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MoonEyes
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485 posts		 Dec-13-16, 06:17 PM (EST)
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"Oh, lord...."
 
   Well, it's at least tangentally games.

A couple weeks ago, the national Museum for War-related Machinery opened a World of Tanks corner, presumably getting a chunk of money for the rights to do so, from Wargaming, what with the Swedish tanks making their debut and all. In honor of this momentous occation(sarcasm-mode Off), they also had Circon and Jingles present.
And, well, I do tend to like Jingles now that he has cut down on the harshness that I have commented on elsewhere. So, I figured I'd go have a look-see and all that. Couldn't be THAT many people there, right? This is in the middle of no-where in Sweden. Not a boiling hot-spot, as it were.

Yeah. The museum, on an ordinary day, get between 2 and 20 visitors.
They expected to get, maybe, 400 over the course of the day.
They got about 1600. Who, more or less to a (wo)man, were there ALL DAY.

But, I persevered. And I figured there'd be some video and so on, but nothing much. Turned out to be not one but TWO of them.

First, there was the basic video of the museum and the occation. Interesting and fun to watch, and if you're interested,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrXW2I7_Zcg

And then there was the OTHER video...
See, Jingles put up a bonus video. He was supposed to pick someone to get to go riding in the Swedish Tank 103. And he couldn't make up his mind who and how to pick.
So, during the meet-and-greet, someone(hrrrrmmm) suggested that he throw something into the crowd. Great Idea! he said, and proceeded to do just that. Other things happened as well, but, well...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRj0ufCE2Cs
At about 2 minutes 10 or so, Jingles is clambering up on a tank to get a good throwing position, and Luke Kneller of Wargaming says something, and, well....let's just say that a close friend of mine recognized that laugh.

Yes, I have now, periferally at least, appeared in a Jingles video.

!

...!
Gott's Leetle Feesh in Trousers!


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  RE: Oh, lord.... Gryphonadmin Dec-14-16 1
     RE: Oh, lord.... drakensis Dec-14-16 2
         RE: Oh, lord.... Star Ranger4 Dec-14-16 3
         RE: Oh, lord.... Gryphonadmin Dec-14-16 4
             RE: Oh, lord.... Mercutio Dec-14-16 5

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Gryphonadmin
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1. "RE: Oh, lord...."
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   Heh! Sounds like a cool day out.

I occasionally kick around the idea of going to Tankfest at the Bovington Tank Museum, but Bovington is sort of inconveniently located in another hemisphere, so I never get around to it.

--G.
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drakensis
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2. "RE: Oh, lord...."
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   If I recall correctly there's a tank museum somewhere in the Eastern US that Jingles tried to drum up support for earlier in the year.

A quick google search turns up the American Armored Foundation Tank Museum. Although I don't suppose Danville, Virginia is particularly nearby either.

D.


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3. "RE: Oh, lord...."
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   LAST EDITED ON Dec-14-16 AT 04:27 PM (EST)
 
>Although I don't suppose Danville, Virginia is particularly
>nearby either.

it is, however a lot closer to G than Me. AND in the same hemisphere...

As long as we're talking fun with heavy machinery, Did you know there is apparently an amusment park somewhere in New Jersey that is all about construction equipment? Or so claims my sister, anyway..

Oh. Here is the website:
www.diggerlandusa.com

Of COURSE you wernt expecting it!
No One expects the FANNISH INQUISITION!
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Gryphonadmin
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4. "RE: Oh, lord...."
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   >If I recall correctly there's a tank museum somewhere in the Eastern
>US that Jingles tried to drum up support for earlier in the year.
>
>A quick google search turns up the American Armored Foundation Tank
>Museum. Although I don't suppose Danville, Virginia is particularly
>nearby either.

Not overwhelmingly, though unlike the one in England, I wouldn't be obligated to fly there.

Many years ago, my father and I went to the Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor at Fort Knox, Kentucky, in the course of a long, meandering summer road trip. It was pretty awesome. Alas, when the US Army's Armor Center moved to Fort Benning in Georgia a few years ago, the museum was converted into the George Patton Museum of Leadership, which frankly sounds a lot less interesting.

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Mercutio
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5. "RE: Oh, lord...."
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   > Alas, when the US Army's
>Armor Center moved to Fort Benning in Georgia a few years ago, the
>museum was converted into the George Patton Museum of Leadership,
>which frankly sounds a lot less interesting.

Does it have an animatronic Patton that slaps you before you're allowed to enter? Because I'd go if it had that.

-Merc
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