@rat first of all: hit the snowball, then rinse and repeat. Got 187 now

I'm playing get in and get out tactics @bernersenn. I don't have the stamina or desire for rinse and repeats.

@mvlna2 The Drop kick Murphy's formed in 1996 in Quincy Ma.
Don't know how long ago Hwdnf lived in Boston maybe, long before they were ever an icon to Boston music scene.

@teamBP sorry I'm not helping, not like I'm not trying: ( as @,bernersenn says R&R seems to be the drill, I've been doing that on level 12 for , well all day going on 8 hours now off and on can't top 183k
WWwwwhhhhhhiiiiinnnnnneeeee

I'm flung out on this episodes, 9 hours of the same shot over and over with no improvements I'm about done all together, waste of time this episode.
Night all


Night Pa

Speaking of frustrated. You've let me get ahead of you @bernersenn. That's not right! How the mighty have fallen. Now get back up. Dust yourself off. And go get the first place you deserve.

@rat saw what happened. Can't do anything about it. It seems if my Ipad is limiting my scores (haha). But, I'm working on it. Thanks for the complements

WTG Ma! Only 10k off the top score. You're making progress.

@bernersenn just noticed your avatar how come your using a Pu bird for your image ¿ :(

Ok @rat mission accomplished (for now), got finally 200K on #9. Can now concentrate on the other games.

@kathy, it was (is) this guy:
http://www.angrybirdsnest.com/members/mpg973/

He offered me suddenly in short time two new avatars. The last one is still mine.

Oh yes @bernersenn, very good friend:)
Thanks @hunnybunny I'm trying; )
Thanks to all of you for popping in frequently ,males it worth it to see friendly folks enjoying company; )

@mvnla2 Slim was a very active member and was always helping out fellow Nesters. He and I started talking regularly and I asked him if he'd like to be a moderator. It just grew from there.

Thanks for the info @birdleader :) I was more wondering what you were thinking, how you got started, and idk stuff like that.. Did you suddenly get frustrated flinging one day and say to yourself "self..I should start a website to help others conguer these piggies" haha and then recruit fuji and slim, and contact rovio to ask their permission¿
Oh and who besides yourself was the very first member ¿
I just think it would be interesting to know how this great site began from the start

Whoa Is top score!!! Wahoooo !!!

@BirdLeader -- Thanks for the info on Slim. I think he and Fuji were already admins when I joined, and I joined fairly early (as MVNLA, without the 2, as you might or might not remember).
Hmmm... I know you've explained something about how ABN got started, but I can't find it now. It's not in the FAQs. From what I remember, you were playing AB with your son, and realized the need for someplace to go for help, i.e. walkthroughs. But more info, easily findable, would be good. How about listing "ABN Beginnings" or something similar under "About" and telling the whole story?

Yes @mvnla2 that's a great idea, i was thinking along those lines but ty for putting into words, and i saw your post on 'ideas for abn' forum ty:)

That's it for me for tonight
Goodnight to all, work tomorrow

@kathy @mvnla2 yes the Dropkick Murphys were on The Departed movie soundtrack

@hunnybunny will check out gravatar sometime, Ive been MEGA busy and glad to see you like Santa Gumby :) feel free to nominate it for next year I will wear it into the new year.

Why oh why can't i hit the lottery and not have restrictions on time:(
Hee hee wishful thinking again good night

@Kathy @mvlna2, I have been away but I do check up on the ol' community once in a while. Just wanted to let you know where I've been for the last couple years and how I became a part of ABN.

So when my time started to dwindle here was during the time that sal9 came on board. When I was doing videos it was VERY rare that we'd be given any notice when an update would be released. I had a full time "8-5 style" job and new AB releases would often come out in the middle of the night. So I'd wake up every morning and the first thing I'd do is check my app store updates. Trouble was, I couldn't just call in sick and start playing...I still had to go to work. But for that evening I'd have to drop whatever I had planned and starting playing and recording and usually stay up until 2 or 3 am to get the videos edited and posted up on youtube so that BL could get them up on the website ASAP. At the time Sal9 came along, Slim was on board but wasn't doing a lot of recording yet but then both of them were able to record. Both Slim and Sal had more flexible jobs though, so while I has at work they were able to get the levels played and recorded which left me with much less to do by the time I got home that evening. But all of this didn't come at a bad time. I had just gotten engaged and was starting the full swing of wedding planning. Well, when the wedding was over if wasn't but a few months longer until we found out my wife was pregnant with our first and then right before "MiniToast" was born we had an unplanned and very quick purchase of a new home. (No really, we looked at a house on a whim on a sunday, looked again on monday, placed an offer on tuesday and the offer was finalized by wednesday and my son was born the following monday). So we had to prep our old house for sale and showings with a newborn while getting the other house ready to move in to. Owning, selling and caring for two houses and with newborn is a LOT of work. ;) I won't be able to convince my wife to do THAT again. So life has been changing in wonderful and busy ways and while I'm not ACTIVE here on ABN I still come back and check things out and see how things are going.

As for the story of how I started at ABN.
So back when Rovio released the first xmas edition of AB Seasons there was a glitch of sorts which was causing some explosions. At this time I was a member of some little, but very active Nokia forum dedicated to Angry Birds. We would share scores and tips and tricks and stuff. Well some people had been getting the explosions while others were not, so I starting figuring out how to record myself playing on my phone and would then upload them to youtube so that other forum members could see it. I started this while it was an advent calendar style release so I started recording each day and posting to youtube. (These videos should still be active on my FujiToast youtube channel btw.) Well I think it was like on christmas day or right after that I got a message from BL via youtube where he let me know that he had a site dedicated to Angry Birds walkthroughs but we was linking to OTHER peoples videos and not videos produced by ABN and he'd like to change that. So we got to talking more and I started producing videos specifically for ABN and then he got me going on comment moderation shortly after to assist him with that work load. We then started talking about scores and how it was huge on the other forum and then getting an ABN forum going so we could have a more active community. I was really just a sounding board and fellow idea man for BL as I didn't have any technical expertise in website building. And that's pretty much it! That's how BL and I got together!

Hope everyone is doing well! Keep on flinging!

GRRRRR level 14 driving me nuts. Not sure if its my colorblindness or if it is invisible wires, chains, walls or whatever. I can't see them thou. every time I think Im making a good shot it hits one of these invisible barriers :(

Late starter on ABN but enjoyed reading the posts from @birdleader and @fujitoast (great name!) about how it all started. Thank you guys!

@gumby 1-14 I have an idea, will post when it actually works!

Wow!! Thanks @fujitoast for posting your awesome story here:) Congratulations on the wonderful life you've built , though busy, sounds perfect, and so cool there's a 'mini-toast' heehee. We sure do miss you around here, but many many thanks for contributing part of your busy life to record videos and help @birdleader to get this site up and running for all of us birdies!
In the beginning I was a website with only written stratedgy's so when I landed here in ABN I was thrilled to find your videos: D
Thanks for sharing with us all that has happened in the past couple years, and Best wishes for the holiday season and the New Year to come, and many more.
I can't fully blame you for my continued addiction to AB but you definitely had a hand in it, heehee:D and I'm loving every minute of it!
Hope to see you again, maybe a Christmas tradition for you to pop in and say 'tweet tweet'
Take care and enjoy life!

Thanks @knichy :D wow that's nice of East India, only to have it tossed in the ocean lol!