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I like depluto and others read comics from the time I was about 5 or 6 until mid-high school...then my money started going to other persuits.... (ahhh...wine, women...women....)
unlike depluto...almost half of my early comics got the boot by my mother (course most were coverless or had serious roll...some were also cut up because I had collected all of my coins and was going to send out for some of that cool stuff they used to advertise )
I got reintroduced in about '88 (second junior year of college) and started buying them again...not weekly or anything, just when I happened by the shop...
started teaching in California in the fall of '90...some of the kids I had at the time were really into Batman and Ghostrider...so I figured what the heck and meandered over to the LCS...can't remember which issue, but there was a Magnus on one of the racks there...I do remember thinking...man that looks cool, but it's kinda expensive (for a comic)...but I got it anyway...I was hooked. Started up a pull which I kept up with even after we moved back to Wisconsin...up until about '96(even had a Gold XO sent to me because of a bulletin board that I put up in my classroom). I was spending about $30 a week...had to stop to buy a house...(damn priorities)...the books by that time had really gone down hill...so I didn't feel a great sense of loss...
There aren't any LCS around my house now...but finding this site helped to feed my need...
Thanks again Greg for the great work you do.
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unlike depluto...almost half of my early comics got the boot by my mother (course most were coverless or had serious roll...some were also cut up because I had collected all of my coins and was going to send out for some of that cool stuff they used to advertise )
I got reintroduced in about '88 (second junior year of college) and started buying them again...not weekly or anything, just when I happened by the shop...
started teaching in California in the fall of '90...some of the kids I had at the time were really into Batman and Ghostrider...so I figured what the heck and meandered over to the LCS...can't remember which issue, but there was a Magnus on one of the racks there...I do remember thinking...man that looks cool, but it's kinda expensive (for a comic)...but I got it anyway...I was hooked. Started up a pull which I kept up with even after we moved back to Wisconsin...up until about '96(even had a Gold XO sent to me because of a bulletin board that I put up in my classroom). I was spending about $30 a week...had to stop to buy a house...(damn priorities)...the books by that time had really gone down hill...so I didn't feel a great sense of loss...
There aren't any LCS around my house now...but finding this site helped to feed my need...
Thanks again Greg for the great work you do.
Myron
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Re: Myron
myron wrote:I like depluto and others read comics from the time I was about 5 or 6 until mid-high school...then my money started going to other persuits.... (ahhh...wine, women...women....)
myron wrote: (even had a Gold XO sent to me because of a bulletin board that I put up in my classroom).
That's great !!
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Awwww....man love at its manliest....myron wrote:I like depluto
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Is that what they're packin' in Green Bay?Brother J wrote:at least it's not fromunda cheese, I heard that stuff is pretty nasty.ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:Eats lots of cheese....myron wrote:..some loser, never posts...you know the type...Daniel Jackson wrote:Who's Myron?
I DO NOT EAT, DRINK OR ABSORB SOULS, DAMMIT!
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they be packin' the meat in Green Bay (there's a good set-up line for someone! )X-O HoboJoe wrote:Is that what they're packin' in Green Bay?Brother J wrote:at least it's not fromunda cheese, I heard that stuff is pretty nasty.ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:Eats lots of cheese....myron wrote:..some loser, never posts...you know the type...Daniel Jackson wrote:Who's Myron?
At least PETA didn't get their way and have the team change their name to the Green Bay Pickers. That sounds like we have a football team full of nose pickers.
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Brother J wrote:they be packin' the meat in Green Bay (there's a good set-up line for someone! )X-O HoboJoe wrote:Is that what they're packin' in Green Bay?Brother J wrote:at least it's not fromunda cheese, I heard that stuff is pretty nasty.ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:Eats lots of cheese....myron wrote:..some loser, never posts...you know the type...Daniel Jackson wrote:Who's Myron?
At least PETA didn't get their way and have the team change their name to the Green Bay Pickers. That sounds like we have a football team full of nose pickers.
Did PUTA really try to get the Packers' name changed??
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I don't know that it was an official campaign, but I believe they sent the team a letter. I guess they found meat packing to be an abomination. I think they also tried to get the Brewers to put some kind of veggie-sausage in their sausage race.ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:Brother J wrote:they be packin' the meat in Green Bay (there's a good set-up line for someone! )X-O HoboJoe wrote:Is that what they're packin' in Green Bay?Brother J wrote:at least it's not fromunda cheese, I heard that stuff is pretty nasty.ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:Eats lots of cheese....myron wrote: ..some loser, never posts...you know the type...
At least PETA didn't get their way and have the team change their name to the Green Bay Pickers. That sounds like we have a football team full of nose pickers.
Did PUTA really try to get the Packers' name changed??
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no...those guys are correct...they were the meat packers---cobra_commander wrote:I thought they pack cheese...not meat...why's the uniform green and yellow?
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Packers Nickname Origin
In the Green Bay Press-Gazette on Aug. 29, 1919, two weeks before the team's first organized game, George Calhoun first publicly identified the team as the "Indian Packers."
Curly Lambeau received $500 from his employer, the Indian Packing Co., for uniforms and equipment, and for use of the company's lot for practice. In exchange, Lambeau and Calhoun agreed to call the team "Packers." Early fans, many of whom were working-class citizens, immediately embraced the name, widely publicized by Calhoun.
Calhoun also called them simply "Indians" briefly in 1919, but that moniker seemed to fold with the company, soon purchased - along with the team - by Acme Packing Co. In 1921, the team's first season in what is now the NFL, its owners had "Acme Packers" put on the jersey, setting the name in stone.
While "Packers" has served as the primary nickname since the team's embryonic stages, fans and sportswriters also have called them the Big Bay Blues, or the Bays. Lambeau in 1922 applied with the name "Blues," but public opinion quickly vetoed him.
A packer is someone who works at a packing house, an establishment for slaughtering, processing and packing livestock into meat, meat products and byproducts. "Green Bay Packers" is the longest standing team name in NFL history.
Source: http://www.packers.com/history/fast_fac ... me_origin/
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Wow...cool story...its always strange to me that football has such a long history but there've only been 40 superbowls (or 41 to be precise)...took that long for the 2 leagues to merge...myron wrote:no...those guys are correct...they were the meat packers---cobra_commander wrote:I thought they pack cheese...not meat...why's the uniform green and yellow?
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Packers Nickname Origin
In the Green Bay Press-Gazette on Aug. 29, 1919, two weeks before the team's first organized game, George Calhoun first publicly identified the team as the "Indian Packers."
Curly Lambeau received $500 from his employer, the Indian Packing Co., for uniforms and equipment, and for use of the company's lot for practice. In exchange, Lambeau and Calhoun agreed to call the team "Packers." Early fans, many of whom were working-class citizens, immediately embraced the name, widely publicized by Calhoun.
Calhoun also called them simply "Indians" briefly in 1919, but that moniker seemed to fold with the company, soon purchased - along with the team - by Acme Packing Co. In 1921, the team's first season in what is now the NFL, its owners had "Acme Packers" put on the jersey, setting the name in stone.
While "Packers" has served as the primary nickname since the team's embryonic stages, fans and sportswriters also have called them the Big Bay Blues, or the Bays. Lambeau in 1922 applied with the name "Blues," but public opinion quickly vetoed him.
A packer is someone who works at a packing house, an establishment for slaughtering, processing and packing livestock into meat, meat products and byproducts. "Green Bay Packers" is the longest standing team name in NFL history.
Source: http://www.packers.com/history/fast_fac ... me_origin/
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Brother J wrote:Do you eat a lot of green cheese? YUCK!cobra_commander wrote:I thought they pack cheese...not meat...why's the uniform green and yellow?
To clarify...What I mean is why is the uniform yellow which looks like cheese, and green.
Don't tell me you eat green steaks?
Hey...so nobody told me yet? Why is the uniform yellow and green?
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THANK GOD you didn't quote Wikipedia....myron wrote:no...those guys are correct...they were the meat packers---cobra_commander wrote:I thought they pack cheese...not meat...why's the uniform green and yellow?
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Packers Nickname Origin
In the Green Bay Press-Gazette on Aug. 29, 1919, two weeks before the team's first organized game, George Calhoun first publicly identified the team as the "Indian Packers."
Curly Lambeau received $500 from his employer, the Indian Packing Co., for uniforms and equipment, and for use of the company's lot for practice. In exchange, Lambeau and Calhoun agreed to call the team "Packers." Early fans, many of whom were working-class citizens, immediately embraced the name, widely publicized by Calhoun.
Calhoun also called them simply "Indians" briefly in 1919, but that moniker seemed to fold with the company, soon purchased - along with the team - by Acme Packing Co. In 1921, the team's first season in what is now the NFL, its owners had "Acme Packers" put on the jersey, setting the name in stone.
While "Packers" has served as the primary nickname since the team's embryonic stages, fans and sportswriters also have called them the Big Bay Blues, or the Bays. Lambeau in 1922 applied with the name "Blues," but public opinion quickly vetoed him.
A packer is someone who works at a packing house, an establishment for slaughtering, processing and packing livestock into meat, meat products and byproducts. "Green Bay Packers" is the longest standing team name in NFL history.
Source: http://www.packers.com/history/fast_fac ... me_origin/
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According to Wikipedia ( ), the colors were chosen by the founder of the Packers, Curly Lambeau. He attended Notre Dame, and the colors were originally Navy Blue and Gold, just like Notre Dame. They also alternately used green and gold, which the Irish did occasionally, as well. Coach Lombardi changed the colors to hunter green and gold.cobra_commander wrote:Brother J wrote:Do you eat a lot of green cheese? YUCK!cobra_commander wrote:I thought they pack cheese...not meat...why's the uniform green and yellow?
To clarify...What I mean is why is the uniform yellow which looks like cheese, and green.
Don't tell me you eat green steaks?
Hey...so nobody told me yet? Why is the uniform yellow and green?
As simple as that, I don't think a team's colors always have to mean something, really.
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Yeah, you're right Bro J, most of the time its just the owners choice or something else equally arbitrary. Thanks for the info by the wayBrother J wrote:According to Wikipedia ( ), the colors were chosen by the founder of the Packers, Curly Lambeau. He attended Notre Dame, and the colors were originally Navy Blue and Gold, just like Notre Dame. They also alternately used green and gold, which the Irish did occasionally, as well. Coach Lombardi changed the colors to hunter green and gold.cobra_commander wrote:Brother J wrote:Do you eat a lot of green cheese? YUCK!cobra_commander wrote:I thought they pack cheese...not meat...why's the uniform green and yellow?
To clarify...What I mean is why is the uniform yellow which looks like cheese, and green.
Don't tell me you eat green steaks?
Hey...so nobody told me yet? Why is the uniform yellow and green?
As simple as that, I don't think a team's colors always have to mean something, really.
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I always assumed they went with the green because of Green Bay.
There is a local high school in a medium sized town (for this part of the world - about 20,000 - large enough for a Wal-Mart) with a very agriculturally oriented economy and their school colours are green and yellow, but the locals identify the colour scheme as "John Deere colors".
There is a local high school in a medium sized town (for this part of the world - about 20,000 - large enough for a Wal-Mart) with a very agriculturally oriented economy and their school colours are green and yellow, but the locals identify the colour scheme as "John Deere colors".
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Medium sized?Chiclo wrote:I always assumed they went with the green because of Green Bay.
There is a local high school in a medium sized town (for this part of the world - about 20,000 - large enough for a Wal-Mart) with a very agriculturally oriented economy and their school colours are green and yellow, but the locals identify the colour scheme as "John Deere colors".
The largest high school in Indiana hovers around 4,000 students.