:)

From what I hear, that cop can't beat his way out of a paper bag.

tl;dr

Nah nah. The family who coaches track in Knoxville is unrelated to me. I was just trying to explain (poorly) the family legacy. That Egbert guy was unbelievably fast but he usually lost to one of our guys, Marek Wensel who was even better. Wensel runs the Senior Track circuit to this day. He's still pulling 48 second 400's in his mid 40's.

That is incredible.

why is tthe term "fast as hell" so popular? seems to me time would go by very slowly in hell, hell is based on terms like "eternal" which seems un-fast like.

I was looking for documentation of that after I posted it. I could only find a race from like 3 years ago in which he ran 50. He's still a stud though.

Hmm... I dunno, man. That is a head-scratcher.

Yeah, that time for someone at his age is not slouch-tastic by any means. Speedy freaking Gonzales still. I have no idea what Egbert is up to... He doesn't come around the area very often.

Egbert wasn't only fast, but strong as an ox as well. Mepo has this system in place where if you bench 100% of your weight you get a white weight-lifting shirt that reads, 100%. 125% is gray. 150% is orange. 175% is red and 200% is yellow. As of 2005 or so (last I knew), there were only 2 people in school history who earned the coveted yellow shirt. Egbert was one of them. The other one was missing a leg. Those yellow shirts are so rare that peoples' jaws would drop when they would see the one-legged guy wearing his. Heck, as of 2005-ish, there were only 5 people in school history who earned the red one (including Egbert and the 1-legged guy). I'm sure there are probably more now. I got that one my Senior year. Benched 325, weighed 160 at the time. I gave both my red and orange shirts to a girl who had me whipped as hell...and she was playing me like whoa. Never got them back. :mad:

Yeah, the Mepo track studs around that time were; Aaron Egbert, Neil Egbert, Derek Lipper, Ryan Hassett and Darren Steffener. Not sure if you remember any of those names (besides A. Egbert). Fast motor-scooters.

I remember there were brothers and the other names sound familiar too. I wouldn't have been able to come up with the names myself. I ran against Chris Street too. Remember him? He wasn't fast but he covered a lot of ground. I tried to search Iowa track archives for some results. They don't have anything except first and runners-up past 10 years back.

You go to www.iahsaa.org?

Oh yeah, I remember Chris Street. Relatively decent basketball player for the Hawkeyes...was killed in a car accident if I remember correctly. I think he played right after the Acie Earl era. Hawkeye basketball player, Jess Settles is an area hero in SEI. I see him all the time, randomly. Just saw him at Wal-Mart a month or so ago. Nice dude, wrote a very inspirational book. Hawk fans took the Chris Street death hard... I remember people getting tatoos of the guy on their backs/arms.

On a site where abuse is an acceptable, every day occurrence for the membership (and where mod abuse is also a part of the culture, btw) yes I do.

And fear of retribution is always present even without a rule to justify it because we've had plenty of examples of mods here getting their feathers ruffled by particular posters and then letting it bias their decisions. The rule just makes it easier for mods to take revenge without having to deal with the accusations of bias and butthurt.

And as for "other sites", that's what I meant when I said that this place continues to drift toward being just like all the other message boards on the Internet. I don't consider that a positive even if some of those sites are "successful".

I actually think the site is currently on a high note. The good posters a pretty active, and we've been adding some quality noobs. Evidently, that means its time for the mods to start flexing their muscles.

I do wish posters like Mecca, Banyon, and even orange would post, though.

college is always overrated by people who didn't go to college.

Honestly, I think mods here have a lot less influence on the culture than most other sites regardless. ChiefsPlanet's success over the years has come from having a core group of really diverse, really solid posters. We've got experts here in just about everything there is to talk about, and a lot of people (Hootie included to an extent) that just plain make the place fun to visit. Unless there was a HUGE shift in philosophy, the overall feel of the place isn't going to change.

So, while you're probably right that there's been a shifting mentality lately, I don't know that it really makes much of a difference.

Your most successful thread ever (out of the 161 you've created) got 260 replies back in 2008. It was a discussion of No Country for Old Men.

This thread is exactly one month old and has averaged 275 posts per day. The best thread you've ever made would be a bad day for this thread.

You've been on this board for 12 years. I'm willing to bet that this thread will get more replies than every thread you've ever made combined.

I don't even care about shit like post counts, but it does irritate me when people who contribute a negligible amount of value to the board shit all over those who consistently bring something (love it or hate it) worthy of discussion to the table.

If this thread "only" gets to 10,000 posts, it will be 38x more successful than anything you've ever created.

If only Skip Towne were still around to tabulate 100 post threads. This thread, for all intents and purposes is a train-wreck. That's why there are 8000 posts. Some of the worst threads on this site have tons of posts. If we're measuring thread value based on shock-jock appeal then this is a very, very good thread. But is that really what constitutes a good thread?

Has Diddy been roasted yet?

Don't think so.

Wow, apparently this thread is the Mona Lisa of cyberspace.

Who knew?

Time to roast that jive-ass turkey.

I basically agree. I called it a drift because it's been slow and it's taken place over a long period of time. But it always seems to be in the same direction.

There have been more entertaining posts in this thread than anything I can remember. You won't acknowledge that, of course, because none of them have been made by you.

Has it been a train wreck as well? Sure. People follow hootie around and spend entire days doing nothing but actively trying to derail his threads. Then, people like you come in and make the keen observation that the thread is a train wreck...well, no shit, Sherlock. Worse still, rather than address those actively and openly trolling, you ban Clay from the thread and threaten to ban hootie from the entire board. Do you honestly not realize how hypocritical that is?

You want proof as to how good this thread is? Frazod has stopped trolling it. He's here reading and contributing now. Even he realizes how good this thing is, and nobody dislikes hootie and saul more than he does. Truth be told, he's got every right to troll this thread. After all, one of the themes of the thread is shoe-horning a fat joke at his expense into every roast.

Eventually, you've got to get over the fact that there are better posters on this board than you...even if you don't like them.

Dude. Dude. Dude. smh - Do you really think I'm trying to be most popular poster on this site? I used to think you were a lot more intelligent than Tom Cash but your posts are becoming more and more Tom-esque in nature.

What constitutes a good thread?

Entertainment value

I come here to be entertained - whether it is through funny videos, football talk, girly pictures, or random weirdness.

This thread is entertaining.

Therefore, this thread is a good thread.

Please don't ban him from the thread, Phobia. His roasts have been outstanding.

It isn't hard to get your BA or BS. I don't know if it used to be some insurmountable feat in the olden days; but it isn't a difficult task. If you're willing to take on even more schooling and debt to go after your Master's or Doctorate, it had better damn sure be in a field where you will recoup that massive debt.

Diddy talking down to Hootie because he chose to forego a higher education and pursue a life he seems to enjoy is ridiculous. Hootie realistically added years to his earning potential and won't have ungodly student loan debt to answer for. No shame in that. Maybe he'll regret it in ten or twenty years. Maybe not.

There are plenty of baristas and waiters with bullshit BA and BS degrees that don't translate to a damn thing in the real world.

Why on earth would I ban him from the thread? You have to break a rule to get that. Usually Clay is smart enough to skirt them. He wasn't yesterday.

Well, I guess it's a matter of interpretation. I was worried that he might have disrespected a moderator. :p

It's an entertaining thread, no doubt. But it is so due to the rubberneck factor related to the train-wreck. I just have a problem qualifying a member's value based on the number of responses their threads have. Does that make Big Daddy one of the most valuable members of the Planet due to his girly thread? Who gets to take credit for this thread? PGM? Hootie? SaulG?

Sure it's entertaining, but it seems pretty obvious that this thread is, and was always destined to become, just a suppository of flotsam occasionally graced with a good roast or two.

You're pretty much an idiot. Think about what I said. After 2000 more posts, this thread will cease to float? What could I have meant by such a thing? What happens when a thread gets to 10000? Why do they put those little red pieces of wax around bologna, but not square ham lunch meat?

You're so busy taking offense to the most non offensive thing I've said that it is hilarious. Even going so far to look up my stats, truth is I don't start a lot of threads. Do the math. That's an average of about 10 per year and the ones I do start aren't typically giant conversation starters just things that matter to me. Of those I have forged some pretty good friendships on here that matter to me a ton more than your precious thread of value.

If this is what you consider makes this place special, I would have to disagree. This is nothing more than a post whore thread disguised as having a point.

"You have book smarts but you don't have common sense"...

The universal response of those less educated than you. Because somehow those things are mutually exclusive.

Well kind of, yeah. I love that thread. Without him that thread wouldn't exist. Therefore, he added a lot of value with that one thread.

Probably PGM and Hootie (and now Saul), because they set the stage for the platform for the trainwreck.

But who cares who "gets credit"? We all win!

It takes a good idea/jumping off point and it takes participants of all kinds to make entertainment.

GIF posters
Snarky one liner posters
Goofy posters
A-hole posters
Intelligent posters
Fat posters
Tranny posters
Government conspiracy posters
Excessively politically liberal posters
Regular dude posters
Borderline reeruned posters
Blackbob troll posters

I don't know how I ever got that idea. Tell us again about how you molded this site and take posters under your wing. I love watching people bathe in their own self-satisfaction, and there is no bigger fan of phobia than phobia.

If you're really worried about that then you might want to consider the repercussions of people who have violated that rule since its inception. One person has faced mod action under this rule so far. Clay has been banned from a couple of threads. Pretty frightening when you think about it. All this power gone to the mods heads.

hide yo wife
hide yo kids
phobia banning everyone up in here

Apparently you and 2 or 3 of your buddies don't trust my experience. This is why I posted my resume. If I really wanted an award, I would create one and award it to myself just like 50% of the "awards" you see given daily. You're incorrigible. I like that. Well done.

I just google searched the definition to that word. Holy shit, I love it! My favorite definition is: Wreckage or cargo that remains afloat after a ship has sunk.

Haha, that was a good one, Donger-face!!!

remember that only a government shill would use such language

tldr

You can't even be joked with once you've had your feelings hurt. Good lord.

ROFL

You are Patteeu. Your name is synonymous with the ACLU when it concerns mod infractions.

They tremble at your every key stroke.

:D

I just google searched this word as well. That is a pretty funny way of describing Donger, loochy-mama!!!

STFU n00b!!!!!! Gahhh! It's tl;dr!!! I am SICK and freaking APPALLED by these n00bs!!!

You got jokes now? Can't wait to read some of them.

Dude, now that's just ****ing rude. Seriously I think down deep everyone knows you are a good dude and fair with people. A little more stern than other mods but whatever. I really dislike bannings other than short ones. Every once in a while the hammer needs to be dropped on worthless trolls.

You are a good dude and a credit to this site in many many meaningful ways. If you did let things slide just a tad more I think you would be spot on. Just my opinion but seriously to let someone like Hootie get under your skin is beneath you.

Heh. It was rude, I know. That was the point. Thanks for the other mostly kind things you posted though.

No, don't try. You might as well stick with your strength, hyper defensiveness

FYP

Woah. Really? We're gonna hang that on me now? Who wouldn't be defensive to posts from you and SaulG? Then you drop one joke in the middle and I'm supposed to find it because you stuck a smilie at the end? Let's not be unreasonable people.

Mods are sanctioned by Kyle. It's his site and nobody pays to come here, it's voluntary. If he approves of their actions that's that.

I just don't get it. This thread had 8,000 posts in it before Phobia showed up and suddenly decided that he needed to flex his mod-muscles. Other mods have been posting here, and none of them saw fit to ban anyone...but here comes phobia.

NO I HAVE A RIGHT TO DO WHATEVER I WANT BECAUSE ITS A FREE COUNTRY

OUR TROOPS DIED FOR MY RIGHT TO ACT LIKE AN IDIOT ON THE INTERNET

It's okay that you don't understand why somebody got banned. You never do. I've learned that it's not even worth taking the time to explain it to you because you're going to believe that it's a massive conspiracy anyway.

That chick looks like she probably has a smelly crotch. Back in the day, I noticed that girls who tend to get a little more oily around the mouth/cheeks, tend to have smellier crotches than average. Which is gross.

When I was single, if a girl seemed inclined to accumulating grease/shine on her cheeks, it was usually a deal-breaker for me, regardless of how hot she was after she went to the bathroom to wipe her face with a dry paper towel.

go get a BS in physics, chemistry, or biology and tell me how it isn't hard. I've been there, and it was grueling. Probably 50% of the students that started pre med dropped by year two.

Massive conspiracy? Try: one guy who doesn't realize he's an attention whore.

This board is awesome. It doesn't need this thread to be entertaining. I mean this one is on the front page sandwiched between an annoying noob posting about having a big dick, a sandals resort thread from 2008, and camera suggestions.

I think she's wet because she just got out of the shower; hence the towel

See what I mean? I've barely even hinted at the fact that your psychological issues prevent you from being a very good moderator in the last few thousand posts of this thread (I can't remember what happened at the beginning of the thread, but I don't think I gave you much cause to be defensive there either). In fact, I wrote a nice testimonial to the fact that you have been a very witty poster in the past. Inexplicably, you either took it as a criticism or you endorsed my compliment as "fair", which is equally weird. And when I showed up late last night with a generic comment about the direction of ChiefsPlanet, you tried to make it a thing about you and I just encouraged you to go to bed like you said you were going to do, and I did the same.

Saul Good has crushed you this morning, but my barbs, if they can even be called that, have been gentle. So yeah, I expected that a tongue wag smilie would be enough of a clue to let you know I wasn't serious. But I underestimated your massive butthurt complex. **** off, if this is a permanent thing for you.

I know I'm an attention whore.

You're welcome.

Her mouth region doesn't appear wet. It appears oily. Which is more damning to her since it only took her a few seconds after showering and drying off to accumulate that oil on her face. Gross. Eww.

It is rather amusing to see Saul and Hootie trumpet the importance of this great and noble, superior, all encompassing, magnificent thread. They are suddenly self-proclaimed experts on what is and what is not important to ChiefsPlanet, what constitutes a good poster or a bad one, who matters and who doesn't. Buoyed by their legion of supporters (or handful, when you really come right down to it, but let's not inject too much reality into this high art ****ing masterpiece we've all had a hand in creating), all in the grand tradition of Skip Towne. And everybody knows how much value I assign to his great legacy.

I've battled, I've bickered, I've laughed, I've trolled, I've made Pootie throw a tantrum and threaten to hold his breathe and turn blue. This thread has delivered, to be sure.

But there was never a minute when I wouldn't have rather been talking about the old days with Russ, Jamie, Brad, Brian, Brandon and Tammy. And if you don't know who those people are, then chances are I really don't give a crap about your opinion of me, this board, or my posts.

And Engineering.

Twasn't easy.

Brad's here, tell him how you feel about him.

I admire anyone who has taken the time out to attain their college degree, no matter in what discipline.

What I do find appalling is the following:

1) The belief that you must have a degree or your earning potential is limited. I may not be able to pull down Dr, Lawyer, Dentist or CEO money but I know many non-degreed people who pull down more money than CPA's, Accountants, and other degreed vocations.

2) The belief that having a degree makes you more capable of performing a function than a person with experience.

3) On the flip side, a person who doesn't have their degree bitching and moaning about having to work harder to prove themselves. It's the road we've taken....accept it, work harder to prove you are just as capable and overcome everyone's misconceptions.

Hawaiian Boy was pretty good too.

If ya don't mind me asking, who are those people, frazod?

tl;dr

:clap:

Holy crap, that is a fantastic post. I wish I would have read something like this when I was 18. No joke.

Now my feelings are hurt... :Poke:

Thig Life and Darrelle Revis?

Well, kind of. Kyle tends to show up from time to time and say his piece, but he's not really involved in the everyday mod discussions.

Speaking old school: who was it that was Enddelt's roommate or friend that lived in the same town?

Thanks....but I will admit it took a while in my life to come to this realization. I was #3 for a while there...bitching and moaning. One day a great mentor took me to lunch told me I had great potential but the only thing stopping me was myself and my complaining. He told me that if I spent as much time/energy proving I was capable as I did moaning about not having the opportunity, I would probably push him into an early retirement.

I took his advice to heart....

Boozer. Don't remember his real name. Only met him once, IIRC.

Thanks for the clarification. You guys do a good job of even handed modding.

This site needs more Bob Dole, IMO.

That's extremely cool.

And political scie.....

....okay, mine was kinda easy. But I did have to write a lot. I have several hundred pages worth of completely useless position papers, capstone pieces and other such shenanigans.

And to be honest, having seen how many people now use the written/spoken word, I'm pretty glad to have spent so much time writing as that's a legitimate skill that I'll get to use against the hordes of miscreant 20-somethings that can't communicate in complete sentences.