TGR freetime awards

[Dexter Rutecki]

I think this used to be ACE's job, but since he seems to have a real job that is time consuming these days...

In tenth place, our bitter little fruit that you just can't get enough of (and whose number of skiing related posts in being closely monitored by someone), Kumquat.

Ninth place, with 1382 posts, keeping his buzz on through over 1000 posts, Mr. worthy, first name Buzz.

Eighth place is held by the guy you love to hate (or just plain hate), with 1416 posts the hugeairdog himself, Blurred Elevens (probably in first place in number of people ignoring him, though).

Is a limey a relative of a kumquat? Well, we've got one in seventh place, with a solid 1522 posts--probably responsible for more liquid being spit onto monitors than anyone else here. Props to England's only Kirkwood season pass holder.

Splatrick Kenoreno is our sixth place honoree, official photographer, liason to Powder Magazine, magette recruiter, keeper of Otis the Dog, etc. etc. etc., with a solid 1571 posts.

Our top posting Jersey Boy (and resident of assorted Western States and states of mind) comes in at fifth place with 1586 posts (under this particular alias, anyway). He still calls himself Pinner, but I've heard tell that he fixes the heels these days...

1588 posts earns ak_powder_monkey fourth place--what can I say about him that hasn't been said on the board? If his posts lack something in quality, he's doing a good job at keeping up with the quantity.

And now, for our top three...[drum roll and sound of screaming sheep being tortured by LS9000s]

Number three: the jibber of jabba, the sultan of stomp, the shizzle for your nizzle and funkiest funkdafied phUnk we know...skiing is his life, with 1746 posts.

Number two: he thinks he can debunk you and anyone else around here, and he might just be right. Pushing two thousand posts (1949), with a screen name that means nothing to the Bush administration, Truth.

And finally, our winner is (this is too predictable):
iceman. Over 200 posts margin beyond his closest competitor, 2197 posts is testament to how bored the board master is. Known for his vitriol, humor, spirited take-downs of those who need to be taken down, he is officially the most prolific minion. Kudos!

So, there you have it. Congrats to our top 10, let's see those of you who haven't made the list step it up and break into the ranks of these elites (c'mon Buster, I know you've still got it).

Signing off from 15th(?) place, your temporary MC, Dexter R.

[Plakespear]

Now that I have cable internet I realize that there is a whole universe of porn out there to explore so I can't waste all my time posting here.

[warthog]

Amen to THAT!!!

[phUnk]

Wait, they have porn on the internet now?

[laseranimal]

pad

[Lumpy]

I was hoping to crawl to 1000 posts (mostly consisting of secondary drivel) by the time I am non-employed (1 month to the day!!!!). But I don't see that happening. Life seems to get in the way of the board. That, and I don't own a 'puter.

[Blurred Elevens]

Sweet! I'm sandwiched in-between Roo and Buzz!! At least I like these guys. That doesn't mean I'm gay does it?

[Sublime]

Originally posted by Blurred Elevens
Sweet! I'm sandwiched in-between Roo and Buzz!! At least I like these guys. That doesn't mean I'm gay does it?

Your gay if you make one more "Am I gay?" or homophobic remark.

[CaddyDaddy77]

Originally posted by Lumpy
I was hoping to crawl to 1000 posts (mostly consisting of secondary drivel) by the time I am non-employed (1 month to the day!!!!). But I don't see that happening. Life seems to get in the way of the board. That, and I don't own a 'puter.

Should get some sort of honorarium for most post with actually not owning a computer, than again soem of the HS and college bros could be up there too.

[Blurred Elevens]

Originally posted by Sublime
Your gay if you make one more "Am I gay?" or homophobic remark.

homo=gay=you

phobic=scared

however, I'm not scared of you. What sense does that make?

[Sublime]

New Study Links Homophobia with Homosexual Arousal


August 1996 Press Release

WASHINGTON -- Psychoanalytic theory holds that homophobia -- the fear, anxiety, anger, discomfort and aversion that some ostensibly heterosexual people hold for gay individuals -- is the result of repressed homosexual urges that the person is either unaware of or denies. A study appearing in the August 1996 issue of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association (APA), provides new empirical evidence that is consistent with that theory.

Researchers at the University of Georgia conducted an experiment involving 35 homophobic men and 29 nonhomophobic men as measured by the Index of Homophobia scale. All the participants selected for the study described themselves as exclusively heterosexual both in terms of sexual arousal and experience.

Each participant was exposed to sexually explicit erotic stimuli consisting of heterosexual, male homosexual and lesbian videotapes (but not necessarily in that order). Their degree of sexual arousal was measured by penile plethysmography, which precisely measures and records male tumescence.

Men in both groups were aroused by about the same degree by the video depicting heterosexual sexual behavior and by the video showing two women engaged in sexual behavior. The only significant difference in degree of arousal between the two groups occurred when they viewed the video depicting male homosexual sex: 'The homophobic men showed a significant increase in penile circumference to the male homosexual video, but the control [nonhomophobic] men did not.'

Broken down further, the measurements showed that while 66% of the nonhomophobic group showed no significant tumescence while watching the male homosexual video, only 20% of the homophobic men showed little or no evidence of arousal. Similarly, while 24% of the nonhomophobic men showed definite tumescence while watching the homosexual video, 54% of the homophobic men did.

When asked to give their own subjective assessment of the degree to which they were aroused by watching each of the three videos, men in both groups gave answers that tracked fairly closely with the results of the objective physiological measurement, with one exception: the homophobic men significantly underestimated their degree of arousal by the male homosexual video.

Do these findings mean, then, that homophobia in men is a reaction to repressed homosexual urges, as psychoanalysis theorizes? While their findings are consistent with that theory, the authors note that there is another, competing theoretical explanation: anxiety. According to this theory, viewing the male homosexual videotape may have caused negative emotions (such as anxiety) in the homophobic men, but not in the nonhomophobic men. As the authors note, 'anxiety has been shown to enhance arousal and erection,' and so it is also possible that 'a response to homosexual stimuli [in these men] is a function of the threat condition rather than sexual arousal per se. These competing notions can and should be evaluated by future research.'

Article: 'Is Homophobia Associated With Homosexual Arousal?' by Henry E. Adams, Ph.D., Lester W. Wright, Jr., Ph.D. and Bethany A. Lohr, University of Georgia, in Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Vol. 105, No. 3, pp 440-445.

[Blurred Elevens]

Originally posted by Sublime
New Study Links Homophobia with Homosexual Arousal

I didn't read ANY of that but scouring the net for your homosexual agenda is definitely what I'd call "gay".

[G]

I guess I'd better pick things up a little, if I want to be part of the cool crowd.

[Steven S. Dallas]

I gotta say, and I mean no offense to those who partake in the occasional pad and especially no offense to Mr. Poindexter, but what's the point of the padding threads? I mean, sure, you're super-hella-hekka cool and all because you have a bunch of posts, but really, why post nothingness over and over again? I mean, I guess we should thank you for confining your uselessness to one thread instead of puking it up all over the place, but seriously, get a life. Lest anyone think I am addressing them personally, I have never read a "pad" thread, nor will I ever post in one. Unless it makes your penis bigger, in which case I am definitely interested.

[Dexter Rutecki]

Ahhhh, the mysteries of life <pad>

[Dexter Rutecki]

And to respond to Michael J. Fox, I would submit that having a high post-count puts you on an order of coolness with, say, people who have all their lift tickets hanging off their jackets, like some sort of retarded Christmas ornament.

[Sublime]

Or the mysteries of pad?

[Steven S. Dallas]

Originally posted by Dexter Rutecki
And to respond to Michael J. Fox...

I'm sorry. Alzheimer's dementia made me write that.

And yes, I'm aware that's not funny.

[Blurred Elevens]

Originally posted by Alex P. Keaton
I'm sorry. Alzheimer's dementia made me write that.

And yes, I'm aware that's not funny.

What's funny about Muhammad Fox disease?

[Steven S. Dallas]

Glad to hear I wasn't the only one disappointed when Will Smith was tapped for the Ali biopic over Mr. Marty McFly.

[Skidawg]

Originally posted by Alex P. Keaton
I gotta say, and I mean no offense to those who partake in the occasional pad and especially no offense to Mr. Poindexter, but what's the point of the padding threads? I mean, sure, you're super-hella-hekka cool and all because you have a bunch of posts, but really, why post nothingness over and over again?

Saying "Pad" to add to your post count is at least admitting what you are doing. There's plenty of threads that there's only like 2 or 3 people having a "chat room" where the post is 1 or 2 words or a face ( ). There's absolutely nothing wrong with either approach to adding up your post count! Just admit you're doing it sometimes.

[Pinner]

My "pad" thread. Something like a third of my posts are in there.

[fridge]

Originally posted by Sublime
the Index of Homophobia scale.

I wonder what the unit of measurement for this scale is?


Also, if there were more threads about The OC, Seinfeld, Journey, and hockey, then I'd have a lot more posts.

[CantDog]

Originally posted by Dexter Rutecki
And to respond to Michael J. Fox, I would submit that having a high post-count puts you on an order of coolness with, say, people who have all their lift tickets hanging off their jackets, like some sort of retarded Christmas ornament.

Gone to clip all the lift tickets off my jacket...

[Dexter Rutecki]

Yeah, I thought that was pretty uncool on Saturday walking around Soho with you and your bird's nest of lift tix.