So what did you get?

[Peanut]

For Christmas? I got a new surround sound set up, an air hockey table, some DVD's, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets for Gamecube, LoZ:LttP for my GBA, and a bunch of Toronto Maple Leafs stuff. It was a really good christmas this year! What did everyone else get?

[Kali]

I got a 12" Raphael figure, Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (not really as good as I thought it'd be), a calender by one of those cool fantasy artists, and the January 2003 issue of Wizard magazine, complete with TMNT on the cover. Not much, but the younger sibs came first this Christmas. I'm doing my after-Christmas shopping for art supplies this weekend. *happy she's finally getting a good set of inking pens*

[Kameko]

Aside from a bunch of (much-needed and much-appreciated) Kitchen stuff, and some clothes, I got some TERRIFIC TMNT stuff for my collection!!!

-A 30 piece (giant piece) floor puzzle of an image from the cartoon series
-A 300 piece jigsaw puzzle of the first movie poster
-Four issues of the TMNT Magazines
-And last, but certainly not least, A tmnt TAPE recorder with microphone, with a Rock and Roll Raphael on the front! It's in terrific condition, too!!! :D

As soon as I get my camera cooperating with me again, I'll get pictures of it all up on my website.

OH! I almost forgot the best part! I also got a video called BEHIND THE SHELLS -- it's a behind-the-scenes view into the first two movies! It's great! There's just something incredibly funny about watching a bunch of guys who are human from the waist up and turtles from the waist down dance around a movie set! :lol:

:) :) :tparty: :) :) :tparty: :) :) :tparty: :) :) :tparty: :) :) :tparty: :) :) :tparty: :) :)

[Tokka-B]

Got:
Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance (BEST FIGHTER EVER)
TimeSplitters 2
Phantasy Star Online
Simpsons complete first and 2nd seasons...
Some books

Other stuff not worth mentioning :wink:

[Peanut]

Man the last TMNT thing I got was a couple packs of cards from 89' last year. My mom can never find anything! I bet she doesn't even look... :x

[Deepflame]

Ahh... Didnt get anything special, me thinks.

-My own copy of the Silmarillion (YAY)
-Some other stuff~~

[MzTheInsomniac]

only thinf tmnt related i got was a shirt and a sticker

[Eye of Sarnath]

I got:

No TMNT figures :x
Legos!
Two Tintin books
Clothes :dead:
A new watch
Fellowhip of the Ring Special Edition
Other stuff

All in all, it was a good Christmas, if you can overlook the fact that I got NO TMNT stuff.

[Greed]

I got some jack, a little bit didly & a hell of a lot of squat

[Nturtle]

ooh!!!! Which Tintin books??? :o

[Kali]

Man the last TMNT thing I got was a couple packs of cards from 89' last year. My mom can never find anything! I bet she doesn't even look... :x
That's why you go out and buy these things yourself. I paid for all my presents. (My parents are strapped for cash, okay?)

And I forgot to mention that I got clothes. Mostly because I'm probably never going to wear them ever. My aunt has the WORST fashion sense. We ain't preps, dammit!

[MzTheInsomniac]

[quote=Michaelangelo] We ain't preps, dammit!


ahmen!!!!!!!

[kyabetsu]

i got a Sumi-e (japanese brush painting) kit!!! ( :thyper: wowie! :thyper:)

a crazy killer cook book :tpizza: :tpizza: (can't wait to try it out! ... now i know what to DO with all those BODIES....)

a copy of the 1970's animated version of THE HOBBIT on dvd (:lol: ... my precious... :lol:)

and a BIJOU HAM HAM Hamtaro stuffed animal....
:sweatdro: i've never seen that show in my life.
... but my friend saw it and figured since its eyes were bigger than its body, clearly i'd adore it. :D he was right! :P :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth: :anime: :eyemouth:

hope everyone else is just as happy with their holidays!
:tparty: NEW YEAR"S COMING!!!:tparty:

[Kameko]

Hey, Michaelangelo, try hinting to your mom to check out e-bay. That's where my mom found all the stuff she gave me! :D :D :D They have hundreds and hundreds of TMNT related listings!!

[ChibiKasai]

I got:
"Clerks:Uncensored" DVD (YAY!)
$$$
$$$
More $$$ (Am I *that* hard to shop for, that everyone gave me cash?)
A Tenderheart Bear from my best friend

No TMNT stuff...though I did win a Leo plush the other day. Which I'm paying for with some of my Christmas money, so it kinda counts.

[DarthRaphael]

TMNT cookie cutters
TMNT 2 on DVD :)

Dodge Racing jacket
MP3 player
Robotech for Gamecube
Tomy Bit Char-Gs
clothes
Tron on DVD
airbrush kit for models

other stuff...

[xZAOx]

my family is pretty poor, esp. since my dad's work injury, and they fired him, so now there is this big lawsuit blah blah blah =/

anyways, i got a big bebop doll (couple of feet tall, soft plastic) that my grandmother found in her hug garage of junk (shes a big-time yard-saler hehe), some new sheets from my other grandmother (they are really soft. not as gay as you'd think...), and from the parents i got a nice screwdriver/wratchet set, and i bought some plastic and we used a bender to make some awesome comic book display racks! now my turtle comics are for everyone to see =).

however, i bought myself a good bit of christmas with the money i made working during the summer =D. i got all the tmnt comics (mirage and image), just recieved the original action figures in the mail, got me a logitech wingman cordless gamepad (it rules!), a digital camera, and i might get me a scanner if the price is right ;-)

other stuff i got from family was a desk clip-on lamp, socks, socks, and more socks, one of my grandmothers paid to have my car worked on (yay!), and a crap load of food (double *chompchomp* yay!).

not to mention i pigged out for 3 days. so im a happy, fat, and full camper!

[Eye of Sarnath]

Nturtle, I got Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon. The last two I don't have (not counting Tintin in the Soviets and Tintin in the Congo, which I may get soon)

[Stone Ill]

Sum 41 - Does This Look Infected?
Mest - What's The Dillio?
New CD Player
New Headphones
Spider-Man: The Movie DVD
LOTR: Fellowship Of The Rings DVD
Austin Powers DVD Gift Set (All 3 DVDs)
X-Men: Next Dimension
PS2 Mag

I really want some Ninja Turtles stuff..The last time I got something Ninja Turtle related was Christmas '92.

[Nturtle]

Awesome!! Great books!!! Especially Explorers on the Moon. I got Tintin in the Congo not long back, it maybe the most racist thing you'll ever read, but in a way those steriotypes ar funny

[Peanut]

My mom would never buy anything from e-bay.

[Greed]

Ha-Ha, I mean too bad dude

[Reznorite420]

WHAT I CAN REMEMBER

From my dad's house:

- Long sleeve Faded Glory shirt
- $25 Best Buy gift card
- $5 Best Buy gift card
- $10 Hollywood Video gift card (with a big bag of Doritos to boot)
- $5 Blockbuster Video gift card (whew! too many gift cards!)
- The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring book
- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon mission pack (which I can't use, my dad doesn't know didly about computers)

From my house:

- Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure DVD (hey, I love that movie!)
- George Carlin desk calendar
- Mini model rocket starter set
- "Travel Kit For Him" (includes comb, nail clippers, nail file, and shoe horn)
- Black TMNT t-shirt (with logo and turtles under it)

From my mom's friend's house:

- Fancy looking waste basket (literally a BASKET!)
- This one's pretty cool: a handheld battery-powered keyboard vacuum cleaner! No computer geek like myself should be without one! Oh yeah, got some monitor cleaner to go with it...

[Ninja Turtles Cartoon Fan]

Santa Claus and his helpers were very kind to me this year. I love film scores, so I got a bunch of CDs this year: The Green Mile, Chocolat, The Patriot, Signs, E.T., Fantasia, among others.

My sister, of all people, got me a green Ninja Turtles T-shirt! It just has the Ninja Turtles logo on the front. I haven't gotten something TMNT related in over 10 years, so that was a nice surprise!

I also got the Jurassic Park 4-disk DVD set, since I had been clamoring for that since the summer time.

So it was a good Christmas this year!

"It was nothing personal." - Krang, from "Get Shredder!"

[MzTheInsomniac]

WHAT I CAN REMEMBER


- $5 Best Buy gift card
\...

$5!!! what possibly can u get for five dollars a best buy?!?!?! :-? :-? :-?

[Greed]

A little mouse pad

[Tokka-B]

Maybe a pen if your lucky...

[HorseTechie]

I didn't a whole lot, but that's okay.

From work:
A coffee mug with bookmark and a gingerman cookie cutter w/ recipe
A little Thomas Kinkade notebook
Paid for lunch
Isotoner house slippers
A White Elephant gift (it's a weird thing my dept likes to do - give away old stuff lying around the house)

From Family/Friends:
Moneeey!
A Compaq iPaq handheld pc (from hubby)
A little cook book
Two little 'Heros of Cybertron' figures (Megatron and OP)

...nothing TMNT though! :(

[ChibiKasai]

My mom would never buy anything from e-bay.
Heh! I'm suprised my mom hasn't set her home page to e-bay yet. :D

And for all who got TMNT shirts: Curse you! J/K.
I want a Turtle shirt badly, but the only ones I can find are in Men's sizes. :(
I guess my best bet is to wait until the new cartoon comes out, and hope they start putting images of the characters on lil' boys' size shirts...But it's still not the same...

[Reznorite420]

WHAT I CAN REMEMBER


- $5 Best Buy gift card
\...

$5!!! what possibly can u get for five dollars a best buy?!?!?! :-? :-? :-?Look above that one...I got a $20 dollar one too, so that totals to 25 bucks. I get a few cheap DVDs for that price (namely the 2 TMNT DVDs out now). Plus I'll be able to use the refund on that mission pack for some more stuff (DVDs, gotta love 'em!)

[Reznorite420]

And for all who got TMNT shirts: Curse you! :P :lol: :P :lol: :P :lol: I want a Turtle shirt badly, but the only ones I can find are in Men's sizes. :(Considering that many TMNT fans are in their late teens at the very youngest (like myself), that's probably about the only ones available. Are you saying even the smallest men's size is still too big for you? Tsk tsk....

[ChibiKasai]

Considering that many TMNT fans are in their late teens at the very youngest (like myself), that's probably about the only ones available. Are you saying even the smallest men's size is still too big for you? Tsk tsk....

Yeah, even those don't fit...I wear a medium in girls' juniors. Curse my feminine petiteness...

[Kali]

LOL! I have a Hot Topic TMNT t-shirt, but I don't where it often because it's not exactly a flattering fit. A straight-lined shirt on a rather curvy body just doesn't work well. I ended up ironing on a TMNT logo patch onto a halter top. And if I ever decide which image to use (probably get one from the new cartoon) I'm gonna silkscreen it on a babydoll style tank top.

Of course, I've still got a few shirts from 1990 (yes, that's the date on them!) that still fit me in a please-don't-wear-that-to-pick-up-your-sister-at-school kinda way. Although the movie one is still looks decent.

[Storm Wolf]

hmmmmm.....let see.....

from my parents I got:

-A horse :D
-a charm braclet
-money
-a fuzzy purple blanket

And from the rest of the family:

-clothes
-candy
-horse tack
-money
-CD's

It was really a lean Christmas for me this year considering the past years....the horse ment a LOT of cut backs on other things.

[Reznorite420]

LOL! I have a Hot Topic TMNT t-shirtNothing personal, but...UGH! The TMNT shirts I've seen at my local Hot Topic were only half-assed IMO. Gadzooks had the exact one I wanted, and I believe that's where my sister got it for me...

Well, I haven't too many good MENS TMNT shirts at Hot Topic...

[Kali]

I know. It was a cartoon style t-shirt, green, with a picture of the guys on skateboards with the caption "Radical". I still like it because it's TMNT, you know. If there were more cool stores in my area, or I had the ability to buy online, I'd have the cooler shirts, but I can't.

I saw this really cool hooded pullover in a catalog, Old Glory I think it was. Black, with the cartoon logo on the front and shells on the elbows. $50. Right, I bet I could make that for like $5, easy.

[Reznorite420]

http://www.gadzooks.com/gallery/images/0101_0929.jpg

That's the shirt I got...pretty rad, IMO.

[kyabetsu]

I got:

-A horse :D
-a charm braclet
-money
-a fuzzy purple blanket
-clothes
-candy
-horse tack
-money
-CD's

It was really a lean Christmas for me this year considering the past years....the horse ment a LOT of cut backs on other things.


:sweatdro:
....you got a horse. and all that other stuff.... and that was a LEAN christmas?..... :teek: wow.

[HorseTechie]

Considering that many TMNT fans are in their late teens at the very youngest (like myself), that's probably about the only ones available. Are you saying even the smallest men's size is still too big for you? Tsk tsk....
Yeah, even those don't fit...I wear a medium in girls' juniors. Curse my feminine petiteness...
Oh... I know your pain! I'm petite too, so I don't like the regular Tee they have. I prefer baby tees, cause they fit me better. But the bunch of TMNT shirts they made were baby tees. After that, it was the regular shirts. Mhh...

*stops* *notices what Tiger Powers got*

Grr... now I'm really envious! :evil: My parents never got me a horse. j/k :P :lol: What breed and color is it? :D

[ChibiKasai]

hmmmmm.....let see.....

from my parents I got:

-A horse :D
-a charm braclet
-money
-a fuzzy purple blanket

And from the rest of the family:

-clothes
-candy
-horse tack
-money
-CD's

It was really a lean Christmas for me this year considering the past years....the horse ment a LOT of cut backs on other things.
You got a horse? Wicked cool...
My grandmother used to own horses...who knows, maybe she still does. Last time I talked to her was over a year ago, when she told me that comics was a dead, no money business, and that I should have different career dreams. :sweatdro: This was right after she refered to my step-mom as a Mexican and asked if all that she fed us was black beans and tacos. (My step-mummy's *Cuban*, and no, we eat americano food alot.)
Needless to say, I was not too pleased...

[Kali]

Ouch. Sounds just my mom's mother. Which is why I no longer talk to her. At least my parents are supportive of me wanting to be a professional artist.

[ChibiKasai]

Ouch. Sounds just my mom's mother. Which is why I no longer talk to her. At least my parents are supportive of me wanting to be a professional artist.
The rest of my family is very supportive. Heck, my dad just put down $100 for my entrance fee for The International Academy of Art and Design.
But my maternal grandmother...sheesh. I've been dreaming about being an artist for over 14 years now. Having her tell me I had no hope of getting a good paying job doing that...I almost wanted to cry.

[Peanut]

My parents support my idea of......being a bum......I work at EB Games....DON'T LOOK AT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ninja Turtles Cartoon Fan]

I've been dreaming about being an artist for over 14 years now. Having her tell me I had no hope of getting a good paying job doing that...I almost wanted to cry.

I love it when somebody tells me I can't do something. That just makes me want to prove that person wrong. Nothing is sweeter than making doubters eat their own words.

"Man, it's a good thing Turtles have hard shells!" - Michaelangelo, from "Divine and Conquer"

[Reznorite420]

My parents support my idea of......being a bum......I work at EB Games....DON'T LOOK AT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!At least you have a job... :cry: :cry: :cry:

[Kali]

Aww. Jobs ain't all that. I count eletronics parts for a living at the moment. I hate it. Well, most of the time I do. Pay day's kinda cool.

But with the grandmother thing, it's the Generation Gap. She must not realize that the comic book and animation industry is growing everyday. As my dad would say "Back then comic books were hundred-pound slabs of granite. Everybody thought they were stupid. Except for us kids." (He's got a weird sense of humor.)

And when you say you want to be an "artist" I think most people think paintings and sculptures and such. Fine Arts. Pfft. I always say I wanna be a pratical artist. My work ain't ever gonna be in a museum, but I'll hopefully be recognized before I'm dead. :lol:

[Reznorite420]

You don't understand, Kali:

I'm 18 years old...have no previous work experience...my funds are running low...and I'm pretty much in a state where I have to buy everything myself now!

At this point, I'll work as a janitor! I'm THAT desperate!

[Greed]

hurrah for freeloading

[Kali]

You don't understand, Kali:

I'm 18 years old...have no previous work experience...my funds are running low...and I'm pretty much in a state where I have to buy everything myself now!

At this point, I'll work as a janitor! I'm THAT desperate!
LOL! You know what? That's EXACTLY what I was like at 18. I understand perfectly. My dad ended up getting me a job at his work (yes, counting eletronics parts.) Did that for less than a year, then was laid-off. Now, a couple years later, my money ran out, and I'm back working there again.

Swallow your pride, that's how you get that first job. Take anything you can get. And while you're working in employment hell, you can do whatever it takes to move you along to that "dream job". Oh, yes, and freeload whenever you can. :D

[Peanut]

My parents call me a freeloader. Probably cause even though I work I'm always bugging them for money. Free money is good. :D

[Kali]

I simply don't pay rent, and get meals free, and slip little items into the shopping cart. Of course, there's also been times I've had to pay for some of their things because they simply did not have the money. (They owe me $900+ and I'M the freeloader?)

Ooh, I went after-Christmas shopping! I got some Prismacolor pencils (finally), inking pens, a nice eraser pen, a bulletin board (soon to be painted this really cool blue flame pattern), and a new Christ Hart book. I'm a happy little artist.

[Reznorite420]

hurrah for freeloadingAnother person who doesn't understand...in this family, "freeloading" has no definition. Both my parents have the philosophy that if I want something so bad, I have to pay for it myself...

So, that might explain my bias against the "spoiled" generation...

[Kali]

Okay, so get a job. Go into every store and fast food joint and ask for a job application. Most will hire even without work experience. Fill out as many applications as you can. Ask your parents for help and tips. I don't mean for this to sound easy, it's not, but that's a really good philosophy, you should work for what you really want.

[SeaThreePeeO]

Ooo how did I miss this thread?

Lets see ... what did I get for Christmas?

I got two jumpers, the traditional annual giving of new slippers, a commemorative book about 9/11 (to save to show my daughter when she's older)

My daughter got ...

A new bike

A airport playset

A castle and pirate ship playset

A bedtime Barbie

A magnadoodle

A box set of nursery rhyme tapes

Scooby-Do, Stuart Little 2 and Beauty and the Beast DVD's

Pop up pirate board game

Play tool kit

and Playdoh

My Dog got ...

A new raincoat

A tugger Kong

and a Santa squeeky ball, which lasted all of five seconds

The parrots each got a new toy and a treat stick, the tortoises got a new hidy thingy and the duck got a new duck ark, it's actually a dog kennel, but he is a big duck!

[Ninja Turtles Cartoon Fan]

My Dog got ...

a Santa squeeky ball, which lasted all of five seconds

:lol: :lol: :lol:

That's how it is with our dogs, too. Every time they get a new toy, the first thing they have to do is rip the stuffing out of it. Then they have to bite the squeak out of the squeaker. Then it's finally okay to play with for hours on end.

"It's all my fault, dudes. I was, like, littering!" - Michaelangelo, from "Turtles, Turtles Everywhere"

[Tokka-B]

It's funny, our dogs have such a bad chewing habit that we just wrap them gifts and watch them tear them open. :lol: :lol: :lol: I'm glad they don't eat the present though... :wink:

[Reznorite420]

Okay, so get a job. Go into every store and fast food joint and ask for a job application. Most will hire even without work experience. Fill out as many applications as you can. Ask your parents for help and tips.Yet again, you don't understand...I HAVE!!!! 2 or three times to a Hollywood Video, 3 times to a local grocery store, parents are no help (besides, I've been doing this stuff for a couple of years)...and I've tried tons of places...no responses. In other words, you can't blame me for not trying... :flaming:

I don't mean to contradict you, Kali, but I can see what you mean when you say it's difficult...I'll take your word for it :wink:

[Kali]

Yeah, stupid economy. (Though for the record, you can't expect a person to understand unless you explain things to them. :P )

That was my summer, several job apps but no call backs, and some places weren't even giving out applications. I thought it'd be easier towards the end, since some employees would be quiting their "summer jobs" but still nothing. My friends all went through that too, so I guess the job scare is happening all over the country. :ohwell:

It's scary, because I know I'm going to be laid off come summer (the business I work at ALWAYS does it.) Seems like a long time from now, but it'll come all too soon.

[Peanut]

It's always good to have friends working in a store. That's how I got my job at EB Games. I couldn't really ask for a better job at my age though. I work 5 times a week for $8.50 an hour for 7 to 8 hours. I work overtime sometimes. Plus the fact that when I go to work I get to play videogames the whole time. I've just got to know all about the individual games and games in general. Pretty sweet!

[Tokka-B]

Now there is a good job to start out with..... :o :o

What games you play there?!?!?!? :thyper: :thyper: :thyper:

[Ninja Turtles Cartoon Fan]

I fell into getting a job pretty easily at first. A guy who ran a sports card shop asked me if I wanted to work alongside him one day since I visited the place all the time.

It was the greatest place to work. My baseball card collection grew considerably because the guy paid me in cards, not money. I worked there for two years, and I have nothing but the fondest memories of that place. But then the guy decided to move to Oregon, and that was the end of that.

And then the cold, hard reality of trying to find a job on my own struck. It took me approximately a year to find employment after having gotten so lucky with the sports card store.

I still hold a grudge against our local Wal-Mart; I turned in 14 freakin' applications, and I never got a job. What really blew my stack was that some lame-brains were getting in with one or no applications, and I couldn't get in with 14. I was a straight-A student in high school who took pride in working hard and doing things correctly. But, oh no, that wasn't good enough for Wal-Mart.

I like to joke around that I was just too intelligent to work there. I got to meet the manager one time, and he wasn't exactly a rocket scientist. Maybe he doesn't hire kids whom he thinks are smarter than he is.

Anyway, I eventually got a job at a grocery store just down the block, and I love working there. Four years later, I'm still employed, and I know I'll always have a place to come back to if the real world bites me in the butt.

Wal-Mart, meanwhile - the place I just had to work at - has since gone to hell. I have more brains in my pinky finger than some of those workers do in their entire bodies.

Checker: "Did you want to buy this?"
Me: "No, ding dong, I'm just standing in line because everyone else is doing it."

But, yes, finding a job can be very hard. And once you have a job, work hard and don't take it for granted.

"I guess I'll just have to *gulp* get a job!" - Michaelangelo, from "Pizza by the Shred"

[tekcop]

my family is pretty poor, esp. since my dad's work injury, and they fired him, so now there is this big lawsuit blah blah blah =/

Sounds a lot like my family last year.

Anyways, I got:
Playstation 2
Kingdom Hearts (PS2 Game)
Top Ten Vol. 1 Trade Paperback
Lucifer Vol. 2 Trade Paperback
TMNT: The Movie 2 DVD
Lord of the Rings 4-Disc set-thing.

[Tokka-B]

GGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!! PS2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :x :x :evil: :evil: :flaming: :flaming: :flaming: :flaming: :flaming:

[Peanut]

I play whatever. I have most of the good games out now so I just play a bunch of different games. Mostly X-Box and Gamecube games since PS2 really doesn't have anything special right now. It's great though.

[Nturtle]

Heck I don't even want any of the new systems... NES and SNES are good enough for me thank you very much :D

[Storm Wolf]

*stops* *notices what Tiger Powers got*

Grr... now I'm really envious! My parents never got me a horse. j/k What breed and color is it?


It's a 12 year old bay Throughbred mare.....she's a dream too....like ridding on a super fast cloud :D

[Reznorite420]

Heck I don't even want any of the new systems... NES and SNES are good enough for me thank you very much :D*high five*

Boycott the LameCube and SuXBox!

[HorseTechie]

*stops* *notices what Tiger Powers got*

Grr... now I'm really envious! My parents never got me a horse. j/k What breed and color is it?


It's a 12 year old bay Throughbred mare.....she's a dream too....like ridding on a super fast cloud :D

*whimper* I like thoroghbreds too. Sounds like she's a handful. Plan to use her for jumping and other english style riding events? :D

[Tokka-B]

Whatever, lamecube is pretty good, but will never be as good as NES SNES and Genesis, that is for sure! :lol:

[MzTheInsomniac]

[quote="*

Boycott the LameCube and SuXBox![/quote]


what abot the gaystaton 2?

[Tokka-B]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: True that!!!

[Reznorite420]

what abot the gaystaton 2?Honestly, I was debating mentioning that, but since I didn't want to get in truoble for posting "foul language", I didn't...

But yeah, that's on my list too.

[Peanut]

LOL! Come on guys. They may not be as good as NES and SNES but they are getting close. Gamecube and X-Box anyways.

[SlayerX]

its a little late to be saying but oh well ^_^

Colorado Avalanche Jersey (Replica, not some cheap kind)
Colorado Avalanche Cap (again, not some cheap kind)
Colorado Avalanche Headband (meh)
Street Fighter EX3 for PS2
xXx Full Screen Edition
$205 Future Gift Certificates (Used that, and $50 my dad owed me for a CD Player
Nike Shirt
Reebok (sp?) Shirt

thats about all the good shtuff ^_^

My parents are divorced so on christmas they spend $150 each on me and my sister and at our birthdays $100 each

[Storm Wolf]

*stops* *notices what Tiger Powers got*

Grr... now I'm really envious! My parents never got me a horse. j/k What breed and color is it?


It's a 12 year old bay Throughbred mare.....she's a dream too....like ridding on a super fast cloud :D

*whimper* I like thoroghbreds too. Sounds like she's a handful. Plan to use her for jumping and other english style riding events? :D

Barrel racing or jumping....whatever I and she can handel :D I really think she has the stuff for both....but right now were just trying to get weight back on her and get her hooves back in shape, so she's turning out to be a work load :roll:

[Peanut]

Booooooooooooo to the Avs. Just kidding. I would have liked to see the leafs and avs in the stanley cup final last year.

[HorseTechie]

*is amused how this has turned into a crayzy everything thread*

Barrel racing or jumping....whatever I and she can handel I really think she has the stuff for both....but right now were just trying to get weight back on her and get her hooves back in shape, so she's turning out to be a work load

Barrel Racing? *facevault onto keyboard* Oh no no no... that's a sprt ofr QH's or appys. But that's just me... and my slight distaste toward... barrel racing! :dead: :lol:

[Storm Wolf]

Barrel Racing? *facevault onto keyboard* Oh no no no... that's a sprt ofr QH's or appys. But that's just me... and my slight distaste toward... barrel racing!
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Well right now QH do dominate the barrel racing, but throughbred's have a bigger lung capacity and are faster....but most have no turning skills at all.

and why exactly do you have a slight distate towards barrel racing? :-?

[SlayerX]

Booooooooooooo to the Avs. Just kidding. I would have liked to see the leafs and avs in the stanley cup final last year.

I would too, but honestly, what chance do the Leafs have of getting to the finals? :roll: I admit, their one helluva team, but they had that REALLY awful start at the beginning of the season, and that totally screwed them over. Meh... i'd like to see it myself ^_^ . I like any team that Ed Belfour goes to... gotta love Ed :P 1 helluva guy ^_^

[Peanut]

Well the Avs aren't exactly off to much of a start either. Plus I was talking about last years playoffs. When the Leafs were knocked out by the Hurricanes. Had it not been for or amazing amount of injuries it would have been us in the finals. I was just saying I'd hoped the Avs would get in there as well. It would have been a great series if the Leafs bench didn't look like a farm team.

[azure turtle]

Heh... got lots of clothes and money for Xmas. A cousin gave me the Spider-Man DVD. I ended up buying some of the TMNT action figs with my Christmas money. Now, let the insanity continue. ;)

[HorseTechie]

Well right now QH do dominate the barrel racing, but throughbred's have a bigger lung capacity and are faster....but most have no turning skills at all.

and why exactly do you have a slight distate towards barrel racing?

Yeah, however, QH's do better on those short sprints between barrels. TB's do better on a big jumping course, or other long distance races too. ;p And I can tell yah, they no like to corner! I had trained a green TB filly for the race track, and she was right handed all the way. She was very stiff, or had a dull mouth, or something, cause she did not turn left very easily. Mh....

But you can say I'm an English/Dressage freak. Most western forms of riding (except for trail riding, roping, and cutting) turn me off. Sounds too harsh on the horse, what with the wear and tear on the legs (saddle seat/gaited and barrel racing). Or the complete breaking of the spirit (western pleasure) if not just making em all riled and crazy (barrel racing). *shrug*

[Storm Wolf]

How do you get that western pleasure is a compleate breaking of the spirit? (this is an honest question...I'm not trying to be a smart....well you know...)

[HorseTechie]

Well, it looks like they 'break the spirit' persay.

I went to the U fo Findlay, and it had riding courses for both English and Western. I had spent two years riding everything English, then to just be mroe knowledgable, I went the toher two years at the Western farm. their methods seemed to be harsher to me. They favor the use of big bits and bridles that make the horse want to keep its head down. They train for it to go about with its head level with its shoulders all the time, no matter if it's western pleasure or QH huntseat pleasure. Then with training and the use fo the bit, they teach the horse to go at a slow lope and trot.

Man.. after all that I learned at the English farm, this severly clashed in my mind. Huntseat in english terms means that the horse is free to move as it were with little interferance with the rider, or excessive tack that would hender the horses natural movement (like martingales, big bits/double bridles, figure eight nosebands). But QH style huntseat looks just like western huntseat... they just change the tack and move out a bit faster. :dead:

Yeah.. the western riding instructor screeched at me many a time, when I was traing this one horse for english style. I thought it was to be in the true English style, and not the dropped head method. I didn't know how to train a horse to be like that... so they taught me. It seemed to be so confining, to make them go at an unnatural pace, and at an unnatural form, with an unnatural bit n bridle.

I guess you can say I'm like one of those gentle horse trainer types. I like to use typical everyday equipment to handle and ride a horse. Nothing real fancy, with the requirement of a pro trainer to tell you how all that mean equipement works). But yeah, not afraid to use whip/crop, lead chain, or spur when I have too. Some horses truly are born wild and crazy with no amount of gentling to make them sensible. (I used to work on a couple farms a few years back after college)

But never mind my preaching... you'll find that every horse person you meet with have their own opionions about horses. :D