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Well, since this is a brand spanking new forum, with all the fancy bells and whistles, I figure its time for a new brand spanking new mugshot thread rather than resurrecting the old one. As before the theme will be Ethnographic Weaponry, so if possible at least post a pic with you holding something. Now I know Im starting this thread without posting a pic of my own, but I gots something in mind, but it will have to wait for the arrival of a couple of items first.
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No bites yet, Fred?
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i'm just living up to my name....
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Are you in a pool?
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Finally, i've decided.
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yup! instant wave; just add water...
unfortunately, it's not the Hawaiian juice that i started on, but to end up living smack in the heart of midwest and having a place to 'surf' within an hour's drive during summer, i considered myself extremely lucky. btw, it's called a flowrider. florida got couple of 'um... ![]() ![]() ![]() Last edited by Spunjer; 2nd December 2004 at 01:09 PM. |
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Looks like you've got that place wired . ![]() How long will the operator let you stay on the wave per ride ? Have you ever surfed Cloud Break in the P.I. ? Last edited by Rick; 2nd December 2004 at 04:09 PM. |
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What's up with all the surfers here
![]() Anyways, here's a pic of me in my "skate-punk" look ![]() ![]() At least I'm holding a kris and surrounded by swords ![]() |
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nice shirt, bro
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Great pics so far guys. Hoping that more will go up soon. Ill get my own up in due time, having to decide whether to wait for somethings to arrive first, or if the Typhoons in PI will cause much too much delay
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ba da bump
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That's more like it...
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That’s me and my war mace. Not really an edged weapon, but my friends I have a lot of fights with it. (… and a lot of fun!)
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thank you zamboanga, for saving my dignity. i had a feeling it was for those "beings" when i saw the word maligno. you see, i've been telling my wife (she's puti) and my kids tales i've heard growing up and that include the kapre that smoke cigar under the mango tree and those dreaded aswangs - mananangal in particular. to see you write those same words on the forum, much less with a weapon that's made to fight them; i can't thank you enuff . you are the MAN!!!
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whoa, rather,
is that a mace with an elixir of life in it ![]() |
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Well, if ,again, there's no need to preserve one's own dignity
![]() To me, swordsmanship is a field of knowledge I add to my study of antique weaponry. It is fun to an almost obscene level, also... ![]() The weapons are modern reproductions to be used as trainers, I hope they comply... ![]() |
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Having just made his offering at the spirit house Dan anxiously waits to see if a keg of beer and female paratroopers will drop out of the incoming C-130.
CLEAR TO DROP BABY! |
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doin da bump
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federico,
where's your pic??? ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Last time round, I just posted the only pic I had on file, which was one I had of my son and I at my dad's funeral. This time round, I want to actually do a theme pic, and was waiting on some stuff to arrive to make it work. Now I just gotta wait for the sun to come out, and itll be up soon. So be afraid...be very very afraid
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... ehemm, ehemm ... c`mon guys ! (did I stole your line, Andrew ?)
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G-D@#%$ door bundle ended up upside down in a khlong. Salvaged most of the gear but the TP was a mess. ![]() We were very "tactical" that night. ![]() |
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Back to the Ice Age ... Me and my brother in one of his mountaineering/ski patrol trips last week in Transylvanian Alps, jackassing around with Icicle Age mass destruction weapons ...
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I thought the stake had to be made of wood .
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We were using dummies, my sibling would never threaten me with real hickory, way to dangerous and the light was fake too ...
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Sorry can't take credit for that, was in Korea at the time, had you said Cobra Gold 85,86,87,88,89,91,92,93 it might have been me. But now I'm intriqued!Are, or were, you a fellow "brother in arms". The fact that you were concerned about the TP is a comment only a GI would make ![]() |
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Well "Brother in Arms" might not be the term exactly. In a former life, I was one of those geeks with the loudspeakers and leaflets in the 4th PSYOP Group(Abn) out of Fort Bragg. They did let me play "soldier" every once in a while though.
![]() ![]() In '95 I was attached to an ODA from 1st Group for the UW component of the exercise. Which was a blast except the bastards stuck me with a bunch of spare radio gear, det-chord and C-4. That s**t is heavy ![]() The night insertion off the tailgate of a 130H onto a postage stamp of a DZ is an experience I wouldn't trade for the world though. Of course it was a complete cluster you know what but all the more memorable for it. And it turns out it wasn't the jump master's fault we missed the DZ actually. ![]() Did I mention the door bundle ended up in a khlong? (That's a big water filled irrigation ditch for all you non-Thai speakers). ![]() ![]() Much screaming, cussing and showing of white lights ensued and the G's had to bring up a pickup truck to haul the door bundle out. (I bet the riggers were not very pleased with the condition of their big beautiful T-10-C after that.) But to my everlasting credit the little psyop guy found his way, unassisted and without the benefit of a flashlight, safely to the R-V; chute properly S-rolled (though not necessarily twig, grass and clump of dirt free - did I mention I ended up in the bottom of the what seemed at the time like the deepest, darkest hole in the ground in all Central Thailand?), just behind the medic and well ahead of the rest of the team. ![]() And as a gratuitous edged weapon tie in - I can state with pride that it was my very own surplus store, Marine issue KA-BAR that the medic used to dispatch the two celebratory end of exercise pigs. Mainly because after 18 days in the Khao Cha Mao it was about the only sharp thing we had left. ![]() |
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Not a sword but here's a pic of Guro Richard and I taken locally here in Battle Creek MI about a year and a half ago.
Then here's a younger and a lot slimmer shot of me playing by myself with a dummy I made in the back yard. I had just got back from about a month and a half in Aspen Colorado with Guro Dan. 1980 Spunjer, Would you like to do some travel training together sometime? You could come up for a weekend and visit and I could come down and train with you for a weekend. moose |
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Your hosts Avner & Artzi Yavrom, your humble servant and Eric Farrow.
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Excellent! Thanks, JP. I keep forgetting to bring my camera.
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