Welcome David E

David E · 07-05-2008, 10:51 PM

HaHA!!! It is I, David E!!!!!!!!!

Unbeknownst to you, I have been here all the time, lurking, LURKING... spending weeks, poring over every post, scrutinizing the personalities of every member, searching for the tiniest weaknesses, the slightest cracks in your personalities.

As proof of this, I will mention that I now happen to know that many of you, despite being fully growed adults, have a predilection for a certain local theme park, which I will have the discretion not to mention here, but which I allude to only so that you will know the extent of my knowledge and wide powers of observation over all that I survey!

Perhaps you thought I was too weak to come up with a good username, my computer skills too feeble to successfully register a custom password I would remember. Well, of passwords I now have many!! And of avatars I have several, all of which are too good to show to others. Likewise, of taglines and quotations, I can link to websites which would supply an unlimited amount of the wisdom of all the ages, on a continually rotating basis, or of the most outrageous; which would startle all who viewed them beyond any that were ever posted, or any act not posted but only imagined involving man or beast and salad dressing, were I to actually post such a thing.

Also, I have honed my skills in political debate to perform a kind of verbal jiu-jitsu, as well as being able to cite the most obscure origins of former band mates of the most happening musical acts, including those of Scandinavian origin but with Mexican names.

Of knowledge of places to eat, I am unrivalled! From those who serve only raw foods but insist on molding them into savory dishes like lasagna, and for whom serving meat is unthinkable, to those specialize in the deepest darkest innards of wild game or the barnyard beast.

When it comes to swankings, I am the foremost expert, bar NONE, of ALL of those in San Juan Capistrano! For that I have posted a blow by blow schedule of things to do there including a BBQ at my house. You can see proof of this in that thread which I have posted there with my bare hands!

HaHA!!!

wendybeth · 07-05-2008, 11:02 PM

Welcome, Oh David of the E! Tis I, Wendybeth, late of Eastern Washington and also a tad bit lazy in the name department. Your first post should be recorded on vellum and placed deep within the Vault of Ultimate Swankiness, only to be brought out on special occasions, as an example of exalted First Postedness, and then maybe used as a nice table covering while we feast on bacon and bacon by-products.

Snowflake · 07-07-2008, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by David E

HaHA!!! It is I, David E!!!!!!!!!

Squeeeeee-E, it is hE, thE David E. I wElcomE thEE oncE again to the LoT CommunitEE

Please do tEll more about ThE Pork.

David E · 07-08-2008, 10:19 PM

Mye Faire Ladye Snowflayke,

(Methinkes Lassie and not Laddie, but aye have no waye of knowing since aye was thee only one stupide enough to use mye real nayme as a usernayme)

I will indeeeed regale thee with tayles of the Porke shortlee. Porke (or pourke in the olde English), which means "license to eat, in unfettered amounts, all manner of foodstuffs prohibited by your parents growing up". It later came to specifically refer to those iced pink and white animal cookies (and in some of the more clandestine deep-fetish circles, to the sprinkles that fall off the cookies and accumulate in the bottom of the bag, to the point where some purists would no longer touch the cookies themselves).

But since you like the subject of E, I must mention the substance of the same name that made an audience for incessant repetitive techno music possible (I played at raves from 96-01, skylab2000.com), where I also went by David E...

David E · 07-08-2008, 10:48 PM

Now about the Pork: In 2002, I came across a website about Bacon Day, which was a kind of annual party a couple of college girls in Wisconsin did which was very similar to the Pork we had been doing in California. I was pretty excited and emailed them the explanation of ours, which I am re-printing below for the information of LoT members. I never heard back from them, seems they abandoned the website. Or maybe they were startled and afraid. I did a search again tonight and did find another Bacon Day (http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mack0257/thi...k/008809.html), which seems to be WEEKLY like laundry day or something, which I have to say rules compared to my lazy once-a-year thing. Anyway, here it is:

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December 2002

Dear Meff and D,

The other day, while conducting a routine internet search for pork related products, I came across your website describing Bacon Day. I thought you might be interested in knowing that we have a remarkably similar holiday here on the west coast, which is celebrated on the Saturday nearest the 21st of December each year. It is probably no coincidence that during the winter months, due to millions of years of genetic programming and our common Northern European heritage, the human heart yearns for things roasted and cracklin’.

History of the first Winter Solstice Pork:
The year was 1978 (or 1979). The night: the longest of the year, the Winter Solstice. The Simpsons had not been invented yet, only Life in Hell. In the small, boring town of San Clemente, CA, two boys, high school seniors, who for the sake of anonymity we will call “David Ewing” and “Tony Vick”, sat in Tony’s parents’ condo with nothing to do on a weekend night. They were dateless (as usual) and had no ride to Los Angeles to hear punk rock shows. The night was bitter cold, with temperatures dropping well below the mid-50’s.

So basically, they sat at a table and ate everything in the house. There are no records of what all was eaten, and the only items they can remember are a box of Nabisco Nilla Wafers, and several frozen Ramona brand burritos. Although actual pork may not have been consumed, Pork was there in spirit. Given the coincidence with the celestial event, and having nothing better to do, they decided to create an annual holiday from it.

History of all the other Winter Solstice Porks:
The next year was a huge bash at David’s parents’ house with two punk/art rock bands and far too much food brought by guests.
Among the delicacies served were:
Cold blue spaghetti
Jello with toy army men suspended in it.
A fabulous large punchbowl with twinkling colored Christmas lights sandwiched between two clear bowls.
Cakes decorated with pig-like themes.

About once an hour, somebody kept switching off the power at the electrical panel. There was a superdrunk woman who for some reason was dressed in full marching band regalia with a tall hat and gold epilets and braided cords and a huge crudgel-like baton (the kind the person leading the parade kind of moves about 9” from side to side but is too heavy to throw or anything). In the aftermath, there was a 4” layer of popcorn on the kitchen floor, but it was a memorable success, and the holiday was firmly established (even though we have skipped some years when we felt like it). The goings on at all the other parties I will have to say are a closely guarded secret. (So as to make them seem even more glamorous and appealing).

I have attached a couple of recent invitations that were sent as jpgs, thereby eliminating the ignorant Luddites who don’t have email. This year, we are excluding even more of our friends who can’t play the Quicktime movie invitation. I will send it to you soon.

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Maybe I will re-post this with some of the invitations I mentioned come December. Doesn't seem appropriate to the season right now. On to summer things...

David E · 07-08-2008, 10:54 PM

Clicking on the Bacon Day link in my previous post didn't seem to work, but cutting and pasting does:

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mack0257/thi...nk/008809.html

Motorboat Cruiser · 07-09-2008, 12:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by David E

The other day, while conducting a routine internet search for pork related products...

Just curious - when you did that search, did the word "scaeagles" happen to pop up? He is our resident pork product, in case you weren't aware.

Welcome to the boards. I look forward to meeting you this weekend, and to reading a LoT more posts from you in the future.

David E · 07-09-2008, 10:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Motorboat Cruiser

Just curious - when you did that search, did the word "scaeagles" happen to pop up? He is our resident pork product, in case you weren't aware.

Welcome to the boards. I look forward to meeting you this weekend, and to reading a LoT more posts from you in the future.

Didn't come up in 02. Was he affiliated with the other white meat before he joined LoT, looks like in 05? Is this something he took on voluntarily, or did y'all assign it to him? Is Sceagles coming to SJC?

07-05-2008, 10:51 PM	#1
David E Tethered Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 64	HaHA!!! HaHA!!! It is I, David E!!!!!!!!! Unbeknownst to you, I have been here all the time, lurking, LURKING... spending weeks, poring over every post, scrutinizing the personalities of every member, searching for the tiniest weaknesses, the slightest cracks in your personalities. As proof of this, I will mention that I now happen to know that many of you, despite being fully growed adults, have a predilection for a certain local theme park, which I will have the discretion not to mention here, but which I allude to only so that you will know the extent of my knowledge and wide powers of observation over all that I survey! Perhaps you thought I was too weak to come up with a good username, my computer skills too feeble to successfully register a custom password I would remember. Well, of passwords I now have many!! And of avatars I have several, all of which are too good to show to others. Likewise, of taglines and quotations, I can link to websites which would supply an unlimited amount of the wisdom of all the ages, on a continually rotating basis, or of the most outrageous; which would startle all who viewed them beyond any that were ever posted, or any act not posted but only imagined involving man or beast and salad dressing, were I to actually post such a thing. Also, I have honed my skills in political debate to perform a kind of verbal jiu-jitsu, as well as being able to cite the most obscure origins of former band mates of the most happening musical acts, including those of Scandinavian origin but with Mexican names. Of knowledge of places to eat, I am unrivalled! From those who serve only raw foods but insist on molding them into savory dishes like lasagna, and for whom serving meat is unthinkable, to those specialize in the deepest darkest innards of wild game or the barnyard beast. When it comes to swankings, I am the foremost expert, bar NONE, of ALL of those in San Juan Capistrano! For that I have posted a blow by blow schedule of things to do there including a BBQ at my house. You can see proof of this in that thread which I have posted there with my bare hands! HaHA!!! __________________ David E. The Best is the enemy of the Better.
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07-05-2008, 11:02 PM	#2
wendybeth Nevermind Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,847	Welcome, Oh David of the E! Tis I, Wendybeth, late of Eastern Washington and also a tad bit lazy in the name department. Your first post should be recorded on vellum and placed deep within the Vault of Ultimate Swankiness, only to be brought out on special occasions, as an example of exalted First Postedness, and then maybe used as a nice table covering while we feast on bacon and bacon by-products. __________________
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07-08-2008, 10:19 PM	#4
David E Tethered Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 64	Mye Faire Ladye Snowflayke, (Methinkes Lassie and not Laddie, but aye have no waye of knowing since aye was thee only one stupide enough to use mye real nayme as a usernayme) I will indeeeed regale thee with tayles of the Porke shortlee. Porke (or pourke in the olde English), which means "license to eat, in unfettered amounts, all manner of foodstuffs prohibited by your parents growing up". It later came to specifically refer to those iced pink and white animal cookies (and in some of the more clandestine deep-fetish circles, to the sprinkles that fall off the cookies and accumulate in the bottom of the bag, to the point where some purists would no longer touch the cookies themselves). But since you like the subject of E, I must mention the substance of the same name that made an audience for incessant repetitive techno music possible (I played at raves from 96-01, skylab2000.com), where I also went by David E... __________________ David E. The Best is the enemy of the Better.
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07-08-2008, 10:48 PM	#5
David E Tethered Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 64	Now about the Pork: In 2002, I came across a website about Bacon Day, which was a kind of annual party a couple of college girls in Wisconsin did which was very similar to the Pork we had been doing in California. I was pretty excited and emailed them the explanation of ours, which I am re-printing below for the information of LoT members. I never heard back from them, seems they abandoned the website. Or maybe they were startled and afraid. I did a search again tonight and did find another Bacon Day (http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mack0257/thi...k/008809.html), which seems to be WEEKLY like laundry day or something, which I have to say rules compared to my lazy once-a-year thing. Anyway, here it is: ---------------------------- December 2002 Dear Meff and D, The other day, while conducting a routine internet search for pork related products, I came across your website describing Bacon Day. I thought you might be interested in knowing that we have a remarkably similar holiday here on the west coast, which is celebrated on the Saturday nearest the 21st of December each year. It is probably no coincidence that during the winter months, due to millions of years of genetic programming and our common Northern European heritage, the human heart yearns for things roasted and cracklin’. History of the first Winter Solstice Pork: The year was 1978 (or 1979). The night: the longest of the year, the Winter Solstice. The Simpsons had not been invented yet, only Life in Hell. In the small, boring town of San Clemente, CA, two boys, high school seniors, who for the sake of anonymity we will call “David Ewing” and “Tony Vick”, sat in Tony’s parents’ condo with nothing to do on a weekend night. They were dateless (as usual) and had no ride to Los Angeles to hear punk rock shows. The night was bitter cold, with temperatures dropping well below the mid-50’s. So basically, they sat at a table and ate everything in the house. There are no records of what all was eaten, and the only items they can remember are a box of Nabisco Nilla Wafers, and several frozen Ramona brand burritos. Although actual pork may not have been consumed, Pork was there in spirit. Given the coincidence with the celestial event, and having nothing better to do, they decided to create an annual holiday from it. History of all the other Winter Solstice Porks: The next year was a huge bash at David’s parents’ house with two punk/art rock bands and far too much food brought by guests. Among the delicacies served were: Cold blue spaghetti Jello with toy army men suspended in it. A fabulous large punchbowl with twinkling colored Christmas lights sandwiched between two clear bowls. Cakes decorated with pig-like themes. About once an hour, somebody kept switching off the power at the electrical panel. There was a superdrunk woman who for some reason was dressed in full marching band regalia with a tall hat and gold epilets and braided cords and a huge crudgel-like baton (the kind the person leading the parade kind of moves about 9” from side to side but is too heavy to throw or anything). In the aftermath, there was a 4” layer of popcorn on the kitchen floor, but it was a memorable success, and the holiday was firmly established (even though we have skipped some years when we felt like it). The goings on at all the other parties I will have to say are a closely guarded secret. (So as to make them seem even more glamorous and appealing). I have attached a couple of recent invitations that were sent as jpgs, thereby eliminating the ignorant Luddites who don’t have email. This year, we are excluding even more of our friends who can’t play the Quicktime movie invitation. I will send it to you soon. ---------------------------- Maybe I will re-post this with some of the invitations I mentioned come December. Doesn't seem appropriate to the season right now. On to summer things... __________________ David E. The Best is the enemy of the Better.
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07-08-2008, 10:54 PM	#6
David E Tethered Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 64	Clicking on the Bacon Day link in my previous post didn't seem to work, but cutting and pasting does: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mack0257/thi...nk/008809.html __________________ David E. The Best is the enemy of the Better.
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