Roll Call: Old Guys mainly

[Limp Lizard]

Who was on the pre-Killerfrogs Frog Fan Forum and chat room back in the 90's?

I got my AOL membership and got on Don's site. Still remember logging on to my dial-up: "wee-ohn, wee-ohn, sssssss, wee-ohn, wee-ohn ... You've got mail!".

The chat room was a hoot! Wes (Tired of Frank) had many aliases, including Leonard Smalls, and would stir up trouble. Tired of Frank, Traditionalist, White Wolf, Toad Trailer, etc. would get Old Rip all riled up. Wes said we just missed out on signing a Nigerian basketball star, Klaatu Nikto. And so on.

At 77, I am one of the oldest of that original group still around. Who else of that group is still out there?

 

[tyler durden]

I discovered KillerFrogs in the run up to the Sun Bowl in December ‘98. Starting posting and honestly kinda miss the old school threaded view. Had a post at one point that Wes liked so much he mailed me a KillerFrogs baseball hat.

 

[Frog Wild]

I wasn't really active in that group but I did post (under a different name) a few times. I think I read about it in TCU magazine?

 

[BrewingFrog]

Who was on the pre-Killerfrogs Frog Fan Forum and chat room back in the 90's?

I got my AOL membership and got on Don's site. Still remember logging on to my dial-up: "wee-ohn, wee-ohn, sssssss, wee-ohn, wee-ohn ... You've got mail!".

The chat room was a hoot! Wes (Tired of Frank) had many aliases, including Leonard Smalls, and would stir up trouble. Tired of Frank, Traditionalist, White Wolf, Toad Trailer, etc. would get Old Rip all riled up. Wes said we just missed out on signing a Nigerian basketball star, Klaatu Nikto. And so on.

At 77, I am one of the oldest of that original group still around. Who else of that group is still out there?

Still around, though I am only in my low-60's. Only... I've been "Brewingfrog" the whole time, although I did post as "The Borg" a few times for the sake of a tired joke.

 

[Big Frog II]

Me

 

[Zebra Frog]

I was there. The Wednesday night chat, called the "Bob Room" was always entertaining. I wish I had transcripts of some of those sessions. Wes is who actually gave me my handle.

 

[cctcu]

Wasn't there in the beginning but got here as fast as I could when I heard about it, around 2008. Got my degree back in '71. It's been interesting, but GO FROGS!!!

 

[Dogfrog]

I posted during those years as Frogdog. It was enlightening to discover I was not the only frustrated Frog fan in the world. At some point I was not able to log in so Wes suggested changing my name.

 

[steelfrog]

Ah the good old days.

Yes, nobody knew (and maybe until now, still don't know) that Wes was a major pot stirrer. Often times poking fun at his friends using his many aliases. Steel never had an alias but Wes had about 10. That's prolly the reason Steel became friends with Wes cause Steel was a more than willing accomplice in such shenanigans. Except Steel at times went too far which, for Wes, was far indeed. The whole Praise Cheesus thing was a Wes invention and a dig at Scotty and his religiosity. And the compromising pics of Scott that Steel would post were supplied...by Wes!

Scotts trans daughter was like manna from heaven for Wes and he never tired of tweaking Scotty about it but not directly.

Wes at one time was quite religious himself, or at least as religious as most people, if not to the level of Scott. When his son died at age 26 and Wes had to pull the plug and everybody told Wes it was part of God's plan, well, that was the end of Wes being religious. What a fiasco to have that phony Todd Wagner speak at Scott's memorial service.

Before Steel and Wes became friends, Steel was running amok and Scott called a phone meeting of people to try and spitball how to deal with Steel; Steel got the number and had fun listening to how frustrated they were. Fun times.

Funniest thing was watching 380 pound Scotty get out of his Prius. And driving in it with Wes - that's about 850 pounds of human in a Prius! And Scotty's pink Hummer - I guess he loved his trans daughter after all...

 

[HToady]

Started as a "lurker" then joined in when I became incensed about something.....

 

[tcudoc]

Ah the good old days.

Yes, nobody knew (and maybe until now, still don't know) that Wes was a major pot stirrer. Often times poking fun at his friends using his many aliases. Steel never had an alias but Wes had about 10. That's prolly the reason Steel became friends with Wes cause Steel was a more than willing accomplice in such shenanigans. Except Steel at times went too far which, for Wes, was far indeed. The whole Praise Cheesus thing was a Wes invention and a dig at Scotty and his religiosity. And the compromising pics of Scott that Steel would post were supplied...by Wes!

Scotts trans daughter was like manna from heaven for Wes and he never tired of tweaking Scotty about it but not directly.

Wes at one time was quite religious himself, or at least as religious as most people, if not to the level of Scott. When his son died at age 26 and Wes had to pull the plug and everybody told Wes it was part of God's plan, well, that was the end of Wes being religious. What a fiasco to have that phony Todd Wagner speak at Scott's memorial service.

Before Steel and Wes became friends, Steel was running amok and Scott called a phone meeting of people to try and spitball how to deal with Steel; Steel got the number and had fun listening to how frustrated they were. Fun times.

Funniest thing was watching 380 pound Scotty get out of his Prius. And driving in it with Wes - that's about 850 pounds of human in a Prius! And Scotty's pink Hummer - I guess he loved his trans daughter after all...

So much to unravel here…

 

[tcudoc]

I got here in late 1998. Just missed the old board by a bit, but recall all of the characters.
Wes had so many pseudonyms. Most of the good “bit” characters were his creations. Miss all of those bits.

 

[steelfrog]

So much to unravel here…

Well, YEAH...

Ha ha

 

[froginmn]

Steel never had an alias but Wes had about 10.

 

[y2kFrog]

I started posting way back then, although that was my young days back then. I remember going to the library between classes because the computer labs had fast connections!

 

[researchfrog]

I got here pre-‘98, but wasn’t very active until the early 2000s. Then my posting fell off substantially as life happened. At the turn of the century, 15 posts in one day might make you a top poster outside of football season!

I remember someone tweaking Gunner because we signed Yakman from Nepal, a 7’ tall QB.

 

[NORMLFROG]

Ahhh the Bob Room. I'm old.

NF

 

[steelfrog]

NORML!

One of Steel's recent fondest memories was at Wes's funeral (a more dramatic affair than it needed to be due to choices made by his daughter Julia) -- Steel had Wes in a box in a bag, and had just gotten out of his car and up strides NORML -- Steel asks NORML to hold Wes, and without missing a beat NORML peers down into the bag and says, "Hey Buddy!"

Good times.

 

[Spike]

I came in about 2001, right about the time Casey Printers stunk it up at the Gallery Furniture Bowl. Miss guys like Scott, Wes, Tuscon, 2314 and so on. KFC has been awesome. Well, except for that @steelfrog guy.

 

[Horned Toad]

Got here in 98, like TylerD, during the Sun Bowl. Lurked for a long time until I got up the courage to make a post. It was almost magical hitting “Post reply”, or whatever it was back then, for the first time. Didn’t want to come off as a newb.