Honoured, but feel I will disappoint you
I am honoured you would put me in the exalted company of some fine writers and equally interesting persons. You unfortunately ended up attempting to dissect the language of a hybrid - I am Canadian by birth and education (hence the "ou" spellings) and American by location for the almighty dollar. Unfair test of your intelligence, all in all and a Holmesian version of a trick question.
But I feel I've let you down. Would it help if you got bonus points for your serendipity crack about northern woofter -- it was wonderfully poetic: is Toronto (birth place) far enough north? And bonus points to the one with the geezer comment as I first played in '88.
My bio would be completely uninteresting to all in this forum, I'm one of the thousands who play because we love to, are addicted to the game, but wouldn't give up everything (home, free time, career) to be a player. Paintball was just a game in 1988 and it is just a game in 2001.
But what a great game.
Now that I've been honest (je ne suis pas Quebecois), I challenge Mr. Robinson to answer my earlier quetion: ... tell us something no one else knows about what is coming in paintball, what's the next big thing you know of that's more than a rumour, something not meant to be known.
What secret do you hold? I've come clean. Your turn.
Larry