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Charlie "Shining Path" Bosworth, RIP (1 Viewer)

Jeff Pasquino said:
"Shining Path" was a member that I knew of and enjoyed at times, like many here, and he deserves all the respect and remembrance that he is and will continue to receive.
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Beautifully put.
 
I just heard about this, you will be missed for your wit, insight, and views on life Shiny. RIP.

My thoughts and prayers are with the Bosworth family.

I need someone to do a little Shiny to my avatar.

 
Every time I hear someone whining about Michael Jackson kicking the bucket, I want to punch them in their idiotic faces and tell them that a 1000X better person died.

 
SmoovySmoov said:
Tirnan said:
jamny said:
Tirnan said:
I need someone to do a little Shiny to my avatar.
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Thanks Jamny I got it, just having a heck of a time getting the image to load correctly as my avatar. For some reason it keeps going back to the base image.
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Could be it's too big. Try saving it as a gif instead of a .jpg.
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shows to only be 1.9KB :shrug: For some reason, I had to hit the Delete Avatar button to clear my old one out, then do the upload, then wait about 10 mins.
 
Jene Bramel said:
Tirnan said:
jamny said:
Tirnan said:
I need someone to do a little Shiny to my avatar.
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???
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Thanks Jamny I got it, just having a heck of a time getting the image to load correctly as my avatar. For some reason it keeps going back to the base image.
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It often takes 15 minutes for the server with the avatars to refresh. Give it a few minutes, then do a forced CTRL-F5 refresh.
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I can see after CTRL-F5 now. :shrug:

 
A couple years ago I had the dancing banana avatar. Somehow it got lost (wasn't there one day when I logged on), and I just switched to this simple Rays one.

If anyone has that dancing banana avatar, and can Shiny it up, that would be awesome.

Not expecting it, would just be really cool.

 
I keep coming into this thread thinking people have heard the news and had some thoughts or wanted to express their loss or something.

Or maybe share some story or a good memory or favorite Shining Path post.

There's already a thread for shinification of avatars. And I think there may be one or two threads around here for arguing.

This is the thread for the good stuff.

 
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NorvilleBarnes said:
I keep coming into this thread thinking people have heard the news and had some thoughts or wanted to express their loss or something.

Or maybe share some story or a good memory or favorite Shining Path post.

There's already a thread for shinification of avatars. And I think there may be one or two threads around here for arguing.

This is the thread for the good stuff.
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:(
NorvilleBarnes said:
There's already a thread for shinification of avatars. And I think there may be one or two threads around here for arguing.
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NorvilleBarnes said:
Or maybe share some story or a good memory or favorite Shining Path post.
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Classic :shiny:
 
I agree I'd like to hear more about Charlie from those that interacted with him more often but I look at the avatar requests as a bump to keep the thread on Page 1.

 
I was away from the internet for a few weeks and return to find this. I'm surprised at the loss that I feel.

Shining Path was an asset to the FFA. Always funny, insightful, and intelligent. I can only imagine the sorrow felt by those who knew him better.

 
jamny said:
I agree I'd like to hear more about Charlie from those that interacted with him more often
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I know I'm not alone in this, but I struggled for a little while with how I could be so effected by the loss of somebody I never truly knew. I never met him in real life, I never shook his hand, and though I'd have done so in a heartbeat, I never got a chance to sit down and drink a beer (or 12) with him. So how can I feel this ridiculous sense of loss? I think it's because we did know shiny. Some of us knew him better than others, certainly, but we knew him and what a special person he was nonetheless. And I'm not sure there's all that much more we can know and appreciate now that he's gone. That's part of the beauty of shiny. Unlike many of us, it seems he was pretty much the same person here as he was in real life. His posts here are a veritable Greatest Hits of the FFA, and it's not because he tried ridiculously hard or he had some need to impress anybody. It's who he was. It was a natural extension and application of his intellect, his sense of humor, his wit, his charm, and his personality. People can share stories and we can enjoy reminiscing, but I think we already know most of the things that made Breed shining path.
 
Bob Sacamano said:
jamny said:
I agree I'd like to hear more about Charlie from those that interacted with him more often
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I know I'm not alone in this, but I struggled for a little while with how I could be so effected by the loss of somebody I never truly knew. I never met him in real life, I never shook his hand, and though I'd have done so in a heartbeat, I never got a chance to sit down and drink a beer (or 12) with him. So how can I feel this ridiculous sense of loss? I think it's because we did know shiny. Some of us knew him better than others, certainly, but we knew him and what a special person he was nonetheless. And I'm not sure there's all that much more we can know and appreciate now that he's gone. That's part of the beauty of shiny. Unlike many of us, it seems he was pretty much the same person here as he was in real life. His posts here are a veritable Greatest Hits of the FFA, and it's not because he tried ridiculously hard or he had some need to impress anybody. It's who he was. It was a natural extension and application of his intellect, his sense of humor, his wit, his charm, and his personality. People can share stories and we can enjoy reminiscing, but I think we already know most of the things that made Breed shining path.
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:goodposting:
 
Bob Sacamano said:
jamny said:
I agree I'd like to hear more about Charlie from those that interacted with him more often
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I know I'm not alone in this, but I struggled for a little while with how I could be so effected by the loss of somebody I never truly knew. I never met him in real life, I never shook his hand, and though I'd have done so in a heartbeat, I never got a chance to sit down and drink a beer (or 12) with him. So how can I feel this ridiculous sense of loss? I think it's because we did know shiny. Some of us knew him better than others, certainly, but we knew him and what a special person he was nonetheless. And I'm not sure there's all that much more we can know and appreciate now that he's gone. That's part of the beauty of shiny. Unlike many of us, it seems he was pretty much the same person here as he was in real life. His posts here are a veritable Greatest Hits of the FFA, and it's not because he tried ridiculously hard or he had some need to impress anybody. It's who he was. It was a natural extension and application of his intellect, his sense of humor, his wit, his charm, and his personality. People can share stories and we can enjoy reminiscing, but I think we already know most of the things that made Breed shining path.
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Great posting Bobby.
 
Nathan R. Jessep said:
Capella said:
A couple years ago I had the dancing banana avatar. Somehow it got lost (wasn't there one day when I logged on), and I just switched to this simple Rays one.

If anyone has that dancing banana avatar, and can Shiny it up, that would be awesome.

Not expecting it, would just be really cool.
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perusing the Russian bride catalog?bonus pic, just because, well, hots0r
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Wow, sweet. Thanks.Now could somebody size it? :hophead:

Sorry for mucking this thread up. I forgot there was another strictly-avatar thread.

 
munga30 said:
I was away from the internet for a few weeks and return to find this. I'm surprised at the loss that I feel. Shining Path was an asset to the FFA. Always funny, insightful, and intelligent. I can only imagine the sorrow felt by those who knew him better.
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:( :goodposting: RIP :cry:
 
Bob Sacamano said:
jamny said:
I agree I'd like to hear more about Charlie from those that interacted with him more often
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I know I'm not alone in this, but I struggled for a little while with how I could be so effected by the loss of somebody I never truly knew. I never met him in real life, I never shook his hand, and though I'd have done so in a heartbeat, I never got a chance to sit down and drink a beer (or 12) with him. So how can I feel this ridiculous sense of loss? I think it's because we did know shiny. Some of us knew him better than others, certainly, but we knew him and what a special person he was nonetheless. And I'm not sure there's all that much more we can know and appreciate now that he's gone. That's part of the beauty of shiny. Unlike many of us, it seems he was pretty much the same person here as he was in real life. His posts here are a veritable Greatest Hits of the FFA, and it's not because he tried ridiculously hard or he had some need to impress anybody. It's who he was. It was a natural extension and application of his intellect, his sense of humor, his wit, his charm, and his personality. People can share stories and we can enjoy reminiscing, but I think we already know most of the things that made Breed shining path.
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:confused: Great stuff, buddy.
 
Thanks for posting this, scoobygang. Shining Path was always one of the funniest.

My favorite was the first thing that jumped out: the teletubbies avatar mixed with the Shining Path name... it immediately let people know that this was a worldly, smart guy with a great sense of humor.

 
SaveFerrisB said:
shiney was one of the smartest people I ever encountered.What struck me about him was the depth of his knowledge in his expert subjects:He had a Master's in biochem, and was pursuing a PhD in some science discipline I can't spell or pronounce.He was a walking encyclopedia of World War II.He would pick up on any Bloom County reference, no matter how subtle.He was a wealth of information on UNC basketball, past and present.He was one of the few on this board that regularly used SAT-level vocabulary words correctly in sentences.What made shiney different was how he handled his knowledge, and how he continued to feed his curiosity. shiney would take the time to explain basic concepts in an area of his expertise to someone with no formal knowledge of it without being a condescending #######. That was one of many things that separated him from a lot of the others on this board, including me. When shiney was in a discussion where we wasn't the expert, he would ask smart questions about it. He didn't need to be the most knowledgeable person in the conversation to participate in it.shiney was the recipient of the first PM I ever sent at FBG. It was in reaction to a thread where a local politician was getting tossed under the bus over public use of the phrase "tar baby". As the FFA Reflexively Irate were tripping over themselves to show who was most offended by the statement, shiney stepped in to explain a bit about the politician's background and the origin of the "tar baby" phrase. He signed off the post with the phrase, "Welcome to the big city, you poor *******."I guess you had to be there. It cracked me up. I was impressed with how much he knew about the subject, how he could explain how the controversy happened without being alarmist, and the entertaining conclusion. I sent him a PM telling him I was a fan.shiney was the mastermind behind the Russian Bride Draft. He made it happen. The RBD still cracks me up today. If I had to pick one thread in the history of the board as the Greatest Thread Ever, the Russian Bride Draft would be it. It's hard to call someone you never met in person, or even talked to on the phone, a friend. But that's how I would describe shiney. Other folks on this board have i-known him a lot longer than I did - some regulars and former regulars here have interacted with him since back in the cheatsheets.net days nine years ago. I'm sad that shiney is gone. I will miss him. My heart goes out to folks that knew him better than I did, especially those from his brick-and-mortar circles. Hearing the news took the wind right out of me - I can't imagine what it was like for people who knew him his whole life.
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RBD was clutch.One of my all time favorite threads. Not much else to say on this as I am at a loss for words and this is my first time hearing about this development. Such a young age. Very tragic.
 
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