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[captain_slinky]

I have found, like, A GAJILLION old friends via Facebook in the past 48 hours or so! WTF?!?!/ I mean, like, people I've been looking for FOREVER! Mostly old classmates that, even though i worked for The Internet, I could never find a single scrap of on-line information about!

Found the kid who grew-up next door to me who had the most impressive collection of pornography (passed down from his father).

Found the guy who was like a brother to me, whom I haven't talked to in some 10 years because of a girl.

Found the rapscallion who was my youthful ward whom I passed The Mantle of Wackiness to back in '91.

Found the chick who was the first (bra-covered) boobies I ever saw in Gym Class even though she didn't know it.

Found several people who could be the "Scott" that wrote a song about me instead of paying his part of the rent.

HOWEVER! There are still THREE PEOPLE I have yet to electronically "Bump In To"! I post their names here in hopes that somebody knows them, or that maybe they'll some day Google their own name and click through to see ME!

DAMON IRONS

PAUL TROXCLAIR

BRYAN CROSS

All three of these people would have been in or around Anacortes, Washington for a few years between 1979 and 1991.

If this works, I'll work on Bryan Ploeg and Tina Stannert next!

Comments

[greenpear.livejournal.com]

I found the older you are the harder it is to find stuff about the people you used to know. Not as much presence on the interwebz.

I might have to try again with a few people I'd like to see again.

[teegin.livejournal.com]

Face is good for that. I have had similar experiences.

Speaking of The Book of Faces...

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

DUDE! You totaly need to start playing the D&D Tiny Adventures game over on Facebook! It's a nice "Play At Your own Pace" game with very little character creation just yet, but the game is in it's infancy. I sent you an invite a while ago... it scratches the D&D itch juuuust a tiny bit :)

Favorite part so far is that when your character "Retires" at 11th Level, you get to pass-on a "Legacy item" to your next character :)

Also, this is the "Baby" of Jeremy Ballenger, the dude I know who works at WoTC. So if/when you have input to give, you can give it *directly*!

Re: Speaking of The Book of Faces...

[teegin.livejournal.com]

Speaking of that guy what ever happened to getting some free gear? Can he get any of the D&D Miniatures?

[nani-ka.livejournal.com]

Have you tried searching by whatever nickname they went by? For me, Searching for my real name gets you 098774095465877.8 indian food recipies, but search for the Nani_ka? I'm all over the place.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

None of them had nick-names other than Bryan Cross, who was "Bam-Bam". Only person in our group with a proper nick-name was me, who they all called "Arnie".

[thecookielady.livejournal.com]

You have facebook? I have facebook. Todd has facebook. Why don't we know you have facebook??

BTW, if you find Ploeg or Troxclair, I want to know about it!

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Uhm... I commented on one of your pictures over there! the whole "Sea Men on your Poop Deck" thing?

Or was that MySpace? LORD how I hates The MySpace *shudder*!

Anywho, I'm off to try and find yous mugs over on Da Facebook!

[thecookielady.livejournal.com]

I think that was on MySpace.

I have so many of these stupid things now, I can't keep them straight. Actually, I only have the 3. But damn, if that isn't hard to keep up with.

[amberlorien.livejournal.com]

See, this is actually when I rarely list my schools because I don't want to be found by those people.

[rockbiter.livejournal.com]

uhhhh.
im tina stannert.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Really? Are you THE Tina Stannert who went to Anacortes High School in the late 80's early 90's? Have to go check your profile now!

BAH! No help there!

You may be The Tina Stannert who tried so hard to get me in to The Circle Jerks... the one who enjoyed Pee Wee Herman nearly as much as i did... but I guess I'll never know :(

Unless you reply?

[rockbiter.livejournal.com]

Yulp, its me.
i only went to AHS between 87-91.
It WASN'T the Circle Jerks--ive never been into them.....are you thinking about The Violent Femmes?
i Do still watch Pee Wees Christmas special every year.
and i was one of the 100 people nationwide to see UHF in the theater.
(just returned disks of his TV show to netflix...have you seen thoes?)
its cool that my son is into watching with me.
and i remember being in Graphics class with you.
........With Andy Ferguson and Ron Rovetto
ill "friend request" you on myspace. ive got some pics there.
im leaving in a few hours to go away for the weekend....
so ill prove myself now and talk more later.
hope all is well!
-i think of you every so often, glad i bumped into you
----cyber wise.
-t.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

OMG SQUEEE!!! IT IS YOU!!!

And you're right... it wasn't The Circle Jerks, it was THE SWIRLING EDDIES!!!

I'm sure you have absolutely no remembrance of this, but you were my first "Slow Dance" and my first non-cartoon-character crush (Betty Rubble is STILL heartbroken, I'm sure)!!!

And then, the VERY DAY that I finally had the nerve to ask you out on a date? You just kinda... dissapeared. Weird... I'll want to know all the juicy, scandalous details :)

Friended you here and on Myspace... you NEED to join you some Facebook so you can get in touch with everybody else again! I found Ron Rovetto over there!