I grew up Mennonite and my pacifist parents gave me a Diplomacy game for my 12th birthday.
I also collected coins for a little while when I was young, my favorite is my 1 franc piece from Katanga. Now my son collects coins He reads Neumismatic News and I never argue with him about coins - he's always right.

I hide the boodies of everyone who beats me in a game under the various buildings I construct in my backyard (woodshop, gardening shed, gazebo, etc.)

i'm under all of them :p

It's possible that the most interesting thing about me is that there is nothing interesting about me...

On a more interesting note, this sentence is false.

I was on the irish national diplomacy team which recently won the Dip Nations World Cup (not on webdip) so technically i'm a world cup champion (for team diplomacy)

Wait, is this subverting the thread about non-dip things??

Ora, that is awesome.

I also collect coins...pennies to be exact. Well, hoard is more appropriate. For almost two years now I've been putting pennies in a giant plastic Coke bottle I bought at Epcot. The thing is about two feet tall, but only has about an inch and a half worth of pennies and the damn thing weighs ten pounds already.

@achillies - where in Canada?
@FlemGem, really? I live in the very middle of Mennonite country in Ontario. it is a strange place to be sometimes.

I once spent a full week as the acting Camp Director at an overnight camp with 300 kids at it. The real Director had to leave and I was second in command.

Now, how many webdip parents would trust me to look after their and 299 other children?

North Bay, Ontario.

Music, sweet music. I'm on the radio occasionally.

@achilles-Your the closest to me I've seen here. Sudbury

Nice podium! Be nice to see you some time.

Yeah maybe sometime.Go to NB once or twice a year.

I go to Sudbury a few times a year for hockey.

@Lando - I live in Mennonite/Amish country in Iowa. Our high school choir went to a festival in Leamington, Ont., is that close to you?

Am I the first US person to post o_O

nope that was me :)

No, it was me. Cincinnati OH baby!!!

Or was it djakarta?

Either way, I'm definitely the first web-toed tree frog to post, right...

I've never had a cavity.

I've been to prison and I learnt a very valuable lesson when I was in there, 'it's better to give than to receive'.

I volunteer as a girls summer league basketball coach.

@NBaby: I have been in prison (possession with intent to distribute). Its no joke, but I probably wouldnt be alive right now if it didnt happen.

I love Indian curry, especially chicken tikka jalfrezi.

I play an online MMORPG called Travian - complete opposite of Diplomacy, because co-operation in the form of large alliances is necesary to succeed, and stabbing your friends in the back will get you a big ass-kicking!

@nigee: does that statement imply something that has to do with soap?

@trip In your case then I guess it's better to receive than to give :-)

@NKcell soap is for girls ..... real men don't 'ride with a slide'

I baked an apple-cinnamon pie, strawberry glazed pie, open faced blueberry pie, and butter tarts for dessert at a friend's 50th surprise birthday party yesterday.........while passing a kidney stone(it's halfway).

Im the captain of my high schools freshman/sophomore reading team.

There is a map of where webdip people are in real life, you can probably find it by going to my profile, clicking on the website linked there by me, then looking on the right hand side in the list of links...

I was in prison in Monopoly once.

i am an avid DnD 2nd edition fan, and a novice fantasy writer, Those two things (plus Diplomacy) take up about 96.5 % of my free time

I once arrived in a country only a few hours after a coup d'etat (golpe de estado). There was a tank in the front yard of the Presidential Palace, but with the gun pointed at the palace, not away from it. I attended Spanish classes at a building that was on the same block as the headquarters of the army, and we had to walk past a pillbox on the street, through a narrow passage they had left unblocked, while kids that looked 15 years old (they were probably 17-19) kept rifles trained on each of our heads. Looking back, I wonder whose good idea THAT was.

Fortress - It's been decades but I used to play D&D in high school and college. I have really wanted to play Gamma World again. That was my favorite TSR RP game.

I have never used a pre-written adventure, mostly because i only got it a month ago. I just use home campaigns of my own creation.

@Mujus....what country was that? I'm thinking of some in South America?

@maple - best of luck passing that. Shit's painful I hear.

@maple - My condolences on the kidney stone. I've had 4 in since 2005 (August 2005 at PDC in LA was my first). I know how painful. Now, what I don't understand is "passing it halfway". All mine ripped through (painfully) and had passed out the kidney and into the bladder by the time I got to the hospital. Out the bladder is no big deal as long as they aren't huge, but the damage they do to the kidneys. Oy! Little fuckers hurt like nothing I've ever experienced!

Maybe he had two and one went through?

I'm wondering if it had passed through the kidney and was just in the bladder. That's common and they can take a day to finally clear the bladder.

My occupation is chief engineer on a heavy lift jack up vessel. Living in the Netherlandands and my hobbies... Recently discovered Diplomacy, thank god that there is internet on board

I hope the kidney stone passes quickly. I had a friend who just passed a kidney stone recently. He's in his mid-20s. Not sure if that is early for a kidney stone or not.

I run. Just finished my first ultramarathon three weeks ago. Looking to break three hours in my next marathon in October. Also dabble in barefoot running.

I'm majoring in Spanish at Fordham University (non-native speaker). The pinnacle of my life thus far was probably winning a chess tournament in 4th grade. Aside from Diplomacy and chess, I'm very much into the prohibitively expensive children's card game which is Yugioh. My friends and I get together at least once a week to play either Settlers of Catan or soccer.

Settlers or soccer, what a combination, i don't think i've ever heard it before...

Most of my nerdy friend don't like to go outside because the sun hurts...

Goldfinger, it was in Uruguay. And now one of the terrorists of those days is the respectable president.

Seems like numismatics is pretty popular on this thread...