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Name: Niki
Age: 21
Occupation: College Senior, poet
Marital status: currently happily single
Describe your personality using four words: memorable, empathic, unstable, creative
Three favorite things: writing, reading, thinking
One special talent: poetry (with a lot of work to go)
Which two emoticons describe you best: :rolleyes: :stuck_out_tongue:
One thing that might surprise us about you: I want to get as far away from society as possible after graduation (writer’s retreats, etc)

Name: Ava
Age: 23
Occupation: student/waitress
Marital status: Single and not really looking.
Describe your personality using four words: chimeric, eccentric, perverted, absent-minded
Three favorite things: food, sleep and sex
One special talent: I can clasp my hands together behind my lower back and then bring my hands to my stomach without seperating them.
Which two emoticons describe you best: D: ¬__¬
One thing that might surprise us about you: I am actually a lot more opinionated and forceful in real life than I am on this message board.

Name: Antijen
Age: 24
Occupation: Today - studying laboratory technology. Tomorrow - MAD SCIENTIST!
Marital status: Oh so very alone…
Describe your personality using four words: Canadian smartass, always reading.
Three favorite things: Chocolate, coffee, and books. (Just don’t tell my family they’re not on the list…)
One special talent: I emit a weirdo-attracting pheromone that guarantees the strangest person on the bus will come sit with me and try to make me smell his sandwich.
Which two emoticons describe you best: :dubious: :stuck_out_tongue:
One thing that might surprise us about you: I had lunch in the crater of Mount St Helens a few years ago before she started to burp smoke again.

Name: Regallag the Axe, Destroyer of Nations, Ruler of Men, Lord of Nine, and Chosen of The Gods
Age: N/A
Occupation: Mighty Nordic conqueror.
Marital status: Single and lovin’ it!
Describe your personality using four words: I kick ass. Majorly.
Three favorite things: Whisky, conquest, and battle.
One special talent: Does kicking ass count as a talent?
Which two emoticons describe you best: (insert fighting smiley here) and (insert
One thing that might surprise us about you: I’m wearing a top hat right now!

Did I mention that I kick ass?

Name: Mariemarie
Age: 42
Occupation: Electronics technician
Marital status: out of circulation
Describe your personality using four words: geeky, earthy, peaceful, shy
Three favorite things: the way the shadows of the puffy little clouds look moving across the hills when you stand on top of a mountain, Ben’s beautiful eyes, Mamma Zu’s pasta
One special talent: pie
Which two emoticons describe you best: :cool: :o
One thing that might surprise us about you: I don’t even want any tequila anymore.

Name: Mamboman
Age: there or thereabouts
Occupation: educator
Marital status: still looking for mambolady…
Describe your personality using four words: I N F J
Three favorite things: water, the colour blue, miles davis
One special talent: i pound a piano
Which two emoticons describe you best: :eek: :dubious:
One thing that might surprise us about you: I can’t actually mambo…

Name: pinch of cement
Age: old enough to know better
Occupation: Yes
Marital status: Sentenced for life
Describe your personality using four words: eccentric playful dharma bum
Three favorite things: books, music, female humans
One special talent: What? Only one?
Which two emoticons describe you best: I’m more literate than that
One thing that might surprise us about you: I have lived on every continent except Antarctica

I’m guessing you like them too, eh?

“them”?

Our Atreyu’s name came from “The Neverending Story”. And Atreyu definitely wasn’t a “them”.

Atreyu is also the name of a band, I believe.

That’s what I was wondering.

Although I daresay that the Neverending Story came first (and that’s definitely where our Atreyu got his name).

::: wonders if the band has a drummer named Artax :::


Okay, since I’m here:

Name: Monstre
Age: 34
Occupation: I teach in Computer Science at a university
Marital status: Single
Describe your personality using four words: Is dinner ready yet?
Three favorite things: music, partner dance, World Domination
One special talent: playing the piano
Which two emoticons describe you best: :D, :stuck_out_tongue:
One thing that might surprise us about you: I collided with a moving car (I was on foot) when I was a kid.

Name: Large Marge
Age: 41
Occupation: Former newspaper editor, currently undecided
Marital status: Shouldn’t this mean, “What is the status of your marriage?” And if so, how does “single” play into that?
Describe your personality using four words: Four won’t cut it
Three favorite things: trying something new, fishing and sex, but not necessarily in that order
One special talent: I can spot bullshit from 100 yards
Which two emoticons describe you best: Emoticons can’t talk, silly!
One thing that might surprise us about you: I am in love with two men. Al Franken and Conan O’Brien.

Name: Marley
Age: 22
Occupation: Journalist
Marital Status: single
Describe Your Personality Using Four Words: Particular, Intelligent, Sly, Literate.
Three Favorite Things: Writing, music (playing, listening to, writing about),
One Special Talent: Groucho Marx impressions, although it’s not that I do an impression so much as I’ve assimilated a lot.
Which Two Emoticons Describe You Best: Yiy, uh… :dubious: :confused:
One Thing That Might Surprise Us About You: I’m a writer who is very good at math.

Name: rodsky420
Age: 45
Occupation: slave
Marital status: loner
Describe your personality using four words:real,honest,blunt,high
Three favorite things:girls,dogs,weed
One special talent:gardening
Which two emoticons describe you best: shy,nice
One thing that might surprise us about you:my feet are real but my legs are prosthetic.

Name: rodsky420
Age: 45
Occupation: slave
Marital status: loner
Describe your personality using four words:real,honest,blunt,high
Three favorite things:girls,dogs,weed
One special talent:gardening
Which two emoticons describe you best: shy,nice
One thing that might surprise us about you:my feet are real but my legs are prosthetic.

Name: rodsky420
Age: 45
Occupation: slave
Marital status: loner
Describe your personality using four words:real,honest,blunt,high
Three favorite things:girls,dogs,weed
One special talent:gardening
Which two emoticons describe you best: shy,nice
One thing that might surprise us about you:my feet are real but my legs are prosthetic.

Name: Rex. Non really, I always like that name though.
Age: 48
Occupation: Aerospace functional test technician. In other words I fix other folks screw up and change burned out light bulbs on Boeing 737’s as they are being built.
Marital status: Yes. With 4 grandchildren too.
Describe your personality using four words: eeny, meeny, miney, mo.
Three favorite things: Auto racing, cooking, eating.
One special talent: Being lazy.
Which two emoticons describe you best: :cool: :eek:
One thing that might surprise us about you: I once wrestled on a profession wrestiling card.

Name: Astroboy14
Age: 38
Occupation: Tech. Support/Master Control Operator (depending on the day & time)
Marital status: Happy with my wife!
Describe your personality using four words: smartass, even, funny, twelve
Three favorite things: sex, comedy, sleep
One special talent: starting fires (no, really! On camping trips, I’m the firestarter…)
Which two emoticons describe you best: :smiley: :smack:
One thing that might surprise us about you:I still haven’t figured out what I want to be when I grow up… so far I’ve been a hotel desk clerk, a night auditor, a metal health therapist, an English teacher, a lexicographer, a small business owner, and now my current jobs.

I forgot Academic Director of a school in S, Korea. :slight_smile:

:smack:

Make that “Seoul, S. Korea”.