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====== Max Sinister ====== | ====== Max Sinister ====== | ||
- | A long-standing [[Germany|German]] member of the board. | + | A long-standing [[Germany|German]] member of the board, been around since the [[Old Board]]. |
For some time, the only one (edit: not anymore - now, [[offtopic: | For some time, the only one (edit: not anymore - now, [[offtopic: | ||
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Max Sinister is the inventor of the [[offtopic: | Max Sinister is the inventor of the [[offtopic: | ||
- | In November 2007, he decided to retire from AH.com, wanting to do spend more time about other things than AH.com, and thinking it's better to quit while it's still good and you don't suck yet. He still looks in about once per week. | + | In November 2007, he decided to retire from AH.com, wanting to do spend more time about other things than AH.com, and thinking it's better to quit while it's still good and you don't suck yet. He still looked |
Pet peeve: Doesn' | Pet peeve: Doesn' | ||
+ | Likes calling [[Thande]] "Mr. Anderson!" | ||
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+ | Among his favorite historians are Sebastian Haffner, Niall Ferguson and Adam Tooze. | ||
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+ | He is an admin/ | ||
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==== Typical Quotes ==== | ==== Typical Quotes ==== | ||
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//"In 1939, Germany was practically broke because Hitler had spent all the money for armaments and HAD to go to war, or declare bankruptcy. (And if it wasn't for the Austrian and Czech gold reserves, they'd already have to do so in 1938.)"// | //"In 1939, Germany was practically broke because Hitler had spent all the money for armaments and HAD to go to war, or declare bankruptcy. (And if it wasn't for the Austrian and Czech gold reserves, they'd already have to do so in 1938.)"// | ||
+ | (Starting threads about obscure AH books) //"Did anyone but me read this?"// | ||
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==== Max and this Wiki ==== | ==== Max and this Wiki ==== | ||
- | Has strong wiki-fu, which he uses in secretive ways, across the entire expanse of this great ' | + | Has strong wiki-fu, which he uses in secretive ways, across the entire expanse of this great 'pedia. Although [[Petike]] some time later overtook him, never to look back. Nowadays however, Max prefers the [[alternate_history: |
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offtopic/max_sinister.txt · Last modified: 2024/01/08 19:38 by max_sinister