A Subsim Christmas story
 

Sit down children, let me tell you the tale of how an Englishman and a Texan defeated boredom and loneliness

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It was a long time ago. As far as anyone can remember. A time when people were lonely, having only to know people that lived close to them. Whether they liked eachother or not, one had only friends one could visit in a day.

So a thought came in to one Englishmans head. A man named Jimbuna. ''I already told all the jokes I knew to my mates at the pub and havent heard anything new, I wish there was a way to have more friends without using all my money for airplanes'' he pondered by himself
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A thought so powerfull, it stretched across the great ocean. An ocean that would would bring people together, never again just divide them.
It was picked up by a Texan named Neal.

''That's it'' he said to himself with a smile
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''I GOT IT'' he ran into the saloon, his pistol in one hand and what was left of his bike in the other
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His friends knowing Neal would not damage his bike unless it was something important, so they listened to him
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''I am going to create a public place, where all people with an interest of sumbarines and naval warfare may discus and talk about politics, weather, booze and other unrelated stuff and make subgames better''
''But how Neal'' his friends were curius
''By a new media, the internetz''
''Oooooooooooooooh'' they said, doubtfull since the internetz was young and untested.

And so he found a young programer
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''Teach me the ways of programing and help me create Subsim''
The programmer was thrilled of the idea, since he was also lacking new friends to talk programing with.

A gazzilion 1's and 0's later, the Subsim was up and running.

''Nice work everybody'' Neal said to everyone as members started to sign up
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''Shhhhhh, Neal, I hear bagpipes, strange''

The men turned and there was Jimbuna, who learned of the site and brought half the Empire and Europe with him
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''Now our forum is trully international, we can talk about anything over thousands of miles, never running out of topics''

And everyone followed Neal and never one was short of jokes, opinions or lolkatz, a carring friend or a counselor.
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So here's a merry Christmas from the sunny side of Alps :woot:
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:rotfl2: :rock:

And this is why we voted you that award, you awkward genius you.

@Bertonov

You old salt, amazing, bloody amazing when is the film premiere? I want first dibs on tickets :up:

Merry crimbo shipmate.

Best regards.

Fubar2Niner

Least I forget, the still are from here:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424205/

Excellent movie.

Hahaha, happy xmas to all my Subsim brethren. Nice one AB :up:

Question, Since Jim was playing bagpipes, was he wearing a kilt?


Fancy a bowl of haggis?

Going commando under the kilt.

No it was one of Mrs Bunas old skirts.

Nice one Betanov.:salute:

:rotfl2: good story, Bet!

Please don't ask, there are some questions out there to which the answer shall never be revealed. :huh:

A tale to warm our hearts.:D

Good job Bently. :salute:

My bike? What happened to my bike? :huh:

:har: Brilliant work :haha: :up:

Must get around to watching that film, looks brilliant from what I've seen of it, and I think the event that it's based around is a heartwarming touch of humanity in a barbarous time. :yep:

Post of the year :sunny:

Neal, I know it was a good idea, but you could at least ride the bike AROUND the houses, not trough them !!!

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