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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Hahahah, oh brother!

I always thought Wrigley missed the boat on communal shitting troughs.

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You know me like that.

I don't give much of a crap about the intricate workings of who hates who around here. But I had to post because I haven't thought of Monarch Services in a very long time. I knew almost all the main guys from the Avalon Hill gaming division back in the 90s, before my circle of friends' lives got too complicated with real jobs and pussy and babies for any of us to spend an evening now and then playing Up Front or Russian Campaign.

Curt Schilling's first foray into ruining a gaming company happened when he bought the rights to one of the titles from Hasbro, he had gotten into it when he came up to pitch for the Orioles, and later when he was up the road in Philly.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

Those games still live on with Gary Grigsby and Matrix Games!

Chet, you have no clue how close some of that stuff hits home for me. We insured one of the Rhode Island entities that funded Curt's gaming company. Bad situation there.

As for Monarch, we followed that company closely as part of our general interest in the market. We found out about the company through a request for coverage. When the underwriter saw their filings, they recognized it as one of the oddest things he had ever seen in a public company. I can't even begin to lay out all the info I have about Monarch from articles and websites over the years, and the people I spoke to.

It was so crazy at one point with activist investors, that a guy named AJ Sutton created a message board to bring together shareholders. I saw that Eric Dott just died at 89 in April 2016. I used to call their corporate office and speak to the CFO, Marshall Chadwell. He couldn't say a word. He would be like, "you'll have to talk to Jack about that.".

Before the dotcom bust, we encountered dozens of absolutely insane small public companies. We found a company that made some technology products. In late 1999, all of its customers started paying late, and the tech company recognized that big problems were starting to hit the industry. You know what they did? They shorted all of their customers' stocks and made tens of millions of dollars. They took the money and opened a restaurant in NYC. Another company we were looking at was seeking coverage. We were on a conference call when the CEO said they needed coverage because one of the directors killed another director of the company. We encounter some strange stuff.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

We used to play this Avalon game:

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Hawaii (fuck) You

How did this turn into the denisdman humblebrag thread?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

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If I've said it once I've said it a million times: I'm just not that important.

Completely normal.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

So how drunk was Spanky on Sunday night?

8:41 AM

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Yeah, none of that shit made sense.

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A lot has been revealed in this thread, and not just about BF.

What is somewhat disappointing to me, however, are the number of posters who have brought up examples of how they were wronged by him outside the confines of this board. Why did it take a change in ownership to bring these things to light? What was the fear?

Who was wronged outside of the board?

I did say that he never bought me a drink.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I won a t-shirt, asked for a Medium, and bigfan sent me an XXL because he didn't want to order any more mediums.

So he pretty much shit on my prize. I can't even recall the contest.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

What an asshole ..........................

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Real men don't wear medium.

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I won Donspiracy's football contest in 2014. Bigfan told Don that he didn't have any shirts to give me. A week or two later, bigfan made a post announcing that he needed to clear out the prize closet, including shirts.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

<º)))><

Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

You should have sent the medium to RPB.

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-- source

All due respect to my boys IMU and Chus, I don't think focusing on him not mailing free t-shirts is the best example.

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I recall winning some bread from an NCAA pool ... bigfan paid me promptly and in the correct amount.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

READS JUST FINE

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Of course not. I just saw IMU post about the shirts, so I felt like telling my tale.

Shirts fit just fine.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

<º)))><

Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

I am convinced at this point that you just walk around in a stupor nowadays uttering this phrase. It's still great, though.

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Dangerous talk 'round these parts, friend.

When I won a t shirt in dons contest it took forever to get my shirt. He kept telling me he was waiting for something or someone. I PMed him and asked about it one night and he responded and told me that it was a good thing i had asked nicely about the t shirt or I wouldn't be getting it. it finally did arrive and it was the wrong size. I never said anything else about it, figured I had pressed my luck enough. Not too long ago I found it at the bottom of a drawer and put it with some stuff to take to the local goodwill store.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Good to see the healing has begun.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.