Octopus Overlords

DD* · Post by DD* » Sun Oct 14, 2018 5:06 pm

Hard to believe I've been posting and reading with you bunch of maroons for this many years (all the way back to GG). The internet is truly a strange and wonderful place...

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Sun Oct 14, 2018 5:54 pm

DD* wrote: ↑Sun Oct 14, 2018 5:06 pm Hard to believe I've been posting and reading with you bunch of maroons for this many years (all the way back to GG). The internet is truly a strange and wonderful place...

Maybe by now you can afford a new hat?

Kelric · Post by **Kelric** » Sun Oct 14, 2018 7:36 pm

DD* · Post by DD* » Mon Oct 15, 2018 10:14 am

Jaymann wrote: ↑Sun Oct 14, 2018 5:54 pm
DD* wrote: ↑Sun Oct 14, 2018 5:06 pm Hard to believe I've been posting and reading with you bunch of maroons for this many years (all the way back to GG). The internet is truly a strange and wonderful place...
Maybe by now you can afford a new hat?

Hey now, a man walks down the street in a hat like this, people know he's not afraid of anything.

El Guapo · Post by **El Guapo** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 10:17 am

First!

edit: damn you, too slow.

Hrothgar · Post by **Hrothgar** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 5:16 pm

El Guapo wrote: ↑Mon Oct 15, 2018 10:17 am First!

edit: damn you, too slow.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:31 am

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:35 am

Whoa. Wow.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:57 am

Damn...we're old.

Lassr · Post by **Lassr** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:16 am

Geez, time flies and I wish it wouldn't as I get older.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:29 am

OO can drive now.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:33 am

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:04 am

I was 40th.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:21 am

LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:29 am OO can drive now.

And I'm getting worried about driving at night now.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 12:24 pm

ditto

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 12:50 pm

LordMortis wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:21 am
LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:29 am OO can drive now.
And I'm getting worried about driving at night now.

I avoid it. Cannot see shit.

Also I was the first man to wear pants.

Hrdina · Post by **Hrdina** » Sun Oct 25, 2020 11:55 pm

Better Neil Sedaka than "16 Candles" I guess.

Funny, I've been here since the first week, but apparently didn't find this thread back then.

KKBlue · Post by **KKBlue** » Mon Oct 26, 2020 8:26 pm

Woo Hoo! Y’all looking mighty sweet! Happy (belated) Birthday!

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Tue Oct 12, 2021 12:01 pm

2,837,470th!

Spoiler:

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Oct 12, 2021 12:56 pm

You don't look a day over 15 to me.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Tue Oct 12, 2021 1:00 pm

How many had children back then?

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Tue Oct 12, 2021 1:01 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 12:56 pm You don't look a day over 15 to me.

ORLY?

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Tue Oct 12, 2021 1:02 pm

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 1:00 pm How many had children back then?

Two. The youngest was still not even a year old. He's graduating this year. The other has long since graduated.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Oct 12, 2021 1:05 pm

Happy birthday anniversary! So many no longer around. Heres to you as well folks. My world.....the entire world...was different back in 2004.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Oct 12, 2021 1:07 pm

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 1:01 pm
Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 12:56 pm You don't look a day over 15 to me.
ORLY?

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Tue Oct 12, 2021 1:18 pm

Wait, you started late? And you're still in the lead? And comfortably?

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Oct 12, 2021 1:27 pm

Yuppers.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Tue Oct 12, 2021 1:29 pm

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 1:00 pm How many had children back then?

I had just started an entry level job at my current company, which I got by answering a want-ad in the newspaper.

We had moved into our current house about a month before I registered at OO.

Our first kid wasn't born for another 3.5 years.

My, how things have changed.

Ralph-Wiggum · Post by **Ralph-Wiggum** » Tue Oct 12, 2021 1:33 pm

Didn't have any children back then (and still don't) and was stuck in a soul-sucking desk job. Have since gone and graduated from graduate school and now have a job that lets me do research I'm interested in and be outside (and often on the water) pretty regularly. It's been a pretty good 17 years!

Post by **ImLawBoy** » Tue Oct 12, 2021 2:16 pm

I was single with no kids, and was able to afford a fancy Audi A6. 17 years later I'm married with 3 kids . . . and that same (considerably less fancy now) Audi A6.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Oct 12, 2021 3:35 pm

I was married with a normal life and many little chihuahua kids.

Now Im widowed with just our last little chihuahua left in a abnormal life.

BTW whats happened to Rip these days? Last activity shows last year.

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Tue Oct 12, 2021 3:41 pm

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 1:00 pm How many had children back then?

my son was three years old - now he's 21 (but still living at his mom's house)

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Tue Oct 12, 2021 3:42 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 3:35 pm BTW whats happened to Rip these days? Last activity shows last year.

Shh...

We don't talk about that.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Tue Oct 12, 2021 4:40 pm

ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 2:16 pm I was single with no kids, and was able to afford a fancy Audi A6. 17 years later I'm married with 3 kids . . . and that same (considerably less fancy now) Audi A6.

2001 Lexus IS300
==== OctopusOverlords.com born ====
2005 Ford Mustang GT
>> coopasonic kiddo #1 born
2006 Honda Civic EX
>> coopasonic kiddo #2 born
2009 Infiniti G37
2012 Infiniti G37
2018 Tesla Model 3
==== Today ====

That's how many cars I have had as daily drivers in the same time period. Just thinking about how much money was tossed out the window on my damn love of cars.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Tue Oct 12, 2021 6:29 pm

ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 2:16 pm I was single with no kids, and was able to afford a fancy Audi A6. 17 years later I'm married with 3 kids . . . and that same (considerably less fancy now) Audi A6.

I really thought you'd be rocking a Honda minivan by now.

Since birth of this forum, I've owned a Maxima and an Altima with the same Maxima engine (not as luxurious, but more zoom-zoom). Now I own a modern station wagon (Nissan Rogue) and a putt-putt car, Nissan Versa.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Tue Oct 12, 2021 6:32 pm

Ha. I had a 2004 Mazdaspeed Miata then. Now I have a 2017 Miata. I dislike change.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Tue Oct 12, 2021 7:45 pm

I still have the same car and pickup.

$iljanus · Post by **$iljanus** » Tue Oct 12, 2021 7:53 pm

I think I’m rocking it in my big red Ford Flex!

Looking through the old posts made me a bit melancholy. And what happened to Enough? Many of the names have been gone for a while but I thought Enough was still around?

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Tue Oct 12, 2021 8:11 pm

coopasonic wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 4:40 pm
ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 2:16 pm I was single with no kids, and was able to afford a fancy Audi A6. 17 years later I'm married with 3 kids . . . and that same (considerably less fancy now) Audi A6.
2001 Lexus IS300
==== OctopusOverlords.com born ====
2005 Ford Mustang GT
>> coopasonic kiddo #1 born
2006 Honda Civic EX
>> coopasonic kiddo #2 born
2009 Infiniti G37
2012 Infiniti G37
2018 Tesla Model 3
==== Today ====

That's how many cars I have had as daily drivers in the same time period. Just thinking about how much money was tossed out the window on my damn love of cars.

Pfft. You're counting backwards!

>> Blackhawk kiddos #1-3 born
2003 Ford van
==== OctopusOverlords.com born ====
2000 Buick

I figure by the time we our 25th anniversary I'll be driving a 79 Pinto.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Oct 12, 2021 8:30 pm

Just as OO was founded we still had the Trans-Am. Then a Contour, then this Mustang by 2010. Still got it. Will always have it. Never letting it go. if it becomes undrivable Ill park and cover it and get some used POS to haul garbage in to the dump and save $20 a month.