[TIMSCAR20]

Jasmine were you at Home coming this year? You should have stopped by the Flamefans tailgate.

[ishy]

Thor. Thor knew everybody....

[Jasmen8182]

Thanks, Scar. We got to campus in time to grab some hot dogs up top and get situated on the bleachers w/ our "luggage." There was a professor and his family at our campground b/c they're waiting for their house to be finished. They invited us to tailgate if we saw them; we didn't have any supplies.... Actually, I just remembered we got to campus just before 11:00 but I let the kids use the pool for a few min....

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[Sly Fox]

Old Hag Alert! For you to know those details we probably are at least acquaintances. Welcome to the board.

[paradox]

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[Cider Jim]

Do any hags remember very outgoing girl with big smile and always saying hello...? I think her name was Vangi.

Vangie is now married to Prof. Don Alban from the COMS dept. at LU, and they have 3 or 4 kids now.

[Vangie's husband]

Vangie? A nightmare? What a thoroughly warped, absolutely braindead comment--one that says lots more about your repression and lack of taste than it does about her! Someone's cheefulness actually intimidated you? What an impoverished soul you must be! May you overcome your delerium! And may you think twice before spinelessly taking pot shots at people in public from behind the safety of an alias!

Vangie's proud and (I assure you!!!) fiercely protective husband

[El Scorcho]

Vangie's husband: Please rest assured that the comments from the person who posts as "thelaxman" in no way represent the majority of the folks on this board. Rarely do any of his posts contribute anything positive, so take anything he says with a couple of entire blocks of salt.

[Sly Fox]

Welcome to the board, Vangie's Husband. You'll notice most of us appreciated Vangie back then and I wish I had a fraction of her energy just about everyday.

[PAmedic]

Vangie? A nightmare? What a thoroughly warped, absolutely braindead comment--one that says lots more about your repression and lack of taste than it does about her! Someone's cheefulness actually intimidated you? What an impoverished soul you must be! May you overcome your delerium! And may you think twice before spinelessly taking pot shots at people in public from behind the safety of an alias!

Vangie's proud and (I assure you!!!) fiercely protective husband

you'll fit in well here!

welcome aboard !

[Baldspot]

I knew Vangie only casually but she was quite the gem. She cheered me up many a time and I hardly knew her. Perhaps one of the best known alums from our era.

I think she was a maid at my former fiance's wedding, but that's another story.

[Knucklehead]

As a newbee, I just read this. And yes Sly Cooper Taylor took the cake. I remember being asked by him several times if I had seen his dog (in DeMoss). He would walk all over whistling and calling the dog. I would speak to him kindly often, and one time he turned and introduced me to someone as his long lost brother. He was a treat. He was a genious who had just lost it I think!

[PastorZack]

This is no story, but happened to me at the post office...while I was at LU 95-99, I had a SI subscription. As everyone knows, SI has a swimsuit edition. The edition was from Jan.96. Back then, i only had two people i shared a 1'x1' box with so you know how much they loved all the cards. Well, I get the mag and start looking through it. about midway through, this page sticks out at me. There is this white label on this page. I'm thinking, 'this is odd, why would this be there?' I continue to thumb through because it is also the superbowl preview issue. After I'm done reading that article, the label reappears on another page. I look at the label, and on it reads in bold handwritten letters, 'LUSTING IS A SIN'. So, I flip back to the other label, and sure enough, it has it on there too. I take the magazine back to the back, and ask who is reading my mail and doing this. They said that they don't know and that I should have that taken away because it was 'soft-core porn'. I showed my girlfriend (wife now) and she said that she would take it from me, but I had none of that.

[bucksweepjax]

I heard 2 different stories about Copper "My name is NOT Steve!" Taylor...one is that he was part of the Taylor's Pride chewing tobacco family and the other is he was related to Taylor Made golf folks...who's to know? He did drive a Cadillac and was dressed like he was playing golf. Seriously, what other school in the country would take students like Coop and others like him.

[lawyerchik1]

New member of Flamefans.com, class of 1988 (so I must be officially an old hag ), and yes, I remember Cooper. Couple of Cooper anectdotes - one that was rumored and one I was actually there.

Rumor from one of his dormmates was that he would occasionally walk up and down the hallway of the dorm talking to himself - when his finger was pointed up, he was himself (or his mother - I forget which) and when it was pointed the other way, he was his mother (or himself - I don't know which, since I wasn't allowed in the boys' dorms....)

The one I actually witnessed was the guy who spoke at chapel that did the "Walk Across America" - he had a slide show presentation, and he included a photo of his dog. When he announced his dog's name, it was (you guessed it) Cooper, and the whole auditorium yelled "COOPER!!" The guy couldn't figure out why his dog's name was such a crowd-pleaser, but it was kind of funny.

Good times.....

[lawyerchik1]

One thing I didn't mention in my earlier post - a) I actually saw the finger/conversation event in one of the main campus areas and asked a companion about it (and he related the information I presented earlier), which I'd forgotten until I started reading the posts here - it's amazing what you remember if you put your mind to it; and, b) I didn't mean for my comments/recollections to be mean. I thought about my comments afterwards, and I realized that I didn't really know Cooper. I heard the rumors about genius and wealth in addition to other comments going around, and with the benefit of 20 years of hindsight, while there was some truth to what was said, everybody should be able to rely on a statute of limitations for things they did or said.....



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Always be kind, because everyone you meet faces a battle. We all need to be cared for, especially when we do not deserve it.

[Sly Fox]

I actually remember Cooper the dog. Wow, that takes me back a L O N G way.

[PAmedic]

... everybody should be able to rely on a statute of limitations for things they did or said.....

and I'm banking on that "Statute of Limitations" myself.

I'm pretty sure its in effect too- after all, they DID let me back on campus when I arrived in 2005 after a 15 year hiatus.

you're a lawyerchik, you really should know these things

[BJWilliams]

There are a lot of stories, but I'll never forget being at a baseball game and I see this guy sitting on the hill doing play by play to himself...I thought it was rather odd and gave a quick chuckle and the next thing I know at the next game he's on the radio doing the game! I dont know who this guys is but it was funny b/c one game I was thinking wow, and the next game I was thinking WOW! LoL...it was great

I thought about this post by HMO as I was getting ready to do the softball game yesterday

[bbrothers224]

Mat is the current baseball coach..right? I seem to recall him wearing a ski mask and long johns running on the top of dorm 4 (1978-79) as spider man. My junior year (81-82) I was in dorm 22 and it had been snowing for a few hours and it was around 10pm. I grabbed a glass of water and threw it up in the smoke alarm in the cleaning closet. Next thing you know....RRRRRRIIIIINNNNNNNNGGGGGGG!!!!!
I quietly made my way over to another dorm and watched the fun from a window as all in 22 were made to go outside in firedrill fashion late at night...and it was cold.

[BJWilliams]

There are a lot of stories, but I'll never forget being at a baseball game and I see this guy sitting on the hill doing play by play to himself...I thought it was rather odd and gave a quick chuckle and the next thing I know at the next game he's on the radio doing the game! I dont know who this guys is but it was funny b/c one game I was thinking wow, and the next game I was thinking WOW! LoL...it was great

Whoda thunk that Id go from thar strange guy doing play by play by myself to broadcasting LCA football on the radio

[SuperJon]

And if you ever become a football coach, we can look back at the time you were practicing a fake halftime speech in the bathroom.

[perlmonky]

Freshman year (1993-94, aka The Year They Gave Out the BR Lakin Scholarship and Everyone With A Pulse -- Including Me -- Got In) on 7-2:

* Two Word of Life guys in the next room down building a potato gun and firing spuds out the dorm window across the Ravine in the SH parking lot. When they got bored with that, they filled it w/ shaving cream, then knocked on the door of the most naive freshman you could imagine. When he answered, he and nearly everything in his room were instantly coated in shaving cream.

* Wayne Lance, aka future head coach of LCA, aka Uniball, aka Super Naked Man. Wayne was my prayer leader and used to get ready for bed around 9 PM. Unfortunately, Wayne liked to sleep in the nude so, from 9:00 on he would wander the hall wearing only a sleeping bag around his shoulders. He actually defused a couple fistfights in the hallway by simply stepping between combatants, again proving his old adage, "Nobody wants to get in a fight with a naked guy."

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The best part of the potato gun story was that I almost got kicked out for it

As for Wayne (another Word of Life guy), he was a twisted individual, took him quite some time to get straightened out. Ask him about naked snow angels.

[El Scorcho]

The best part of the potato gun story was that I almost got kicked out for it

As for Wayne (another Word of Life guy), he was a twisted individual, took him quite some time to get straightened out. Ask him about naked snow angels.

Nice username, perlmonky. Welcome to FlameFans.com. Any more potato gun stories you may have are highly encouraged.