X4 Inside Jokes Explained!

RoyalWulff posted:

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However, there USED to be a wonderful gent on here (Jeff Ash, I believe) who was a sports writer for a Green Bay newspaper.  

If I recall correctly, he used to post here every year during training camp with some great analysis and observations on how all the rooks (and vets) were playing.  That was some great stuff.

I don't recall Jeff Ash ever posting here, but you can still follow him on Twitter.
Back in '95 I was living in Thailand and Jeff's Packer news emails were my only connection with the home team. (text only account and IT was expensive)

You may be thinking of Eternal Game Face who did a great job on training camp posts.

Jeff Ash rocks. His postings on some site somewhere (pre-dating x4) were the first "local" Packer ones that I found on the web back in the early to mid-1990s other than the JSO and GBPG. He did a lot of offseason and TC observations as well as NE Wisconsin doings, good stuff for an expat like myself. I don't remember his being on x4 either.

Jeff was laid off a few months back from the GBPG and if he's found new work, he hasn't reported it yet. He has two Twitter feeds, the personal one is @JeffAshGB and another is @packers656667, a project of his where he is tweeting 50 year-to-the-day excerpts from the GBPG archives over 1965-1967 (those years marking the historic Packer 3-in-a-row NFL championships), stuff about the Packers but also local GB coverage of performing arts and significant politics. Great stuff and great follows.

I've had several Twitter exchanges with him and he's a good chap. 

AND some rock n roll stuff!

Fandame posted:

I realize I'm noob here at only 14 years, but my fave idot was Jaymo. 

You've only been here four months fewer than I have.

It's making me feel old....  

You don't only feel old.

Get off my lawn?

You know.

When you think about it, that was a great meme before memes.

It's still a great meme just because it's Simpsons and Grandpa and, well, awesome.

But now it's even a better meme because the cloud is now real.

Visionary!

Now get the hell off my lawn!

Fandame posted:

I realize I'm noob here at only 14 years, but my fave idot was Jaymo. He had to have had the shallowest cranium of anyone in Minnesota. Troll of the first degree.

 

Lot's of hot air under that cap with that shallow cranium! 

SanDiegoPackFan posted:

San Doggy posted:

Henry, I'd give you the credit for the main reason the trolls have left.  You kicked their asses right on out of here. Jaymo, DeepChicago, and Dillweed comes to mind.

Now if only Hank could kick his own ass outta here! 

 

cuqui posted:

Jeff Ash rocks. His postings on some site somewhere (pre-dating x4) were the first "local" Packer ones that I found on the web back in the early to mid-1990s other than the JSO and GBPG. He did a lot of offseason and TC observations as well as NE Wisconsin doings, good stuff for an expat like myself. I don't remember his being on x4 either.

Jeff was laid off a few months back from the GBPG and if he's found new work, he hasn't reported it yet. He has two Twitter feeds, the personal one is @JeffAshGB and another is @packers656667, a project of his where he is tweeting 50 year-to-the-day excerpts from the GBPG archives over 1965-1967 (those years marking the historic Packer 3-in-a-row NFL championships), stuff about the Packers but also local GB coverage of performing arts and significant politics. Great stuff and great follows.

I've had several Twitter exchanges with him and he's a good chap. 

That's a rough one.  Having been the subject of age discrimination (along with several co-workers) 3 years ago and a huge downsizing in salary and benefits along with a disabled wife, I truly sympathize.  He always seemed like a great guy, and I hope he finds a good gig soon.  Just over 2 weeks and I'm retired; cannot wait!

No, I wasn't thinking of Eternal Game Face, though I remember those posts from training camps, and they were indeed full of good detail and observations.

Whatever happened to the guy who was a N.Y. stock trader who was always so critical of the G.M. and Head Coach????  Can't remember his handle.

That was kworst. Favorite player was Antonio Dingle iirc  .

I believe Ash is now working as a PR guy for BayCare Clinic in Green Bay.

cuqui posted:

That was kworst. Favorite player was Antonio Dingle iirc  .

Only when sitting next to Gary Berry

And Jonathan Brown

oldschool posted:

Just around the corner of my fancy mixed-race neighborhood...behold the final resting place of IowaCheese.

I'm not sayin, but I'm just sayin.

Rusty posted:

Eddie posted:

What is with the Micah Hyde is a racist jokes?  I missed something.

I, being your friend and humble host of the annual X4 Draft Party, received a number of PMs from various, anonymous sources with all sorts of theories, the main undercurrent being that at some point in the past, Hyde had several disparaging comments to his white teammates. I hate to give these rumors any kind of recognition or validity, but apparently Sitton gets rather sensitive about being called a "Marshmallow." That was just one out of many, many accusations.

Bump - for the newcomers.

My personal favorites are still:

”ice the cookies” stop watching the game prematurely.

”pro bowler” in reference to Evan Dietrich Smith and Bill Murray in King Pin.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Not Al's Ramblings! Now where am I to read the aggrieved complaints of a fat white man that has never left his town of 1500 people?

Racist.

Townist.

Sexist.

If we didn’t have fat whites guys, there would be no X4.

@BrainDed posted:

My personal favorites are still:

”ice the cookies” stop watching the game prematurely.

”pro bowler” in reference to Evan Dietrich Smith and Bill Murray in King Pin.

I remember reading the “ice the cookies” post when it happened. I couldn’t believe it. Person had to be sarcastic. That was the best.

My proudest X4 moment next to convincing Viking Girl to go away.

I remember when we missed Iowacheese.

@Tavis Smiley posted:

I remember reading the “ice the cookies” post when it happened. I couldn’t believe it. Person had to be sarcastic. That was the best.

The best part was that it wasn't sarcasm.   Dude stopped watching a mid to late December game with playoff implication and went to the kitchen to ice the cookies.   The man had seen enough and the best distraction he could come up with was icing the cookies.

Pink feather

@Blair Kiel posted:

Irregardless of who's idea this thread was, I could care less if you people and your hateful treatment of stellar Native America posters like Oldschool made him angry. I mean, he's cute and all, but I consider him my best internet loser friend. He better not leave.

And ammo sucks.

You forgot to say looser instead of loser.

Karma is A bitch

morans, idots, good riddens

@Harry Manback posted:

You forgot to say looser instead of loser.

Why would he post looser when loser is the correct word for his post?

Could of would of should of

Wow, I might have been around too long when I can still remember all those posters. I only met one in person (Houser). He also invited me over to his place when I was injured and at Walter Reed.

And now he doesn't even post anymore.  Once when the format changed he didn't like it and told me it was too hard to use. So he left.

Bless where his hear is tonight

I'M OUT HERE!

Big Ern memorial gif

Who was it that started the Superb Owl misspelling?

@H5 posted:

Why would he post looser when loser is the correct word for his post?

It was a joke.  It went along with "irregardless" and "I could care less" as a list of rong things people on the internet say.