Your Name and Avatar
December 26th, 2018 at 8:53 AM ^
1.) It's the name the school gave me and a teacher thought it was cool so I have just ran with it. Works great for login names since it's rarely already taken.
2) It's a picture of the big house, a crappy one, but it has memories.
December 26th, 2018 at 11:46 PM ^
For me it's pretty simple. My name is Creedence C. Tapes, so that's the screen name and my avatar is just a photo of me standing in front of my car at the Auto Circus in North Hollywood. My car had been stolen but the boys down at the crime lab tracked it down it in Van Nuys. Was a good day.
December 26th, 2018 at 8:53 AM ^
My name is Maizen because...
Shit. Forget I said anything.
December 26th, 2018 at 3:42 PM ^
Odd. I always thought you were the village butcher.
December 26th, 2018 at 4:54 PM ^
+1 for Fiddler on the Roof reference.
December 26th, 2018 at 9:26 PM ^
In all seriousness, this is indeed where it comes from. Always thought Lazar Wolf was a cool name, thought Laser was even cooler.
December 26th, 2018 at 10:01 PM ^
Nailed it. Grew up loving the play. Songs were in my elementary school's music text and saw the movie in the theater at I think 8yo.
December 26th, 2018 at 8:57 AM ^
1) BPONE
2) Where your hopes and dreams go to die.
December 26th, 2018 at 8:57 AM ^
I was shocked when people got all upset that Harbaugh drinks milk with steak since I also enjoy that combination so that’s the name I chose
The pic is a zoomed in shot of Harbaugh’s meal that caused the stir
December 26th, 2018 at 10:10 AM ^
Weimy Woodson, my dog/best friend is a Weimaraner and I named her Woodson. I've had her for 5 1/2 years now, and I'm beyond the point now where whenever I hear someone say the name Woodson, I think of her, not the great Michigan football player!
Cool fun note is that my wife is an OSU grad, and when we were getting the pup I was mentioning Michigan names. She was cool with the idea but was shooting down the first few names I mentioned. When I mentioned the name Woodson in jest, she started thinking and said "you know what, I really like that name! Lets do that!"
December 26th, 2018 at 11:30 AM ^
Oops! Wrong thread.
December 26th, 2018 at 11:42 AM ^
Have replies to BPONE been blocked?
December 26th, 2018 at 12:49 PM ^
Well... you're username and avatar definitely check out. ?
December 26th, 2018 at 8:58 AM ^
Dude are you fucking this up?
December 26th, 2018 at 9:12 AM ^
I saw your movie for the first time ever just the other day. I'd been missing a great one for a lot of years ...
December 26th, 2018 at 12:13 PM ^
The edited version always cracks me up. “ See what happens when you take a stranger to the Alps”
Hahahaha.
December 26th, 2018 at 9:45 PM ^
Relax man. No physical harm intended.
December 26th, 2018 at 9:00 AM ^
1: Because I love me some ‘Que!
2: Bacon wrapped tenderloin.
December 26th, 2018 at 9:00 AM ^
1: Back in 2010 when i became active here it was clear i was one of the older posters on the board and God willing, would continue to be so as time went on.
2: It's my senior picture from Cranbrook, 1978. Note for newbies-had a bikini pic of MGoWife up for first 4 years or so but had to take down in the great naughty bits avatar purge.
December 26th, 2018 at 9:05 AM ^
Cranbrook? That's a private school.
December 26th, 2018 at 9:14 AM ^
Yup. Attended there from 72-78. I grew up in Pontiac and back then busing had just been implemented and the schools there were struggling to deal with the changes that brought so my parents sent me there instead.
December 26th, 2018 at 10:34 AM ^
Pontiac? School busing? Where have you gone Irene McCabe?
December 26th, 2018 at 11:11 AM ^
If you graduated high school in 78, then we were classmates at UM. But I know we've already had a conversation about the not-forgotten V-Bell!
My SC Wolverine stems from my permanent residency in the wonderful state of South Carolina. My avatar is my front door with the colors flying.
December 26th, 2018 at 2:38 PM ^
Well there's not many parents who would be all set to send their kid to Pontiac public schools and then just say, you know what let's just send him to Cranbrook instead. It's probably 50K a year to go there now.
December 26th, 2018 at 9:27 AM ^
What's the matter, dawg, you embarassed?
This guy's a gangster? His real name is Clarence!
December 26th, 2018 at 9:48 AM ^
And Clarence parents have a real good marriage...
Best part is, mGrowOld is nailing the name here because the Cranbrook reference is now over 15 years old. Stay golden, mGrowOld.
December 26th, 2018 at 10:40 AM ^
Ain't no such thing as half way crooks
December 26th, 2018 at 4:12 PM ^
Yeah totally whiffed on the 8 Mile reference. I thought that was an odd comment.
December 26th, 2018 at 9:17 AM ^
I thought it was a picture of Kurt Russell - hahaha!
December 26th, 2018 at 10:26 AM ^
or Bruce Jenner even...??♂️
December 26th, 2018 at 10:48 AM ^
I did too. I'm still convinced Mgrowold is Kurt Russell.
December 26th, 2018 at 2:30 PM ^
I thought it was Kyle MacLachlan! Lol!!
December 26th, 2018 at 2:05 PM ^
Maybe I saw you in the area back then. Andover '77 grad here. Cranbrook was/is a great school. I remember going there on a field trip and seeing an Egyptian mummy. Are you kidding me?
December 26th, 2018 at 4:11 PM ^
Did you happen to know the author Chuck Collins by any chance? He was Cranbrook but grew up almost next door to Andover and was a pretty good friend of mine in school. Wrote the book "Born on 3rd base".
December 26th, 2018 at 2:34 PM ^
Interesting sub thread.
Mine is because I went to Michigan starting in ‘78 (after attending Andover) when Bo coached. I grew up playing soccer under Ernie Knect’s (iirc) youth program at Cranbrook and at Michigan briefly met Bo when we had a game on one of his practice fields.
Though I believe in never growing old.
December 26th, 2018 at 2:46 PM ^
If you graduated in 78 your only a few years older then me. Nice there are some old folks like us on here.
Mine is easy. First name is Kevin and 13 has been my lucky number for years. Wore it for most sports I played
December 26th, 2018 at 5:12 PM ^
You will always be MgroWold to me.
December 26th, 2018 at 9:01 AM ^
Graduated from Western, parents were both Michigan grads so naturally I loved following the University athletics.
I love Futurama, argurbly just as much as UofM athletics, and who better to have in the picture than that 80's guy.
December 26th, 2018 at 9:13 AM ^
Switzerland is small and neutral! We are more like Germany: ambitious and misunderstood!
December 26th, 2018 at 9:53 AM ^
Fry, I'm an 80s guy. Friendship to me means that for 2 bucks I'd beat you with a pool cue until you got detached retinas.
December 26th, 2018 at 9:03 AM ^
I'll start. Was a lurker for years until I signed up for the Event Team and figured maybe I have a few behind the scenes tidbits to add to a discussion now and then. I was assigned to scan tickets before redeploying to a portal in the bowl, so scanner blue was born.
My picture is a collection of authentic Michigan AD produced balls/puck plus a 200 year anniversary cube. I sometimes play a game with kids at games where they have to pick two of the four objects in front of them that actually hit me in the face at a UM sporting event. If you pick correctly you can win a fabulous M themed prize! The choices... hockey puck from Yost, baseball from Fisher, lacrosse ball from Oosterbahn, golf ball from the U of M course. Truth be told, most get a prize even if they answer incorrectly. Answer later in the day.
December 26th, 2018 at 9:04 AM ^
Username: I'll never forget screaming this all season long, but especially in the tunnel leaving the 1998 Rose Bowl with a 21-16 National Championship win during my freshman year.
Avatar: Sam Sword was a beast and our leading tackler during that amazing season and Ian Gold arguably had a breakout year that year which would propel him to even greater stats in 1998 and 1999.
December 27th, 2018 at 9:29 AM ^
Great avatar. Sword is one of my favorite players of all time at Michigan. I played High school football at Belleville High School with Ian Gold. He was a great teamate and player. It was fun watching him play for Michigan and in the Pros.
December 26th, 2018 at 9:05 AM ^
I'm Scruffy, the Janitor.
I've never seen you before, neither.
December 26th, 2018 at 9:57 AM ^
Scruffy's gonna die the way he lived
December 26th, 2018 at 9:06 AM ^
I'm a history buff. Reggie Dunlop was a colonel in the Continental Army and widely heralded for stopping the soviet invasion of Massachusetts.
Avatar is a picture of me from 1986 rooting on my wife during child birth.
December 26th, 2018 at 9:06 AM ^
1. It’s actually a mistake. I was creating an acronym for “Now Just Another Investor” after I had left an employer in the early ‘00s and accidentally transposed the I and A. Because I was already using it in websites where I could have an anonymous screen name, I chose it for MGoBlog as well.
2. The avatar pic is of one of my closest friends (left; we met in the late 80s as Aero undergrads) and his colleague, another fellow alum from a different year, who were working as safety divers at the Johnson Space Center. They got to don space suits at the Neutral Buoyancy Lab for a training event.
December 26th, 2018 at 9:06 AM ^
Couldn't think of a decent username that I wouldn't hate after a little while, and this seemed pretty timeless.
The insectosaurus avatar was born during a bored college night at home but I've grown quite fond of it over the years.
December 26th, 2018 at 11:25 AM ^
I remember suggesting that you put the block M on the chest of Insectoaurus - always good to see your posts!