Hallo!

[ispom]

Hallo friends in down under,
I send you greetings from Germany,

will talk with you about the universe!

can you hear me?

fragt Ispom

[[1ponders]]

:hi: and :welcome: Fragt. Glad you could make it downunder. What brings you to this side of the planet, maybe tell us a bit more about yourself :)

[Ric]

:gday: Hi Fragt, welcome to the group. You will find a lot of great people here to chat with.

Cheers :)

[spacezebra]

Hi there and welcome to the forum.

Cheers Petra:welcome:

[ispom]

thanks for the welcome!
coming to the antipods is like smelling the flair of great wide world,
but sorry for my bumpy english :(

well, more about me:
a picture is more than 1000 words:

http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/6442/w07amfernria4.jpg

Grüße von Ispom

ps
>>fragt Ispom<< means: asks Ispom :)

[RB]

Welcome Ispom.

Hope you enjoy your visits here at Ice In Space.

Nice looking scope you have.

:hi:

[iceman]

Welcome iSpom! Hope you enjoy it here! :)

[ispom]

an old 100-1000 refractor,
will see every now and than
whether all objects in the sky :)

if so, I’ll tell you about

Grüße von Ispom

[ispom]

yes, I hope also.
it (http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/dings.cgi?o=3021;iservice=en-de;query=it) would (http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/dings.cgi?o=3021;iservice=en-de;query=would) seem (http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/dings.cgi?o=3021;iservice=en-de;query=seem), you are a little and friendly community.

spacezebra, rick and iceman
I will know your view and notion about the universe
and tell you about mine

Grüße von Ispom

[janoskiss]

Grüß Gott Ispom! :) You fooled me. You are not a Pom at all! :lol:

sorry.. :ashamed: could not resist. :P

[ispom]

Grüß Gott, janoskiss !
do you are a banterer?

I'll explain my nick:

My cat on the avatar is named "Mopsi" (read it reversed!)

and "Grüß Gott" the peeople greet in Southern Germany,
but I live in the North (100 km northern of Berlin), here one says "moin, moin!" :P

Grüße von Ispom

[janoskiss]

"Grüß Gott" I learnt in Austria (I think...) and remembered it thanks to Kusturica and his No Smoking Orchestra, their song "Grüß Gott Trauer".

[ispom]

it is ok, janoskiss.

the Germans in Bavaria, Swabian and Austria great so.
in the middle one says mostly “Guten Tag”
and only in the North “moin, moin”.

(that for (http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/dings.cgi?o=3021;iservice=en-de;query=for) such (http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/dings.cgi?o=3021;iservice=en-de;query=such) occasions (http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/dings.cgi?o=3021;iservice=en-de;query=occasions) you will visit us again :) )

meint Ispom

[Ric]

Hi Grube, thats a decent looking scope that you have and a fine looking cat as well. I am a cat person also.
I see also from your picture that you have the same cloud problem up north as we do down under :lol: .

Did you get to see Comet Swan when it brightened up recently?

cheers

[ispom]

Hi Ric,
I think, you are speaking to me (who is Grube?)

my scope is manufactured by Carl Zeiss,
and Mopsi is very interested for my doing in the darkness :)

No, sorry, when comet Swan was brightened, we always had cloudy skies :sadeyes:

[astroron]

:hi: ispom, :welcome: I used to live in Bielefeld North Rhien Westfalia many years ago, what is the name of your town or city?
I hope you enjoy your stay on our site:thumbsup:

[ispom]

no astroron, sorry
I reside on 13.5 degree of longitude, in the town Strasburg.

[Ric]

Hi Ispom, sorry about the name mix up :D

cheers

[acropolite]

Your bumpy english is far better than my non existent German.:P I still haven't been able to work your real name.... Welcome to IIS. :D

[ispom]

acropolite,
thx for your welcome!
tell me please:
are there any more users from the northern hemisphere?
I’ve looked for, but not found, all are Australians.
may be it was chanced, that I ‘ve not seen someon….

[[1ponders]]

Check out the member map ISpom (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/plot/world.php) There are plenty of "Up Over" members.

Please excuse my poor excuse for Aussie humor :lol:

[ving]

Hallo ispom, heißt willkommen zum Forum. Ich hoffe, dass Sie Ihren Aufenthalt genießen.
:hi:

[Ric]

Ving, I see your a man of hidden talents.

[ving]

a man of hidden something anyhow ;)

[ispom]

thank you, Paul
for linking the member map for me
(I don't find it anywhere here in the member list :( )
but now I'm also a red dot, in the midst of Europe :)

[ispom]

Hallo Ving!
Ja, ich genieße den Aufenthalt bei IIS.
And if I somtime don't know how express an issue,
I'll let you translate ;)

[ving]

Ich muss zugeben, dass ich ispom betrogen habe. Dass die Schönheit vom Internet obwohl, mit freien Übersetzungssprachenunterschieden wird veraltet!

www.freetranslations.com
:)

[Ric]

Hallo Ving, mag ich Ihren Stil. :thumbsup:

Anfeuerungen

[ving]

Vielen Dank Herr für Ihr gütiges Kompliment. seines, das nicht betrügt, wenn niemand davon weiß. ;)

gee some of these tranlations are rough!

[Ric]

Puts a new spin on the "Quick Reply" button after you sort it all out. :D

cheers

[ispom]

Ving, jetzt sprichst du in rätseln

this time your words are wrapped (http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/dings.cgi?o=3021;iservice=en-de;query=wrapped) in (http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/dings.cgi?o=3021;iservice=en-de;query=in) mystery (http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/dings.cgi?o=3021;iservice=en-de;query=mystery)

[ving]

:lol:
basically i said something along the lines of "the beaty of the internet is that language differences and the difficulties there of are a thing of the past"... oh and whatever the first line said which doesnt translate at all for some reason :confused:

its not fool proof as you can see :)

[ispom]

all the translating machines are so malfunctioning,
I prefer writing in English even though it is so bad,
but still better than the machine English, I think.

do you know Ving,
the machine translates correctly:
the water is hot = das Wasser ist heiß

but a complex sentence it can’t not translate correct,
there comes out nonsense…

[ving]

is that your cat in the avatar? looks like my boy Logan :)

[ispom]

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/7055/web0502mopsi08uv6.jpg

[ving]

similar markings... mines fluffier :P

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v46/ving68/photography/nature/8021f352.jpg

[ispom]

the resemblance is amazingly,
presumably the two are distantly related

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/3738/web05mopsi02rj0.jpg

[Roger Davis]

Grüße Ispom.
Willcommen zu Unsere Seite!
Ich höffe dass Sie vielen froeliche Stünde mit uns haben.
My German is so rusty, it's been five years since I was in Vienna for an all too brief 12 days and 40 years since I last really spoke it for real.
Think I'll just stick to English!

[ispom]

Hi Roger, thank you for welcome.

Here you will have occasions refurbishing your articulateness (http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/dings.cgi?o=3021;iservice=en-de;query=articulateness) in German.

Lass uns über den Himmel und die Katzen sprechen

[ispom]

hier sind die beiden:



http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/8346/web05mposisilbikomphqf3.jpg

[ispom]

please, someon canhelp me?

in the postings above I see only the URLs of the pictueres, not the right pictures ,
even though I have marked in

"edit options"

the button:

"Show Images (including attached images and images in [IMG] code)"

What is the matter?

[ving]

[img] tags dont work on this forum. you have to use "attach" section when using pictures :)

[leon]

What an interesting thread, and i love that "little red dot map"

Cheers leon :thumbsup:

[ispom]

forgive me, please, but what are
little red dot map
and
the "attach" section ?

fragende

[ving]

heres a picture of the attach part. when you go to reply (not quick reply) you get the option to attach files.

as for the red dots, we have a map of the world with red dots showing where our members are from.

[ispom]

thx ving!

I will do so.
If you can see a picture here,
it shows my cat "Silbi"
as it was only a year old

[ispom]

shortly I will tell you the sad story of my Mopsi,

wherever Mopsi is gone, whether he is dead or still alive,
I feel sad if I remember him...

3 years ago hi has sat beside the garden fence,
shy, emaciated, had fleas and parasites.

we nursed him, a veterinary made him well and fit,
our 2 other cats tolerate him,
he became the most cuddly companion...

After 2 years good living by us (a better life for a cat is hard to conceive)
on a morning he didnt appear.

I called, scouted, waited
and then was very doleful,
thinking he is perished.

4 weaks ago I saw a cat walking along the garden path 5 metres distant,
looking amazing like Mopsi,
I felt me turned into stone, called his name gently,
he looked at me, deliberated a few seconds,
and than went to a gap in the garden fence only knowing by privy cats.

And ever since he was disappeared completely without a trace,
my dear Mopsi

[Ric]

Hi Ispom, as a cat lover I am very sorry to here about Mopsi and I hope he returns. I think that sometimes they just get that "call of the wild" urge and they just up and leave. We had a cat many years ago who did the same thing after being with us for three years.
To our surprise he did return after around 10 months, very skinny, covered in fleas and ate a whole tin of cat food in one go, after that he never left again.

cheers

[ving]

cats can be like that. i hope where ever mopsi is he is well too :)

we rescued logan from a pound. there they would have put him down if they didnt fnd a home for him. and isabella (a little black cat we have) was rescued from owners that were mistreating her.
makes me feel good knowing that these two were rescued from a fate as bad as it was...

[ispom]

Hi ving and ric,

might our words become reality.
I had everytime cats, but none of them was away longer than a few days.
Now with me is only Silbi , he is mousy like a deer, running away from stranger persons..
but Mopsi was trustingly for everyone.

let come him back at home before next wintertime

prayed Ispom