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I was not too sure. I thought it was Natalie Wood.
I am making a sig for Laurice. it will be a Christian one. she did not give me any images so I just picked a few.
she also likes Tim Tebow so I will have to include him in her sig also. -
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I made these for Laurice. this was just the first trial run. we will see if she likes it:
that is her dog. and she makes those candles.
cool stuff. -
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my own observations suggest that 100% of the forums that are large and or considerably large are mostly Federer oriented. and not only that, even the forum owners and forum admin --on the average--tend to be Federer oriented.
fed fans simply outnumber nadal fans around the globe. they also outnumber andy and nole fans.
it is the same in the cyber world.
take tennis4you for example. it has around 4000 members. they have always been Federer oriented. the owner is a huge fed fan and his 2 global moderators are huge fed fans.
MTF has always been wild about Fed. Fed fans there greatly outnumber the nadal fans. admin, mods, and the super mods have always--on the average--tended to be Federer oriented.
and as a side note, I do tend to find some of the Fed fans to be arrogant, snobby, nasty, mean spirited, and relatively selfish at these various forums.
I said some of them so certainly not all of them.
take masterclass and javi. they like Federer but they are pretty cool about it.
fed fans at tennis warehouse and at MTF are fairly nasty.
Sometimes I wonder about the notion that Federer is more popular. I don't see any proof of that. I hear the commentators talk about how beloved he is, but I take that with a grain of salt.
I think it is the same way with Serena and Maria. When Maria was first out about a year after she won Wimbledon, they were actually saying that she was more well known than the William Sisters. A straight up lie. No one outside of the tennis world knew who Maria was, but everyone knew Serena and Venus. The more they talked her up, the more fans she did eventually get, but she still is not at their level no matter how many times they say it.
This brings me back to Federer and Nadal. I have seen both of them at Cincinnati. The crowd when Federer played Baghdatis was very pro-Marcos. There was one group of fans cheering loudly for Federer. It was so noticeable that my son brought it to my attention. When we got home and I watched it on tape, the commentators were extolling Fed's virtues and talking about how beloved he was, but I saw the total opposite.
When Rafa came, the entire stadium was chanting his name. The parking lot was filled to the brim. We had to walk almost all the way from the road. The same with Serena and Pete.
Most of these tennis forums have mods that are Federer fans. That's why Rafa fans get banned all the time. Do you ever look at who gets banned and who doesn't? It's a joke. I don't believe a word those people say, I don't care how much they repeat it. It's all smoke as far as I'm concerned.
People don't seem to understand how the PR machine rolls. That's its purpose. Remember Mardy's Fishheads? They weren't fans of Mardy Fish, they were paid by a PR marketing machine after Mardy became the US #1. They were trying to build him up, but he got hurt and his career was in doubt. Voila! No more Fish heads.
At the beginning of Maria's career, her matches would be empty. Fans were not rolling in life they purported. -
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that is a good post "the truth".
you are 100% right. it was usually the nadal fans that got banned over and over again at MTF. and then many of them got perma banned too.
I was one of the perma banned ones.
same seems to be true at tennis warehouse.
well we have no moderation here. no rules and no guidelines.
all we have is complete freedom for people to just enjoy themselves. we are just not going to tell anyone what to do. at least I am not.
we absolutely don't care at Camelot which players they like and which ones they don't like. it is their business and it is their life.
did you see I just created your board. now you can create all kinds of threads there that you had in mind for that board. -
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its getting late. lot of folks have already turned in for the night.
I will probably hit the sack in a few minutes. -
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^ Doesn't really matter whether you are sold on it CD because I'm not selling an opinion just providing facts.
At a handcount of the Top 40 posters on there, more are Nadal fans - AntiPusher, Kieran, Moxie, Tented, Broken Shoelace, huntingyou, shawnbm, zalvar, rafanoy1992, fashionista, CD and the short stay of Nadal2005RG.
there you are. man i have not seen you in ages.
i made some goofy post for you earlier about a rickshaw. you will see it a few posts back.
i am not all that familiar with some of those folks baron. don't know much about zalvar, fashionista, rafanoy and the like.
whatever happened to that nadal2005rg character? did he find another forum to carry on the message for nadal?
anyway i have some great news for you baron: general swortennis is one of the authorities on boxing. he has fired up a boxing board.
i know you have very equals in terms of boxing knowledge also so feel free to enjoy the boxing board.
i did not get to comment on those 2 movies: shawshenk redemption and terms of endearment. i will have to check up on those 2 movies.
Nadal2005RG got banned. You might want to try Tennis4You and see if he still has an active account there. I'll check the boxing section out. -
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^ Doesn't really matter whether you are sold on it CD because I'm not selling an opinion just providing facts.
At a handcount of the Top 40 posters on there, more are Nadal fans - AntiPusher, Kieran, Moxie, Tented, Broken Shoelace, huntingyou, shawnbm, zalvar, rafanoy1992, fashionista, CD and the short stay of Nadal2005RG.
there you are. man i have not seen you in ages.
i made some goofy post for you earlier about a rickshaw. you will see it a few posts back.
i am not all that familiar with some of those folks baron. don't know much about zalvar, fashionista, rafanoy and the like.
whatever happened to that nadal2005rg character? did he find another forum to carry on the message for nadal?
anyway i have some great news for you baron: general swortennis is one of the authorities on boxing. he has fired up a boxing board.
i know you have very equals in terms of boxing knowledge also so feel free to enjoy the boxing board.
i did not get to comment on those 2 movies: shawshenk redemption and terms of endearment. i will have to check up on those 2 movies.
Nadal2005RG got banned. You might want to try Tennis4You and see if he still has an active account there. I'll check the boxing section out.
I thought he was headed in the wrong direction.
happy thanksgiving to you baron and your loved ones.
and let me take this opportunity to wish all my friends at tennis frontier a very happy thanksgiving. -
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check out these temperatures here today. it is cold as hell:
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8#q=weather+in+bay+st+louis+ms -
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best grand slam matches of 2013:
http://www.atpworldtour.com/News/Tennis/2013/11/48/Best-Grand-Slam-Matches-5-to-3.aspx -
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It has been snowing here and it is really cold.
Annoying weather. What bothers me the most is that it is only the beginning of winter.
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happy thanksgiving to you baron and your loved ones.
and let me take this opportunity to wish all my friends at tennis frontier a very happy thanksgiving.
Thank you. It's not something celebrated in the UK or Australia, but also wishing North Americans a great day. -
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I didn't mean to fight with baron but I got really upset over his comments to you. It's not fair. It's not fair at all.
I don't think you took them in the spirit that they were meant, but I'm happy you've found a place here that you like and are comfortable with. Different places for different tastes. -
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happy thanksgiving to you baron and your loved ones.
and let me take this opportunity to wish all my friends at tennis frontier a very happy thanksgiving.
Thank you. It's not something celebrated in the UK or Australia, but also wishing North Americans a great day.
its a big occasion here for the americans.
and even a bigger occasion for them the day after as shopping season begins to take flight.
stock market is at an all time high and the americans are feeling well off. it should be a good businesses.
what do the Australians celebrate? obviously Christmas is huge there as it is all over the western world but what else is big? -
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It has been snowing here and it is really cold.
Annoying weather. What bothers me the most is that it is only the beginning of winter.
que pasa Nikki. I hear ya. I saw you on facebook cursing away at the snow.
I don't blame you. enough is enough sometimes.
we are having one hell of a cold spell here tonight.
check out these temperatures. and I am on the gulf coast:
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8#q=weather+in+bay+st+louis+ms -
