Roll Call: Old Guys mainly

[froggy]

I was there same handle

 

[Diehard]

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?

Me. 77 also. Wes was the closest friend I ever had still sad he's not with us. Although the state of college football would have him in knot. Man we had some fun!!!

 

[Diehard]

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...

Right on Steel.

 

[One Frog Nation]

Joined back in the early days, somewhere along the way, I changed my email address and forgot the password so I ended up rejoining with new password and user name. At one point around 2000 or so I had my own website, killerfrog.com, not killerfrogs.com, where I just stored pictures and junk, ended up losing it when it came up for renewal and I didn't renew.

 

[GeoFrog]

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!

Also first posted/read when I worked at the library in the 90's. Nothing like trying to navigate forum on the old orange screen computers in the library.

This was of course in between my hard working Federal Work Study job of checking out books, shelving books, getting told I was going to Hell by the SW Baptist Seminary students trying to enter without a visitor card, and checking out Maplethorpe photography books to people I knew and then hiding the books so that they would get late notices in the mail.

 

[dobbiesquad4]

Just looked at my join date: 2009. Damn that’s a long time and many threads a comments that I can’t unsee.

 

[SW toad]

Just looked at my join date: 2009. Damn that’s a long time and many threads a comments that I can’t unsee.

What is an Old Guy. I have friends in their 70s who act/behave younger than the so-called dudes in their 50s. Most of them (70s guys) look younger appearance wise because of not being tormented by haggis.

 

[hometown frog]

I was around back on the old golfsw forum days. And the bob room. And Tired. And getting the locker room bulletin board material into Billy Tubbs hands so he could hand it to the Hawaii coach after we ran them into a ditch out on the island. And learning about the political powers in play that helped us w the sun bowl selection.

lots of great memories and great friends.

 

[FrogAbroad]

Wasn't there some kind of system hiccup a few years back (during the Wes Ages) that reset most if not all joined dates?

 

[nrhfrog]

73 years old....class of '74.

Yes, I was there way back in the 90's. Frequent reader, but infrequent poster. Had nothing funny to say, but sure enjoyed the humor on the Forum. I only posted when I just couldn't take it anymore and had to blow off steam about something stupid TCU had done (or not done).

My profile shows I joined in 2007, but I think it is because I got disconnected at some point and had to "re-enlist".

 

[FROGLEGHOP]

Joined back in the early days, somewhere along the way, I changed my email address and forgot the password so I ended up rejoining with new password and user name. At one point around 2000 or so I had my own website, killerfrog.com, not killerfrogs.com, where I just stored pictures and junk, ended up losing it when it came up for renewal and I didn't renew.

Same thing happened to me re: email changed and did not remember the password, so new username, etc. Asked about getting the old username back one time but did not get a response. Oh well that was a long time ago...

 

[froggy]

Same thing happened to me I was there with Chris (white wolf). I don’t remember what year but had to be in the 90s

 

[PurpleBlood87]

I liked going into the chat room during games.

 

[ShadowFrog]

Scratching noggin (finding Mersa), think I joined Dons site in ‘95 (?). Don’t recall first handle but upon PCS to Ramstein became GermanFrog. Upon return stateside changed to USAFrog tho why escapes me as I already been issued my pink slip. Volunteered & deployed for the desert for a year post 911, became KuwaitFrog—used to email John Denton & Brian Estridge when they asked the KTCU-FM audience where everyone was listening from. I replied with one word, which left them googling maps then wishing me safe return. After that year of 5% humidity I took back USAFrog and asked what’d I miss? Eighteen months later, unemployed & living off meagre govt. retirement, got a call from my desert commander—I hear you haven’t found work yet, yup. Good, pack your bags. #^^?~<%
Back to Kuwait, for another year same place, just 10 feet down the desert dusty hall, as a contractor—resurrects KuwaitFrog. Upon return from 5th combat zone tour, dried out & 20 pounds lighter, become ShadowFrog since.

 

[One Frog Nation]

Same thing happened to me re: email changed and did not remember the password, so new username, etc. Asked about getting the old username back one time but did not get a response. Oh well that was a long time ago...

Yea, back then your email address was likely your cable company, if you changed cable companies, you lost your email address, then came aol, yahoo and finally gmail. I still have my old yahoo email address and give it to people, contests, etc I don't want to give my real one.

 

[Sangria Wine]

I joined the insanity in 1996. Crazy how time flies. A lot of fun especially early on when this whole concept with so new. The way the world shared information then was so different. This concept was new, fast, unfiltered and from the inside quite often.

 

[tcudoc]

I joined the insanity in 1996. Crazy how time flies. A lot of fun especially early on when this whole concept with so new. The way the world shared information then was so different. This concept was new, fast, unfiltered and from the inside quite often.

Yeah, we used to have to rely on FWST or TCU Magazine for news. It was always days, weeks, months after the fact. Especially for us out of towners.
Now, it is almost instantaneous.

 

[gohornedfrogs]

This place has been my window to the TCU world since '03 or '04. Sorry I didn't discover it sooner.

I'd probably be a lot richer (and may even have a happy wife) if I'd never found it, though...

 

[Mean Purple]

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...

There has got to be a chapter in psych books about this kinda stuff.

I didn't find KF until a little later.

I do remember (and I think this was early 2010s maybe, maybe mid 2000s) a rather disturbing story composed by you about miniture people kept in a cage. One of them got killed off, if I remember correctly.

 

[Brog]

I retired in the mid-1990's just as computers were really blossoming, used that company that had black and white spotted cows as their id, "you've got mail" was emerging, and lo, there was a way to keep up with Frog stuff. I've changed names a time or two because of computer failure, but as a 94-year-old TCU class of 1951 product, thank the Lord for Killer'frogs. Now if I can just make it 33 more days!