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Club Twenty + Conway Twitty = Club Twitty
Conway Twenty is still available?
but you might prefer Twenty Conway
is that like the Club for Growth?
of public- and private-sector representatives of Western Slope Counties, originally to lobby for West Slope issues.
Now it’s little more than a shill for the Oil and Gas industry.
Still the Spring and Fall Club 20 meetings are must-attend events for politicians, and some great debates take place at the Fall meeting in even-numbered years.
http://www.club20.org/
…after working in Post for a few months, some of the other digital artists wanted to know where I got my Mad Skillz in After Effects and 3d. When I told them I was a graduate of the Defense Visual Information Academy at Lowry, and I got all my hands-on time in the Army, I was given the nickname “SSG Dan” by all of the geeks, probably after Gary Sinese’s Character in “Forrest Gump.”
I wanted to go with “TheBedBug” which is my sly Soviet Constructionist reference….but nobody got it. Not even the art geeks.
I was born a poor black boy in Alabama…
Just kidding.
About 15 years ago a friend and I decided to road trip to Juarez, Mexico for Halloween. We had gorilla suits and enough pharmaceuticals to make Hunter S. Thompson drool. We left after classes on a Friday and were driving through the night to get to the border.
Outside of Las Vegas, New Mexico, we got caught in a blizzard. The Jeep Cherokee we were in slid off the highway, into a guardrail and we were both lucky to walk away (or in my friend’s case, limp away).
We made it to a Holiday Inn, hung out with a bunch of winners in the bar that night, and the next day got our totaled Jeep towed to Sante Fe. At the used car lot the salesman tried to sell us cars that were way out of our price range. We asked the man, “Where are the cheap ones?”. He brought us around to the back of the yard, and there, in parking space #31 was a 1968 navy blue VW bus.
We bought that sucker, for $400 cash on the spot, with the hope that it would get us home (we had given up on Juarez). Not only did that VW bus get us to Taos (awesome hot tub experience with aforementioned pharmaceuticals), Trinidad (no heat in the bus so that mountain pass was a little chilly – it ain’t easy driving while ensconced in two sleeping bags) and home, but that blue bus continued on for many years to come.
So Car 31 is a name that reminds me how life can always be more than you ever expected – especially when you least expect it.
ill fated Spring Break trip from MN to South Padre.
The idea started on a Friday night at a bar in seven corners near the University of MN. In a drunken haze, one of us said, hey, we should go to S. Padre. So we went home, slept, got up and started driving.
It was the mid 80s, we took a very sketchy 71 Datsun 510 whose fuel pump decided to go out in Emporia KS. Emporia is a dry city/county. Not where one wants to spend their Spring Break. This was on a Saturday night, no shops open Sunday, get an order in Monday to somewhere in England and the pump arrives late Wednesday, we get back on the road late Thursday back to MN as we decide not to push our luck. We had 3 cases of Old Milwaukee and some pharma to pass the time, but that was one boring ass town.
We had spent the entire time sleeping in the Datsun in the back lot of the repair shop as we needed to pay for the pump and still have enough money to get us back to MN. I don’t think either of us even had a credit card. Different time.
Car31, awesome.
I have my own college experience with a 68 VW microBus. A friend his girlfriend and I were invited to go to Florida for spring break. (Time share condo on the beach) so we got into his creme colored late 70’s Lincoln and headed off on the Thursday before. We made it as far as Biloxi Mississippi before that Lincoln blew up. the really funny part was the Oil light came on, literally two seconds before detonation. BOOM. My friend sold it to the junk yard there in Mississippi for $200. Well we thumbed it to Mobile AL. Once There the ride we got dropped us off in front of a Used car Lot. There along side the office, sitting on four flat tires was a 68 VW Bus. we pooled our money and paid I think it was $600. (1990) the color was white but in bright sunlight you could see the Acid influenced underlying paint job. We put air in the tires and in the glove compartment was a book about “Keeping your VW running forever”… We continued on to Daytona beach checking the Oil whenever we thought of it and The tires never went flat. Well That Bus drove us back Home to Ft Collins. We made it back that following wed. It took us to Alaska and back one summer. hundreds of ski/Boarding trips we slept in it in Telluride more than once. and more than a dozen trips to California.
My friend reported it made it to Cali one last time in 2002 and it died in Oceanside. In a public Beach parking lot. He left it there as he figured that is where it decided it wanted to spend eternity.
The fine for abandoning it was $800.
But I agree, an appropriate final resting place for a VW bus.
not many beat the good road trips.
The first blog I ever started posting at, and the only one besides this one that’s retained my long term interest, is “SLOG,” the blog for a Seattle alt-weekly called The Stranger. (Stranger blog = slog, get it? Of course you do, you’re a smarty.) Not being particularly gifted in the come-up-with-something-clever-fast department, and having a burning need to comment on something there, I chose the handle “Matt from Denver” because my name is Matt and I’m from Denver. Deep, huh?
Anyway, The Stranger was always a favorite of mine during the years I lived in Seattle, not least because they covered local politics with bent and attitude. After returning to Colorado in 2005 and finding that Westword, who used to have a bit of bent and attitude to their coverage were now as bland as the Denver Pravda, I googled “colorado politics” to see if anyone had a more interesting take. Gee, here’s a site called “coloradopols,” wonder what that’s all about.
This was in the spring of 2006, and those with long memories will recall that the site had a lot more righties posting here, and that immigration was such a hot topic that Gov. Owens called a special session of the GA to deal with it. That meant that this site was pretty heated, and when I decided to wade in, I didn’t want a bunch of jerks to just dismiss me because I was from Denver. So I initially called myself “MFD” instead.
I wasn’t here long when the proposed ballot initiative about immigration got tossed out by the State Supreme Court on the grounds that it violated the multiple-issue clause. A guy calling himself “Socrates” immediately got on my nerves by calling it “pandering to the illegals,” as though they held any political influence whatsoever. I decided to counter him under the name “Aristotle,” because prior to the implementation of registration, you could swap handles and sock puppet pretty easily.
I meant this to only be a one-off, but a weeklong flame war erupted when Socrates, using his sock puppet handle of “quixote,” attacked me, and I felt like I should stick to the Aristotle handle. This basically meant that, not being the deceitful kind, I had to keep using it.
In the back of my head I meant to ditch it sooner or later, but one morning in the summer of 2006, I woke up to find that Pols had created a registration system, and had already created an account for me (and for every unique handle that had ever been used since they came online), and that changing your name wasn’t something you could do. So, Aristotle I have remained.
So, that’s how this not-particularly wise person ended up naming himself after one of humanity’s most profound thinkers. Thanks for reading.
I think during that whole exchange over the special session someone started saying that we needed to deport all Republicans. That kind of got under my craw so I decided to do this multi-part scenario on what the theoretical effects would be if republicans were deported in favor of illegals… I am pretty sure that my scenarios pissed a few people off, but truth be told, I had fun writing them and some of my fellow R’s on this site got a kick out of them as well.
between you and Socrates.
Ahhhhh, the good ol’ days….
I’ve thought about changing my name as well, to an easier one to remember (kind of strange being referring to as ‘Car’). Never did though, mainly for the same reason as yours mentioned above.
who dropped out with no explanation, never to be heard from again. At least, he was one of the first that I paid any attention to. He was gone for at least a full month before the registration system went online.
There were a few polsters we never heard from once registration happened – remember Patriot? His last post happened sometime the day before. I figured he must have been using a fake email address and wasn’t about to risk giving a real one to come back here. No one could imitate that guy’s style, so I know he is gone for good.
Went on to get real lives.
I was extremely happy, when I first came here, to find that the “Patriot” handle had been claimed by a total hippie. Teabaggers have too long used and abused that description for themselves.
Sadly, I do not.
When I first became interested in comic books about 7 or 8 years ago I knew right away I didn’t want to devote my time to what I call “the usuals”; Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, or any of the Marvel families. I narrowed it down to The Flash or The Green Lantern. I read Green Lantern and loved what the writers did with the series of men who wore the ring.
The Emerald Knight is one of the lesser known names for the Green Lantern. It’s a name I’ve used since I set up my first AOL account with the 76 automatically generated. I’ve dragged this name with me through the collapse of AOL through different e-mails, to Twitter, and finally to ColoradoPols.
I think that’s a pretty good story. My name elsewhere on the web has also been with me since fairly early days, 1998 I think. I didn’t use it here because I used to be a science fiction fan and I did not want my SF fan life to cross into my political life because I view my fannish past as something that would not be viewed seriously.
Do you still follow comics or is it just a name for you now?
I stopped reading it a few years ago. I try to keep up with the general idea of what’s been going on and still buy for nostalgia and investment purposes.
If there’s a specific story arc I want to read I”ll try to find the packaged graphic novel.
One of the best:
http://www.amazon.com/Green-La…
I always liked TGL, especially the Hal Jordan era.
But Batman is the best for this one reason- he’s just a guy. Not an alien from another planet, not in possession of some alien techno device or Norse hammer. He’s just a guy. With issues, attitude, cash and a passionate hatred of evil and bad guys. Just a guy with the will and ability to act.
And awesome artwork.
“I couldn’t become Green Lantern unless I was chosen by the Guardians of Oa, but given enough start-up capital and adequate research facility, I could be Batman.”
Sheldon Cooper
Sheldon is 2/3 right.
The cash and R&D capability are a start.
There would also have to be a the will to act, to …well crusade.
I don’t watch BBT, so maybe that was the joke in the sense that of course Sheldon was willing, but for the cash and R&D.
My great-great Grandfather staked a mining claim on Mount Sherman in Iowa Gulch. He actually died of pneumonia in the course of trying to work it after surviving an avalanche. Thereafter my great-great grandmother supported herself and her children by opening up a boarding-house in Fairplay. So, because I really like Colorado, I picked this name. Mt. Sherman is one of the 14ers.
Because Bridge Over Troubled Water was playing in the background at the moment I was registering.
saw S&G reunion in Central Park in NYC in 1980 and they sang that song near the end of the show. Amazing night!
I’m a self described geek.
I live in Colorado.
There ain’t a short version.
Although every time I see or hear “geek” I think of Rachel Maddow and her Moment of Geek on her show. Do you watch?
I stopped watching the talking head shows years ago. I have found better ways to spend my time.
She’s really good at taking a story that’s been covered over and over and looks at it from a different angle. She’s very cerebral and less emotional. No shouting. No ranting and raving. Plus a wicked smart sense of humor.
I think she’s a refreshing change from the usual older angry white guy yelling at their guests.
She makes me want to puke. She just comes on there with her sense of smug self-righteousness and stares at you like “either you agree with me or you don’t deserve air, water, or food”. Sorry to rant, but she’s one of my pet peeves.
“Smug self-righteousness.” You mean she’s smarter than you are.
Get over it. You’ll live longer.
Especially since my daughter was about his age when she died.
I just wish him a higher IQ.
apologies –
and agree.
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Unfortunately, there is no amount of “sorry,” or no amount of personal grief on our part, that will bring her back.
At this point, it’s just something that Cheryl and I will have to get used to. And that’s going to take a long, long time.
But all her self-esteem classes and liberal professors have told her that she is very, very special. Nothing is more irritating than the intellectual equivalent of a two year old trying to tell you what to do because she thinks she’s smarter than everyone else.
Do you ever read what you write?
If you did, you would be irritated to no end.
because I think I’m special. I engage in debate using logic and reason to support my arguments.
now I know you are new to Politics… Logic and Reason????
We’ll be having none of that here…
And she is very smart. You might not like her politics.
Oh, unrelated–did you get your enrollment check in for Glenn Beck U?
call her dumb as a brick. When you transfer to Oxford you can call her dumb as a brick. And before you mention $$$, Rachel came from one of the poorest areas of Castro Valley, Ca. She worked her ass off to earn academic scholarships.
Maybe you just feel threatened by a successful intelligent woman. It’s that insecurity thing again.
Rachel would have been more your kinda talking head. She’s super into “geek” and always promoting an interest in science and math with her “moments of geek” segments. She actually makes math and science look cool. Something you have yet to do. I like Rachel because out of all of the talking heads on every channel she isn’t a slave to “Beltway Common Wisdom” and quite often mocks it and shows how and when it is demonstrably wrong. Is she a progressive? Of course. Does her show have an agenda? Probably. But at least she isn’t a self righteous buffoon constantly screaming at or over people like Rush or Chris Mathews. She’s sticks to the facts of every story and although she usually tells you her opinion, the story isn’t about her opinion like Olbermann or Beck.
What makes Rachel so unique and so amazing to watch is this Rhodes Scholar who is by far smarter than anyone else I’ve ever met, still manages to tell stories with unique perspective, sharp wit, and a lot of heart.
Can you tell I’m a huge fan?
So he asks his best friend, would you like to have my son named after you?
I’m sure we all have a picture in our head whenever we read someone’s online name, I know I do.
So whenever I read something by you, my mind automatically seizes on Dobby the elf in Harry Potter! I was positive that’s why you came up with your name…shows what I know.
So I googled myself, and sure enough, most of the references link Harry Potter to Doby/Dobby.
Pretty funny — I guess somebody in the real world had to have this name.
Too bad I can’t share the royalties with J.K. Rowling (or the Dolby fortune, the previous most commonly mistaken association with my name).
Because “ardy” has been significant to me for quite some time.
And “39” because, whenever I need to create an alphanumeric name, I tend to use multiples of 3 that are not also multiples of 2 or 5.
(Well, I do like 7 also … not multiples of 7, just 7. It’s pretty cool standing there all on its own. 3, on the other hand, in addition to being pretty impressive on its own, looks mighty fine in the company of other 3’s also.)
I am willing to make an exception, on an otherwise boring day, and use a 6 every now and again. I wore “6” on a jersey for a couple years since the person who had “3” was significantly faster than me and thus I could not win the number from him. “9” was also already owned by someone faster than me. Thus, 6 is something to settle for. 3 & 9 are numbers of merit that must be earned.
Just remember, you asked …
LMAO
I got on the net in 1996 (unless you count popping in on BBSs on my dad’s account some years before that). Even with the much lower head count of those days, there were still way too many Susans. I got tired of getting yelled at for things other Susans said, and decided I needed a handle.
I was working as a nurse at the time, and was one of the first in our hospital to break away from pastels and start wearing scrubs in wild, colorful patterns. With my natural affiliation for alliteration, NeonNurse seemed like the perfect choice.
It’s done the job, too, as far as being unique is concerned. Other than a couple of mentions in poems or song lyrics, and a racing Quarter Horse with a none too spectacular career, I’m it. If you Google up a NeonNurse, it’s just about guaranteed to be me.
My mother named me after ‘Muhammad Ali’ the boxer, but I was always called ‘Ali’ when growing up
Hasan, of course, is a family name, and clearly, the best name to have, politically, right now
Muhammed Ali took a swing at me and missed! True story. We had run into him in a parking lot in Hollywood and asked him for ghis autograph. I got a little smart mouthed with him about his fight with Frazier, and he swung at me…jokingly of course. He had a fist the size of a Christmas ham.
I love telling that story:-)
I took my name during the Bush years because I wanted to come across as a knight in shining armor, having always been a big fan of the King Arthur stories. We needed more knights, and less knaves, imho.
Great stories and wonderful post. Thanks for front paging it V!
I’ll explain it to the kids whenever we use the gawdawful pink and green grocery bags you gave out in Lake County a couple of years ago. Funny, it’s impossible to lose that thing.
Muhammad Ali is one of my idols.
No one named after “The Greatest” can be all bad.
I was adopted by my maternal grandparents as a child and ended up with a hyphenated name. (Mom died and Dad was in the Navy and at sea all the time)
In 1996 I finally had enough of computers not being able to handle the hyphen so I decided to change it. Willis is the name my father was born with (he was also later adopted by a step-father).
Since I make some money being a genealogist it only made sense to me to have my my own ancestral name.
That really drives computers nuts.
I’ve been either ‘Phoenix’ or ‘Phoenix Rising’ online since sometime in the late ’80s. I started with just ‘Phoenix’, but there were a few people using that handle even back then, so I eventually switched to the full ‘Phoenix Rising’ and have been using it ever since.
The moniker was chosen for two reasons – first, because I was determined in college to overcome some self-confidence and depression issues I had from high school, and second because of a poem/song by Barbara van Horn that says a lot about the being able to live your life to the fullest by really knowing yourself.
and I love James Bond movies
I first heard of Colorado Pols when a story in one of the Denver papers (don’t recall if it was the Rocky or the paper-that-shall-not-be-named) referred to Troy Eid as “The Human Rumor.” I had worked with Troy for a few years, and nearly wet my chair laughing at that.
So I read CoPols for a long time, and one day someone said something that compelled me to make a smart-ass comment. I needed a handle and, since I was yearning for the days when I would become a PERA-site, I called myself PERA Hopeful.
I have since reached that goal and started my next career, and have considered changing my name. As soon as the next elections occur and the state officials who know me are out of office, I think I’ll re-register under my real name. I have felt cowardly hiding behind a handle, but when I was working for an elected official, it seemed prudent.
I live in Adams county and I’m a registered Republican.
Naaa, but serious, now I wish I had given some thought to it.
My guesses and assumptions are falling left and right here!
I root for CSU, by the way.
where Josh gets all bent out of shape because a poster on a message board called LemonLyman calls him out for being a douche. it’s funny.
well actually movie versions of comic books I enjoyed as a kid. I happened to sign up after I watched the movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W…
K2? Dunno — sounded good. Deep I know.
I thought maybe you were Pat.
You know, he’s a bad guy right?
might bring up images of “Red Dawn” lol
Google Stryker K2.
as opposed to conservative Dem term, Blue Dog. Also have two cats, one of which is usually in my lap, watching the screen and shedding all over, when I’m at the computer. Hope no one’s allergic.
Always tries to get up in my lap when I’m at the computer.
She sheds too.
Nothing worse than a 60 lb cat.
but on the coach when I’m watching TV they both squeeze on. Not 60 Lbs but they are good sized and together make a little over 30lbs of very warm cat. They don’t know they’re supposed to be cold and aloof. They’re like dogs with more discriminating taste.
My lab, Abbie, is also around 60lbs and is constantly trying to sit in people’s laps. We’ve tried to explain to her that she isn’t a lap dog but she sees the cat sitting in our laps and gets jealous. She’s ridiculous but too cute to stay mad at for too long.
I live in Arvada and I think the “..onian” tag is better than simply an “n” at the end.
I’ve never been very creative….
I see that you’re not an onion from Arvada.
Ideologically, I guess I could read conservative/libertarian blogs, but they’re too politically and tactically stupid to stomach; written by pinheads and basement freaks with zero political experience.
So I’m stuck reading lefty blogs like this and DailyKos who at least know how a campaign “runs” and where I occasionally post as what I am ….
Cheers
From a ‘nym named ‘rtwingtroll’, I’m not sure how to react to something calling a majority of right wing blogs essentially idiotic.
It means, dearheart, your political views are simplistic and harmful, but the blog host and some of the writers here do know politics.
I read for the latter, not the former.
But regardless of above, if you agree ‘it’s a baby, not a choice,’ we can be friends. And, yes, even in rape/incest because it is not the baby’s fault the “father” is a criminal SOB.
Ciao
I actually agree to some extent on the first bit. I find a lot of right wing blogs (and some lefty blogs, too) hard to deal with because they just don’t have a care for basic facts. Regardless of how you feel about the bias of Daily Kos, David Waldman and Adam Bonin really know their Congressional and legal shite – you’ll learn a lot of just how things work by reading their stuff.
As for the latter, well, that sounds like right wing troll material and I’ll leave it to a more serious diary. 🙂
That’s pretty much the reason I got on here in the first place. Well that and shilling for Buck. Hey if you just admit it it’s not so bad.
There are too many Trujillo’s in Pueblo (and I like a good alliteration)
to the funniest book ever written, A Confederacy of Dunces, though sometimes the malarkey posted on Pols really does a number on my pyloric valve.
I am what I am.
If I do say so myself. And I do.
First of all, the sound was awful.
Second of all, Shelley Duvall looked like my first wife.
Somebody looked at Shelley Duvall (and Steve Buscemi) and said, “Sure, you can be a movie star!”
I used to go by What tha Duce. No story behind the name, just a random thought that popped into my head when I was prompted to create an account. After purchasing a new computer, I tried to log in, but had forgotten my password. When I had Pols email it to the account I assumed I had set it up with, they emailed me a password for the username “jW”. I don’t for a minute remember setting this account up, but now it’s the one I use. I still can’t find the password for What tha Duce.
I’d prefer you just say something rather than send a cease and desist letter. I’d hate to be infringing on your brand.
Hello. It’s me. You know me…
…I’ve been around since Pols first came online. I was a guest poster for a while, though under another (ahem) name, and have been working in this business since 1992.
when he was with “Nazz”. Became a huge fan with the release of “Something/Anything”. What a great album.
Mine started back in 1997. I was in the AF and we were trying to broadcast a Commander’s Call all over the base. My responsibility was to handle the data network – aka Local Area Network (LAN). We were using walkie talkies to coordinate everything and some started referring to me as LANMAN. I added the 2k in 2000 because someone had already claimed that name on some website.
at the foot of the Sangre de Cristos, Crestone is now home to old hippies, new age seekers, Buddhists and practitioners of just about every religion known to man. A mecca for “off the grid” construction, there only seems to be one rule… no shooting in town. Oh… and it’s my favorite place on the planet.
She was dead 15 years before I finally looked it up…
Froward = predisposed to deviant behavior.
I added the 69 to try to make it predisposed to positive behavior.
Although Froward-69ing carries with it, its Own twisted meaning.
I always thought it was some sort of play on words with “forward”, except the ‘o’ and the ‘r’ were “backward”. Like somebody wanted to move us forward but was moving us backward.
If I told you the other names then those would no longer be anonymous. You never know when I am out of politics that I might want to revert to those cloaks.
Here are some of the backgrounds. Native American, Finnish, Swedish, French, Welsh, Irish names that my family has. Defunct auto manufacturers (I was born in Detroit and I was the only one in my family with auto mechanic skills). Various obscure assembly language nicknames. Things found in places that make edible things. And some really weird names too.
Back in the day (and actually maybe still today), using your initials, last name, and year of birth was a common screen name. I would have just used bjwilson or something but all those were taken at some site. Actually now that I think about it I should go by “The Beach Boy”.
I chose it because I like Star Wars, thought it would be funny, and many years ago I became a hermit from politics because I was so disgusted by the political debate. Obama brought me back in. I believed him when he talked about change and I still do. I don’t agree with him about everything but part of his message is that I don’t have to and I don’t have to claim to.
was, of course, one of the four protagonists of The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey. I first read this wonderful novel in high school, and loved it. Still love it, and have since read most of Abbey’s books. I grew up on the Western Slope, amidst many serious environmentalists and assorted lefty crackpots, for whom this book was a manifesto. Troubled antisocial characters like George (and Hunter Thompson, Warren Zevon, etc.) have always inspired me … while I outwardly remain a mild mannered, law abiding, boring suburban fellow.
after maybe 15 years. Even better this time!
Thanks fellow polsters.
The next time a happy hour is scheduled I am going to see what I can do to make it.
Thanks for the stories…
Those are just some of my multiple (16) personalities.
was an on-line spades game. Most had “spade” related names. And, as Bob Barker always requested, I did spade my dog, so it is partially a tribute to wasted childhood watching too much daytime television.
I have always had a bunch of nicknames and amongst a certain crew my nickname was “Irish Danny” despite me only being a quarter Irish.
At the time, I was running offshore money and my funds were domiciled in Dublin. Because Dublin was booming so hard, it was impossible to keep employees so I always had trouble with my custody operation.
So one night I was bitching about the problems in Dublin and I said “I ^%$%** hate the Irish, I don’t want to be called Irish Danny anymore I mean I am way more Norwegian than I an Irish”
And my friend Mr. French (nickname from the butler in the T show ‘Family Affair’) says ‘What are we doing to call you? Viking Dan? Danny the Red?
When I was picking a name for Pols I want with DtR, but knowing that there was a French socialist politician with the same handle and not wanting to be confused with that affiliation, I added the (hair) because I did have red hair, although it is going white rather rapidly.
As a codicil I eventually got my problems worked out in Dublin and again went back to loving the Irish.
There have been lots of good ones who stopped coming. I guess they burn out. I know I have, but I come back. Sometimes they don’t.
Actually, the really old polster I mentioned above, quixote/Socrates, disappeared so suddenly that I wondered if something happened to him. Remember Cuervo71? He may have been Larry Manzanares, and Cuervo71 did stop posting only shortly before Manzanares’ body was found.
Some polsters who have departed I’m personally well rid of, others I kind of miss, still others I find have taken new guises. (I was happy when I figured out TancredoWatch’s new handle, as I thought he had left for good.)
It’s funny to form these little bonds with people I’ve never met face to face (except the four or five other polsters who went to that one meetup at the Cheeky Monk in late 2008), but you get to wondering what’s become of once-prolific polsters who stop showing up without a farewell. Speaking of which, I hope Gecko’s doing okay.
Perhaps the funniest regular poster to have graced these pages.
I always figured that had to be some other regular. I just couldn’t fathom someone going to the effort to come up with such spot-on parody for a local blog without being a regular participant. Hey Voyageur, ‘fess up!
I was born and raised in Boulder. Almost all of our parents were hippies – except for one kid.
Our parents told us not to accept any other viewpoints because we were obviously right. What’s the point, right?
So this kid – the only one that didn’t fit in with the rest of the city. He was always talking about Hayek, Friedman, Rand. He was the only kid in our gym class that didn’t cheer when they announced that Reagan had been shot.
We teased him mercilessly. He would just laugh, as though he wanted us to like him. Not a taunting laugh, but a disarming one, as though he wanted us to know we were all brothers. We were relentless!
“hey, laughing boy! What’s so funny about American imperialism!?! What’s the matter? Can’t speak truth to power? How does it feel to be living on STOLEN LAND?!?”
On that fateful night, he was tragically and accidentally killed by eating 47 lbs. of tempeh. I guess he just wanted to fit in.
I honor “Laughing Boy” with my handle. I ask that you do the same.
Pulls the heart strings. Funny little guy.
I didn’t know conservatives weren’t allowed to post on each others comments. But anyway, we’re lone rangers for the most part. We don’t do that whole collectivist mind meld thing.
Why can’t cons ever take any criticism without claiming that they “aren’t allowed” to do something? Liberals, who know how to either fight back or ignore it, never whimper about what they’re supposedly being denied.
BJ reaching around for a friend….
No wonder. He should have stuck to Seitan.
Sorry about the tempeh-splosion.
Due to the lack of access to POLS for triguardian anyone want to provide the background for it?
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Actually, the Declaration of Independence celebrates the
of happiness. Read it, then listen to the immortal “Stan Freberg presents the United States of America.”
to the PBS “comedy” show of the same name. Nor is it a reference to political map colors or the economy or the environment.
It’s a shortened version of the Official New Mexico State Question: Red or Green?
moved to Colorado. lol In California we eat it as an entree with chunks of pork in it. I learned how to make it from my mom, who learned it from her mom, etc etc etc. She was horrified when I called her and told her about the condiment thing.
Damn, now it’s 3 in the morning and I want pork & green chili.
DavidThi was my email address at Microsoft. That was when bulletin boards first came in to use so I just copied that as it was easiest. And it became a habit.
When I hit sites where there was already a DavidThi I added 808 as it’s hawaii’s area code. It works well at places like this – everyone regular knows who I am but a google search does not hit it 🙂
In my college days, I protested against “Ray-gun” and nukes. My friends and I started a group called “PeaceVision”, where we wrote constant letters to television networks asking them to tone down the rhetoric and ethnocentricism toward other countries. We thought the media was largely responsible for spreading hate. We couldn’t even imagine something like Fox news in our wildest imaginations back then…
In the early 80’s, Muslims and Mexicans were not the scapegoats. It was Russians. Remember all the comediens who made money speaking with Russian accents and making fools out of themselves? Then the wall came down, and the rest is history. Now we are free to hate everyone, I guess.
I was a little young to be a certified Peacenik, but I made peace my passion. Adding “monger” to it reminds me not to go overboard with the dogmatic extremism. No one likes a monger of any kind, but if you have to be a monger, a peacemonger is the lesser of two evils, right?