slufanskip Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Willy and I discussed Kshoe the other night. Willy just shook his head. :ph34r: I know the K - cars sucked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 the OT for this thread, but a great story, that i am telling everyone today: so i am talking to one of my big commercial clients this morning who is a major principal in a big construction company in the Metro area. He tells me that one of his long time workers who ran heavy earth moving equipment for him for years and years but retired a couple of years ago recently came by to see him. the retired guy asks if he can come back to work for my client. my customer says, "i thought you were happy with retirement. fishing most everyday, playing golf once a week, on the bad weather days hanging out at a tavern with a bunch of other old retired guys drinking, telling stories and playing pool. why would you want to come back to work now?" the retired guy says, "it was great, loved retirement. however, every morning i got up, put on my work boots, jeans, work shirt, packed my lunch bucket, made a water jug, kised the wife at the breakfast table and left at 6 am to go fishing or play golf or go to the tavern. but somehow, my wife found out i was retired and wanted to start spending more time together." that guy is my newest hero. seriously, i need to thank the likes of kshoe (btw, for you out there keeping score, sshoe is the good shoe. hard to believe they are brothers. obviously sshoe listened in his slu classes far more than kshoe), the recent versions of ace and rich (j/k ace and rich, i still love ya), triangle, and other worthy adversaries for their successful baiting over the years. without them i would have nothing to post about. major thank you to romar, brad, and rickma. all have divided the board at some time to the point it always ignited the board and brought out my best and worst. however, mostly i need to thank two guys. davidnark for starting the messageboard and slusignguy for bringing it to where it is today. without them, there never is a billikens.com. we'd all be at that sorryazz stltoday board posting where the loser mi$$ouri fans mosey in constantly. so nothing should go above thanking davidnark and slusignguy. stream of thoughts about billikens.com billikens.com is a community of personalities and hardcore fans who all have different views and visions. no one is right, but no one is wrong either. and whether we like each other or like what we post, it doesnt matter. it makes us think ABOUT THE BILLIKENS, it keeps us passionate ABOUT THE BILLIKENS, it is a big reason we are the BILLIKEN fans we are today. there was no better example of what this board provides then when earlier this week, the likes of slu72 travels halfway across the country to not only see the billikens, but one of his biggest wishes is to meet people behind the monikers and those monikers show up to meet him. every introduction is by moniker and name. and everyone is smiling and talking as though they are all long time friends or relatives. some of the sting of losing wednesday night was lessened because we all got to spend some time with slu72 for the first time. btw, the guy is a legend and a great example of a billiken fan who has lived and died with the billikens and a rabid billikens.com member. while we are talking about board legends: right now i have to point out the my must read posters on this board forever will be box and won and jimbo five. my gosh, they can write. whomever they work for has gem employees. imaginations and quick wits like that are priceless. if either ever need a reference, i'll write you one. a number of years ago, i let out i was heading to florida on vacation. a poster, pm's me "hey let's have dinner and i got devil rays tickets for you if you want them." he didnt know me beyond billikens.com. he didnt know roy mueller, but he did know billiken roy. that's touching stuff. to this day, when i think about tampa, i think about that story. a billikens.com member showing fellowship to another. i have had fans, slu employees and ex players (and i'm not talking about the lisch's. i truly have no idea if the lisch's read billikens.com for all i know they dont have computers.) come up to me and tell me stories and inside. they did that because they read billikens.com. i have had major (no longer affiliated with slu) athletic department people use me to leak information and later thank me for support. they did that because they see the power and read billikens.com. i have met local area business men that have told me slu basketball and general slu athletic dept stories because they read billikens.com. i have asked a certain board member for dining tips and i try to give him tips on where to go try (of course he typically sends me a review showing he was there months ago). i consider the privledged opportunity to get to know mr bonwich a great example of the power of billikens.com. i have had major off the board discussions with other boardmates. i consider taj a great friend and prior to the a-10 (i have never went to an a-10 tourney as my daughter has always been starting softball by then. sorry, family first) meeting up at the conference tourney with taj was always a fun filled 3-4 days. taj and i converse off the board a lot. and i always enjoy the discussion. same with skip. and with both skip and taj, many times we dont agree, but it is fun to discuss. skip and i even used to play basketball on sunday evenings together (i still run up and down the court skip and you are welcome back anytime). all of this because we all read billikens.com and got to know each other because of it. i know for a fact that billikens.com played a major role in the band being allowed to be the band as it is. (big time boosters wanting the band to tone down. the board though has always been a fan of the band and the athletic department noted that and allowed the band to continue as is because they read billikens.com and got a feel for what the general fan base really thought about the band. i tell people that are newbies to the board and impressed by our banter that the guy that runs that board started taking care of it when he was like a freshmen in high school and used to waive signs at the billikens games. now that same guy is a professor at princeton and still takes more pride and joy in running a message board than most people that run a website for a living do on their sites. many of you know this because you participated, but for those of you we couldnt track down or are new to the board, one billikens.com member (lives in new mexico i believe) organized an off board fund raising project to give steve a nice graduation gift. i helped capture the money and i can tell you steve got a nice graduation present from billikens.com members. folks that is touching. i have had a number of board participants contact me with banking questions. i have always tried to help them and steer them in the right direction and help wade through what undoubtedly is a very stressful and confusing process of a loan. that makes me feel good that i had an opportunity to help them with information, translation and advice. i cant tell you the number of board members that i have met and shook hands with soley because of billikens.com. the likes of abomb (folks this young man is a hero. he is one of the folks that provide our freedom and dont ever forget that. i have on my desk a letter he sent me that he wrote on saddam's letterhead that he took when they stormed the castle. i look at that everyday as a reminder of our great men and women in the united states service), tseugnekillib, nh, clock, the ricans, pistol, westy, alumni fan, davola, eastsidejoe, west pine jim, the list can go on and on forever. and i could write an even longer list of posters i wish i had the opportunity to know. i think it is worthy to note recent younger posters like 05 and running billiken who are directly greatly responsible for igniting what had forever been a dormant student section. i marvel at their game in and game out enthusiasm. (i know you find this hard to believe but me and about 5 other guys were that nuts in the late 70's and early 80's as well. the only thing we were the only 5 students there) the point is it's all worth it. some of you might think my 20,000 posts were a big waste of time. but i say some people waste far more time than i do on a message board by playing golf, going to casino's, drinking, just sitting on a couch watching worthless tv, texting, etc. my diversion is the billikens. besides my family and my career, nothing is more important to me than the billikens. and guess what, i still get to play golf, play texas poker, have a few drinks, watch worthless tv. i sit on a number of board of directors, i am very involved in two of the greatest benevolent organizations in the world (folks if you are looking for causes, contribute to Rotary, contribute to the Shriners). i still see as much high school area sports as probably anyone beyond a sportswriter covering it, and once the weather turns, i go watch my son and daughter play ball. but the one thing i wont leave behind is billikens.com. it is my second family and my passion. the number of people i have met and know because of billikens.com makes it all worthwhile. and the fact you got this far in this totally worthless and self absorbed post proves you read em all as well. you are no different than billiken roy. that's 20,000 and that took longer than 30 seconds. 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billiken_roy Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 After 20,000 posts, you'd think one would learn to laugh at himself...just a little. not from the likes of you, and btw, you still werent worthy of the big post reply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted January 13, 2012 Author Share Posted January 13, 2012 BANG, HE GOT IT! Congrats, Roy! Also, that was Roy's first post that took 30 seconds or more to post. Still under 7 cumulative days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufan13 Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 roy's milestone made me check how many posts i have, so with my next post i'm 1/20th of the way to roy. hopefully i can be a lifelong billiken fan just like roy. and maybe i'll be just like roy with my southern illinois bias. im sure people werent the biggest fan of him, but chris braun was my neighbor and i got to shoot baskets with him from time to time. that was really my first billiken memory. jan gave my dad courtside tickets after she found out that i was such a big fan and that was my first game. also played 2 years of high school basketball under dennis rueter whom im sure roy is a fan of Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheA_Bomb Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 20,000 Posts is quite a bit. I've been here for a long time and Roy is the man, the myth, the legend on all things Billiken Basketball. When I went to Iraq in '03 I asked Roy to keep me updated on SLU basketball. He printed out threads and sent them over to me probably about once a week, even sent a picture of the court storming after we beat a top ranked Louisville. Even my wife knows Billiken Roy. I think she once said, "well if that's what Billiken Roy said about the VA loan stuff it must be true." And it was. Thanks for the support, thanks for your enthusiasm. Keep the posts coming sometimes we all need a little diversion in our life. Congratulations on 20,000, I hope to be here for your next 20,000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbizzle09 Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Sniff, sniff. I am wiping my eyes over here, Roy. Very touching post. I was glad that I finally got to meet you and speak for a bit at The Fieldhouse on New Year's Eve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizziken Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Great 20,000th post, b-Roy...when you get to 40,000 some kind of party should be arranged... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufanskip Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 and second place is well under half with less than 9500. The difference between Roy and me in posts is about 1/2 the difference in me and Roy on the basketball court ... just a different leader. I need to get out there and play with you guys again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 and second place is well under half with less than 9500. The difference between Roy and me in posts is about 1/2 the difference in me and Roy on the basketball court ... just a different leader. I need to get out there and play with you guys again. bring it big boy. 6:30 sundays. same place. i have been hitting the three pretty consistently since your retirement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufanskip Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 I'm not retired, was playing quite a bit over the summer but once I start with coaching I just don't have the time. Maybe as our season winds down I will start getting out there again. You guys were a good group, I really enjoyed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 I'm not retired, was playing quite a bit over the summer but once I start with coaching I just don't have the time. Maybe as our season winds down I will start getting out there again. You guys were a good group, I really enjoyed it. for three hours i think and feel like i am 18 again and during that time it is the best time of the week. for the next three days i think and feel i am 81 and it is the worst time of my life. i have recently bought stock in advil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pelican Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Congrats Broy! 20K is impressive. I am waiting for the server to shut down like Y2K. By the way, you have posted the second most number of posts on this site - first place is Metz who has a 37.9:1 post:moniker ratio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inthelou Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 As Bernie Miklasz always says: "I respect you Roy" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB73 Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 I'd rather be right than Billiken Roy. (Roy: Best of Luck!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluSignGuy Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Note people, these post counts are only since 1999. Roy had about 5 more years of posting in him before then. Nark started the first Billikens message board; I have run it for over a decade; but posters like Roy who keep it going. There is no poster known better than Roy. I have even heard stories of Roy being mentioned in a Billikens Hall of Fame speech and on St. Louis sports radio. He is our own Billikens.com legend. There will be the Triangle’s and Metz’s of the world, but Billikens.com would not be the same without Roy. Billikens.com is a great hobby of mine, and it has brought great pleasures such as meeting individuals like Roy. I still remember meeting the legend at the 2000 Miracle in Memphis. I still have the card he gave me on behalf of Billikens.com for my high school graduation. While at times we may disagree, I always know he has the Billikens.com Community’s interest at heart. I think his 20,000th post exemplifies that. Thank you Roy for making Billikens.com what it is today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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