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Group texters: I don't respond because I have no idea who's texting and in which order. I can't make heads or tails of any of it. I've become my grandpa. Caps unlock is how I feel inside. :(
:goodposting: Very confusing.
:lmao: I'm pretty sure that whenever you reply to everyone in a group text there is never any words or anything. I get the text notification and see it's from you, but there is nothing there, I'm not sure if you're trying to attach something or it just some kind of odd shtick. Either way, I giggle every time.
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Group texters: I don't respond because I have no idea who's texting and in which order. I can't make heads or tails of any of it. I've become my grandpa. Caps unlock is how I feel inside. :(
:goodposting: Very confusing.
:lmao: I'm pretty sure that whenever you reply to everyone in a group text there is never any words or anything. I get the text notification and see it's from you, but there is nothing there, I'm not sure if you're trying to attach something or it just some kind of odd shtick. Either way, I giggle every time.
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HA! I can see them, but I have to download them as a picture. Same with all you damn iPhone users.
 
I received another e-mail today from my friend's cat. :mellow:
Please, please post. I/we need it.
I'm not sure this is going to help.
Dear Aunt Krista: Double LL here....boy is it a full-time job taking care of mom! Still no job so next week I found here a professional Career Management Counselor. The MN Voc. Rehab people have done nothing for her for the 6 months she's been on unemployment. THANKFULLY I applied for an exetnsion - which we received but honestly, we are just running out of money. So I had to do something as mom has applied for well over a 100 jobs, very few interviews and nothing in sight. I wonder where we will be living next year? Of course WE don't need that much room and mom is calling her Realtor this week to list the house. How sad.....mom was so happy but then again it is only a house and I have learned to be quite adapable. Her friend Tanyia is coming next weekend to help pack and take the "stuff" mom can't use.....like old dishes, bookcase, etc. She can pass them onto her kids - who I am certain will enjoy them. Didn't hear from my brother at Christmas or after my "Happy Thanksgiving" e-mail. Guess there is a whole nother family in MT! So, mom and I are on our own.....just a few friends here and then my CHI Town connections. I may have to come and live with you for a short time if this all falls apart........I am still a svelt 18 pounds and love every inch of ME! Although mom has me strictly on Science Diet WD and you know which end it really helps! WE hope you have a happy new year and are enjoying your house in Nicaragua (is that how you spell it - sometimes my paws make mistakes!) Love Double LL
 
"Double L" stands for "Little Lovely", which is what she calls the cat. Though I'm not sure what "Double LL" would be since that is four Ls...

 
I received another e-mail today from my friend's cat. :mellow:
Please, please post. I/we need it.
I'm not sure this is going to help.
Dear Aunt Krista: Double LL here....boy is it a full-time job taking care of mom! Still no job so next week I found here a professional Career Management Counselor. The MN Voc. Rehab people have done nothing for her for the 6 months she's been on unemployment. THANKFULLY I applied for an exetnsion - which we received but honestly, we are just running out of money. So I had to do something as mom has applied for well over a 100 jobs, very few interviews and nothing in sight. I wonder where we will be living next year? Of course WE don't need that much room and mom is calling her Realtor this week to list the house. How sad.....mom was so happy but then again it is only a house and I have learned to be quite adapable. Her friend Tanyia is coming next weekend to help pack and take the "stuff" mom can't use.....like old dishes, bookcase, etc. She can pass them onto her kids - who I am certain will enjoy them. Didn't hear from my brother at Christmas or after my "Happy Thanksgiving" e-mail. Guess there is a whole nother family in MT! So, mom and I are on our own.....just a few friends here and then my CHI Town connections. I may have to come and live with you for a short time if this all falls apart........I am still a svelt 18 pounds and love every inch of ME! Although mom has me strictly on Science Diet WD and you know which end it really helps! WE hope you have a happy new year and are enjoying your house in Nicaragua (is that how you spell it - sometimes my paws make mistakes!) Love Double LL
You're right.
 
I received another e-mail today from my friend's cat. :mellow:
Please, please post. I/we need it.
I'm not sure this is going to help.
Dear Aunt Krista: Double LL here....boy is it a full-time job taking care of mom! Still no job so next week I found here a professional Career Management Counselor. The MN Voc. Rehab people have done nothing for her for the 6 months she's been on unemployment. THANKFULLY I applied for an exetnsion - which we received but honestly, we are just running out of money. So I had to do something as mom has applied for well over a 100 jobs, very few interviews and nothing in sight. I wonder where we will be living next year? Of course WE don't need that much room and mom is calling her Realtor this week to list the house. How sad.....mom was so happy but then again it is only a house and I have learned to be quite adapable. Her friend Tanyia is coming next weekend to help pack and take the "stuff" mom can't use.....like old dishes, bookcase, etc. She can pass them onto her kids - who I am certain will enjoy them. Didn't hear from my brother at Christmas or after my "Happy Thanksgiving" e-mail. Guess there is a whole nother family in MT! So, mom and I are on our own.....just a few friends here and then my CHI Town connections. I may have to come and live with you for a short time if this all falls apart........I am still a svelt 18 pounds and love every inch of ME! Although mom has me strictly on Science Diet WD and you know which end it really helps! WE hope you have a happy new year and are enjoying your house in Nicaragua (is that how you spell it - sometimes my paws make mistakes!) Love Double LL
You're right.
I'm unreasonably sad about Saints-Man. I thought shiny was fantastic but had no personal interaction with him. S-M, on the other hand, reached out to me at some bad times and was just a dear, dear person. And 49 freaking years old. Absolutely, completely unfair.So yeah, reading some craziness from someone else who is a good person isn't doing it for me, either. :(
 
I'm unreasonably sad about Saints-Man. I thought shiny was fantastic but had no personal interaction with him. S-M, on the other hand, reached out to me at some bad times and was just a dear, dear person. And 49 freaking years old. Absolutely, completely unfair.

So yeah, reading some craziness from someone else who is a good person isn't doing it for me, either. :(
Jeebus he was a nice guy. Like not wallflower nice, but reached out to PM people or FB message them whenever he thought you needed encouragement nice. I wish I had invested more in getting to know him. One day a couple years ago he PMed me about some philosophical b.s. I had written in a draft thread, and he wanted to use it as his sig. I'm pretty sure I was drunk when I typed it, but he totally took it to heart like he was gonna make it his manifesto.I feel pretty crappy because I really didn't know about the Katrina stuff.

PS. For those sending PMs, it will take a while for me to get through them all.
What % of those PMs are for pics? :bag:
None. I don't have any to share. I lost all my pictures in Katrina.

All my pictures of my parents: Gone.

All my pictures of high school and hs cheerleading: Gone.

All my pictures of Pochahontus and Saints-Man: Gone.

All my pictures of those college girls I escorted to various functions: Gone.

All my wedding pictures, which is a snapshot of my family and friends in a moment in time: Gone.

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This is freaking awful. :excited:
I have endured all else with Katrina. That is the one things that still gives me heartache.
You still in NOLA? I notice your profile says Dallas
No house to live in NOLA. Mine was flooded with three feet of water, effectively making the house unlivable. I lost all my flooring and other damage. The insurance money paid off the mortgage, which the mortgage company required(I have no problem with that). I applied to Road Home, and so far I have been denied. I am still fighting them, but they are only giving up inches when I need yards. Unless I can get them to budge, my liquid savings are insufficient to rebuild the house in New Orleans. The last time I checked the entire zip code(70122) was considered blighted so mortgage companies were not lending money to properties in those areas. If you didn't have the cash, you can't rebuild.Lots of conflicting issues with that.



 
I don't do New Year's resolutions.

But I'm gonna resolve to ##### less in 2012. And when I do, I'm gonna remember Ralph Decuers (S-M), and shut-t-f-u.

 
Yeah, turns out his house is only a few miles from where I live. And the visitation is literally a few blocks from my house...so I'll bet he grew up in my neighborhood. Katrina was ####ed up and it turned a lot of good people against this city. RIP SM

 
I received another e-mail today from my friend's cat. :mellow:
Please, please post. I/we need it.
I'm not sure this is going to help.
Dear Aunt Krista: Double LL here....boy is it a full-time job taking care of mom! Still no job so next week I found here a professional Career Management Counselor. The MN Voc. Rehab people have done nothing for her for the 6 months she's been on unemployment. THANKFULLY I applied for an exetnsion - which we received but honestly, we are just running out of money. So I had to do something as mom has applied for well over a 100 jobs, very few interviews and nothing in sight. I wonder where we will be living next year? Of course WE don't need that much room and mom is calling her Realtor this week to list the house. How sad.....mom was so happy but then again it is only a house and I have learned to be quite adapable. Her friend Tanyia is coming next weekend to help pack and take the "stuff" mom can't use.....like old dishes, bookcase, etc. She can pass them onto her kids - who I am certain will enjoy them. Didn't hear from my brother at Christmas or after my "Happy Thanksgiving" e-mail. Guess there is a whole nother family in MT! So, mom and I are on our own.....just a few friends here and then my CHI Town connections. I may have to come and live with you for a short time if this all falls apart........I am still a svelt 18 pounds and love every inch of ME! Although mom has me strictly on Science Diet WD and you know which end it really helps! WE hope you have a happy new year and are enjoying your house in Nicaragua (is that how you spell it - sometimes my paws make mistakes!) Love Double LL
90% sure a cat didn't write this.
 
I don't do New Year's resolutions.But I'm gonna resolve to ##### less in 2012. And when I do, I'm gonna remember Ralph Decuers (S-M), and shut-t-f-u.
:goodposting:First time in this place that I really wish I'd reached out and told the guy how much I appreciated him. Reading that thread, and his FB page, you can see just what kind of guy he was. You notice that you have everyone in that thread regardless of political affiliation, "clique", or anything else?
 
I received another e-mail today from my friend's cat. :mellow:
Please, please post. I/we need it.
I'm not sure this is going to help.
Dear Aunt Krista: Double LL here....boy is it a full-time job taking care of mom! Still no job so next week I found here a professional Career Management Counselor. The MN Voc. Rehab people have done nothing for her for the 6 months she's been on unemployment. THANKFULLY I applied for an exetnsion - which we received but honestly, we are just running out of money. So I had to do something as mom has applied for well over a 100 jobs, very few interviews and nothing in sight. I wonder where we will be living next year? Of course WE don't need that much room and mom is calling her Realtor this week to list the house. How sad.....mom was so happy but then again it is only a house and I have learned to be quite adapable. Her friend Tanyia is coming next weekend to help pack and take the "stuff" mom can't use.....like old dishes, bookcase, etc. She can pass them onto her kids - who I am certain will enjoy them. Didn't hear from my brother at Christmas or after my "Happy Thanksgiving" e-mail. Guess there is a whole nother family in MT! So, mom and I are on our own.....just a few friends here and then my CHI Town connections. I may have to come and live with you for a short time if this all falls apart........I am still a svelt 18 pounds and love every inch of ME! Although mom has me strictly on Science Diet WD and you know which end it really helps! WE hope you have a happy new year and are enjoying your house in Nicaragua (is that how you spell it - sometimes my paws make mistakes!) Love Double LL
90% sure a cat didn't write this.
Yeah, there would be a lot more CAPS LOCK.
 
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Could anyone find/bump the area code guide to GMTAN texters? My phone's blowing up tonight and I have no idea who anyone is, let alone figuring out who's responding to whom about what. I still don't know how to reply all either. :(

 
Yeah, I've been pretty bummed about the Saints Man news since I read it a few hours ago. I think Bobby Layne said it best in his 'nice guy' description. SM reached out to me several times via PM, either to ask further questions about something I'd written or to ask about personal details that he didn't want to ask 'out loud'. I don't ever recall him complaining or acting confrontational. I wish I'd known about his troubles if for no other reason than I would have liked to have reached out at least once or twice and told him I was thinking about him.

I started the Male Cheerleader thread on a whim and never thought much about doing it. This was back when I would start a few threads each week...some stuck around, most just vanished. But this one little throw-away thread opened Saints Man up and he delivered one of the most entertaining stories the board has ever seen.

RIP Ralph. :(

 
There's a lot of things that suck about the internet and Social Media, but one of the pretty cool things IMO is how it lets people live on posthumously. Just 10 years ago, many people would have only remembered those who passed away in a story or in random conversation. But now we can bump a thread, or read a FB wall.

Maybe it's b/c Mrs. TF & her siblings lost their parents young and I've heard countless stories from them of "how they wish they knew more", but I just think it's cool that now so much is "documented"

 
There's a lot of things that suck about the internet and Social Media, but one of the pretty cool things IMO is how it lets people live on posthumously. Just 10 years ago, many people would have only remembered those who passed away in a story or in random conversation. But now we can bump a thread, or read a FB wall.Maybe it's b/c Mrs. TF & her siblings lost their parents young and I've heard countless stories from them of "how they wish they knew more", but I just think it's cool that now so much is "documented"
:goodposting: This really is an excellent point.There was some terrible movie with Michael Keaton years ago where he was dying and decided to document himself through videos to his kids. It was treacly and terrible in any way you could imagine, but somehow I was touched because I just wished I could have that from my father. Now it wouldn't be necessary at all, would it? That's pretty damn cool.
 
Saints man was good people. Frig. 49????
19 days older than me. :unsure:
There's something to be said about the people here who participate pretty much at face value. There are very, very, few of them. I know I'm not one. Saints man was.I'm going to offer this, hopefully you understand it not as a "look at me" moment but as a "that resonates with my feeling" moment. I lived in Ireland for six months in 2006. In 2009, I returned for a bachelor party. I went to the bar where I had been a regular, and had a grand old time. At one point we started trading 2006 stories - remember when we played rugby with Shane's shoe?, remember when we locked Connor out at 1230 that night?, etc. I don't remember the particular story but someone said, cheers to Mike Donahue. And I happily asked, hey where IS Mike?! Of course, the room went silent, and they told me he died in a house fire the year before. And the thing is, I didn't know Mike well, but I knew who he was. He was one of the guys at the bar who always said hello. Always gave me the nod and lifted his drink to acknowledge me. All told, we probably only had four substantive conversations, how ya been, he would ask about my schooling, I would ask about his work as an electrician. I guess the point is, there is something so sweet about being from away and having someone who is local acknowledge you. That's what makes a community. Saints man was one of those. Face value, welcome in. Lifted his drink to say hey. Part of the reason why this place is special. I can't say I got a personal message from him, but I didn't really need to. Him just being him was ... yeah.Cheers Ralph. Godspeed.
 
Saints man was good people. Frig. 49????
19 days older than me. :unsure:
There's something to be said about the people here who participate pretty much at face value. There are very, very, few of them. I know I'm not one. Saints man was.I'm going to offer this, hopefully you understand it not as a "look at me" moment but as a "that resonates with my feeling" moment. I lived in Ireland for six months in 2006. In 2009, I returned for a bachelor party. I went to the bar where I had been a regular, and had a grand old time. At one point we started trading 2006 stories - remember when we played rugby with Shane's shoe?, remember when we locked Connor out at 1230 that night?, etc. I don't remember the particular story but someone said, cheers to Mike Donahue. And I happily asked, hey where IS Mike?! Of course, the room went silent, and they told me he died in a house fire the year before. And the thing is, I didn't know Mike well, but I knew who he was. He was one of the guys at the bar who always said hello. Always gave me the nod and lifted his drink to acknowledge me. All told, we probably only had four substantive conversations, how ya been, he would ask about my schooling, I would ask about his work as an electrician. I guess the point is, there is something so sweet about being from away and having someone who is local acknowledge you. That's what makes a community. Saints man was one of those. Face value, welcome in. Lifted his drink to say hey. Part of the reason why this place is special. I can't say I got a personal message from him, but I didn't really need to. Him just being him was ... yeah.Cheers Ralph. Godspeed.
Good stuff, Thorn. Great stuff. Very well stated. :thumbup:
 
There was some terrible movie with Michael Keaton years ago where he was dying and decided to document himself through videos to his kids. It was treacly and terrible in any way you could imagine, but somehow I was touched because I just wished I could have that from my father. Now it wouldn't be necessary at all, would it? That's pretty damn cool.
:mellow: egghead
adj.anything sweet or cloying
 
YEA SO IT'S REALLY DUSTY IN HERE WHICH IS ANNOYING SO I'M GOING IT POUR A BIG DRINK AND CHEERS RALPH AND ALL OF YOU ####ERS, INCLUDING GADZOOKES, WHO WORE AN ORANGE SHIRT TONIGHT JUST TO #### WITH ME AND MY REESE'S SHIRT

ARSEHOLES

 
My dad just figured out how to text. FML.

So far, it's mostly been drunken ramblings about the Cowboys and/or Longhorns. So really, it's pretty much like getting a bunch of texts from myself.

ETA - And that sucks about Saints-Man.

 
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There was some terrible movie with Michael Keaton years ago where he was dying and decided to document himself through videos to his kids. It was treacly and terrible in any way you could imagine, but somehow I was touched because I just wished I could have that from my father. Now it wouldn't be necessary at all, would it? That's pretty damn cool.
:mellow: egghead
adj.anything sweet or cloying
I just read the first part, didn't see your bolding, and thought, "Damn, I KNOW that movie was not called 'Egghead'." :bag:
 
Sheet, that was such a good post by Thorn, I might consider forgive him for overrating Jack London.

:lmao:

(how long ago was that...three-four years?)

 
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