Hey everyone! Tell me about yourselves.

Hey guys,

Only just new to this forum but it's brilliant, well done guys.
It's so awesome to see other people who are this interested and dedicated to everything and anything to do with Organised Crime, La Cosa Nostra etc. I love it but know no-one who shares my passion for it.

So I'd love to know a bit more about you guys. What you do, where you're from etc...

I'm Bede Dwyer, I'm a 22 year old male from New Zealand, I work for the New Zealand Fire Service as a consultant.
Spare time I like sleeping;-) reading about the mafia, watching things on the mafia... Photography, learning Italian, writing, football (or soccer as you call it) and music.
Would love to hear about all the people on here.

veneratio, I am a big mafia fan. I watch scarface almost every week. My hobbies are following sports (football, baseball, basketball), having beer and quoting lines from Scarface, Godfather and Goodfellas. Welcome to the boards.

Hey V, are you a skip/tracer?

Haha no definitely not, I just had to google 'Skip/Tracer' to find out what that even meant.
Just interested/excited to meet and hear about other people who are interested in the same things as me.

I just put some photo's up in the "What we look like gallery" to prove I am a real person/enthusiast ;-) Since you've all shared, thought I better chip in too. Enjoyed the Sopranos tour photo's.
Do you guys all meet up once a year for dinner or something?

Welcome Verneratio!! I think we've only had one other person from NZ if I'm not mistaken (but can't remember who).

Anyway, I am in California, I work in a school office and have been a part of the BB here for almost what, 6 yrs or 7? I forgot.

Btw, great pictures you posted.

Welcome to the BB

TIS

Welcome to the jungle.

You can have anything you want but ya better not take it from me.

Welcome to our BB Family Veneratio. I know you will enjoy being here as much as I do. You will get to know some wonderful people.

I live in Ohio and I'm a stay at home Mom. Been married to the Col. for 26 years.

Yes we get together once a year for a weekend of alot of fun. Last year we didn't Hopefully we will this year.

You have to remember that the U.S. is about the same size as Australia so it's very hard to arrange a get-together (our American members are spread out all over the country).

Then, we can't forget our international members. We are literally a world-wide community here (all populated continents are represented).

Sup V?

I'm from next door, Australia.

Into music, Drinking and debauchery.

Hello, V, and welcome.

I'm a lawyer, who lives in Pennsylvania, home of the world champion Philadelphia Phillies and Pittsburgh Steelers. You'll enjoy your time here.

Hey V, i am from good old England and this is the place to be my friend (the BB that is,not England LOL)

I work in a hospital and have lots of kids. My hobbies are sports,beer and then more sports and beer. Oh i like reading as well

I guess after that greeting it's not necessary to add that you're from San Francisco.

Welcome VR. We had a NZ'r on here a few years back. A young fellow, but very bright and insightful.

I'm just an old New York-New Jersey guy trying to live out my years on a pension. I used to bang cocktail waitresses (two at a time), but now I'd give a $1,000,000 just to take a leak. I hope someday to move to the Sierra Mountains and drink....what am I drinking?, but going to New Jersey I've found the best veal in the city(Atlantic). I do drink wine more than I used to. Sometimes I wonder how things ever got this far.

BTW my avatar name is MaryCas (working on a new face, but having trouble with too many pixels), but I'm really a man who likes women.....in a Biblical sense.

I warned you that you should use protection.

Ha ha ha!! You're so funny Kly. I'm cracking up.


TIS

Well, I'm in Texas as the result of an out of court settlement. I've got a few years left yet on my parole, but I still maintain that the ether and duct tape they found in my van was put there by someone else and that's not really me on those security tapes. I also don't think that all of those restraining orders were necessary. Afterall, just because I really like Sandra Bullock and camped out on the edge of her estate in Austin doesn't necessarily mean anything bad. True, I don't always take my medication, but I try to.

Other than that, there's not much to tell.

Thanks for the profile, Oli. That explains a lot.

Brilliant, sounds like we have some characters on here;-)
Very nice to meet you all, cheers for the welcome!
Much appreciated.

“I’m a modern man, a man for the millennium. Digital and smoke free. A diversified multi-cultural, post-modern deconstructionist that is Politically, anatomically and ecologically incorrect. I’ve been up-linked and downloaded, I’ve been inputted and outsourced, I know the upside of downsizing, I know the downside of upgrading. I’m a high-tech low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond!

I’m new wave, but I’m old school and my inner child is outward bound. I’m a hot-wired, heat seeking, warm-hearted cool customer, voice activated and bio-degradable. I interface with my database, my database is in cyberspace, so I’m interactive, I’m hyperactive and from time to time I’m radioactive.

Behind the eight ball, ahead of the curve, ridin the wave, dodgin the bullet, and pushin the envelope. I’m on-point, on-task, on-message and off drugs. I’ve got no need for coke and speed. I’ve got no urge to binge and purge. I’m in-the-moment, on-the-edge, over-the-top and under-the-radar. A high-concept, low-profile, medium-range ballistic missionary. A street-wise smart bomb. A top-gun bottom feeder. I wear power ties, I tell power lies, I take power naps and run victory laps. I’m a totally ongoing big-foot, slam-dunk, rainmaker with a pro-active outreach. A raging workaholic. A working rageaholic. Out of rehab and in denial!

I’ve got a personal trainer, a personal shopper, a personal assistant and a personal agenda. You can’t shut me up. You can’t dumb me down, because I’m tireless and I’m wireless, I’m an alpha male on beta-blockers.

I’m a non-believer and an over-achiever, laid-back but fashion-forward. Up-front, down-home, low-rent, high-maintenance. Super-sized, long-lasting, high-definition, fast-acting, oven-ready and built-to-last! I’m a hands-on, foot-loose, knee-jerk head case, pre-maturely post-traumatic and I’ve got a love-child that sends me hate mail.

But, I’m feeling, I’m caring, I’m healing, I’m sharing, a supportive, bonding, nurturing primary care-giver. My output is down, but my income is up. I took a short position on the long bond and my revenue stream has its own cash-flow. I read junk mail, I eat junk food, I buy junk bonds and I watch trash sports! I’m gender specific, capital intensive, user-friendly and lactose intolerant.

I like rough sex. I like tough love. I use the “F” word in my emails and the software on my hard-drive is hardcore–no soft porn.

I bought a microwave at a mini-mall; I bought a mini-van at a mega-store. I eat fast-food in the slow lane. I’m toll-free, bite-sized, ready-to-wear and I come in all sizes. A fully-equipped, factory-authorized, hospital-tested, clinically-proven, scientifically- formulated medical miracle. I’ve been pre-wash, pre-cooked, pre-heated, pre-screened, pre-approved, pre-packaged, post-dated, freeze-dried, double-wrapped, vacuum-packed and, I have an unlimited broadband capacity.

I’m a rude dude, but I’m the real deal. Lean and mean! Cocked, locked and ready-to-rock. Rough, tough and hard to bluff. I take it slow, I go with the flow, I ride with the tide. I’ve got glide in my stride. Drivin and movin, sailin and spinin, jiving and groovin, wailin and winnin. I don’t snooze, so I don’t lose. I keep the pedal to the metal and the rubber on the road. I party hearty and lunch time is crunch time. I’m hangin in, there ain’t no doubt and I’m hangin tough, over and out!”

Last time it was $4 million. This recession is really hitting home...

Hey V,my best friend emigrated to New Zealand a few weeks ago. Have you seen him yet?

He is called Dave if that helps,tall,not much hair

That sounds like a guy I work with... you sure he didn't move to California?

Well unless he just said he moved to NZ just to throw me off the trail...

If he has a wife called Debbie then he is the man

I'm a retired investor, living on a pension. I came home to vote in the Presidential election because they wouldn't give me an absentee ballot.

*Bang*

Please allow me to introduce myself,

I'm a man of wealth and taste....

I am from America and i live in the barracks.
Some deal i made.

Welcome veneratio (i am even newer than you)

Veneratio came and went in the blink of an eye....

They always do..

Like Steve Martin, I also was born a poor black child. I walked miles in the snow to school, even to summer school. I was raised Catholic, but our parish was so poor that we all had to share a communion wafer at mass. When I went to confession and told the priest about me and Peggy Ryan, he insisted on details, details! We were so poor that I had to make my Confirmation in my sister's dress. Several times a year I celebrate the event as Ms. Phyllis Lavine at a local club. Despite all those hardships, I am successfully completing parole (I still maintain that he was dead when I got there) and the medication seems to be working. On the other hand, occassionally I still have to respond to restraining order hearings.

My name, for the record, is Don Cardi. I was born in Par Panico -- it's outside of Palermo. I now live -- uh -- in an army barracks with the FBI guys.





Welcome to the boards veneratio.

I'm still here, I've just been what you might call.... Lazy.

I'm a retired Navy Wife living on a pension. I came home to vote in the Presidential elections because they wouldn't give me an absentee ballot.

Good. Don't let the bums in this thread scare ya off!

Don't let her fool you veneratio! She's really a retired rum runner who came home to make some more moonshine cause they wouldn't give her a liquor license!




Glad to see that you're still around veneratio. Hope that you enjoy these boards as much as most of us do! There are some really really good people here that you'll enjoy conversing with.

Thanks for blowing my cover DC.

Welcome back to the crazy house Veneratio.

Who's a bum?

I don't know about being a bum but i was once called an arsehole

I forgave the name caller though,had to,it was Mrs. Yogi

I'm a total Batman freak! XD

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Haha good old Carl Williams! That was a good series the first one.

Are you wearin' a wire?!?

It's hard to believe I've been on this board for seven years. Golly.