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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on December 03, 2011, 08:31:27 AM
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Oh my.
Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-26-11 07:37 PM
Original message
Isn't there a rule about impersonating people?
There is a DUer who is logged on as Jello Biafra and who has admitted that she/he is not the actual Jello Biafra.
EarlG ADMIN (1000+ posts) Tue Nov-29-11 10:14 AM
Response to Original message
1. Well...if they're saying that they're not the actual Jello Biafra, they're not impersonating Jello Biafra.
Whew. What a relief.
<<have been franksolich since 1995, but am not the actual Frank Solich, nor have ever claimed to be.
Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Tue Nov-29-11 05:17 PM
Response to Reply #1
2. So, I can start an account as Rachel Maddow and I only have to admit I'm not Rachel if I am asked?
I am friends with the real Jello Biafra and he's not happy about this. Jello is the name he goes by professionally and personally and the name that he ran for office under.
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I think that if people called you "Jello Biafra" all the time, that in itself would be a constant irritant.
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Oh my.
He's a white guy; I'd drawn an entirely different conclusion at the name.
Jello Biafra (born Eric Reed Boucher; June 17, 1958) is an American musician, spoken word artist and leading figure of the Green Party of the United States. Biafra first gained attention as the lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys. After his time with the band concluded, he took over the influential independent record label Alternative Tentacles, which he had co-founded in 1979 with Dead Kennedys bandmate East Bay Ray. Although now focused primarily on spoken word, he has continued as a musician in numerous collaborations.
Politically, Biafra is a member of the Green Party of the United States and actively supports various political causes. He ran for the party's Presidential nomination in 2000, finishing second to Ralph Nader. He is a staunch believer in free society, who utilizes shock value and advocates direct action and pranksterism in the name of political causes. Biafra is known to use absurdist media tactics, in the leftist tradition of the Yippies, to highlight issues of civil rights and social justice.
Eric Boucher was born in Boulder, Colorado, U.S. to parents Stanley Boucher, a psychiatric social worker and poet, and Virginia Boucher, a librarian, who worked two cubicles away from Ed Sauer. He also had a sister, Julie J. Boucher, the Associate Director of the Library Research Service at the Colorado State Library (who died in a mountain-climbing accident on October 12, 1996).
Okay, so who was this Ed Sauer guy? Never heard of him. Probably 99.99% of everybody else never heard of him either.
In the autumn of 1979, Biafra ran for mayor of San Francisco, using the Jell-O ad campaign catchphrase, "There's always room for Jello", as his campaign slogan. Having entered the race before creating a campaign platform, Biafra later wrote his platform on a napkin while attending a Pere Ubu concert where Dead Kennedy's drummer Ted told biafra; "Biafra, you have such a big mouth that you should run for Mayor". As he campaigned, Biafra wore campaign T-shirts from his opponent Quentin Kopp's previous campaign and at one point vacuumed leaves off the front lawn of another opponent, current U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, to mock her publicity stunt of sweeping streets in downtown San Francisco for a few hours. He also made a whistlestop campaign tour along the BART line. Supporters committed equally odd actions; two well known signs held by supporters said "If he doesn't win I'll kill myself" and "What if he does win?"
In San Francisco any individual could legally run for mayor if a petition was signed by 1500 people or pay $1500. Biafra payed $900 and got signatures over time and eventually became a legal candidate, a legal candidate meaning that you get statements put in voters pamphlets and equal news coverage.
His platform included unconventional points such as forcing businessmen to wear clown suits within city limits, erecting statues of Dan White (who assassinated Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk in 1978) all over town and allowing the parks department to sell eggs and tomatoes with which people could pelt them, hiring out of job workers, due to a tax initiative, to become pan handlers in wealthy neighborhoods(one being where Diannne Feinstein lives), and a citywide ban on cars (although the latter point was not considered completely outlandish by many voters at the time, as the city was suffering from serious pollution). Biafra has expressed irritation that these parts of his platform attained such notoriety, preferring instead to be remembered for serious proposals such as legalizing squatting in vacant, tax-delinquent buildings and requiring police officers to keep their jobs by running for election voted by the people of the neighborhoods they patrol.[33]
He finished fourth out of a field of ten, receiving 3.79% of the vote (6,591 votes); the election ended in a runoff that did not involve him (Feinstein was declared the winner).
In 2000, the New York State Green Party drafted Biafra as a candidate for the Green Party presidential nomination, and a few supporters were elected to the party's nominating convention in Denver, Colorado. Biafra chose death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal as his running mate. Despite the fact that his address to the convention was positively received, the party overwhelmingly chose Ralph Nader as the presidential candidate with 295 of the 319 delegate votes. Biafra finished in a second place tie with Stephen Gaskin; both received 10 votes.
Biafra, along with a camera crew (dubbed by Biafra as "The Camcorder Truth Jihad"), later reported for the Independent Media Center at the Republican and Democratic conventions. Biafra detailed these events in his album Become The Media, which has resulted in his being credited with coining the slogan "Don't hate the media, become the media". Indymedia and related alternative media often use this line, or the now more apt "Don't hate the media, be the media."
That must be where the yenta nadin got her idea of becoming a "reporter."
After losing the 2000 nomination, Jello became highly active in Ralph Nader's presidential campaign, as well as in 2004 and 2008.
During the 2008 campaign Jello played at rallies and answered questions for journalists in support of Ralph Nader. After Barack Obama won the general election, Jello wrote an open letter making suggestions on how to run his term as president.
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Tue Nov-29-11 05:17 PM
Response to Reply #1
2. So, I can start an account as Rachel Maddow and I only have to admit I'm not Rachel if I am asked?
I am friends with the real Jello Biafra and he's not happy about this. Jello is the name he goes by professionally and personally and the name that he ran for office under.
Are you really a luminous animal? I mean, do you, like, glow in the dark and shit?
I swear these babies have to find something to constantly whine and complain about.
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<<have been franksolich since 1995, but am not the actual Frank Solich, nor have ever claimed to be.
Well, dammit, here I thought I'd been rubbing elbows with a legendary football coach all these years. This makes me sad.
While we're all being honest and upfront, I'm not the REAL Paul Heinzman either. My real name is Quigley Lipschitz.
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Well, dammit, here I thought I'd been rubbing elbows with a legendary football coach all these years. This makes me sad.
While we're all being honest and upfront, I'm not the REAL Paul Heinzman either. My real name is Quigley Lipschitz.
I am Spartacus.
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I am Spartacus.
My real name is Raymond Luxury Yacht, but it is pronounced Throatwobbler Mangrove.
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Does this mean that Alan Grayson could actually be...well...me?
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Is that you, John Wayne? Is this me???
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Jello and Jell-o are trademarked by Kraft Foods. I remember quite some time ago they made a band change their name from Green Jello to Green Jelly.
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My real name is Raymond Luxury Yacht, but it is pronounced Throatwobbler Mangrove.
But I am the Stig. :-)
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The OP said what??
Somebody that name!!
Wandering off to sit in the corner and pout.
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I am not the real diesel driver, either.
But it sounds so much cooler than my real name, Horacio "Hillbilly" Homeboy. :lmao:
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I am not the real diesel driver, either.
But it sounds so much cooler than my real name, Horacio "Hillbilly" Homeboy. :lmao:
Is that the hillbilly spellin? :tongue:
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My real name is Raymond Luxury Yacht, but it is pronounced Throatwobbler Mangrove.
You're a very silly man and I'm not going to interview you.
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But I am the Stig. :-)
Did you really wrestle an elephant to the ground using the power of your mind and an alarming hairstyle???
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Did you really wrestle an elephant to the ground using the power of your mind and an alarming hairstyle???
Yes, and I have a tattoo of my face. ...on my face. ;)
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I am Spartacus.
No, I am Spartacus
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Now I understand why a man of bronze is always bugging me
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Now I understand why a man of bronze is always bugging me
According to the band Chicago, a bronze man still can tell stories his own way.
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Yes, and I have a tattoo of my face. ...on my face. ;)
And you smell corners!
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Okay... but the real issue here is, someone named their child Jello.
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Well, no they didn't, they named him Eric.
But anyway, :rofl: at the MP refs.
Luminous lunatic is claiming that Biafra is upset that someone is using his name. Even washed-up, irrelevant ex-punk rockers don't want to be associated with the DUmp.
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I am Spartacus.
No, I am Spartacus
I'm Brian and so is my wife.
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And you smell corners!
It's a side effect from naturally facing magnetic north.
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It's a side effect from naturally facing magnetic north.
And your legs being hydraulic, of course. Hi5!
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And your legs being hydraulic, of course. Hi5!
It's what you have to do when your face is completely digital.
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It's what you have to do when your face is completely digital.
So THAT's why you don't ever blink!
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<====== Not the real Duke Nukum, if there was any question.
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Well, no they didn't, they named him Eric.
But anyway, :rofl: at the MP refs.
Luminous lunatic is claiming that Biafra is upset that someone is using his name. Even washed-up, irrelevant ex-punk rockers don't want to be associated with the DUmp.
My bad.
:rotf:
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I am Spartacus.
No, I am Spartacus
Hallo. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
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So THAT's why you don't ever blink!
Not in the normal way.
Want to hear 2 interesting facts about ducks?
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Not in the normal way.
Want to hear 2 interesting facts about ducks?
Their quacks don't echo.
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Tue Nov-29-11 05:17 PM
Response to Reply #1
2. So, I can start an account as Rachel Maddow and I only have to admit I'm not Rachel if I am asked?
I am friends with the real Jello Biafra and he's not happy about this. Jello is the name he goes by professionally and personally and the name that he ran for office under.
I call bullshit on that. I met the guy, he would ever get mad over that. Just scoring points on the DUmp.
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Not in the normal way.
Want to hear 2 interesting facts about ducks?
Nope. I heard they were both wrong. Perhaps you can't blink because your tears are adhesive?
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Nope. I heard they were both wrong. Perhaps you can't blink because your tears are adhesive?
That and I blink in the other direction. Some say that my politics are terrifying.
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That and I blink in the other direction. Some say that my politics are terrifying.
I heard that. I also heard that if you caught fire, you would burn for a thousand days.
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I heard that. I also heard that if you caught fire, you would burn for a thousand days.
Have you seen that Star Wars documentary yet?
I did get to hang out for a little while where I grew up.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtv7doxWVFU[/youtube]
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Your house looks kind of, well, institutional.....but you got to grow up and do cool things like THIS! Tell me, was that the best ever, or what?
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CRV6xDpkZo[/youtube]
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Your house looks kind of, well, institutional.....but you got to grow up and do cool things like THIS! Tell me, was that the best ever, or what?
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CRV6xDpkZo[/youtube]
Yes but Capitan Slow got to take the veyron to it's top speed. :bawl:
On another note I just found out that they used that track to do all the testing on the newer McLaren.
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Yes but Capitan Slow got to take the veyron to it's top speed. :bawl:
On another note I just found out that they used that track to do all the testing on the newer McLaren.
Bet you wish you were the one to do this!
[youtube=425,350]http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/koenigsegg-agera-r-guinness-world-records-2011-12-01[/youtube]
Dang!
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Is that the hillbilly spellin? :tongue:
Well, DUH! :lmao:
I believe in the "KISS Principal"
Keep It Simple, STUPID! :tongue:
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Bet you wish you were the one to do this!
[youtube=425,350]http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/koenigsegg-agera-r-guinness-world-records-2011-12-01[/youtube]
Dang!
Bugger. Try again.
http://wot.motortrend.com/koenigsegg-agera-r-sets-0-300-0-kmh-world-record-141517.html