Phenomenal Swamper Thread

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So just finished having beers with BSF. Great time and solid person. It was strange to try and explain that I was going to meet a friend I have never met before to some of my coworkers when I ditched them tonight, but really glad I did and worth it. If you ever get the chance to catch up with BSF.....highly recommended (Especially on his home turf).

This is a strange community we have created, but it is pretty amazing that you can show up in a city, send out a message and know that you will have interesting conversation, a good time, and be glad you have built this relationship with folks you know through a place that has no scores on the main page.

p.s. despite my appreciation for BSF....fuck the Irsays
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I'm gonna try to meet him next year at GenCon, for sure.

I've been blessed to have met like 20 people from here and at one point I swear I'll meet you all.
wlu_lax6 wrote: Mon Oct 01, 2018 10:38 pmThis is a strange community we have created, but it is pretty amazing that you can show up in a city, send out a message and know that you will have interesting conversation, a good time, ...
This. Completely. Between my military "family" and Swamp "family," I can go nearly anywhere and know someone. It's pretty awesome.
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Johnnie wrote: Tue Oct 02, 2018 6:56 am I'm gonna try to meet him next year at GenCon, for sure.

I've been blessed to have met like 20 people from here and at one point I swear I'll meet you all.
wlu_lax6 wrote: Mon Oct 01, 2018 10:38 pmThis is a strange community we have created, but it is pretty amazing that you can show up in a city, send out a message and know that you will have interesting conversation, a good time, ...
This. Completely. Between my military "family" and Swamp "family," I can go nearly anywhere and know someone. It's pretty awesome.
Add me to the list for GenCon next year. All the more reason to finally go.
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You're too kind pal.

My depth of sports knowledge, especially in the NCAA realm, is not enough to adequately share bar space with many of you, and wlu is definitely on that list.

TWILTS gents.
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Mr. d didn’t want to meet me.

The rest of you have been really cool.
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Does remind me I need to visit Baltimore one day very soon hopefully. I think Baltimore and Seattle are the only two American cities among the top 40 or so in population that I've never been to. I have a buddy who lives in the distant DC suburbs out towards Baltimore/Annapolis and I've been promising a visit since forever.
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Let me know and I’ll cast out the Swamp bat signal. Lots of us btwn here and DC.

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We really enjoyed Baltimore as well as meeting bfj.

I've had some great times with Swampers. Luckily, I met my wife on MySpace, so this is never weird to her.
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bfj wrote: Tue Oct 02, 2018 8:51 am Mr. d didn’t want to meet me.

The rest of you have been really cool.
Don't feel bad, he moved to my small town and didn't want to meet me, either.
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I met Rush & Romero, one moved to the other side of the country and one left the swamp altogether.
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Romero has been around a bit.

I've met a few, including a couple more than once and one even came to my wedding. Boston and Denver seemed to have been hotbeds of Swampers. Sadly haven't been back to NYC/NJ where the big nest of you reside.

Sadly haven't met BSF, BFJ, or Pruitt the ones I've spoken to the most offswamp.
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Swampers are great! Howard and bengal welcomed me on my Eastern US trip (wow, that was 6 years ago).
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Met Pruitt when I was in Toronto last year and he is a good dude. Unfortunately RSmith couldn't make it.
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This is where I should lise all the ones ive met and leave bengal off again. Not like he was the first I ever met or anything.
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Johnny Carwash wrote: Tue Oct 02, 2018 10:31 am Met Pruitt when I was in Toronto last year and he is a good dude. Unfortunately RSmith couldn't make it.
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Rush2112 wrote: Tue Oct 02, 2018 10:17 am Romero has been around a bit.

I've met a few, including a couple more than once and one even came to my wedding. Boston and Denver seemed to have been hotbeds of Swampers. Sadly haven't been back to NYC/NJ where the big nest of you reside.

Sadly haven't met BSF, BFJ, or Pruitt the ones I've spoken to the most offswamp.

I did wrap a joint in a book for you.
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Indeed!

we met in the ether. I very much enjoyed the book, enjoyed the J a bit more.
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I will always treasure the glass frog that BSF sent me before my trip to "Jeopardy!"

It sits on my desk along with a few other souvenirs and keepsakes - a lucky frog that I will keep with me forever.
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bfj wrote: Tue Oct 02, 2018 9:08 am Let me know and I’ll cast out the Swamp bat signal. Lots of us btwn here and DC.

Me
Kranepool
Bengal
Vandwagon
Enoch Root
Wlu
Non linear
Geep, if you want to go way back

Apologies if I left anyone out.
We should meet in Columbia!

(I work in Laurel, but it's butt .)

This is going to sound terrible, but I'm having trouble remembering who I met back in the day. I know it was wlu and tb... wasn't keg in from out of town?

Part of the issue on that is that when we met, we weren't also set up as a group on Fb (or I hadn't joined that group.) Had trouble putting handles to real people in the aftermath.
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Nonlinear FC wrote: Tue Oct 02, 2018 2:06 pm
bfj wrote: Tue Oct 02, 2018 9:08 am Let me know and I’ll cast out the Swamp bat signal. Lots of us btwn here and DC.

Me
Kranepool
Bengal
Vandwagon
Enoch Root
Wlu
Non linear
Geep, if you want to go way back

Apologies if I left anyone out.


We should meet in Columbia!

(I work in Laurel, but it's butt .)

This is going to sound terrible, but I'm having trouble remembering who I met back in the day. I know it was wlu and tb... wasn't keg in from out of town?

Part of the issue on that is that when we met, we weren't also set up as a group on Fb (or I hadn't joined that group.) Had trouble putting handles to real people in the aftermath.
If it’s Columbia, then let it be a meetup at Union Jacks before an indie rock act at Merriweather.

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EnochRoot wrote: Tue Oct 02, 2018 2:11 pm Oh and I just realized what TWILTS means. “That’s what I like to see.”
So you didn't?
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Johnny Carwash wrote: Tue Oct 02, 2018 2:16 pm
EnochRoot wrote: Tue Oct 02, 2018 2:11 pm Oh and I just realized what TWILTS means. “That’s what I like to see.”
So you didn't?
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So it’s not.

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[+] spoiler
That's Why I Love The Swamp
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Johnny Carwash wrote: Tue Oct 02, 2018 3:00 pm
[+] spoiler
That's Why I Love The Swamp
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Give that man a cigar. Still think it would be a great license plate or tattoo, for someone else.
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Pruitt wrote: Tue Oct 02, 2018 12:43 pm I will always treasure the glass frog that BSF sent me before my trip to "Jeopardy!"

It sits on my desk along with a few other souvenirs and keepsakes - a lucky frog that I will keep with me forever.
Awww. That’s cool.
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BSF21 wrote: Tue Oct 02, 2018 5:12 pm
Pruitt wrote: Tue Oct 02, 2018 12:43 pm I will always treasure the glass frog that BSF sent me before my trip to "Jeopardy!"

It sits on my desk along with a few other souvenirs and keepsakes - a lucky frog that I will keep with me forever.
Awww. That’s cool.
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Pruitt, send me your address. I’m gonna send you a* bottle of bourbon.

* (n empty)
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A_B wrote: Tue Oct 02, 2018 9:01 pm Pruitt, send me your address. I’m gonna send you a* bottle of bourbon.

* (n empty)
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Nonlinear FC wrote: Tue Oct 02, 2018 2:06 pm Part of the issue on that is that when we met, we weren't also set up as a group on Fb (or I hadn't joined that group.) Had trouble putting handles to real people in the aftermath.
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Those who donated to the org I work for today and they don’t even live in MD!
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just as a genral...i said this to brian the other day and i mean it. i truly do not know if I would be alive today without you guys. not hyperbole', but you guys came together after Ike and helped me rebuild my life....most of you ive never met or heard your voice...just stepped up. I feel like I owe every single one of you a deep debt that I can never repay...so anytime yall are behind a cause like BFJ and pathfinders or anything else where I can help a bit, if I can send literally anything you guys got it. just reach out to me personally. i happened to catch bfjs fb post but i easily could have missed it, and I would have hated that. You guys are in an odd way like another family to me. Yall were here when i proposed nine years ago, were here when she broke my heart, were here through hurricanes, rebeccas extra brand of being a ho, the lawsuit with my sister, the Donaghy book, yall will be here when i propose to ashley in a couple weeks and hopefully some of yall will be here in person when I marry that woman. Point is....well shit I lost my point.
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We raised 11k yesterday. Thanks again.
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I love the way we united to attack one who attacks our own. I’m talking about HDO’s FB post yesterday about Trump if you didn’t see it. Some asshole made it personal with him and 4 or 5 of us on there let the guy know he was a huge gaping asshole.

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If I still posted on Facebook I'd be all over those types of losers. It doesn't amount to much, but calling random white people on Facebook racist asshole sympathizers seems like fun.

I won't be posting until I'm done with the military because I can't guarantee I wouldn't have some person rat me out to my chain of command and jeopardizing my retirement check. And you know it would be the dude who called for Obama's birth certificate and said gross things about his wife while acting like that's a civil way to discuss politics and labeling the left 'hateful.'
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You stay clear of this bullshit Johnnie. We got this!
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Getting a "Step aside, Butch" vibe from that last post.
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Typical trump guy "i didn't say anything mean or make it personal". Uh, you said his post was worse than the virus and you and other people have stopped doing business with him due to his political posts. Not personal at all!
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1st amendment, bitch.
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