tiger_luver64
Acrobat
This is a great thread its hilarious i luv laughing! Laughing keeps ya alive longer.
Another U2 nut! said::
Edge mumbles to Adam and Larry: Oh hell how embarrassing. Just look away while Bono does his thing *sigh*
FallingStar said:
Adam: So please vote for me as the President of Ireland.
Edge: Sure, you could vote as well for a donkey and it'd be the same result..
Merc said:
^^
Bono: How often do I have to tell you this, Edge?! You know I'm the only one in the band who's allowed to walk around with my shirt unbuttoned!
Edge: But... but...
Bono: No! The answer is NO - I'll button your shirt then! We don't want all the poor PLEBA-girls to go totally crazy, do we?! Thats why we need to button your shirt - they're crazy enough as it is!
Merc said:
^^
Edge (Thinking) : Hmm - this is strange... I really feel like I've forgotten something, but what can it be?! I've got my pants on, my wife beside me and I did remember the gift for Pavarotti... OH NOOO! My beanie!!! I FORGOT MY BEANIE!!!
MrsSpringsteen said:
wolfeden said:"Rock, scissors, paper.... ROCKS! I win!"
Originally posted by wolfeden
ok, now wtf is he DOING??
Moonlit_Angel said:He's Danish, too? Wow. I didn't realize there were so many famous Danish people!
Moonlit_Angel said:Cool. What ones particularly stick out for you?
Moonlit_Angel said:LOL, aw, that's awesome! A nice little piece of family history for future generations to check out.
Moonlit_Angel said:It is funny to see how people react when in foreign lands. I remember reading about similar things happening to Bono when he was on his heartland tour in 2002-there was a part in his journal entries where he'd stopped at a restaurant, and he was like, "They call it a Dairy Queen". I thought that was cute.
Moonlit_Angel said:I also remember a friend of mine, Sara, who got to go with the rest of the school band to Austria in middle school, and she got a kick out of the way they pronounced words that started with a "w" over there.
Moonlit_Angel said:Also, in regards to the time machine...I am more than happy to stop and visit early 80s and early 90s Bono, too. Mmhm.
Originally posted by Merc
Well, some of the things I remember is seeing ppl climbing over the Berlin-wall and cars filled with very happy ppl driving from east- to west-Berlin (of course, at that time I didn't know what was east- and west-Berlin and the difference between then...).
U2Kitten said:Cool! Tell me more!
I know these pics are not supposed to be funny,but take a look at Bono's face!Merc said:Okay, here we go again... Btw, I find it a bit funny that all of these pics are from Bono's tour around Africa with Paul O'Neill - Oh, well...
U2Kitten said:Oh I know all about the story of it, I mean since you lived so close to it I wanted to know what you saw or remembered when it happened, I thought that's what you were talking about!
U2Kitten said:I think it's kind of weird- but good- that so many of you were so young and don't remember how scary the east/west thing was, and now will never have to because there is no more communism in Europe yay!
Merc said:Well, his dad is danish and he's been living in Denmark for a couple of years, so...
Originally posted by Merc
Actually, Denmark is a country full of famous ppl Just name someone famuos with a strange name and I bet he or she is danish!!!
Originally posted by Merc
Well, some of the things I remember is seeing ppl climbing over the Berlin-wall and cars filled with very happy ppl driving from east- to west-Berlin (of course, at that time I didn't know what was east- and west-Berlin and the difference between then...). I remember seeing pictures taken from the air of the exploted Chernobyl nuclear power-plant... Pictures of the pavement in Stockholm, filled with blood, where the swedish prime minister was killed... but one of the tv-images that really has stayed in my mind and made a lasting impression is from the huge fire on a danish/norwegian ferry called "Scandianvian star" (that must have been in the late 80's or maybe in 1990...). It was awful - so many ppl got killed... and after the fire they dragged the wreck to the habour in Copenhagen, so accidently I got to see it there too.. but I don't think you've ever heard of that?!
Originally posted by Merc
Yeah, I'm so glad she wrote it!!!
Originally posted by Merc
It's funny - I think that USA will always be something exciting and different for us europeans whenever we visit, 1950's or 2002 - it doesn't really matter...
Originally posted by Merc
... and it goes the other way around as well. Americans visiting Europe - americans will notice things that we think is normal and doesn't really pay attention too... Sometimes - especially in the summer (there's so many american tourists at that time of year) - it can be so funny to watch the american tourists here in Copenhagen, when they see all our old buildings and things like that...
Originally posted by Merc
Oh yeah - we'll deffinately make a stop in the early 80's and early 90's!
Originally posted by Merc
Will be back late with some more pics - have to study for tomorrow now! My homework for tomorrow is "The reproductive system"!
Originally posted by Merc
Bono: Oh PLEBA-girls, will you marry me?
FallingStar said:B: I'm a hairy mammal, ladies.
Lar: Oh god, THAT again.
FallingStar said:B: And when I told The Edge he was going to meet Bill Gates he got a weeeeee little nervous.
MrsSpringsteen said:Here's the link to describe what Bono is doing in that pic I posted-he's sitting in a "sensor chair"
http://web.media.mit.edu/~joep/TTT.BO/chair.html
Here's part of the description-your science lesson for today
Four receiving antennas (B) are mounted at the verticies of a square, on poles placed in front of the chair. These pickups receive the transmitted signal with a strength that is determined by the capacitance between the performer's body and the sensor antenna. As the seated performer moves his hand forward, the intensities of these signals are thus a function of the distances between the hand and corresponding pickups. The pickup signal strengths are digitized and sent to a Macintosh computer, which estimates the hand position. A pair of pickup antennas are also mounted on the floor of the chair platform, and are used to similarly measure the proximity of left and right feet, providing a set of pedal controllers. In order for a performer to use these sensors, he must be seated in the chair, and thus coupled to the transmitting antenna. Other performers may also inject signal into the pickup antennas if they are touching the skin of the seated individual, thus becoming part of the extended antenna system. The sensor antennas are synchronously demodulated by the transmitted signal; this produces a receiver tuned precisely to the waveform broadcast through the performer's body and rejects background from other sources. Before a show, the performer moves his hand around the perimeter of the sensor range, after which a linear least-squares fit produces a calibration that gives good tracking coordinates.
MrsSpringsteen said:Here's the link to describe what Bono is doing in that pic I posted-he's sitting in a "sensor chair"
http://web.media.mit.edu/~joep/TTT.BO/chair.html
Here's part of the description-your science lesson for today
Four receiving antennas (B) are mounted at the verticies of a square, on poles placed in front of the chair. These pickups receive the transmitted signal with a strength that is determined by the capacitance between the performer's body and the sensor antenna. As the seated performer moves his hand forward, the intensities of these signals are thus a function of the distances between the hand and corresponding pickups. The pickup signal strengths are digitized and sent to a Macintosh computer, which estimates the hand position. A pair of pickup antennas are also mounted on the floor of the chair platform, and are used to similarly measure the proximity of left and right feet, providing a set of pedal controllers. In order for a performer to use these sensors, he must be seated in the chair, and thus coupled to the transmitting antenna. Other performers may also inject signal into the pickup antennas if they are touching the skin of the seated individual, thus becoming part of the extended antenna system. The sensor antennas are synchronously demodulated by the transmitted signal; this produces a receiver tuned precisely to the waveform broadcast through the performer's body and rejects background from other sources. Before a show, the performer moves his hand around the perimeter of the sensor range, after which a linear least-squares fit produces a calibration that gives good tracking coordinates.