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yes, we met at Efrem's bar
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Posted by Sounder
on January 23, 2024, 11:37:39, in reply to "
i have no doubt you're nice
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But you were with Doy, who was big mad that I had called her autistic, so there was an air of tension in the room.
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are we going by "nice" or "barrel of laughs"?
also, did we or didn't we meet at efrem's bar in 2010/2011?
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Illiniboard looks different. Roughy making moves
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JacobRDaugherty
January 22, 2024, 22:22:51
I both envy and wonder about his obsession.
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Illiniphil
January 23, 2024, 14:50:15
I just don't think it's healthy to be that over the top passionate about anything
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 15:13:22
Dude, WTactualF*
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Blazer
January 23, 2024, 16:17:12
he seems like the kind of fan who might wear Illini gear*
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bbonb
January 23, 2024, 15:02:29
.....to bed. On his wedding night.*
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Illiniphil
January 23, 2024, 15:12:44
I laughed out loud hard*
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JacobRDaugherty
January 23, 2024, 15:04:30
i'd like to mention that his sleeve game is on point now.
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Nobster
January 23, 2024, 13:24:50
*grumble* i added <sounder> with a / sounder in <> and boardhost dropped it.
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Nobster
January 23, 2024, 13:27:05
I don’t care. THIS is the Illiniboard
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timmer
January 23, 2024, 13:23:23
Agreed. I like Roughy but don't visit that board or read his stuff outside of tweets.*
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Warrin'_Illini
January 23, 2024, 13:25:00
i honestly think the slack access is probably worth it. i be he tl/dr's all over that workspace*
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Nobster
January 23, 2024, 13:28:01
I still do not understand how slack works
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Taz
January 23, 2024, 14:58:10
It's a massively annoying application. *
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larue33
January 23, 2024, 15:15:36
The way you just described Slack is how I feel about Discord
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 15:14:41
I've never even tried that. NSL Taz loves it*
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Taz
January 23, 2024, 15:33:11
NSL?*
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 15:33:38
Not-so- little. My name for my oldest*
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Taz
January 23, 2024, 15:58:25
Which is how I feel about reddit. Logs in, loses what I'm looking for, logs back out for 6 months.*
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haighter
January 23, 2024, 15:26:45
Whoa! It looks a lot like X now *
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jdl
January 23, 2024, 15:59:33
reddit is like twitter, awesome when it's awesome, and terrible when it isn't*
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 15:33:14
There's another app I don't use. *
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haighter
January 23, 2024, 15:43:28
I could see you finding some fantastic esoteric reddit wormholes*
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 15:44:15
Add this thread to the list of things I'm not reading through
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ijustkrushalot
January 23, 2024, 13:17:31
chortle*
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Tooldresser
January 23, 2024, 13:21:10
Yeah, you know it's hot, too*
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Sammich
January 23, 2024, 13:21:04
Sometimes I try to read his article to see how far I can get*
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 13:19:44
Dude if anyone brings things on themselves it’s you
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CanHartlebHireSnider
January 23, 2024, 13:21:54
Not sure about the new Illiniboard, but this thread is outstanding.*
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cpsteine
January 23, 2024, 13:12:17
It’s a work of art*
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CWR10
January 23, 2024, 13:31:18
oooo
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IlliniRunner
January 23, 2024, 13:16:57
A real 10/10 of what the.*
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DiamondDazzle
January 23, 2024, 13:13:30
I'm not sure how reworking Illini board has led to a bunch in fighting and name calling
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Taz
January 23, 2024, 12:52:21
Sounder 4 deuce MVP*
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HamptonSki
January 23, 2024, 13:05:51
It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me*
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 13:06:37
Listen Lady.....*
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ATL
January 23, 2024, 12:58:13
Thanks, terp (I think) *
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Taz
January 23, 2024, 13:49:34
(woman)*
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Sammich
January 23, 2024, 13:01:46
Oops. The above was meant for you*
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Taz
January 23, 2024, 14:00:23
Oh, will you shut up!
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KingTalkyTiki
January 23, 2024, 12:56:59
Lol right back at ya! *
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Taz
January 23, 2024, 12:57:36
Happy for the man, but I cant handle his writing style
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ISeeDeadHawkeyes
January 23, 2024, 12:31:11
We don't have to have a public airing of grievances every time he's mentioned.*
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longsnapper
January 23, 2024, 12:38:11
Fair, but I dont really see that as a grievance
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ISeeDeadHawkeyes
January 23, 2024, 12:44:25
Doesn't he kind of bring that upon himself by being so extra?*
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 12:39:31
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and call this a put-on.
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uofi1998
January 23, 2024, 13:07:14
Feels like he his channeling his inner Franker today*
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JacobRDaugherty
January 23, 2024, 15:41:49
wtf*
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Blazer
January 23, 2024, 13:03:28
no; you on the other hand*
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suburbanmyth
January 23, 2024, 12:58:10
stop*
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gvibes
January 23, 2024, 12:47:25
I think the point is whether or not the ‘I don’t like his writing’ comments need to be made…
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OB25
January 23, 2024, 12:46:46
I don’t think they’re made every time he’s mentioned here
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CanHartlebHireSnider
January 23, 2024, 12:55:05
thanks for the worthless context*
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suburbanmyth
January 23, 2024, 13:09:16
Remember that time roughy completely wrecked you?
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Chuck Woodaby
January 23, 2024, 12:42:12
I don't either*
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 13:02:48
Does he? No. Do you? Abso-fucking-lutely*
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longsnapper
January 23, 2024, 12:41:27
This is a less dickish version of what I was trying to say*
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 12:33:14
You shouldn't have to work so hard to not be a dick. *
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Tuscy
January 23, 2024, 12:37:32
Obsessively weird people trigger my dickishness
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 12:39:01
Take this in the kindest way possible
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Blazer
January 23, 2024, 13:10:09
You know Jeff Frank exists, right?*
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 13:43:42
Yes, and your obsession with cooking and and gaining the board's approval
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Blazer
January 23, 2024, 16:18:07
lol. bruh.*
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Ron McDon
January 23, 2024, 12:42:29
Didn't you almost run to be on the board of US Curling or something?
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ATL
January 23, 2024, 12:40:32
I was appointed to the national board in October
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 13:03:53
Guarantee you've posted more about curling than I have about my kids hair. *
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haighter
January 23, 2024, 13:11:37
ironically, your kid's hair is curly*
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ATL
January 23, 2024, 14:46:58
Oh for sure, but curling is more interesting than your kid's hair*
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 13:14:40
It’s really not *
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PapaDels
January 23, 2024, 17:20:24
You've posted about your house/neighborhood more than I post about curling*
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 13:15:25
That's just because my house and neighborhood is more interesting than yours. *
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haighter
January 23, 2024, 13:19:29
Literal LOL*
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 13:20:38
Yep fully supportive, even though I prefer basketball.
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SurfTheBoneyard
January 23, 2024, 12:22:16
I'm more bball, too, but walkon also has great stuff there. *
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Tuscy
January 23, 2024, 12:27:48
I'll support anything he does.
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uofi1998
January 23, 2024, 10:41:51
For sure
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Blazer
January 23, 2024, 13:11:45
it's really not about his living his dream for me; he generates a crapton of great.....
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suburbanmyth
January 23, 2024, 13:17:03
For me his over-genuineness is a massive feature, not a bug.
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tvillini
January 23, 2024, 13:52:33
1000%*
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KingTalkyTiki
January 23, 2024, 12:47:38
*spiderman meme**
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ATL
January 23, 2024, 12:06:48
Roughy slept in my bed
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RSMBob
January 23, 2024, 12:00:46
what if you saw him littering, or jaywalking, or engaging in some other equally heinous act?*
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bbonb
January 23, 2024, 11:42:29
He would be my David Koresh.*
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uofi1998
January 23, 2024, 12:14:35
yep*
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suburbanmyth
January 23, 2024, 11:28:33
I wouldn't have pegged you as Team Roughy*
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 11:31:18
ive been on team roughy since day one...
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suburbanmyth
January 23, 2024, 11:44:29
Nit, the first time I suggested he quit his job to do it full time you said I was insane *
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meanjeans
January 23, 2024, 13:10:52
it is insane; all the more reason to support him*
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suburbanmyth
January 23, 2024, 13:12:02
Hear hear *
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meanjeans
January 23, 2024, 13:15:46
He can put himself out there and still be a whiny bitch*
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 11:46:27
sounds like no one is mistaken about who the whiny bitch in this thread is*
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suburbanmyth
January 23, 2024, 11:52:34
“Not anti-roughy” to “whiny bitch” in under 3 minutes*
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snipes824
January 23, 2024, 11:51:39
I was referring to some of his "public outbursts"*
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 11:55:51
You might want to start looking around at who’s on your team on this one
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snipes824
January 23, 2024, 11:41:38
FWIW, I'm not anti Roughy
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 11:43:46
It’s not weird at all. Independent media is 2024. There are plenty of former legacy media members
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snipes824
January 23, 2024, 11:50:31
Do you think Roughy makes $300K a year?
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 12:00:31
he's getting paid for something he obsesses over. we should all be so lucky.*
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VIV
January 23, 2024, 12:17:02
I met him in the MSG concourse after the Texas game last year
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Jersey
January 23, 2024, 12:36:44
Imagine hating on someone for following their passion and making money off it*
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illini21
January 23, 2024, 12:31:13
No I don’t, but I think he makes an amount that along with his wife lets them live comfortably
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snipes824
January 23, 2024, 12:11:57
I love the more he posts the more he tells on himself*
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John Coctostan
January 23, 2024, 12:13:43
What exactly am I telling about myself?*
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 12:14:53
That you appear to be a pretty miserable person who shits on anything that doesn’t exactly meet your
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John Coctostan
January 23, 2024, 12:40:26
That is not at all what he said*
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JacobRDaugherty
January 23, 2024, 12:03:22
I wasn't criticizing independent media, I was criticizing Roughy's absurd approach
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 12:05:33
You really seem like a sad sack of shit.*
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longsnapper
January 23, 2024, 12:08:45
You seem like a naive idealist*
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 12:12:47
Yep. Will keep throwing money his way*
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ECEIllinois
January 23, 2024, 11:18:41
Agreed. He’s mildly annoyed me at some points recently, but full support from me
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snipes824
January 23, 2024, 11:06:43
Yeah, it's been a little weird that he is so critical of other sites while at the same time
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larue33
January 23, 2024, 11:46:46
Twitter has a way of radicalizing people and making them think it's indicative of the world at large
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 13:25:23
Same. Also he's a great dude and a blast to hang out with. *
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Tuscy
January 23, 2024, 11:01:20
Definitely. I have had lunch with him on more than one occasion. He even delivered a chief burning
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harb
January 23, 2024, 13:50:12
He gave me pizza once....I mean sure it was Imo's, but still.
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KingTalkyTiki
January 23, 2024, 12:55:43
100%*
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bjl63
January 23, 2024, 11:16:31
I've never met him but he's never come across to me as a barrel of laughs*
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 11:04:04
You could have stopped after four words, but you do you*
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GMAW
January 23, 2024, 12:32:53
I didn't say he was funny. *
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Tuscy
January 23, 2024, 11:32:16
whereas you on the other hand...*
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VIV
January 23, 2024, 11:23:37
Ask anyone on this board who's met me if I'm a super nice guy
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 11:27:21
...and then you type words on here.
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tvillini
January 23, 2024, 12:14:27
i have no doubt you're nice
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VIV
January 23, 2024, 11:34:25
yes, we met at Efrem's bar
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 11:37:39
December 2010?
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Philo
January 23, 2024, 12:43:03
Jesus, was it really that long ago?*
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 13:04:40
I was there!!! Speaking of nice guys, I wonder how Efrem is these days.*
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DiamondDazzle
January 23, 2024, 12:04:07
*pours one out* super good dude. hope he's doing well. *
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VIV
January 23, 2024, 13:28:06
Was in Seattle for work in 2011 during the Blackhawks-Canucks playoff series
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KingTalkyTiki
January 23, 2024, 12:52:26
I haven't heard anything about him in years
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 12:09:00
I came to one meetup at Legends with my (now) wife waaaay back in the day...
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haighter
January 23, 2024, 11:51:49
Also there, also don't remember that. Your (now) wife was very nice. *
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larue33
January 23, 2024, 13:01:29
I was there! I did not witness that particular incident, though *
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Jackie
January 23, 2024, 12:32:22
I think I was at the bar with Casino...or his brother? Does he have a brother? *
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haighter
January 23, 2024, 13:12:55
Casino was probably there, so it was probably him
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Jackie
January 23, 2024, 13:37:48
I remember you, larue, memphian, casino...and about a half dozen others...
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haighter
January 23, 2024, 14:42:14
Co-old, I literally couldn’t have named a person there besides me, you, and the mrs *
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Jackie
January 23, 2024, 15:47:48
i can't imagine why she'd be mad *
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VIV
January 23, 2024, 11:49:57
yeah I get it, I don't like her and she doesn't like me, that's fine*
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 12:01:00
Is his bar still around?
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bjl63
January 23, 2024, 11:40:46
Yeah, there are two of them now, and they are still very popular
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 11:42:34
Would you consider a deuce hangout in Eugene for the Illini game in the fall?
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Taz
January 23, 2024, 11:28:27
I'm for sure going to be there
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 11:29:34
Awesome*
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Taz
January 23, 2024, 12:17:21
I haven't been to an Illinois footbally game in probably 20 years
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 12:20:03
Lol*
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jjlocke923
January 23, 2024, 11:25:11
This*
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UofIL6
January 23, 2024, 10:42:55
Good Lord, that is a lot of words. He needs to be more less wordy.*
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bbonb
January 23, 2024, 10:20:22
less wordy, less "here's what that Shannon dunk meant to me"
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bigbop85
January 23, 2024, 12:26:58
he's a homeless person's version of Bill Simmons*
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 13:07:40
Sounds like an opportunity for him to offer a $120/yr TL/DR Tier*
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timmer
January 23, 2024, 10:53:51
he really should make a FAQ or tl;dr page for people who don't want to read through all that*
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ECEIllinois
January 22, 2024, 22:32:09
the equivalent of "go directly to the recipe" but for payment tiers*
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Gene Parmesan
January 23, 2024, 11:25:32
Serious question: why do the recipes have long stories?
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 12:14:30
the more you scroll, the more ads they can show you
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Sammich
January 23, 2024, 12:16:38
Or maybe hire an editor?*
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Sounder
January 22, 2024, 22:36:26
Yeah, brevity is not his strength
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bjl63
January 23, 2024, 10:35:20
I like it, it's a unique style*
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reggiedunlop
January 23, 2024, 10:38:16
I feel like he only appeals to such a small section of hardcore fanbase
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 11:03:04
If he only appeals to a small group, he wouldn't be able to do this for a living*
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Taz
January 23, 2024, 11:27:35
Respectfully, does he make any money doing this?
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 11:30:31
Who are you to decide? You're bitter because you sold your soul for ABC pants
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longsnapper
January 23, 2024, 12:05:19
jesus.*
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VIV
January 23, 2024, 13:31:31
What if my passion is ABC Pants?*
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 13:29:13
damn. this shit is harsh*
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cpsteine
January 23, 2024, 13:07:51
Yeah, I have no patience for this kind of thing*
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longsnapper
January 23, 2024, 13:16:49
sure. your soul remains pure, I assume*
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cpsteine
January 23, 2024, 13:51:26
Of course not. Never said it was.*
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longsnapper
January 23, 2024, 14:44:47
his soul is as pure as a protected bike lane*
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 14:10:01
My career arc was about as dream job as it gets for me
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 12:12:09
You obviously have no respect so just own it*
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longsnapper
January 23, 2024, 12:16:11
I respect his conviction
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 12:19:00
You know you don't have to keep typing, right?
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longsnapper
January 23, 2024, 12:22:13
TBF, I'm just being honest about how I feel about him
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 12:27:22
I hope you find something that makes you less of a miserable twat*
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longsnapper
January 23, 2024, 12:34:46
So do I*
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Sounder
January 23, 2024, 12:37:43
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