hello............

well now.. isn't that thread title just original

this is my very first post ( please hold your applause ) and the last forum I belonged to pretty much insisted that newbies posted an "introduction" post or face the wrath of old timers.

so here I am.

thats it. ( for now )

:o

:tinfoil:High grynch, I'm KRAZY!!!

sheeeeshh.... I'd be crazy too if I lived in Wisconsin. *hehehhhhhh*

You're up early, aren't you grynch?

are you an angry grynch?

no, not angry ( remember I don't live in Wisconsin ) and.. no... not early either...

*checking my cuckoo clock*... nearly 3pm



07-29-2011, 02:59 PM

ohhhh lookie... below my name "neophyte in training"

is that legal??????????????????




EDIT:.. guess not... I've been updated again... you kids are fast.

It's the afternoon, and you have a cuckoo clock. Are you in the Black Forest, grynch?

the Black Forest? ... I can see a couple of tree's but they are pretty green ( like me )


( black forest would be in Germany, I'm in Switzerland... s.w.Switzerland actually )

Oh yeah. Look, it says it right there in your location.

Well, welcome to the Cellar.

so... now that I've annoyed a few people right off the bat...
..
..
is most everyone here from the U.S.of A ?


EDIT... Glatt... truth be I just edited in my location... I think just before your post.. and yes my reference to cuckoo clocks and afternoon would leave normal people (unlike myself ) to believe Black Forest.

and thanks for the welcome

We're mostly from the USA, but we've got several from Australia and the UK and Europe. It's always good to have more, though.

thanks...

Welcome grynch.

My maiden name is from Switzerland...the frenchie part, though don't ask me where that would be.

I want to go there someday. Googling my name there are a lot of people there with the name.

Hullo grynch!

Allow me to extend a formal welcome from the Euro/Brit Dwellar contingent.

*waves from Yorkshire*

Hi grynch good to seeya.

good *morning* grynch.

so, given your geographical advantage over me, how was Friday?

hi monkey.. I live in the french speaking part of Switzerland ( geneva ) and I've just googled your name and I could find very few monkey's here.

( I did find "cheese eating surrender monkey" but they had a proper french residence )

and hiya Dana .... just to add to the confusion here...I am actually a Yank transplanted over here... however mrs. G is Brit.. from near London originally but lived in Huddersfield for awhile... donkey's years ago.

BigV;747198 wrote:

good *morning* grynch.

so, given your geographical advantage over me, how was Friday?

BigV... hell.... let me tell ya..... just go back to bed now... or like me start dreaming of that first vodka tonic ( in about 2 hrs. )

DanaC.. just noticed the tag under your name.... are you a proper Brit or a transplant Canuck'ian?

grynch;747183 wrote:

no, not angry ( remember I don't live in Wisconsin ) and.. no... not early either...

*checking my cuckoo clock*... nearly 3pm



07-29-2011, 02:59 PM

Hey! That's the American dating convention. Are you an ex-pat?

Welcome to The Cellar.

grynch;747199 wrote:

hi monkey.. I live in the french speaking part of Switzerland ( geneva ) and I've just googled your name and I could find very few monkey's here.

( I did find "cheese eating surrender monkey" but they had a proper french residence )

and hiya Dana .... just to add to the confusion here...I am actually a Yank transplanted over here... however mrs. G is Brit.. from near London originally but lived in Huddersfield for awhile... donkey's years ago.

:lol:

Well, I said my maiden name. monkey is my married name. ;)

infinite monkey;747193 wrote:

Welcome grynch.

My maiden name is from Switzerland...the frenchie part, though don't ask me where that would be.

OK... hope this helps...

Spexxvet;747202 wrote:

Hey! That's the American dating convention. Are you an ex-pat?

Welcome to The Cellar.

thanks.... the date format... unless I've not found how to change.. is set to standard American but yes... more recently I am American expat... living over here 11 years now

"deep breath"
originally Canadian ( born in N.S. ) American by law, married to a Brit and living in the land of Cheese.

gee..... I should work for the United Nations with all that going on.

:o

Thanks for that map. I'd never seen it laid out like that!

*grins* no, I am not a Canuck. That was just a play on the way my name sounds.

I'm a Lancashire lass, transplanted across the Pennines to Yorkshire. About a 20 minute drive from Huddersfield as it goes.

Dana.. ok... I've never been up that was but mrs. tells me it's God's country ( with the possible exception of Huddersfield itself !!!!!!!!!!!! )

infinite monkey;747206 wrote:

Thanks for that map. I'd never seen it laid out like that!

it's a weird country this.... the germans don't like the french, the french don't like the italians.. and the italians don't like anyone.

( mrs. and I had a couple of days away at a mountain resort just recently ... just above the second "e" in Lake Geneva on that map... maybe 15 miles from the french speaking area and not a soul spoke french )

Where did you grow up in the states? What are you doing for a living in Swissland?

If and when you do piss someone off here, I will probably burst out into song. It's practically required.

Pete Zicato;747210 wrote:

Where did you grow up in the states? What are you doing for a living in Swissland?

If and when you do piss someone off here, I will probably burst out into song. It's practically required.

Pete... I grew up ( as much as some will allow I have grown up ) just to the west of Boston

and were do I work?

grynch;747205 wrote:

gee..... I should work for the United Nations with all that going on.

:o

umm.... don't tell..... I do work for the U.N.
( one of the lesser agencies )


ohh... and I can't remember sh*te ;) ... I nearly forgot to mention I'm so good at pissin' people off you better get your song ready.

grynch;747208 wrote:

Dana.. ok... I've never been up that was but mrs. tells me it's God's country ( with the possible exception of Huddersfield itself !!!!!!!!!!!! )

Har! Hudd's ok. Fairly typical West Yorkshire town.


As to God's Country:

http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=15038

DanaC;747213 wrote:

Har! Hudd's ok. Fairly typical West Yorkshire town.


As to God's Country:

http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=15038

lovely.... but I see your Yorkshire Dales and I'll raise you the Cornish moors
( we have a cottage.. currently for sale... just off of Bodmin Moor )




( not my pics by the way.. just 'nicked of the interweb. )

Regarding that second picture. Your wife's family name wouldn't be Baskerville, would it?

Pete Zicato;747216 wrote:

Regarding that second picture. Your wife's family name wouldn't be Baskerville, would it?

you can call me Beast

Ohhhh. That's lovely.

But those ain't the Dales.

That was just Shibden valley, at the back of our village. Where I walk my dog.

I'll have to dig out some pics of the Dales and maybe Bronte country as well :p

DanaC;747218 wrote:

Ohhhh. That's lovely.

But those ain't the Dales.

there I go.... iggggnerant American mode again... ;) ... I look forward to some pics and I'll try to get some of my real pics posted

meantime... if anyone wants to invest in a little holiday cottage

offers in the area of £220 K please..

Tumbledown Cott.

wow............that was a thread killer


:facepalm:

I want that cottage so bad I could eat it.

But want does not reality maketh so, thereto, and hereforth...well for one thing I can't convert to those poundy things and for another I don't have enough of those poundy things.

ok monkey.. here is the plan...

1) calm down
2) find out where you live now ( you are kinda confused by your description )
3) get a good job earn lots of poundy things
4) send them all to me.
5) repeat 4.

That plan is just crazy enough to work!

(I, for one, welcome our new Bosty Swissy Overlord.)

I want that cottage, too.

Monkey, maybe me, you, DanaC and Sundae could all go in to buy it? :)

grynch - you seem rich. Are you from Wellesley?

infinite monkey;747232 wrote:

That plan is just crazy enough to work!

(I, for one, welcome our new Bosty Swissy Overlord.)

ohhh errr... thanks...

wait till I tell mrs. G... I've nevah been an overlord before !!! :sniff:

Brianna;747234 wrote:

I want that cottage, too.

Monkey, maybe me, you, DanaC and Sundae could all go in to buy it? :)

grynch - you seem rich. Are you from Wellesley?

Bri... sorry if I am sounding a bit snobbish... no, I am not rich, nor from Wellesley

( if you know that area I grew up in a lil town about 10 miles from there.. wrong side of the tracks )

grynch;747237 wrote:

Bri... sorry if I am sounding a bit snobbish... no, I am not rich, nor from Wellesley

( if you know that area I grew up in a lil town called Ashland... wrong side of the tracks )

That's exactly the sort of thing a rich person would say!!

;)

I'm just too provincial - I equate travel and ex-pat status to money. Maybe you got out just as the "W" years were commencing?

Brianna;747238 wrote:

That's exactly the sort of thing a rich person would say!!

;)

I'm just too provincial - I equate travel and ex-pat status to money. Maybe you got out just as the "W" years were commencing?

actually I did ok in the internet boom years... meeting, kidnapping, selling certain chatters into bonded slavery.

say, would you like a cuppa coffee ?

coffee?

If you're trying to lure me into bonded slavery, I'd rather have a hot chocolate as my last drink as a free woman.

Brianna;747234 wrote:

I want that cottage, too.

Monkey, maybe me, you, DanaC and Sundae could all go in to buy it? :)

I'd go mental without my hills :p

Beautiful landscape, but the sky is too big!

DanaC;747242 wrote:

I'd go mental without my hills :p

Beautiful landscape, but the sky is too big!

Don't fret. We'd go to Heptonstall ;) on the weekends!

chocolate?... I live in Switzerland for gawd sakes.. doncha know they keep all the chocolate under lock and key.

and on that note.. I'm outta here kids.... my chauffeur is waiting at the door

See?


Rich.

Brianna;747243 wrote:

Don't fret. We'd go to Heptonstall ;) on the weekends!

*grins* well, then that's alright.

Hello Grynch - I'm new as well, but didn't post a "hello" message. Might have been a break in protocol, but no has mentioned it so far. . .

It's not required :p

DanaC;747270 wrote:

It's not required :p

Relieved! ;)

Rrrraven;747269 wrote:

Hello Grynch - I'm new as well, but didn't post a "hello" message. Might have been a break in protocol, but no has mentioned it so far. . .

DanaC;747270 wrote:

It's not required :p

Rrrraven;747271 wrote:

Relieved! ;)

Are you trying to tell me my first 25 posts have been fir naught ?!?

grynch;747221 wrote:

meantime... if anyone wants to invest in a little holiday cottage

offers in the area of £220 K please..

Tumbledown Cott.

nice. lovely garden. but.... 5 foot beds? what am I a hobbit?

You selling cheap for a quick sale, or is that the price of property around there?

grynch;747162 wrote:

well now.. isn't that thread title just original

this is my very first post ( please hold your applause ) and the last forum I belonged to pretty much insisted that newbies posted an "introduction" post or face the wrath of old timers.

so here I am.

thats it. ( for now )

:o

This place doesn't have an introduction thread. I am glad you started one for yourself though. Welcome to the forum! :D

DanaC wrote:

You selling cheap for a quick sale, or is that the price of property around there?

I do not understand foreign real estate markets...

G'day Grynch-o!

Ooooh I want in on the fun! I'm not from the US of A, I am from Texas, which according to our blessed preacher governor has the right to be its own damn country it if pleases.
This is probably gonna sound REALLLY ignorant of me, but I never realized that in Switzerland they spoke different languages. I just always figured they'd speak, ya know, Swiss. Learnt summthin new from you. I'm glad you joined our Cellar if only for that reason.

Well, heck, I'm a smarty-pants know-it-all, and that Romansch bit on the maps was new to me.

This guy is making us learn stuff.

Mmmmmmmm......knowledge.

grynch;747276 wrote:

Are you trying to tell me my first 25 posts have been fir naught ?!?

Not at all. You saved me having to write another quiz.

grynch;747162 wrote:

well now.. isn't that thread title just original

this is my very first post ( please hold your applause ) and the last forum I belonged to pretty much insisted that newbies posted an "introduction" post or face the wrath of old timers.

so here I am.

thats it. ( for now )

:o

No intro thread required.

The regulars savage the newbies on general principles around here.

We're a much more mature forum.

Oldest on the internet, actually.

We're quite welcoming, just so long as you kids stay offa my lawn.

grynch;747209 wrote:

it's a weird country this.... the germans don't like the french, the french don't like the italians.. and the italians don't like anyone.

So what you're saying is that it's kind of a microcosm of the world at large.

BigV;747278 wrote:

nice. lovely garden. but.... 5 foot beds? what am I a hobbit?

I don't know mate - have you looked at your feet lately? ;)

DanaC;747289 wrote:

You selling cheap for a quick sale, or is that the price of property around there?

Before the crash we would have been happy with 250- 260 but now that is a fair price for that market

For the rest of you---- thanks for the welcomes !!

ZenGum;747323 wrote:

Well, heck, I'm a smarty-pants know-it-all, and that Romansch bit on the maps was new to me.

This guy is making us learn stuff.

It was new to me before I moved here as well --- 11 years here and I've met two people that can speak Romansch ( never been to that area tho ) --- as I understand it is one of the oldest "living" languages and is Latin based.

Welcome grynch!

Tuots umans naschan libers ed eguals in dignità e drets. Els sun dotats cun intellet e conscienza e dessan agir tanter per in uin spiert da fraternità. ;)

[COLOR="White"]All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.[/COLOR]

self righteous bitch.









/kidding.....

Ah this is the new, new user title thread ... gracias ;)

perfect. :)