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Welcome to the virtual home of UDARP-Games

Here you can get some insight to what is going on in the world of UDARP-Games and its President. You will also get a chance to enjoy the work of  Dutch authors Sjorsj Grünn and Walter Groon and the legendary hobby band The Soapy Suds.
 
Changes will be made on a (non) regular basis - Enjoy, and check back often!
 
Ulrik Damm
President/Padrino
UDARP-Games
”Blurring the Edges of Reality since 1989”
 
Lasciate ogni speranze voi ch'entrate! - Dante
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Latest News:
 
 
16 January 2012 - Lyrics Archive updated with new song written today. Staring at the Sun (Ali Mut)
 
29 October 2011 - Desperately Seeking Sanity has been updated again, this time with a true story of an attack on our President tonight on his way home. (Sig. Lava Inferno, V.P. Misc. Affairs)
 
07 October 2011 - Desperately Seeking Sanity has been updated again. This time with the origin story of the phrase "I can see my house from here". Please go to DSS and have a read.
(Ulrik Damm - Padrino and President of UDARP-Games)
 
28 September 2011 - Desperately Seeking Sanity has been updated with a new entry. For the first time it is from a guest writer, Laura B. a friend of the organisation. Please go to DSS and have a read.
(Ulrik Damm - Padrino and President of UDARP-Games)
 
20 September 2011 - New installment of Desperately Seeking Sanity has been added, go check it out. http://udarp-games.tripod.com/id68.html 
(Ulrik Damm - Padrino and President of UDARP-Games)
 
08 September 2011 - We are still keeping busy and have a lot of writing projects that we are unable to find time for but at least we are making progress on other projects. For you music fans, The President recently performed with RHCP. (Ali Mut)
 
18 March 2011 - Back again, have not had access to updating the homepage for a long time and we have also been busy with other projects. More to come. (Ulrik Damm - Padrino and President of UDARP-Games)
 
03 August 2009 - Our collaboration with tumbling Candlelight is now live, starting with 5 day quizzes. Please go to http://tumblingcandlelight.dk/ and check it out. (Sig. Lava Inferno, V.P. Misc. Affairs)
 
22 May 2009 - The "prologue" of our new collaboration now live at http://mapit.dk/bloggen.php please go and check it out. (Sig. Lava Inferno, V.P. Misc. Affairs)
 
21 May 2009 - The Lyrics Archive has been updated with Burt Kocain's highly controversial song "...I think the power is coming back".  (Ali Mut)
 
20 May 2009 - Part of our research and entertainment unit has been destroyed by sabotage, but government funding will cover the cost of replacing the lost equipment. (Padrino)
 
16 May 2009 - The Lyrics Archive has been updated with the latest song by The Soapy Suds - "Fjords of Love" which was mentioned in the Tumbling Monolith interview from May last year. (Ali Mut)
 
10 May 2009 - "Profile of the President" has been slightly expanded.
Also; the preliminary pre-launch testings are being carried out in connection with the collaboration with our friends at mapit.dk. - (Pres.) 
 
10 April 2009 - After the success of the UDARP-Games miniature Treasure Hunt X-mas gift to our friends at mapit.dk and their following online treasure hunt reply – the two parties have had initial talks regarding a possible future collaboration. More on this when we have more on this.
(Ulrik Damm - Padrino and President of UDARP-Games)
 
29 Marts 2009 - DSS has been updated. (Padrino)
 
13 February 2009 - Spitting Image - the true origin, by Walter Groon added to the Grünn & Groon pages. Read the true account of the orignin of the saying "spitting image" by my good friend Walter Groon - you may be surprised at what you will learn. (Ulrik Damm - Padrino and President of UDARP-Games)
 
08 February 2009 - I am happy to announce that our music magazine "Tumbling Monoliths" is now finally available here on www as well. Our short interview with "One Night" Stan and Burt Kocain from May 2008 has been added as the first entry - go check it out. (Ali Mut)
 
07 February 2009 - The Lyrics Archive has been updated with a large number of lyrics. (Ali Mut)

Skćlskřr, ca. 1905 - The Presidents first home
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The picture was taken by Dutch author Sjorsj Grünn

Older News: (selected)
 
05 February 2009 - Despite the poisoning I am still alive. (Ulrik Damm - Padrino and President of UDARP-Games)
 
29 January 2009 - A third doctor has also given up. (JDD)
 
12 December 2008 - Since June someone has been poisoning the President and so far two different doctors have given up identifying the poison. (JDD)
 
21 September 2007 - Our HQ mainframe was sabotaged early August but now we are back on-line and the loss of data has been very limited but still valuable information was lost. (Ulrik Damm - President of UDARP-Games)
 
30 March 2007 - The Board has invested in the future of UDARP-Games by upgrading our internet connection and acquiring certain new electronic products - ah yes, This is Living. (Sig. Lava Inferno)
 
25 March 2007 - I am thinking about adding a Role-Playing page to this site I already have some ideas for the format. (Ulrik Damm - President of UDARP-Games)
 
23 March 2007 - This is Living. (Pres.)
 
17 March 2007 - Today at a birthday party I revisited the idea of writting a "Book of Things", to be followed by several more books. We have the titles ready now if we could just figure out what to put in the books... (Padrino)
 

21 January 2007 - A new feature is now available here, please check out the President's new column Desperately Seeking Sanity under the heading DSS. The first column was actually written at Christmas but due to sabotage we have not been able to up-load until now. (Sig. Lava Inferno)

 

20 November 2006 - Dutch author Sjorsj Grünn would have turned 130 today. (Padrino)

 

01 November 2006 - Eat more ice cream! UDARP-Games has entered into a collaboration with Danisco today, and we encourage everyone to eat more ice cream as it will benefit UDARP-Games and the Evolution. (Padrino)

 

27 October 2006 - Il Padrino and "The Selected Three" celebrated the end of an era at the Reef n' Beef restaurant today. Today was the last day of the President's affiliation with a certain American computer company. The President had Kangaroo, Crocodile and Death by Chocolate - it was, to quote BLC Bob, "delicious". (Ali Mut)

 

01 July 2006 - The President was called to Gothenburg today on urgent business in connection with the Robbie Williams concert. (JDD)

 

19 June 2006 - Laura B. a close friend and source of inspiration celebrates her birthday today - a date she shares with cartoon cat Garfield who is 28 today. (Ulrik Damm - President of UDARP-Games)

 

18 June 2006 - The last of the old DIML columns have finally been added to DIML. Now I hope to be able to write some new ones at some point in the future but I do not know for sure whether I will be able to re-find the inspiration needed. However, I would like to thank Louise for being there for me back when I originally wrote these columns, without you I don't think I would have been able to write more than half of them. Without your friendship and company I would not have had the material nor the drive and desire to write them. I remain then as now, your humble servant. (Ulrik Damm - President of UDARP-Games)
 
16 March 2006 - Noah, God son of The President is born. The President may now also be addressed as "Padrino" or "Il Padrino". (JDD)
 
16 February 2006 - Happy Birthday to Walter Groon who is 30 today. (Pres.)
 
17 January 2006 - First update in 2006, just wanted to say we are still alive, and now a faster internet connection hopefully means we will be able to start making some of the updates that have been missing in 2005.
And happy birthday to the Snow Queen. (Pres.)
 
24 December 2004 - Merry Christmas to everyone from UDARP-Games. I have spent the day in lonely vigil here at the office, watching the complete special edition trilogy of The Lord of the Rings. So I have not had time to do any updates, besides adding my old Christmas Rhyme on the "Merry X-mas" page. Before I go I would like to one again wish you all a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year - and a special greeting goes out to my friends in Norway, I wish I could be there with you :-)
 
21 December 2004 - Four new (old) DIML columns have been added to DIML and a picture of Walter Groon has been added to Grünn & Groon. We hope to make a new update on 24 December. (Pres.)
 
27 September 2004 - Happy Birthday Line! One of the President's primary muses turn 30 - I still remember... UDTA
 
18 September 2004 - The new UDARP-Games homepage was published on the internet. (Pres.)

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