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  1. Box for damage decks (1)

    Hello everybody!

    I was a bit fed up with our current system for the placement of all the damage decks.

    It simply was too easy to take a B card instead of an A card. Was A on the right side? Left? Let's check (and get an idea of the last card in the deck). :confused:

    So, I came up with the following solution:
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  2. Fokker, this dirty, dirty word

    As we are here in the Officer's Club, populated only with Officers and therefore gentlemen of the world, we should, I think, be able to talk about some themes pertaining to the 'facts of life'.

    Now, at almost each of my sorties, there's at least one plane designed and/or constructed by this genius of his time, Antony Fokker.

    Well, Sirs, here's the fact: one of his ancestors must have been a farmer specialised in the breeding of horses or livestock.

    For, ...

    Updated 07-16-2011 at 02:35 by petitbilbo

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  3. Beer from WWI

    This weekend I am going to be making a beer that was around in WWI, which it will be ready to drink on Rememberance Day. I am making this with respect to all who served. I will be making it as close to the way beer was made in those days.
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  4. I love languages...

    German:
    Native (lived in Germany for my first 21 years)

    French:
    Native (went to a french-speaking belgian school in Germany)

    English:
    Speak: quite fluent (sometimes with a 'slight British' accent they tell me)
    Read: almost native
    Write: quite fluent
    Undestand: almost native

    Dutch:
    Speak: fluent
    Read: fluent
    Write: a tad less fluent (still don't know when to put a 'd', a 't' or 'dt' at the ...

    Updated 07-16-2011 at 02:34 by petitbilbo

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  5. Flying Cow TV: Episode #1 - The Sneak Peek

    And So The Nonsense Begins...

    It has been so long since I have published a new Blog entry, I practically forgot how to do it... and yet here we find ourselves at the beginning of something new for me.

    AS most of you have noticed by now, a few of us are headed to the Origins Games Fair here in Columbus, Ohio in a couple of days, where we will spend 5 days of Convention Bliss, during which we will run 26 different Wings of War Events, and try to have as much fun as is humanly ...
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