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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 #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Ahhh....  he's from 'away'.... "Greenville/Spartanburg in the upstate" as the weatherman says.

Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Former Air Force brat myself.

Ahhh.... he's from 'away'.... "Greenville/Spartanburg in the upstate" as the weatherman says.
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Pretty close to RND's neck of the woods.

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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top

he's from 'away'....
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Yep, roughly a hundred miles in any direction and you're "somewhere"...  :|

Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting CarGuy1, reply 27
Former Air Force brat myself.


Ahhh.... he's from 'away'.... "Greenville/Spartanburg in the upstate" as the weatherman says.


Pretty close to RND's neck of the woods.
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I'm in GreenEville, Tn.

Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top

^ Closer to the clouds than to sea level....

Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'm in GreenEville, Tn.
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For some reason I thought you were in Ashville, NC. o_O

Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting navigatsio,
reply 22

skinning actually were fun

(It still is)

it still are.
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It still am! XD

Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top

That too. :P

Reply #34 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I've even had skinners over to the house and gone out to dinner with.
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and didn't bother to pick up the check, I heard.

 

Reply #35 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting WebGizmos, reply 32

Quoting navigatsio,
reply 22

skinning actually were fun

(It still is)

it still are.
It still am!
End of WebGizmos's quote

another hillbilly. XD

Reply #36 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Since posting this, two other skinners have pm'd me with phone #'s.  I'm afraid to call them in case they are sex lines.  ;)

More proof that WC is more than a website; it's a commmunity of friends . . . not all of them crazy or hill-billies either.

 

Po:  I hate.  Can you feel it?

Reply #37 from WinCustomize Forums Top

(If you hear bangur music, squealing pigs or somebody says you got a purdy mouth, don't accept the dinner invite. Just sayin') <_<

Reply #38 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting navigatsio, reply 37


(If you hear bangur music, squealing pigs or somebody says you got a purdy mouth, don't accept the dinner invite. Just sayin')
End of navigatsio's quote
Shit.  NOW you tell me.

Reply #39 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'm afraid to call them in case they are sex lines.
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Oh come on bigboy! You know you wanna! :*

Reply #40 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'm afraid to call them in case they are sex lines.
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just mine :smitten:

Reply #41 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting RedneckDude, reply 18
Vamps, do I really sound like Dr. Phil?

Navi, where did yall say yall is from in the south?
End of RedneckDude's quote

 

yeppers you really do! but its a compliment....<3

Reply #42 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The only person I've spoken to on the phone is BoXXi. He sounds quite normal to me, but then we are both from Yorkshire...

You can speak to me if you want, but just remember the Yorkshire accent is unintelligible south of Chesterfield...

Reply #43 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Gee, what would you guys do if you heard a genuine Brooklyn accent. Not from me though 'cause people ask me if I'm from somewhere south of the Carolinas. Don't ask me why. 

Reply #44 from WinCustomize Forums Top

somewhere south of the Carolinas
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Guess that would be Florida and with all the retirees from up north living there...you probably do sound like 'em, Uvah. In Georgia we had a lot of "halfbacks" that didn't like FL and ended up landing in the peach state instead. :|

Reply #45 from WinCustomize Forums Top

"Go get the gimp."

"The gimps asleep."

"Well wake him up!"

Reply #46 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Just for the sake of a laff, yall should know that Steve (WebGizmos) and Doc sound almost identical on the phone.

When my sister had her brain aneurysm, I called Doc, only I had goofed the number and call Steve by mistake. Steve played it off for a few minutes, but when he realized it was a serious call, he told me that I should call Doc. I said that I thought I HAD called Doc. I talked to Steve for 10 minutes or so thinking I was talking to Doc!!!!!

 

Guess you had to be there, but it was funny as hell.

Reply #47 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Guess you had to be there, but it was funny as hell.
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The reason is (o forgetful one) that Giz called me immediately after you called him and told me what had happened.

So, when you called me, I answered as the Giz.

Result?  One totally confused RnD.  That was fun!  Too bad it wasn't much of a fun time for you, but she's improved, thank G-d.

Btw, I sound much better than the Giz, you hick.

Reply #48 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Just for the sake of a laff, yall should know that Steve (WebGizmos) and Doc sound almost identical on the phone.

When my sister had her brain aneurysm, I called Doc, only I had goofed the number and call Steve by mistake. Steve played it off for a few minutes, but when he realized it was a serious call, he told me that I should call Doc. I said that I thought I HAD called Doc. I talked to Steve for 10 minutes or so thinking I was talking to Doc!!!!!

Guess you had to be there, but it was funny as hell.
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Now that's funny right thar! XD :-"

Reply #49 from WinCustomize Forums Top

landing in the peach state instead.
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Truth to tell I'd rather be in Georgia than Florida. I've seen pix of the countryside out there and they are gorgeous.

Reply #50 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Truth to tell I'd rather be in Georgia than Florida. I've seen pix of the countryside out there and they are gorgeous.
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Georgia reminds me of kudzu & red clay....I spent my most of my childhood summers there on the farm.