Who's the most mysterious regular ILXor?

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Who's the ILXor we don't know much about and remains but a shadow to us all? A foggy specter on the internet? Except not so scary, more like Casper with a big record collection.

― RobinMasters, Saturday, 15 May 2004 03:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Eisbär

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 15 May 2004 03:05 (twenty-two years ago)

el diablo

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 15 May 2004 03:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, Gygax! Except for the elect few.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 15 May 2004 03:09 (twenty-two years ago)

the Pinefox maybe?

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 15 May 2004 03:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Aimless

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 15 May 2004 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Gear!'s sister.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 15 May 2004 03:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Bryans brother! Well, that pic of him anyway ;)

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 15 May 2004 03:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Dave Q

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Saturday, 15 May 2004 03:41 (twenty-two years ago)

AMAZING RANDY

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 15 May 2004 03:45 (twenty-two years ago)

ornaldo bloomps

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 15 May 2004 03:47 (twenty-two years ago)

There's much less to gygax than meets the eye.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 15 May 2004 04:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Despite the fact that he sometimes tells you MORE than you want to know, Horace is a little mysterious. Also - Broheems/Mr Diamond.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 15 May 2004 04:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Aja

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Saturday, 15 May 2004 04:25 (twenty-two years ago)

you know, i have yet to meet ally, mary and jbr despite the fact that all of them live just across the river from me. perhaps they are not what they seem?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 15 May 2004 04:31 (twenty-two years ago)

They come with a bag of chips.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 15 May 2004 04:33 (twenty-two years ago)

or a lobsterita

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 15 May 2004 04:33 (twenty-two years ago)

You think there's such a thing as lobsteritis?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 15 May 2004 04:34 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah that's me after reading milo's or don weiner's posts when either talks politics.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 15 May 2004 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm pretty mysterious, what with the mask, cape, and hook for a hand.

― NA (Nick A.), Saturday, 15 May 2004 04:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I may not seem mysterious, but I am actually a 45-year old housewife namned Mildred.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 15 May 2004 05:06 (twenty-two years ago)

with mystical powers...

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 15 May 2004 05:15 (twenty-two years ago)

el diablo

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 15 May 2004 05:17 (twenty-two years ago)

el diablo and Dan Regan.

― Arthur (Arthur), Saturday, 15 May 2004 05:23 (twenty-two years ago)

hiya arthur!!! i still owe you some cdrs...

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 15 May 2004 05:26 (twenty-two years ago)

me too you krazy nut, how's teaching?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Saturday, 15 May 2004 05:27 (twenty-two years ago)

DaDa.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 15 May 2004 05:27 (twenty-two years ago)

are you guys on aim?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Saturday, 15 May 2004 05:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like to post on this thread.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Saturday, 15 May 2004 05:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Hiya! Teaching is exhausting but better than driving a motorhome for TV commercials. I'm gonna try and get on aim, I think I'm spacklethehag. I haven't done it for awhile. Amateurist, are you still in Paris?

― Arthur (Arthur), Saturday, 15 May 2004 05:31 (twenty-two years ago)

not as of sunday :(

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 15 May 2004 05:33 (twenty-two years ago)

amateur!st

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 15 May 2004 05:43 (twenty-two years ago)

THAT NED GUY

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Saturday, 15 May 2004 05:48 (twenty-two years ago)

"My weekends are all booked" - Ned

― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 15 May 2004 06:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Me!!! and Francis

― Cacaman Flores, Saturday, 15 May 2004 06:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Aja tells me waaaay more than I need to know.

― NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS REMIND YOU THAT ZERO IS ALSO A NUMBER (ex machina), Saturday, 15 May 2004 06:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean where the hell does Ned go? Is he knocking back cheap beer with Greg Cartwright? Drinking wine with Lisa Gerrard in Europe somewhere? Jetting to Sydney and sleeping with Danni on Saturday and Kylie on Sunday? ALL OF THE ABOVE?

― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 15 May 2004 06:25 (twenty-two years ago)

He's with me. *mysterious nod*

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 15 May 2004 06:41 (twenty-two years ago)

He's with Trayce. *mysterious left index finger inserted repeatedly thru mysterious right index finger and thumb forming a circle*

― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 15 May 2004 06:44 (twenty-two years ago)

trayce plz forgive me

― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 15 May 2004 06:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Hahaha no, I am pissing myself =)

(erm, sorry Ned)

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 15 May 2004 06:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Hanle y

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 15 May 2004 08:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm everywhere and nowhere. And most of my upcoming weekends ARE booked, you damned fops.

El Diablo isn't mysterious to me! But I would say this, having known her for seven years now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 15 May 2004 08:13 (twenty-two years ago)

RJG

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 15 May 2004 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Hanle y, without a doubt.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 15 May 2004 10:17 (twenty-two years ago)

c-man

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 15 May 2004 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Dave Q

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Saturday, 15 May 2004 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

'mysterious' is being used in multiple ways here

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 15 May 2004 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I find the pinefox rather mysterious.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 15 May 2004 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I find ally cook rather mysterious.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 15 May 2004 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I've always found Mr. Jones mysterious.
& God.
& --

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 15 May 2004 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

That Ned Raggett fellow should post more.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 15 May 2004 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, I see someone already got there.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 15 May 2004 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

El Diablo

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 15 May 2004 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Kurt Vonnegut

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 15 May 2004 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know anything about ANY of you people.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 15 May 2004 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Aimless, but you can call me sir.

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 15 May 2004 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

jon williams

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 15 May 2004 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I am all too transparent! I'm just here for the fat chixxx!

http://www.fluxing.net/juliamae/images/parties2004/122_2212.jpg
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― NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS REMIND YOU THAT ZERO IS ALSO A NUMBER (ex machina), Saturday, 15 May 2004 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

― Oliver Pyper (stickthrower), Saturday, 15 May 2004 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Saul Williams.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 15 May 2004 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, so he's not exactly a regular.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 15 May 2004 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd have to say Eisbar or the pinefox.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 15 May 2004 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I must be pretty damn mysterious 'cause I never ever get mentioned on "who is the most [anything] on ILX" threads.

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Saturday, 15 May 2004 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)

i like to think of myself as building a mystery.

― bnw (bnw), Saturday, 15 May 2004 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

zemko.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 15 May 2004 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)

dyson

― dyson (dyson), Saturday, 15 May 2004 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

dysko

― Matt (Matt), Saturday, 15 May 2004 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I must be pretty damn mysterious 'cause I never ever get mentioned on "who is the most [anything] on ILX" threads.

yeah me either. and i post way more than the pinefox!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 15 May 2004 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah zemko!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 16 May 2004 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

ned isn't mysterious; he's captain of the rectal rooter team. flaming butt pirate.

― jhgjh, Sunday, 16 May 2004 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)

El Diablo.

― Markelby (Mark C), Sunday, 16 May 2004 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

ned isn't mysterious; he's captain of the rectal rooter team. flaming butt pirate.

Hm, that's a bit mysterious in turn.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 16 May 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

conner smedley!

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Sunday, 16 May 2004 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

No way - that guy is totally a werewolf.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 16 May 2004 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

but conner's a she = MYSTERIOUS

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Sunday, 16 May 2004 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

The only reason Zemko is mysterious is because NO ONE KNOWS HIS REAL NAME! Actually, I really mean 'I don't know his real name' despite having met him on numerous occasions.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 16 May 2004 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

El Diablo.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 16 May 2004 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Lord Custos

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Sunday, 16 May 2004 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

NO ONE KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT ME!!!

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Sunday, 16 May 2004 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

(...but no one cares...)

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Sunday, 16 May 2004 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

And you are?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 16 May 2004 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

My point exactly.

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Sunday, 16 May 2004 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

But he says his real name IS Rob Zemko!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 16 May 2004 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

robert w. zemko

I was told I know his real name.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 16 May 2004 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

oh nordic u are so wacky with the names

-- prima fassy (giaou...), January 20th, 2004.

ta very much, zemko.

-- the icebox (nordicskill...), January 20th, 2004.

that's actually my real name

-- prima fassy (giaou...), January 20th, 2004.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 16 May 2004 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

He's mean to me, but I like him anyway.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 16 May 2004 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

'mysterious' is being used in multiple ways here

You're confusing "mysterious" and "inexplicable." Although some of you are both.

And it's not like anyone ever nominates me of any of these. *sulks*

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 16 May 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Try being more inexplicable.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 16 May 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

;)

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 16 May 2004 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

i found matt dc a touch mysteriouser when i thought saw him attempting thighslapping! air! drumming! to whatever he was listening to on a southbound northern line latenight train journey two thursdays ago

― prima fassy (mwah), Sunday, 16 May 2004 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha! Well, Genesis are actually a very accomplished band.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 16 May 2004 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

El Diablo

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 16 May 2004 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Who the hell's ever met that Gear fellow or even knows what he looks like? no one! bwahaha

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 17 May 2004 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

A guy in a cowboy hat met you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 May 2004 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

TRACY PEW??!?!?!?

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 17 May 2004 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Gear! v. Geir?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 17 May 2004 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

gear!, obv.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 17 May 2004 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't want to associate Geir with buttsex okay thx bye.
-- El Diablo Robotico (nicolew1...), April 14th, 2004.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 17 May 2004 01:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I have only myself to blame for being associated with the art of the arse fuck

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 17 May 2004 01:24 (twenty-two years ago)

thank not blame surely

― the surface noise of psychotic badassery (electricsound), Monday, 17 May 2004 01:25 (twenty-two years ago)

zenome kistacihon

― slopsymbolic, Monday, 17 May 2004 01:28 (twenty-two years ago)

slopsymbolic OTM

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 May 2004 01:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Who's the most regular mysterious ILXor?

― Sym (shmuel), Monday, 17 May 2004 01:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Who's the most regular mysterious ILXor?

i don't take ex-lax

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 17 May 2004 01:43 (twenty-two years ago)

90 percent of this thread makes no sense to me

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 17 May 2004 04:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd sho like ta kill that Frank Swedehead guy, he knows all my secret plans

― George W. Bush, Monday, 17 May 2004 06:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Ummm, WTF?! I think that must have been after the Fiery Furnaces gig at the Scala... I was very excitable but I'm sure I wasn't drunk enough for thighslapping! air! drumming!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 17 May 2004 07:08 (twenty-two years ago)

don't lie matt.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 17 May 2004 07:22 (twenty-two years ago)

My ninja training has gone to waste.

― Barima (Barima), Monday, 17 May 2004 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

wo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o. mysterEEEus girl. i wanna get close to you.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Monday, 17 May 2004 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

I stand by RJG. But sometimes I wonder about Pashmina!

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

I once combed the Sinister archives just to read RJG and unravel his Mysterie. He's alright.

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 22 June 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

He's Batman?

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

He's Scottish!!!

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 22 June 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

Shades of M. Night Shyamalan!

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

Another highland mystery, Dada. Is he Scottish, is he German, is he just Marcello logged on under a different name?

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

http://metropolis.japantoday.com/xmg/498/Thunderpants.jpg

― Frogm@n Henry, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

something-----------------------------------------

if I had to choose one person who has influenced my life more than any other at all. I would choose myself. if I had to choose another that has changed the course of my life. I'd have to choose someone else. if I had to keep choosing more and more people. I might, eventually, choose macauley culkin. yes. it is amazing, yet it is also sort of true: macauley culkin has affected my life to an extraordinary degree.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

words from the wise RJG

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

huh.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

has your mind been blown, jaymc?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

you know, it never occurred to be that rjg was "mysterious," but then i guess i have never really wondered about him one way or another. he seems like a decent chap, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

he's scary

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

CJ the Unruly is mysterious. RJG is the man I wish I was.

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

You were witness to the birth of Happythighslapping!

― Negativa, True Believer (Sheryl Crow in a Britney costume) (Barima), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

Oh, wow, I remember that Macauley Culkin post, I think. Wonderful.

― kirsten (kirsten), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

As part of my unceasing efforts to initiate a cult of personality in his honor, I nominate M. White, ILE's leading francophone. Who among us has not wondered about the wellsprings of his wit, the source of his horsey aroma, or the saddle burns on his thighs? Why does he carry a quirt? And does the reason involve Condi Rice? Who can say?

If this does not impress you, just wait. Soon I shall be erecting three-story-high portraits of him on the sides of prominent buildings, painted in the style of Soviet realism.

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

I've met Michael.

― Semaphore Burns (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

Lovely chap, but about as mysterious as a monkey in the face.

― Semaphore Burns (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

i knew nobody would pick me.

― jody l'anti-vierge (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

you're pretty mysterious, JBR.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

I don't think you're that mysterious, jody

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

You were originally near the top of my short list, Jody- right behind Ned Raggett.

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

physical challenge

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

I'm probably a little mysterious.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

whatever dudes.

http://www.forbiddenplanetstore.com/acatalog/C4875.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

Actually no, I WILL vote for jody as MOST mysterious!

― Semaphore Burns (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

I would have voted for Amateurist as most mysterious, only I have met him in person. He's still quite mysterious though.

― Semaphore Burns (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

Gear - A guy with a soiled couch who works in reality TV. Mysterious.

(You'd be a lot more mysterious had you never let slip that the guy with the chickenfeed never happened. I still feel let down about that.)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

I think history will show that the soiling of the couch was promptly cleaned up by the soiler, if not the soilee

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

I commend Aimless on his recognition of my tirelss efforts to further the Revolution and promise that in future, when purges require he be re-educated, he will receive the best our gulags have to offer: the softest beatings, the most nutritious starvation, the tepidest cold baths, and the most congenial solitary confinement.

Some small points and rejoinders:

The source of my wit has not been charted but there is reason to speculate that it may be in the Upper Volta or perhaps somewhere in the Grand Canyon of the Tuolomne. Some claim it has no source.

The horsey aroma to which you refer is a great set-up for an equine joke involving Italians, but in the interests of international peace, I will refrain.

Those are not saddle burns.

In an effort to spread some of the wealth around, I have delegated quirt carrying to the State Secretariate for Quirting, Animal Husbandry, and Bestial Midwifery. In any case, as I'm incapable of carrying even so light a thing as a tune, I thought it better not to tempt fate.

I have never met the Chevron supertanker, but if, or rather, when I do, I will take special pains to communicate the depth of your treachery and the breadth of your animus.

Ask Horton.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

This isn't Ask A Drunk!

― Semaphore Burns (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

deangulberry

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

Getting to Know Someone
Else

I. Humans as Social Beings

Our need to interact with our kind, with members of our species is
a basic human need, and the main reason we search for relationships with
others - we want to avoid loneliness.

Loneliness is defined as an absence of social interaction. It is a
feeling of being isolated from desired relationships, and comes in at least
two varieties:

Social loneliness - there is less interpersonal interaction than desired.

Emotional loneliness - there are fewer intimate relationships than desired.

The Effects of Loneliness (over time and when chronic) are as serious
as any other major health threat.

Feelings of worthlessness

Despair

Constant worry/anxiety

Irrational fears

Lack of Concentration

Irritability & anger

Feelings of Guilt

Crying Spells

Feeling tired - Insomnia

Pains in the heart

Poor appetite

Digestive problems

Low libido

Eating disorders

Serious Illness

Proness to accidents

The Sources of Loneliness are mostly social ones - failures due
to inadequate socialization.

Occasionally, biology thwarts our need to be intimate, but this is
rare in comparison to social factors.

One of the main functions of education is to instruct young people
in social integration. Interestingly, our economy, based on the principles
of competition, often threatens social integration.

Failure to Integrate (feel a part of a group).

(see Philip Slater, The Pursuit of Loneliness - modern society makes
intimacy difficult).

Size issues, standards for beauty, standards for performance are part
of this conspiracy.

Frequent Geographic Mobility - moving for the sake of employment.

Childhood Experiences & Sadnesses - feeling abandoned during childhood.

II. Fulfillment through Intimacy

It is the "natural" impulse for children to be congenial and conciliatory.
Somehow, through socialization, we remove a great deal of the child's natural
friendliness, replacing it with suspicion and doubt.

Lonely people relate casually, but have few, if any, intimate relationships.

Think for a minute - how many people do you personally know on whom
you can really count for comfort, aid, assistance, or sympathy. I personally
have two such confidants, and one of them is very old.

If healthy, fulfilled people operate from a base of intimacy, it isn't
any wonder that therapy is such a thriving business. The need for frequent
and consistent intimacy is well documented in social research:

Harry Harlow's monkey studies pointed out that isolation and lack of intimacy
leads to mental and physical health difficulties.

Spitz's studies of orphaned refugee babies documented 'failure to thrive",
in which babies died from lack of emotional attention.

Intimacy and Well-Being - the good news is that feelings of contentment,
passion and fulfillment come from intimacy. Intimate relationships
enhance, and even define, our sense of ourselves and also act as a buffer
against the cold, cruel world.

Perils of Intimacy - the bad news is that by sharing our lives
with another person, we open ourselves up for hurt - bitter, painful breakups,
hurt feelings, disappointments. Nothing hurts like an intimate relationship
going bad. How do we maintain our individuality and freedom and still commit
ourselves to an intimate relationship? This is a risk that we want to take,
and with careful planning and the right kind of communication, we can almost
always win.

The Nature of Intimacy

The Meaning of Intimacy Intimacy - latin intimus - innermost
and deepest.

Like love, there's no agreed upon definition, but Erikson comes close:

Intimacy is defined as the capacity to commit oneself to concrete
affiliations and partnerships and to develop the ethical strength to abide
by such commitments, even though they may call for significant sacrifices
and compromises.

Intimacy includes trust, openness, sharing, mutual trust, self-abandon,
and commitment.

It is an orientation to the other & the relationship, where a person's
thinking, feelings, & behavior are focused on the other. There is caring
and concern for the other, and where sexuality is a part of the relationship,
it is focused on the other more that on one's self.

Intimacy and Equity (that a person gets their fair share of rewards
and costs of a relationship). People strive to maintain a system of fairness
such that each person in the system receives rewards that reflect his/her
contribution. In order to find love and affection and caring, a person
has to be willing to give more than they get. True love comes when
a person is self-sufficient in every way, then allows another to do for
term things they can do for themselves.

Characteristics of Growing Intimacy in Relationships

Interaction occurs more often, for longer periods of time, in a wider range
of settings.

When separated, the partners attempt to restore proximity and feel more
comfortable when it is regained.

Partners disclose secrets, share physical intimacies, and are more open
in criticizing and praising each other.

The partners develop agreed-on goals, efficient means of communication,
and stable patterns of interaction.

Investment in the relationship increases, enhancing its importance in the
couple's lives and the feeling that their personal interests are tied in
with the well-being of the relationship. With increasing investment comes
greater commitment.

Couple comes to define themselves in terms of the other person - a certain
"we-ness" develops.

Love, trust, and caring become stronger.

The relationship becomes viewed in a mystical way, a special one.

Types of Intimacy

Emotional Intimacy- listening and caring

Social Intimacy - spending time together

Sexual Intimacy - sex is exciting prospect

Intellectual Intimacy - mutual thinking through

Recreational Intimacy - similar interests in activities

Intimacy can be Self-Sustaining as long as a couple knows and uses
Effective Communication

- Cognitive Information - the content, the words

- Affective information - the style, the manner Verbal and Nonverbals

Tips for getting through to the other person.

Be Specific

Express feelings & perceptions-don't issue facts or demands

Check your body language

Allow for the other person's Perspective

Use Feedback

Listening

Pay attention

Read body language

Uncover hidden meanings

Ask for Clarification

Maintain an accepting attitude interaction is more rewarding when such
talk is mostly positive.

Mutual Self-Disclosure and Getting What You Want

Telling Secrets - Should we be Completely Honest???

I love you, but I have the hots for that redhead.

How do I look? A little chubby, but sweet.

Do We Ever Really Know another person?? Have to know oneself first.

Establishing Ground Rules - Structuring the relationship.

1. What goals do you want to achieve in the relationship

2. Establishing Roles and Power - Scripting Role Expectations - A<->
B

Complementary Roles - each partner enacts the role and carries out the
responsibilities es not covered by the other.

Reciprocal roles - mutual give and take

Of course, since intimacies are often exchanged in dyads, there's hardly
ever any objective way to measure what we are getting - or if what we are
getting is the right amount.

Standards of satisfaction - How do we know when we are happy?

Relationship Rules are most effective when:

each person has similar backgrounds, goals, beliefs, and values

the rules have been discussed and negotiated

the rules are realistic and comfortable for both

the rules are periodically reviewed and updated. - this is known as relationship
maintenance.

III. Meeting and Getting to Know Others

It is a good idea for mature single people to maintain a Shopping List
of important relationship characteristics that the one should possess:

1. Personal appearance - height, weight, hair, eyes

2. Personality traits - intelligence, dependability, sense of humor, integrity,
honesty.

3. Economic potential - career potential or attainment, future prospects.

4. Beliefs and values - such as attitudes toward sex-roles, religious beliefs,
and the values that guide the individual's behavior (morals).

5. Special interests and abilities - athletics, music, conversation alists

6. Your secret hopes and desires - a fantastic lover, someone who will
take you around the world, whatever.

It is probably a good idea to write all this down in list form and keep
it handy for reference.

Forming an Impression - First impressions are formed in a matter
of seconds and are difficult to change. These are mental ratings of others,
formed by stereotypes, body language, a person's dress - snob, snooty,
macho man, know-it-all, pleasant, nice, sweet, sexy, hot.

We Make Mental Ratings by relying on our perception of three factors:

1. Physical appearance - dress, grooming, stature

2. Person's behavior - readily observed behaviors we are willing to attribute
to the person's self or personality.

a. External situational determinants

b. Internal dispositional determinants

3. Interaction possibilities - is this one worth continuing with.

We often ignore those who have no power to meet our needs or influence
our welfare - and make great effort to seek out those who do.

Common Sources of Error in Sizing Up People.

1. Overgeneralizing - we too quickly arrive at a global evaluation of the
person without adequate information.

2. Relying on our own Implicit Personality Theory: -if we believe people
are basically honest, we will approach new relationships as if this specific
person is basically honest.

3. Assumed Similarity - we tend to use ourselves as a reference point,
assuming that other people are pretty much like we are in terms of feelings,
beliefs, and values.

4. Use of Stereotypes - an overly simplified but widely shared belief about
some group of people that is applied to all members of the group without
considering the differences among them. - All black people have rhythm,
all white people have middle class values, all women are scatterbrained,
all latinos are hot tempered.

5. The Halo Effect - when first impressions distort our perceptions of
the person - What a sweet person!!

6. Fundamental Attribution Error - a tendency to assume that people's behaviors
arise from dispositional factors rather than situational factors.

7. Logical Error (if pretty, then sweet) and Leniency effect (giving the
benefit of the doubt)

C. What Attracts - What Attracts Us to Others?

1. Physical Attractiveness - Beauty/Handsomeness, in conjunction with other
desirable traits - dimples, cute butt, sexy voice, comforting manner, intelligence,
compassion.

2. Similarity - after some conversation, a heightened sense of happiness
with the find - intelligence, dependability , warmth, honesty, and mental
health. Also, similarity in background - wealth, beliefs, interests, values,
and social background.

3. Complementarity - traditionally men have been valued for their economic
success or potential, while women for their beauty. NEED COMPLEM ENTARITY,
however is simply filling in some of our gaps.

4. Mutual Liking - the biggest one - we like people who like us back. Sincere
displays of affection go a long way. Studies show that we are more attracted
to those whose fondness of us starts out neutral and grows over time.

5. Competence and Special Skills - we are attracted to people who are at
least moderately competent at something. People who are vastly superior
at many things we ought to be able to do ourselves are a turn off.

IV. Developing a Relationship

First Stage: Initial Meeting or Encounters - before engagement in small
talk. Most people enjoy meeting others - interacting, learning about how
other people think.
How do we go about meeting people - check 'em out? In our society -
we have very definite NORMS (also known as behavioral guidelines) that
govern initial meetings. In our society, it is a norm violation to
initiate conversations with strangers. We DISTRUST strangers. Speaking
to strangers involves RISK of ridicule and rejection.
Therefore: In the beginning of an ENCOUNTER we tend to be a little reserved,
hesitant, and uncertain. All this DIMINISHES as we get to know the other.

Notice that our intentions are almost always disguised: A person might
be thinking, "I'm Horny - I want Sex Now", but he/she manages to move close
to another person he/she finds attractive and summon up an innocuous comment.
It is a bit corny, but we find ourselves saying things like

Isn't this great dip?

Do you like world music?

Hi, I'm Emil.

Some kind of blather to get the ball rolling. We tend to start with
small talk and move gradually toward more depth and breadth of conversation
- ending with fairly revealing statements (revelations) about ourselves.

Yes, it is good stuff. A little cilantro would help it though. I
had this same thing on a recent trip to California. Really, business or
pleasure? Well, a little of both - I work for the phone company ...

and in about an hour ...

I go to Gold's gym, the people there are serious about staying healthy.
Me too, but I'm too shy to workout in front of all those people. Tell you
what - Why don't you come with me sometime - say next weekend?

It is absolutely essential that we know ourselves, our interests - desires
- hopes - dreams, before we attempt to initiate potentially serious relationships.
Otherwise we'll be led around by our baser instincts. Make that list,
keep a diary, learn your own likes and dislikes, your own questions about
things in general. This will be of immense service to you later, when you
meet potential sweetie pies.

Tasks to be performed during the initial encounter
1. Determine the person's QUALIFIERS Does this person hold the characteristics
you find attractive, appealing, desirable? Check your list?

2. Determine whether the person is CLEARED for an encounter (isn't "taken"
by another, or committed to someone else, who has the same intentions that
you have.

3. Find an OPENER that engages the person's attention Man, It has been
hot this summer. How about them Indians! Do you come here often? What's
a girl like you doing in a nice place like this? Be ready, if you are not
the first to Open to respond with FOLLOW-UP OPENERS.

4. Finding an INTEGRATING TOPIC that interests both parties and keeps
interaction going. Through small talk, we cover a lot of social territory.
It is called small talk because it is a small world. Any two people, when
motivated to do so, can find they have plenty in common. Birthdays, Aunt
Ednas, visits to the same city, - It is the Art of Conversation, and it
requires a good measure of self-confidence.

Should you decide that this person is not for you, you will need a set
of CLOSERS - remarks that will end the encounter with a minimum of abrasiveness.
But be careful!

Q: Where were you when John Lennon was shot?

A: In one of my mother's ovaries, I guess?

CLOSERS are also used when time is up, you have to go, but would like to
extend: I really must be going, but I enjoyed our conversation. You
seem like a nice person, Call me up sometime. If you'll call me, I'll take
you up on that workout at Gold's.
Small Talk is very important.

It isn't What You Say, as much as how you say it and how you listen.

Practice listening on your friends.

Appropriate head nods, Smiling at the right time, "ahuh", "me too",
"Really!"

Small talk is supposed to be informal, warm, inviting, and a little
titillating.

5. After evaluation of the encounter thus far, if this one still seems
appealing - project a COME-ON SELF (a rewarding self) that induces the
other to continue the initial encounter and be receptive to future ones.

Move in closer when she talks, make plenty of eye contact, and use the
person's name once in a while ("That's an interesting point, Sarah),
and if you feel safe enough - try a touch or two on non sensual body points
("Are you a piano player? You have such long, delicate fingers" - touching
as you say it).

6. If the person passes the initial screen test, Schedule a SECOND MEETING
in order to continue the relationship. "I have really enjoyed meeting you.
What would you think of going out sometime. You are so easy to talk to."
The Second Meeting should be in a setting that is a little more intimate,
just a little more!
Encounters are the starting point for building intimate relationships as
we've just seen.

Self Presentation in Encounters

Impression Management - We work hard to make favorable impressions
with those we want to impress - those we value. Impression Management is
an activity, a task that we actively pursue. We try to control the impression
we make by attending to how we look, what we say.

IV. Developing Intimacy From Encounters to Relationships

Very few encounters are pursued beyond the initial meeting - because
of time limitations, perceived incompatibility, or other reasons. We have
no responsibility to continue to see others in order to make them happy.
There has been no investment as yet.

However - often there is INEQUITY in such relationships.

The PRINCIPLE OF LEAST INTEREST is always at work while relationships
are forming

Least Interest means that the person with the least interest in continuing
the relationship is in the most advantageous position to dominate the form
that the relationship will take.

(That's why intimacy is so difficult).

When attempting to UPGRADE an encounter to the status of relationship
(i.e., "We are seeing each other". "We are a thing") Ground Rules are negotiated
(what each person will contribute, and what each will get from it). These
ground rules are hardly ever verbalized - and there is the rub! Unexpressed
expectations can and do lead to misunderstandings, disappointments and
malfunctions.

Social Exchange Theory maintains that the rewards minus the costs of
a relationship will determin whether or not it is continued.

If costs are percieved by either person to be greater than rewards
- it'll end.

Exchange theory uses economic terms, such as Investment, Building an
Equity in a relationship, Rewards, Costs, Profits, Losses.

At first, we tend to stay in relationships that are more rewarding than
they are costly

Rewards can vary in the form they take:

We may like the sex, or the financial security that might result.

We may like doing things for our new sweetie. We may enjoy the intellectual
stimulation.

Costs can also vary - the loss of personal freedom that comes with budding
commitment, which has nothing to do with the other person specifically.

Or our new sweetie can have problems that embarrass us or gross us
out.

After a relationship is formed, we tend to stay if either:
The rewards for staying are greater than the costs of staying

The costs of leaving are greater than the costs of staying

Over time, we tend to INVEST in the relationship, delaying gratification,
building up equity - so that we can cash in at a later date. Both persons
in a relationship tend to try to keep a balance of accounts for rewards
between each other.

If one person does to much (makes the relationship too rewarding) for
the other, these rewards can become a cost. Nobody likes to get into debt
- because payback is a drag.

Some other useful terms in Social Exchange Theory:

Market Value = your set of characteristics / What are They???

Comparison Levels - What you have (in terms of the other person) and what
you feel you deserve. These are the standards against which we evaluate
our present encounters an relationships.

Comparisons can be based on Experience

Comparisons can be based on alternatives we perceive as open to us.

The Toll of a Negative Self-Concept

Perhaps the greatest tragedy in the development of an individual is
the development of a negative self-concept. It is a way to control the
individual, to make you and me believe that we are just normal, nothing
special - or worse - we are substandard - too fat, too skinny, too short,
ugly hair, pasty skin, talk funny, walk funny, not very smart, too smart
for our own good - there are agents at work right now, trying to tear down
the positive images we have of our abilities and qualities.

Ever wonder how a relatively plain looking person can have magnetism
and grace and charm and wit? Would you go out with someone who really thought
they were nothing special.

Being a Rewarding (not Flattering) Person

"Before you can really love another person, you have to love yourself.
You must understand that you are the hottest thing on two legs. Those lips,
those eyes. Experts advise that we should remind ourselves of the good
things about our bodies and ourselves. Accentuate the positive, eliminate
the negative, don't mess with Mr. In Between. We must learn to sincerely
love ourselves. Then we can concentrate on loving someone else.
Forward to Getting Involved with Another
Person

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

yeah, I don't know what mysterious means either.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

deangulberry

Formerly quite mysterious, but now much less so!

Cozen!

― Semaphore Burns (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

don't try it.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

cozen

― Semaphore Burns (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

deangulberry is very sweet (and handsome!)

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Actually no, I WILL vote for jody as MOST mysterious!

thanks!

i pick elvis telecom.

― jody l'anti-vierge (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

~~Next time we meet, Ima throw some monkeys in your face, adam.~~

I'll second Jody.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

Getting Involved - Beginning
to Build Relationships

Almost all relationships begin with some type of Dating, of which
there are two types of dating:

assortative (for fun and experience)

exclusive dating (the precursor to commitment, engagement, marriage)

Traditionally, dating generally occurs in the Marriage Market -
out there, where everyone can be had for the right currency.
Dating is window shopping.

Courtship will be the bargaining period.

Marriage is the finalized deal.
Each dating participant puts on a face or mask by attempting
to project personalities that will please and attract the exact type of
person they are interested in. This is known as pluralistic deceit in
that most people are insecure enough to doubt the legitimacy of their real
selves. Consequently, we tend to put on the dog by outwardly attempting
to be the kind of person with whom, we think, the other person would want.

Finding people to date requires some understanding of certain sociological
principles, if we are to be successful at it, as measured by the Selection
of a Marriage Partner at the end of our dating experience. Keep in mind
that approximately 94% of all Americans find someone to marry at some time
during their lives.

The first of these principles is Propinquity, which refers to
the tendency of people to meet and marry those with whom they have the
most contact. So we find mates in school, in the neighborhood, at church,
and so on (-this puts to rest the notion of there being a "Mr. Right" -
or "one and only" just for us. We make that happen). We also find prospects
through friends, at work, fix ups, at bars, laundromats, and the grocery
store.

Similarity, Complementarity, and Compatibility are also important.
On a personal level, we are interested in people who are to a great extent
like ourselves (similarity), with perhaps a single outstanding characteristic
in an area where we are weaker (complementarity). There are thousands of
people who might meet these two criteria, but the third - compatibility
- is a matter of personal taste. Since so much is riding on the proper
selection, there are strong social norms surrounding who we date, and therefore
who we have a chance at falling in love with. These sociocultural factors
ultimately influence our choice of mates:
a. Exogamy refers to the pressure to marry outside specified
social groups (outside gender, outside immediate family).

b. Endogamy refers to the pressure to marry inside specified
social groups (within our age group, within religious group, within our
race or ethnicity, and within our social class). This principle is also
sometimes referred to as homogamy (refers to pressure to marry people
similar to ourselves in social background, values, and beliefs).
We begin assortative dating for experience and to develop our social skills,
and gradually move toward exclusive dating. Over time in as dating becomes
more exclusive, the layers of falsehood are stripped away (erode away)
and we begin to know the other person more as we show more of ourselves.

The Process of Dating into Courtship

We are initiated early into dating as preparation for marriage:

in preschool we see marriage as heterosexual.

we pay attention to what mommies and daddies do.

we fantasize about being married, and play family.

marriage is taught to us as an attractive and desirable status.

marriage is personalized - when you are a mommy, you can be mean to
your children.

we are quickly pushed together in mixed sex play in school and in family
rituals.

we develop crushes (these are encouraged), and have imaginary steadies.

in adolescence we learn the cues that will serve us later in solving our
gender identity crisis.

The Functions of Dating are Recreation, Social Skills Building, Status
Achievement

and Providing for Mate Selection.

Dating:

Teaches us about members of the opposite sex - how to get along with them.

Allows us to improve communication and social skills

We learn to enhance our social attractiveness and promote intimate interactions.

We learn about ourselves through dating, get some understanding of our
market value,

We learn to establish standards for later mate selection.

Sexual exploration can occur and some degree of gratification can be had

We determine compatibility with different partners and eventually select
one.

Changing Dating Patterns in the last 20 years:

young people congregate in larger groups today.

there is less paring, and less use of friends to manipulate/insinuate relationships.

peer group standards in choosing dates are somewhat weaker.

there is more use of media standards -how do we know that breakin' up is
hard to do?

There are Gender differences in the initial dating interaction: Men feel
pressure to "put out" financially Women feel pressure to "put out" sexually
While nobody claims to like this system, it is titillating and takes on
a "game" nature.
Males approach dating from a psychosexual orientation

while females approach dating from a psychoaffectional orientation.

Little in the way of trust is shared early in the dating process. Both
males and females fall back on traditional norms, developing skills in
the playing of complex "games" to manage themselves.

Traditional dating has its critics

it is sexist leaving little choice

it is superficial as all encounters are.

it is deceitful - we put our best effort

it is unfair and arouses anxiety - who calls, who waits - etc.

Problems in dating

many find difficulty in getting dates

initiative is still largely up to the male, leaving the female in a submissive
stance

almost everyone has had aversive dating experiences

young people lack many of the social skills necessary to successfully date

violence and date rape are increasing problems

As we move into an exclusive dating relationship more investment is put
into the relationship - matched in equal parts by each partner.

Friends who are not in serious relationships tend to be pushed away,
replaced by "couples" who will do "couples" things recreationally . We
have couples over for dinner parties, instead of catching a buzz with our
friends down at the tavern.

Engagement and/or Cohabitation - a period of extended exclusivity.

Exclusivity gives time to agree on and work out any fundamental living
arrangements - finances, place of residence, spending patterns.

Provides time to re-examine the goals and means of the relationship.

Allows each other's families time to adjust to the eventual marriage of
the two.

Provides time to make a final check of each other in terms of common interests,
values, goals, comfort in each other's company.

Provides time to work out final details of the wedding.

Sex and the Single Person

AIDS has hardly put a damper on sex among some segments.

-the average number of sex partners over a lifetime for women is four
(2-10 with the bell shaped curve in 1990), which is up from 1 (0-3 with
the bell shaped curve in 1950).

Some have cited the increasing proliferation of pornography in every
element of media as an indication that there is actually less dyadic, meaningful
sexuality occurring among young adults.

As a culture, we seem to have moved from a dominant value of abstinence
prior to marriage (pre-1950s), through the double standard of the 1950s
and 60s), to the current value of sex with affection (love, in or out of
marriage, is what's important). Recreational sex was never a dominant value
in our society, despite claims to the opposite.

While sex is viewed as pleasurable (almost recreational at times), the
dominate value in our society seems to tend toward sex with affection
(love or something like it). That is, we all agree that this type of sexual
relationship is the ideal, and that the reality falls somewhat short of
the goal.

Booby Traps on the Singles Front

Sexual Exploitation -Date Rape: 20% to 30% of all college students

The Married Person Gambit - Married men are much more available and
require less attention.

Forward to Falling in Love

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

Elvis Telecom is another mysterious person whom I have met but somehow remains mysterious.

― Semaphore Burns (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

This isn't Ask A Drunk!

That does it! This time I have gone too far!

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

I was going to pick Amateurist for realz, but didn't want to give him the satisfaction. Plus he hangs around with Nick A and jaymc, so how mysterious can he be, really?

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

can a person really be mysterious if you don't want to know anything about them?

― g e o f f (gcannon), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

Somehow I'm reminded of the Robert Benchley piece about traveling alone, in which he says that perhaps it's a good idea to present yourself to your fellow passengers (presumably this was on an ocean liner) as a Man of Mystery.

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

i would say dean is pretty mysterious. but amateurist, like, i dunno, he has to be the #1 most mysterious ILXor to me. what is his story?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

I'll let you know once I see him do karaoke on Friday.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

I can't call amst mysterious, I bought CDs and DVDs off him once.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

I can't really think of anyone on ilx I find very mysterious, but maybe I'm just being forgetful.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

Kyle

― Semaphore Burns (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

i've always thought of amateurist as the pinefox of north america

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

Alex In SF

― Semaphore Burns (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

gygax

― Semaphore Burns (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

I'll let you know once I see him do karaoke on Friday.

Perfect way go from Man of Mystery to Man of *Yawn* in one night.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

Nicole, my orig. answer was you!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

Nicole

― Semaphore Burns (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

M. White -- I dunno, I've seen Hstencil do a karaoke version of "Crazy Train," and it was a sight to behold.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

Alex In SF

Except he's more of a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, really.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

He's a ridmenigma!

― Semaphore Burns (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

i might not be able to make it for karaoke on friday night.

HOW MYSTERIOUS

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

That is awfully mysterious.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

adam

― Semaphore Burns (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

Nicole seems less mysterious because her name is in her e-mail address and also I know her name is Nicole whereas I have no clue what Amateurist's real name is.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

Are you still a mystery to yourself, adam?

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

i know amst's name! it's a great name.

― jody l'anti-vierge (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

If you're talking Mystery as in Eucharistic sacrament, I guess it's gotta be A Nairn.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

A sweet little mystery, yes.

xxp-Amateurist has a wonderful name! And I feel really smug for knowing it!

― Semaphore Burns (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

The Mysteries of ILXORia

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

Ambrose is quite mysterious

― Semaphore Burns (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

The last person I thought mysterious, here, was toreneko. I think that is true.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

Neds met her tho! And Andrew, I think?

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

I call on Adam crankypants being mysterious, even though I talk to him all the damn time, because I find it strange that he lives in the next street over and I never see him at the shops or at FAPs and have never met him... hmmmmm *rubs chin thoughtfully*

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

Many of the Melbourne ILXors met Toraneko when I came over, so no, not that mysterious. She and I chat on e-mail every so often, she's doing well. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

LeCoq could be mysterious, but I think he might be as rich as he says. He probably does snowy-type sports. There is always the idea that it's a lie. Too consistent to believe that now.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

Trayce, do you think Adam might really be you, posting in a trance?

― estela (estela), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

Oooh! Theres a strange thought! Heh.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

the little parenthetical bit next to my name is an anagram for my full name, btw

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

I've tried to work that out before!

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

I wish I had a comma in my name.

― estela (estela), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

I keep reading this thread as "Who's the most mysteriously regular ILXor?" and its freaking me out!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

alex in sf is travis bickle?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

he's more like Chuckie, grown big

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha wait I'm not mysterious at ALL.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

Gear's name is Jim Nausngicllhtu.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

Your love of Hype Williams is mysterious.

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

Justin Mullichang!

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

Jim Cthulu Nangisnksdnakjfnd!

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

"Your love of Hype Williams is mysterious."

No it's NOT! It's blatantly obvious!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

it's mysguided

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

NOT as misguided as your love for ELLIOT GOULD!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

Don't even say that name, it's too exciting for me to even read it.

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

You must be related to him cuz no one without his blood floating in their veins could think that dipshit could act.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

"snowy"-type sports, heh

― g e o f f (gcannon), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

You must be related to him cuz no one without his blood floating in their veins could think that dipshit could act.

I WISH!

Don't make me mindhunt you!

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

i don't even know who hype williams is. elliot is good!

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

he was the GEORGE CLOONEY of the '70s!

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

More like the Pauly Shore of the '70s.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

thats fucking ruined it for me

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

elliot in the '70s was teh hottness.

― jody l'anti-vierge (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

anyway you're all wrong, he was the eric bogosian

― jody l'anti-vierge (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

There was a girl at our local farmers' market selling crudely-hewn homemade soap who looked exactly like Pauly Shore.

― estela (estela), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

Either way he was a mostly shit actor in mostly shit movies. Hype Williams is CERTAINLY not going to cast him in Belly 2!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

estela

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

adam! jbr! you love elliot gould too?

this is so exciting

the long goodbye!

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

I like Elliott Gould! California Split!

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

yes, the long goodbye.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

I want to be Elliott Gould (when he wasn't crap)

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

I really can't believe anyone watched The Long Goodbye and liked it. Even the fact Jim "Stick to Writing" Bouton's performance can't redeem that movie for me.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

California Split is almost as bad.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

Both among the best films ever.

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

the long goodbye!

one of my favorite movies!

― jody l'anti-vierge (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

ALEX IN SF OTM AS USUAL (SLUG BROS 4 EVA)

― 86 HAVE YOU EVER NEEDED SOMEONE SO BAD DEF LEPPARD (deangulberry), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

The Long Goodbye is wonderful!

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

the bit where Sterling Hayden wades into the ocean is great!

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

Philip Marlowe: Nobody cares but me.
Terry Lennox: Well that's you, Marlowe. You'll never learn, you're a born loser.
Philip Marlowe: Yeah, I even lost my cat.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

When people are angrily looking for things they've mislaid I like to call them 'a loser' then argue with them that I was being literal and that it wasn't intended as an insult. It doesn't seem to help their search any.

― estela (estela), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

and when you say "search me", that means...

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

Yes, it does.

― estela (estela), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

those are both awesome movies! elliot gould is such a weird movie star, i mean i think it's joke that he was actually a movie star, right? but i like him.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 June 2005 03:48 (twenty years ago)

why pick "can jung shill it, mu?" as your anagram when you could have

ILL CAJUN GUNSMITH
CALLING HIM UNJUST
JUST NULL MICHIGAN
JAIL MUNCHING SLUT
INSTALL MUNICH JUG
NINJA GULCH LITMUS or
JAM LUNCH LINGUIST?

i actually really hope yr real name is JULIUS "GLITCH" MANN.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 June 2005 04:22 (twenty years ago)

Gear, you're...JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE?

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 04:23 (twenty years ago)

i like ill cajun gunsmith the best.

― jody l'anti-vierge (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 23 June 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)

http://travel.nostalgiaville.com/Louisiana/batonrouge/br185.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 June 2005 05:38 (twenty years ago)

d00d ... anonymize more. you're googlable, wif a bit of innernet anagramming.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 23 June 2005 05:48 (twenty years ago)

i came up with a couple possibilities, but couldn't really figure it out.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 June 2005 05:51 (twenty years ago)

john, you on AIM?

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 23 June 2005 05:52 (twenty years ago)

hi dere!

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Thursday, 23 June 2005 06:47 (twenty years ago)

remy! i'm actually going to bed now, but for future reference, my AIM name is "sanjaymcd."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 June 2005 06:50 (twenty years ago)

Dr. Morbius

― youn, Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

gygax!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Dr. Morbius
-- youn (younno...) (webmail), June 23rd, 2005 12:52 PM. (later)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

gygax!
-- mookieproof (mookieproo...) (webmail), June 23rd, 2005 12:54 PM. (mookieproof) (later)

I recently saw these two IN THE SAME ROOM!

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

was it at a baseball game?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

M. White

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

the sheer quantity of wr1ghts is mysterious

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

Mandee

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

I have actually met many of these mysterious ILXors!

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

They were supposed to have done this, mookieproof, but it, alas, did not happen.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

i cant be mysterious, with my 24-hour webcam, and all

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

me too, adam!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

Webcam!!!!????

Rosemary is rather mysterious, actually.

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

actually, rosemary is kinda mysterious

mookieproof is mysterious

so is adam

what the hell, you are all sooo mysterious.

I told a dude he was mysterious when I was drunk and I think he thought I was hitting on him.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

Leon is pretty mysterious. about all i know is that she's a red wings fan.

xp i am about as mysterious as the day is long

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

I agree that I am mysterious. You'll NEVER catch me giving anything away on a public message board. NEVER.

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

(THAT WAS IRONY!)

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

n/a

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

I saw (and maybe touched) n/a.

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

things i know about tha nordicskilla:
brit
bay area
mysteriously handsome
i have raided his slsk folder but can't remember details apart from good

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Did I feel mysterious?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

oh, married (xp)

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

those are the only things I know about whats-his-name, too. except he sent me some good christmas pressies with the ILX exchange thing. I know that, too. The only real thing I know about mookieproof is that he thinks I have,like, a soul-penetrating gaze!!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

EVERYONE THINKS THAT

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

Why do I think I have seen Mookieproof's naked chest???

The internet is CRAZY!

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

that damn gift exchange! I never received my swag ;(

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

things i know about tha nordicskilla:
brit
bay area
mysteriously handsome
i have raided his slsk folder but can't remember details apart from good
oh, married

Some of these things are debatable!

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

Did I feel mysterious?

I don't remember feeling you, but I greatly enjoyed listening to your and Sarah's delighful little accents! I'd like to talk like that!

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

I know that Adam is from EDGWARE or something, oh and that he's jewish, and that his wife is from indiana. or they met in Indiana, or something.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha! OMG

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

I told a dude he was mysterious when I was drunk and I think he thought I was hitting on him.

you weren't?

― Another Allnighter (sexyDancer), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

Actually, we met in norwich! ---

NORWICH - c/d s&d, etc.

Otherwise, correct.

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

was i wrong on all of those?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

no one meets in indiana!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

luna's the most mysterious, so I'm informed. Anyway:

I See More in a Rain
I Moan, "Renee is Air"
I'se Ear Noir Meanie
Erin Arse Nam E-I-E-I-O
Simone in Rear, AIEE!!!

― Ian Riese-Moraine eats nation-states for breakfast! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

No, I wasn't hitting on the dude, he really is mysterious, like the sphinx - I've known him for a year and I don't know much about him

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Adam, I am American, I don't have an accent.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

You have a little twang.

I'm foreign, I pick up on these things.

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

I'm foreign, btw.

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

My name is unfortunately terrible for anagramming, since ten of my fourteen letters are consonants and four of those ten are the letter N.

This is the best I have been able to come up with:

NON-HUNG CHIN JAM

You know, as opposed to do the chin jams you get in when you're not hanging from something.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

n/a are you from richmond?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

Nick, you have a vaguely French/Yugoslavian/Indian accent. Just a trace, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

No sir, not from Richmond. My family is from Florida, but I moved around a lot, mostly outside of the U.S. I don't have an accent, adam is crazy.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

Dammit, I am losing my mystery!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

A slight drawl. VERY charming.

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

I'm not southern, I'm just mildly retarded.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

I don't think adam is that mysterious

poor Gear :(

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

wait--northern or southern florida?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

southern gentleman!!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

I don't think adam is that mysterious

MEAN

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

Central Florida - think Orlando.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

All right, I'm thinking. Now what?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

Make a wish.

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

foundation

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha, made you think.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

Adam wants to be flirted with. Tell him he’s mysterious!!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

No, no you're wrong about that. I don't like flirting. At all.

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

adam is mysterious ;)

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

okay, i believe you. orlando has no accent.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

Americans can't hear their own accents.

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

thats weird, i can hear mine

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

adam has inscrutable Scottish ways

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

of doing what?

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

does adam sound like groundskeeper willie?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

gygax says I sound like a sexy woman

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

but honestly, when has that guy ever been right about anything?

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

ahem

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

what?

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

wow, this i gotta hear

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

adam is not scottish

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

sorry, i was just clearing my throat.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

your bearded throat

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

~~then he's crap?~~

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

adam let me hear girly voice

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

I wish I could help you. Please look elsewhere.

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

Until last summer I could've been the most mysterious, because maybe I just faked all those photos, and maybe Finland doesn't even exist, but then Mark H. came to visit here, and now he can unfortunately prove my existence. But maybe he just met a hologram, or...

Nah, who am I kidding, I don't think I have a mysterious bone in me.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

Oh Tuomos...oh no. "I don't have a mysterious bone in me"? Oh no.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

Huh? Did I say something wrong?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

"mysterious bone"

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I was talking about a bone... You know, the white things that keep us walking. And it's a mysterious one. What the hell are you thinking about?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

You know, the white things that keep us walking

Rocks of crack?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, "walking" as when Mike Meyers as Lothar would say to his circle of tribesmen: "That is a good idea. But it is a new idea and therefore we fear it. You might as well question why we worship Golgar the Many-headed One,* or why we walk with women."

*I'm not sure what their god's name really was.

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

The white things that keep me walking include bones, ice cream, ghosts, smiles, sheep, clouds, summer dresses and humble dreams, but not crack!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

the main mystery i need Tuomas to clear up is how he's dancing with the woman from the Arcade Fire two 'what do you look like's' ago...

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

Huh? I can't remember posting any pics of me dancing... What did it look like?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

maybe Finland doesn't even exist

When I was about 5 years old I got a globe as a present. I saw Finland and asked my Dad why it was so called, seeing as it was actually quite fat. He told me "Ah, that's because it's not 'thin'-land, but 'fin'-land. Fin is another word. It means fat". I believed him. Years later, when I was maybe 9 or 10, I was at school and my teacher went round the class asking everyone to say an adjective. I decided to show off my knowledge of this obscure adjective and told her "fin". She said "No, we've already had 'thin'". I said "No, 'fin'. It's another work. It means fat". The teacher made me get a dictionary and in front of the whole class I discovered that my Dad was guilty of pointless lies to small children, and that I was the object of much ridicule. Fucking Finland. I wish it didn't exist.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

Also adam's americanophilia is so great that his favorite team is pwned by an American.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

fancy a skype ilxors

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

yes

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

"adam"

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

jocelyn

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

"Gaylord"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

who is the most mysterious regular ilxor?

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

things i know about jocelyn:
female
chicago?
interest in russian demographics

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

Comics!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

not chicago, but close. chicago in spirit.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

The server is 6.66666666667% too busy to show Tuomas dancing

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

Who is the most mysterious regular what?
Who is the most mysterious what ILXor?
Who is the most what regular ILXor?

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

also maybe jocelyn is attractive and bowls?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

(I just now picked up on the oxymoron in this thread title.)

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

Do you mean this pic, Mookie?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/PICT0076.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

no maybe about it, mookie.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

who is cozen?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

jocelyn stayed in aberdeen.

I'm OK

― c/n (Cozen), Thursday, 23 June 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

indeed!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

Oh, that's my friend Ulla. I had no idea she looks like some famousity.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 23 June 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

i know little to nothing about cozen except this one time in greenwich ally c and rjg talked about him a lot

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 23 June 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

http://www.gothamist.com/images/2004_10_artsarcadefire3.jpg http://photos1.flickr.com/3378918_d024aef204_m.jpg http://accordionguy.blogware.com/Photos/2005/03/arcade_fire_accordion.jpg

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

I hope they weren't too mean.

I'm not that mysterious.

― c/n (Cozen), Thursday, 23 June 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

ah, ulla.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

gygax says I sound like a sexy woman
-- a real bear behind the microphone (adamr...), June 23rd, 2005 1:43 PM. (nordicskilla)

the truth is i can barely make out what the hell AdamRL is saying more than half the time.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

one time some lurker (I assume) emailed me anonymously and called me a racist for some of the things I'd posted on here. I asked for examples and he or she went off about my rants against soul music post-James Brown and my "Hitler-esque preoccupation with Aryan classical music".

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

Nietsche contra Gear!

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

regardless of mysterious, gear! clearly has the best anecdotes

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

I am the least mysterious person on the planet. Not going to FAPs doesn't count as mysteriousness, just a busy schedule.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

and yes, he does.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

speaking of which, Mimi Rogers is sitting in a waiting room down the hall from me, since one of her kids has an audition for a movie role. Should I get the dirt on Tom Cruise?

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

OF COURSE YOU SHOULD, BASTARD

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

Go! NOW!

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

Gear! is such a tease.

I mean, to me, anyway.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

You love it.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

(sigh)

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

well, that was awkward

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

DETAILS, MAN!

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:WqEvX0nPAxwJ:www.amsoil.com/articlespr/photos/FGR-Quart_350pxh.jpg : hi!

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:0D-c0Rgk6zUJ:moviestars.generic-joe.com/pictures/342048/mimirogers.jpg : yes?

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:WqEvX0nPAxwJ:www.amsoil.com/articlespr/photos/FGR-Quart_350pxh.jpg : uh....

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:0D-c0Rgk6zUJ:moviestars.generic-joe.com/pictures/342048/mimirogers.jpg : .....

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:WqEvX0nPAxwJ:www.amsoil.com/articlespr/photos/FGR-Quart_350pxh.jpg : Loved you in The Rapture! : D

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:0D-c0Rgk6zUJ:moviestars.generic-joe.com/pictures/342048/mimirogers.jpg : thank you.

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:WqEvX0nPAxwJ:www.amsoil.com/articlespr/photos/FGR-Quart_350pxh.jpg : hey don't mention it : D

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:0D-c0Rgk6zUJ:moviestars.generic-joe.com/pictures/342048/mimirogers.jpg : sure

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

Gear Lube?

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

no wonder it was awkward

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

maura (dotcom) is also mysterious. but then i am obviously entranced by baseball fans: gear!, gygax!, morbs!, maura! as long as they aren't yankee fans, i mean.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

this is all for reals, but of course I wasn't gonna mention TC on account of maybe getting fired/being a wuss.

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

http://www.freewebs.com/hannostamm/photogallery/photo9898/MongolianPlains2_small.jpg : Boy, you have some large breasts.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

Or tell her how "brave" she was for getting naked in The Door in the Floor? (xpost)

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

gear! you sold out, man

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

I'M SORRY THAT WAS TOTAL BULLSHIT I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:0D-c0Rgk6zUJ:moviestars.generic-joe.com/pictures/342048/mimirogers.jpg : Like I haven't heard that before.

― Mimi Rogers (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:0D-c0Rgk6zUJ:moviestars.generic-joe.com/pictures/342048/mimirogers.jpg : (x-p)

― Mimi Rogers (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

http://www.timewarptoys.com/kenl.jpg : Gear, I liked her in The Rapture too!

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

roffle

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:0D-c0Rgk6zUJ:moviestars.generic-joe.com/pictures/342048/mimirogers.jpg : But you know when I did my best acting? When I was married to T0m. Boy was that kid a nutball.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:WqEvX0nPAxwJ:www.amsoil.com/articlespr/photos/FGR-Quart_350pxh.jpg : MEEMS, YOU ARE A TREAT : D

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Thursday, 23 June 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/sp/v/mlb/players/5/4762.jpg : Did someone say "treat"?

― Jim Thome (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 23 June 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

http://www.greycoatsoes.com/grey/images/newbc2.jpg : That's LL Bitchin Freeze to you!

― Longing for Forum 2000! (x Jeremy), Thursday, 23 June 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

someone tell me more about MANDEE

a) innumerable sisters/mothers
b) colorado
c) long commute (where is there to go?)
d) EYES
e) somehow hung out with Ally C?
f) TWO E'S

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

http://frenchfilms.topcities.com/1902_Le_Voyage_dans_la_lune.jpg : Why no image, luna? Are you ashamed of the way we look?

― k-luna (Ken L), Thursday, 23 June 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/ontheline/schools/chocbix/images/chockl2.jpg : want a piece of me, phillie? ;)

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Thursday, 23 June 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

whoa complex

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

[Insert Voyage To The Moon shot here]: Judging from the other thread, I guess not.

― k-luna (Ken L), Thursday, 23 June 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

http://www.ghostbusters.se/div/egon.JPG : crossing the streams would be bad.

http://www.ghostbusters.se/div/Peter.JPG : why?

http://www.ghostbusters.se/div/egon.JPG : it would be bad

http://www.ghostbusters.se/div/Peter.JPG : I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean "bad"?

http://www.ghostbusters.se/div/egon.JPG : Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.

http://www.ghostbusters.se/div/Ray.JPG : Total protonic reversal.

http://www.ghostbusters.se/div/Peter.JPG That's bad. Okay. All right, important safety tip, thanks Egon.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 23 June 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

those people don't look like my ghostbusters

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:TI2KWSbNX4kJ:www.thegoldenyears.org/orson_welles.jpg : The year? 1940! The place? Hollywood! Cinema will never be the same!

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:dXLLJAdEgAoJ:www.americanphoto.co.jp/photosearch/Previews/CIN01255_N048.jpg : oooooooo......

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:TI2KWSbNX4kJ:www.thegoldenyears.org/orson_welles.jpg : o foul specter!

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:dXLLJAdEgAoJ:www.americanphoto.co.jp/photosearch/Previews/CIN01255_N048.jpg : like you i once was! like me you shall beeee.....

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:TI2KWSbNX4kJ:www.thegoldenyears.org/orson_welles.jpg : lies!

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:TyN8lnUv--QJ:yz2dkenn.club.fr/orsonw1.jpg : orsooonnnnnn....

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:dXLLJAdEgAoJ:www.americanphoto.co.jp/photosearch/Previews/CIN01255_N048.jpg : gah!

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:TI2KWSbNX4kJ:www.thegoldenyears.org/orson_welles.jpg : gah!!

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:R0qtCVJ1y4AJ:us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/paramount_pictures/the_transformers__the_movie/orson_welles/tf.jpg : .......

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Thursday, 23 June 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

And a roffle back to you, G!

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 23 June 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

OMG that last one.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 23 June 2005 23:40 (twenty years ago)

How to EXCELSIOR that?

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 24 June 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://theimaginaryworld.com/pre563a.jpg: Gear, you think you're
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/ontheline/schools/chocbix/images/chockl2.jpg
but you're just
http://www.groundstrike.com/limoges/artoria/gum.jpg

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 24 June 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://theimaginaryworld.com/pre563.jpg: Sorry everybody, hotlinking snafu.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 24 June 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://tesla.liketelevision.com/liketelevision/images/lowrez/quakero211.jpg: I just can't seem to get the hang of this thing.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 24 June 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

That Orson one rules the roost.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 June 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.hispaniconline.com/hh/timeline/images/portraits/1935-rita_hayworth.gif: oh orson oh no

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 24 June 2005 01:34 (twenty years ago)

grrr

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 24 June 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://nf.wh3rd.net/files/andrew-at-work.jpg : You people are pathetic! Just give it up!

― k-landru (Ken L), Friday, 24 June 2005 02:02 (twenty years ago)

: (

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Friday, 24 June 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

Sorry Gear! I was just pretending to be that mysterious traveler from Down Under, Andrew, criticizing us for our poor HTML skillz. I wish we had let the thread end with your Orson Welles gag.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 24 June 2005 09:19 (twenty years ago)

http://wizardishungry.com/lol/andrew-nf-burger.jpg

― Ultragrill (ex machina), Friday, 24 June 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

it was a good try, k/l! :D

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Friday, 24 June 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

whats mysterious about me? youve got a photo all in blue, what more do you want?

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 24 June 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

It's probably the lack of capitals.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Friday, 24 June 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

Did no one say Andy Grasshopper?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

I have pieced together a few things.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 23:38 (twenty years ago)

There's a lot of info about Andy if you look for it.

Just don't try emailing him!

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 23:40 (twenty years ago)

what's going on?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 23:51 (twenty years ago)

don't come and spread your cynicism over this thread like some horrible grey butter.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 23:51 (twenty years ago)

this is the new thing

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 23:54 (twenty years ago)

now you've gone and sullied the entire concept of cynicism

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 23:55 (twenty years ago)

that is the old thing

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 23:56 (twenty years ago)

i see what you did there.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 12 January 2006 00:00 (twenty years ago)

and there and there and there and there

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 12 January 2006 00:00 (twenty years ago)

There's a little bit of me in all of you.

― andy ---, Thursday, 12 January 2006 00:01 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

can't find "who is ____?" thread, so who is cattle grind?

― Norway, that's where I'm a viking! (history mayne), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:41 (sixteen years ago)

Don't know.

I am the most mysterious occasional ILXor! (I hope.)

― I don't need a bonghit. (ctrl-s), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:49 (sixteen years ago)

Burt Stanton?

― naus, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:29 (sixteen years ago)

christ no

― If You Ain't Gonna Wash It, I Ain't Gonna Eat It (Cattle Grind), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:30 (sixteen years ago)

use search function, someone's already answered it...

― If You Ain't Gonna Wash It, I Ain't Gonna Eat It (Cattle Grind), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:30 (sixteen years ago)

who's the least mysterious? Prolly LJ?

― wagg the man (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:31 (sixteen years ago)

y'all don't understand me

― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:31 (sixteen years ago)

After five years on ilx it is hard to maintain an aura of mystery. I've fared no better than most. Even Aja has been delved down to rock bottom.

― Aimless, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:50 (sixteen years ago)

"If you're a man of mystery, it really takes you far." – Grease 2

― Walter Melon (Abbott), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 01:58 (sixteen years ago)

can't find "who is ____?" thread, so who is cattle grind?

― Norway, that's where I'm a viking! (history mayne), Monday, April 26, 2010 6:41 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

cattle grind is bo jackson overdrive

― nabisco infiltrator (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:00 (sixteen years ago)

really?

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:00 (sixteen years ago)

somehow missed that. i thought he left ilx.

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:01 (sixteen years ago)

aka ballistic

― ⚡ You vike this. (dyao), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:01 (sixteen years ago)

while we're at this, would like to know more about am0n and velko. sometimes I think they are the same person!

― ⚡ You vike this. (dyao), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:01 (sixteen years ago)

velko used to post as gershy, ilx revive king

― nabisco infiltrator (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:02 (sixteen years ago)

am0n is am0n

― nabisco infiltrator (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:02 (sixteen years ago)

lol

― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:02 (sixteen years ago)

i know who the sockpuppet master of ilx is

― dispariiiijjjj 'white ppl' (velko), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:02 (sixteen years ago)

i figured CG was capn lorax

― ban c u tty (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:03 (sixteen years ago)

me too

― iatee, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:04 (sixteen years ago)

we still have the original cpt lorax

― RESPECT A JOEY NEGRO (haitch), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:04 (sixteen years ago)

lol I know am0n is am0n is eman. I just know next to nothing about him other than he is good at finding emoticons & likes coffee & likes basketball. and he posts some insightful things from time to time.

― ⚡ You vike this. (dyao), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:05 (sixteen years ago)

"If you're a man of mystery, it really takes you far." – Grease 2

Especially when you wear mysterious biker goggles.

― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:05 (sixteen years ago)

i heard am0n was black

― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:13 (sixteen years ago)

http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/sch/gr2/nophoto3_48x48.gif

― am0n, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:15 (sixteen years ago)

i realized that cattle grind is obv bo jackson overdrive this weekend when he started posting about the miami heat -- all the tmi posts make tons of sense too in that context

― nabisco infiltrator (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:16 (sixteen years ago)

lol. posting about the miami heat reveals "too much information"?

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:17 (sixteen years ago)

gonna take a page from jordans notebook and note that I made the bjd = cg connection like a month ago

― ⚡ You vike this. (dyao), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:22 (sixteen years ago)

http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/8048/amonmaternitysale.jpg

― screamin' lord sufj (unregistered), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:22 (sixteen years ago)

CG showing up complaining that he has no idea who this "bo jackson overdrive" character is in 5... 4... 3...

― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:23 (sixteen years ago)

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/1/11466/234389-19540-amon-sur_super.JPG

― where display names die, unrecognized (Lamp), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:24 (sixteen years ago)

also it's impossible for me to read am0ns sn in a not-Jamaican-'ey-mon accent

― ⚡ You vike this. (dyao), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:24 (sixteen years ago)

http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/political-pictures-al-gore-lorax-speak-trees.jpg

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:25 (sixteen years ago)

Opps! forgot that bo jackson overdrive and cap't lorax are different posters.

apologies!

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:25 (sixteen years ago)

real thread answer is "uh oh im having a fantasy"

― where display names die, unrecognized (Lamp), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:26 (sixteen years ago)

or "unregistered"

― nabisco infiltrator (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:26 (sixteen years ago)

snrub

― am0n, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:27 (sixteen years ago)

irl lols @ Daniel's jpg

― ksh, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:27 (sixteen years ago)

also it's impossible for me to read am0ns sn in a not-Jamaican-'ey-mon accent

― ⚡ You vike this. (dyao), Tuesday, April 27, 2010 3:24 AM (30 seconds ago) Bookmark

true but i also kind of see "dayo" when i see your screename so... who knows! all bets are off!!

― la senora (surm), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:28 (sixteen years ago)

snrub

not a mystery if theres nothing there imo

― where display names die, unrecognized (Lamp), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:28 (sixteen years ago)

lol my dn was tony dayo for a while xp

― ⚡ You vike this. (dyao), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:29 (sixteen years ago)

Opps! forgot that bo jackson overdrive and cap't lorax are different posters.

there are subtle differences but lol

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:29 (sixteen years ago)

dyao technology

― am0n, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:31 (sixteen years ago)

or "unregistered"

― nabisco infiltrator (J0rdan S.), Monday, April 26, 2010 10:26 PM (5 minutes ago)

"un"registered iirc

― screamin' lord sufj (unregistered), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:32 (sixteen years ago)

i will say i got more intrigued abt am0n when he recently first responded a cannibal corpse albums poll

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:32 (sixteen years ago)

lorax doesn't have an overriding obsession with poo

― fag-amplitude (electricsound), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:33 (sixteen years ago)

white btw

― am0n, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:33 (sixteen years ago)

lorax doesn't have an overriding obsession with poo

wait waht?

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:33 (sixteen years ago)

didnt no that. altho i did kinda -_- when u mentioned having watched supernatural (xp)

― where display names die, unrecognized (Lamp), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:34 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=47

ctrl + f "cattle grind"

― Walter Melon (Abbott), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:35 (sixteen years ago)

lawl

― am0n, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:35 (sixteen years ago)

at my funeral there will be poop jokes. in my will there will be poop jokes.

― Phoenix in Flight (Cattle Grind), Monday, March 29, 2010 8:32 PM (4 weeks ago)

― screamin' lord sufj (unregistered), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:39 (sixteen years ago)

what poop jokes could there be in his will?

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:40 (sixteen years ago)

Well, it does state who gets his shit.

― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:42 (sixteen years ago)

this is what am0n looks like in my head

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~gears/brak/moltar3.gif

― stars on ?boardid=45 (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 04:05 (sixteen years ago)

amon likes reggae and popol vuh. also, weed. also, baltimore.

― ian, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 04:09 (sixteen years ago)

Totally intrigued by am0n btw

― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 04:16 (sixteen years ago)

intrigued by lamp

― nabisco infiltrator (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 04:17 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.gadgetvenue.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/eye_lamp.jpg

― nabisco infiltrator (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 04:18 (sixteen years ago)

Lamp is my buddy and he is great fwiw

― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 04:22 (sixteen years ago)

real thread answer is "uh oh im having a fantasy"

― where display names die, unrecognized (Lamp), Monday, April 26, 2010 10:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Also intriguing, yes.

― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 04:27 (sixteen years ago)

am0n, definitely

― what a tragedy for gingers (The Reverend), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 04:34 (sixteen years ago)

while we're at this, would like to know more about am0n and velko. sometimes I think they are the same person!

― ⚡ You vike this. (dyao), Monday, April 26, 2010 9:01 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

i believed this for a long time

― goole, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 04:40 (sixteen years ago)

Lamp has a lot in common with "uh oh i'm having a fantasy"
; )

― velko, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 04:48 (sixteen years ago)

CG showing up complaining that he has no idea who this "bo jackson overdrive" character is in 5... 4... 3...

― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0)

I denied I was burt stanton. didn't deny I was BJO -- and if I was trying real hard to hide it, I wouldn't have left such easy clues :).

(I lost my last display name because I scrambled my password one night while I ws in a pissy mood, and then realized I had deleted the email address associated with the account so I couldn't reset the password).

― If You Ain't Gonna Wash It, I Ain't Gonna Eat It (Cattle Grind), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 04:53 (sixteen years ago)

ahhh... I knew the ballistic/bjo connection, didn't know about your new login

― what a tragedy for gingers (The Reverend), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 04:55 (sixteen years ago)

yea. well now that everyone has made the connection, I am taking bets on how long it takes me to get 51 SB votes....(and no, I'm not consciously making the effort, believe it or not!)

― If You Ain't Gonna Wash It, I Ain't Gonna Eat It (Cattle Grind), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 05:00 (sixteen years ago)

you sound excited and i don't like it.

― estela, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 05:44 (sixteen years ago)

but it's good to know there's only one of you.

― estela, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 05:45 (sixteen years ago)

that is true, estela

― what a tragedy for gingers (The Reverend), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 05:51 (sixteen years ago)

the mystery is the 1ns that want to tmi us everything

― emmanuel eboue II, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 05:52 (sixteen years ago)

i farted

― am0n, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 13:04 (sixteen years ago)

am0n has always espoused a love for death metal/grindcore/doom - this is probably the least mysterious aspect of his posting

uh oh i'm having a fantasy is one of my favourite posters

― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 13:13 (sixteen years ago)

uoihaf called out whiney on the twitter thread - he works for some famous website, I think

― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm a ILXing! (dyao), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 13:35 (sixteen years ago)

velko used to post as gershy, ilx revive king

This is news to me! Wasn't Gershy permabanned or something?

I used to think Gershy and Amon were the same person too, because they both seemed to enjoy reviving threads and mocking other posters (sometimes people who'd left ILX ages ago) for unclear reasons. But if Velko is Gershy, looks like both of them have given up doing this. Hmm...

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 14:30 (sixteen years ago)

the reasons were clear to me.

― Aerosol, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 14:44 (sixteen years ago)

lulz

― Aerosol, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 14:45 (sixteen years ago)

Who are you?

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 14:48 (sixteen years ago)

the eternal question

― am0n, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 16:57 (sixteen years ago)

Aren't we all, in a very real sense, mysterious?

― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 17:01 (sixteen years ago)

I'm not.

― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 17:06 (sixteen years ago)

but it's good to know there's only one of you.

― estela, Tuesday, April 27, 2010 1:45 AM (21 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

that is true, estela

― what a tragedy for gingers (The Reverend), Tuesday, April 27, 2010 1:51 AM

startin to regret ever givin you a donation!

― If You Ain't Gonna Wash It, I Ain't Gonna Eat It (Cattle Grind), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 02:49 (sixteen years ago)

Still fishing for SBs, I see. Don't be in such a hurry! Use the chance to lift your game a bit.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 03:53 (sixteen years ago)

i'm p mysterious. i bet you guys didn't know i have a chipped front tooth. how did a gentle bison like me chip a tooth?

es un misterio

― stunting how my father did before me (m bison), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 04:00 (sixteen years ago)

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f346/Triggerhappysrt/mysteryghost.gif

― Oh boy, ILX! That's where I'm a Whiney! (dyao), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 04:04 (sixteen years ago)

irl lols @ dyao's gif

― ksh, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 04:07 (sixteen years ago)

relax it's just an old internet meme :|

― Oh boy, ILX! That's where I'm a Whiney! (dyao), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 04:09 (sixteen years ago)

it is a
meme

― fag-amplitude (electricsound), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 04:10 (sixteen years ago)

sorry y'all, i'll be careful to stifle the lols in the future!

― ksh, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 04:12 (sixteen years ago)

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