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Date: May 10th, 2006 12:26 AM Author: green black woman ... and neither of those people was banned by me. I haven't even looked at this board in days, maybe even a week or more.
So, to recap:
* Having technical problems =/= being banned.
* Having a thread deleted =/= having a thread deleted by GTO.
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Date: May 10th, 2006 12:44 AM Author: aphrodisiac trailer park fair enough. could you get rach to give some explanations then? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5754341) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 11:35 AM Author: Impertinent house fortuitous meteor eat a fucking dick (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5756972) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 11:49 PM Author: titillating stain Subject: "Got it?" what a fucking dick. no wonder everyone hates you. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5762352) |
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Date: May 11th, 2006 10:14 PM Author: Saffron provocative set telephone he's a tough guy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5768168) |
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Date: May 15th, 2006 4:24 PM Author: Flickering supple rehab fat ankles (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5788979) |
Date: May 10th, 2006 12:28 AM Author: razzmatazz site notice its only the loonies who complain (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5754225) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 1:04 AM Author: 180 tan office Hmm, isn't that post sort of complaining (about the loonies who complain)?
It's sort of like how anyone who points out someone has been rude could be seen as being rude in pointing that out. :O |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 1:19 AM Author: boyish alcoholic forum gunner You're the best. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5754617) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 1:30 AM Author: 180 tan office No, you are. Anyone who pays another a compliment before they are paid one immediately falls into "the best kind of people" category in my book. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5754700) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 1:49 AM Author: Multi-colored shrine nibblets You're the best. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5754858) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 3:33 AM Author: soul-stirring den <3 <3 <3 :-* :-* :-* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5755594) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 5:22 AM Author: Passionate Theatre New Version Date: May 10th, 2006 3:33 AM Author: anongradstudent (That's how I roll.)
<3 <3 <3 :-* :-* :-*
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5755594)
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Date: May 10th, 2006 10:28 AM Author: 180 tan office What does that mean? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5756580) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 12:51 PM Author: arousing library half-breed heart heart heart kiss kiss kiss? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5757491) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 5:32 PM Author: soul-stirring den I was urging him to give you a kiss. It was a drunken thing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5759439) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 7:03 PM Author: 180 tan office Yeah, that would have to be. :)
Urge him to meet us in MA sometime this summer. That would be more "sobering" perhaps. :) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 10:28 AM Author: 180 tan office You're being funny. :) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5756578) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 3:35 AM Author: stimulating hairless church mother no, he is merely stating a fact. no part of his post could be considered complaining. sorry. shut the fuck up. go give your hilariously funny son another blowjob.
also, youre the best! |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 11:45 AM Author: purple sticky hell keepsake machete notice its only the loonies who post. hth. |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 2:41 AM Author: cracking frozen roommate kitty Fair enough, but I'd still like to know why any post critical of NYCFan is deleted. I'd at least like to know who's doing it and why. But I'm happy to have your word. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5755264) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 2:46 AM Author: aromatic garrison NYCfan is doing some of the deleting, methinks. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5755307) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 2:48 AM Author: cracking frozen roommate kitty Is he a mod now? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5755322) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 2:54 AM Author: aromatic garrison dunno...but any sort of thing about him tends to vanish rather quickly. I doubt rach or gto are that fast/care that much. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5755374) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 2:56 AM Author: cracking frozen roommate kitty We shall get to the bottom of this. To the Xoxomobile! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5755390) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 3:04 AM Author: razzmatazz site got any email hacking skillz???? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5755447) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 3:30 AM Author: cracking frozen roommate kitty We'll ask the boy wonder: boombjoe. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5755575) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 3:29 AM Author: soul-stirring den Ha. This thread, for some reason, strikes me as awesome. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5755573) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 7:49 AM Author: Translucent Excitant Sex Offender Roast Beef Awesome isn't the word for this thread. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5756127) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 7:54 AM Author: Translucent Excitant Sex Offender Roast Beef Subject: This was deleted by someone, not me This was deleted by someone, not me. Methinks also by NYCFan. If not, GTO, then by whom?
It was deleted after Fan disparaged the author of the article posted.
In fact, I was having a very pleasant exchange with JAV, before it was deleted.
Here is the attack on me and Jay Mathews by Fan. I was deleted and Fan was left on. Then the whole thread was deleted
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Date: May 8th, 2006 9:39 PM
Author: Hugh2
Isn't jay Matthews the same guy who writes about all the great colleges that are not well known, perfect for someone else's kid but he went to H and sent his own kid to Pomona. I'm always suspicious of his writings.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=412933&forum_id=1#5745335)
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Date: May 8th, 2006 9:53 PM
Author: NYCFan
He transferred to Harvard himself from Occidental; his wife went to Harvard; his son went to Harvard. He used to be an alumni interviewer. Then his daughter couldn't hack it and wound up at Pomona. Ever since, its been "Harvard-Shmarvard"!!!
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=412933&forum_id=1#5745449)
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Date: May 8th, 2006 9:57 PM
Author: hero
You got it wrong.
His daughter, Katie, never applied to Harvard and his book was written before she had applied to college, contrary to your beliefs. In other words, she SNUBBED Harvard, not the other way around. Katie was a double legacy, with a sibling who was also an alum.
Mathews, himself, transferred to Harvard College to study East Asian Studies and even had lived and worked in China for a period of time. His son is a journalist, as well as his wife.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=412933&forum_id=1#5745484)
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Date: May 8th, 2006 10:18 PM
Author: NYCFan
Subject: Not true.
But then you've been carrying the water for this fraud ever since he put your name in the paper.
From a Mathews column:
"Many relatives and friends had said they were glad that I could no longer make such shameless use of her personal life, culminating in my milking every Katie Mathews story I had for my college admissions guide, "Harvard Schmarvard."
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=412933&forum_id=1#5745606)
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Date: May 8th, 2006 10:20 PM
Author: hero
So?
Speak to him. I did. He never said that she had even applied to or was rejected by Harvard.
Contrary to your beliefs, not everyone applies to Harvard, or even DESIRES to, including legacies, even double legacies.
Katie applied to Pomona College ED in Nov. 2002, her FIRST CHOICE EARLY DECISION.
Please click on:
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NTQ/is_2003_June_17/ai_103518482/pg_4
The College Admissions Game; Fear, Uncertainty Plague Students and Parents
Washingtonpost.com, June 17, 2003 by Jay Mathews
[I am less forgiving of my son Joe, who drove Katie to and from the Long Beach airport for her overnight stay at Pomona just before she submitted her application in November. In the car, he suggested she might think twice before ruling out Harvard. He told her he thought the students who are drawn to Harvard, largely because it is Harvard, are more interesting than at any other place.
I was aghast to hear this bit of folklore being uttered by an otherwise astute young journalist who had often told me how badly managed he thought our alma mater was and how he planned never to give it any money or send any of his children there. I thought of sending him a copy of my book manuscript, highlighting all the passages that showed that the special character of the Harvard student body and the life-changing Harvard ethos were myths. But Katie had already shrugged it off, as little sisters often do, so I calmed down and waited nervously for that envelope from Pomona.]
You have been PROVEN WRONG AGAIN!
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=412933&forum_id=1#5745621)
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Date: May 8th, 2006 11:12 PM
Author: hero
>> But then you've been carrying the water for this fraud ever since he put your name in the paper. <<
I don't "carry water" for anyone, not even you!
NYCFan pwned!
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=412933&forum_id=1#5745970)
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Date: May 10th, 2006 9:46 AM Author: Translucent Excitant Sex Offender Roast Beef Subject: This post was also deleted a number of times- Reposted by me Again, Pensive had said this to NYCFan and I posted my comments on Pensive's quote. Then it was deleted by whomever, I don't know, but it was reposted a number of times by me. NYCFan obviously did not like these comments, because they are politically incorrect and they are critical of Harvard.NYCFan, as shown by his history, does not like this at all, to say the least. He would also want this post to be deleted. This post was deleted, by whom and for whatever reason, I do not know.
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Date: May 7th, 2006 10:02 AM Author: hero Subject: The "A-problem" replaced the "J-problem" at Harvard
Pensive said, [Let me call bullshit on this one. The extracurricular/"character" component of admissions has ALWAYS been centered on the upper-middle-class northeastern WASP, and probably will be for the forseeable future. It was built into the process to "protect" these colleges from the "J-problem" (and in the XXI. century, the "A-problem"). Is this racist and unfair? Absolutely, but it's what the "holistic" component of admissions at these schools was historically designed to do, and what it still does. Sure, some lower-income black and Hispanic students will be admitted, but HYP are already quite happy with the proportions they have. A cynic would say that the "disadvantaged" students are brought in solely as "diversity training" for the upper-middle class WASPs who are the HYP clientele, but I digress. Anyway, racial diversity aside, Harvard is certainly in no rush to bring in more diversity in terms of lower-middle class Red Staters who painted houses during their summers instead of founding nonprofits or, for that matter, Bay Area Asians with high IQs, who are currently rejected as "not well-rounded" out of the fear that too many of them would make spoiled white résumé kids feel dumb and not enjoy their expensive Ivy experiences.]
I agree with your assessment totally on this one. The "J-problem" or Jewish problem at Harvard and the Ivies is replaced by the "A-problem" or Asian American problem today. Now there is a de facto quota against Asian American students. There is no Jewish quota today anymore. You are very perceptive and honest with your assessment. Not many posters here would acknowledge this fact.
Your assessment is also politically incorrect, but it is straight to the point and the truth.
You also asked,"Is this racist and unfair?". You answered, "Absolutely". I agree.
Of course this is racist and unfair to Asian American applicants to the Ivies and Harvard as this was unfair and racist against Jews in the past, but how many of these posters are going to admit this? |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 10:34 AM Author: 180 tan office What I find interesting is that stuff about Jay Matthews and his daughter, neither of whom post here, that is not foul and rude (just where she applied to college), gets deleted while posts telling a poster on the board to go give her son "another blow job" remain.
Being that NYCFan has never cared for my attendence here and the posts that have been deleted are ones at least some feel he would care to delete, it does make me wonder if he is the one doing the deleting. And if he is, I am curious as to whether he hacked to do it or was given the procedure on how to delete posts by one of the "out in the open" mods. |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 10:52 AM Author: Translucent Excitant Sex Offender Roast Beef You are the greatest, JAV! You also beget great offsprings, including your 15 y.o. son, who is going to MIT for a PhD.
My posts are quite benign, and they are civil. If you read them, it is Fan who chimed in and interrupted me ruely on my thread, which was ultimately deleted.
Methinks the same also.
I agree with you.
The deletions have stopped for the time being. I wait and see what happens later.
NYCFan is nowhere to be heard from yet. 10:56 am is usually beyond the time of his entrance to xoxo. He is not here yet. Is this a coincidence?
LOL! because your son also SNUBBED Harvard. NYCFan would not like this also.
Also "hacking" into this system is illegal and a crime, punishable by law.
BTW, Fan never admits that he is wrong about anything, and that will be his downfall. |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 11:18 AM Author: 180 tan office I can tell the "You are the greatest" is going to be a standing joke with me now. But unlike ghost, I suspect you meant it sincerely, and so thanks.
My son is my *only* offspring (had I another child, I seriously doubt the child would have been another people would have described as "great" as having our son be who he is was just incredible good luck, and this is why I didn't bother to have another child as that kid would live in the first's shadow) and 14 and still will be when he starts at MIT in June (sob). As someone wrote me, this is the downside of letting kids accelerate academically - you could lose their company as a household member years earlier than you expected. Well, the downside for the parents. The upside for the offspring is getting to be financially independent years earlier (as our son could have been at age 13 if he wanted to be nasty and charge a 13-year-old rent just because he made more some days than his father even putting in less hours, and he plans to be starting June, but we'll see as the stipend is not what he's been used to making) and perhaps experiment with different start-ups before having to support a family (if he ever does have a family, as he's still unsure on if he will).
Ha, maybe that's why NYCFan has never liked me. He knows I gave birth to a child who only spoke of attending Harvard once when he was 4 and never again (or if not that fact, that my son set his sights on MIT since the week he turned 8 and never applied to Harvard). Actually, he hates the length of my posts and the content overall, but you know, you can't please all people. Even God (if there is one) doesn't do that. Far be it from me to try to be better than God.
Has NYCFan really never admitted he was wrong? I hadn't noticed and will try to be on the look out here. |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 11:27 AM Author: Translucent Excitant Sex Offender Roast Beef I have disputed NYCFan on several of his assertions in the past, and he has attacked me on a personal level. He never likes to be proven wrong, as I have done in the Jay Mathews matter. Again, his reluctance to accept the truth, even when proven as such to him, will be his downfall.
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Date: May 10th, 2006 12:14 PM Author: 180 tan office Ah yes, it's true that you did prove him wrong on the issue of the daughter and Harvard, and he didn't admit anything. Good point.
But how obsessed with a school does one have to be to not admit being incorrect over something like that?! |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 11:18 AM Author: Swashbuckling drunken goal in life tanning salon For some reason I can't see NYCFan hacking the site to be able to delete posts. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5756852) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 11:22 AM Author: 180 tan office It would surprise me if he was a hacker, too, which is why if I had to bet (which I don't), I'd put my money on the side of one of the mods having given him the information (password, etc.) needed to delete posts. I belonged to a board where someone was using my son's real name and the mod was not really moderating (busy in life outside of the Internet) and so emailed me instructions on how to delete posts/threads that had information that wasn't kosher, and once someone gives out that information, it is very easy to delete away. But I think the password can be changed and if this is how NYCFan is deleting posts and threads, that it should be as he isn't deleting posts with his name (or not ONLY those, and my guess is that if he was given the password to be able to delete posts, it was someone giving out his name here that caused the mods to supply him the password) but just whatever he doesn't like, seems to me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5756888) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 11:26 AM Author: Swashbuckling drunken goal in life tanning salon The rules of the site are such that posts are not supposed to be deleted unless they contain someone's personal information or are spam. I would sincerely hope that no matter who is doing the deleting, they don't abuse the privilege or go beyond what is absolutely necessary just because they don't like or agree with the content. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5756909) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 12:17 PM Author: 180 tan office So does personal PUBLIC information (like where someone applied to college that has been printed in the newspaper) on someone not even a board member fall into the "can be deleted" bin? As if not, someone is certainly breaking the rules, and I suspect even if that is allowed to be deleted, other posts still wouldn't fall into the "personal information/spam" category and have been deleted. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5757286) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 11:49 AM Author: Translucent Excitant Sex Offender Roast Beef BTW, I have every thread on which I posted or started recently.
My posts or threads may be deleted, but I still have them in my computer. |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 12:02 PM Author: Translucent Excitant Sex Offender Roast Beef Where is NYCFan today?
He is nowhere to be heard from. There are also no deletions so far.
Coincidence?
He is posting on the CC as Byerly today, but not on the xoxo at 9:24 am.
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=188157
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Date: May 10th, 2006 12:18 PM Author: 180 tan office NYCFan is Byerly here, or just on CC? And what kind of name is Byerly? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5757292) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 12:40 PM Author: soul-stirring den NYCFan is Byerly on CC. Byerly* here was a Princeton/anti-Harvard troll and, I suspect, a possible alias of hero.
Do you post on CC? |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 12:49 PM Author: Aggressive corner Subject: Byerly*/bostonian etc and "hero" are unrelated. "Hero" has been banned on CC and perhaps at PR as well (where he has not posted - as "cypress" - since January 5.)
No one objects to his passionate advocacy for his "cause", but his disruptive style has proven problematic over time.
Byerly* etc etc has not, to my knowledge, posted here or at any other site (including PR, where he styles himself "NYFan") since March 26. |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 12:51 PM Author: soul-stirring den Thanks for the clarification. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5757494) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 1:19 PM Author: Translucent Excitant Sex Offender Roast Beef (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5757686) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 12:56 PM Author: Translucent Excitant Sex Offender Roast Beef
I usually post on the existence of the anti-Asian quota, but rarely on other topics, except for posts on elite preps and public magnet schools on which I have personal experience and have done research for more than 15 years. I usually post on racial preferences in admissions to elite colleges and not much else, which NYCFan rarely comments on or for that matter, the character Bostonian/Byerly*/ Holland's Tulip/etc.. rarely comments on. I did take issue with Fan on some of his assertions on Harvard, which I also am acquainted with through family, former roommates, and other associates.
I am not "anti-Harvard" per se, as you can see from my posts. I never applied to Harvard as an undergrad, but I am a product of the Ivies several decades ago. |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 1:07 PM Author: soul-stirring den I apologize for my error. The posting styles seemed similar to me, but I probably shouldn't have jumped to the conclusion that you had any connection to Bostonian. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5757598) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 1:09 PM Author: Translucent Excitant Sex Offender Roast Beef I accept your apology.
How is Columbia today? Grad ceremonies are to be held next Weds.
I know some of the graduates from several schools at Columbia today. |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 1:13 PM Author: soul-stirring den Columbia is doing well. They're doing a lot of touch-up work on Low and are putting up the bleachers for graduation. I'm looking forward to the festivities next week. Now if I could only find a job... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5757639) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 1:15 PM Author: Translucent Excitant Sex Offender Roast Beef You will, don't worry.
The campus is the most beautiful and well planned urban campus in America designed by McKim, Mead, White, the nation's foremost architects of the time. |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 1:17 PM Author: soul-stirring den It is beautiful. I'm a big fan of studying on the little lawn right below Low Library where you can look out on College Walk. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5757676) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 1:20 PM Author: Translucent Excitant Sex Offender Roast Beef Lou Gerhig (?sp) of the NY Yankees used to play baseball on South Field, as the Lawn used to be known.
Harvard's campus can't match it, even though some in my immediate faimily did attend Harvard College and Harvard Med. I have cousins who snubbed Harvard College and attended Columbia and Yale, but ultimately they went to Harvard for med school in the 19760s and 1970s. |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 1:23 PM Author: soul-stirring den Cool. Yeah, I've seen pics of the campus from back then, when there were baseball diamonds where the fields are now (and Butler didn't exist). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5757704) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 1:29 PM Author: Translucent Excitant Sex Offender Roast Beef The renovation of Butler (reading room) was made possible by a Milstein and Columbia alum of the billionaire real estate Milsteins of NYC. The elder Milstein never attended college, not Columbia or Harvard, mainly because of quotas, but he and his family have a $6 billion real estate fortune in NYC. They even own the Emmigrant Savings, in Brooklyn, which was bought for several hundred million years ago, but now worth a couple billion. Google it, if you don't believe me.
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Date: May 10th, 2006 1:32 PM Author: soul-stirring den Why wouldn't I believe you? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5757745) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 1:36 PM Author: Translucent Excitant Sex Offender Roast Beef Well, you see how I am personally attacked on these threads at times in the past, by other posters and by NYCFan with racist slurs and the statement by Fan, "You don't know what you are saying ", coupled with his holier than thou attitude in an attempt to discredit my posts and its contents.
BTW, I have always posted under the name hero. |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 1:53 PM Author: soul-stirring den I remember when you used to post here a year or two ago. I had thought you might be connected with Bostonian because your writing style seemed very similar to his, but I don't question the facts that you post. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5757859) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 1:56 PM Author: Translucent Excitant Sex Offender Roast Beef Thanks, I do remember the exchange I had with you, and you stated that I "seemed intelligent" and that you had agreed with me on a particular post that I had made. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5757873) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 1:53 PM Author: Translucent Excitant Sex Offender Roast Beef (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5757861) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 5:31 PM Author: soul-stirring den I always really liked Harvard's campus, actually. A lot of people don't like it, but I always counted it among my favorites. You don't get that same sense of grandioseness (is that a word?) on Harvard's campus that you do on Columbia's, but I like the understatement of the architecture and the quiescence of the grounds. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5759433) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 8:14 PM Author: Translucent Excitant Sex Offender Roast Beef Yes, the "Acropolis" on the hill is more grandiose than red brick. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5760733) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 3:31 PM Author: 180 tan office So where are you now? Are you in college or out of college, and if out of college, doing what? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5758557) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 5:34 PM Author: soul-stirring den He was outted a couple of years ago. I'm not going to reveal his identity, but he's out of college. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5759456) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 5:55 PM Author: Passionate Theatre New Version Do you mean NYCFan or hero? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5759596) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 7:04 PM Author: 180 tan office He has to mean hero. That's who I was asking about. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5760212) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 3:29 PM Author: 180 tan office I viewed some CC posts back around the time I first came to PR, but have rarely gone back there (only when someone directs me to a specific post or thread there) and haven't posted when I have, so no, I don't post on CC (though I did post just a few messages when I first went there ages ago). Do you post there? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5758539) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 5:34 PM Author: soul-stirring den I post there occasionally. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5759453) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 5:39 PM Author: Translucent Excitant Sex Offender Roast Beef As an aside, Is Prof. De Bary from East Asian Studies still teaching? He become the Provost at Columbia, after his reaching University Professor status, I think. He is well into his 80s. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5759489) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 5:40 PM Author: soul-stirring den Ha, yep! He's still here. I took his class last semester. In fact, he still teaches a full load each semester w/out stipend. ...and his wife attends each class. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5759495) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 5:46 PM Author: Translucent Excitant Sex Offender Roast Beef I DON'T BELIEVE IT!!
As you know, he was a Chinese specialist who translated original writings into a book, called the "Sources in Chinese Tradition" and helped build the East Asian Dept. at Columbia. His peers included Fairbanks, another Chinese specialist, at Harvard. De Bary's book has been used in many schools for decades. |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 5:48 PM Author: soul-stirring den It's true. Crazybug can verify all of this. He's very old school--still utilizes the oral final exam (one-on-one with DeBary on the Classics--scary experience). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5759542) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 5:52 PM Author: Translucent Excitant Sex Offender Roast Beef WOW!
You got your money's worth. |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 5:53 PM Author: soul-stirring den Yeah, it was an amazing foundation. Wouldn't have been able to write my thesis without the background that deBary provided. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5759586) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 6:08 PM Author: Passionate Theatre New Version What was the specific topic of the course you took with him? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5759720) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 8:17 PM Author: soul-stirring den It was pretty broad. It was called "Great Works of Chinese Philosophy and Religion." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5760754) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 5:52 PM Author: soul-stirring den http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ealac/
Scroll down the faculty bios, and you'll come across deBary. |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 5:58 PM Author: Translucent Excitant Sex Offender Roast Beef Thanks, I just did. That's great.
Do you read or write Chinese? |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 6:00 PM Author: soul-stirring den I do both badly (haha). I didn't start taking Chinese until freshman year of college, so picking up the writing has been a struggle. My spoken Chinese is way ahead of my written (though neither is spectacular). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5759635) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 6:03 PM Author: Translucent Excitant Sex Offender Roast Beef Who were some of the East Asian Scholars in Chinese at NW? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5759662) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 7:37 PM Author: soul-stirring den There were really no prominent China scholars at NU, which was severely lacking in East Asian fields. There was one art historian whose name escapes me, and I believe one visiting scholar in poli sci from the University of Hawaii whose name I also don't remember. I didn't take either of their classes, though, because my focus in undergrad was mainly in Chinese language. My only academic humanities experience came from summer courses in philosophy, history, and econ that I took at Tsinghua, but that background was weak, at best. I did write my undergraduate "thesis" (which was really more of a nonacademic essay) on a contemporary China topic, but that was really born more from my experience working in China than from any academic endeavor. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5760468) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 7:51 PM Author: Translucent Excitant Sex Offender Roast Beef Thanks for the reply. Interesting.
Did you even have the opportunity to study the Chinese language in your hometown before college, though you started in college? |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 8:00 PM Author: soul-stirring den Nope, no opportunity (I went to high school in a part of FL where you basically couldn't find anybody who taught anything but Spanish, French, Latin, or German). I actually decided while in high school, though, that I wanted to study Chinese in college, because a friend's sister (who went to Harvard) did so and came back raving about it. When I visited NU, I sat in on a Chinese class, and when I got there, I signed up with the intent to simply use it as my 2-year undergraduate language requirement. The summer after freshman year, I went to Tsinghua and had the opportunity to travel a bit in China, and I got hooked. As soon as I came back, I declared the "Chinese Language and Culture" minor (which basically consisted of 4 years of language study and the study abroad, which counted towards the program). After junior year, I worked as an HR rep and English teacher for a company in Changchun, and when I came back, I started researching East Asia master's programs. The rest, as they say, is history. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5760628) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 8:05 PM Author: Translucent Excitant Sex Offender Roast Beef Well, the Chinese language is the language of the future, and is being taught in many public and private high schools now.
How about studying for a PhD program in the field. Why didn't you continue? |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 8:11 PM Author: soul-stirring den Well, the program I'm in is a relatively new terminal M.A. program that has no PhD component. In order to do a PhD in an East Asian field, you need to have 5 years of one Asian language, 3 years of another, and 2 years of a non-English European language.
To be honest, languages aren't my strong suit (Chinese has been a struggle), and academia isn't a field I'm likely to enter, anyway. If I do a PhD, it's going to be in political communication (Penn, NU, Syracuse, Stanford have top programs, among others), because I want to go into political consulting with a foreign policy focus. I've also toyed with the idea of perhaps applying to the Wilson School, KSG, and the like instead of going the PhD route, but making that decision is what these next couple of years are going to be about. |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 8:26 PM Author: Translucent Excitant Sex Offender Roast Beef How about the School of International Affairs at Columbia? Madeline Albright is a grad of the School. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5760811) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 8:31 PM Author: soul-stirring den That's a definite possibility as well. Probably the best chance I have, admissions-wise (b/c of the connections I now have here). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5760857) |
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Date: May 18th, 2006 10:36 AM Author: Translucent Excitant Sex Offender Roast Beef Please keep me updated. Thanks. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5807897) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 5:55 PM Author: soul-stirring den ...and I'm all too familiar with deBary's "Sources..." It's required reading for his course. He also has "Sources" volumes for Japan, Korea, and India. The man is unbelievable. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5759600) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 6:01 PM Author: Translucent Excitant Sex Offender Roast Beef Prof. Keene was the Japanese expert. Korean, I think was only added recently. I think he edited the rest, but did not do the actual translations for each of the "Source: books, except for the Chinese one.
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Date: May 10th, 2006 6:02 PM Author: soul-stirring den Ah, o.k. Keene is still around as well. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5759658) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 6:04 PM Author: Translucent Excitant Sex Offender Roast Beef He is also "ancient". (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5759674) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 2:40 PM Author: Passionate Theatre New Version Google Byerly Hall. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5758155) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 3:36 PM Author: 180 tan office So are all the Byerly folks people who lived at Byerly Hall at one time, as the Byerly* seems anti-Harvard to me and so that would seem odd, or does the "*" after the name mean the anti-Harvard poster or something? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5758594) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 4:43 PM Author: Passionate Theatre New Version I believe bostonian posted with byerly* to mock NYCFan's College Confidential moniker. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5759047) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 7:04 PM Author: 180 tan office That would make sense. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5760215) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 2:32 PM Author: boyish alcoholic forum gunner I wouldn't be surprised if NYCFan was given moderator access since the administration holds him in high regard. Enough to call him an asset to this website. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5758104) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 2:39 PM Author: Passionate Theatre New Version TITCR. I asked about this possibility in the Chicago thread.
It makes sense. GTO is busy and mostly reads the law board. GTO says rachmiel is very busy, but we don't know if he lurks on the college side. It's possible that GTO would delete some of the posts if NYCFan asked him to do so. It wouldn't be possible for him to delete the posts during all the times they've been deleted. Boondocks wouldn't delete the types of posts that have been deleted most recently. |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 3:10 PM Author: boyish alcoholic forum gunner I didn't even know Boondocks was an admin. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5758371) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 4:37 PM Author: Passionate Theatre New Version I think boondocks has been low key lately but still has some involvement. This is from one of the law board stickies. http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=404680&mc=25&forum_id=2#5638687 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5759013) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 3:55 PM Author: Mauve Area Selfie Subject: Two questions (1) What is the deletion policy on this board?
(2) Who is authorized to interpret and enfoce this policy?
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Date: May 10th, 2006 4:41 PM Author: Passionate Theatre New Version 1. Severe spamming where someone start tons of threads in a short time span to fill the entire front page. Posting personal information about someone on the board when the person has never revealed anything about himself or herself. There was a conflict at the law side when Madame Cunt decided to out a couple posters who she met IRL because she was angry at them.
2. Rachmiel, GTO and Boondocks. There is now speculation NYCFan has input on the college side. |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 5:13 PM Author: Translucent Excitant Sex Offender Roast Beef (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5759285) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 5:53 PM Author: Passionate Theatre New Version (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5759582) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 6:08 PM Author: Translucent Excitant Sex Offender Roast Beef (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5759712) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 4:11 PM Author: Bat Shit Crazy Ceo The board has technically been so spotty lately it's hard to even tell. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5758878) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 8:26 PM Author: abusive puppy Subject: I DEMAND TRANSPARENCY p.s. What are we bitching about here? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5760814) |
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Date: May 10th, 2006 8:50 PM Author: sadistic filthy antidepressant drug lolol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5760989) |
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Date: May 11th, 2006 1:37 AM Author: bearded ape sanctuary While talking aim chat two nights ago, Wheeeee speculated that he might have been banned, since he was unable to access the site from his computer, though everyone else in chat was able to. I made a thread asking GTO if Wheeeee had been banned, and if so, why. This thread was deleted for reasons unknown. No one has told me who deleted it or why. I created another thread about the issue and asked GTO directly about it on AIM the next night. GTO said he was ignorant of the whole issue and made this thread as a result. See the thread posted below for further reference.
http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=413716&mc=15&forum_id=1 |
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Date: May 11th, 2006 10:16 PM Author: Saffron provocative set telephone IT'S RACHMIEL, DUH. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5768183) |
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Date: May 12th, 2006 11:39 AM Author: Confused Coldplay Fan Double Fault thanks for that insight, rach. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5771116) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 12:07 AM Author: sadistic filthy antidepressant drug What I want to know is who was banned in October? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5798621) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 12:18 PM Author: milky cruel-hearted legal warrant patrolman ohnoes, for spamming (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5801232) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 4:20 PM Author: Talented school fanboi making 1000 posts in a thread is apparently more of a threat to XOXO security than anything else that's ever been posted (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5802619) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 5:22 PM Author: sadistic filthy antidepressant drug bad ohnoes! bad! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5802991) |
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Date: May 17th, 2006 4:52 PM Author: Spectacular Faggot Firefighter (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5802788) |
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Date: May 18th, 2006 12:17 PM Author: Passionate Theatre New Version (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5808529) |