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[AlabamAlum]

Haha.

Yeah, okay. I drew him out with his hate of Saban. Hurt his feelings with some of my posts. Then banned him from Talent's place. And then the long, ugly spiral into posting pics and threatening to contact the American Hospital Association and my 'boss' began.

[Jungle Rat]

He's your Onion Jr.

[Saint]

Link please

[AlabamAlum]

True, Rat.

Those posts are gone. Wxing, Stu.

I've… seen things you people wouldn't believe… pics of Range Rovers in Florida. I watched an undersized pool glitter in the dark near Coral Gables. All those… moments… will be lost in time, like tears… in… rain. Time… to die…

[hedge]

I recall needling the guy, too, but my main recollection is that the cardboard placards were literally addressed to Rat. But I am not surprised that AA rode him too...

[Saint]

I think, besides those infernal little chatroom clients from the late '90s, sports message boards were the first form of social media. I certainly remember going on the espn.com board and mocking some Bills fan in '95 for the pure amusement of watching him completely implode. He even admitted that I had gotten "him worked up." What followed were about 5-6 years of the greatest time in sports fan history and I'd like to think that those of us at cnnsi.com helped play a major role in that. After a few initial forays into espn.com, I realized it was too limited but cnnsi.com (and I don't even remember how I even stumbled into that) was perfect. It was virtually without oversight at first and long-held hatreds were allowed to come to full boil while new ones were germinated almost overnight. I don't think I ever had much of an opinion on Kentucky until I got there.

I scoff at these kids today trying sling smack via their Facebook and Twitter comments, thinking they are the vanguard of social media.

[AlabamAlum]

Rat did the damage with the pics, no doubt.

[AlabamAlum]

I think, besides those infernal little chatroom clients from the late '90s, sports message boards were the first form of social media. I certainly remember going on the espn.com board and mocking some Bills fan in '95 for the pure amusement of watching him completely implode. He even admitted that I had gotten "him worked up." What followed were about 5-6 years of the greatest time in sports fan history and I'd like to think that those of us at cnnsi.com helped play a major role in that. After a few initial forays into espn.com, I realized it was too limited but cnnsi.com (and I don't even remember how I even stumbled into that) was perfect. It was virtually without oversight at first and long-held hatreds were allowed to come to full boil while new ones were germinated almost overnight. I don't think I ever had much of an opinion on Kentucky until I got there.

I scoff at these kids today trying sling smack via their Facebook and Twitter comments, thinking they are the vanguard of social media.

Yeah, I started on CNNSI in 1997. Those were truly the best days. It was like the Wild West and everything was new and seemed clever.

[hedge]

Now sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought...

[aTm]

Summary.

This guy, mfbarnes82, or Mark F Barnes posted for years on texags and was kind of a know it all jack off who would post his detailed analysis of practices and shit and would participate in various discussions.

So yesterday he posts about a '54 corvette and posts pictures of a car he supposedly bought and was restoring. I guess somebody went and looked up '54 corvette on google to post a picture of what a finished one would look like and found these same pictures from 8 years ago on someones blog (and obviously not current as something he claimed to be doing right now). Someone else remembered how he posted his awesome garage in another thread, and people also found out that those were ripped off of the internet. Now people smelled blood in the water and began searching for this guys shit and he is all over the internet, and apparently always uses his real name and makes up outlandish shit.

I think some knew he was full of shit, but I don't think anybody ever put together all the crap that this guy claimed various place. He drove in a NASCAR race at Texas World Speedway in 1974 (and at a time when his most usually claimed age would have been 14 since he claimes to be Class of 1982 at A&M). He played football at A&M (not true). He was a strength and conditioning coach at A&M (not true, just a heads up nothing listed after this will be true). That he was a strength and conditioning coach on the Cowboys back to back championship teams. That he went to A&M. That he is a PE (professional engineer). That he has a masters degree. That he was an athletic scout or talent consultant or some shit.

He also posted some crazy story about his family roots in Brazos county, where his family showed up as sharecroppers in Mexican controlled Texas and got land from a Spanish grant, but they had to pledge to a republican militia to get the land (uh, wtf?). And his grandpa lived to be 118 years old.

So people started analyzing pretty much everything he ever posted. His nitrogen tank he posted in a nitrogen inflated tires thread? From the internet. His gun photos? From the internet. Etc.

From there someone got into his public photobucket and instagram and other things and post crazy pictures where he had photoshopped his head onto other people. One of which where versions had been photoshopped to have an aggie ring put on his hand and one without the ring. His head was on a bodybuilder and someone found the original picture on the internet. There was a picture of a tombstone that had been altered to change the date of birth from 1857 to 1811 (and thus, with the 1929 death date, give a lifespan of 118 years old). There were various photoshops of his texas drivers license. Bizarrely he appeared to try and change his height from 6-00 in some to 6-08 but I guess he fucked it up because most of them show his height as 6-80.

He also apparently has an oilfield consulting company. Website makes ridiculous claims, including a list of clients which he obviously never worked for. It also has an obviously fake "International Business" magazine cover that names him as the hardest working man in the oilfields. There are also pictures that probably document his music career, including a classic shitty album cover named "Barnestormer" from the 80s. Somebody found a copy of the plagiarized dissertation I mentioned before.

From there things went downhill. It turned out that a gofundme page that was created and posted on texags that was going to give money to an aggie rodeo barrel rider who's house burned down was actually created by this guy. People began to post his (extensive) criminal record, etc.

Also weird, like I said he always uses his real name, so you can find him reviewing stuff online. Someone found a porn review, which is amusing in itself, but his "review" was actually plagiarized from someone else's review online. He didn't even think up his own porn review.

Also his name is somehow associated with a 1919 A&M recruiting letter that espn recently posted on their website, I guess because he insterted himself in the story (I don't even think the guy who actually found the letter even knows him). During all of this it was also remembered that this idiot also tried to claim that he was the one who made up the name "Johnny Football" after he watched Manziel play at Tivy.

I don't know if I even remember all the bizarre shit that people uncovered.

[hedge]

"Now people smelled blood in the water"

That pretty much sums up most of the activity in here as well. Or it used to. We've become congenial old men now, though...

[hedge]

What's up with nitrogen inflated tires?

[hedge]

"It also has an obviously fake "International Business" magazine cover that names him as the hardest working man in the oilfields."

He's definitely the hardest working man at texags...

[aTm]

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My family settled in what is now Brazos county in 1833, my great great Grandfather Samuel B. "Grandsir" Barnes, and his nine sons and their families came out by wagon from Iredell County N.C. They were sharecroppers that came out west to get some free land of their own, instead of working for a small share of the crop and not owning the land in which they lived on.

They settled out on what is now known as DIlly Shaw Tap Rd on the edge of where the town of Kurten now is. Boonville was the main borough on the Austin Colonies, what is now what we know as BCS. Each Soon received a section of land via Spanish Land Grant for pledging their allegiance to the Republic Militia. Those nine section still makeup the Dairy out on Dilly Shaw Tap Rd that is still in family operation today. My great Grandfather Frederick Whitfield Barnes and his 8 brothers fought in numerous skirmishes. My Great grandfather was wounded in the skirmish on the Sabine, when they were defending the port area at the mouth. Supplies were brought in at the mouth of the Sabine and Buffalo Bayou often and had to be protected. His life was saved from his wound, due to a farrier hammer he carried in his ruck, because he was a blacksmith. The lead ball left the impression of the hammer head in his back, and was still there when he died years later, from old age, he was reportedly 118.

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Encounter with the Unknown (1973)

From an insiders view

20 November 2006 - 11 out of 16 users found this review helpful.

The pretense of the plot was that the hole was the gates to Hell. At least that is what I was told on the set. I was the voice of the boy in "the hole". The sound for that was actually done @ Century studios in Dallas. Brian Hooper and myself spent a day doing sound effects and voice tapes. The sound from the actual hole was me in the bottom of a concrete cistern calling "Lady" over and over. Was a very good movie, being able to work with Harry Thomason and meeting Rod Sterling was a great thrill for me as an eleven year old kid. Brian Hooper was almost my step father, and still remains a great friend. He bought me my first car when I turned 16. He is now retired and living in East Texas on a farm. My mother was a script girl on this gig, she was credited at the end Jackie Barnes and I was uncredited, Brian was who got us involved, an got my Mom her start in the industry. I just got a DVD copy and I am watching it as we speak. I haven't seen this in over twenty years. My 15 minutes

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Pretty sure that's Gene Stallings' body he is on.

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[hedge]

How did he respond to his outing?

[aTm]

He kinda did, but before he knew how extensive it was. He claimed on one of the threads that he had been working on a frac site and hadn't been online for days but that he might've been hacked. I don't think he posted after he realized how deep people had already figured things out on other threads. He's been banned now.

[Jungle Rat]

CNNSI was the best message board until they became dickheads.

[sardis]

I didn't participate until the last year of cnnsi, then Peoples Forum andWX. That was a long time ago. Shit, I can even remember when DSL was a young Republican until he got intimidated by those granoli coeds at Cornell.

Back then, not just anyone could start a message board. You could attract a good number of people just by being up and running. Nowadays, every person has their own board/blog with their handful of followers. Who knows where everyone posts now.

[Jungle Rat]

Me

[Bklyn]

Summary.

Someone found a porn review, which is amusing in itself, but his "review" was actually plagiarized from someone else's review online. He didn't even think up his own porn review.

HA!