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« Reply #1225 on: October 26, 2011, 01:45:38 am » |
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Dear sirs,
How does one introduce themselves without it sounding like a dating ad?
I am a chap, older than I'd care to mention, more boring than I care to believe and slightly only more talented than an arthritic snail. But that doesn't stop me letting steampunk influences creep into my artistic hobbies, which currently involve creating RTS computer game battle sets.
Seeks forum chums for conversations, and nothing more. Must have GSOH.
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« Reply #1226 on: October 26, 2011, 04:16:22 am » |
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Welcome aboard. Where in Wisconsin? I am near Eau Claire.
Eau Claire, oddly enough. I grew up in Milwaukee, but moved to Eau Claire when I was 19, and stayed there for just over ten years. |
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« Reply #1227 on: October 26, 2011, 05:39:14 am » |
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Nice to meet you all. Browse around. There is something for everyone.
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Uncle Arthur
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« Reply #1228 on: October 26, 2011, 06:18:33 am » |
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Welcome aboard. Where in Wisconsin? I am near Eau Claire.
Eau Claire, oddly enough. I grew up in Milwaukee, but moved to Eau Claire when I was 19, and stayed there for just over ten years. I am down here near the big city of Humbird. Nice quiet rural country. |
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Trae Dorn
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« Reply #1229 on: October 26, 2011, 12:15:15 pm » |
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Welcome aboard. Where in Wisconsin? I am near Eau Claire.
Eau Claire, oddly enough. I grew up in Milwaukee, but moved to Eau Claire when I was 19, and stayed there for just over ten years. I am down here near the big city of Humbird. Nice quiet rural country. I thought I knew all the small nooks and crannies in that area, but I actually had to look up Humbird. Wow. That place is tiny... |
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« Reply #1230 on: October 26, 2011, 05:43:21 pm » |
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Greetings ladies and gentlemen,
I'm a young American (recent university graduate). I've long appreciated traditional menswear and Victorian literature and material culture. I enjoy contemporary steampunk works like Girl Genius. Might as well be an official steampunk, yes?
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Uncle Arthur
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« Reply #1231 on: October 27, 2011, 06:02:39 am » |
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Welcome aboard Rottweiler. Trae. Humbird is even smaller than Fairchild! LOL!
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Dana
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« Reply #1232 on: October 27, 2011, 11:14:42 am » |
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Greetings  I'm Dana, from Spain. I was born in a little city called Lleida, but now I'm living in Mataro, a cute city near Barcelona. I'm a 'reporter' in a blog of steampunk literature in spanish, www.mundosteampunk.com, and part of The Golden Gear (a steampunk forum in Spain ^^ we have a section in english  ) I'm a noob in steampunk fashion but I'm making my firsts outfits and changing two mavericks in two beauty pirate pistols Nice to meet you, hope we can meet in some events (I'm planning to visit your countries someday ) |
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Broojo02
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« Reply #1233 on: October 27, 2011, 03:37:14 pm » |
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Hi guys and girls, names Joe, I'm from the UK, not much alese to say really Oh and I like steampunk. |
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« Reply #1234 on: October 28, 2011, 04:31:46 am » |
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You'll fit right in.  I supposed, with being gone so long, I should make a brief appearance here. For those of you who don't remember me, my name is Gwenifer, I am 21, and I live in the Midwestern part of the US. For those of you who do - good to see you again! |
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Miss Scarlett in the library with the candlestick!
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Max Pressure
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« Reply #1235 on: October 28, 2011, 11:17:36 am » |
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Hello Folks
I'm Alan from Sunderland in North East England.
I discovered Steampunk whilst at Hotrod show in Whitby a couple of years ago.
I felt more than a little underdressed, walking around the town, as it coincides with one of the Goth weekends, but I didn't think the full Goth look was for me.
It was the pith helmet, top hats, goggles & all things mechanical that get me going - oh yes!
I'll be at the Hotrod show again this year (Saturday 5th November 2011) with my 1947 Mercury Streetrod, only this year I'll look the part too.
If anyone is in the area, please stop by & say hello.
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« Reply #1236 on: October 28, 2011, 10:38:24 pm » |
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hey Alan
good to see another local on here, I'm from Washington!
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steam_punk_goddess89
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« Reply #1237 on: October 29, 2011, 02:03:17 pm » |
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I'm Kim I am 22 just joined b/c I love steampunk and i want to learn all i can about it and how it's going around the world. I am also looking for good places to buy things to add to my collection. |
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Sir Henry
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« Reply #1238 on: October 31, 2011, 09:36:06 am » |
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Dear me, late as usual. I should probably have posted here before wandering around the forum; my apologies for my lapse in manners. I'm one of the Steamgeezers (more mature, chronologically speaking anyway, members), having discovered this place through the Leeds Steampunk Semaphore event. My twisted mind immediately started working on improvements to the semaphore system and am now building Version 3 of the Improved Gentleperson's Individual Telegraph (the iGit ). Ideal for private communication between airships in transit. As soon as that's finished I shall start on the smaller, pocket-sized version for the younger generation. Along with the other dozen or so projects that have popped up since joining this forum. If only I weren't so skint... |
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C.S. Lewis - "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
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Redranger90
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Steady as she goes!
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« Reply #1239 on: October 31, 2011, 02:19:53 pm » |
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Hello!
The name's Mike, a steampunk enthusiast and machinist by trade from the New England area.
I like gears and machines, brass, brushed steel and wood-grain.
I even built a steam engine for my senior project a few years back!
I've also delved into the world of DJing and Audio Production.
I'm more than happy to help turn "what if's" into "Been Done's"
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The original Redneck Steampunk
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Gwenifer Scorpio
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« Reply #1240 on: October 31, 2011, 04:00:17 pm » |
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Welcome to Brass Goggles, good sir! You have a fantastic signature. Join the ranks - I was raised a redneck myself.
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Bad Wolf
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« Reply #1241 on: October 31, 2011, 10:29:15 pm » |
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Hello good sirs and m'ams . Im writing you from a beautiful , distant land of Serbia ! Big fan of victorian culture , although steampunk is unknown to my people . Best regards |
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« Reply #1242 on: November 01, 2011, 10:43:34 am » |
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Octavia Thistlewaite at your service...
More commonly known as Charlie, a twenty-year-old History student at Reading Uni, but originally from Cornwall. Found this site thanks to the wondrousness of some very kind people at MCM Expo at the weekend.
I love Victorians. I love technology. I love making things. The discovery that i can mix all three into one big bottle of awesome and give it a name was possibly my favourite discovery this century! Basically, I've been a steampunk for as long as I can remember, but i never knew there was a word for it. I also love tea more than is at all healthy.
Anyhow... good day, hello and bonjour to you all!
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sir kitto
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« Reply #1243 on: November 02, 2011, 09:11:07 am » |
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Dear sir or miss Hello I am sir kitto and I am very new to this fourm. This is my first ever post ive been looking at steampunk for the last two months and have all ready cosplayed is a steampunk fasion at the london MCM expo Ive made a set of steampunk atire and I met one of the moderators on this fourm hare doctor i think his name was. so I decided to join. Have a spiffing day sir kitto |
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« Reply #1244 on: November 02, 2011, 02:59:07 pm » |
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Hello All.
My name is Russ and my wife (Wendy) and I hail from the darkest depths of Leeds.
I came accross Steampunk at a photoshoot to promote the Bradford Steampunk Exhibition, and have been bitten by the bug so to speak. We attended our first Whitby Alternative weekend accross the halloween weekend, and loved every minute of it. Will be looking for groups and events to attend in the future.
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« Reply #1245 on: November 02, 2011, 04:55:30 pm » |
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Yet another Leodiensian (or two), excellent and welcome.
Another local, who may well be a moderator here, was talking of setting up a Leeds Steampunk facebook group to co-ordinate teatime tete-a-tetes or soirees. Or something that doesn't require facebook membership. Time will tell... (and will tell it here, no doubt)
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« Reply #1246 on: November 02, 2011, 07:23:03 pm » |
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Yet another Leodiensian (or two), excellent and welcome.
Another local, who may well be a moderator here, was talking of setting up a Leeds Steampunk facebook group to co-ordinate teatime tete-a-tetes or soirees. Or something that doesn't require facebook membership. Time will tell... (and will tell it here, no doubt)
Hello and welcome! Why not start your own Leeds Events thread on here, that way, facebook membership is irrelevant, and everyone can access here! |
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''I'm a loose bolt in a complete machine. What a match! I'm half-doomed and you're semi-sweet.'' "You want steampunk to be a novelty, a LOLcat, a meme. I want it to be my life. Which of us is going to fight harder for it?" - Dimitri Markotin *DISCLAIMER* This dungeon is fictional, and any similarities to other dungeons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.  http://www.facebook.com/avasapparelMention you're from BG when ordering for free shipping! http://www.etsy.com/shop/AshleighEllanUse 'AVA10' for 10% off! |
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Insp. Baskerville Durham
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"Investigator of Heinous Events"
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« Reply #1247 on: November 02, 2011, 07:31:42 pm » |
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Hi - I`m Dave from Durham,UK.
I have visited the annual Goth festival in Whitby for the last couple of years and have joined in the fun dressing as an undertaker but was curious about some of the themes of the costumes. After a bit of research I started thinking of an alter ego and a theme on which to base this.
When looking into Steampunk I realised that I loved the genre having always loved those old black and white sci fi films as far back as the early movies such as "Le Voyage Dans La Lune", Metropolis through to the modern classics such as "Blade Runner". Another favourite is "Brazil" which has such a great theme throughout.
I have also found the books and films of Jules Verne very interesting and on looking back to my youth I was probably an early Steampunk enthusiast without realising !
I hope to come up with a mode of dress in due course.
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« Reply #1248 on: November 02, 2011, 08:56:21 pm » |
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Hello and welcome! Why not start your own Leeds Events thread on here, that way, facebook membership is irrelevant, and everyone can access here!
Because I couldn't organise a tea party on a dirigible - I've been trying to meet up with said possible moderator for about 3 weeks now and it looks like it may just happen before next year. If we're lucky. |
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« Reply #1249 on: November 02, 2011, 09:16:43 pm » |
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A very warm welcome to all the newcomers-I'm (one of) the resident crazie(s). You'll find most nights I'm on for a few hours here or there-posting where I please, usually *only just slightly* plastered.
You'll find this little corner of the webernetz is fairly safe, and we all (mostly) get along. When we don't, we duel to the death.
The loser dies, and the winner is promptly executed because A) dueling is a crime, and 2) so is murder!
Again, welcome one and all!
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