, I don't know anyone here in real life :p
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Petrie. on June 09, 2008, 09:48:28 PM
Yes, some do, but I'm not about to steal their thunder.

Malte, Jason, Wayne...if you please. :)
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Chiletrek on June 09, 2008, 11:13:28 PM
Hello:
 Well, I haven't met anybody of the forum in the real life yet.
 Maybe one day  :DD
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: f-22 "raptor" ace on June 10, 2008, 12:42:29 AM
I haven't met anyone from the forum yet.
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: The Dark Patriot on June 10, 2008, 12:48:37 AM
I haven't met anyone else from here IRL either, I say.
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Mumbling on June 10, 2008, 02:10:26 AM
I might meet someone next year.

For now I only know those members who I brought here. That would be platvoetje and  orchid141 but I don't feel like that counts.
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Post by: F-14 Ace on June 10, 2008, 03:50:26 AM
I know General Grievous.  He lives just down the street from me and we use to go to school together.  In fact, I told him about this site at school.
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: landbeforetimelover on June 10, 2008, 08:40:37 AM
Hmmmmm.  Not yet.  I was hoping to go see a member or two this summer if I'm not too busy.  Problem is, I don't know how to speak any languages with 100% accuracy except for English.  I know around 75%-80% of Japanese, but I don't think we have any Japanese members.  I probably know around 10% of Spanish, but that's pretty useless.  If I were to visit another member in a country that spoke a language other than English, I would have to hire a translator and that's where things start getting expensive. -_-  I mean, staying there in a hotel, food, gas, and the plane ticket would probably run me only $2,000, but when I have to pay double for everything because I've got a translator AND pay them a wage for coming along, I'd be lucky to get out of it paying less than $6,000. :(
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: kjeldo on June 10, 2008, 09:02:55 AM
no, <_<
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Post by: Nimrod on June 10, 2008, 09:17:51 AM
Well. Just Love.Hurts. She is at my school. But I am going to meet Lillefoot this summer.
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Malte279 on June 10, 2008, 09:36:44 AM
Jason (Littlefoot-1616) and I met in London in 2004 and it sure was an awesome weekend to remember :yes
I'm looking forward to return Jason's hospitality one day.
I met Christian twice once I visited him once he visited me, but he has not been here since 2005 :cry
There are several fans I hope to meet in the not too distant future :)
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Kor on June 10, 2008, 10:51:23 AM
Likely it is easier for some to meet then it is for others due to how far apart some are, or the ability to travel.
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: platvoetje on June 10, 2008, 11:32:56 AM
i know mumbling but she brought me here so.. i dont know if that counts?
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Post by: Lillefot on June 10, 2008, 12:54:32 PM
Quote from: Nimrod,Jun 10 2008 on  08:17 AM
Well. Just Love.Hurts. She is at my school. But I am going to meet Lillefoot this summer.
Top that!  :lol:
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Amaranthine on June 10, 2008, 02:48:11 PM
Quote from: platvoetje,Jun 10 2008 on  07:32 AM
i know mumbling but she brought me here so.. i dont know if that counts?
Yes, it counts, after all, she is a member here :)
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Amaranthine on June 10, 2008, 02:49:00 PM
Quote from: Mumbling,Jun 9 2008 on  10:10 PM
That would be platvoetje and orchid141 but I don't feel like that counts.
Yes, that does count :)
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: ingster on June 10, 2008, 02:53:20 PM
i'd be lucky enough if a member here lived in the same state as me ><
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: f-22 "raptor" ace on June 10, 2008, 09:09:14 PM
Quote from: ingster,Jun 10 2008 on  01:53 PM
i'd be lucky enough if a member here lived in the same state as me ><
A few members live in the same state I do.
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: landbeforetimelover on June 10, 2008, 09:18:09 PM
Quote
A few members live in the same state I do.

Yeah, but unfortunately for all of us, you're sorta isolated in the middle of nowhere and there's a large body of water that separates you from me. -_-
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Post by: NeptuneNavigator2001 on June 11, 2008, 02:43:18 AM
...The closest person on my list to my location, is landbeforetimelover.  (Wish I could meet you, Austin! :yes: )
....I so wish I could meet Mumbling in real life.....  Kuu..... :( ...Maybe someday....  ....The eclipse....  Nine years away.... ..... ....
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Post by: Petrie. on June 11, 2008, 08:22:57 AM
Closest person I could realisitically meet would be noname, but I lack the finances to get to the city anytime soon. :p
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Mumbling on June 11, 2008, 09:13:56 AM
I think I can manage Aaron.. it's just 9 years.. :p

:^.^:
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Lillefot on June 11, 2008, 12:11:43 PM
The closest members for me, I guess it would be;
Vilstrup - 4 hour drive
Chomper 360 - 2 hour drive

 :^.^:
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Mumbling on June 11, 2008, 12:29:32 PM
For me the closest member would be orchid141, 30 minutes with an average speed of 20 km/h .

After that I guess platvoetje, kjeldo.. Malte also is living quite close :) .
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Littlefoot1616 on June 11, 2008, 02:01:05 PM
As Malte has already stated, he gave me the pleasure of gracing me with his presence back in 2004. He came and stayed with me for a few days at one of my homes in London.  :D Twas a glorious meeting!  :^.^: Someday soon Malte, I have promised....I will return the favour and come visit you. And I'm a man of my word! ;) You need to be my personal guide as I've never been to Germany before. That and I can hardly speak a shred of German so I'd be pretty stuck  :lol

Threehorn's a regular I tend to visit every now and again. Seeing as he's just the other side of London to me, it's an easy train ride up there. We game, go out to town, game some more, muck about...play MORE games (I think you can see where this goes. :^.^: ) It's kind of amazing discussing travelling distances. For you guys and gals in the states, it takes a few hours by plane to get from one side of the USA to the other. You can traverse the length of the UK in a same amount of time but by car!  :D  :^.^: Little wonders eh?

I'd like to meet more fellow GOF members so if I'm in the neighbourhood...I'll drop ya a line  ;) (whenever that will be PMSL  :lol )
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Kor on June 11, 2008, 10:57:10 PM
Sounds like both of you have a lot of fun together.
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: The Chronicler on June 12, 2008, 04:58:50 PM
I'm not interested in meeting any members anytime soon, but if anyone is interested, I live in the western part of Vermont, near the southern half of Lake Champlain.
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: jedi472 on June 12, 2008, 05:23:11 PM
As I am stuck in a small town in Michigan, I really don't know who I am close to. I suppose the closest I've ever been to another GOF member was when the plane I was on stopped at the Heathrow airport before moving on to Turin, Italy. Unfortunatly, I didn't have time to go out and visit either Threehorn or Littlefoot1616. Oh, well. There's always next time.
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: arrogantrex on June 12, 2008, 06:43:23 PM
I'd love to meet people if I could. :o
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Kor on June 12, 2008, 08:31:51 PM
It would be nice, maybe some can someday.
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: pokeplayer984 on June 12, 2008, 10:15:03 PM
Nope.  No one yet. :(

However, I will be going on a cruise in August.  Me and my family will start in Florida and end in Mexico then head back.  Is there any from here at those places? :)
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Mumbling on August 19, 2009, 03:57:28 PM
It's been over a year since this topic was living but..
I'd like to add Action9000 in here. :)
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: action9000 on August 19, 2009, 04:02:25 PM
Yep, I'm happy to say I've met Mumbling in real life, as can be in seen in our profile pictures! :p  :lol
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Dash The Longneck on August 19, 2009, 04:23:04 PM
Quote from: landbeforetimelover,Jun 10 2008 on  07:40 AM
Hmmmmm.  Not yet.  I was hoping to go see a member or two this summer if I'm not too busy.  Problem is, I don't know how to speak any languages with 100% accuracy except for English.  I know around 75%-80% of Japanese, but I don't think we have any Japanese members.  I probably know around 10% of Spanish, but that's pretty useless.  If I were to visit another member in a country that spoke a language other than English, I would have to hire a translator and that's where things start getting expensive. -_-  I mean, staying there in a hotel, food, gas, and the plane ticket would probably run me only $2,000, but when I have to pay double for everything because I've got a translator AND pay them a wage for coming along, I'd be lucky to get out of it paying less than $6,000. :(
Really? I think there might be a lot of books on a lot of different languages. I think if you know where you're going and what language they speak ahead of time. You could go to Barnes and Noble or whatever and pick up a translating book there.  That might be a dumb idea but If I were to go to another country where people don't speak english that's what I would do at least.


But, back on topic I haven't really met anyone on the GOF before.
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Paradise Bird on August 20, 2009, 03:28:21 AM
I really  wish to meet you dudes and girls but I'm stuck in singapore far away in southeast asia with only one week of holiday.
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: landbeforetimelover on August 20, 2009, 03:49:05 AM
Since I've moved to Minnesota, the closest member to me is Nick22.  Unfortunately it's about a 6 hour drive and we're not real close on the forums.  We hang out in different section so we don't know each other very well.  But perhaps one day when I've got my life started and I've got my own business I'll go meet him.  I don't have the time for anything right now....least of all a few days off.
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Paradise Bird on August 20, 2009, 06:20:22 PM
Man I really want to go america now but I can't!
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Grungecat on August 20, 2009, 10:06:54 PM
I of course, know Alex. But we live together so that isn't very interesting, is it? :p
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Petrie. on August 21, 2009, 06:06:01 AM
You should say you see Alex everyday and how you're best of friends, and its by chance you both decided to register here. :p  Somehow I don't think that would work but it would sound more amazing to those who didn't know you were brothers.
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Littlefoot1616 on August 21, 2009, 06:21:04 PM
Guess I can now add to my list of met members since my trip to Scandinavia! Since coming to the board I have met:

Malte
Threehorn
Lillefot
Nimrod

Hopefully, with a little luck, I can look forward to seeing many more! ;)
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) on August 23, 2009, 11:22:33 PM
I don't know anybody in real life. Rat_Lady lives the closest to me, if you count being in the same state.
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Mumbling on August 24, 2009, 01:19:02 AM
Malte and Jason! :D

We had an awesome time yesterday :)
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Littlefoot1616 on August 24, 2009, 04:42:39 AM
That we did! Awesome to meet yet ANOTHER member from the forum! Yesterday was great fun! Have to do it again sometime ;)
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Post by: Malte279 on August 24, 2009, 05:00:49 PM
Sometime sounds so distant. I hope for December to be the time. Perhaps one of the greatest benefits of our meeting may be that the realization of how easy such meetings are to be arranged may help to bring further meetings along both for us and perhaps also for other GOF members.
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Amaranthine on September 27, 2009, 02:03:36 AM
Lol, this thread is really depressing for me. >.>

I feel like I've known some of you for most of my life, yet I EVER, EVER spoke with any of you face to face.
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Mumbling on September 27, 2009, 02:10:58 AM
Quote from: Rat_lady7,Sep 27 2009 on  08:03 AM
Lol, this thread is really depressing for me. >.>

I feel like I've known some of you for most of my life, yet I EVER, EVER spoke with any of you face to face.
Aw I'm sorry for that. Well hey, what ali says...

"Maybe we'll all be together someday"

Or something in that direction anyway :D I always think that that's right :)
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: DualXz on September 27, 2009, 08:15:14 PM
The only one that lives really really close to me, would be Explorer, who I hope to meet someday.

As for the rest, there are a few members that I would also really like to meet in real life:

.Lillefot - I met him the first day I joined the GOF, he's a great friend, I haven't talked to him in a while since my last absence.... and I really want to talk again with him.

.Nimrod - Also met him the first day I joined the GOF, also a great friend, glad wechated again , although it was just a setence :p .

.Mumbling - we had chated a little in posts, I saw you were a kind, friendly person.
I got to know you a little more when lillefot invited me to that msn group talk and with some other talks we had, a great friend :yes

.Rat Lady - Helped me during a really hard time.

.Malte - Was a member that suprised me with all is knowledge and personality.
I also meet him during that msn gruop talk, we talked some times after, a great person :yes

Of course that I would also like to meet everywhere else, but some of you guys just live far,far,far,far,far away :lol  :p

Edit: writting errors, again! :p
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Littlefoot1616 on September 27, 2009, 08:25:28 PM
Don't forget guys! As you get older, you'll have more control over how you move about. Maybe right now the idea of meeting another member doesn't seem plausible but give it time. Once you have the time and money, no distance is too great! ;) It can happen if you really want it to. It's merely be a matter of TIME rather than a matter of hope  :D That's how we all did it!  :DD
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Post by: Amaranthine on October 03, 2009, 11:10:38 PM
^Exactly...time...time can eat away at lives...by the time I get out of the house and am a legal adult, AND have the money..I'm not too sure where all of these other members are going to be in their lives....it might be too late for some people...you never know... :p
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Post by: Belmont2500 on October 04, 2009, 04:31:28 PM
sadly, I don't know any members in real life, maybe one day I will.
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Post by: Chomper on October 04, 2009, 05:01:12 PM
unless you live in or near the american midwest, (kansas, oklahoma region) i dont think that i have ever met you
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: metadude1234 on October 22, 2009, 12:54:29 AM
I have a friend here called Zac we are best buds at school his user is frogboy123 it think. i know it has frogboy in it...
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Post by: SouthPawRacer on October 22, 2009, 08:50:18 AM
I suppose I could meet metadude and JitteryDragon if I hopped on a plane for a few hours and travelled in the direction of the rising bright circle...

We sandgropers have it tough. <_<

:lol
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Post by: JitteryDragon on October 22, 2009, 07:11:42 PM
Sucks living in a far corner of the planet...  <_<

If I had the money, I'd totally catch a plane to America or something.
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Caustizer on October 22, 2009, 09:02:28 PM
If you all would like I know of a Ventrillo server we can use to perhaps have an online get together sometime.  A 'verbal conference' would be neat.

Caustizer.
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Mumbling on October 23, 2009, 01:35:12 AM
No thanks Caustizer... I'm deadly shy when it comes to using microphones.

Even when I have met someone :p

I'm gonna meet up with platvoetje soon again, mainly to introduce him to fereshta.
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: DualXz on October 23, 2009, 10:12:48 AM
@Caustizer - If it is a large group, then I probably won't mind, but send me the server, I'll guard it.
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: JitteryDragon on October 24, 2009, 09:29:35 AM
Oooh, an online conference sounds like fun. Sign me up.

I haven't used vent in ages... and since I have satellite, chances are I might not get a clear voice... but whatever.
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Post by: SouthPawRacer on October 24, 2009, 09:33:20 AM
I use a mic all the time to communicate with friends during my races... But I've never used Ventrillo before - only TeamSpeak. :unsure:
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Mumbling on January 06, 2010, 04:21:54 PM
And now I've met with Gustav (Lillefot) too :D
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Littlefoot1616 on January 07, 2010, 08:17:49 AM
It's taken some time but I finally got to meet Action9000! After all our rants and discussions about pretty much EVERYTHING over MSN, we finally got to shake hands back in December. A momentous occasion to be sure! ;)
Title: Does anyone know any other members in real life?
Post by: Malte279 on January 07, 2010, 11:58:05 AM
^ Dito on that one :yes
There is something grand (the term is ill fitting but I cannot think of any better at the moment) about meeting someone from so far away whom one has known quite well, but over the internet only, in real life.