Detroitstar Member Username: Detroitstar
Post Number: 820 Registered: 01-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 8:10 pm: | |
Anyone randomly meet other posters in public? I saw 3 people reading DY in the WSU library tonight. Made me wonder where other people might run into each other. |
Atwater Member Username: Atwater
Post Number: 129 Registered: 09-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 8:31 pm: | |
3 people all sitting together? Or 3 separate people not at all connected to each other? |
Mackcreative Member Username: Mackcreative
Post Number: 133 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 8:38 pm: | |
I met 2 DYers separately looking at the foreclosed home next to ours, which I had mentioned in a posting. Any more takers? |
Urbanoutdoors Member Username: Urbanoutdoors
Post Number: 638 Registered: 11-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 8:45 pm: | |
During sandlot and grown ass baseball I met many different DYers. |
Detroitstar Member Username: Detroitstar
Post Number: 823 Registered: 01-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 8:53 pm: | |
No, 3 people (4 i guess including myself) in various areas of the library. I dont go scoping out people's computer screens, but with the amount of time I spend here, it's pretty easy to recognize the forum at a glance. |
Spaceman_spiff Member Username: Spaceman_spiff
Post Number: 99 Registered: 02-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 9:07 pm: | |
I've seen the site being viewed at the Cass Cafe a few times, it is rather distinctive. -spiff |
Tarkus Member Username: Tarkus
Post Number: 432 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 9:13 pm: | |
I met Bobzilla at DBC Sun. afternoon. |
401don Member Username: 401don
Post Number: 119 Registered: 11-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 9:16 pm: | |
I wouldn't mind exchanging hellos with fellow forumers if we spotted one another downtown or at a Tiger game. Has Lowell ever thought about selling t-shirts? I live out of town so attending an FSC is not possible. |
Dannaroo Member Username: Dannaroo
Post Number: 175 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 9:19 pm: | |
I have met people in some of my classes at WSU who post on here |
Dhugger Member Username: Dhugger
Post Number: 278 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 9:21 pm: | |
Is the Forum Social Club still meeting at Pub's on Thursday nights? I would like to connect some User Names with faces. Who used to head the FSC up? Note I am not in a position to do the FSC because I don't really drink or anything. |
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 5682 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 9:54 pm: | |
Lowell, The Rock, AIW, and jjaba occasionally meet for city tours of Windsor and Detroit. The Rock did a nice tailgate for folks at the Michigan games. Even though they changed to Dial Soap, Michigan still stinks. jjaba, Proudly Westside. |
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin
Post Number: 5363 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 10:45 pm: | |
i used to bump into sport quite often downtown on a regular |
Professorscott Member Username: Professorscott
Post Number: 929 Registered: 12-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 2:15 am: | |
I keep hoping to run into Jjaba on the Dexter bus, if he still rides it (which I do), but I'm not sure how to recognize him. I'm pretty sure DDOT isn't a wi-fi hot spot Jjaba, any hints? For others, if you have enough blank space in your social life that you'd like to find out who I am (and that would be a considerable amount of blank space), I recommend showing up at Buddy's Pizza (the real one) next Tuesday or Thursday evening, and ask the manager if anything odd is going on in the Bocce room. Just a hint. If we do meet, the Professor always enjoys it when people buy him a drink, a trait he inherited from the late George Pickering, one of the finest educators who's ever lived. |
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765
Post Number: 2199 Registered: 01-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 5:42 am: | |
Bunches at last weeks AA meeting. |
Pam Member Username: Pam
Post Number: 3110 Registered: 11-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 7:10 am: | |
quote:Is the Forum Social Club still meeting at Pub's on Thursday nights? Look under the Connect part of the board. |
Kathleen Member Username: Kathleen
Post Number: 2616 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 7:17 am: | |
Over the last several years, I have met many DYers on Detroit tours offered by Preservation Wayne, Detroit Historical Society, Detroit Tour Connections, and Inside Detroit. Thanks, Pam, for pointing folks to the Connect page...look for the FSC Meetups thread. |
Jams Member Username: Jams
Post Number: 7168 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 9:58 am: | |
I probably have met well over a hundred people in person, (or using the term Gannon came up with, Tangibles). Many interesting conversations have been had and the start of some good friendships because of this board. Check out the FSC. |
Fredgarvin Member Username: Fredgarvin
Post Number: 71 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 10:34 am: | |
I haven't met any. I'm in Indianapolis, and not many Detroiters are here, let alone those who are DY'ers. Disappointing. |
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 4001 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 10:41 am: | |
A shirt would be cool. If Lowell approved, maybe all those artists here could come up with a concept and he could put the winner(s) on Cafe Press in case anyone is interested in getting one? |
E_hemingway Member Username: E_hemingway
Post Number: 1428 Registered: 11-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 10:49 am: | |
There were shirts a few years ago, along with a forum online shop. It had everything from coffee mugs to t-shirts to calenders. That seems to have disappeared over the years. I run into forum members on occasion. Actually, this forum has led to a number of quality friends over the years. I guess all of the time spent posting on here wasn't a complete waste then. |
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 2096 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 11:37 am: | |
When I was running in the 10k Detroit Turkey Trot, there was a guy running near me wearing yellow that was explaining to his fellow runners about some of the properties downtown (specifically near Griswold and Michigan) as we were nearing the end of the race. I should have asked him if he had heard of DetroitYES! |
Dhugger Member Username: Dhugger
Post Number: 280 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 11:41 am: | |
Pam: I am an admitted 'newb' as far as posting goes. I've been lurking for years but rarely posting till now. I thought 'Connections' was a place that single people hooked up. Yah stupid I know. Thanks all for putting up with me. |
401don Member Username: 401don
Post Number: 124 Registered: 11-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 2:08 pm: | |
Lowell, Maybe we could pre-order with a credit card and see if you have enough for one run of t-shirts. I think there's a lot of newbies from a few years ago when you last sold t-shirts. I can see where running an on-line store for one off orders probably is not worth it. Maybe do this once or twice a year and make the price worthwhile to help support the site? If not I'll just print up my own - a picture of a long, straight boring highway through S.W. Ontario. |
Gistok Member Username: Gistok
Post Number: 5856 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 2:17 pm: | |
I, like Kathleen, have met a lot of forumers on Preservation Wayne tours, and also those that are Preservation Wayne members. And of course the summer DetroitYES picnic on Belle Isle is the best way (although not random) to meet other forumers. |
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 4005 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 2:26 pm: | |
Think how stylish you can be in your line of DYES! attire.
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Gistok Member Username: Gistok
Post Number: 5857 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 2:35 pm: | |
^^^ LMAO.... thanks Johnlodge, you made my day! But I would prefer my Gothic Cathedral... http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi- bin/gallery.cgi?i=1332748 |
The_ed Member Username: The_ed
Post Number: 1294 Registered: 10-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 2:41 pm: | |
Thatz a lot of Legos! |
Gistok Member Username: Gistok
Post Number: 5859 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 2:53 pm: | |
Well it's only 20,000 out of my 750,000 collection! Actually some folks over on that "other forum" like to make fun of me... (I laugh all the way to the bank). But there's over 100,000 Adult Fans Of LEGO (AFOL's) worldwide. So there's quite an adult market for the product. EBAY has thousands of entries everyday. And then there's BRICKLINK... the worldwide LEGO superstore (I have a USA store there) with nearly 2,000 sellers selling over 60 million LEGO elements: http://www.bricklink.com/store List.asp |
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin
Post Number: 5366 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 3:35 pm: | |
Gitok you have to remember. Those on that other site have nothing better to do than to talk about us over here on the original site. Now in that context who are the ones that really have no life? So fuckem. Let them memorialize this post.... |
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 4008 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 3:40 pm: | |
I've looked over there once or twice. Each time I saw a bunch of posting about this site, and how stupid we all are. Eh? Weirdos. They seem obsessed. |
Bobj Member Username: Bobj
Post Number: 3176 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 3:56 pm: | |
I have met a bunch on PW tours and a few were introduced to me by friends who knew we both posted here (Message edited by bobj on December 05, 2007) |
Rocket_city Member Username: Rocket_city
Post Number: 493 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 8:11 pm: | |
I may have been one of the sightings at the WSU library. I've seen the screen up a few times before, myself. I'm sure I've passed a ton on the streets downtown. I "live" on the Woodward corridor (the carless lifestyle) between WSU and the river, so it can't be that uncommon to unknowingly pass. |
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 3979 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 8:57 pm: | |
The American Sign Language gesture for D is
The ASL gesture for "yes" is nodding your right fist up and down like this:
There. Now we have our own gangsign. |
Detroitstar Member Username: Detroitstar
Post Number: 829 Registered: 01-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 9:21 pm: | |
Rocket City, I'm pretty sure we've met before...I probably would have recognizes you. |
Ravine Member Username: Ravine
Post Number: 1671 Registered: 01-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 10:06 pm: | |
I don't think I want to meet you folks. I figure that the 'visual" would be a big downer-- for you. |
Professorscott Member Username: Professorscott
Post Number: 936 Registered: 12-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 11:36 pm: | |
Jimaz, Me likey. Maybe we can get Marshall Mathers to write a cute litte rap to go along with it. Then we have to come up with some colors. Are there any particular colors that would make sense for this group? You can't be a proper gang if you don't have colors. Even the Sicilian "Mafia" has gang colors, kind of. Prof. Scott |
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 3982 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 12:04 am: | |
Well, I'd guess the colors would be those in Detroit's flag:
At least
doesn't involve the middle finger ... or does it? Oops. Chalk it up as a tribute to the Renaissance Towers |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 4342 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 12:16 am: | |
I have had the honor of meeting many DYers over time and have been impressed with their quality, their knowledge of Detroit but most of all how they all, deep down underneath, care so much about our great international family of cities. A little history for the newbs. About a year and a half after this forum got rolling we organized "Fabulous Ruins Night at the Cass Cafe" on Feb. 17, 2001. This was less than a month after I secured the DetroitYES.com domain name [the site was hosted on AtDetroit.com prior to that]. I thought only a handful would show up but amazingly the place was packed. Over 500 passed through the doors that night including forumers from St. Louis and Dallas. It was the biggest night the Cass Cafe ever had. Things happened spontaneously after that. SuperSport, ItsJeff and others started call-outs and congregating at different pubs, mostly downtown, and later dubbed themselves "The Forum Social Club" aka the FSC which continues today. The annual picnics followed and, amid all that, other connections occurred -- visitors from across the country and around the world getting helping hands from forumers, forumers gathering to volunteer and collaborate, newcomers to the D finding welcoming community and guidance. It has been totally unplanned, totally unexpected and simply fabulous. Happy holidays to all of you and a special Happy Hanukkah shout out to all our Jewish friends presently celebrating it. |
Reddog289 Member Username: Reddog289
Post Number: 116 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 2:19 am: | |
i stay in hiding, i kill most topics any way, still i keep thinking of buddy,s pizza & boombas |
Spaceboykelly Member Username: Spaceboykelly
Post Number: 271 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 8:55 am: | |
I've discovered that a couple of my classmates are DYers too. The one was strange because I thought I knew the identity of the person (from the last name in the handle) but I was wrong. |