Run-off poll for avatar
by nickjs21 on Jul 31, 2009 1:33 PM EDT
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Perhaps not the final run-off either. We'll see how this vote goes. Previous discussion. I can't close and add a new poll to the previous FanPost, so that explains the new one. And anyway it's nice to have so you can read the initial thoughts people had if you're unsure.
This will go until there is a clear winner or, in the case of two standouts, another run-off vote. Tremble, Adam, tremble.
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I think a little cropping could be done on Wentz to ensure that the eye-liner goodness comes out in all its glory instead of half an avatar of blue background.
by DisplacedBuckeye on Jul 31, 2009 1:50 PM EDT reply actions
I think the blue background attracts the eye. But we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.
Steel Nick
Actually, this is an improvement. I stand corrected.
by DisplacedBuckeye on Jul 31, 2009 2:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Bolton is the least hideous of them all. We’re the people who have to look at the stinkin’ avatar, so Bolton gets my vote. All of the others make me cringe.
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge..." C. Darwin
I’m confused. These are all pictures of ginormous douches.
by lenred on Jul 31, 2009 2:13 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
Still tepid support for Bolton! So much for the LGT monoculture.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
Seriously. I’ve heard people joke about him, but I have never cared enough to look him up. I definitely have never heard a song by him that I am aware of
But what would be the joke? He’s not even in an ironic pose.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
by Jay on Aug 1, 2009 4:44 PM EDT up reply actions
I like Lynryd Skynyrd ironically. That is, I love to play one or two songs on a jukebox list in dive bars at one in the morning. I would never listen to it elsewhere.
Well it is in this case, though I failed to explain it well enough. I like them for the reaction they get from the sleeveless, mulleted masses. A friend of mine has a lakehouse in Celina, SE of Lima on Grand Lake St. Mary’s. It’s great to boat in, but the locals… hooboy the locals.
Play them the heart-rending “Gimme Back My Bullets” and they’ll love you forever.
True facts: I took the ACT in Celina because it had the closest testing center when I was in high school.
I’ve known people from Ada, Lima, Celina, etc. – but not Van Wert. I can see how it would have the same type of people, but the best interactions we ever have are when we purposely go away from the tourist-y areas to interact with the people that are purposely trying to stay away from the tourists/non-locals. Without the lake, I’m guessing Van Wert doesn’t have a big population surge during summer months that really riles up the local drunks.
All the dudes I have ever dated from Ohio were from Ada. I’m not sure if that says something about me or about Ada.
Van Wert doesn’t get much touristy action except during the Wetzel party. We did get some touristy action this summer because of some Lincoln Highway nonsense they were doing, though.
Yes. They supposedly don’t give tours, but one of my co-workers got to take a tour with her cheerleading squad a while back.
Well I think we all learned a few things about Nowheresvilles, OH. More fun facts I never knew about Ohio until I started using I30 to get to western Ohio:
1. There are things in western Ohio
2. There is a full-on interstate (30) that connects 71at Mansfield to 75
3. 17 people use that highway at any given time
4. There are still highway troopers on that highway
5. Loveliest rest stops in the land? Crawford county on I30.
6. Know why everyone that’s ever driven through Ohio thinks its nothing but a bunch of hicks, farmers, and country folk? They use 30 to pass through the state.
7. There is an Upper Sandusky, and its almost directly south of Sandusky. It may be filled with Canadians.
8. Most unintentionally hilarious publication ever? The Crawford County Post, available free of charge in aforementioned rest stops.
I30 used to stop being a real highway after about Beaverdam/I-75, but I took that sucker to the eastern half of the state every time I went because my BFF was too cheap to take 80/90.
Yeah I remember when it was just a rural road for the western-most bit. I’ve always been confused by what changed. It’s all highway now, but the portion of the highway that showed up doesn’t seem new. It’s like someone just plopped down a 15-year-old, 30 mile section of highway…
30 runs all the way through to Massillon/Canton as well. It’s not much more developed over here but you do get to drive the metropolis of Dalton, which I promise you are pronouncing wrong.
If one likes small town soft-serve ice cream stands that the Dalton Dari-ette is a good one.
"It's all part of life's rich pageant, you know?" - Inspector Clouseau
by woodsmeister on Aug 10, 2009 4:02 PM EDT up reply actions
That’s nothing. You can take Route 30 from Atlantic City, through Philly, through Pittsburgh, through Canton, through Fort Wayne IN, through Chicago, through Cedar Rapids IA, down to Omaha, then all the way over to Cheyenne Wyoming, through Boise City Idaho, up to Portland, and finally ending in Astoria Oregon. It’s a long road.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
by Jay on Aug 7, 2009 1:22 AM EDT up reply actions
Yep. In New Jersey, it’s White Horse Pike, and then it comes up and continues over the Ben Franklin Bridge into Philly, eventually going over to Lancaster Ave., which goes all the way out past the main line. If you’re driving I-76, you see signs for US 30 all the way through Pennsylvania, and it shadows other interstates in other parts of the country. It must have been one of the main national routes before the interstate system was built.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
Cedar Rapids!
I propose giving Victor a 2012 World Series ring.
by Gradyforpresident on Aug 10, 2009 3:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Incidentally my childhood home is nary a mile off US 30.
I propose giving Victor a 2012 World Series ring.
by Gradyforpresident on Aug 10, 2009 3:11 PM EDT up reply actions
I’m upset Twilight got eliminated. A lot of what Jay was saying stands for Twilight, but even more so. There is absolutely no irony factor in it. You would never have a Twilight avatar just as a “Eh? Eh? Look at that”. You would only have it if you were seriously fixated with that movie. And that is downright embarrassing. There is SOME with Bolton, because he is just such a joke, and that picture is actually stomach ache inducing.
As a result of my horse being shot before the 2nd race, I refuse to vote. Good day.
i don’t get how the douche is a humiliating avatar
also, i wish i could go back and submit this for consideration:
HELL yeah, that’s scott stapp baby
by Cap'n Snegiryov on Jul 31, 2009 9:47 PM EDT reply actions
Mariah ahead of Le Douche by 10 votes, everyone else battling for third. Should I have a run-off, or is it over?
Steel Nick
It’s over. Adam, take Mariah as soon as you read this. You are a brave individual, sir. I salute you.
Now I hope someone makes another avatar wager with me. This time I’ll just assign you Pete Wentz.
Steel Nick
Same
I propose giving Victor a 2012 World Series ring.
by Gradyforpresident on Aug 3, 2009 6:44 PM EDT up reply actions
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