*THE EB TAVERN*

May your glass be ever full.
May the roof over your head be always strong.
And may you be in heaven
half an hour before the devil knows you're dead.

Here's to me, and here's to you,
And here's to love and laughter-
I'll be true as long as you,
And not one moment after.

Here's to you and yours
And to mine and ours.
And if mine and ours
Ever come across to you and yours,
I hope you and yours will do
As much for mine and ours
As mine and ours have done
For you and yours!

Health and life to you;
The mate of your choice to you;
Land without rent to you,
And death in Eirinn.

Here's a toast to your enemies' enemies!

When we drink, we get drunk.
When we get drunk, we fall asleep.
When we fall asleep, we commit no sin.
When we commit no sin, we go to heaven.
So, let's all get drunk, and go to heaven!

Here's to a long life and a merry one.
A quick death and an easy one.
A pretty girl and an honest one.
A cold beer—and another one!

Here's to our wives and girlfriends:
May they never meet!


Gotta looove the Irish. One for Anthony!


Guid forder! :medievalcheers:

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Originally Posted by horst nordfink

GUINNESS!!!

Going to Amsterdam on Friday; should sink plenty of Amstell there. Looking forward to it!

Anyone know anything worth seeing in Amsterdam?

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In't Wildeman..short walk from the railway station...sooooo many beers

http://www.indewildeman.nl/indexe.html

Apparently Gollem is quite a good bar as well

http://www.cafegollem.nl/default_en.asp

drink here and you may never want Amstel again

I believe you should also pay a visit to a cofee shop ;)


Cheers...

Amstel sucks. Try Dommelsch or Hertog Jan while you're there.

And try Utrecht instead of Amsterdam. It's where I go to Uni. (:

If you simply want to try all kinds of beer (it isn't a tavern mind you!): Bert's Bierhuis; Twijnstraat in Utrecht.

Anyone know worth seeing anything in Amsterdam? Well, if it doesn't have to be a tavern -- typical tourist things: Van Gogh Museum; Rijksmuseum etc. :shrug:

Stay away from the Paddo's some people ate them and they thought they could fly :hippie:

What are Paddos?

I like Amstel, I had it last time I was there, and it was beautiful.

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Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios

If you simply want to try all kinds of beer (it isn't a tavern mind you!): Bert's Bierhuis; Twijnstraat in Utrecht.

Anyone know worth seeing anything in Amsterdam? Well, if it doesn't have to be a tavern -- typical tourist things: Van Gogh Museum; Rijksmuseum etc. :shrug:

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No, I actually want to see some of Amsterdam, not just the inside of bars (although I will see plenty of them too!).

I was hoping for something interesting, that isn't too touristy, i.e. not too expensive.

Excellent, we have now overtaken the celtic overpowered thread! Man. It's like Lusotanna out-powering the Seleukids in terms of economy or something. o.o

Hello everyone!!! =)

My name' s Pete, I'm from Moscow and my English is (just as always) far from perfect but I'm desperately trying to improve it =)

I guess everyone'd expect from Zee Russians to stick to vodka, but that is a common myth, that's why right now I sit here with a bottle of good south-african Shiraz (my favorite vine) and wish the same to all of you =)

The best time of year in Moscow is the golden autumn, and I'm going to spend a very pleasant evening enjoying the view outside of my window, reading news, discussions and opinions about EB and having my vine =)

Well Pete, your English is a lot better than my Russian.

Glad to see a russian here, I love russia!

One of my lifetime goals is driving from one end of russia to the other end, but unfortunately I have to wait a bit till I can make this dream come true (finish school and uni first, and of course I must earn some money :sweatdrop: ).

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Well Pete, your English is a lot better than my Russian.

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The problem is that even if we know some foreign words and use them, we still don't know for sure, are we using them exactly they're meant to be used or not =(
The other problem is the way we are used to construct phrases.
I'm afraid there is and always will be a language barrier between us =(
That why even though I enjoy John le Carre novels and his rich upper-class (?) language, sometimes I'm not sure what was he trying to say =)

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Originally Posted by Kampfkrebs

One of my lifetime goals is driving from one end of russia to the other end...

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Have you sean or read "Motorcyclist diary"? Please expect all kinds of adventures Che Gevara had on that journey :laugh4:

I was once told that Russian and English are the two hardest languages to learn. Trust me, your English is very good.

I would love to learn another language. I did learn French to a decent level at school, but I've forgotten it all now. I know a little German too.

The trouble is, everyone knows English wherever you go, so its easy to just get by on other peoples knowledge.

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I was once told that Russian and English are the two hardest languages to learn...

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Well, at least we don't have so many different dialects and accents as Zee Germans do =)

English is very hard to learn....I often wonder how those that didn't learn it from infancy can even fully comprehend it.

Is it there, their, or they're? Is it deer or dear? Is it wear or where? So many of those types of words, even I get confused once in a great while, and I always got a's in english and spelling.

Your english is good. I say kudos to anyone who has learned a second language....I don't think I would have the patience.

~:cheers:

English hard to learn? I had a talk to a friend of mine some months ago about this, and we ended with a list of the most difficult languages in the world:

1. Chinese (All dialects) and asian languages in general, cause of the different alphabet and stuff.
2. The click-clack language of the aboriginies
3. Russian (again the different alphabet)
4. French :skull:

English is a language of traders and sailors, so it shouldnt be so difficult to learn, because in EVERY place of the world is at least someone who speaks a little little bit english (yes, the imperial age played of course a important role).

Well, for me as a german it doesnt seem so difficult, because german and english are both germanic languages, and I dont have that much problems learning english (even if my is quite terrible) as learning latin (which is a roman language).

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Well, at least we don't have so many different dialects and accents as Zee Germans do =)

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So true! I could slap those damn bavarians with a large fish everytime they open their mouths and start like "sam habschon uf dr wiesn gwesn?". They are raping our language ;/

Written characters aside, English is one of the hardest languages to learn. Most languages have a set of rules that you learn and follow for the language. English has a set of rules that it always contradicts itself.

The words of english are easy enough to learn.

Using those words properly and in the correct context is something else entirely, and very difficult to master.

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What are Paddos?

I like Amstel, I had it last time I was there, and it was beautiful.

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http://www.magic-mushrooms.net/paddos.html

Just don't use them

Somebody i know trashed his living room completely because he thought thousands of Smurfs (you know those little blue guy's with white heads) where attacking him

I don't agree with english being too hard to learn.
Well, I've always been told Portuguese is one of the harder languages to learn cause of the verbal constructions.


Cheers...

tis a sad day indeed though when many non-english speakers or those for who English is not a first language actually have a better command of English than many currently within our education system.

i.e. those who like to finish every sentence with 'yer know' or 'like' and wouldn't know the difference between there, their and they're if it were painted blue and danced on that beer filled table over there singing 'confusing grammar is here again'

Whoever you are you have no need to apologise for your English as its a lot better than some who speak it every day.

Slide me another beer Bootsiuv I'm getting a little depressed and morose and need a pick me up.......it's been a tough week...Customers they're a pain in the arse they always think their problem is the worst, I just wish occassionally they would stay right over there and leave me to surf

(see how I did that :2thumbsup: )

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So true! I could slap those damn bavarians with a large fish everytime they open their mouths and start like "sam habschon uf dr wiesn gwesn?". They are raping our language ;/

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Tsk, tsk, tsk...

The saxons are raping german, we´re actually improving it.
And no true bavarian would ask someone from the rest of non-bavaria if he´s already been on the O-fest (foreign visitors from Australia, Italy, Britain etc, all well and good, but Germans....brrrrrr)

And before someone asks, yes, Bavarians and Germans do have a love-hate relationship - they love us, but we hate them ~D

I myself find English grammar to be pretty easy stuff. Granted, to write 100% correct English is a proverbial pain; still to write English at a decent level (without either blatant, sentence crashing grammar errors) is not so hard at all. You've got to think twice every now and then about getting your word order right; but over all the English language is a typical dicitonary-language: its real difficulties only emerge in situations when you want to use very specific words, describing a particular thing/action/event and which require you to know your trade.

As long as you don't ever attempt at speaking slang... you're good. ~;) Oh, and the retarded pronounciation, of course. (Compare spelling of the actual word, before it got all squeezed/stretched & deformed by the speaker.)

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As for "Most difficult languages to learn": I am surprised nobody mentioned Dutch so far. As opposed to many other modern languages, Dutch uses a wide variety of vowels which aren't even uniformly spelled: more often than not surrounding consonants and the position within the whole word play their parts as well. Add to this the very loose grammar, and its tendency to be very strict when you wouldn't expect it...

Chinese is tough for westerners, I'll grant you that. ;-) I always thought Latin was the hardest, but that's only because I don't know the grammar for Greek.

Anyway. Here in the presence of so many drinkers and EB fans, I'd like to flog my own little humble work, begun in May 2004 before I met EB, but which was already a labour of love inspired by the phenomenon that was RTW. It's not exactly an AAR, being written as a fantasy novel. But its soldiers are definitely armed and behave in a way that all EB players will definitely find familiar :D It's here at http://voruna.blogspot.com, and the first post you see is the latest, so do look back in the archives to the very first one.

Here's hoping you enjoy it. I stopped writing for quite some time when I enlisted, leaving the novel fallow, but am now continuing it again. You guys and gals are going to be the first public audience I'm revealing its existence to, so I hope you merry drinkers will give me your opinion on it.

And try not to puke on it.

Not too much, anyway. XD

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The saxons are raping german, we´re actually improving it.

And before someone asks, yes, Bavarians and Germans do have a love-hate relationship - they love us, but we hate them ~D

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Saxons arent german (anymore, they were but this is like 50years ago?), they are just a bunch of annoying people living in the middle of nowhere (no joke, as I visited the Games Convention 2003, I had to drive through the old areas where the big agriculture industries were, and there is for 100km NOTHING!).

And I dont know why everyone thinks of bavaria if they think of germany; Currywurst (which WAS NOT developed in Berlin!) is so much better than Weißwurst.
Alas, my image of bavaria may be a bit..."twisted", but this may result due too much time in front of a TV (especially the series named "Heidi" crushed my image of bavaria forever).

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Alas, my image of bavaria may be a bit..."twisted", but this may result due too much time in front of a TV (especially the series named "Heidi" crushed my image of bavaria forever).

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Err, as far as i know heidi and almöhi are living in this lovely country -> :switzerland:

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i.e. those who like to finish every sentence with 'yer know' or 'like' and wouldn't know the difference between there, their and they're if it were painted blue and danced on that beer filled table over there singing 'confusing grammar is here again'

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I think your confusing illiteracy with dialect and slang.

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Err, as far as i know heidi and almöhi are living in this lovely country -> :switzerland:

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Please forgive me my dumbness, but for me as a Ruhri, everything south of Essen is the same :laugh4:

Moggûh to you all

Lets play a little guess game

Me Myself and I thinks that EB 1 will be released a week before Christmas as a sort of early christmas present

What I do noticed is that the forum is more quit than normal the game testers likely find a Indian elephant bug :elephant: :eeeek: in the script and they are chasing it as a bunch of skirmishers :sagittarius: to kill it

Or the worst scenario its totally bug free and so satisfying to play that they totally forgot to release it


What do you think??

Ow bartender can have A jug of Hertog Jan please

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Originally Posted by Sassem

What do you think??

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I know the release date, but I wont tell you.

Till the release you have to be happy with this:
http://www.ugly.plzdiekthxbye.net/ar...d_bad_ugly.gif

I have to make a confession, and since I'm not religious and this place represents a bar, it's a fitting place for this: I suck as a beta tester. Bovi, being the liberal he is, doesn't believe in whipping (you bastard) and won't force me to do anything, so I've let my personal life get in the way. Anyway, since the team won't kick and whip me into doing what I'm supposed to do, I figure maybe some of you drunkards will. Whaddya say? I can't offer a prize for the hardest kicker, but maybe it'll make the next release be that much sooner. If I (or you) can force me into it, I'll actually do something useful on Sunday.

But I thought Bovi was the EB whippersnapper....that's false advertising. Maybe he should change it to EB super happy fun time provider, to avoid any further confusion. :P

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Originally Posted by Thaatu

I have to make a confession, and since I'm not religious and this place represents a bar, it's a fitting place for this: I suck as a beta tester. Bovi, being the liberal he is, doesn't believe in whipping (you bastard) and won't force me to do anything, so I've let my personal life get in the way. Anyway, since the team won't kick and whip me into doing what I'm supposed to do, I figure maybe some of you drunkards will. Whaddya say? I can't offer a prize for the hardest kicker, but maybe it'll make the next release be that much sooner. If I (or you) can force me into it, I'll actually do something useful on Sunday.

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What you didn't saw the sign outside this Pub


EB BETA TESTERS MAY ONLY VISIT AFTER 48hours (continuous) TESTING

:sweatdrop: :whip: EB staff

uhhuh, yeah. I wonder when that sign was put up though, it sure as hell wasn't the bartender.

*looks around* bartender? Helloooo....

I'm still here, Sassem just hung up the sign so Thaatu would get his ass to work! :P

Thaatu is lying. He whips me every evening.:whip:

Woooooaaaahhh....TMI friend, TMI.

:dizzy2:

Tsk. But at least all that blood and scourging is for a good cause, eh? Endure for, oh, another 4-5 years? 0.9 ought to be out by then... o.o

visitin agsin.

hello.

how are u.

I have returned from Amsterdam in one piece!!

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@horst nordfink I have returned from Amsterdam in one piece!!

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Are you gone wright a AAR about that???:yes: :yes:

I foresee screenshots of fat doobies and large, robust, Dutch titties....

There were plenty of big fat doobies, but there were no titties. My girlfriend would not have been pleased.

I think someone else would have to write the AAR though, because there are a couple of patches that have slipped me by. Fortunately there are plenty of photos that have been taken, and some I even remember posing for!

Thank God for facebook!

As i pass by the open door of the tavern i heard someone talking about titties, and so i decided to drop by.
Servus, all.
My name is Ciprian, i'm from Romania, the province of Transylvania(but i haven't seen any vampires so far:embarassed:). Bartender give me a shot of palinca (it's a traditional brandy made of plums or pears about 56% alcohol:dizzy2: ), and a round for all patrons in this joint.
I'm 29 years old so you don't need to see my ID.
What do i do for living do you ask?
Well, i'm a financial consultant in a firm that is specialized in project management.
I don't have kids yet, but in december my daughter will be born:laugh4: ( the most probable date of birth will be between 18 -22 of December)

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As i pass by the open door of the tavern i heard someone talking about titties, and so i decided to drop by.
Servus, all.
My name is Ciprian, i'm from Romania, the province of Transylvania(but i haven't seen any vampires so far:embarassed:). Bartender give me a shot of palinca (it's a traditional brandy made of plums or pears about 56% alcohol :dizzy2: ), and a round for all patrons in this joint.
I'm 29 years old so you don't need to see my ID.
What do i do for living do you ask?
Well, i'm a financial consultant in a firm that is specialized in project management.
I don't have kids yet, but in december my daughter will be born:laugh4: ( the most probable date of birth will be between 18 -22 of December)

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Greetings Ciprian, thanks for the drink(sounds pleasant, although @56% alcohol, perphaps no smoking) Best wishes with your daughter, and may you have few sleepness nights(babies=:Zzzz: or ~:mecry:)

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Best wishes with your daughter, and may you have few sleepness nights(babies=:Zzzz: or ~:mecry:)

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Thanks. I know that it's going to be tough in the first couple of months, but it will worth every bit of our effort.(Probably even less and less EB time for me- that's my biggest upset, not the sleep thing)

I know I shouldnt be here, but....I really need a break from the EB slave labor! :skull:
You know, all these hard whiplashes all the day, man my whole back looks like a Phalangitai after some badass Cataphracts charged into them.

And now give me a drink. Aquavit, please.

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Originally Posted by Kampfkrebs

I know I shouldnt be here, but....I really need a break from the EB slave labor! :skull:
You know, all these hard whiplashes all the day, man my whole back looks like a Phalangitai after some badass Cataphracts charged into them.

And now give me a drink. Aquavit, please.

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Welcome friend, put your feet up, just don't over do it, the slave labour camp is being turned over looking for you as we speak, besides not everyone can be trusted, those amongst who fear your presence hear might mean some delayed juicy intro videos, might hand you over.

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Thanks. I know that it's going to be tough in the first couple of months, but it will worth every bit of our effort.(Probably even less and less EB time for me- that's my biggest upset, not the sleep thing)

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For the first month, you won't even know he's there....he'll sleep like 20 hours a day.

The first month is scary, but a lot of fun too. We're expecting our boy on november 1 (scheduled C-section, how convenient, no?).


I have a 2 year old daughter, but it really doesn't change much. I'm a little more experienced, but all fathers feel a certain level of fear and uncertainty when a new life is on the way, no matter how many kids you have.

Well, good luck. Just wait until he starts walking and saying da-da....good shit.:yes: :2thumbsup:

I hadnt heard the guild would send you a happy b-day message, thats kinda cool

hows it goin' bootsiuv?

Pretty good....I recieved no such message, and my birthday was yesterday. :(

Perhaps I didn't enter my birthday, or they think 26 year olds are too old to recieve birthday messages... :P

EDIT: Heh, after looking at my profile, it occured to me that I've never written anything in there.

Well, I keep walking by this place every night and finally decided to wander in and check out the clientele...I'll have a Don Julio Reposado (the finest tequila known to Man) and a pint o' Bass...

I'm Phil, a wildlife conservation biologist (I think this is a first for the Tavern, eh?) from Minnesota. Yeah, I know...an eco-guy with a raging thirst for military history...not sure I really understand that one myself. Must have been my hard-ass Marine father...never took me out hunting or fishing, but had one tremendous library of history books...I'm one of the few older folks here amongst the crowd (mid-40s) and had a long history of digging deep into WW2 literature as I was growing up -- mostly late-war Eastern Front stuff. But then my older brother turned me on to R:TW about a year ago and I was an instant convert.

This is a really new period of history for me and -- by starting to work through books in "the EB Bibliography", learning from the experts here in the Tavern and elsewhere, and playing the game itself -- it's been a fantastic new hobby (much to the angry chagrin of the wife, but I gotta do what I gotta do, y'know?). I'm having a blast!!

Really looking forward to knockin' back a few with all of you as the Minnesota Arctic winter approaches...but I may have to pass on the Jager-bombs in favor of that bottle of Don Julio there on the shelf...pour me a double, will ya Bootsiuv? Now there's some fine drinkin'...

Howdy Phil!
And Happy birthday Bootsiuv! *orders Nikka whisky to everyone*
Here's a toast to you and your favorite subject: vaginas!


Cheers...

Thanks friend....I'll always drink to that. :beam:

It was my birthday on the 27th! Starting to feel old now!

Happy Birthday!!

23 yes?

Good times.

Have a round on me....

~:cheers:

24 unfortunately Bootsiuv.

Happy birthday to you all.:birthday2: Have a drink on me. Mine was on 29'th (an i just turned 29-so it is i who should feel old)

I'll be 38 next birthday :shame:

you young whipper snappers

I need a pint

oh incidentally if any of you happen to be in my neck of the woods from the 25th to the 27th of October you'll have to pop into my tavern....well its not strictly a tavern its more of a beer festival.

52+ real ales on sale plus at least 5 real ciders all lovingly prepared and sampled by my good self....bliss :2thumbsup:

I wouldn't mind giving them there Ciders a test or three.
I've just turned 40 recently(can't tell ya what pressie er in doors got me) now when I was young we didn't play wargames on blinkin PCs, it were all done on table top..............

Ah yes, Digby...I remember those good ol' days as well. True table-top board wargaming: wobbly stacks of infantry units , the endless dice-rolling, stacks of hit probability charts...good times, good times...

A belated Happy Birthday, Bootsiuv!

My bad Horst....I couldn't remember if you said you were 22 or 23.

@everyone else....

Thanks for the happy birthday....and if you have/had a birthday recently....here's a round on me.

Cheers

~:cheers:

No worries Boots, did well to remember the age range!

I haven't had a drink since Sunday night, couldn't face it after Amsterdam. Think I might find myself a couple tonight.

Why the hell not!! :yes:

I just had a drink... Or ten... My head is sore...


Cheers...

:coffeenews:

Word around town is that the esteemed team members plan on releasing 1.0.

By looking at the EB Teaser 3 thread....I am happy to see that the EB propaganda machine is alive and well.

Our evil EB Landlords just love to torture us poor peasants....

Here's a round to the EB team as a congratulations for completing another great step in the EB Legacy...

~:cheers:

And here's a general whip in the nads for screwing with our heads....

:whip:

:2thumbsup:

I don't know Boot... You know how this things go. You heard from a guy who knows a guy...
Maybe I should strol to the dark alley in the back and squese some information out of some more shady characters...
*drinks a double scotch thinking on the dirty work ahead*

Cheers...

Aparrently esteemed EB member walks into the local kapeleion and hears the kapelos voicing the following:

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:coffeenews:

Word around town is that the esteemed team members plan on releasing 1.0.

By looking at the EB Teaser 3 thread....I am happy to see that the EB propaganda machine is alive and well.

Our evil EB Landlords just love to torture us poor peasants....

Here's a round to the EB team as a congratulations for completing another great step in the EB Legacy...

~:cheers:

And here's a general whip in the nads for screwing with our heads....

:whip:

:2thumbsup:

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thinks "good then we can stick to this approach". Says: one scotch for me too, please!

Oh man Oh man :drama2:

I feel like a little kid waiting :hourglass: for his birthday present:birthday2:

I'm happy that this Pub is open24/7

Yes a good way to kill the time for so long is having some beers~:cheers:

Ehehe, everyone gets drunk on sunday, and then they come home and...oh shit I am talking too much....

:eyebrows:

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Ehehe, everyone gets drunk on sunday, and then they come home and...oh shit I am talking too much....

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.............................and they come home and ...and.... they discover they have to work the next day:wall: :wall: :wall:

:beam: Is that what you want to say :inquisitive: :inquisitive: :inquisitive:

No, it goes more like this:

...and then they come home and beat their wife in a drunken rage!!!!
:furious3:

Hmmmm....I would come home and beat my wife with something else.

:2thumbsup:

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No, it goes more like this:

...and then they come home and beat their wife in a drunken rage!!!!
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Ow i guess that's right after they checked the EB site at found out that EB 1.0 isn't released yet at least they have a wife/girlfriend to spill there frustration :boxing:

I have to chase people on the streets for a while and then trying to avoid getting arrested :slomo:

*Pictures Sassem running down the alley behind the tavern, and beating an old lady in an EBless-induced rage*

See, EB Members....look at what you drive us too.

For the safety of old women everywhere, it is vital that you release 1.0 post-haste. :dizzy2:

*beats up Bootsiuv*
:leer:

Whattcha looking at me for?! He's an old lady, after all! Blame his pain on yourselves, EB members...
:mean:

Now if you keep going on that way I bet y'all won't have acces to EB 1.0 when it is out because you're in jail for assault.

Speaking of EB, my computer totally crashed yesterday. I had to restore it, which erased everything... Should I wait for EB 1.0 or just download 0.8 right now?
:uneasy: