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Post by Meursault on May 6, 2005 12:42:19 GMT -5
Tell about your life at Rolling Stone on and off the boards but all things you've shared, laughed about, or at (except me), and you get the drift....
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Post by Ampage on May 6, 2005 13:51:17 GMT -5
Oh I miss those boards. I used to reread some of the better continuation of posts. Some seriously funny stuff went on there.
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Post by Thorngrub on Jun 8, 2005 12:59:51 GMT -5
Man I still can't believe all those archives = lost.
It pisses me off, it does. There was so much . . .richness, there. Just take the TOOL board alone, for chrissakes. That thing was a goldmine of nostalgia and brilliance. Remember Mirrorssideways? Kathman. 2 Hi. Jizz Fritter. I wonder where the Fritterman is today. Flying the skies in his fighter jet probably.
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Post by pissin2 on Jun 8, 2005 13:00:58 GMT -5
you can do google searches and find some old posts.
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Post by Thorngrub on Jun 8, 2005 13:02:37 GMT -5
oh yeah I've done that. . . . click on 'cache'
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Post by pissin2 on Jun 8, 2005 13:36:24 GMT -5
yeah, but nobody really wants to fuckin' do that
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Post by Thorngrub on Jun 8, 2005 15:21:59 GMT -5
No doubt. I was gunna. Then I said fuckit.
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Post by samplestiltskin on Jun 9, 2005 13:58:06 GMT -5
I miss our secret snarky boards.  When things were bigger and you felt free to hie away somewhere and diss, or hell, start a flame-war if you felt like it! The game was so much fun. The droogies, the newbies, the right and the left, it was beautiful. I miss it badly. (Nothing against you strat, it wasn't our fault RS.com were dicks and erased our past and evicted us, and I'm glad you at least gave us a place to hang out.) |
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Post by strat-0 on Jun 9, 2005 15:46:08 GMT -5
No prob, samps. Definitely a different feel here with such a relatively small gene pool. I've tried to think of ways to get the word out to other former RS posters to no avail. Even thought of trying to enlist the help of RS.com (perhaps a small notice somewhere) but then thought better of it. If RS knew about this place, they'd probably try to squash it like a bug.
Not only is it hard to believe they did what they did, but even harder for me to fathom that they just decided not to host a message board at all.
I do wish more of the 'old gang' would check in from time to time - some have just about dropped off the radar.
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Post by Thorngrub on Jun 9, 2005 16:52:19 GMT -5
yeah I should really unsubscribe to the rollingstone.com letters - - for the longest time I held out on the one that declared "Message Boards Back!", but that obviously ain't lookin like it's gunna happen. Screw Rolling Stone
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Post by Nepenthe on Jul 15, 2005 22:26:55 GMT -5
I wasn't quite sure where to put this, but this seems like a good place. I have been doing some genealogy for my family and I have just recently found out incredible things about my father's side of my family. The history behind my family is extensive, I found out things I had never imagined I would find. So far the genealogy has been dated back to the late 1500's in England. The name is of Dutch or possibly Swedish, or low German origin, which we already knew. But I found out that on my dad's mother's side the family came to the US with William Penn and settled in Pennsylvania Dutch area, they were members of the Society of Friends, better known as the Quakers. See my dad's parents died when he was very young so his maternal grandmother and father raised him, he kept the maiden name of his mother because of this. With this surname is the history I have found. One of my ancestors married a daughter of Joseph Maddock and they settled a Quaker colony in North Carolina and then founded the Wrightsboro Georgia Quaker colony. From there my ancestors moved to Ohio where they built a saw mill and bought a grist mill. The Mill is still there along the scenic Miami Trail and is a historical site. The town was originally named after my family, a road was named after my family and Ohio's oldest Inn, The Golden Lamb, is still owned by one of the branches of my family. There is also an indain mound up in Ohio with the name of my family, I am still researching whether or not that was named after the family, I am guessing it is. Because the founding member in the Ohio area was indeed an archaeologist and he also writer. The mounds are near the old Quaker community and near the oldest Church in that area, a Quaker church. The Hopewell meetings were held there. They worked very closely with the Shawnee and one of the sawmills that they built was actually given to the shawnee to run. The Quakers also built schools for the shawnee. Part of the family also moved to Lake Minnetonka in Minnesota and there is a bay there named after my family. Other members of the family moved into Kansas, Indiana, and Illinois. They were pioneers in Kansas as well, and the 18th governor of Kansas is indeed my kin, same surname as mine, and a documented descendant.  A few of my ancestors fought for the Union in the civil war and many of them helped run the underground railroad. I had always wondered why there were so many Black people with the same last name, I was curious for many years if my family were slave holders. I found out that they indeed did own slaves because my ancestors bought slaves for the sole purpose of setting them free through the underground railroad. The history is so rich indeed and I was quite shocked when I found out about this. My dad was not familar with this history, he is from Illinois and all he knew was that they came from Kansas to Illinois. He came from a long line of millers and blacksmiths but he never knew about the governor of Kansas actually being a relation to his family. All in all counting the wives and children there are 2400 known descendants.  I have been researching the history behind the Quakers as well and this is indeed very fascinating. I had a 5th grade teacher that use to ask me if my ancestors were Quakers and at the time I had no idea, one of the missionaries from England had the same surname. Well apparently the Puritans in the US didn't take kindly to the Quakers and they were persecuted pretty badly because they wouldn't attend church. Hah! who'd a thunk.  In fact the very first woman to be executed for religious beliefs in our country was Mary Dyer, and she was a Quaker. She traveled to England and while there she met George Fox and became a Quaker. A few other Quakers were hung as well. They were literally banned and thrown out of Massachusetts and they were tortured. They seared holes through their tongues with hot Irons and they also cut their ears off. Many of them went to Rhode Island and half of Rhode Island converted to the Society of Friends. They elected 36 consecutive Governors that were Quakers, in the state of Rhode Island. In Maryland the government there began to persecute the Quakers and many non Quaker Dutch settlers began to petition the governor along with the Quakers and this is the VERY FIRST challenge to our government for religious freedom, and they WON! A new law was indeed passed. The Quakers were quite fond of the Native American culture. William Penn was a Quaker and he was the only man in our history that made a treaty with the natives that never got broken. This I am sure, had much to do with the persecution of the Quakers. The earlier Quakers, and the later like William Penn, felt that the Native Americans and other people's beliefs and religious practices should be respected and they should worship however they felt. George Fox was the founder of The Society of Friends and there is quite a history there as well. He wasn't just some nut bag running around England. Although he was jailed 8 times, he was friends with both the King and Oliver Cromwell. Sick of the politics and problems with the church he began to read the newly published King James Bible, finding like believers he formed The Society of Friends. He ended up marrying a prominent widow in England. He did missionary work, along with a man with the same surname as mine ( I haven't yet documented this man as a descendant but am working on it), in Egypt and Barbados, Holland and several other places. |
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Post by Nepenthe on Jul 15, 2005 22:38:03 GMT -5
I am also doing some research on the Maddocks. My 5th great grandmother. This is incredibly interesting concerning the Legend of Prince Madoc and the Mandans. This is part of Welsh history and much has been researched in the US as well. The Ohio Falls museum has some artifacts, George Catlin wrote about the "Welsh" speakers, as well as the governor of Tennessee who spoke to a Cherokee chief about the "Welsh" Speaking Indians. There is also a Madoc research center in the Rio Grande in Ohio. I just recently received a tremendous amount of information from one of the leading researchers and indeed the name Maddock is linked to the settlement both here in the US and the Prince Madoc/Madog, abroad in Wales. It is such an incredible parallel indeed, THIS is one of the main the tribes I wrote about last summer for a term paper!! The traveling of the Mandans and the travels of my ancestors seem to coincide almost exactly. When I wrote the researcher he was quite familiar with the Quaker history in Georgia, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. He also knows a Native American with the surname Maddock. Another intersting tid bit incase no one knows. The Quaker Oat Man was indeed a Quaker and was the man that discovered the smallpox vaccine. |
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Post by Nepenthe on Jul 15, 2005 22:44:37 GMT -5
Now the genealogy is just beginning, I have to research my Dad's Father's name Ferguson and my Mom's two family names Williams and King. |
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Post by RocDoc on Jul 16, 2005 12:08:17 GMT -5
It definitely IS wild stuff to 'find your placement' in the world that way...
Gives you a past to live up to, which I think can be a very good thing...don't let those ancestors down!
It should be a good motivating force, I'd hope...
...and you were whom at the old RS, if I may ask?
I remember Sunnygirl had a very Irish name in reality...but she's already been here and I don't think under this name...
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Post by Nepenthe on Jul 16, 2005 12:17:57 GMT -5
oops sorry Roc its me NymphoFantasia. Maybe I should change my sn back.
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When things were bigger and you felt free to hie away somewhere and diss, or hell, start a flame-war if you felt like it! The game was so much fun. The droogies, the newbies, the right and the left, it was beautiful. I miss it badly. (Nothing against you strat, it wasn't our fault RS.com were dicks and erased our past and evicted us, and I'm glad you at least gave us a place to hang out.)
A few of my ancestors fought for the Union in the civil war and many of them helped run the underground railroad. I had always wondered why there were so many Black people with the same last name, I was curious for many years if my family were slave holders. I found out that they indeed did own slaves because my ancestors bought slaves for the sole purpose of setting them free through the underground railroad. 
In fact the very first woman to be executed for religious beliefs in our country was Mary Dyer, and she was a Quaker. She traveled to England and while there she met George Fox and became a Quaker. A few other Quakers were hung as well. They were literally banned and thrown out of Massachusetts and they were tortured. They seared holes through their tongues with hot Irons and they also cut their ears off. Many of them went to Rhode Island and half of Rhode Island converted to the Society of Friends. They elected 36 consecutive Governors that were Quakers, in the state of Rhode Island. 