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Achewood => Achewood => Topic started by: lprkn on February 25, 2006, 06:53:46 am

Title: Stanford Chaparral
Post by: lprkn on February 25, 2006, 06:53:46 am

Don't know how many of you were aware of this, but Onstad edited for the Stanford Chaparral, a humor publication.

Some of his work. (http://chappie.stanford.edu/staff/Chris%20Onstad/)

Just to make sure, I searched the board for incidences of 'Chaparral'. Hey, I tried.

Title: Re: Stanford Chaparral
Post by: wombat on February 25, 2006, 12:33:40 pm

Did you try 'Stanford'?

http://touamb.com/index.php/topic,977.0.html (http://touamb.com/index.php/topic,977.0.html)

Title: Re: Stanford Chaparral
Post by: Bobby Isosceles on February 25, 2006, 12:35:24 pm

stanford folderol is more like it

Title: Re: Stanford Chaparral
Post by: lprkn on February 25, 2006, 05:35:55 pm

Quote from: wombat on February 25, 2006, 12:33:40 pm

Did you try 'Stanford'?

I am shamed.

Oh well, people that haven't seen it before will at least get a chance.

Title: Re: Stanford Chaparral
Post by: wombat on February 25, 2006, 05:40:31 pm

Sorry, lp, but someone was gonna do it.  I was just awake the earliest.

Title: Re: Stanford Chaparral
Post by: AlohaDawg on February 25, 2006, 09:05:34 pm

Thanks for searching the board first, though, that's considerate. N00bs, take your example here - if you don't want to read all 57,000 posts, doing a search is a good way to prevent yourself from being duplicative.

This board has pretty much gone over everything Onstad including a fantastic incident of a n00b spending way too much time pondering whether the O is a man of gravity.

Title: Re: Stanford Chaparral
Post by: V-Adore on February 26, 2006, 04:27:59 am

Quote from: AlohaDawg on February 25, 2006, 09:05:34 pm

This board has pretty much gone over everything Onstad including a fantastic incident of a n00b spending way too much time pondering whether the O is a man of gravity.

Ah, yes, the Worst First Effort. Way to go, Kai!

Anyway, personally I don't mind newbies occasionally duplicating posts if the post itself is not intrinsically obnoxious. It's considerate to do a board search, but duplication will happen anyway, so let's just go with it.

What amazes me about the Stanford stuff is that he reused some of the content later for the Variety Hour (may its rest never be disturbed). Talk about phoning it in!

Title: Re: Stanford Chaparral
Post by: jough on February 27, 2006, 03:38:06 am

Hey, this board's existence is due to the Variety Hour being a dud.  I remember how Onstad was downright indignant if anyone posted something about not liking the Variety Hour.

Indignant.

Title: Re: Stanford Chaparral
Post by: AlohaDawg on February 27, 2006, 11:35:28 pm

And that was what made it fun.

Clearly, the time of the Variety Hour has not come, and Onstad is ahead of his time.

Title: Re: Stanford Chaparral
Post by: jough on February 28, 2006, 05:31:17 am

Oh yeah, that must be it.