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Introducing Everyone Else

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Spyder Todd 2008

16:24 / 28.03.06

As talked about in the Introductions thread, this thread is a place where newer Barbelith posters can get to know a few things about longer-posting posters. And to make things interesting, instead of just having older posters talk about themselves, we’re going to have them talk about other barbeliods. It’s going to be awesome.

So, to start, I’m going to introduce everyone to grant. Not to be confused with Grant Morrison, grant is a moderator for half a dozen forums, and one of Barbelith’s longest-standing members. He’s also teh awesome. grant lives in Florida, and has an odd tendency of having rather colorful reptiles show up in his back yard. He’s taken some excellent photos of them, which are up on Barbelith somewhere. He works for a National Enquirer-esqe magazine, though I don’t remember which one. And that’s pretty sweet, if you ask me. His daughter is just about the cutest thing you’ve ever seen. grant is excellent as producing intelligent, well-reasoned posts here on the board. Plus, he finds some of the weirdest things online and lets us know about them. He rules.

Next!

17:10 / 28.03.06

Awww.

17:17 / 28.03.06

I vote for blocking this thread now. Only Grant matters. And he's happy, so mission acomplished

17:19 / 28.03.06

No no, DM! This is our chance to learn more!

I sit attentively, and wait.

17:31 / 28.03.06

Anti-Spyder of Earth 2: Chosen prophet of the blasphemous God-Emperor of Barbelith "Keggers", hops between Temple, Comics and Convo like an LSD afflicted arachnid spinning ludicrously imperfect yet interesting threads across the board since May '03. In February of this year he annihilated all opposition to become Barbelith's poet laureate with his much lauded ode to the chilli dog. Much more than all this, he has proven mathematical ability and stormed the eight grade maths test with a dazzling ten out of ten. His post are always welcome ones to read, props to him, I say. Remember not to ask him about Oklahoma, though, it isn't like the musical I'm told.

17:37 / 28.03.06

(I hope that was acceptable/befitting Spyder).

All Acting Regiment

17:39 / 28.03.06

Dead Megatron is a barrel of laughs, but in the past his manly Brazilian vigour has got the better of him. Not anymore, though- he's a slick and sleek poster who gets more germaine every day.

Mordant (Mr (but she)) Carnival is a legend, a magician of amazing humanity, insight and skill in all areas physical and meta, while Lurid Archive is a master of reason, whose mind, were it an instrument, would be a vast harp crafted from intelligence-flavoured wood with strings of warmth the thickness of redwood trees, and, harmonious, they compliment eachother well.

Haus is what you get if you cherry pick the greatest minds of the classical age and boil them in a quality pie. His argument is efficient and deadly like a steam-powered Duracell Bunny, yet his compassion is as deep as the Pacific, and is.

Matt is our boy wonder. Give him cuddles and watch him grow: an adorable sea monkey.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

17:43 / 28.03.06

Shouldn't that be "bake them in a pie"?

18:05 / 28.03.06

Lula Livicani! I don´t know much about her, but she started my favourite thread. Bless her, praise her! She´s also a mod, and english, and that´s all I can think of right now, so additions are welcome!

In this thread, you can marvel at what some of the other Barbeloids look like!

And here you can even see their houses [unashamedly pimps own thread]!

18:09 / 28.03.06

In the words of the great sage, grant: awwww! (I didn't even know I was senior enough to be introduce here. Must... control... my... pride)

here's my contribution:

Honey Pot (aka Mon(k)ey Shot): a wise and profound magician, father and husband, with ties to ancient African-Brazilian powers, bent into world-saving, one soul at a time, no matter how mighty the Adversary may be, and fasting at a regular basis, and who know his I-Ching. He may have grown more reserved as of lately (and wisely so), but his wisdow still shows when he comments on the teachings of prophets who used to speak aramaic before being promoted to godhead status. We never met, but I consider him a friend, and my doors shall always be open to him and his family (plus, he looks cool with shades in his forehead)

18:32 / 28.03.06

Jumping in on this potentially dangerous clusterfuck early to bag a safe one:
Loomis is an very nice Aussie (as all those who have left their home country appear to be) with a cricket fetish, good solid Greek hair that will see him through his thirties and a special liver, which enables him to sink lots of beer without becoming an arse. Other qualities include: a Rome: Total War fetish; possibly the best tattoos on the board; a sharp line in cutting through hand-waving bullshit; hasn't slept with any (many?) of the London gang; a magic red eye.

18:53 / 28.03.06

DM, venerable shaman that Money$hot is, nobody looks cool with shades on their forehead. It is, to quote Bleeding Gums Murphy, a virulent and unfortunate fashion meme.

And, cube, Loomis has slept with at least one of the London Lith Brigade. Ariadne was our linchpin, in days of yore. She was the Keeper of the Hobnobs in our gang hut.

19:07 / 28.03.06

Well, then. He looks cool, no matter what. The shades as just not powerfull enough to get in the way of his utter coolness, and end up being contaminated by it.

Nobody shall say bad things about M$ in my presence, is that understood? Or, I swear to Unicron, I'll shrink to the size of a .44 Magnum. (I'm not saying you did, this is just a warning)

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20:53 / 28.03.06

Seth: A sweet-talking son of a preacher man, Seth's wisdom and compassion are wells of virtue from which other posters occasionally slake our thirst. This is a man who is paid to talk sense with people who call the police for every reason imaginable, and he does it well. However, he has another side to him. His other job is being paid to hit things really hard and make massive noise with his band Hunting Lodge, about which has been said:

On the strength of their debut album Hunting Lodge are on a mission to maim and mangle, musically at least. Their mashup of punky energy, metallic mayhem and super-tight jazz-sprinkled convolution slaps both tendencies headlong into the listener's face with a roundhouse combination of flatulent bass, idiot-savant post-Beefhart vocals and hyperkinetic drumming [that's Seth].... There's no doubt being flung into a moshpit in front of the group would be a richly rewarding, if shattering, experience. — Richard Fontenoy - Plan B

Is Seth a dual being? A two-faced janussary with a wrathful and a compassionate aspect? Or is he just a really well-rounded guy who knows himself thoroughly and acts from the heart? I'm voting the latter.

20:59 / 28.03.06

Yes! I'm a sea-monkey!

Regrettable Juvenilia

21:02 / 28.03.06

Alex's Grandma is a 39 year-old layabout who for some reason best kept to himself chooses to 'present' as his long-suffering grandmother. I have met Alex's actual 'meatspace' grandmother and can confirm that she is an unsinkable legend of a woman, shrewd yet compassionate, thrifty yet generous, worldly-wise yet brimming with old-fashioned respect for her fellow man. What she would think if she knew that her grandson, long since abandonned by and cut off from the rest of the family, and keeping himself in 'prang' and gin only through his grandma's charity, was posting his mean-spirited but unfocused ramblings, attempts at 'humour', impressions of Alan Bennett, theories about "teh Matrix", and woeful stalkerish fantasies about Pete Doherty, on the internet, under her name, well, I would hate to have to see that happen, I really would.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

21:24 / 28.03.06

Ganesh - He knows what lurks in the darkest corners of your all too human psyche. Always good for a barbequote, Ganesh has often taken the role of the calm, open handed discipline of Barbelith.

21:26 / 28.03.06

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22:43 / 28.03.06

Petey "Flyboy" Shaftoe: the Barbelith version of Magneto: does not suffer fools easily.

23:10 / 28.03.06

This thread is not a bad idea, but I'm afraid I disagree fundamentally with many of these characterizations.

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23:14 / 28.03.06

Then post your own. Er. So long as they're introductions and not attacks, I mean.

23:16 / 28.03.06

Don't tell me what to do!

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23:37 / 28.03.06

Don't tell me not to tell you what to do! You're telling me what to awfuckit.

Clearly, it was meant as an invitation, not a prescription.

00:02 / 29.03.06

Someone do me.

Bard: One-Man Humaton Hoedown

00:14 / 29.03.06

Jack Denfield: The unofficial "King of Barbelith", Jack splits his time between quitting the forums for 12 hours at a time and drawing the Moste Huomoros Adventures of Nimrod and Ultron, which delight us to no end. Jack, additionally, has dozens of aliases, mostly with the initials "J D", though he made a brief foray into changing this modus operendi with the intials "J P", though presumably he is not a Morgan or a form of cheap American liquor. Plans for "J B", "J C", "J L", and "J S" (possibly ending with the word "Attorney", resulting in the initials J L A and J S A) are presumably in the works.

01:12 / 29.03.06

He may seem like a self-centered, ignorant jackass, but Qalyn is one of the most sensitive and complicated posters on Barbelith. Many of us have had the experience of PMing him to give him a hard time about what seemed to be an ill-conceived throw-away post, only to have him supply page after page of careful explanation, background, strategy, and theory. He is beautiful to look upon and is a master of unarmed combat. Like Doctor Doom, Qalyn's biggest flaws are hubris and a tendency to befriend people cleverer than he is and steal their ideas, such as the Barbelith Punchability Index, which was really Todd's.

01:49 / 29.03.06

Stoats On A Plane (aka Dreams In The Stoat House, aka Stoatie, aka Moominstoat, aka thousands of other names using with the word 'Stoat') likes badgers. And dogs. And pirates.

...and has posted over 15,000 times on Barbelith.

What else can one say?

02:37 / 29.03.06

Someone do me.

Ooh. My Denfeldophilia is acting up again. Is this stalker behaviour? Or is it just royal idolatry?

Spyder Todd 2008

18:23 / 29.03.06

Shrug, that is certainly most-acceptable. Your check is in the mail.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

18:57 / 29.03.06

Wait, wait, wait! What about Cassandra doomed forever to see Barbelith as it will be one day, possibly as far away as 4500 AD, but no-one will believer hir, not even Peter Noone or Ganesh or all the pygmy space-children set to show up on the board sometime around 2122?

23:03 / 29.03.06

Shrug, that is certainly most-acceptable. Your check is in the mail.

"Check" is the americanized version of "cheque"?
It seems so wrong, + IT BETTER BE!!!!1!!

Spyder Todd 2008

15:09 / 30.03.06

Yes, that would be the American equivilant.

16:45 / 30.03.06

FLYBOY WAS RIGHT!

I was going to introduce Nina, or Gypsy Lantern, but I'm suddenly shy and words fail me. Meet them yourselves you lazy gets. In the meantime I present to you the delightfulness that is Goodness Gracious Meme, Top Gun poster across the board and all round great person. First to huggle and last to dogpile, GGM is friend to fennecs everywhere and a Magic Therapist in denial. Can be relied upon to say the things you meant to, cook great curry and recite lyrics to mid-80s pop at the drop of a hat. Strong grip too. Props!

19:39 / 30.03.06

Duncan Falconer is Barbelith's cool Scottish hipster superman. Co-writer with Jack Denfeld of Flash Bastards (yet to be actually written), and a joy to discuss comics with due to the fact he's not a self hating fanboy. He enjoys the mainstream books for what they are. Never afraid to go against popular opinion on Barbelith, and willing to argue things without getting in a huff, also not shy from calling out people when he feels they may be crossing a line, or defending a person who others think crossed a line. An all around cool guy who I hope to burn golf courses with sometime this life.

20:04 / 30.03.06

Speaking of introductions:

Where is GANESH?! I have not seen him post for a good while! Have I missed a simple name change?

All this name changing business can get really confusing you know.

Can we do a forum were we list all the previous names we have posted under?

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