The only one I can think of is peppes (think, pizza!) but out of a quarter million FlyerTalkers there must be a few more. peppes is in the Norwegian navy but stationed at a NATO facility in Norfolk, VA.

I attended the Oslo American School for three years and help to arrange reunions both in Oslo (2002 & 2005) & stateside.

For March, 2007, I tried to arranged an Oslo DO to coincide with the annual Nordic competition at Holmenkollen but was thwarted on two fronts:

1. Mention "snow" to FlyerTalkers and they will run like lemmings in the opposite direction. Do not ever tell FlyerTalkers that it will be cold at a DO, nor that there's the slightest chance of snow at a DO, nor that the DO will be centered around winter activities, e.g. ski jumping.

2. Skiforeningen pulled a fast one on us (and lots of other people) and scheduled the annual jumping competition for the third Sunday in March instead of the traditional second Sunday of March. I was one keypress away from buying plane tickets for the 2nd weekend when I figured maybe I should double-check the date. Lucky me! peppes bought his ticket for the wrong weekend.

There's a large DO in London (Presidents Day? next Presidents Day is 2/21/11), and there's also the annual Advents Brunch in Frankfurt (1st weekend in Dec. this year). Those would be great first DOs for anyone.

+1

And I might add that you are unlikely to have time for any further addictions once this one takes hold.