A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
I don't mind if Gus was a pseud; factual elements, which were always fantastic, aside, he was a unified voice, and never asked for anything from us but our time. I just hope nobody is laughing, because that would bother me.
My seestor posts wisely. No! You can't claim she's your sister! She's mine, all a figment of my imagination!
Casper and the Dillo are actually my cats. (My imaginary cats.)
Sorry, sorry. I had to inject some levity, because that is my job. In all seriousness, I'm glad the conversation is happening, and I'm glad it's happening in nice and thinky ways, and I agree it's an awkward position to be put into -- hoping that a guy is dead because the alternative is not-nice.
Well, that's just sloppy storytelling.
shakes head
There's a picture of Seamus on that page too. Anyone seen it before?
It occurred to me yesterday (I actually had a nightmare about this, you guys, where Hec and I and someone else went to the Wisconsin address and no one had ever heard of Gus and he had never existed and it was ALL LIES and it was very distressing) that if "Janitor" has been posting as Gus on tropes and "Janitor" is supposedly kimi and kimi announced Gus's death and the death is not real then perhaps neither is kimi. Had he mentioned her before?
(Hec and Polter-cow fight CRIME! Hee! But which one is the sidekick?)
Hec's the one with charisma. But I've got the wisecracks. We're more of a duo. Like Batman and...Batman Prime.
Had he mentioned her before?
I've been assuming that she's his 'goilfriend' - he's mentioned her a lot.
I've been assuming that she's his 'goilfriend' - he's mentioned her a lot.
Yeah, I think I remember that term, but I don't know if he'd mentioned anything else about her. Like I said before, I had thought "kimi" was a known entity before she announced the news, so I didn't question it.
Gus told us that he was 18 when Seamus was born.
Elsewhere, things he said led Buffistas to conclude he (Gus) would now be around 70 years old. I can't tell how old Seamus is in that picture, but it does not look to me as though Seamus is in his mid-forties.
No, he looks late twenties.
Sigh. This does not look good for Homestar Runner.
Also, I've known people who apparently were pathological liars or something, and I've seen them have stories of rather strange things happening to them, which they reused (happening at a much later date) in a different social context.
I'd like to agree with everything Nilly said except for one thing. I don't think we're going to find out more than we already have.
Either Gus died or he tired of the persona. Either way, what can we do other than say goodbye?
