Chinese New Year

[Draketooth Silvertongue]

Happy Chinese New Year everybody. I was wondering what Chinese Zodiac symbols everyone is. Mine is a Rooster and has been so for well over 7 centuries. What about you?  

[Draketooth Silvertongue]

I also realize that Snakeis not in the poll because it will only allow for so many poll choices. So, if you're a Snake, then post it in the thread.  

[Captain~Fleatch]

biggrin My family is full of animals!

Im a Tiger
Gaston is a rooster
And our future daughter which will be here soon is a rat :3 isnt it funny ;D im the biggest animal in the house!!  

[Immortal Methos]

As far as I can calculate... I MIGHT be a Dog. Of course, I had to go back at least 5000 years...  

[Gaston Marceau]

Well, since you're so much older than the rest of us, I think we should make a special consideration in your case and add a new animal to the zodiac.

You can be an Iguanadon. rofl  

[Immortal Methos]

Hi-larious. More like a velociraptor in an iguanadon suit. Don't mess with me. pirate  

[Gaston Marceau]

That might be true, at least when you're not in one of your rusty periods. I swear, you should have whooped Kalas' butt. mrgreen  

[Immortal Methos]

200 years, brat! Just because I can still whoop your a** doesn't mean I can take on a guy who'd been ambushing Quickenings for a few hundred years, not to mention being actively on the hunt ever since.

Watch out! Cranky ROG in da House!! (Really Old Guy) twisted  

[Gaston Marceau]

Ha! Excuses, excuses. Come on and try it, old man! I'll go easy on you so you don't fall and break your hip. twisted

(FYI - Just to add to the aggravation, keep in mind that I've always pictured Gaston as sorta what Richie would have been like if he'd lived to be 200.) rofl  

[Immortal Methos]

Richie?! Oh, man, no wonder you give me a rash. I know Mac loved the kid, but how do I spell annoying? R-I-C-H-I-E. xd

[PS: Did you see how he muscled up nicely in his later episodes? I mean, he got tight!]  

[Draketooth Silvertongue]

Breaking a hip, eh? I know that feeling. Had a run in with the Russian mafia once and ended up being tossed off the roof of a 5 story building. Broke my hip, 8 ribs, both legs, one arm, dislocated nearly everything and cracked my skull in about a million places. Not to mention being impaled by the muffler of an eighteen wheeler.

Woke up in the morgue and had a time popping some of my bones back in place before sneaking back out. Still though, you should have seen what I did to the other guys.

And speaking of MacLeod, how has he been doing lately?  

[Gaston Marceau]

Yeah, I noticed Richie really did come into his own in the later seasons. It's too bad the actor was so visibily aging (reaching adulthood) towards the end and they had to kill him off. He had his silly moments, but Richie was fairly cool, over all.

And if you want painful, I've been on the wrong end of a grenade launcher at least once while working with Balance. Now that will push one's regenerative abilities quite a bit, let me tell you...  

[Draketooth Silvertongue]

Grenade launcher, eh? Where was that? A war you fought in?

I've actually been considering fighting a bit in the Middle Eastern conflicts. Although with technology quickly advancing, it is getting harder and harder to enlist almost anywhere legally nowadays. Very much unlike the Revolutionary War that's for certain. Why even WWI and WWII were fairly easy to sneak into.

Vietnam, I admit was a bit harder, but still not as hard as it is now. We Immortals are forced more and more to stay out of wars to not expose our immortality. They've become less of a pastime as they once were I must admit.  

[Immortal Methos]

War as a pastime? Good lord, don't say that around MacLeod! You'll get the old "We should stay out of mortal conflicts -- It might be a game for some of us, but for them it's life or death!" lecture.

Actually, I agree with him, so... don't. 3nodding  

[Gaston Marceau]

Nope...grenade launcher was encountered in he line of duty. I can't go too far into much of my work with Balance entails...Adam would likely soil himself upon hearing a tenth of my exploits. Heck, I almost do it sometimes...oy! domokun

As for wars, I've fought in my share. I won't go so far as to call them a pasttime, but the reasons behind them used to be so much more clear. I was in the US Cavalry at the start of the Indian Wars (it didn't take very long to see I was on the wrong side of that one, so I promptly resigned), World War II I flew with the RAF to stop the bad guys from smearing Europe into a bloody pulp yet again, Korea was the beginning of the ambiguity...the North invaded the South, but who was to say people couldn't be communists if they wanted? I was in the Air Force flying A-10's when Desert Storm flared up...again someone invaded someone else, so it was easy to see right and wrong there.

Now, wars seem purely politically based, fought to increase national holdings, further our own interests, or settle a very loose thread of revenge, and so forth. The world is getting far too damn complicated methinks.