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Tell a bit about the exceptional people you've met, both guys and dolls but keep it clean please.
Meet Oleg...
I first met Oleg in the Zone chatroom where we were finding new Civ2 games to join. We got in the same game and became allies and we got chatting. He was single, from the Ukrain but living in Philidelphia. I mentioned my house in the Phils if he ever wanted to travel, and even meet a nice gal. We also got on each others friends list for communication. The next day he sent me a message asking for more info about the Phils and some of Dolores's friends who wanted pen pals. He wanted to go and since Dolores was about to head home they traveled together.
After the flight Dolores told me that he was a tad odd...He had gotten a butter on the plane in a plastic and foil package, and after considering it he announced he was going to give it to one of his pen pals.
Though odd, Oleg was harmless, professed his faith now and again, dropped all the nice catholic friends of Dolores and announced he would only be interested in baptists, which would require another trip as there wasn't time left to find elusive baptist women in this prdominantly catholic country. This is how I got to meet him, on the next trip.
A couple of years later Dolores and I went together for a 6 month stay in our almost finished house. Oleg came to visit and look for baptist churches which might contain baptist gals. He was a good guy, brought his laptop along and we played 'Bombing the Reich' or something like that. He also gave us a container of Tang which was mostly ruined as it had been left open and the humidity had turned the rest into orange rock. Oleg was getting the rep of a gifter of bizarre and useless items.
Well, he didn't find that perfect someone and was there again this last trip. Now this trip was during the war on terror and the Mulims in the Phils were doing their nasty part. The bastards had kidnapped a catholic Philippine nurse doing aid work among the moslem population on the southern island of Mindanao and were holding nurse Yap for ransome along with 2 american missionaries, the Burnham couple.
Anyway, Oleg went to the papers and offered himself to the moslems in trade for nurse Yap, it was a big story in the Phils for a few days. He felt that as a christian it was his duty to follow in the footsteps of Jesus and offered his life up so that the innocent might be spared.
There was a reaction from the moslem leadership, but before the ball got rolling the whole idea was nixed by the Philippine government which had enough on it's plate. There was even a statement from the commander of American forces whom Oleg got to meet. The story did quell some of the negative press created in the Phils by american efforts on behaf of the Burnhams which never mentioned nurse Yap. Here was a guy ready to give it all up for a Philippino.
Anyway, Oleg was never joked about as a giver of useless gifts again, and continues to look for the right gal in the Phils, though gossip is he's courting someone special these days. Nurse Yap and Mr Burnham were killed in a rescue operation. Mrs Burnham will continue her misionary work after a rest.
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Meet anyone interesting?
Meet Oleg...
I first met Oleg in the Zone chatroom where we were finding new Civ2 games to join. We got in the same game and became allies and we got chatting. He was single, from the Ukrain but living in Philidelphia. I mentioned my house in the Phils if he ever wanted to travel, and even meet a nice gal. We also got on each others friends list for communication. The next day he sent me a message asking for more info about the Phils and some of Dolores's friends who wanted pen pals. He wanted to go and since Dolores was about to head home they traveled together.
After the flight Dolores told me that he was a tad odd...He had gotten a butter on the plane in a plastic and foil package, and after considering it he announced he was going to give it to one of his pen pals.
Though odd, Oleg was harmless, professed his faith now and again, dropped all the nice catholic friends of Dolores and announced he would only be interested in baptists, which would require another trip as there wasn't time left to find elusive baptist women in this prdominantly catholic country. This is how I got to meet him, on the next trip.
A couple of years later Dolores and I went together for a 6 month stay in our almost finished house. Oleg came to visit and look for baptist churches which might contain baptist gals. He was a good guy, brought his laptop along and we played 'Bombing the Reich' or something like that. He also gave us a container of Tang which was mostly ruined as it had been left open and the humidity had turned the rest into orange rock. Oleg was getting the rep of a gifter of bizarre and useless items.
Well, he didn't find that perfect someone and was there again this last trip. Now this trip was during the war on terror and the Mulims in the Phils were doing their nasty part. The bastards had kidnapped a catholic Philippine nurse doing aid work among the moslem population on the southern island of Mindanao and were holding nurse Yap for ransome along with 2 american missionaries, the Burnham couple.
Anyway, Oleg went to the papers and offered himself to the moslems in trade for nurse Yap, it was a big story in the Phils for a few days. He felt that as a christian it was his duty to follow in the footsteps of Jesus and offered his life up so that the innocent might be spared.
There was a reaction from the moslem leadership, but before the ball got rolling the whole idea was nixed by the Philippine government which had enough on it's plate. There was even a statement from the commander of American forces whom Oleg got to meet. The story did quell some of the negative press created in the Phils by american efforts on behaf of the Burnhams which never mentioned nurse Yap. Here was a guy ready to give it all up for a Philippino.
Anyway, Oleg was never joked about as a giver of useless gifts again, and continues to look for the right gal in the Phils, though gossip is he's courting someone special these days. Nurse Yap and Mr Burnham were killed in a rescue operation. Mrs Burnham will continue her misionary work after a rest.
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Meet anyone interesting?
That's way more interesting than anything I'd ask for. 
Btw, are you sure you don't live in SF? 
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