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Born in Saint Quentin (not San Quentin, ca...) - Northern France
Moved to Toulouse when I was 2 - Southern France
Now living in Paris.
Spent some time in Tokyo too.

I've seen the Stones twice in Paris, once in Barcelona and once in Helsinki...

kowalski ,you know what ?
From your username, I always had thought you were an American.

I am wondering how many people in France -apart from you & me - know about Kowalski & the awesome Dodge Challenger
Best,Sway

Most of the time people think I'm Polish ... (actually someone from iorr sent me an email written in Polish once)

You have to be a movie goer to know the 'real' Kowalski.

<<Most of the time people think I'm Polish ... (actually someone from iorr sent me an email written in Polish once)
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Ha ,c'est excellent !

A movie goer ? Yes,but may be born in the 60's too,because the movie came in 71 if I am not mistaken .

A movie goer ? Yes,but may be born in the 60's too,because the movie came in 71 if I am not mistaken .

Unfortunately we don't choose our birthday date. In my case I was born the year of Toronto bust.

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.......cheers with sssoul.....waving back of course............for some reason I thought you were French ??

smile: maybe you got me confused with SwayStones, who is French - our sss's look a bit similar :E

Or Bliss maybe...I'm pretty sure she's French.........oh well...



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I'm from Norwegia



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Kowalski

Primal Scream - Vanishing Point

@GR
Primal Scream's Vanishing Point is actually inspired from the movie.

I know

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kowalski
Born in Saint Quentin (not San Quentin, ca...) - Northern France
Moved to Toulouse when I was 2 - Southern France
Now living in Paris.
Spent some time in Tokyo too.

I've seen the Stones twice in Paris, once in Barcelona and once in Helsinki...

kowalski ,you know what ?
From your username, I always had thought you were an American.

I am wondering how many people in France -apart from you & me - know about Kowalski & the awesome Dodge Challenger
Best,Sway

Most of the time people think I'm Polish ... (actually someone from iorr sent me an email written in Polish once)

You have to be a movie goer to know the 'real' Kowalski.

I feel dumb = the only movie Kowalski that comes to my mind is Stanley...STELLA.

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I know

So it makes 3 with kowalski & myself

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down under not too far from the infamous rockeeee....

spent time in king, ontario, canada as well...nice part of the world

home is now warrnambool victoria australia

it's nice to be here, hell, it's nice to be anywhere!

Are you referring to King City Ontario, just north of Toronto? I've been there once if that's the place!

yeah was just west of king city half way between nobleton and king city. also spent a few months in richmond hill area. used to do property maintenance in lots of places around that area even down to mississaga(spell check please). had many a great time up on the lakes up north as well. kid rocks song all summer long sums up many a time at the lakes..

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born in Los Angeles 1959. live on the waterfront in Seattle,WA. gods country.

i would have to agree on the gods country line the area around seattle is awesome. spent close to two weeks in seattle area. highly recommend it...

I'm from Belfast, the home of legends such as Van Morrison, George Best and, of course, Gazza!

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Born in Saint Quentin (not San Quentin, ca...) - Northern France
Moved to Toulouse when I was 2 - Southern France
Now living in Paris.
Spent some time in Tokyo too.

I've seen the Stones twice in Paris, once in Barcelona and once in Helsinki...

kowalski ,you know what ?
From your username, I always had thought you were an American.

I am wondering how many people in France -apart from you & me - know about Kowalski & the awesome Dodge Challenger
Best,Sway

Most of the time people think I'm Polish ... (actually someone from iorr sent me an email written in Polish once)

You have to be a movie goer to know the 'real' Kowalski.

I feel dumb = the only movie Kowalski that comes to my mind is Stanley...STELLA.

When I think of Kowalski, I think of Killer Kowalski the wrestler

I was born in Chicago (generally speaking, maybe I should write a song about it); then my family took that trip down Route 66 (true, literally, another song?) to LA (again, generally speaking). I kicked around California (school and all) before settling in a Northern California tomato patch (figuratively speaking).

So far we have 19 countries represented (and Texas )

Keep posting - it's so cool to see where everybody's from/been/going...thanks guys!

When I think of Kowalski, I think of Killer Kowalski the wrestler

You mean that guy ?

Dats him

...but I don't ever remember him that young



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2012-03-09 08:18 by BluzDude.

This is how he got his surname :

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"I was leaping off the rope, and Yukon Eric, who had a cauliflower ear, moved at the last second," Mr. Kowalski told the Chicago Tribune in 1989. "I thought I missed, but all of a sudden, something went rolling across the ring. It was his ear."

Yukon Eric was taken to a hospital, and the promoter asked Mr. Kowalski to visit him and apologize for severing his ear. Reporters were listening to their chat from a corridor.

"There was this 6-foot-5, 280-pound guy, his head wrapped like a mummy, dwarfing his bed," Mr. Kowalski said. "I looked at him and grinned. He grinned back. I laughed, and he laughed back. Then I laughed harder and left.

"The next day the headlines read, 'Kowalski Visits Yukon in the Hospital and Laughs.' And when I climbed into the ring that night, the crowd called out, 'You animal, you killer.' And the name stuck."

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Born in Felixstowe, Suffolk in 1956
Went to Nicosia, Cyprus aged eighteen months
Then to Bridlington, Yorkshire 1n 1961
RAF Brüggen, Germany, 1963
Near Newquay, Cornwall, 1966
Oxfordshire, 1970 - been here ever since!
My Dad was in the Royal Air Force which is why we moved around a lot, I consider my home town to be Oldham, Lancashire even though I've never lived there!


"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

Dunedin (South Island) New Zealand

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I'm from the small state of Texas....Mesquite, Tx, birthplace of Jerry Hall, 10 miles east of Dallas.

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Born in Saint Quentin (not San Quentin, ca...) - Northern France
Moved to Toulouse when I was 2 - Southern France
Now living in Paris.
Spent some time in Tokyo too.

I've seen the Stones twice in Paris, once in Barcelona and once in Helsinki...

kowalski ,you know what ?
From your username, I always had thought you were an American.

I am wondering how many people in France -apart from you & me - know about Kowalski & the awesome Dodge Challenger
Best,Sway

Most of the time people think I'm Polish ... (actually someone from iorr sent me an email written in Polish once)

You have to be a movie goer to know the 'real' Kowalski.

I feel dumb = the only movie Kowalski that comes to my mind is Stanley...STELLA.

When I think of Kowalski, I think of Killer Kowalski the wrestler

No, Kowalski is the driver in the '70s movie Vanishing Point. Remember him and Super Soul?

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I'm from the small state of Texas....Mesquite, Tx, birthplace of Jerry Hall, 10 miles east of Dallas.

Ever go to Devil's Bowl ?

21stcenturystones
I'm from the small state of Texas....Mesquite, Tx, birthplace of Jerry Hall, 10 miles east of Dallas

.....ever go play at Jerry's house?



ROCKMAN

Born in Detroit, Wayne County. Moved to Plymouth Michigan in 74'. Left Michigan for my first overseas assignment in 91 to Sri Lanka. I lived there for three years. Then moved back to the USA and lived in Baltimore for four years. Then moved to Venezuela for two years, Singapore for nine years, now going on year four in Jakarta Indonesia. But I am a Detroit boy thru and thru.

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Born in Saint Quentin (not San Quentin, ca...) - Northern France
Moved to Toulouse when I was 2 - Southern France
Now living in Paris.
Spent some time in Tokyo too.

I've seen the Stones twice in Paris, once in Barcelona and once in Helsinki...

kowalski ,you know what ?
From your username, I always had thought you were an American.

I am wondering how many people in France -apart from you & me - know about Kowalski & the awesome Dodge Challenger
Best,Sway

Most of the time people think I'm Polish ... (actually someone from iorr sent me an email written in Polish once)

You have to be a movie goer to know the 'real' Kowalski.

I feel dumb = the only movie Kowalski that comes to my mind is Stanley...STELLA.

When I think of Kowalski, I think of Killer Kowalski the wrestler

No, Kowalski is the driver in the '70s movie Vanishing Point. Remember him and Super Soul?

You bet I do
[www.iorr.org]

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So far we have 19 countries represented (and Texas )

Keep posting - it's so cool to see where everybody's from/been/going...thanks guys!

As far as I can remember ,it seems to me that bv once posted some statistics about the different nationalities here ...but I can't remember where .

This one???

Re: IORR people - web statistics
Posted by: bv ()
Date: April 2, 2008 00:06


This is the top 50 list of visits per country last week i.e. partly during Easter time. The numbers are not the same as for 2007 but you get the same distribution of where most of the Stones fans are living:

Countries

Visits
1. United States (US) 28,233 28,233 : 34.73% 34.73%
2. Germany (DE) 7,407 7,407 : 9.11% 9.11%
3. United Kingdom (UK) 6,611 6,611 : 8.13% 8.13%
4. Netherlands (NL) 5,511 5,511 : 6.78% 6.78%
5. Country unspecified 4,134 4,134 : 5.09% 5.09%
6. France (FR) 3,371 3,371 : 4.15% 4.15%
7. Sweden (SE) 3,250 3,250 : 4.00% 4.00%
8. Canada (CA) 2,545 2,545 : 3.13% 3.13%
9. Norway (NO) 2,402 2,402 : 2.96% 2.96%
10. Spain (ES) 1,721 1,721 : 2.12% 2.12%
11. Japan (JP) 1,654 1,654 : 2.03% 2.03%
12. Italy (IT) 1,530 1,530 : 1.88% 1.88%
13. Austria (AT) 1,316 1,316 : 1.62% 1.62%
14. Finland (FI) 1,274 1,274 : 1.57% 1.57%
15. Australia (AU) 1,269 1,269 : 1.56% 1.56%
16. Denmark (DK) 1,113 1,113 : 1.37% 1.37%
17. Switzerland (CH) 986 986 : 1.21% 1.21%
18. Belgium (BE) 849 849 : 1.04% 1.04%
19. Poland (PL) 686 686 : 0.84% 0.84%
20. Hungary (HU) 624 624 : 0.77% 0.77%
21. Uruguay (UY) 563 563 : 0.69% 0.69%
22. Czech Republic (CZ) 371 371 : 0.46% 0.46%
23. Portugal (PT) 338 338 : 0.42% 0.42%
24. Brazil (BR) 321 321 : 0.39% 0.39%
25. Mexico (MX) 284 284 : 0.35% 0.35%
26. Ireland (IE) 262 262 : 0.32% 0.32%
27. Argentina (AR) 246 246 : 0.30% 0.30%
28. Croatia (Hrvatska) (HR) 198 198 : 0.24% 0.24%
29. Russian Federation (RU) 194 194 : 0.24% 0.24%
30. Slovenia (SI) 185 185 : 0.23% 0.23%
31. Iceland (IS) 176 176 : 0.22% 0.22%
32. Greece (GR) 157 157 : 0.19% 0.19%
33. Yugoslavia (YU) 138 138 : 0.17% 0.17%
34. New Zealand (NZ) 137 137 : 0.17% 0.17%
35. Slovak Republic (SK) 60 60 : 0.07% 0.07%
36. Israel (IL) 60 60 : 0.07% 0.07%
37. Romania (RO) 57 57 : 0.07% 0.07%
38. Chile (CL) 57 57 : 0.07% 0.07%
39. Indonesia (ID) 55 55 : 0.07% 0.07%
40. Puerto Rico (PR) 50 50 : 0.06% 0.06%
41. Turkey (TR) 46 46 : 0.06% 0.06%
42. Faroe Islands (FO) 45 45 : 0.06% 0.06%
43. Singapore (SG) 44 44 : 0.05% 0.05%
44. Thailand (TH) 43 43 : 0.05% 0.05%
45. El Salvador (SV) 43 43 : 0.05% 0.05%
46. India (IN) 42 42 : 0.05% 0.05%
47. Latvia (LV) 41 41 : 0.05% 0.05%
48. Luxembourg (LU) 40 40 : 0.05% 0.05%
49. Hong Kong (HK) 40 40 : 0.05% 0.05%
50. Malaysia (MY) 35 35 : 0.04% 0.04%

PS. Country is defined by an entity which might have changed lately, like Yugoslavia is probably Serbia and Montenegro, I did not spend time on those details.

There were 338 visits from Portugal last week, and Portigal is number 23 on the list last week.

Bjornulf



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ROCKMAN

Yes Rockman ,this one !
You're da man !