Zombywoof, Matcom, Nothingshocksmeanymore

[JanMichael]

There are so many others.

Miss you guys this holiday season.

[trof]

1. Me too.

I met matcom and NSMA in the flesh.
Also Will Pitt and Raven, his mom.
Fun times a long time ago.

[Throd]

2. I miss Forkboy.

[trof]

3. And the 'my gay stars duck' guy.

Can't remember his name.

[JanMichael]

5. arwalden??? nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Arwalden is right! n/t

[DinahMoeHum]

20. Yep, and here's his avatar. . .

"Oh, My Gay Stars!"

[trof]

21. Bingo! Thanks.

[madinmaryland]

30. We had some great "discussions" over in the Sports Group. Also BossHOG and cboy4

in that group.

[CottonBear]

37. I miss BossHOG!

We loved to chat about pink flamingos, azaleas, SEC football & foods of the Gulf Coast.

[Art_from_Ark]

50. If I'm not mistaken, the "HOG" part of his name

derived from his time at the University of Arkansas. I always wondered what happened to him.

[CottonBear]

52. I don't know why he stopped posting.

I believe he is an Arkansas graduate. He and his wife lived through Katrina down on the Gulf Coast. He is retired from the Navy.

I did not post much for several years (although I did read DU) after I had a baby in 2008. When I returned, BOSSHOG and also many of my DU friends, who I had met at our Georgia group Atlanta meet ups, had moved on.

I miss RubyDuby in GA too. She is a sweetheart!

[hifiguy]

4. Matcom's mooning smiley

always cracked me up.

[cwydro]

6. Where'd they all go?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Some were banned, some just left, some just stopped posting...

[cwydro]

10. I guess it's possible they might still be here under other names,

but they were pretty distinctive posters...

What was the guy with the Toad name? Hypnotoad or something? Had a weird avatar. Do you remember him?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. Oh yes, I remember him, very well!

I don't remember his avatar, though. He was........interesting! He used to PM me and we would talk. He had real photographic ability.

HypnoToad was his name, iirc.

[cwydro]

14. I think it was a toad with kind of hypnotic type eyes.

I think he got tombstoned, though I'm not sure.

Omg, some of the names I remember from the Lounge back in the day lol!

[MADem]

95. He changed his name to Deja Q and got tombstoned.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=9178188&mesg_id=9178377

His avatar when he was HypnoToad was a character from the cartoon FUTURAMA.

[sharp_stick]

40. I think this is hypnotoad

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[hunter]

9. Zombywoof likes the Los Angeles Dodgers and Thousand Oaks California.

Not my favorite cups of tea.

There may still exist a Don Drysdale autograph I acquired as a young person, stashed away in the family steel shipping container archives my brother keeps scattered about his small farm. But I don't care.

My parents are escaped refugee artists of Hollywood. They met working in Hollywood. Then they decided to be something other than Hollywood artists for much less lucrative work, of the starving artist sort.

At one point we were all living as indigent U.S.A. citizens in a public park in France. I was a young teen. The local French community was so disturbed that they bought us Ferry tickets to England. Go away. Now.

My memory of that time is the worst public restroom on earth. Women and girls required male escorts lest they encounter drunk men masturbating for them. The hole in the floor toilet itself was equally unpleasant.

These days my parents live in a tropical rain forest, drinking and bathing in water that falls on their roof, and buying their food from local farmers. I've never visited this retirement home of theirs. I hate flying and haven't yet made the opportunity to sail. But they do have phone and internet service, most days.

Two of my siblings have big screen and television credits, SAG, but are many years past that sordid business.

I flunked out early from Hollywood as a little kid who would stare at various "important" people the same way I'd stare at interesting insects. I'm fascinated by insects, but not always various "important" people, with or without coaching. I think I scared the Hollywood Bozo, maybe Sheriff John too. Hobo Kelley thought I was sort of cool.

Little Hunter sees all, and never forgets...

My grandma's wild bad-girl-and-frequently-Hollywood-married-and-divorced-sister, and my once-married grandma loved Hollywood so much they both ran away to it as teens. I have the photos. Dangerous young women.

Their dad, my great grandfather, was a dreamer of motion pictures and airplanes and electricity, but he bet wrong and then he died of cancer in the the Great Depression. My grandma married an Army Air Force Officer her mom hated, even when he was honorably discharged and making bits of metal that landed men on the moon.

I was taking a picture of my great grandfather's home in San Francisco one day, the home my grandma and her sister were born in, and where they lived as children, a home long lost to our family. One resident simply couldn't believe it was once a single family home. Now it's multiple apartments. When my grandma was a little girl it was a big house with two front doors, one door for family, one door opening to stairs up and down for the hired help because in that neighborhood there was no back door. My grandma's personal childhood bedroom is now an expensive apartment that my wife and I couldn't afford, the rent twice our own mortgage payment.

My wife and I met as Los Angeles public school science teachers.

It's probably a sin, but we fled Los Angeles. Or maybe not a sin. The U.S.A we've landed in is much as difficult. We just don't have to commute by automobile so much.

We live in a place with roads burdened by a few names of my ancestors, those ancestors sketchy, a few of them nasty.

One of my grandfathers freaked out when I was marrying, in his words, "A Mexican Girl" and he boycotted our Big Catholic Wedding. To his credit he got over that before he died. Maybe because he'd suffered a stoke and gone blind, but i like to think better of him than that.

Amusingly, to me anyways, a few of his male ancestors had married Irish Catholic girls, were maybe covert Catholic or other religious dissidents themselves which is how they ended up fleeing for America, landing on the beach or docks, running for the wilderness.

My wife's family is Native American and Irish Catholic, similar history, surviving by avoiding troubles, mostly by avoiding the hot spots of human history. One of my my wife's uncle who didn't survive is buried in Arlington National Cemetery, killed in France the very last days of World War II.

My wife's grandma never really recovered from that.

[Heidi]

17. Thank you for being part of this community, hunter.

You're an excellent writer and I always read your posts!

[chknltl]

12. I miss Miss Honeychurch

Probably Mrs Honeychurch by now. I loved her stories about Germany and she wasn't such a bad photographer either. I also miss Opiate69 because he is someone from my past outside of DU, a VERY talented guitarist I had the privilege to see live quite often.

[cwydro]

13. I'm friends with her on facebook.

And she is indeed a Mrs. now.

I've not been keeping up with some of my fb friends (my fault). Has she not been posting here anymore?

Be happy to send a message to her for you.

[chknltl]

16. Well for sure send her my congratulations!

Perhaps she still posts here in the lounge, I rarely drop by so it is possible that I may have missed her posts. Yes, please do convey my congrats to her , I'll try harder to keep an eye out for her posts if I've been missing them.

[cwydro]

19. I'll message her today and tell her she's missed.

[Phentex]

24. It was always nice to see a big hello or good morning from Miss Honeychurch...

what a sweet person.

[MissHoneychurch]

36. Thank you Phentex

it is nice to see that I am remembered here.

[MrScorpio]

44. I miss you too

Hope you and you family are doing fine.

[bigwillq]

54. Hey!

I used to love your threads!

[Boomerproud]

99. You certainly are remembered (and missed) here Miss Honeychurch

So glad to see you made an appearance. Have a wonderful holiday season!

[MissHoneychurch]

35. Aww thank you chknltl

as you heard from cwydro, I got married this year.

I barely venture over here to post. So you didn't miss any posts from me here.

Hope everything is alright on your side of the ocean.

[cwydro]

38. Yay! Miss Honeychurch in the house!

[chknltl]

39. Well things could be better here:

I turned 61 a couple of days ago and like anyone else my age I have my share of things to complain about!

In reverse order:

I am no longer believing folks who tell me that those just "smile lines" I see on my face when I look in the mirror.

The Seahawks, (my favorite football team), could have a better win/loss record than they currently have.

Hair should not be growing out of my ears like that!

Bernie Sanders, (my choice for politician best suited to save the world from out of control capitalism), could be getting better 'air-time' in the media.

MrsHoneychurch could be posting here at DU more often!

Other than that things are going pretty well. I am now receiving a federal pension. I spend my time tinkering around on a nice little bit of property but I confess to spending far too much of that time playing video games and eating out at restaurants.

I've purchased a digital Nikon, (a D7100 I think) and a couple of lenses. Once I get the hang of how it works I'll post a few photos of my neighborhood. It's quite scenic actually so I look forward to sharing here at DU.

I am pleased for you that you have found a fellow to share your life, (and your yummy cooking) with. I hope things are well with you and yours over on your side of the ocean too. I'd say more but as I type this my Seahawks are about to take the field against the Pittsburgh Steelers and without my help rooting for them they may wind up getting beat!
Best wishes,
chris 'chklnltl' chick

[Aristus]

15. sffreeways.

NewWaveChick
Haole Girl
slinkerwink
God_BushnCheney
neuvocat
Velma D

Old friends long gone...

[Xipe Totec]

18. And let's not forget Walt Starr... nt

[KamaAina]

89. CALL CONGRESS RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!!1!!11!!111!

[cwydro]

22. Remember Midlodemocrat ( I think that was her name)

Haruka, LostinVa, BiBaby...they were quite a Lounge clique at one time.

I remember the Lounge was always in an uproar in those days lol.

[KamaAina]

56. I am FB friends with Midlo and Bi_Baby

as well as KitchenWitch, kajsa, EFerrari, and doubtless others.

[cwydro]

57. Did they just give up on DU?

It certainly was interesting with them around!

[KamaAina]

58. Kitchy got banned for responding too vigorously to our resident homophobes

The others may indeed have given up.

[cwydro]

59. For some reason, I always remember

Midlo with her minivan and boxed wine posts!

[KamaAina]

60. You forgot bunco. And Cracker Barrel.

She has since informed me that the subject of boxed wine is taboo, because it brings up some bad memories (not from DU).

[cwydro]

61. Lol!

Cracker Barrel has slipped my mind, but I remember bunco vaguely.

Sorry to hear about the boxed wine issue.

[kentauros]

86. There was the Purge that shall not be ever mentioned on DU,

that included a number of Loungites, and that also took a lot of the fun out of the place. MFM brought it back while he was here

[mopinko]

75. i talk to eferrari on fb.

she got tired of the fights, and doesnt come here any more. not even to read, i dont think.
she is hanging in there, tho.

[Phentex]

23. Tuesday Afternoon...

them's big shoes to fill.

Sorely missed.

[cwydro]

25. Yes indeed.

Great user name too!

[cyberswede]

46. Agree. nt

[Coventina]

26. Kephra, GOPisEvil, XNASA.....

I could go on and on as well.....

[OrwellwasRight]

33. GOPisEvil is alive and well and on FB!

Since all those first generation folks have left I don't know anyone here anymore. I'm basically a stranger to everyone and vice versa. Still a fun place, but not quite as fun without a posse of buddies.

[ScreamingMeemie]

27. Thtwudbeme--Even though it took me eleventy billion years to figure out her name...

newyawker99, rbync, oneighty ( I still cant believe it is almost 10 years since we lost our storyteller). Nothing lasts forever.

<3 to you and yours

[bigwillq]

55. The DU Glory Days

We sure used to have tons of fun.

[SidDithers]

28. I miss Robb...

DU is a lesser place without him.

Sid

[madinmaryland]

32. Robb is a dingbat?? Used to be in every poll on DU.

[Iggo]

29. Forkboy and KitchenWitch.

And of course MiddleFingerMom.

[underpants]

31. I had a lot of fun with them years ago

They were great. Met several of them at the anti-warch October 26, 2002.

[In_The_Wind]

34. I miss them too.

[img][/img]

Wishing you were here!

[mopinko]

41. swamp rat

[cyberswede]

47. +1

[Kingofalldems]

72. That's the guy I was trying to think of.

[Shrek]

42. Whoever it was who inherited a mixed animal from uncle living in woods

A-Schwarzenegger, maybe?

[mopinko]

49. oscar!!

egad that was the funniest thread ever.

[Blue_Tires]

43. +1000

[MrScorpio]

45. John Kleeb and Hypnotoad

[cyberswede]

48. Rhiannon12866

Last posted in July. I miss her.

[Art_from_Ark]

51. Opihimoimoi

A Hawaiian DUer who always ended his posts with some phrase like "Come, we eat poi and enjoy the sunset from the beach".

[DinahMoeHum]

65. I believe he passed on a few years ago.

IIRC, he was a retired Honolulu firefighter.

[Art_from_Ark]

71. I'm sorry to hear of his passing

I have this impression that in his retirement years, he raised fish.
I never knew he had been a firefighter.
He was best buds with Hubert Flotz (sp?), another poster I haven't seen in a while.

[Dr. Strange]

53. Some others:

MrCoffee, Midlodemocrat (when she was sober), sniffa, IndianaJones, Orrex

They are missed.

[femmocrat]

62. Isn't sniffa here with a new name (after the last sanctioned name change)?

I could be wrong.

[femmocrat]

63. A few that I remember from my newbie days:

billyskank

Random Australian

Clintmax (and the Morning Crew)

Airmen's Mom

MissAmericanPie

Yellow Rubber Duckie

Lost in NJ

SPK (Southpawkicker, then SouthpawKrazy)

Please forgive any misspellings or spacings.

[Dr. Strange]

64. billyskank!

I had forgotten about him!

[DinahMoeHum]

66. Whatever became of Estimated Prophet and The Magistrate?

Loved both guys. I miss 'em big time.

[mopinko]

74. last i heard the mag

was caught up in family issues and didnt have time to hang out. still kickin, tho, i'm pretty sure.

[Hissyspit]

73. Clintmax!

[RetroLounge]

78. MissAmericanPie was (is) the hottest Lounger ever!

RL

[miss_american_pie]

81. :hi:

I was humbled to hear I had been mentioned here. Thank you.

I hope all is well with you and yours.

[femmocrat]

82. Hey! Good to see you again!

I hope the same for you!

I love that some "old"-timers are checking in!

[swimboy]

85. Sundog, progmom, MadAsHellNewYorker, Cannikin

CallMeWesley, tjwmason, rabrrrr and others.

It's great to see these names and some of the folks who've checked in for this!

I always looked forward to the "Good Morning, Lounge!" crew. Thanks, clintmax, MissHoneychurch, and Heidi!

[In_The_Wind]

94. Things are not the same without them.

[ProfessorGAC]

67. Orrex Is Still Here

In a couple threads in GD right now.

[Dr. Strange]

68. I don't think Orrex is really ever here.

[bettyellen]

69. Swag and Program are my faves. And Mrs Program, cannot remember her old name here....

[RetroLounge]

70. Whatever happened to that guy who posted a poem a day in the lounge for years?

The RetroLounge daily poetry thread, I think it was called...

Oh, yeah...

RL

[Sky Masterson]

76. That guy was an asshole

He stole my girlfriend.

[RetroLounge]

77. Yes, yes he did!

and she's even mentioned in one of the posts above...



RL

[Sky Masterson]

79. Boooo!!!!!

Still dead to me!!

[Dr. Strange]

80. He should write a poem about that.

What rhymes with "asshole"?

[no name no slogan]

87. I believe there's only one word that rhymes with "asshole"

And that would be "Masshole"

[Dr. Strange]

90. Ding ding ding!

[bigwillq]

96. Bwah!

[RetroLounge]

97. ...

RL

[blue neen]

83. A poster named whoisalhedges was very funny.

And, terrya was a real nice guy.

[Samantha]

84. I miss The Magistrate and Salt Point (formerly Ol' Crusoe)

Truly unique posters with clear visions and great with words. I will keep a light on for you guys....

Sam

[Brother Buzz]

88. I am due beer and travel money and many experiences.

In a demented way, I miss RandomThoughts.

[kentauros]

91. Longhorn and Why Syzygy

Longhorn was one of the nicest (and often funniest) women I'd ever met on DU

Most here probably didn't know Why Syzygy because she was a regular poster mainly in the ASAH group. I got to know her better on FB through similar-topic conversations, and I now miss those...

[nini]

92. My favorite smiley from those days

[In_The_Wind]

93. Stealin' it for future use!

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[Skittles]

98. oneighty