I thin here is not a busy place

[ljjm]

I see, and you can see, the last thread was posted 30 Sep, Is it few people come to here?
Oh I don't think this, I can not read many words, beacuse I am Chinese, but the reson I come here is this website's name: Electric Forum. It's a good name, but there is not somebody at here! I am so sad.

[devlin]

You are correct. This is not a very busy BBS. However, it's filled with a core, loyal, and tight group of exceptional humans. It is very nice to count you among them.

-Dean Devlin

[sheri]

It's great to see you around too Dean! :)

[The Wizard of Oz]

I know I haven't had much chance to talk to you guys. My bad. :o Dragon's in the throws of completing another script (yaaaay!) , so things are moving along slowly. Sheri, how's the racing been?

[sheri]

Racin's sucked this year, took a break from the track cuz the car needs overhaulin' and the bank account does too. hehehehe

[JAG!]

LOL!!!! Sher -- I'm just now getting back to my chair.

[Chris The FOX Plant]

Halloween, Universal, no sleep, and I got promoted....

Equals me not being here all that much. How are you guys? Dean?!!!! Nice to see you unlurk, what's up that you can talk about?

Mike-Script in hand? I'm currently in rewrite hell over my novel. I wrote the whole darn thing out, then decided that I want a higher word count so I'm rewriting.

Sheri-weird year all around.

JAG-Hey. I keep meaning to call you...

Oh, and for everyone. I don't have the name of the balloon yet, but for the second year in a row I will be in NYC for Thanksgiving. I'm piloting (leading) a balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Cool, huh?

That's what's up with me...and for our Chinese Friend...Ne how ma?

Chris
The FOX plant

[JAG!]

Yo stranger -

Congrats on the promotion and the T-day balloon piloting! Still thinking eventually making it out your way for vacation. Vega$ is nice, but, getting a bit old and seems MY bank account never recovers. :D

And yes agreed, nice to see Dean unlurk. Man, I miss those Dean-lurker pics of yester-eons.

Finally, yes, to our new Chinese friend -- welcome! Thanks for breaking us out of the lurker rut.

[The Wizard of Oz]

Chris,
Email me and I'll pass on the secrets to writing the second draft. :cool:

Y'know, when it's published, it's manadatory to send Dean a copy for his birthday :D

[sheri]

Boy almost everybody is here. Fungus, where you? Foxtrot? Princess Starr? Agent Pat? Kefla? C'mon out of lurkdom! heehee!

(Ironically I do believe the post that started this thread was likely a spam of some sort, but hey, whatever it takes, right? hehehe)

[auric]

hehehe... that's what I thought, too. I was thinking of deleting the thread right away, but then... ;)

I'm quite busy as well. I've been working on a lot of Filmakademie projects recently, and fallen behind to post pictures or anything.

Let me just change the icon of this thread. That mad face makes me... well, ... mad. :)

[Crazy Pavarotti Man]

I've had a lot going on, and am going to be moving again, before thanksgiving.

[kefla]

**Waving to all of you** Still here - just lurking.

[The Wizard of Oz]

Hey, Fungus, great to see you back. What, moving... again??

(sorry 'bout the garb. I thought is was still Sunday)

[trina]

hey, I'm here, too - just busy, too! ;)

Hi Kefla, great to see you!

Yes, Fungus, where do you plan to move to?

And Stefan: yes, post some pictures from your projects! :)

[Crazy Pavarotti Man]

I'll be moving to Pennsylvania sometime before Thanksgiving.

[sheri]

Thanksgiving is already over and done with dude. On to Halloween!

;)

[Crazy Pavarotti Man]

I mean the real thanksgiving. You know, the one where we give thanks that the Indians didn't fight the Pilgrims too hard?

I mean really, what does Canada have to be thankful for? Moose? http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y9/Biofungus/smilies/transparentraspberry.gif

[sheri]

Nah, we be thankful for the weather while it is still not yet SNOW.

:P

And we thankful for....hmm......not being Americans? *ducking*

[JAG!]

Last time I checked, Canada is part of the "North America" continent. Yer "Americans" whether you like it or not. :P

[trina]

I think we had this "moose"-discussion yet some time ago... ? ;)

[sheri]

Then why does the US worry so much about lettin them illegal aliens aka Mexicans in? hehehe!

Although, if that North American Union thang is true, then we all would be North Americans. And our dollar would be the Amero. Based on the strong Canadian dollar, haha!

Pretty sad when I only get 95 cents on the dollar right now. I used to get a buck and a half for each of your dollars! Never dreamed I'd ever see the Canadian dollar worth *more* than the US one!

[The Wizard of Oz]

Officially Canadians are Poms... being a British colony and all. I think it's only George W that thinks Canada is a state of the USA. Maybe his confusion came about because Aussies call Canadians "Aussies with an American Accent". Or maybe he has a fondness for mooses... er, meeses(?) and Maple Syrup. (no one tell him it's Canadian tree blood).

Sheri, should I reveal that Ben and Jerry's and Starbucks are Canadian companies?

[sheri]

They are? :) I prefer Timmies. heeehee!

(just havin' fun wit y'alls of course, we's all on this same round globe together.)

[jianguang220]

hehehehehehehe......
chinaese guy is coming back.
hello,everybody in this forum, i think that the last chinese guy does not have very much time to get online to do something like post or reply thread. because maybe she have two points to amplify her answer.
1) people who can get online to visit english bbs is not a good english men in general,which like me.
2)good english men does not often to visvit english bbs ,which like you.

so maybe ,we should forgive her.

anyway ,thank you very much.

the last guy sends her best wishes.

[Crazy Pavarotti Man]

Define "good english men".

[trina]

hi jianguang! This is an interesting argumentation, but me, too, I do not really fully understand what you mean... and would like to ask the same question as Fungus: what do you mean with "good english men" here? ;)

Anyway, greetings to both of you! :)

[jianguang220]

First of all ,sorry to reply this thread late.
actually ,the "good english men" is meaning that people who have excellent written and spoken English skills.
i know my english is a little chinese ,but i will do my best to write real english.
i hope you can understand what i mean .this is what i most like to hear.
if there were any faults in my words. could you kindly correct it for me ?
thank you very much.

[Crazy Pavarotti Man]

Ahh. I thought you were referring to internet trolls (ie as NOT being good english men).

See, your words were fine (we can understand them), it's just that the context can get lost.

[jianguang220]

what's the mean with "internet trolls"?

[Crazy Pavarotti Man]

People's who's only purpose on the internet is to make things miserable for others.

[auric]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet)

[sheri]

People with way too much time on their hands and nothing useful to do. :)

[Crazy Pavarotti Man]

People with way too much time on their hands and nothing useful to do. :)
I have to disagree with this definition.

[trina]

actually ,the "good english men" is meaning that people who have excellent written and spoken English skills.

I was guessing you mean something like that, just was not quite sure. I think your English is very good, but I'm not a native speaker myself, so I cannot really know all things about it. :) But I think the native speakers usually understand quite well what we want to say, right!? ;)

[Chris The FOX Plant]

To our Chinese friend...keep working on it. Your english is improving.

Mike, sent you a private message and I have heard nothing. sigh.

Oh, and an update. Her name is Chloe, she's the clown balloon in the Macys Parade and I am her co-pilot.

It's going to be an interesting Thanksgiving. And Happy Halloween everybody.

Chris

[jianguang220]

gee, guys , i love you .
i will not give it up .i believe that my english is getting better and better under your help.
have you ever been to china? i am living in shanghai, worked for an advertising company.
now it is 17:21P.M while i am replying this thread. i don't know what 's the time over there ?
hope everything is ok.
i watched a movie which called "philadelphia" last night, the spirit of the actor "andy" interests me .i guess you guys will love this movie, so i wrote it here.
enjoy it.

[Crazy Pavarotti Man]

There's a time stamp above every post, I believe it's California (west coast USA) time, if you want to know what time it is when you post.

To be honest, the American posters on this board are in the minority. Sheri's Canadian (America Junior) :p and our more active regulars (like Trina and Auric) are from Germany.

[JAG!]

I so want to visit, Shanghai!!!

Greets to our new friend!

Happy Halloween, everyone.

[jianguang220]

welcome to shanghai. i will be waiting for you here....
do you know the 2008 olympic games will be hold on in beijing at year 2008. beijing is the capital of china. also as famous as shanghai.
as far as i know, canadian and germany had excellent spoken and written english skills. did they take english class while they at school or english was their second native language?

[sheri]

English is our native language here in Canada. French is secondary spoken only by a few out east in the province of Quebec.

[auric]

Yes, English is taught in German schools beginning in 5th grade.

A friend of mine recently visited Shanghai. :)

Happy Halloween!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cb/Jackolantern.JPG/180px-Jackolantern.JPG

[jianguang220]

does canada has its own language which like china has mandarin?
i don't know very much about western caulture.
i never been to go abroad.
don't you think that shanghai is a beautiful city ?
there are many foreigners worked in shanghai .and some lived here.
i can always see foreigners on the street when i go to office.
there are from many countries. U.S.A ,canada,africa,germany,etc....

[trina]

Hi! I've never been to Shanghai, but would love to visit it one day! From what I've seen on TV it's really a beautiful city!

[jianguang220]

yes,welcome you to shanghai,china.
if condition allows, you can visit china at 2008.
the year 2008 could be a big year for china, the athletes from all over the world will take part in the olympic games of 2008.
i have a lot of words to say ,but i don't know how to express it well in english.
i would love to say something in chinese but i am afraid that you don't know it well.

[trina]

but there are no olympic sports events in Shanghai, right?

I heard that some sports might be a bit away from Beijing, for example the sailing events?? But I am not sure. Probably not that far away from Beijing?

[jianguang220]

yes, trina. you're right.
sailling may be better to held in Qidao city in china, if that,it's really a bit far away to Beijing.well ,if you decide to fly there by plane,it just take you two hours.

actually, i am not sure ,is there any olympic sports will be held in shanghai, but i do know shanghai is top city in china.it should be has chance to show its ability to hold olympic events in there.

[Chris The FOX Plant]

From what I know of Shanghai, the government wishes to protect it's beauty.

[Crazy Pavarotti Man]

Yeah, but because of the current modernization, China (most of it) is having MAJOR smog problems. Every few weeks an article about it pops up on the news.

[sheri]

All I know about China right now is that they can't paint an original work of art to save their life. They have to keep copying OUR artists and selling the illegal copies dirt cheap on eBay. C'mon, take some PRIDE in yourselves!!!! I don't hold a very high opinion of the country because of that. The way they treat their people, the lack of respect they have for originality. I could go on and on and on. ;-)