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I just got off the phone with one of the master skinners from this site.

I needed some pixels pushed (because I'm a no-talent hack) and sent a private message a few days ago asking for some help.  I got 25 images sent back the next day that were over and above anything I could have asked for.

Unfortunately, because I described what i wanted poorly . .they were not useful.  I PM'd again apologizing and describing better what I was hoping for.

Not an hour later I get a PM with a phone number.  We spent two minutes talking about the image and anther ten jsut talking.

 

Now . . I've been on teh internet since there were only BBS.  I was a Compuserve member and then a AOL and then . . well . . I've been around a while. In all those years though, in all the sites I've visited, only one has reached across the cyber-space into meat-space; this community.

I've made real friends here that I've become closer with over the past ten years than I have with my neighbors.  I've even had skinners over to the house and gone out to dinner with.  

Crazy? Yes.

Cool?  Also yes.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

It's a wonderful Community. You my friend, make it wonderfuller. :grin:

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

It's kinda 'fun' to discover skinners are 'real'.... meeting them ... comparing notes.

Aside from the crew at SD I have met just 3 'in the flesh' and 3 more via 'real' phones..... not a lot considering the 14 years or so that I've been 'at it' ...;)

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

nice to hear good friendly comments  on this marvelous site.

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 1
Wonderfuller.
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Heh.  That looks like somethign *I* might have typed accidentally.

For me, it's been a shock each time I've spoken to a "virtual" friend to hear their voice and have it be so different to what I heard in my head.

The skinner I spoke to this morning had such a Southern drawl.  Not what I was expecting at all.

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Wonderfuller for me would be no accident. Its a lot like more betterer which is what this site really is. We pull together for our own like family. It just doesn't get any betterer than that.

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

southern drawl? it definitely wasn't mike bryant then.

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yes, i wasnt actually that surprised when i was asked 'what are you wearing?'

 

I replied, why, zebra pnats of course :smitten:

 

 

jk, wasn't me  :lol: although mixed in with some remnants of my original English, some may say, I'm a southern drawler :hot:

 

My guess - Z71 :thumbsup:

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Its an age thing, try and be friendly on a games website and see what happens 8C nice friendly crowd here from what ive seen, but i bet there are a few zimmer frames parked next to the desks }:)

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

but i bet there are a few zimmer frames parked next to the desks
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You shouldn't be talking about Jafo and his Zimmer. ;)

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Grograt, reply 8
Its an age thing, try and be friendly on a games website and see what happens nice friendly crowd here from what ive seen, but i bet there are a few zimmer frames parked next to the desks
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Heh.  I had to look up what a zimmer frame was.  Good news, eh?

While you are likely right Grograt, we have had many teenagers pass thought here adn stay  . . . and many of the skinners here are gamers too.

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

southern drawl
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Hey y'all....ain't nothin' wrong with a southern drawl. I have a hard time with "live" yankenese myself... :|

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Kudos to Zubaz. No one can miss-spell with such consistency without doing it deliberately. Hats off to the man with pants named after him. :thumbsup: :P o_O :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting navigatsio, reply 11

southern drawl


Hey y'all....ain't nothin' wrong with a southern drawl. I have a hard time with "live" yankenese myself...
End of navigatsio's quote

Yall can say that again, Navi!

 

 

WC is the awesomest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Zubaz is second!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top

southern drawl


Hey y'all....ain't nothin' wrong with a southern drawl. I have a hard time with "live" yankenese myself...


Yall can say that again, Navi!
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Everytime I talk to Jim I fell like a plate of southern fried chicked is on the way, but he never sends it.

WC has always been a great place for help, knowledge, and many other things since I have been here and much before my time I'm sure.

Jafo: Call me anytime 1-800-i-alwaysneedhelp

Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Wait, you mean you're all not just bots? :borg:   Everything I know is a lie!!!

Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top

lol when I heard Jim (redneckdude), I thought I was talking to dr Phil....... he really sounds like him! i had a good chuckle about that last year when he helped me with desktop x.

 

Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I like the way Aussies sound..it's like they're always in a , "What the hell, it's all good" mood. I have taken Yanks as smart alecks but that was usually in the middle of writing 'em a ticket not so long ago. (we like taking that yankee money down here...'sho nuff) Ain't nobody, nowhere got better sayings than folks in the south tho'...here's some good examples> http://socyberty.com/languages/top-75-southern-sayings-and-southern-dictionary/ I use some of 'em proudly daily... :|

Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Vamps, do I really sound like Dr. Phil?

Navi, where did yall say yall is from in the south?

Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Ya'll come back now, ya hear... :-"

Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top

SC - by way of the Peach State (or as a military brat - CA, TX, OK, MD, NC, FL and Germany)  <_<

Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 2

Grimspoon....Transmutate.....

 
Names from a distant past....
End of Jafo's quote

 

That they are, indeed! From back when skinning actually were fun....

Dave (transmutate) I still have contact with (hurrah for Facebook).
Lost all contact with Jerry years ago.

Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top

skinning actually were fun
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(It still is) <_<

Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting navigatsio, reply 22

skinning actually were fun

(It still is)
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:typo:   it still are.

Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top

SC - by way of the Peach State
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Would that be Charleston...you an Air Force brat?

Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Would that be Charleston...you an Air Force brat?
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Nope, Greenville/Spartanburg area (but I LOVE Charleston!) Yep, how'd you guess?  :|