You can't type like that on my keyboard ...

What kind of keyboard do you guys have anyway?

Normal, will post a pic soon...:smug:
Just go to the languages in control panel and install any language you want, or use babelfish [google]....:know:

That is a really good thing. :yep:

Indeed, we are like brothers!:rock:

As I promised....
http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/ima...f0eb47a69c.jpg
:yep:

Thank you for the link ...

I learn something everyday ...

While I was waiting I had to go find out where Smaragdadler is from:


Administrative region (German Land) in central Germany, bounded to the north by Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony, to the east by Saxony, to the south by Bavaria, and to the west by Hesse; area 16,172 sq km/6,244 sq mi; population (1999 est) 2,449,100. The capital is Erfurt, and other major towns include Weimar, Gera, Jena, and Eisenach.

Physical
The region includes the Thüringer Basin in the centre; the Thüringerwald hills to the southwest and south, rising to 987 m/3,238 ft; and the river valleys of the Unstrut in the north and Saale to the east.
Economy
Major industries include machine tools, optical instruments, steel, vehicles, ceramics, electronics, glassware, and timber. Wheat, maize, and sugar beet are grown.

Gee, check this out, this is where I'm from:
http://www.hercegnovi.cc/e_home.php
:arrgh!:

EDIT: FINALLY!!!!!!!!
Im The Ol' Man!!!!!!!!!!!!

That sounds like a beautiful place ... I haven't been any where in 35 years since I left the Navy, but I would like to have gone there.

This is from the link you gave me:

True enough, and because we are at the seaside, you can choose between 3 cities:
Herceg-Novi, Budva or Kotor!
Beautifull beaches, tons of hot chicks and strangers from alll over the world, majority in tourism are the Russians, so, "they are'nt comming, they're already here...:arrgh!:
http://www.worldinconflict.com/
For real!
This is what the beaches look like, near Budva!
I pictured it with my n70 from a bus!
http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/ima...0049a08856.jpg :yep:

The real point (missing link) you must understand is:

Thuringia was the most western reaching part of (Cold War) East Germany (GDR/DDR), [Munich lies more to the East like Erfurt (it's only a little but a fact - look on a map!] that was conquered at the end of WW2 by the Americans. - By Patton actually, who was raceing to Thuringia insted of Berlin. He had an leathal 'accicident' shortly after - and Thuringia was than sold to the Russians for West Berlin. Reason: [concipracy theory short to the point /on] Thuringia was the "Area 51" of the Reich!!! [concipracy theory... /off] During the Cold War - it was the gate to Fulda Gap from the East - owned by the Warsaw Pact!

http://www.metal.de/pix_cdreviews/menhir_thuringia.jpg
Thuringia is the green "Heart of Germany"! :smug: We have our own dialect. Something like a unknown equivalent (or a unknown 'brother' since old times) to Bavaria.
It's the 'occult' (hidden - 'not generally known') 'green - woods' heart of Germany - in all imaginable factors: (history, mentally, geo-stratecic etc.pp. - even (I if you will) - spiritual: take [just] 'Luther', 'Bach', Goethe' Weimar...)(Thuringia is like Bavaria and Saxony a "Freistaat" (lit. 'Free-State' - which has something juristicaly to do with the 'impossibility' to make it again 'monarchic'. Thuringia has the most castles(+ruins) per square-kilometer in whole Germany-even more than the 'Rhineland'. In Medieval Times, it was like a 'Reich inside the Reich' - mature aristocratic families and the chatolic church tried to get their 'big' food in it - to have a 'stand' for ruleship over 'the rest'.... [look also for 'Harz-Mountains' (parts in northern Thuringia) and 'Kyffhäuser' - Babarossa-Legend(!)]
Thuringia was an early battleground for the protestantic faith (Luther-Wartburg (translation of New Testament to German, and Münzer - radical spiritual leader in the 'Peasant War' in the early 16. century).
Napoleon defeated Prussia at Auerstedt which is just a small village near Jena. Jena is one of the bigger towns in Turingia. 'Zeiss-Optics' come from there....

In the GDR it was together with Saxony (to the east ) something (mentally - for comparission) like the 'South States' in the USA.
In my Hometown Arnstadt there where some of the very first demonstrations against the GDR-Regime in october 1989...)

Yeah, I've heard about the 'Area 51 of the Reich' and if even half of the stuff is true, then there's some real interesting stuff under your feet.

Didn't know it was the gateway to the Fulda Gap though...thank god the Cold War never went hot or that area would be a pretty hotly contested zone.

Beautiful countryside though, you'd never picture it as a place of war, would you?

That looks kind of nice GG ... I spent three years in the Med underwater of course ... I'm glad we didn't nuke you ... our targets were the oil fields of Romania, but the fall out would have got you ... :oops:

For me (my people) it's more darker. Nobody known knows, what's down there...and when (if) - it will blow up....
'Those who speak, don't know...and those who know, don't speak... :nope: And we will get no help from the 'powers that are now', because they have their own problems and 'dark points' to hide. No help for the people of 'Naziland'.

SOS - PEPOLE OUT THERE - READ THIS:
http://www.amazon.com/SS-Brotherhood...5052313&sr=8-1
:D
(not much about Thuringia, but to sensibilicate others about this topic...)

That would be a nice place to make holiday. Your town would just to have to make comercials, that it's shure save&clean&cheap (for the 'ordianry German)' - and they whould 'flood in' and make you rich.
But if this is a good idea? I would think not. Beware the 'ordinary German' - look at Malorca... :nope:

Beware of what? We have Germans too here, as I said before, we have many nationalities here...:yep:

And what is a plus for us, it's a quiet peacefull town with marina....
It is a nice place to check it out...:|\\

Maybe... It's just that I'm not 'proud' of the behaviour of 'ordinary Germans' in Malorca. Never was there ('Malorca') actually...just, what I have heart...they can be like a 'swarm of insects'....Wessis. :)
(Now, I will get flak from Skybird and others)...let it come. :cool: (actually 'Ossis' are the same...)

The Germans around here are a fine people, no prob with them....
Gotta see to belive it!:up:

Smaragdadler ... is that guy in your signature in a voting booth or something? I can't tell ... even looks like it might be a video game.

I hope it's not a adult video parlor ... :lol:

It could be A. Einstein or some freak magician with a bad setup...:arrgh!:

It's the 'Wizard of OZ'.
There is an 'eastern block' version of the book by Alexander Wolkow . It was the very first book I have read for my own. In the east it was not just one book - but a whole series. The first book was more or less like the american 'Wizard of OZ' of Lyman Frank Baum and had the title 'The wizard of the emerald city'. It was very popular in the GDR. Maybe like Harry Potter today...

http://www.smaragdenstadt-fanpage.de...sm/russ_01.jpg
http://www.smaragdenstadt-fanpage.de...0/sm_01_71.jpghttp://www.smaragdenstadt-fanpage.de...0/sm_02_ea.jpg
http://www.smaragdenstadt-fanpage.de...0/sm_03_ea.jpghttp://www.smaragdenstadt-fanpage.de...0/sm_04_ea.jpg
http://www.smaragdenstadt-fanpage.de...er/smaragd.htm

Good page in english.
---> http://www.izum-gorod.narod.ru/eng/index.htm

Have a look at some of the illustrations:
http://emeraldcity.ru/images.htm