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freddy
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Local forum sparks humorous retort
October 28, 2008
http://historiccity.com/2008/10/28/local-forum-sparks-humorous-retort/
Especially at election time, the blogs and forums are full of supporters and detractors trying to convince you that their candidate or issue is the one right choice. One local discussion forum is responding with a rather irreverent but humorous retort in the form of a baseball cap.
Ed Slavin is a local figure who speaks out at numerous city and county meetings; grandstanding for one cause or another in his own irreverent and inimitable way. He takes on controversial causes with a vengeance in a way that is often called reckless. Slavin maintains his own blogspot on the Internet: “cleanupcityofstaugustine”.
A group of downtown merchants started a discussion forum a couple of years ago that originally focused on the problems of vagrant panhandlers and what they saw as a lack of enforcement of city ordinances to protect the safety and comfort of visitors to St. Augustine’s historic district. Aptly named “plazabum.com“.
Since that time, the St. Augustine Record closed it’s discussion forum “Talk of the Town” and many local personalities found themselves with no place to discuss local issues and argue points of view. Plazabum.com became the home for businessmen, politicos, activists and others to speak their minds on how they saw things going in St. Augustine whether is was a new place to eat, the state of the local economy or how they saw our local politicians doing (or not doing) their jobs.
Often Slavin is criticized by plazabum users for his comments, outlandish behavior and sometimes bizarre appearance and manner of speaking. Slavin refers to Congressman John Mica as a “reprobate” and Representative Bill Proctor as “the meanest man in St. Augustine”. Hence, Slavin has no love lost for plazabum.com.
In a number of recent comments on Slavin’s blog, a blog where nobody posts dissenting opinions to his often long-winded sermons, Slavin refers to the posters at plazabum as “anonymice” because they discuss issues among themselves using anonymous nicknames like bieramar, skookum, dunrobin, phred, coebul or scrutney rather than their real names.
Not to go quietly, a couple of plazabum regulars threw out an idea that they should embrace Slavin’s disapproval and wear it as a “badge of honor” with t-shirts or buttons that simply say “anonymouse”. The first salvo has been embroidered caps — complete with the design of a mouse head and the plazabum.com moniker.
A local uniform store operated by one of plazabum’s occasional posters (who also happens to be the publisher of Historic City News) is offering free “anonymouse caps” to anyone who participates in the discussion forums at plazabum.com. Michael Gold said that he would let others buy the hats as a humorous souvenir. Gold says he got a good laugh out of the idea when he first heard it suggested by another local businessman, Chuck Nusbaum, since Mike and Chuck each post under their real names.
Gold said that he will donate any proceeds from the cap sales to the local homeless shelter, St. Francis House. |
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| Posted: 10/28/2008 16:24 Post subject: |
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| When can I pick up my hat? |
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| Great looking hat, Mike! |
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PlazaMan
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i think one of the t-shirts should have eds picture and the phrase "what would ed slavin do?" on it  |
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PlazaMan
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| Posted: 10/28/2008 16:50 Post subject: |
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| i forgot maybe on the back of the shirt could be the city dump with a floating turd |
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| Posted: 10/28/2008 17:38 Post subject: |
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wearing slavin's disdain as a badge of honor...sounds like a winner to me...
but...if i wear a hat that says anonymouse...am i not therefore eschewing anonymity?...
am i not opening myself to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune?
ah...what the hell...i'll be down to pick mine up tomorrow.
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| Posted: 10/28/2008 18:35 Post subject: |
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| scrutney wrote: | wearing slavin's disdain as a badge of honor...sounds like a winner to me...
but...if i wear a hat that says anonymouse...am i not therefore eschewing anonymity?...
am i not opening myself to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune?
ah...what the hell...i'll be down to pick mine up tomorrow. |
Doesn't 'irony' rock?
I can't wait to wear this 'badge of honour'!
Who knows, maybe they'll become the totally 'must have' collectors item, found only under the luckiest christmas trees this year!
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| Posted: 10/28/2008 18:51 Post subject: |
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| scrutney wrote: | wearing slavin's disdain as a badge of honor...sounds like a winner to me...
but...if i wear a hat that says anonymouse...am i not therefore eschewing anonymity?...
am i not opening myself to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune?
ah...what the hell...i'll be down to pick mine up tomorrow. |
Absolutely not!
Here's the deal...borrowing a concept from the THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR where Pierce Brosnan arrranged for a multitude of folks to wear the exact same top hat and coat as he was stealing the art in PLAIN SITE.
How many hats do you have Mike? We should get one for ourselves and then hand them out (as many as we can afford) to the homeless, our family and friends! Voila! Instant anonymity!
It would then become a coo as to who could wear an Anonymice hat! Think of the business exposure to JR Uniforms! Whoo Hoo!
The only rules would be - no hat to Slavin or to Mortagus**.
Yes? No?
We could even arrange a PARADE OF HATS in a local pub - take photos and none of us would even have to be there!
** Edited to add... O.k if Mortagus was allowed a hat - she would have to purchase at least one hat for every Nic she has ever posted under....and that would be enough to pay for all of the free hats we would need! |
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| Posted: 10/28/2008 18:59 Post subject: |
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| scrutney wrote: | | but...if i wear a hat that says anonymouse...am i not therefore eschewing anonymity?... |
Scrutney, there are over a hundred registered users here and I'm told that there are a thousand or more lurkers browsing the forums every day.
If anyone asks you which anonymouse you are, simply plead the fifth!
Hope everyone enjoys their hats. I've already given out 6 today! Wear them proudly.
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I love it! Regardless of the Slavin connection (whom I don't know and have no contact with), the hats are great.
I'd love one, but I'd have to have it sent to me. Es possible? If not, no worry.
Good job. Anonymouse... love it.
Signature condoms can't be far behind...
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