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Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - Stein - 07-27-2011 (07-26-2011, 10:12 PM)HeK link Wrote: [quote author=Didzo link=topic=3603.msg216579#msg216579 date=1311732999] I remember this! [/quote] My parents gave me rolls of tape and markers. I made my own carpet city. It even had wood block overpasses. [/quote] Yep, cities made of blocks. My blocks were the perfect size to make 2x lanes for hotwheels, or the half-width blocks for overpasses etc. No markers though, and I didn't use tape with the blocks. Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - Luinbariel - 07-27-2011 I made my cities and roads in the sandbox. It was filled with black sand/earth and was made out of a giant tractor tire. :3 Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - Surf314 - 07-27-2011 Where is the best place to go to find your family tree? Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - HeK - 07-27-2011 (07-27-2011, 11:59 AM)Surf314 link Wrote: Where is the best place to go to find your family tree? In the family woods. Mine's a cedar. Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - Luinbariel - 07-27-2011 (07-27-2011, 12:37 PM)HeK link Wrote: [quote author=Surf314 link=topic=3603.msg216666#msg216666 date=1311785970] In the family woods. Mine's a cedar. [/quote] You rogue. Otherwise, if you have surviving family speak to them first while they're still around. Then turn to various heritage sites on the internet. My dad knew a bunch still from his own talks with family, and the rest he got online. But it's hard to get past the 1600's, at least in his case. A lot of the records were still kept at the churches, and many were destroyed during the war. Others have not stood up to time, and more still just are still at the church, waiting to be uploaded in some digital form. My dad thinks we're related to some kind of old folk hero. Based on what he's learned, he could be right, lol. Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - Surf314 - 07-28-2011 (07-27-2011, 03:12 PM)Luinbariel link Wrote: [quote author=HeK link=topic=3603.msg216669#msg216669 date=1311788247] In the family woods. Mine's a cedar. [/quote] You rogue. Otherwise, if you have surviving family speak to them first while they're still around. Then turn to various heritage sites on the internet. My dad knew a bunch still from his own talks with family, and the rest he got online. But it's hard to get past the 1600's, at least in his case. A lot of the records were still kept at the churches, and many were destroyed during the war. Others have not stood up to time, and more still just are still at the church, waiting to be uploaded in some digital form. My dad thinks we're related to some kind of old folk hero. Based on what he's learned, he could be right, lol. [/quote] My family is all screwed up though. One grandmother is adopted, the other is from a crime family in Chicago. One grandpa is from Austria, his family probably fled to the US because they were jewish. The other Grandpa left when my dad was born and I know nothing about him other than he was a failed boxer but the son of a very famous boxer or something. In short talking to any of them about our family could be hella awkward (and some are senile). Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - A. Crow - 07-28-2011 (07-28-2011, 09:07 AM)Surf314 link Wrote: [quote author=Luinbariel link=topic=3603.msg216689#msg216689 date=1311797553] In the family woods. Mine's a cedar. [/quote] You rogue. Otherwise, if you have surviving family speak to them first while they're still around. Then turn to various heritage sites on the internet. My dad knew a bunch still from his own talks with family, and the rest he got online. But it's hard to get past the 1600's, at least in his case. A lot of the records were still kept at the churches, and many were destroyed during the war. Others have not stood up to time, and more still just are still at the church, waiting to be uploaded in some digital form. My dad thinks we're related to some kind of old folk hero. Based on what he's learned, he could be right, lol. [/quote] My family is all screwed up though. One grandmother is adopted, the other is from a crime family in Chicago. One grandpa is from Austria, his family probably fled to the US because they were jewish. The other Grandpa left when my dad was born and I know nothing about him other than he was a failed boxer but the son of a very famous boxer or something. In short talking to any of them about our family could be hella awkward (and some are senile). [/quote] I just googled my oldest relative's name that I had a firm grip on where he lived and when he died. For me this was my great grandfather. On earlier searches I'd found the records for his homicide, and that he was listed at the perpetrator of the murder of two of the three guys accused of murdering him (his brother got the other one a year later) But someone on one of these ancestry sites had finally linked him into the bigger picture this time.   Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - Dtrain323i - 07-28-2011 We only know as far back as about 1900. And from what we know is that my family came to the United States from Slovakia because they were on the run from the law. They were horse thieves and highwaymen. Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - at0m - 07-28-2011 I don't know how my family got here, but I know my dad's mother's family owned a huge brickmaking company in NYC back in the 1800's. They did construction on a shitton of the old buildings built in the late 1800's and early 1900's, and as a result also were honored to do some of the work in Central Park. A lot of the paths there have commemorative bricks with 'Holme' on them, that's the most visible place to find them since I don't know which of the buildings were built by them. Also, my grandmother's house in Hastings-on-Hudson just sold a few weeks ago for >$400k. 3-story brick house built in the late 1950's by HER grandfather, as a wedding gift. Good stuff. Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - Vlambo - 07-28-2011 Bought this at work for $8. Best $8 ever Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - KarthXLR - 07-28-2011 Those things are awesome. Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - rumsfald - 07-28-2011 I'd even spend $9 for an anaheim ducks t-shirt. Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - Vlambo - 07-28-2011 (07-28-2011, 06:18 PM)rumsfald link Wrote: I'd even spend $9 for an anaheim ducks t-shirt. Can't quite tell if being sarcastic. Is Ye Olde Rummy a hockey fan? Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - A. Crow - 07-29-2011 (07-28-2011, 07:04 PM)Vlambo link Wrote: [quote author=rumsfald link=topic=3603.msg216815#msg216815 date=1311895121] Can't quite tell if being sarcastic. Is Ye Olde Rummy a hockey fan? [/quote] you paid $8 for a Maverick? Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - k0ala - 07-29-2011 TF2 wasn't working. Posted in the FML thread about it. Found a couple of other games were making Steam behave in odd ways. Uninstalled Steam. Reinstalled Steam, redownloaded TF2. Everything's fine again. Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - Dtrain323i - 07-29-2011 I've been tubing on Lake of the Ozarks all day. Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - matter11 - 07-29-2011 (07-29-2011, 06:35 PM)Dtrain323i link Wrote: I've been tubing on Lake of the Ozarks all day. seeing as how this is brbu, I'd usually expect to see a post like this in the fml thread followed by "i am beyond sunburned" Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - Dtrain323i - 07-29-2011 (07-29-2011, 06:40 PM)matter11 link Wrote: [quote author=Dtrain323i link=topic=3603.msg216981#msg216981 date=1311982548] seeing as how this is brbu, I'd usually expect to see a post like this in the fml thread followed by "i am beyond sunburned" [/quote] Nope, I put on a bunch of sunscreen. I've also been drinking since about 11am Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - matter11 - 07-29-2011 www.animaltalk.us/for/Animals/what-koalas-do-when-it-is-hot/[url=http://][/url] koalas have learned to use cuteness for survival. Re: This Made My Day/Improved My Day Thread! - Sogo - 07-30-2011 The things this guy can do with Garrysmod are amazing, nothing short of being MOTHERFUCKING MIRACLES. Also be sure to check out his videos, "Fuckville" and "Fucktown", surprisingly, neither involves fuck in any way, shape or form. jazz |