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01/01/09 06:58 AM	#1447
Steve Warmack (1987) Fogelberg was a nice touch, Mark. and yes... here is a toast to Vics hard work... as well as to the work of Aaron on his 88 site that preceded it. I was in bed before 10:00 last night... but I see that everything seems to be in order this morning...

01/01/09 08:47 AM	#1448
Vicki Ausbrooks (Shaw) (1988) p-shaw Tweren't nothin'. I also retired early, but I hope 2009 will be very good to all of you! Once I get the 88 reunion behind me (which I'm extremely nervous about), I'll get to work on planning this reunion. Mark, that song really got to me this morning! Very nice!

01/01/09 11:32 AM	#1449
Stacy Cunningham (Gilbert) (1989) Mark, I agree, very nice touch! Vic...it can't be said enough IMO....Thanks! This has been such fun! Oh and I agree with Robert....You can DEW EEEETTT~ You are also my inspiration....my resolution is to run more than a mile each day...(notice I did NOT say 5!)

01/01/09 04:05 PM	#1450
Justin James (1986) hey every one hope you all had a great and safe new years eve! the years seem to go by so fast now! it's like we all have a clock that speeds up when you hit 30! man they really go by fast! Chuck we need snow send some on down to us Please? hope to talk next week when im back to work!

01/02/09 12:43 AM

#1451

Chuck Schwartz (1985)

I have no clue about Mark Farris. He transferred to Little Rock Central his Jr. and Senior year along with Valorie Eckert. I sorta kept in touch with them but not really. Valorie lives in California and went to Cal. Berkeley for undergrad. I haven't heard from Mark since high school. Remember Barry's pool tournament? Now that was hilarious. Teenagers gagging on cigars, listening to Jimi Hendrix and playing pool! I laugh, it hurts. Justin I just put in an order for snow for the Gulf Coast!

01/02/09 02:24 AM

#1452

Mark Avant (1985)

I remember the tournament. I was out quickly. Barry really thought he was a shark. One weekend Mark F. and I stayed over at Barry's and he had just gotten a Ouija board. We were really gonna contact the afterlife. We'd been at it a little while and nothing was happening. All of the sudden the board started shaking and lifting up. Barry went crazy. He thought we'd actually done it. What was happening was Mark had a ruler up his sleeve and was hooking it under the board and it really gave Barry a scare. He went upstairs and woke his mom and everything. I do remember Mark leaving after our Soph year. I don't think he ever really liked it in Sheridan.

01/02/09 04:15 PM	#1453
Mark Avant (1985) I am not worthy. Too bad the quaity isn't better. I saw this guy in Charlottesville last year. He is awesome. His band is pretty good also.

01/02/09 05:21 PM	#1454
Jody Lowery (1986) Mark/Chuck I remember that pool table, I believe it was Chuck who said "Luck Shot, Luck Shot" in a Groucho Marx kinda way. I still use that line when playing pool

01/02/09 05:34 PM

#1455

Steve Warmack (1987)

Now that is an impressive Freddie Mercury impersonation. I never really got in to Queen much in the seventies... eighties... or even the nineties... then all of the sudden I went back to it a few years ago and thought "Geez... what was the matter with me?" Now I love them.

But not with Paul Rogers... it works fine for Bad Company songs but not for Queen songs...

Here is another guy I thought would be well suited to taking over Freddie Mercurys mantle...

01/02/09 07:41 PM

#1456

Chuck Schwartz (1985)

Mark Farris tried to pull a fast one on me like that with a Ouija board but I wasn't buying. When he pulled that thing out of the closet I was out the door! I didn't wan't any unwanted guests so I split. He finally agreed to something more benign like Atari or Monopoly, I can't remember. Mark and I went golfing in 9th grade at War Memorial Park and he teed off on this hole by the street and he drove the ball under a moving Volkswagon. It must have ricocheted (now that is a spelling issue) 20 times as the car didn't even slow down. Mark had such a bad temper...he slammed his golf club against this pine tree until it was nearly a full "C" in shape. He left it under a bench. It was his dad's club so who cares right? I think that is the last time I played golf! Mark and Jody you guys remember how much a character Barry was right? I think the mold was broken when he was created! The epitome was his wearing an "X under the Big Black Sun" jacket with his cowboy boots. And showing up at school driving his dad's Porsche. Along with his sense of humor he had me laughing continually!

01/03/09 12:55 AM

#1457

Mark Avant (1985)

Steve, Queen, I would have to say was my Beatles. I inherited an 8 track of A Night at the Opera from my brother. I guess he thought the whole album was gonna sound like You're My Best Friend. And the rest (with me musically) was history. One of my greatest regrets that I will take to my grave is that I never saw them live. I find it amazing someone from where I grew up would like Mika. I found him a few years ago watching Later With Jools Holland on BBC. I agree Paul Rodgers is wrong. His voice is too bluesy. He's great when he sticks to what he knows. Mika has been called a cross between Freddie and Prince. Fairly apt I say. He has a whole playlist on my iPod to himself. I don't know if anyone should take Freddie's place. You can count on one hand in history where someone successfully replaced an integral person in a band. AC/DC comes readily to mind.
Chuck, Barry was great. I think he helped me keep my mind from being influenced by our local limitations, if you know what I'm saying. Because of him I read The Hobbit for the 1st time. And that lead to The Lord of the Rings. He helped tilt the status quo, and for kids as young as we were that's very meaningful. Hell for a while I'd have to say his taste in books and movies was my cultural center. I loved his tweed jacket and half-untucked shirt. I think he was going for the cool liberal arts professor look.
He and Mark Ferris had that in common, Mark was more the Johnny Slash from Square Pegs type though.

01/03/09 02:37 AM

#1458

Chuck Schwartz (1985)

Mark, I would agree that Barry was a cultural guru of sorts for Sheridan. He and I read an awfully thick novel together in the 8th grade called "The Third World War". I was pretty terrified by it, but in his own way when we were finished he sort of tossed it aside and said, "What next?" I reconnected with him back in 1988 when I was in town in Fayetteville running at the Arkansas Cross Country Invitational. We hung out together and of course we watched the Atlanta Braves in the World Series. We saw Kurt Gibson hit a grand slam and win game one. It was a cool night. Barry was a great friend and he was solid at that. The tweed jacket was classic. Along with his bag stuffed with 25 pounds of school papers wadded together! He just had this knack of always making me laugh which I have not forgotten. That's what you remember 20 or so years down the road! Can't really recall Square Pegs but Johnny Slash kicks in a few neurons. Mark was a dude that always seemed to want out of the small town. He lived in "Ico" (is that correct?) I think near Cane Creek in a huge house that was stuffed with antiques. We used to build bonfires by his pond and fish all night. I lost touch with him when he transferred to Little Rock Central. That was shortly after I sprinted out of his house in the "Ouija Board Incident"!

01/03/09 03:29 AM

#1459

Mark Avant (1985)

Maybe this'll help Chuck

Barry and I always seemed to have lockers next to each other
and we'd have messiest locker of the year contest. We'd let 'em go till the end of the year and have someone judge. I never seemed to win. Yeah, neatness wasn't his forte.
I would run into Mark at Charlie Goodnight's on the weekends. He seemed more at ease, not being around the people he'd grown up with. He was usually good to me though.

01/03/09 08:16 AM

#1460

Vicki Ausbrooks (Shaw) (1988)

TRUE STORY about a Ouija Board:

My friend Melinda and I bought one back in high school and spent some time messing with it. We asked it the usual high school questions like who we were going to marry, how many kids we were going to have, etc. We thought it was simply entertainment. (BTW, it spelled out "JJF" as the person I was going to marry. I asked it to clarify that multiple times. I thought maybe it meant "Jeff" or something. It always pointed to, "NO" and then spelled out "JJF." My husband's name is James Julian Fletcher!)

Anyway, one day our little gang of friends was over at Melinda's house and we drag out the Ouija Board. The guys just laughed at us...completely disbelieving...so we tell THEM to ask it a question that Melinda and I would not know the answer to. They wouldn't touch the thing, so it was only our hands on it. One of them asked it something like, "Why did Hitler have Rommel killed?" Melinda and I just looked at each other like, "Hmmmmmmm...nope, definitely don't know the answer to that." Anyway, the things starts moving...slowly spelling out "T....R....E....A....S....O....N"

Yeah, you coulda heard a pin drop for a few seconds. Then came all of the exclamations of "You're kidding!!!" and "NO WAY" and "WHOA"!!!!! Melinda and I are like, "What? Is that the answer?" And, of course, it was. I haven't touched one since!!! Freaked us all out BIG TIME!!!

And the moral of the story: Don't mess with the spirit-world, even if it's a "toy" that you can buy at Wal-mart for about $15 and has Milton Bradley's logo on the side. Some things are much better left alone. SERIOUSLY.

01/03/09 03:46 PM	#1461
Stacy Cunningham (Gilbert) (1989) Vic you are so right! Once I asked the Ouija Board "Who is the biggest Dork on the block?" And it spelled out "M-A-R-K" I knew then that it had serious powers! hee hee hee

01/03/09 03:47 PM	#1462
Richard Wade (1989) Watch out for the MYSTERIOU*S magic "8" ball!!!

01/03/09 03:56 PM	#1463
Chuck Schwartz (1985) creepy story Vickie! I always have avoided that stuff - that is why I hurdled Mark's front fence... PS. It was the LA Dodgers and Curt Gibson with the grand slam homerun for all of you baseball fans who caught my error in earlier post. It hit me early this morning...gettin' old I guess. LOL

01/03/09 04:28 PM	#1464
Vicki Ausbrooks (Shaw) (1988) Too funny, Stacy!!! Can't wait for Mark's response to that one! I'm sure it will be ever-so-pithy!!! Chuck, I did have to think about that for a bit. I'm a HUGE Braves fan and didn't recognize the name. Then again, I didn't really get into baseball until 1990 or so.

01/03/09 04:42 PM	#1465
Mark Avant (1985) See what most of you don't know, was that Stacy was a mush mouth as a child. You have to speak very clearly to get across to the afterlife. They thought she asked "who is the most Fonzielike on the block", well of course it was me. Correctamundo?

01/03/09 08:52 PM	#1466
Stacy Cunningham (Gilbert) (1989) Aaaayyy....Sit on it, Pots....I mean Mark! (Was that a weak Cunningham reference?)

01/03/09 10:10 PM	#1467
Mark Avant (1985) Do you have a brother named Opie Cunningham?

01/04/09 07:51 AM

#1468

Vicki Ausbrooks (Shaw) (1988)

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Anyway, you can find out more by going to Enlyten and watching the video.

If it's something you'd be interested in, send me a message!

01/04/09 07:02 PM	#1469
Vicki Ausbrooks (Shaw) (1988) Totally didn't mean to kill the forum!!!! Sorry, guys!!! CLASS OF 88: REGISTRATION DEADLINE FOR THE REUNION IS JANUARY 7TH!!! REGISTER NOW!!!! YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO!!! I put this vid on the 88 forum because it comforts me in my time of STRESS!!! Enjoy!!! [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/v/06AgY5Xoavw&hl=en&fs=1[/youtube]

01/05/09 01:59 AM	#1470
Chuck Schwartz (1985) I'll check it out Vickie. I'm into Electrolytes! Some photos I took tonight at my "crib". Justin you wanted snow so I thought I would send you some pics. I was out clearing about 6-8 inches of powder from my back porch and driveway tonight and thought of all you guys. If you love snow, you will love these pics, if you hate snow, you will be glad you are not here!

01/05/09 02:13 AM	#1471
Chuck Schwartz (1985) Colorado Boyz learn early how to deal with snow!

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