***Geek Club History Draft***

[BiPolarBear 495]

Now that you mention the exquisite patina that the Geek riff-raff visit on this thread, I withdraw my suggestion.

[Voltaire 5,390]

I'm going to bed. Hopefully you guys can wrap it back around to TBBOM by the time I wake up again. I prefer when the draft gets stuck on him because it's within my ability to give him a kick and get results. It's worked both times I've tried it. My fear though is if I go to the well too often, I'll become the annoying guy he dreads hearing from.

[vuduchile 1,945]

General (Strategist) - Napoleon Bonaparte

 

ince 1792, France’s revolutionary government had been engaged in military conflicts with various European nations. In 1796, Napoleon commanded a French army that defeated the larger armies of Austria, one of his country’s primary rivals, in a series of battles in Italy. In 1797, France and Austria signed the Treaty of Campo Formio, resulting in territorial gains for the French.

The following year, the Directory, the five-person group that had governed France since 1795, offered to let Napoleon lead an invasion of England. Napoleon determined that France’s naval forces were not yet ready to go up against the superior British Royal Navy. Instead, he proposed an invasion of Egypt in an effort to wipe out British trade routes with India. Napoleon’s troops scored a victory against Egypt’s military rulers, the Mamluks, at the Battle of the Pyramids in July 1798; soon, however, his forces were stranded after his naval fleet was nearly decimated by the British at the Battle of the Nile in August 1798. In early 1799, Napoleon’s army launched an invasion of Ottoman-ruled Syria, which ended with the failed siege of Acre, located in modern-day Israel. That summer, with the political situation in France marked by uncertainty, the ever-ambitious and cunning Napoleon opted to abandon his army in Egypt and return to France.

 

[shotsup 833]

If we went to ed's board, just think about all the love letters from JTB, shotsup, and others we'd be missing out on.

 

I have to say editing those first three posts in this thread all the time is far more a chore than it should be.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

I'm going to bed. Hopefully you guys can wrap it back around to TBBOM by the time I wake up again. I prefer when the draft gets stuck on him because it's within my ability to give him a kick and get results. It's worked both times I've tried it. My fear though is if I go to the well too often, I'll become the annoying guy he dreads hearing from.

No worries volty. Give me a nudge when needed. In fact, I will probably start making my pick, then text you three more. Then you can just make your two picks and insert the highest ranking one of mine left.

 

But the main reason it keeps getting stuck on me is that you and I are on the other side of the planet. They make their picks while we are sleeping.

[Voltaire 5,390]

No worries volty. Give me a nudge when needed. In fact, I will probably start making my pick, then text you three more. Then you can just make your two picks and insert the highest ranking one of mine left.

 

But the main reason it keeps getting stuck on me is that you and I are on the other side of the planet. They make their picks while we are sleeping.

Oh, no need for that. I don't want to look at the people you have on your mind to see where your priorities are going. If I ping you, I'm online, just means after you make a pick come back in twenty minutes and you can make another one then.

 

At this stage, I'm not at all hurting for names, I've got them coming out my ears and can't drop them fast enough. It's just a matter of sorting thorgh all the names percolating in my head and giving priority to only two of them.

[kutulu 1,692]

Captain Lou Albano

[shotsup 833]

Captain Lou Albano

What is Rubber Bands

[Voltaire 5,390]

What is Rubber Bands

I hope when 90sbaby fially shows back up, he'll know who Captain Lou Albano is.

 

Another test for him. Who is this man? http://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.Me2f0c74b6ecfd402171793c905ffbc8bo2&pid=15.1

[JTB 52]

 

At this stage, I'm not at all hurting for names, I've got them coming out my ears and can't drop them fast enough. It's just a matter of sorting thorgh all the names percolating in my head and giving priority to only two of them.

Thanks for sharing.

[mobb_deep 920]

The intensity of this fraft is palpable.

[Voltaire 5,390]

The intensity of this fraft is palpable.

It sucks, it's been 20 hours since vudu's pick and all we've gotten in that time is a collection of trolling posts.

[mobb_deep 920]

It sucks, it's been 20 hours since vudu's pick and all we've gotten in that time is a collection of trolling posts.

Well, that is the true spirit of this bored, amirite? Maybe spend the downtime writing another wall of text, about some other nerdy crap nobody else cares about.

[Voltaire 5,390]

Well, that is the true spirit of this bored, amirite? Maybe spend the downtime writing another wall of text, about some other nerdy crap nobody else cares about.

Yeah, this place sucks. I mean I like it, obviously, since I've coming back here for 14 years. I've put up with the a$$holes for a reason although I'm not entirely sure of what that is.

 

Anyways, this draft isn't one of them. I've known all along the Geek Club wasn't cut out for this sort of thing. It was TBBOM's idea to recruit here. I thought he was nuts. I've known all along this place is a toilet.

 

That said, I had to try. We did find BPB, Vudu, and 90sbaby here and thanks to them the draft had been going well. That is until 90sbaby disappeared...

[Voltaire 5,390]

I think this wait's been long enough. Vudu can go ahead. See if he BPB can get picks in before it's bedtime in China. Knock out rounds 6 and 7 freeze again at 7.5 to wait for him.

 

90sbaby can make up his two picks at any time he shows up.

[BiPolarBear 495]

Took me 10 minutes to get here. No big deal, though. I will check back frequently to keep 'er rollin'.

 

 

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[Voltaire 5,390]

Took me 10 minutes to get here. No big deal, though. I will check back frequently to keep 'er rollin'.

 

 

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Maybe you're right and a move to ed's be best for our sanity. Editing posts is a mighty chore and the work load'll only increase if I put it off. 90sbaby doesn't know where that is.

[vuduchile 1,945]

I don't know ed's board and I probably wouldn't visit there daily. I vote we keep it here.

 

The morons here are surely capable of sparking some debate down the road once we start comparing teams/starting lineups.

 

Evil Mutha; Vlad The Impaler (Dracula) Vlad Tepes

 

Throughout his life, he killed anywhere from 20,000 to 300,000 people. He showed no mercy and almost invariantly tortured his victims before killing them. Therefore, he was both feared and loved throughout modern day Romania.

 

Vlad's favorite form of torture, impalement, consisted of forcing a victim to sit on a sharp and thick stake. The rank of the victim determined how high the stake was erected with servants being a few feet above the ground - just tall enough so when their feet reached the soil, they'd already be dead. According to some historians, when Vlad left the 20,000 enemy soldiers to rot, another army came looking for him. They cried when they saw the "forest of rotting men" and promptly returned home. Vlad especially enjoyed to have a feast while he watched his victims be tortured. In one story, when Vlad asked a noble member whom he was having the feast with if he liked the smell of the rotting men and the man said no, Vlad ordered him impaled higher than anyone else so the "smell wouldn't reach him".

Vlad was known for enforcing honesty throughout the his land. He showed no mercy at all. When someone was caught stealing or, even worse, lying, Vlad ordered him impaled. Another target of Vlad was women. He especially enjoyed cutting their sexual organs sometimes for adultery and other times for no reason at all.

[Voltaire 5,390]

I was just at ed's board and I don't think it'll work. If I go to the trouble of moving this stuff to another forum, I'm not moving it to a place where mobb deep is an active member.

[Voltaire 5,390]

Vladdie was highly effective on the front lines keeping the Muslim hordes out of Europe. He would be an interesting guy to have around nowadays to wrestle with Europe's immigration problem.

[Voltaire 5,390]

Also, while some other candidates for Evil Motherfocker put up better numbers, it was more industrial, impersonal, and less messy. Vladdie gets a lot of points for style and quality.

[vuduchile 1,945]

Also, while some other candidates for Evil Motherfocker put up better numbers, it was more industrial, impersonal, and less messy. Vladdie gets a lot of points for style and quality.

Agreed. His personal involvement and his penchant for watching the torture unfold makes him the most evil IMO.

[BiPolarBear 495]

Agreed. His personal involvement and his penchant for watching the torture unfold makes him the most evil IMO.

 

He cooked children and made their parents eat them, didn't he?

[BiPolarBear 495]

Ernest Hemingway - Writer

[Voltaire 5,390]

Stay tuned. I PMed TBBOM. Four picks coming in soon.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

Ill take Aristotle, philosoper.

 

The first written system of philosophy as a holistic science. Greatly influenced Christianity, ethics, and metaphysics. And that is with only 1\3 of his work surviving.

 

Oh, and he also educated Alexander of Macedon, which impacted the world a bit.

[Voltaire 5,390]

My writeup vanished. Will edit.

 

Cleopatra and Adam Smith

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

Ok, I'm gonna get a little creative with this one. I'm gonna take a tactical general who isn't a general. He's an admiral.

 

I select Horatio Nelson, First Viscount of Nelson, Vice Admiral of the White, Knight of the Order of the Bath.

 

Renowned for his tactical brilliance, his victories in the battles of the Nile, Cooenhagen, and especially Trafalgar dealt crippling blows to Napoleon's hopes of invading England, ultimately allowing the third coalition to defeat the French at Waterloo.

[Voltaire 5,390]

6.4 - Cleopatra as Seductress because it's just not a category I feel I'm very strong in so I've looked into it a lot and haven't anybody better or more suited to it to put off this pick. Her brother blocked her from seeing Julius Caesar to plead her case in a dispute with him acting as arbitrator so she had had herself wrapped up in a carpet and delivered to him. What sass. Then pulling the same ass-shaking hypnosis on Mark Anthony.

 

It also helps when they cast Claudette Colbert, Elizabeth Taylor, and Angelina Jolie to play her in the movies

 

7.1 - Adam Smith the Scottish economist who wrote Wealth of Nations is my Social Scientist

[Voltaire 5,390]

This may look confusing. I did my writeup after TBBOM made his pick. 7.2 is Horatio Nelson.... BPB is up.

[mobb_deep 920]

I was just at ed's board and I don't think it'll work. If I go to the trouble of moving this stuff to another forum, I'm not moving it to a place where mobb deep is an active member.

You don't need to get personal man. Show some class, Markus Bryant.

[posty 2,783]

I hope Mike Smrek gets drafted...

[vuduchile 1,945]

 

He cooked children and made their parents eat them, didn't he?

I've heard that, but I don't know if it's ever been substantiated. He used different types of torture, but is most infamous for shoving poles up his victim's arses, sticking them in the ground and allowing gravity to do it's thing.

 

He must have been a riot at parties.

[Voltaire 5,390]

I hope Mike Smrek gets drafted...

The only backup athlete with a chance to get drafted is Moe Berg.

[Voltaire 5,390]

Somebody check the second post on the first page. It's all focked up on my computer screen. It may be because I have a slow connection. Is it all focked up on yours?

[vuduchile 1,945]

Somebody check the second post on the first page. It's all focked up on my computer screen. It may be because I have a slow connection. Is it all focked up on yours?

It's not your connection. It's focked for me too.

[Voltaire 5,390]

It's not your connection. It's focked for me too.

Sh*t. That's our rosters.

[BiPolarBear 495]

Abraham Lincoln - Statesman

[BiPolarBear 495]

6.4 - Cleopatra as Seductress because it's just not a category I feel I'm very strong in so I've looked into it a lot and haven't anybody better or more suited to it to put off this pick. Her brother blocked her from seeing Julius Caesar to plead her case in a dispute with him acting as arbitrator so she had had herself wrapped up in a carpet and delivered to him. What sass. Then pulling the same ass-shaking hypnosis on Mark Anthony.

 

 

I'm pretty bitter about your Cleopatra pick. I felt my picks needed a more scholarly bent, so I went Hemingway first. I would have picked Cleo next fur sure. Nice work.

[JTB 52]

He cooked children and made their parents eat them, didn't he?

He sucked their blood.