BMOTW:???

[PassiveTheory]

So, I forget the procedure, but when do we know who to question again?

[thelastgreatman]

Does Pot refuse to do it or what? Also I don't see Ivy on the list. And we should make Hannah do it again 'cause she's funny. Preferably drunk Hannah.

[betao]

I nominate Matt (betao) for making it to his 1st Coachella this year and more importantly for his great & interesting contributions to the board for more than a year now.

haha thank you kind sir. i'm glad I decided to go to coachella this year, and it wont be my last.

[gaypalmsprings]

I think we should give serious consideration to marooko's nuts.

[Hannahrain]

And we should make Hannah do it again 'cause she's funny. Preferably drunk Hannah.

We should not do that. What a horrible thing. I had been on this forum for one month when I was this. I had no business being it. My punctuation was terrible.

[Courtney]

We should not do that. What a horrible thing. I had been on this forum for one month when I was this. I had no business being it. My punctuation was terrible.

That just makes me want to go back and re-read your week.

The problem with BMOTW is that there aren't enough regular posters on the board to consistently have an interesting person each week. I mean, some of the new(er) people are definitely nice/intelligent/entertaining/interesting and could easily hold my attention through a week of questions, but at some point we're going to run out of people. The rate of good new people coming to the board is definitely less than one per week. And I think it's probably better for people to be around for a while before they become BMOTW. I agree with Hannah that one month is too soon; my week was probably too soon as well just by virtue of BMOTW running out of old school board members to use.

That said, I would like to see the walrus questioned in some form at some point, if only for the hope of more Oklahoma pictures. And where is Corinna's week?

[menikmati]

what happened to Rey and Kirk?

and Adrian?


this used to be a good idea. well at least a nice idea. i love everbodee on that list

Kirk was in the chat room not too long ago, so he's still around.

[kreutz2112]

wait....srsly?

I nominate miscorrections.

[miscorrections]

I'm not very interesting and also this thread seems kind of done.

[MissingPerson]

Does being BMOTW offer any actual material benefits or influence, like being a British royal, or is it an entirely ceremonial post where all the decisions are made by everyone else, like being the President?

[kreutz2112]

I fail to see how that is relevant.

edit: someone interview corinna.

[full on idle]

It's dead Kreutz, it's over. It happened a long time ago. Let it float away on a little bamboo boat with tiny scented candles burning on the bow.

[sbessiso]

jesus, so many fucking threads I know NOTHING about

[wmgaretjax]

It's dead Kreutz, it's over. It happened a long time ago. Let it float away on a little bamboo boat with tiny scented candles burning on the bow.

farewell... I never even knew thee.

[BROKENDOLL]

It's dead Kreutz, it's over. It happened a long time ago. Let it float away on a little bamboo boat with tiny scented candles burning on the bow. Wilson!!!!!!!

[Young blood]

faxman.

[captncrzy]

wai?

[chairmenmeow47]

faxman.

seconded :)

[faxman75]

What?1

Ok, i'm ready.

[allyjoy]

Voting closed

[chairmenmeow47]

What?1

Ok, i'm ready.

ok, you are the board member of the week for this week. i believe that lasts until next tuesday, when someone else will become BMOTW through nomination. i don't remember if it the vote has to have a second or third vote.

and i believe this is the starting list of questions. other users may ask additional questions. i can't view the old board at work, but perhaps someone else could to make sure we have all the questions covered?

1) desert album/book
2) childhood pets
3) area of expertise?

[Young blood]

desertbook
childhoodpets
areaofexpretise

[chairmenmeow47]

desertbook
childhoodpets
areaofexpretise

updated :)

[idrive1life]

2) desert book

or

2) The name of your childhood pet?

I support desert book as 2nd question.

Edit: NVM ;)

[faxman75]

first I would like to thank you all for the nomination, I am honored and humbled. I wasn't around when this first took place or just a lurker in this section of the board is more like it. This place was huge and overwhelming to me early on. Now I have wedged my way in further. so here we go.


1) desert album/book


I'm not much of a reader, in fact I don't read books at all. However, I would definitely have a desert album. If there is just one, I would have to choose Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here, this album always kicked my ass and still does. Shine On You Crazy Diamond is pure musical magic to my ears. It's a simple album with enough instruments and lyrics to set the mood for my desert dwelling.

2) childhood pets

Well, I had a few dogs though it's all kind of foggy. This is ages 0-6 before my parents divorced. My dad was abusive towards dogs and cats. The dogs names were Igless and Thor. Dad was big into D&D and Classic Rock. Honestly, all I remember about these animals was traumatic stuff. He used to throw them and kick them down the basement stairs to teach them how to walk back up them. I remember he used to draw on a cat as well. He liked them even less. So yeah, that's about it for childhood pets when i was really young. Later in life I had many failed attempts at owning goldfish and chamleons. They didn't live long. No cats or dogs in my grandparents house where I grew up the rest of my life. To them animals were dirty heh. My grandpa did catch squirells on occasion in the backyard and I think sometimes he cooked them. This wasn't the south either, this was the burbs of chicago. Oh and my aunt had ducks once. Their names were frick and frack.


3) area of expertise?

I have to think about this one. I guess it would be debating current events. I have always had a love for bullshitting about breaking news. I love the news. I watch it constantly. I love talking about things that have just happened. I love debating and discussing things all day and every day which is why i'm message board obsessed. Whether it be local news, music, national or international news, religion, politics, sex, anything. I have an opinion and i'm willing to debate most everything. I say most because of course there are topics I would probably find mind numbing like cross stitching or some shit.

[amyzzz]

My grandpa did catch squirells on occasion in the backyard and I think sometimes he cooked them. This wasn't the south either, this was the burbs of chicago
+10

[faxman75]

So I need to revise and give a book for number 1?

Ok, my desert book would be a book on survival. If I had to have a book I would make sure it was a useful one. I would want one that would teach me how to make macgyver type tools that will allow me to last longer in the wild.

[Hopeless Semantic]

Too, bad Richard Dean Anderson couldn't come up with a knick-knack to find work of late.

Anyhow, I can't find fault with Fax. He's been making some superb threads of late.

[ivankay]

Good book choice. i was going to pick "The Very Best of Family Circus".

[faxman75]

Good book choice. i was going to pick "The Very Best of Family Circus".

Nice. I've read books just not many or any I feel I need to read again. I've read a good portion of the bible. Also
Stephen King - The Bachman Books (most of it) Rage, The Long Walk, Running Man. Other King books like "the raft" and "misery".

Marilyn Manson - Long Hard Road Out of Hell
Howard Stern - Private Parts
Bob Larson - Dead Air

I think a few true crime books on Dahmer and some kids in a satanic cult that killed another kid, don't remember the name though.

That's really all I remember. I have not read an entire book in probably 15 years. I'm not proud of that. I want to overcome my fear of books. I can read magazines, newspapers and the internet with no issues. Books are overwhelming to me. In fact I just recieved a book in the mail via a board member suggestion about codependency. I started to read a paragraph and put it down.

[apostle2]

How many different locations have you lived in for more than a period of four months? which was the worst? was it still better than living in the voted out state of Florida?

[ivankay]

That book one is a tough one i never thought through. i was thinking along the lines of "What can i read over and over?" Why the hell did the best choice, a survival guide, not come to mind? With that i could make the island like Swiss Family Robinson and live well...better than a piece of fiction. If i'm ever being sent to a desert island and the one book allowance is there, survival guide it is.

[MissingPerson]

Hmm. Let's make the Survival book the assumed default, or this could get samey-quickly... :D

[ivankay]

i hear that. Just in a REAL case scenario where i'm going to Desert Jail Island, i would take the survival guide. If i get asked, i'll try to come up with the one i have the most love for.

[faxman75]

How many different locations have you lived in for more than a period of four months? which was the worst? was it still better than living in the voted out state of Florida?

I have lived in the Chicago burbs and Phoenix and the Phoenix burbs. I was living with my parents and grandparents in chicago so I have to choose Phoenix for the independence factor and moving out here without knowing a single person and not having a job and ultimately making it here. I go to Mexico and Vegas a lot and california on occasion. Back home the options were milwaukee, st louis and detroit *lolz*. I miss my friends but I visit and see them when I go back but i've met amazing people here.

The worst place would have to be the 6 months I lived in Calument City. The apartment was with 3 other friends. 2 cute girls and my friend Mike who was on house arrest. It was quite the flop house. Out of control parties, people over all the time, drugs everywhere, that type of thing. It was the type of neighborhood where you had hookers walking by and homeless druggies and drunks passed out on our front porch (not friends, actual vagrants). Tons of disgusting cockroaches as well. It was fun but that got old quick and I ran home after 6 months of madness. I can go on and on with stories from that place but for the sake of time and more questions i'll move on.

[faxman75]

Hmm. Let's make the Survival book the assumed default, or this could get samey-quickly... :D


I was thinking that and wondered how legal my choice was. I watch "survivorman" on occasion and just got done putting video clips of "into the wild" to a song and seeing how Alexander Supertramp didn't do so well even with a book or two, I figured I had to pick it. :) Otherwise. I'm fucked. I don't read books. If I could I think I would take a lifetime subscription to the daily Chicago Sun Times. That would be awesome to continue to get the daily news and a necessity in my life.

[MissingPerson]

I find it kinda hard to sympathise with Alexander Supertramp. I mean, fair enough, my knowledge of him pretty much begins and ends with Delta's ramblings, one Arcade Fire song and the ads for Into The Wild, but... I dunno. Everybody would love to run away sometimes. We don't, because of the people we'd leave behind. I mean, it sucked that it turned out for him the way it did, but he made his decisions, you know?

[faxman75]

Oh absolutely. In the end he was a failure. It was a tragedy. Also whenever I see someone burn money I want to smack them in the back of the head. Give it to someone who needs it, then go on your little adventure. What I came away liking was his desire for adventure. Little prick could have gone off to college for something cool and escaped his retarded family. I really dig that movie though. Not one to watch over and over though.

[MissingPerson]

Yeah, I can dig the adventure thing definitely. I think he was a bit stupid and self-involved in how he went about it. And arrogant too, if he'd done his homework, he might have done it. I understand the romance of the story, and I completely get how powerful that kind of wanderlust is, but... I don't think he deserves the kind of guru martyr status a lot of very needy teen boys project onto him.

Still, fantastic fucking song. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vMjM7FKjIg)

EDIT: I don't fucking believe it, check out the Comments at that link...

[faxman75]

*lol* Delta....funny shit. That's passion for a band right there.

I have seen them live [front row] more times than I can keep track with my hands, and I still know that it isn't enough. It will never be enough.

Single greatest live music experience on this planet.

E

I never knew this song was about Alexander.

[MissingPerson]

I didn't cop it until it was pointed out to me. And, for the record, neither did Delta.

Anyway, so tell us more about yourself Faxman. What's your ideal weekend? Do you like Pina Coladas? And getting caught in the rain?

[bmack86]

This thread inspired me to listen to Supertramp. Congrats.

[faxman75]

I didn't cop it until it was pointed out to me. And, for the record, neither did Delta.

Anyway, so tell us more about yourself Faxman. What's your ideal weekend? Do you like Pina Coladas? And getting caught in the rain?

Ideal weekend, ok. Lately, not much. Friday night is tv, music and pot. Booooring. Sometimes I go to a friends and have some drinks or a bar and see some local live music but I don't do that much these days. Saturday I pick up my son and we play catch with the football, play ps2, batting cages, play games or go out to eat, that sort of thing or watch wrestling or something. Sunday I drop him off at hebrew school and I go watch football. His mom picks him up from hebrew school and I go home, smoke pot, watch more football, listen to music. Sometimes we see a movie or something. Sometimes a bunch of friends get together and do a move night. Have drinks watch movies that sort of thing, it's fun stuff. We used to play cards too on fridays not so much anymore.

My drink is patron tequila. I don't drink a lot though, lately once every couple weeks or so. I miss the rain. So I don't get caught in it enough. I welcome it and it puts a smile on my face.

[Young blood]

page 1?

[Pixiessp]

I'm getting dizzy.

[Young blood]

If you could harpoon anyone or anything what color would it be?

[Pixiessp]

all the colors of the rainbow.

[canexplain]

faxman, you go to the doctor and he said you will die tomorrow ... god comes down and says you can relive one of your past days and thats it ... which day do you pick and why ******

[Young blood]

all the colors of the rainbow.
Beautiful.

Have you ever huffed glue and pondered the meaning of the sun vs the son of god?

[Young blood]

pixiessp, where was the best vacation you ever went on, how old were you and why was it so great?

[Pixiessp]

I would feel like a traitor if I came in here to answer questions after pledging allegiance to Faxman's thread. Let's keep this on the down low.shhhhhhhhh!!!!

Best Vacation:
Zion Natl Park. I was 25. what made it so great is that i tackled Angel's Landing and didn't fall to my death. plus my girlfriend (at the time) made the whole trip into a slide show and got Don Messick to narrate. It was awesome.

I really feel like a schleep so.....no more questions. i think?

[Young blood]

Don Messick!!!!!

whos Don Messick?

Is there a youtubez of the trip?

[canexplain]

I would feel like a traitor if I came in here to answer questions after pledging allegiance to Faxman's thread. Let's keep this on the down low.shhhhhhhhh!!!!

Best Vacation:
Zion Natl Park. I was 25. what made it so great is that i tackled Angel's Landing and didn't fall to my death. plus my girlfriend (at the time) made the whole trip into a slide show and got Don Messick to narrate. It was awesome.

I really feel like a schleep so.....no more questions. i think?


i didnt realize you were the one , sorry .. no one listens to me and that might be a good thing but here is my proposal: we bring the other two people to this thread as bm(embers) otw, we have a trifecta for a week to liven it up .... then starting next week, someone is it for mon thru thur and someone fri thru sunday, thus it moves a bit more quickly .. and i think the board should nominate the next person because then it doesnt go into a cliquish sp sort of thread .. just sayin ...****

[Pixiessp]

Don Messick!!!!!

whos Don Messick?

Is there a youtubez of the trip?

he did cartoon character voices. i will have to ask my ex.(yes,we still talk).

no you tube. it was 1985 but I am trying to get her to resurrect it.

[Young blood]

Thats awesome, which character did he narrate as? Papa Smurf?

[Young blood]

Hong Kong Phooey maybe?

[Pixiessp]

i didnt realize you were the one , sorry .. no one listens to me and that might be a good thing but here is my proposal: we bring the other two people to this thread as bm(embers) otw, we have a trifecta for a week to liven it up .... then starting next week, someone is it for mon thru thur and someone fri thru sunday, thus it moves a bit more quickly .. and i think the board should nominate the next person because then it doesnt go into a cliquish sp sort of thread .. just sayin ...****

we were just goofing around Ron. it is not official at all.

[Pixiessp]

Thats awesome, which character did he narrate as? Papa Smurf?

i will make a phone call and get back to you. :)

[Young blood]

YOUTUBES!

please.

[Pixiessp]

he did the voice for Huckleberry Hound. For the slide show he used his own voice silly.

[Green Panda]

he did the voice for Huckleberry Hound. For the slide show he used his own voice silly.

Huckleberry Hound! That's awesome...that's like one of THE most famous animated voices. I want that youtubed NOW!

[Pixiessp]

It's a slide show!! with actual slides!! I don't know how i would get that put onto youtube. these slides are not mine. they belong to a photographer(my ex). I would love to put it on youtube though..

[Green Panda]

It's a slide show!! with actual slides!! I don't know how i would get that put onto youtube. these slides are not mine. they belong to a photographer(my ex). I would love to put it on youtube though..

I'm sure there is some kind of digital transfer service/techniques out there. This can NOT be relegated to the dustbins of history because of it's analog nature.