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[FWMustangGirl]

Yes, but did you bring your towel?

Always.

- It's filthy, what are all of those spots?
- Yellow: Protein. Green: Vitamin B+C. Pink: Wheat germ extract.
- And the brown?
- Barbecue sauce.
- And the other one?
- Anti-depressants.



... and yes that was all from memory. So forgive me if I screwed up the quote.

Better than I could do. In fact, my brother and brother-in-law are the only other people I know who could do that from memory.

[perunapower]

You guys are too cool.

[ThadFilms]

Better than I could do. In fact, my brother and brother-in-law are the only other people I know who could do that from memory.

Then I must meet your brother and brother-in-law... they sound like ThadFilms kind of people. What's their excuse for being such ubber dorks?


Mine? Though I have read the books, sure, watched the BBC television series, yeah, and seen the recent somewhat Americanized flick, yeppers.... I have listened to the BBC radio series about 8000 times over the course of my life. I have it on tape - it's two six part serieses (seri?) on 12 cassettes. Though now, as of late, I am now missing the first tape. Maychance perswitch, did your brother or brother-in-law steal it?



42???!??!?!?
We are going to get lynched, do you know that?



(Maychance perswitch - NOT from HHGTTG.)

[ThadFilms]

You guys are too cool.

... for school.

[perunapower]

Complete awesomeness.

[FWMustangGirl]

Then I must meet your brother and brother-in-law... they sound like ThadFilms kind of people. What's their excuse for being such ubber dorks?

Oddly enough, one of them is a "Thad" also. But I doubt either of them bogarted your tape. My older brother is the reason that the Mac computer I got in 1984 had the Hitchhiker's game on it. He told my folks it was the best game they could buy his 9 y.o. sister.

[ThadFilms]

Then I must meet your brother and brother-in-law... they sound like ThadFilms kind of people. What's their excuse for being such ubber dorks?

Oddly enough, one of them is a "Thad" also. But I doubt either of them bogarted your tape. My older brother is the reason that the Mac computer I got in 1984 had the Hitchhiker's game on it. He told my folks it was the best game they could buy his 9 y.o. sister.

Then whichever one of them that is a Thad tomorrow, at Christmas, or whenever the next time that it is you see him, tell him that, "You don't know what you heard about him, but a girl couldn't get a dolla' out him, 'cause he's a mutha' f-ing T-H-A-D."

But one of them did 'bogart' my tape. I'm now sure of it. nice Gen X/Y 90's reference there, sister!

And the Mac story?

Awwwwwww.....

Seriously, though, that's awesome. I'm the youngest of three - I received my first Mac from my bro, who won it in college (my sister claims she won it, which is OBVIOUSLY not true). He's nine years older than me, it was the same computer that I later took to college with me.

I actually don't go by Thad in non-interweb circles - though most end up calling me as such [sigh] - I go by, or at least try to go by, Thaddeus.

Why?

Well, when I was a kid I was Thad and I hated how different I was. I hated how wierd I was. I hated that I wasn't accepted...... and I hated that I had such a goofy/non-standard name (of course deep down I loved all of those things, but I WISHED it were different). I wanted to be a Bob, or a Tom, or a Charlie, or Brian.... I wanted to fit in.... to be 'like everybody else' ... well, as I have gotten older, and at the end of high school and the beginning of college I embraced everything about me.

Thusly, I introduce myself as Thaddeus, and when I have the opportunity to say my name I say Thaddeus.... so why ThadFilms? It has a nice ring to it.... and why not ThaddeusFilms? .... well it's a tad (dare I say Thad?) pretentious.

Not that I am against pretense.

I am, of course, Thad to the bone.... (Th-Th-Th-Th-Thad...)

[ThadFilms]

Complete awesomeness.

Agreed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ThadFilms]

BTW - FWMustangGirl tell your hubby that his Fatterson sig pic is creeping me out ... in a good way though... so he should keep it.... I think it just got weird.

[gostangs]

For a second there it was like I got trapped in the wrong corner at a bad rush party. Who is this Thad and why wont he stop talking to me about his childhood?

[ThadFilms]

For a second there it was like I got trapped in the wrong corner at a bad rush party. Who is this Thad and why wont he stop talking to me about his childhood?

Try the shrimp. Oh hey, and uh, here's where we bag the chicks... big TV, crappy couch, nice isn't it?





So, um... is there actually a good rush party?

My older brother's frat really tried to make me care because I was a 'legacy'..... but I told them not to bother with me, I told them that I was a 'spinach guy', I'm not someone to say I hate spinach just because of the way it looks, I want to try it first. I told them that it was cool, and if they really wanted to offer me that I would appreciate it, think on it long and hard, but I wasn't sure it was the life for me.... maybe I was somehow the 'elitist' in that conversation.

I thought to myself that I wanted to go see flicks by Atom Egoyan and be with folks that I could, afterwards, over a double-decaf-half-caf, talk about the deep poop said filmmaker was attempting to espouse in his eloquent sublimation of the underlying metaphor of the.... whatever, I forget what I was talking about.

Now that I look back - and I tell myself that I am a man without regrets - but ... I would be interested to see how my life would have been positively affected by being in a fraternity at SMU, what with my feelings about my time at SMU somewhat melancholy/not up to snuff..... In high school, I went to an all guys school, and the bond that we share... us brothers... is simply amazing. SMU being so much of a greek school, I wonder if I would look back more fondly on my experiences had I had a group of brethren who had my goofy/weirdo/full of mindless poop back.

Though at the time, I wanted something... I guess... more .... SMU didn't offer that to me. The film department was average to above average (the faculty not withstanding, because SMU has brought in some great ones).... but (the 'school' as a whole) not great. No genius students around to have scintillating debates with (Bill, Mitchell, Jeremy, you guys are exceptions, not that you jackarses read this board), but the true 'exceptionals' were in the theatre school. However, they became - to me - in a way just like the greek culture... 'better than'... 'exclusive'..... 'elitist'.... sure they were liberal like me, intellectually thirsty like me... and to a certain extent they wanted to accept me..... but of course they wouldn't, my experience was just so different from theirs.



I watch schools like Michigan have their games on TV.... this year has been a bad year for them.... but I look, and see a packed stadium.


I see rabid fans.


I see people who believe.




I see people who support their school. More than anything else.... that's what I 'missed' in college. I went to SMU for two reasons, one. minimally - because it was 'free' (due to my father's long standing tenured position), and two - EXTREMELY IMPORTANT - because of my love for the band and football team.

Weird, huh?


I was accepted to everywhere I applied, my father - now 33 years at SMU - says to me I shouldn't think of going to Cal (his grad school alma mater) because I might lose myself there. He suggests UT (where he taught for a time before SMU, before that at Wash U. in St. Louis).... I couldn't stand that idea. BURNT ORANGE???!!???!!?


And now here I am... living in Austin, happier than I have ever been. Maybe he was right after all.





What was that, gostangs, about trapped in a corner??? ..... Um... sorry, you may go.




GO MUSTANGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!