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TITLETOWN - A Decade Long Celebration Of The Greatest Achievement In College Athletics History => Kansas State Football => Topic started by: EllToPay on October 10, 2011, 03:05:07 PM
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obcassidy22 Rob Cassidy
In other, much weirder news, K-State super fan Robert Lipson has called a press conference -- yes, seriously -- for 2 p.m. tomorrow.
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robcassidy22 Rob Cassidy
The presser, which will be held at the football complex, is apparently being held to promote his 150th straight conference road game.
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:cool:
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Big news. Will ESPN be present?
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goEMAW, NEEDS to get someone on the scene for this
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goEMAW, NEEDS to get someone on the scene for this
superfan ksu-luke?
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HCIW
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Will he at least shave?
Where else in the nation would this happen?
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robcassidy22 Rob Cassidy
Lipson was authoritative in his call. He really streseed the fact that @KellisRobinett and @austin_meek would be there, so I better not miss
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ok meek, here's your chance!
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SHOW SOME rough ridin' ZEAL AT THIS THING SQUAWKSTIN!
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Can anybody walk in? I could make it up there.
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do other fanbases have these issues :facepalm:
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Can anybody walk in? I could make it up there.
Make a goEMAW press pass in MS paint
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Can anybody walk in? I could make it up there.
It's certainly worth trying. Please bring a camera.
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Discussion here in the office with my KU co-workers of the relative merit of Weird Robert vs. White Owl. Consensus White Owl a flash in the plan pervert with no real commitment. WR is the real thing, if by real you mean really lose your compass in life by making your college teams an all-consuming obsession.
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I walked into the press conference thing at Vanier when Snyder was rehired.
:dunno:
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I walked into the press conference thing at Vanier when Snyder was rehired.
:dunno:
Can the board of directors give Dlew mod status if he reports from this much anticipated presser?
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I hope there's a nice spread for him to choose from.
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also, will there be a live stream on K-StateHD.tv? there better be if they want to be taken seriously.
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I support this. T SF S C
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I support this. T SF S C
Team
Superfan
State
Conference
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Love this
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I hope there's a nice spread for him to choose from.
They'll need caffeine free diet cola. That's all he'll accept and he's kinda snotty about it! I always bring a 2 liter just in case.
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It's pretty important that there's a youtube video of the presser.
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Question: Who would be on the Mt. Rushmore of K-State fans?
Mine: Weird Robert, The fat guy from Modern Family, Bosco, and Grass Skirt guy from Arrowhead.
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Question: Who would be on the Mt. Rushmore of K-State fans?
Mine: Weird Robert, The fat guy from Modern Family, Bosco, and Grass Skirt guy from Arrowhead.
Gavin from the TBS Soapbox during '02 USC game.
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will this be available for Kstate.hdtv subscribers?
:driving:
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Question: Who would be on the Mt. Rushmore of K-State fans?
Mine: Weird Robert, The fat guy from Modern Family, Bosco, and Grass Skirt guy from Arrowhead.
:emawkid:
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good god I hope no real reporters show up :facepalm:. I mean it's ok if Meeks, Kellis and Cassiday show up because who the hell actually reads their craptastic columns...
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I hope everyone shows up. Time for the story to be told...again.
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Man I'm really looking forward to celebrating 200 with WR. Hopefully it is somewhere worthy of him like a non con roady to NOLA.
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WR is the real thing, if by real you mean really lose your compass in life by making your college teams an all-consuming obsession.
Unfair characterization. Robert is as he is with or without K-State football, it didn't make him this way. On another note, imagine how crappy his life would have been had LHC Bill Snyder not came along. He'd be celebrating having traveled to 150 straight ass kickings.
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I wonder if this is what he's been saving all those burger patties in Ziplocks for.
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Someone run there as a "reporter" for goEMAW and use a turkey drumstick as a microphone. Ask him "Robert, is it true that you're so unique because a massive amount of LSD taken in your youth?" and wave the drumstick in front of his face and see if you can get him to try to take a bite before finishing his answer.
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Someone run there as a "reporter" for goEMAW and use a turkey drumstick as a microphone. Ask him "Robert, is it true that you're so unique because a massive amount of LSD taken in your youth?" and wave the drumstick in front of his face and see if you can get him to try to take a bite before finishing his answer.
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Will goEMAW be presenting him with a certificate of achievement and an Olive Garden gift card?
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Olive Garden? Let's not go too far.....
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Fake Robert Lipson @KStateSuperFan on Twitter.
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I wonder if the WSJ will do a follow up article :ohno:
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Question: Who would be on the Mt. Rushmore of K-State fans?
Mine: Weird Robert, The fat guy from Modern Family, Bosco, and Grass Skirt guy from Arrowhead.
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WOW. The symbolism. The state of Kansas this year celebrated 150 years of statehood & Robert Lipscomb celebrates his 150th road game. :surprised:
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WOW. The symbolism. The state of Kansas this year celebrated 150 years of statehood & Robert Lipscomb celebrates his 150th road game. :surprised:
I think I'm gonna play 150 as my powerball number this week.
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WOW. The symbolism. The state of Kansas this year celebrated 150 years of statehood & Robert Lipscomb celebrates his 150th road game. :surprised:
I think I'm gonna play 150 as my powerball number this week.
:bong: :bigtoke: @ 1:50
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BTW the more Robert becomes an absolute diva the more I admire him. Hope he wears a fur during the thing.
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Someone run there as a "reporter" for goEMAW and use a turkey drumstick as a microphone. Ask him "Robert, is it true that you're so unique because a massive amount of LSD taken in your youth?" and wave the drumstick in front of his face and see if you can get him to try to take a bite before finishing his answer.
Wear a fedora with a white card with "Press" written on it tucked into the hat band.
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BTW the more Robert becomes an absolute diva the more I admire him. Hope he wears a fur during the thing.
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i hope people remember to only bring sugar free refreshments
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Did anyone go? What's the word?
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Well, I can't say I'm not dissappointed there is no drumstick in that picture.
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robcassidy22 Rob Cassidy
Robert just called Ron Prince "two-faced".
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:sdeek:
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Cassidy is basically live tweeting from it. Follow him.
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robcassidy22 Rob Cassidy
Robert just called Ron Prince "two-faced".
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:sdeek:
Robert is airing our dirty laundry. He must be silenced.
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Well, I can't say I'm not dissappointed there is no drumstick in that picture.
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Did he call anybody a Jayhawk?
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:weirdrobert:
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robcassidy22 Rob Cassidy
Robert calls LHC Bill Snyder "William the Conquerer"
lol
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robcassidy22 Rob Cassidy
Robert calls LHC Bill Snyder "William the Conquerer"
lol
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Robert needs a weekly radio show.
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so what the hell was this all about?
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Video is online
http://thegamedaynetwork.com/?p=3201 (http://thegamedaynetwork.com/?p=3201)
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:lol:
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Robert is a health nut.
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"I'm a survivor....I stay overnight in my Nissan..." - :weirdrobert:
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twenty hundred
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oh it is only big 12 games. Guess he didn't think Auburn or Miami were worth his nissan and rice cakes.
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That was very enlightening.
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that guy needs to be shot. huge embarrassmemt for kstate. snydsillary needs to reinstitute ronp's van ban. unless he gets shot first.
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that guy needs to be shot. huge embarrassmemt for kstate. snydsillary needs to reinstitute ronp's van ban. unless he gets shot first.
Your face is a huge embarrassment for k-state.
#TeamLipson
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that guy needs to be shot. huge embarrassmemt for kstate. snydsillary needs to reinstitute ronp's van ban. unless he gets shot first.
spot on. send robert to live with shorty kleinau on the island of misfit toys.
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Don't understand the Lipson hate. The guy's a jewel. I hope he makes 150 more roadies.
#TeamLipson :shakesfist:
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Don't understand the Lipson hate. The guy's a jewel. I hope he makes 150 more roadies.
#TeamLipson :shakesfist:
Besides the fact that he is an eccentric bad person? Yah...i said it.. He once asked my buddy(very large black guy) what his jersey number was....my buddy pushed him halfway across the room and calls him a racist...WR just simply steals someones food and dips... fuckin weird ass bad person
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Don't understand the Lipson hate. The guy's a jewel. I hope he makes 150 more roadies.
#TeamLipson :shakesfist:
Besides the fact that he is an eccentric bad person? Yah...i said it.. He once asked my buddy(very large black guy) what his jersey number was....my buddy pushed him halfway across the room and calls him a racist...WR just simply steals someones food and dips... fuckin weird ass bad person
asperger's is a helluva drug.
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on the island of misfit toys.
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He can be mildly entertaining. That is all I ask for anyone related to KSU who doesn't have a direct effect on the games. Entertain me.
That's why I tolerate half fat faces on this board.
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i've never in my life said this about anyone before, but he truly deserves to die.
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What does this guy do for a living?
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Don't understand the Lipson hate. The guy's a jewel. I hope he makes 150 more roadies.
#TeamLipson :shakesfist:
Besides the fact that he is an eccentric bad person? Yah...i said it.. He once asked my buddy(very large black guy) what his jersey number was....my buddy pushed him halfway across the room and calls him a racist...WR just simply steals someones food and dips... fuckin weird ass bad person
So what was your buddies #?
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This is fantastic. :thumbs:
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What does this guy do for a living?
he said in the video he was a salesman. I'm honestly not surprised.
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i've never in my life said this about anyone before, but he truly deserves to die.
more than Scott Drew's parents?!
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What does this guy do for a living?
he said in the video he was a salesman. I'm honestly not surprised.
I have heard that he sells pens and other office supplies. I don't know how he isn't well off. I mean, surely Fitz would give him his mailing list and he could sell all the GPC'ers their office stuff, novelty presents, etc. He wouldn't even have to work at it, just send out a catalog who's title is "Wierd Robert's Catalog of KSU crap You Have to Buy So That You Can Brag About Helping Me Out While On GoPowerCat". Could put in less work than fitz and kill in the pen market.
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What does this guy do for a living?
he said in the video he was a salesman. I'm honestly not surprised.
The athletic department buys stuff from him.
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What does this guy do for a living?
he said in the video he was a salesman. I'm honestly not surprised.
I have heard that he sells pens and other office supplies. I don't know how he isn't well off. I mean, surely Fitz would give him his mailing list and he could sell all the GPC'ers their office stuff, novelty presents, etc. He wouldn't even have to work at it, just send out a catalog who's title is "Wierd Robert's Catalog of KSU crap You Have to Buy So That You Can Brag About Helping Me Out While On GoPowerCat". Could put in less work than fitz and kill in the pen market.
Yeah, he sells pens and pencils (and maybe other stuff, idk) to businesses for advertising. Say what you want, but for an autistic guy who is on his own, he's doing pretty well to be out there trying to move product. Gotta be tough to sell when you have a condition that makes you a social outcast.
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Don't understand the Lipson hate. The guy's a jewel. I hope he makes 150 more roadies.
#TeamLipson :shakesfist:
Besides the fact that he is an eccentric bad person? Yah...i said it.. He once asked my buddy(very large black guy) what his jersey number was....my buddy pushed him halfway across the room and calls him a racist...WR just simply steals someones food and dips... fuckin weird ass bad person
That is the equivalent of punching a one legged guy for stumbling into you. Pretty sure your buddy is the bad person in that situation.
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Don't understand the Lipson hate. The guy's a jewel. I hope he makes 150 more roadies.
#TeamLipson :shakesfist:
Besides the fact that he is an eccentric bad person? Yah...i said it.. He once asked my buddy(very large black guy) what his jersey number was....my buddy pushed him halfway across the room and calls him a racist...WR just simply steals someones food and dips... fuckin weird ass bad person
That is the equivalent of punching a one legged guy for stumbling into you. Pretty sure your buddy is the bad person in that situation.
meh...I've whaled on all sorts of disabled people.
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Don't understand the Lipson hate. The guy's a jewel. I hope he makes 150 more roadies.
#TeamLipson :shakesfist:
Besides the fact that he is an eccentric bad person? Yah...i said it.. He once asked my buddy(very large black guy) what his jersey number was....my buddy pushed him halfway across the room and calls him a racist...WR just simply steals someones food and dips... fuckin weird ass bad person
You and your buddy are both huge jerks.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125816664019648107.html (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125816664019648107.html)
A gameday in the life of Robert Lipson...
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125816664019648107.html (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125816664019648107.html)
A gameday in the life of Robert Lipson...
"Suppose a deer jumps in front of me," he says. "There is no margin of error in this."
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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I enjoy Weird Robert. And his foam finger.
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Keep Robert Weird!
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125816664019648107.html (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125816664019648107.html)
A gameday in the life of Robert Lipson...
"Suppose a deer jumps in front of me," he says. "There is no margin of error in this."
:lol: :lol: :lol:
"By the middle of the next decade," he promised, "we will be undefeated. And I will be here to see it." :peek: :eek: :pray: :thumbsup:
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125816664019648107.html (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125816664019648107.html)
A gameday in the life of Robert Lipson...
"Suppose a deer jumps in front of me," he says. "There is no margin of error in this."
:lol: :lol: :lol:
"By the middle of the next decade," he promised, "we will be undefeated. And I will be here to see it." :peek: :eek: :pray: :thumbsup:
A few years ago he signed the aforementioned Funk Bus "Go Big 12 Always"
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robcassidy22 Rob Cassidy
Robert calls LHC Bill Snyder "William the Conquerer"
lol
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Robert needs a weekly radio show.
Why can't someone at goEMAW make this happen? Let's try and be forward thinkers here. Can't be any worse than Winter's deal was can it?(no disrespect to K. Winters) I'd listen and/or pay to read anything :weirdrobert: (ftp://:weirdrobert:) had to say. tia.
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Didn't he used to have a segment on Powercat Gameday on the radio? I think he did. I remember listening to it. It was too long.
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I had Ohio State all lined up ready to go in case Kansas State rejected my second attempt to get in.
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I'm cancelling my premium if we don't get a Weird Robert podcast going ASAP :shakesfist:
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Don't understand the Lipson hate. The guy's a jewel. I hope he makes 150 more roadies.
#TeamLipson :shakesfist:
Besides the fact that he is an eccentric bad person? Yah...i said it.. He once asked my buddy(very large black guy) what his jersey number was....my buddy pushed him halfway across the room and calls him a racist...WR just simply steals someones food and dips... fuckin weird ass bad person
You and your buddy are both huge jerks.
No you.
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Don't understand the Lipson hate. The guy's a jewel. I hope he makes 150 more roadies.
#TeamLipson :shakesfist:
Besides the fact that he is an eccentric bad person? Yah...i said it.. He once asked my buddy(very large black guy) what his jersey number was....my buddy pushed him halfway across the room and calls him a racist...WR just simply steals someones food and dips... fuckin weird ass bad person
You and your buddy are both huge jerks.
No you.
If some autistic guy comes up and says something ignorant you push him halfway across the room.
Ok. Got it. Jerk.
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I'm cancelling my premium if we don't get a Weird Robert podcast going ASAP :shakesfist:
If anyone is interested in starting a 'occupy goEMAW' protest to make this happen please PM me. tia :shakesfist: :shakesfist: (ftp://:shakesfist: :shakesfist:)
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good grief. sue me, sue you, sue everybody!
fwiw, i'm having second thoughts and am starting to get behind the keep shorty kleinau campaign.
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Don't remember which of the 55,000 Weird Robert threads it was, but we were debating on whether he was in Lafayette a few years ago and the answer is no.
SE: But you were always somewhat of a sports junkie.
Lipson: Yeah. When I stayed home from the Lafayette (Louisiana) football game a couple years ago, I counted 23 different games on all the channels that day. Back when I was in high school you wouldn't see 23 games on TV in one season.
So basically he skipped the La-la game and is a terrible fan because of it.
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INTRODUCING THE REAL ROBERT LIPSON
By Mark Janssen
Kansas State's No. 1 sports fan is Robert J. Lipson.
Known simply as "Robert," he's a fixture at every Wildcat sporting event, home, and in the case of football in particular, away.
There have been baseball trips, women's basketball junkets, NCAA basketball tournaments, and away Big 8/12 football games that will reach 150 in a row with this week's trip to Stillwater, Okla.
That's from Oct. 13, 1973, to Nov. 5, 2011 ... with a perfect attendance record in games he's traveled to by foot, and in a trio of "jalopies" from a 1972 Subaru, to a 1979 Nissan pickup, to today's "twenty-hundred" black Nissan Frontier.
"It went from all 9's to all 0's on the way back from Texas Tech," said the 62-year-old Lipson, in reference to his odometer flipping from 199,999 to 200,000 miles.
Lipson calls Oklahoma the best hitchhiking state, and he's even traveled across the ocean for the 1992 Big 8 game played against Nebraska in Tokyo, Japan.
Friday, he'll leave his home in Manhattan's Green Valley Mobile Estates and head to Stillwater all dressed in his "road grays," which will include a new gray sweatshirt lettered in purple with the significance of the game ... the 150th consecutive Big 8/12 football road game covering portions of five decades.
Today, "Sports Extra" introduces Lipson, the person and the fan.
Sports Extra: From Liberty, N.Y., a couple hours northwest of New York City, touch on your background with your father, Irwin, and mother, Harriot.
Robert Lipson: My father was a carpenter and my mother a house wife. My father is at the tender young age of 92 years old as of Nov. 13 ... the day after we will beat A&M. He's very stringent. He would nag me a lot. My father is just like Jack Hartman was, but not into sports. But my father was old-school and stringent. Mother passed away the Thursday before the 1998 game with Missouri.
SE: Were you, or your parents, into sports when you were growing up?
Lipson: No. I ran cross country and ran track ... slowly. But I tell people I played football ... end, guard and tackle. I sat on the end of the bench, guarded the cheerleaders and tackled anyone who came close to them. I tell people I played offensive and defensive left-out.
I was a loner, but I always liked sports. My family was run of the mill Jewish people. They didn't care about sports. They were as basic as oatmeal cereal.
SE: But you were always somewhat of a sports junkie.
Lipson: Yeah. When I stayed home from the Lafayette (Louisiana) football game a couple years ago, I counted 23 different games on all the channels that day. Back when I was in high school you wouldn't see 23 games on TV in one season.
As a kid I loved all my teams from the Liberty Indians, the Farmingdale Aggies and all the New York teams - Mets, Jets, Yankees, Giants - where there were two teams in every sport. I pulled for both sides. I always had two chances to win the Super Bowl.
SE: From Liberty, N.Y., to Manhattan, Kan. How did that happen?
Lipson: I didn't have the grades to go to college out of high school, so I went to Farmingdale, but still did not have the grades to go to a big school, so had to stay an extra semester in the fall of 1971 just to pull up grades. Farmingdale was a junior college at the time ... an Ag and Tech juco. A two-year version of K-State or Texas Tech. After Farmingdale, I looked all over for schools with biology programs. I was fascinated with what life was. How can you have an amoeba over here and a grain of sand over there; one has life and the other doesn't. Why? Kansas State had micro-biology and proto-zoology and other classes that interested me. Cal-Berkley turned me down. I could have been a Bear and not a Wildcat. K-State turned me down the first time, but not the second.
I had an illusion of grandeur. I was going to work in Brookhaven National Laboratory as a lab technician in Long Island. It's what I was trained for out of Farmingdale ... biological technology.
SE: Today you're employed by the Brown and Bigelow advertising company. What exactly do you do to make a living, which allows you to go to all these games?
Lipson: I try to work on sales visits to make my trips business trips and can write-off some of the expenses. I sell anything you can print advertising on ... anything. I go from Concordia, to Salina, to Emporia, to Lawrence. This year I might make $13,500 before taxes; last year it was $17,000. I get paid only by commission. I don't have a computer, so I fax all my orders in.
Brown and Bigelow has been around since 1895 ... one of the old direct houses. They're one of the dinosaurs in the business.
At one time I tried to do advertising specialties on my own, but I didn't have a clue. I just had illusions of grandeur. My father gave me thousands of dollars to get started, but I had no idea what I was doing for 31 months.
I sell to a lot of great Kansas State people, and there are some class act Thunderhawk (Kansas Jayhawk) people. You find some here and there.
SE: Outside of K-State athletics and work, what else do you enjoy?
Lipson: (Long pause) I don't know. I watch the History channel ... Discovery and National Geographic. The rest (channels) are foolish.
SE: Robert, how did the streak all begin ...38 seasons ago and 150 consecutive games ago?
Lipson: I decided to see what the other Big 8 venues looked like, so I went to Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma State and Colorado in 1973, and in 1974 I went to Iowa State, Oklahoma and Nebraska in 1974 (listing the games in their correct order by memory) ... then I just thought I would keep it going. I'm not sure if it was for foolish reasons back then, or just loyalty to the school. I was just young and excited and just kept going. I honestly thought I was making a difference.
In 1975 I just decided to make another cycle of trips and then tried to see how long it could go and now here I am.
It's been a difficult time for me lately with Nebraska and Colorado leaving the league, and Texas A&M leaving because I've become very devoted to the conference with this special project of mine over the last four decades. It's been very unpleasant for me, for sure.
SE: Do even you find it a bit unusual to keep such a streak going for what was such a lousy football team in the 1970s and 1980s. I mean, of your first 34 trips, you cheered a victory only twice!
Lipson: I know that (about the losses), and yes I do find it strange today. But I was so excited in the 1970s and `80s because I knew I was helping. I know now I could have spent my life doing better things, and lived a more normal life had I stuck with sales, but I owed it to Kansas State. If I had to do it over again, I would have put my livelihood first, but at the time the streak was most important to me, and now I just can't give it up. It wouldn't be fair to Kansas State.
SE: But why not say 150 road games is enough?
Lipson: (A look of disbelief at the question.) Can you imagine what a God-awful shame that would be to K-Staters everywhere? I don't know how I could that. This is something you cannot do again. It wouldn't be good; it would be unthinkable to stop the streak.
SE: Did you ever come close to not going to a game?
Lipson: Never. But in 1975 I missed the entire first half at Colorado, but at least I got there for the second half and saw Joe Hatcher throw a touchdown pass for the first time in about four games. I think we went 17 consecutive quarters without a touchdown. We lost too, but at least I saw us score.
Remember, Ellis Rainsberger went 0-fer during his three years here. (Rainsberger was 0-21 in all Big 8 games during his three-year stay.)
SE: Have you been to every bowl game?
Lipson: Yeah, including the Coca Cola Bowl in Tokyo in 1972 against Nebraska. I did that with the Alumni Association. I had a couple thousand dollars available.
SE: The Aloha Bowl?
Lipson: Yeah, the team charter had empty seats.
SE: Was the 2003 Big 12 title win your high?
Lipson: Sure. That's the high for any K-State fan.
SE: And I'm guessing your low was the loss to A&M in St. Louis at another title game?
Lipson: Yes. I didn't handle that well. I wasn't sure I would make it. None of us can get over that. Today I have a tough time with it. That night I slept in my Nissan at a rest stop. It was terrible.
I had got comfortable in winning and just didn't see it coming. We knew we would win. All we cared about was Miami beating UCLA. That happened, but then we collapsed. Michael Bishop was holding the ball wrong and an Aggie hit his elbow, another Aggie jumped on it, and then there was no stopping the Aggies.
SE: Basketball road games ... do you go to many?
Lipson: I don't go to many. I will go to A&M this year because they are leaving our conference. I try to go to four or five each season. I've missed my share of NCAA Tournaments, but did go to Salt Lake City, and others.
SE: You had many years when you would hitch hike.
Lipson: Yes, I would hold up a sign in the school colors saying the destination. Going to Oklahoma once I held up my sign and a Texas fan gave me the middle index finger back. I had good luck with hitch hiking, but I don't do it anymore. There are too many crazies out there. It's not safe.
SE: Where do you stay on your road trips?
Lipson: I just know how to survive on the road. I bring road game rations with me for 10 days. I know how to survive up to a week if they would close the roads. I bring a shovel, a crow bar and ice pick to hack me out of ice storm.
SE: What do you normally eat?
Lipson: At times. I eat mostly vegetarian.
I'm a vegetarian, but I do take hotdogs or hamburgers home and put them in the freezer and eat them later. I like junk food only in moderation and on special occasions. Mainly I eat watermelon, grapes ... stuff like that.
SE: Do you feel like coaches appreciate your efforts?
Lipson: Yes, I'm sure they do. I got in "William the Conqueror's" (LHC Bill Snyder) doghouse one year for giving an injury report on a radio show, but he got over that. I've been reprimanded by LHC Bill Snyder before. It's not fun. In the 20-hundred season LHC Bill Snyder told me that we were going to play Iowa and I put that on the radio before the media knew. (Pause) He didn't like that.
SE: You say, '20-hundred' instead of 2000. Why?
Lipson: Well, it's 19-hundred, and 1910, so it's 20-hundred and 20-ten. Two thousand is the number of pounds in a ton, not a calendar year. The calendar year is 20-hundred, and not 2,000.
SE: Let me toss some names at you and let you respond. LHC Bill Snyder.
Lipson: "William the Conqueror." He's the best coach to ever coach the game at any level. He's unbelievable. I've seen different winning coaches and losing coaches, and here are the things that separate him. He's intelligent, pure and honest. It always starts with intelligence. He's a very kind person who cares about K-State. It wasn't going to be a stepping stone to go to Tommy Trojan (USC), or another big time program.
SE: Frank Martin.
Lipson: "Francisco." He's a big-time recruiter.
SE: Jack Hartman.
Lipson: `Captain Jack' had tremendous confidence, tremendous mental toughness, tremendous intelligence and well organized ... those are the big-four that every successful person has.
SE: Do you have one remaining goal for the Wildcats as their No. 1 fan?
Lipson: To win the big cup in football, men's basketball or any other sport.
A FEW ROBERT-ISMS:
On a thick stack of 5x7 notecards, Lipson once delivered football coach Jim Dickey a new offensive system called the "Sledgehammer." Privately, Dickey marveled at how detailed the plays were X-and-O'ed.
On the hiring of LHC Bill Snyder in 1989, Lipson had his doubts: "I thought he was a soft, easy, gentle guy. I thought, `This guy won't ever get it done.' This guy was soft and easy ... just like an Uncle Larry."
Lipson once approached coach Jack Hartman after a game in Columbia, Mo., and asked to ride the team bus back to Manhattan because his car had broken down. "Captain Jack told me to get in the back of the bus and not cause any trouble." Part way home, Hartman asked Lipson where his car had broken down. "In Manhattan," Lipson said.
Another Columbia story had Lipson waving good-bye to the team as it left Ahearn Field House for the Missouri game. As the team bus pulled into the team hotel in Columbia, Lipson was there waving hello to the team. He had hitch-hiked, and beat the team to Columbia. "I don't remember that story, but it could have happened," said Lipson.
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Don't remember which of the 55,000 Weird Robert threads it was, but we were debating on whether he was in Lafayette a few years ago and the answer is no.
SE: But you were always somewhat of a sports junkie.
Lipson: Yeah. When I stayed home from the Lafayette (Louisiana) football game a couple years ago, I counted 23 different games on all the channels that day. Back when I was in high school you wouldn't see 23 games on TV in one season.
So basically he skipped the La-la game and is a terrible fan because of it.
That doesn't make him a terrible fan, but it does make him a Jayhawk.
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Awesome.
SE: Where do you stay on your road trips?
Lipson: I just know how to survive on the road. I bring road game rations with me for 10 days. I know how to survive up to a week if they would close the roads. I bring a shovel, a crow bar and ice pick to hack me out of ice storm.
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Known simply as "Robert,"
:lol:
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SE: You say, '20-hundred' instead of 2000. Why?
Lipson: Well, it's 19-hundred, and 1910, so it's 20-hundred and 20-ten. Two thousand is the number of pounds in a ton, not a calendar year. The calendar year is 20-hundred, and not 2,000.
Robert is amazing.
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Guys, we're only 10 days away. What do you think :weirdrobert: has in store for us this season? Any curve balls that he's getting ready to throw? Place your bets now. Or just tell me a funny Weird Robert story.
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Guys, we're only 10 days away. What do you think :weirdrobert: has in store for us this season? Any curve balls that he's getting ready to throw? Place your bets now. Or just tell me a funny Weird Robert story.
But.. "Double Play Cats!!", with no one on the bases.. that's all I have experienced.. Sad - I know :bawl:
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Does he use the internet? I think he would be an entertaining poster.
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sometime around 76 or 77 I worked with Robert and he kept all his Cat ticket stubs in an old army coat he wore
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Forgot until now that he called Frank "Fransisco Martin." :lol:
Also this.
But selling out the opener won't be nearly enough. You have to do more. You must attend & sell out every home game then sell out our allotment to all of the road games in conference play including I-State in Arrowhead Stadium. Please do not wait until the team goes 13-1 in 2011 before selling out the stadium. If you do then you are really a Jayhawk. Now is the time to decide are you either a Wildcat or a Jayhawk. You cannot be both. I promised John Currie that I would have all the home games, plus our allotment for all the road games in conference play completely sold out by publishing this letter to you. Please do not make me look foolish.
http://kansasstate.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=980737
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Does he use the internet? I think he would be an entertaining poster.
He'd be similar to elwood
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Friend I now work with was in the same dorm with Robert. The one thing that stood out most about Robert was watching him hang out with some cat (as in feline) and eat tuna with it. A forkful for Robert. A forkful for the cat. A forkful for Robert. And so on.
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Friend I now work with was in the same dorm with Robert. The one thing that stood out most about Robert was watching him hang out with some cat (as in feline) and eat tuna with it. A forkful for Robert. A forkful for the cat. A forkful for Robert. And so on.
:D
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Friend I now work with was in the same dorm with Robert. The one thing that stood out most about Robert was watching him hang out with some cat (as in feline) and eat tuna with it. A forkful for Robert. A forkful for the cat. A forkful for Robert. And so on.
Best Robert story so far.
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Heart of gold.
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BzsAuLrCQAAlSX8.jpg)
:sdeek:
:weirdrobert:
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:horrorsurprise:
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wow!
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he came by the farmer's market the other day, sampled our summer sausage and called it "fascinating".
I've never had it described that way.
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Doppelganger?
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Great bump. Clearly Bookie Pimp is not a Jayhawk.
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Now we know what WR does on bye weeks.
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Doppelganger?
Kats sweater -- Check
Kats sweater at a game where the Kats are not playing -- Check
Nobody around him that seems to know him -- Check
The only thing that's missing is his radio. It's gotta be him right?
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Doppelganger?
Kats sweater -- Check
Kats sweater at a game where the Kats are not playing -- Check
Nobody around him that seems to know him -- Check
The only thing that's missing is his radio. It's gotta be him right?
Foam finger?
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Foam finger?
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Tucks over on GPC calling for a statue of Robert to be erected :facepalm:
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Doppelganger?
Kats sweater -- Check
Kats sweater at a game where the Kats are not playing -- Check
Nobody around him that seems to know him -- Check
The only thing that's missing is his radio. It's gotta be him right?
Foam finger?
Ahh you're right and didn't he have an old washed out purple hat? That one looks to new unless it is from a previous bowl game that he got from Bill since that stuff is no longer allowed on the side line.
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Tucks over on GPC calling for a statue of Robert to be erected :facepalm:
Called D Scott a tuck on twitter the other day.. He had no idea what it was.
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Tucks over on GPC calling for a statue of Robert to be erected :facepalm:
Maybe put one up for the Mask as well. :Yuck:
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Steve Henson @OU_SteveHenson ยท Oct 11
Just saw KSU superfan, Robert, in the OU section at the Cotton Bowl. Bet he's scouting the Sooners for next week's game. #boomer #emaw
:dubious:
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I love it when people representing rival institutions let it be known that they are still EMAW at heart... I went to the @OkSU game in 2011 and the Dean of Student life down there (AKA Orange Bosco) came by our tailgate and lifted up his Orange sweatshirt and show us his tattered old KSU sweatshirt underneath, with a wink.
Just :kstategrad: everywhere
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Robert's business card
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-d1idInAxgKE/VD3Ox3b3axI/AAAAAAAAAMk/zIbwh81s8YA/s173-p/EPSON001.JPG)
Gave it to me in 2013.
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-lFIO8_sDBqM/VD3OyDhf-nI/AAAAAAAAAMo/WbagjgVr3Z4/w172-h173-p/EPSON002.JPG)
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FWIW I think a robert statue could potentially be amazing if it included a placard with some of his more insane quotes.
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FWIW I think a robert statue could potentially be amazing if it included a placard with some of his more insane quotes.
If it got done while he's still alive, they could just post his tailgate parking lot route & dietary restrictions there.
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FWIW I think a robert statue could potentially be amazing if it included a placard with some of his more insane quotes.
"go big 12 always"
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FWIW I think a robert statue could potentially be amazing if it included a placard with some of his more insane quotes.
If it got done while he's still alive, they could just post his tailgate parking lot route & dietary restrictions there.
If you have ever found yourself standing in HyVee asking an employee if the all beef franks are Kosher, you might be on Robert's tailgate route. #HebrewNationalFTW
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If Robert eats kosher, why was he stuffing his pockets with my pulled pork?
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If Robert eats kosher, why was he stuffing his pockets with my pulled pork?
He doesn't eat Kosher, but if you don't have all beef hotdogs he'll tell you what you may find in your link...and even then "any part of the cow is beef". So I nip it in the bud. Kosher hotdogs, made with kosher cuts of beef...limits hearing the same story over and over and over...
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How does he afford tickets
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Money
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That is in his possession. How does anyone? Credit cards?
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Canary kindly hit the bricks
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How does he afford tickets
See business card above. He's an executive.
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If we are going to do a Weird Robert statue, I want it done right. I'm thinking a Statue of Liberty or Colossus of Rhodes scale. Maybe bare-chested, foam finger raised on high (sort of like a beacon ala Lady Liberty's torch) and a baggie holding kosher hot dogs in the other hand.
Animatronics would be spiffy, but that could really draw out the construction timetable to a point it couldn't get done before Bill retires.
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Canary kindly hit the bricks
He/She isn't following the 16 goals of BBS'ing. It's sickening. Go Cats tho!
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If we are going to do a Weird Robert statue, I want it done right. I'm thinking a Statue of Liberty or Colossus of Rhodes scale. Maybe bare-chested, foam finger raised on high (sort of like a beacon ala Lady Liberty's torch) and a baggie holding kosher hot dogs in the other hand.
Animatronics would be spiffy, but that could really draw out the construction timetable to a point it couldn't get done before Bill retires.
Needs a map case/satchel slung across bare chested upper body. Other foodstuffs inside the map case/satchel.
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Canary kindly hit the bricks
He/She isn't following the 16 goals of BBS'ing. It's sickening. Go Cats tho!
Winters gets it. 2 weeks til birthday time. Go Cats!
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If we are going to do a Weird Robert statue, I want it done right. I'm thinking a Statue of Liberty or Colossus of Rhodes scale. Maybe bare-chested, foam finger raised on high (sort of like a beacon ala Lady Liberty's torch) and a baggie holding kosher hot dogs in the other hand.
Animatronics would be spiffy, but that could really draw out the construction timetable to a point it couldn't get done before Bill retires.
Can we ban this jackass for his stupid rough ridin' post?
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How does he afford tickets
Robert has a trust fund that takes care of him. When his last vehicle died, a new one showed up in his driveway and the keys placed where keys always are. A few weeks later he mentioned he didn't care for his car, it seemed like it was getting smaller. It disappeared and his current truck showed up in his driveway. His season tickets are just placed on his counter. I don't know exactly what Robert has, but it's akin to Aspergers.
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Canary kindly hit the bricks
I've had the same thought for awhile.
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If we are going to do a Weird Robert statue, I want it done right. I'm thinking a Statue of Liberty or Colossus of Rhodes scale. Maybe bare-chested, foam finger raised on high (sort of like a beacon ala Lady Liberty's torch) and a baggie holding kosher hot dogs in the other hand.
Animatronics would be spiffy, but that could really draw out the construction timetable to a point it couldn't get done before Bill retires.
Can we ban this jackass for his stupid rough ridin' post?
denied, wasn't great but wasn't that horrible.
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Does Weird Robert BBS? (gpc, probably)
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He blogs at GPC, not sure if he BBS's there too.
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Canary kindly hit the bricks
I've had the same thought for awhile.
Similar to the old adage, bad minds also think alike.
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Canary kindly hit the bricks
I've had the same thought for awhile.
Similar to the old adage, bad minds also think alike.
Bad is probably a pretty poor antonym for great.... should be like menial or insignificant minds think alike, imo. Good effort though, I could tell you worked really hard.
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Canary kindly hit the bricks
I've had the same thought for awhile.
Similar to the old adage, bad minds also think alike.
Bad is probably a pretty poor antonym for great.... should be like menial or insignificant minds think alike, imo. Good effort though, I could tell you worked really hard.
You are a white knight. Cheers.
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luked?
robert forgot where he parked at the game in san antonio. so he caught a ride back with the team. they found it apparently so he's getting on a greyhound down to san antonio to get it back.
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luked?
robert forgot where he parked at the game in san antonio. so he caught a ride back with the team. they found it apparently so he's getting on a greyhound down to san antonio to get it back.
The first part was luked, but that's great they found it. I'm glad this story has a happy ending.
What do you think a 12 hour bus ride with WR is like?
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luked?
robert forgot where he parked at the game in san antonio. so he caught a ride back with the team. they found it apparently so he's getting on a greyhound down to san antonio to get it back.
Yeah, it was in the GPC thread, but not the happy ending. I'm happy they found it. He'll probably grab it and drive straight to the OU game. :emawkid:
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luked?
robert forgot where he parked at the game in san antonio. so he caught a ride back with the team. they found it apparently so he's getting on a greyhound down to san antonio to get it back.
Yeah, it was in the GPC thread, but not the happy ending. I'm happy they found it. He'll probably grab it and drive straight to the OU game. :emawkid:
GPC apparently doesn't like happy endings. Idiots, they are.
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What kind of idiot sets up a gofundme project and doesn't at least donate to it?
http://www.gofundme.com/jwryig
:facepalm:
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What kind of idiot sets up a gofundme project and doesn't at least donate to it?
http://www.gofundme.com/jwryig
:facepalm:
Brian Kennedy McCallum
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https://twitter.com/UTexasEquipment/status/573882433684135936
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now that's what you call an outie
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:emawkid:
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can someone get the guy a new rough ridin' sweatshirt please?
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can someone get the guy a new rough ridin' sweatshirt please?
buy him a new one and have him autograph the old one. Fatty fest auction top prize with 50:50 proceeds to FattyFest and Robert.
Trim level idea right there. Boom.
Gonna win 'em all!
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can someone get the guy a new rough ridin' sweatshirt please?
buy him a new one and have him autograph the old one. Fatty fest auction top prize with 50:50 proceeds to FattyFest and Robert.
Trim level idea right there. Boom.
Gonna win 'em all!
the chances of him getting rid of that old rag are as good as oscar winning it all at kstate. good i dea but nope.
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can someone get the guy a new rough ridin' sweatshirt please?
oh, so he can be "normal robert"? no thanks
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can someone get the guy a new rough ridin' sweatshirt please?
oh, so he can be "normal robert"? no thanks
the foam finger circa 1978 makes up for it, well that and the green army jacket liner he wears
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can someone get the guy a new rough ridin' sweatshirt please?
oh, so he can be "normal robert"? no thanks
the foam finger circa 1978 makes up for it, well that and the green army jacket liner he wears
"And is your green army jacket......the only thing keepin' ya WARM TONIGHT?"
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Bought a bunch of doodads from Robert today. Just doin' my part to see he makes to all the games this year. Was driving a Mini Cooper with eyelashes. Weirdest damn thing.
Also, brown and bigelow sell a stress reliever squishy that you can put your logo on...shaped like a boob. Complete with nipple.
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https://twitter.com/mr_salina/status/693128268170461184
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perfect embodiment of itch manhattan
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Man that brown plaid shirt has seen some crap in its time
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CfpGbOZUAAAEDp6.jpg:large)
:D
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Why isn't 71 stretching? Who is that? Applegate?
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the Ice family video board is so HD it looks shopped
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CfpGbOZUAAAEDp6.jpg:large)
:D
Lol
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As a collector of numerous yellowed white KSU Cats hats I really enjoy Bill's Cotton Bowl powercat only in this pic
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CfpGbOZUAAAEDp6.jpg:large)
:D
A bird is gonna poop on that lip Robert!
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CfpGbOZUAAAEDp6.jpg:large)
:D
Que es esto?
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That's not Robert
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That's not Robert
Ya I'm confused. That's definitely not Robert.
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Someone please shop the Klein backwards pass fumble onto that video board.
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That's not Robert
Ya I'm confused. That's definitely not Robert.
I think there was some type of joke behind it, but i'm missing it.
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CfpGbOZUAAAEDp6.jpg:large)
:D
Que es esto?
Tointon
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Weird Robert is a cool dude. He should coach the KSU CATS after Bill leaves. I mean who knows the team better, am I right?
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Uh that dude's hat says Phelps on it....
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Maybe he's just a fan of swimming.
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A swimfan, if you will
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Bill knows a thing or two about swimming.
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Every time this thread is posted in I just assume I'm going to open it and find out he's dead
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Still alive. Sighting in Topeka this evening taking in college summer league baseball.
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