cheese_whineHello, I'm Verner Von Richthofen, the Eternal Emperor.cheese_whine
Welcome to my Second Christmas Event Thread! I'm very excited to be your host and I'll be giving out lots of awesome prizes from today, Dec 21 until Dec 26 when this event ends.
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Merry Christmas to everyone in the NSTG!
May this Christmas be bright and cheerful and overflowing with joy and love for you and your family and may the New Year begin on a prosperous note. It is my greatest wish that in the upcoming year of 2020, each day will be happy and fulfilling for all of us. I hope that everyone will enjoy good health, accumulate much wealth, achieve our ambitions and be successful in completing our goals as well.
A toast to our bright future and may our Christmas and New Year celebrations be filled with joy and delight!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year To All!
Have an absolutely fantastic and safe Christmas Day everyone! I am presenting a short Christmas Playlist for your listening pleasure. cheese_whine
Best regards, Verner Von Richthofen The Eternal Emperor
Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2019 7:26 am
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cheese_whine Follow the Rules & Guidelines and NSTG Guild Rules. cheese_whine Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone in the NSTG Guild! cheese_whine You may win as many prizes as you are allowed to win in a certain game. cheese_whine A new day starts at 12am PST cheese_whine Come and win prizes! No points will be awarded but at the end of the event, everyone who participated in my event thread will receive one of this: Layers of Rainbows as a thank you gift for being a patron of my second event thread. cheese_whine Be nice to everyone and have fun. cheese_whine
RNG between 1 and 100 and strike the tree with the strength levels of #1, #33, #66, #99 or #100 to win this item:
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RNG between 101 and 200 and strike the tree with the strength levels of #100, #125, #150, #175 or #200 to win this item:
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RNG between 201 to 500 and strike the tree with the strength levels of #200, #222, #300, #333, #400, #444 and #500 to win this item:
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RNG between 501 to 750 and strike the tree with the strength levels of #501, #600, #666, #700 and #750 to win this item:
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RNG between 751 to 1000 and strike the tree with the strength levels of #751, #777 #800, #850, #888, #900, #950, #999 and #1000 to win this item:
The Strength Levels are the winning numbers. You may RNG as many times as you like to try to win the prizes from each category but you can only win the prize from each category once a day.
When you have generated a winning number, PM me with info about the winning post:
Title: I Won! In the Subject: For example: I rolled a winning number. 5th post on page 3, etc
(In my example, the link sends us to the Rules post above but you get the idea.)
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Winners
1. AngelMuerto 2. Varian Von Richthofen 3. Esme Marie Cullen
Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2019 7:28 am
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To score a prize, you must be the first to generate one of the following numbers! Generate a random number between 1 to 1,000. When you have generated a winning number, PM me with info about the winning post:
Title: I Won! In the Subject: For example: I rolled a winning number. 5th post on page 3, etc
2. Do not post your answer in this thread. I will only accept answers PMed to me by Dec 25th.
3. Everyone will be awarded points based on the accuracy of your answer. Each correct answer is worth 5 points.
4. This event ends on Christmas Day, December 25th and on December 26th, every participant who has given me enough correct answers to my Riddles to earn at least 100 points will receive this prize:
Riddles:
1. Where does Santa and his reindeer go to get hot chocolate while flying in the sky? 2. I am worn to mark a successful victory, I am also made of flowers and leaves formed into a circle, and I vary from big to tiny. What am I? 3. When Santa Claus sets off from the North Pole on Christmas Eve, in which direction does he travel? 4. I am a catchy carol and a tune which likes to rhyme, I contain 12 grand gifts that come around Christmas time. What am I? 5. Which one of Santa's reindeer can be seen on Valentine's Day? 6. What phobia do people get when they see Santa Claus? 7. Santa went to buy his sleigh but he was surprised that it was free. How did Santa get his sleigh for free? 8. If otters keep their money in riverbanks, where does the Frosty the Snowman keep his money? 9. When does Christmas come before Thanksgiving? 10. I come with many colors, so beautiful and bright, I turn so many houses into a beautiful sight. What am I? 11. What is it called when you decorate the entryways? 12. Why do programmers always mix up Halloween and Christmas? 13. What did Frodo say when he saw the elves dancing? 14. What do you get when you deep fry Santa Claus? 15. What's the best thing to put into a Christmas cake? 16. You love to hang these baubles on your Christmas tree. They could be any shape or color and are beautiful to see.
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Winners
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Unfortunately, I did not receive any entries and therefore there are no winners. cry
Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2019 7:32 am
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Please fill this form and post it in this thread to sign up to receive your gifts from the Advent Calendar. I will send each day's item as a gift to you when I get online that day. I apologize for being late in starting the Advent Calendar due to health issues; it should have started on December 1. Please note that everyone will receive exactly the same item on a particular day. Since we're running late, you'll receive all the previous days' event calendar items as gifts upon signing up. For the first 20 days' gifts, you will receive A Touch of Everything which has 20 gifts in it for each of the 20 dayscheese_whine
1. Esme Marie Cullen - Up to Dec 25. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! cheese_whine 2. JoyRose - Up to Dec 25. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! cheese_whine 3. BigSunCowboy - Up to Dec 25. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! cheese_whine 4. Wing Chun Master Yip Man - Up to Dec 25. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! cheese_whine 5. Emmett Khan - Up to Dec 25. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! cheese_whine 6. Severus Eragon Kane - Up to Dec 25. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! cheese_whine 7. Falcona Stark - Up to Dec 25. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! cheese_whine 8. Tyrus Cassius McQueen - Up to Dec 25. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! cheese_whine
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Santa Verner's Christmas Gifting List
1. Esme Marie Cullen - Gifted. Merry Christmas! cheese_whine 2. Wing Chun Master Yip Man - Gifted. Merry Christmas! cheese_whine 3. Emmett Khan - Gifted. Merry Christmas! cheese_whine 4. Severus Eragon Kane - Gifted. Merry Christmas! cheese_whine 5. Falcona Stark - Gifted. Merry Christmas! cheese_whine
1. Esme Marie Cullen 2. JoyRose 3. AngelMuerto 4. BigSunCowboy 5. Wing Chun Master Yip Man 6. Emmett Khan 7. Severus Eragon Kane 8. Falcona Stark 9. Varian Von Richthofen 10. Tyrus Cassius McQueen 11. SweetSorrow101
Administrative info: Updated to Page 12
Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2019 7:35 am
Ladies and Gentlemen of the NSTG, cheese_whine
I'm very happy when I'm given the opportunity to bring joy to people. It brings me much joy in return. Therefore it is with joyous pleasure that I present the first message of this Advent Calendar that I've filled with inspirational quotes, stories and poems:
Advent Calendar Dec 1, 2019
Through Me
Through me let there be kind words, a warm smile, and a caring heart.
Through me let there be a willingness to listen and a readiness to understand.
Through me let there be dependability, steadfastness, trust and loyalty.
Through me let there be compassion, forgiveness, mercy and love.
Through me let there be every quality I find, O Lord, in Thee.
- Author unknown
Ladies and Gentlemen of the NSTG, cheese_whine
I'm very happy when I'm given the opportunity to bring joy to people. It brings me much joy in return. Therefore it is with joyous pleasure that I present the first message of this Advent Calendar that I've filled with inspirational quotes, stories and poems:
Advent Calendar Dec 1, 2018
Through Me
Through me let there be kind words, a warm smile, and a caring heart.
Through me let there be a willingness to listen and a readiness to understand.
Through me let there be dependability, steadfastness, trust and loyalty.
Through me let there be compassion, forgiveness, mercy and love.
Through me let there be every quality I find, O Lord, in Thee.
- Author unknown
“Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.” – Stan Smith
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is the language of the soul. Pay attention to your imagination and you will discover all you need to be fulfilled.” - Albert Einstein
Your reaction matters more than what happens to you
Once upon a time a daughter complained to her father that her life was miserable and that she didn’t know how she was going to make it. She was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed just as one problem was solved, another one soon followed.
Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Once the three pots began to boil, he placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in the second pot, and ground coffee beans in the third pot.
He then let them sit and boil, without saying a word to his daughter. The daughter, moaned and impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing.
After twenty minutes he turned off the burners. He took the potatoes out of the pot and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the boiled eggs out and placed them in a bowl.
He then ladled the coffee out and placed it in a cup. Turning to her he asked. ‘Daughter, what do you see?’
‘Potatoes, eggs, and coffee,’ she hastily replied.
‘Look closer,’ he said, ‘and touch the potatoes.’ She did and noted that they were soft. He then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, he asked her to sip the coffee. Its rich aroma brought a smile to her face.
‘Father, what does this mean?’ she asked.
He then explained that the potatoes, the eggs and coffee beans had each faced the same adversity– the boiling water.
However, each one reacted differently.
The potato went in strong, hard, and unrelenting, but in boiling water, it became soft and weak.
The egg was fragile, with the thin outer shell protecting its liquid interior until it was put in the boiling water. Then the inside of the egg became hard.
However, the ground coffee beans were unique. After they were exposed to the boiling water, they changed the water and created something new.
‘Which are you,’ he asked his daughter. ‘When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean?’
“You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good” – Jerry West
“Success is never permanent, and failure is never final” – Mike Ditka
Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2019 7:37 am
Advent Calendar – December 3rd, 2019
Be kind to others even if it hurts you
“In the days when an ice cream sundae cost much less, a 10 year old boy entered a hotel coffee shop and sat at a table. A waitress put a glass of water in front of him.
‘How much is an ice cream sundae?’
’50 cents,’ replied the waitress.
The little boy pulled his hand out of his pocket and studied a number of coins in it.
‘How much is a dish of plain ice cream?’ he inquired. Some people were now waiting for a table and the waitress was a bit impatient.
’35 cents,’ she said brusquely.
The little boy again counted the coins. ‘I’ll have the plain ice cream,’ he said.
The waitress brought the ice cream, put the bill on the table and walked away. The boy finished the ice cream, paid the cashier and departed.
When the waitress came back, she began wiping down the table and then swallowed hard at what she saw.
There, placed neatly beside the empty dish, were 15 cents – her tip.”
“During a research experiment a marine biologist placed a shark into a large holding tank and then released several small bait fish into the tank.
As you would expect, the shark quickly swam around the tank, attacked and ate the smaller fish.
The marine biologist then inserted a strong piece of clear fiberglass into the tank, creating two separate partitions. She then put the shark on one side of the fiberglass and a new set of bait fish on the other.
Again, the shark quickly attacked. This time, however, the shark slammed into the fiberglass divider and bounced off. Undeterred, the shark kept repeating this behavior every few minutes to no avail. Meanwhile, the bait fish swam around unharmed in the second partition. Eventually, about an hour into the experiment, the shark gave up.
This experiment was repeated several dozen times over the next few weeks. Each time, the shark got less aggressive and made fewer attempts to attack the bait fish, until eventually the shark got tired of hitting the fiberglass divider and simply stopped attacking altogether.
The marine biologist then removed the fiberglass divider, but the shark didn’t attack. The shark was trained to believe a barrier existed between it and the bait fish, so the bait fish swam wherever they wished, free from harm.”
“Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.” - Brian Tracy
“Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.” - Francesca Reigler, Artist
Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2019 7:40 am
Advent Calendar – December 5th, 2019
Stop chasing happiness and just enjoy life
“An old man lived in the village. The whole village was tired of him; he was always gloomy, he constantly complained and was always in a bad mood. The longer he lived, the viler he became and more poisonous were his words. People did their best to avoid him because his misfortune was contagious. He created the feeling of unhappiness in others.
But one day, when he turned eighty, an incredible thing happened. Instantly everyone started hearing the rumor: ‘The old man is happy today, he doesn’t complain about anything, smiles, and even his face is freshened up.’
The whole village gathered around the man and asked him, “What happened to you?”
The old man replied, ‘Nothing special. Eighty years I’ve been chasing happiness and it was useless. And then I decided to live without happiness and just enjoy life. That’s why I’m happy now.'”
“If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.” - Arthur Ashe
“Smile well and often, it makes people wonder what you've been up to.” - Satchel Paige
You get what you give “Once, there was a farmer who regularly sold butter to a baker. One day, the baker decided to weigh the butter to see if he was getting the exact amount that he asked for. He found out that he wasn’t, so he took the farmer to court.
The judge asked the farmer if he uses any measure to weigh the butter. The farmer replied, ‘Your Honor, I’m primitive. I don’t have a proper measure, but I do have a scale.’
The judge replied, “Then how do you weigh the butter?”
The farmer replied; “Your Honor, long before the baker started buying butter from me, I have been buying a pound loaf of bread from him. Every day, when the baker brings the bread, I put it on the scale and give him the same weight in butter. If anyone is to be blamed, it’s the baker.’
Moral of the story: In life, you get what you give. Don’t try to cheat others.”
“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” - Spencer Johnson
“Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.” - James E Faust
Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2019 7:45 am
Advent Calendar – December 7th, 2019
Your Priorities Matter – Time Management Is Essential
“Imagine you had a bank account that deposited $86,400 each morning. The account carries over no balance from day to day, allows you to keep no cash balance, and every evening cancels whatever part of the amount you had failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every dollar each day!
We all have such a bank. Its name is Time. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever time you have failed to use wisely. It carries over no balance from day to day. It allows no overdraft so you can’t borrow against yourself or use more time than you have. Each day, the account starts fresh. Each night, it destroys an unused time. If you fail to use the day’s deposits, it’s your loss and you can’t appeal to get it back.
There is never any borrowing time. You can’t take a loan out on your time or against someone else’s. The time you have is the time you have and that is that. Time management is yours to decide how you spend the time, just as with money you decide how you spend the money. It is never the case of us not having enough time to do things, but the case of whether we want to do them and where they fall in our priorities.”
"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill
"Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time." - Jim Rohn
"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." -- Michael Altshuler
"Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose." -- Thomas Edison
"Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!" -- Tony Robbins
“A farmer took his young son on a hike and they tramped through the meadows and woods. They hiked through the pines and up over the hills.
They climbed the steep mountains and finally, high above the timber line, scaled the crags and peaks they saw a giant eagle soaring overhead. They scanned the cliffs and finally located the eagles nest. The boy climbed up the cliff to where the nest was located. He reached into the nest, which rested on a ledge, and pulled out an egg, which he put inside his shirt. Then he climbed carefully back down the cliff.
He and his father returned home, and the boy put the egg in a nest where a hen was brooding over her eggs. By and by, when the eggs were hatched, each delivered a small chick except the one from which a young eaglet was hatched. Months passed and the eaglet matured.
After the eagle was full grown, a naturalist was driving down the highway out in the country. As he drove by the farmer's yard, he saw the giant eagle. He slammed on his brakes, got out of the car, and went over to the fence. He could hardly believe his eyes. He opened the gate, walked into the yard, and found the farmer. 'Where did you get that eagle?' he asked.
The farmer said, 'It's a chicken.' The man responded: 'I am a naturalist. I know all about these things, and I tell you that is an eagle. Furthermore, I'll prove it.' He picked up the eagle, put it on his arm, and said, 'Thou art an eagle-fly.' The eagle hopped off his arm and began to scratch in the dirt like the chickens. The farmer said, 'I told you it was only a chicken.'
The naturalist asked for a ladder. He leaned it against the barn. Then he carried the eagle up on top of the barn. He stood at the peak of the roof on the barn, placed the eagle on his arm, and said, 'Thou art an eagle-fly.' The eagle swooped down into the yard below and began scratching in the gravel. The farmer hollered up, 'I told you it was a chicken.'
The man climbed down off the barn. He made an agreement with the farmer and the next morning, long before sunrise, he picked up the eagle. He carried it through the woods and over the meadows. He continued up into the hills and the pines, onward, upward, above the timberline to the peaks and crags and pinnacles of the mountains. He arrived at the mountaintop just before dawn.
As the first rays of the sun began to streak across the sky, he put the eagle on his arm. The fresh, cool winds came through the valleys and trees below and swept up to the cliff where the naturalist stood. The eagle breathed deeply. The first streaks of sunlight caught his eye. He stretched his giant wings, almost six feet across. The naturalist said, 'Thou art an eagle-fly.'
The eagle slowly lifted off the naturalist's arm. It ascended into the sky. It soared higher and higher and further and further.
It saw more in an instant than its companions had in an entire lifetime, and from that time forth it was never again content to be a barnyard fowl.”
- Vaughn J. Featherstone
“He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it; Who has left the world better than he found it, Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; Whose life was an inspiration; Whose memory a benediction.” - Bessie Anderson Stanley
“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.” - John Lennon
A Touch of Everything