I do have some good news to start us off. Puff counted seventy-three views for "Ian's Backlog" by the twenty-sixth, and a vast majority of those views occured in the first three days while I was advertising it. Also a record number of FOUR people checked reaction boxes. All responses were different, but I'm glad no one felt the need to check the "stupid" or "ysoserious?" boxes.
The last thing I need to update you on if you're not in the Facebook group is that I have, in a sense, taken my whiteboard down due to the worsening sexual harrassment. Well, the board wouldn't come off the door, but I took the marker away. The blog can still continue, though, because I have now created an online whiteboard for Facebook. It's a bit complicated to work with, but two people tried it successfully: basically they had to download the image of the board and draw on it on Paint. Then I compiled the images. I'm actually kind of excited about this, because I was always sad that my friends were too far away to draw on it (but now they can!).
Before the real whiteboard was closed, I asked for people's favorite quotes. I got one response, and after a while, I asked people to draw a dragon. Here are the boards:
Wait a minute...how on Earth does that look like a dragon? I swear some of the people on my hall are illiterate. Now, I get what this guy was trying to say, but this particular linear equation is not a proper model for that. This equation suggests that y=x, or in this case, S=H. This implies that any value in the universe could be plugged in, so I suppose this guy sometimes has a low S & H factor and sometimes a high S & H factor. Based on the featured region of the graph, neither value can be negative, which makes sense, but really this guy would have been more clear if he would have used a bar graph that compared his values to the values of other males, especially if the males' S & H factors ranged from drag-queen to jock. Also, he spelled "hottness" wrong, which detracts from the reliability of his sources which he did not cite. I'm just saying this guy failed. He was trying to troll, and it backfired. End of story.
Now here's where you get to see the new whiteboard. Since it was for the Halloween issue, I asked the question: "They say 'Trick or treat?' You say:"
The second response on the first board and the entire second board are from my second-cousin, Sara (lots of seconds in there). She's a dedicated follower of this blog and is therefore awesome. The first response is from a guy named Keith. I haven't met him in person, but when I advertised the blog in the A&M freshman class group, he said he wanted to join the WB&TR Facebook group and has been a great contributor since. In fact, a lot of the following items either are from him or include him. The third response is indeed off of Facebook, but Rich is serving our country and can't exactly download things or use his phone where he's at now.
The next whiteboard comes from Devon. This is not a recent one (she told me it was from her freshman year), but it's amazing. Enjoy it, and hopefully, she'll post more of them!
The last of the boards comes from Front Porch Grill (finally!) although the advertising nature of the comic suggests it was from one of the employees and not from just any random troll. Unfortunately, I'm hearing the place might be closing down. I have not been there, but I have heard they have good food. Plus, it's a BYOB place with a recently expanded porch. If you're in College Station, maybe you should stop by and see if the place is worth keeping in business. After all, they serve "cornbeard" and chili.
Now that I'm on the picture segment, I'm just going to feature Facebook trolling first and pictures last since I can't remember the exact order of all of them. These first two are from Rich, who has been very determined with his trolling in the group.
This next one is also from Rich. It's a long, drawn-out war of words that ended up separating four of us into two teams. Whether or not these teams will persist in other WB&TR wars is uncertain but would be interesting to pursue. Seriously, if we keep this up, we'll have to come up with names, T-shirts, souvenirs...this could get crazy.
I posted this one last, because first of all, I hate to end with me losing, and second, I'm very proud of myself for defeating Sean (whom I call "Troll") in a trolling battle.
That ends the Facebook trolling. Now for pictures! I went out with the CSCC guys (not College Station City Council) one night for Twiggy's b-day (Twiggy=smaller Ryan), and I saw this sign at Mad Hatters. One of my friends (can't remember who) told me one of the guys who works there just put the sign up randomly and that the bar doesn't actually give out free beer. As for whether or not that's true, I can't say, but that'd be some pretty bad trolling...and a great blonde joke (Blonde walks into a bar, sees the sign, comes back the next day, sees the sign, leaves confused, comes back... yeah, whatever, shut up.).
Here's a picture/story sent to me by Keith that made me smile. It just goes to show you that even convicts can be good trolls.
One day as I was walking home from campus, I saw a couple of people sitting near the statue of Lawrence Sullivan Ross with a ton of pumpkins. A couple days later, I saw this.
This is like the banana tree example in "Ian's Backlog" of good and bad trolling. Yay for Halloween and stuff, but those pumpkins are gonna go bad. They have been removed, though. Anyway, I wanted to say this statue here of "Sully" has a little bit of history which you can read here. Basically, people like to leave pennies on his shoes for good luck during exams. I, fortunately, was able to get a good picture of this good-trolling tradition.
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That was a horrible transition. Buuuuuut here's a video to distract you from my failure! Thanks again to Keith. Just a warning, there is a little foul language.
If you skipped over the link just because you're too lazy to right-click and open up a new tab, just click on it, dangit. It's Bill O'Reilly getting rick rolled...and getting really ticked off about it. If there's anyone who doesn't know what rick rolling is (I didn't, and I feel like an idiot), Urban Dictionary sums it up pretty well. And if you don't know what video they're talking about, go here.
That's all for this Halloween! This issue's counter is Inky the black cat since it's a holiday. Ain't he adorable? Just don't get so caught up staring at him that you forget to CHECK A REACTION BOX BELOW.
When they ask you, "Trick or treat?" tonight, BE A TROLL.
(For examples, watch this less-than-four-minutes-mini-episode of The Guild.)
This is epic. My favorite is the S-H graph. And the tomato planting story. Marie and I had a long laugh :)
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