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Actually, don't. The whole of ILE is "introduce yourselves". So why not instead say one thing about yourself that you've not so far mentioned anywhere else - a fact, a story, an opinion, whatever you like....

― Tom, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was excommunicated by the mormon church for sleeping with a missonary,adnitting i was gay and then not going for therapy
this is a really tawdry story and i could post it if anyone really cared .

― anthony, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I haven't drunk any alcohol this year.

― christopher, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I once spent a week with Anna Nicole Smith. She made me watch as she went on the mechanical kiddie ride in front of the supermarket. I am not proud of this. Just another sordid detail of my life.

― michele, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was too short to be an Ewok. Story of my fucking life...

― Pete, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am related very very distantly to Darren Day.

― the arsemonkey, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm related to infamous highwaywoman Mary Bryant of Fowey. Ac onvicted felon, transported + escaped from Botany Bay. Recaptured, sent to London Newgate prison in chains. James Boswell defended her at her trial.

― stevo, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As a kid, I used to smear Aquafresh toothpaste all over my belly. It tingled (I guess).

― David Raposa, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Stevo! I'm a huge Mary Bryant fan!

Have you read Thomas Keneally's Our Country's Good? Do you know about the play - it's about a group of convicts in OZ attempting to put on a theatrical production - play within a play. It's wonderful and she's in it.

― christopher, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I started sucking cock when i was 8. stopped when I was nine...was celibate until i was 19.

― Geoff, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My grandad has the same name as his brother who was killed in the war. He will not talk about this.

― Ed, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Strange. My dad has the same name as his brother who drowned a few years before he was born. He will not talk about it.

― michele, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Roald Dahl's brother married my dad's mother's sister. He was the plutonium of arse.

― mark s, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A few generations back a rather reprehensible great uncle died in San Francisco under mysterious circumstances. His name = "Black Dick" Raggett. I offer no conclusions on what this might mean.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Children's television presenter Johnny Ball once proposed to my mum.

― stevie t, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I once smoked pot with Allen Ginsberg. Hullo,I'm new. Masonic Boom sent me.

― Spin Art, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The only time I've ever been to the Groucho Club it was with Kathy Acker and Neil Gaiman.

― Andrew L, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The only time *I've* ever been to the Groucho Club it was with Kathy Acker and Richard Cook.

― mark s, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hmmm, I'm supposed to be writing a dissertation, deadline is August the 24th. Also, I was in the Lego Club when I was a kid.

― james e l, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was in the Rail Riders club so beat that.

― Ed, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As a child, among the many academic accolades I acquired with my genius IQ, I won the following: Post Office 'write a letter to a secret friend' contest. Mr Men lunchbox off a Mr Uppity yoghurt pot. Prize for making a poster to discourage vandals from littering the streets of lovely Tring. My slogan was 'Stop LiTring' (d'you see?).

― Emma, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's very little about me that you don't already know. Erm... I cook a mean curry. In fact, I'm going to cook one tonight. One of the few advantages of living in Tooting is that I can get fresh ingredients for curry whenever I want!!!

― masonic boom, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I skipped a grade in primary school. My aunt once dated fat bald much- imitated (by me and my school buddies) fast-talking comedian Roméo Pérusse - except he was a thin crooner with a full head of hair at the time.

― Patrick, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I became a lot happier when I realised I actually disliked the majority of people I go to school with. Everyone should do this.

P.S. I suppose being about to leave might have helped a bit as well :)

Bill

― Bill, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My mom's cousin-in-law is Bob Costas, the world's MOST ANNOYING sports announcer.

― Ally, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What about Marv Albert? At least Bob Costas doesn't run around biting women and wearing wigs (that I know of anyway).

Um, personally I can't think of anything interesting to come up with for this thread...I'm really really boring.

― Nicole, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, come on. Bob Costas is a spoonful of sugar compared to walking crotchrots like Bill Walton & Tim McCarver & Bobby Mercer. Or John Sterling & Michael Kay. I hate the Yankees' broadcast team. And most sports announcers / journalists suck by default, anyway.

I'm surprised no one's quoted Ralph Wiggum yet.

― David Raposa, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nicole, that behavior makes Marv a CLASSIC. Bob Costas is boring.

The Bob Costas thing is the only thing I could think of that no one else knew about me. I'm trying to think of some more but I really can't.

― Ally, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I bent my wookie.

― michele, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

John Sterling and Michael Kay are two of the smoothest most professional commentators in all of sports - however much you may hate the Yankees (as I do) you cannot deny their chroniclers' artistry on the radio. Marv too - after Johnny Most died Marv became de facto the most assured radio basketball commentator on the planet. Hear how calm he is, even when speaking at an auctioneer's pace. CLASSIC.

I am a luvvie. Ssshh!

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't think most of the people on this forum know that my oldest brother died a little over 13 years ago.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was paralysed from the waist down for three months when I was three.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Smooth my ass. If I hear Michael Kay describe the Yankees uniforms like Derek Jeter and Tino Martinez were struting their stuff on the catwalk one more time, I'm going to rolf. Give me Jim Kaat, Ken Singleton, and Al Trautwig any day of the year. And I'm glad you didn't refute my complaints about McCarver & Murcer. Though Fran Healy gives all crappy commentators a run for their money.

― David Raposa, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was almost murdered by my own father.

― Johnathan, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

8And of course they shouldn't discuss things like uniforms and lives because, as we all know, baseball is an exciting and fast paced sport with absolutely no standing around doing fuck all periods whatsoever, therefore there is always loads to talk about in terms of game action.

― Ally, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was knocked down three times by cars when I was a child. I also got scabies once.

― Michael, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My roommate got hit by a car last week. We were so drunk we just started laughing though, and then went and bought masquerade masks and giant butterfly wings.

― Ally, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gosh, Ally, is that some of that there "sarcasm"?

Baseball is a methodical, considered, placid sport, yes. And I'm all for idle chatter. But if I wanted fashion reports, I'd watch _Entertainment Tonight_, I'd read _W_, I'd go to an Ivy League school. The heck does someone listening on the RADIO need to know what the uniforms look like? I doubt people are tuning into WABC by chance during a Yankee broadcast, and thinking to themselves, "Hmm, this sounds interesting. But, yet, I wonder - what DO those American- as-a-mullet Yankee uniforms look like?"

― David Raposa, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have watched every single Yankee game this season with the sound turned off. I won't even put the radio broadcast on. If I hear that insipid "Yankees win, Yankeeees wiiiiiiiiiiiiin" one more time, I am going to go over to the Stadium and put my foot up their ass. As for Tim McCarver, I would like to sew his mouth shut with twine.

Little known fact about me: I once worked for the New York Yankees. I ate lunch every day in the seats behind home plate, acting as if the stadium were mine.

― michele, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But if I wanted fashion reports, I'd watch _Entertainment Tonight_, I'd read _W_, I'd go to an Ivy League school.

I was right there with you up until the last one. Based on my experience, kids at Ivy League schools are so stressed about their grades that fashion (and sometimes hygiene) tends to fall by the wayside. There are exceptions, but these exceptions are usually too busy dating people off-campus to really be talked about.

Now, if you'd said Boston University...

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Don't post much, but...

The Christian Bale character in Velvet Goldmine --Arthur, that is--was loosely based on experiences I had as a teen punk runaway, according to its editor/co-writer, Jim Lyons. Then Todd Haynes Anglicized and glam-ified it.

― Arthur, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ah, shit! Boston U! THAT'S what I meant! Sorry, bro. I just assumed prestige + money = shit-hot couture. I mean, when Jenna's drinking off-campus, I hope she's wearing the finest Armani. Though, knowing her family, she's probably wearing Don Imus knock-offs.

Michele: For shame. The insipidness in question is, "Yankees win! Theahahahahahahahahahahahah Yankees win!" Oh, it's terrible. Scratch my back with a hacksaw. At least it's not Hawk Harrelson.

Since I've sort of derailed the thread - in sixth grade, during Easter vacation, I broke my left pinky. Playing basketball. Nerf Basketball. Instead of explaining myself, I'll just let your imaginations run free...

― David Raposa, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Really, Arthur? I'm impressed (keep in mind I lurve _VG_ quite a lot). I was always thinking Todd H. had Morrissey in mind, actually.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I graduated from Elementary School without ever using a school bathroom!

― Tom Porrino, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, Ned, it's true. My friend Jim wrote a story about my experiences--a sort of fantasy version of the events--and Todd, who was also his boyfriend at the time, read it and decided to incorporate it into the movie. Although Morrissey makes more sense, doesn't it? God, a LOT more sense, what with the Dolls obsession and "London" and whatever that runaway song was--"Half a Person"? Maybe Jim neglected to tell me that part of the story, thinking I'd feel more *special* that way. Of course, after I saw it I kept thinking I really wanted to be Jack Fairy!

― Arthur, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Most interesting indeed! Also the fact that Morrissey was his own semi-journalist for a while as well and things like that...I actually wouldn't have fully dreamed up that comparison if I hadn't seen in the published screenplay that in fact Arthur's hometown is specifically said to be Manchester. My friend Brian also noted that his older brother at the record store looks a lot like a Gallagher sibling...

And hey, who wouldn't want to be Jack Fairy?

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I once kissed Jesus. He stood there for a moment and asked " Why did you do that my son" ? I replied " Becasue you are very special" THen he said ' Not the kiss, why did you just run up to me nude screaming 'GIVE GARFILE D SOME FUCKING LASAGNA!!'" ? And I said without missing a beat " Becasue you have the POWER TO DO IT. " I like Jesus, and God too. THey are silly rascals!

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

camp..7th grade..i made a kid cry by telling him i wanted to rape his corpse. kinda feel bad about it now.

― kevin enas, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

McCarver and Murcer have *nothing* to say so they fill the long gaps in the action with what seems like willful inarticulateness, leading inevitably to dull-headed misunderstanding, which in turn necessitates further explication, and then finally some token disagreement - at which point something actually happens in the game and the (usually pointless) subject is hastily dropped.

I have actually heard Michael Kay criticize Sterl's signoff - "Thaaaaa YANKees win...!" - but I like it. It's like "New York New York" played at the end of every game - insipid yet essential. By the way I hate the Yankees. It's the Beaneaters for me, baby. (final embarrasing factoid: when watching yankees/red sox on TV, I mute then turn on Sterling and Kay on the AM dial. Like a fucking grandpa.)

And btw Ally your criticism of baseball bounces off me and sticks to you: I love baseball precisely because you don't really have to pay attention.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Are you in the Boston area or the NYC area, Tracer? If I find out you're dissing Sean McDonough for those radio dopes, I'll make you watch tape of Matt Young's "no-hitter".

― David Raposa, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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gtfo

― gr8080, Thursday, 21 April 2011 02:18 (fourteen years ago)

lol

― roxymuzak, Thursday, 21 April 2011 02:19 (fourteen years ago)

Once again, the beauty of Killfile.

― Neanderthal, Thursday, 21 April 2011 02:45 (fourteen years ago)

wb <3

― it always seems to have dick smith in it (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 21 April 2011 02:52 (fourteen years ago)

since I saw lorax's name above several times I can only assume somehow his story was related to 9/11 truthery....

― Neanderthal, Thursday, 21 April 2011 00:40 (2 hours ago)

You must not get around much on ilx. I post everywhere

― poplocking nazis from space (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 21 April 2011 03:11 (fourteen years ago)

four months pass...

Hi there.

I like occasional social drinking, bacon, writing insanely violent novels and breaking magic threes.

I've been lurking on and off since 2006. You all seem like a friendly bunch and I hope to get to know you better :)

― Pohnny Jolo (buckatee91), Saturday, 10 September 2011 00:01 (fourteen years ago)

nine months pass...

Hello—

Something that may not be completely obvious from reading my current ramblings about music: I was once in a DJ group that consisted of four "turntablists" in which we created scratch composition sort of music.

Look forward to reading more frequently. I've always been in and out as a lurker, but now that I'm actually registered, I plan to stick around.

― Austin, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 02:54 (thirteen years ago)

Roxor. As they say!

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 02:55 (thirteen years ago)

sup austin

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 02:57 (thirteen years ago)

welcome buckatee91!

― buzza, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 07:17 (thirteen years ago)

I was disfellowshipped from the Branch Davidians because I had this pink alarm clock that went off at random times, causing the more neurotic hens in the yard to fall behind on their laying schedule and suffer from, in some cases, quite severe PTSD symptoms.

― Grampsy, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 07:51 (thirteen years ago)

how... interesting. would you mind stepping over here for a minute? there's someone who wants to talk with you. a problem? no. no problem at all! (he smiles broadly, makes several sharp, urgent hand motions to unseen eyes)

― Aimless, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 17:32 (thirteen years ago)

Ah yes, my dear Aimless, those "unseen eyes"! They're "always watching me", isn't that how it begins? And then it's but a short step (one I see you've already taken) to "they're always watching him".

― Grampsy, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 22:29 (thirteen years ago)

Hello! I am the Music Geisha. Music transports me to a world, calmer than this one. I live to please . . .

― MusicGeisha, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 22:34 (thirteen years ago)

welcome 2 grampsy, musicgeisha, and austin

― ♆ (gr8080), Friday, 22 June 2012 09:10 (thirteen years ago)

two months pass...

My friend Sarah, a psychiatrist and would-be artist (who lives in a different city) just sent me portrait of myself that she painted from a photograph. So good it freaks me out. I just love that girl. - Silvercigarette.

― Silvercigarette, Monday, 3 September 2012 22:55 (thirteen years ago)

And I realize I probably didn't say much about myself with the above thing (I am egomaniacal?) Was feeling enthusiastic and a bit liquored up. I love music and anything to do with the mind, art, or society in general.

― Silvercigarette, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 14:19 (thirteen years ago)

Welcome silvercigarette!

― Virginia Plain, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 14:31 (thirteen years ago)

Might as well get in on this while the getting's good. I've been sneaking around I Love Football and I Love Books recently in an attempt to break down the unwieldy behemoth that is ILX (or at least that it seems to be to this outsider) into manageable chunks. Been working my toes right up to the edge of the diving board though, so who knows? Maybe one of these days I'll get a rush of blood to the head and topple flailing and undignified right in to the deep end.

Anyway, HELLO ALL>

― Windsor Davies, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 17:47 (thirteen years ago)

Hello to you both!

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 17:50 (thirteen years ago)

hey ya'll!

― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 17:51 (thirteen years ago)

howdy!

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 18:07 (thirteen years ago)

I just realised that I didn't actually post a fact or a story about myself that I hadn't revealed anywhere else yet. I'm a stickler for protocol.

When I was 8 years old (I think) I swallowed a one pound coin and then chickened out of a helicopter ride when they tried to airlift me to hospital. I still have the pound coin. It's blue.

Reading back, I suppose "I'm a stickler for protocol" could have counted as my little tidbit of information about myself, but that's a pretty lame thing to leave people with when you're trying to say hello.

― Windsor Davies, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 19:17 (thirteen years ago)

CC all posts to your supervisor for review, get all quotes on the record, and we'll forgive you.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 19:21 (thirteen years ago)

thought you might be an old poster under a new guise

welcome to ilx

― Einstürzende Joebarton (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 19:22 (thirteen years ago)

welcome

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― Aimless, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 19:27 (thirteen years ago)

ban windsor davies

― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 20:11 (thirteen years ago)

I'll keep coming back. I'm right keen.

― Windsor Davies, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 20:16 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms5EkL419YU

― Einstürzende Joebarton (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 20:21 (thirteen years ago)

Thanks. Pretty fish, Aimless.

― Silvercigarette, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 13:57 (thirteen years ago)

i just realised that i'd prob always assume a new id was a new poster under a different name, unless i knew otherwise.

― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 14:06 (thirteen years ago)

an old poster?

― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 14:42 (thirteen years ago)

sorry yeah... doing about ten things at once here.

― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 14:43 (thirteen years ago)

I am a new poster for sure.

― Silvercigarette, Sunday, 9 September 2012 21:41 (thirteen years ago)

HI EVERYBODY

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― Broney, Pt. 1 (Pillbox), Monday, 10 September 2012 02:15 (thirteen years ago)

HI DOCTOR NICK

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 10 September 2012 02:16 (thirteen years ago)

four months pass...

why on earth was posting here recommended? the best sportscaster of all time is myron cope

― ramblin rose, Friday, 25 January 2013 14:56 (thirteen years ago)

Ya gotta start somewhere. Hi there!

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 January 2013 15:22 (thirteen years ago)

Myron Cope?! Now I've heard everything.

― brownie, Friday, 25 January 2013 15:46 (thirteen years ago)

why on earth was posting here recommended?

when you go to a smorgasbord, you may not like everything on the table, but keep trying and you'll find something precisely to your taste. or else your tongue will eventually deaden and you'll no longer care what anything tastes like. either way, you end up staying.

― Aimless, Friday, 25 January 2013 17:03 (thirteen years ago)

yoi and double yoi

― mookieproof, Friday, 25 January 2013 21:00 (thirteen years ago)

Hi and hello!!

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 January 2013 22:00 (thirteen years ago)

hi ramblin rose

― mh (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 25 January 2013 22:01 (thirteen years ago)

four years pass...

Grant

― Trelayne Staley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 10 May 2017 10:19 (eight years ago)

Meant to link here

― Trelayne Staley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 10 May 2017 10:20 (eight years ago)

you've just reminded me of that Grant guy who turned up about 10 years ago expecting us to fix his problems. can't quite remember how that panned out

― imago, Wednesday, 10 May 2017 10:23 (eight years ago)

haha oh yes I wonder sometimes if I am the victim of a malicious rumour

― imago, Wednesday, 10 May 2017 10:36 (eight years ago)

four years pass...

bump, wow four years

― sleeve, Friday, 24 September 2021 01:57 (four years ago)

my name is treeship and i'm not the man i wish i was

― treeship., Friday, 24 September 2021 02:56 (four years ago)

sorry to hear it, treesh. maybe you'd feel better about yourself if you changed your display name to spartacus

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 24 September 2021 02:59 (four years ago)

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