Loree From Hornfans Discussion

[Gil Bang 25960]

I remember a lot about the hornfans days as I was very involved, but the Loree thing is a blur to me.   

[shadow_operative2.0 15984]

It wasn’t Gil, but that dude still posts here. 

[Gil Bang 25960]

1 hour ago, BeardIP said:

Are you the guy that was married to spicy and then got a semi-public divorce in front of hornfans? your avatar kind of looks like the guy, at least, but I think he was a realtor from california now that I think about it.

Nah. I was the guy that helped with all the Rose Bowl and Holiday Bowl tailgates.   I hauled all the beer, food, and supplies in my horse trailer. 

[DCA_HORN 725]

Oh man so many thoughts and memories. Obviously many of us who have posted over the last 25 years on these sites have gone through some shit and that doesn't include the 15 years of walking the desert in football, which ironically we did great in. 

Nobody kills themselves because of a message board post. Sure it could be a final straw in a long series of issues in a posters real life. 

What would be interesting is if someone ran all of our posting histories through an ai model. Some very prominent posters imo have changed their perception significantly. Again for many reasons but would be super interesting. 

[chainsaw 9869]

On 4/18/2024 at 2:23 AM, DCA_HORN said:

What would be interesting is if someone ran all of our posting histories through an ai model.

That would be the final straw for the computers. We'd get skynet

[troph 24805]

On 4/17/2024 at 4:33 PM, BeardIP said:

Are you the guy that was married to spicy and then got a semi-public divorce in front of hornfans? your avatar kind of looks like the guy, at least, but I think he was a realtor from california now that I think about it.

That’s Cajun, he’s living his best life on the boat fanatics thread.

[troph 24805]

On 4/18/2024 at 2:23 AM, DCA_HORN said:

Oh man so many thoughts and memories. Obviously many of us who have posted over the last 25 years on these sites have gone through some shit and that doesn't include the 15 years of walking the desert in football, which ironically we did great in. 

Nobody kills themselves because of a message board post. Sure it could be a final straw in a long series of issues in a posters real life. 

What would be interesting is if someone ran all of our posting histories through an ai model. Some very prominent posters imo have changed their perception significantly. Again for many reasons but would be super interesting. 

Snoop Dogg and I got into it a few times then took it to the side and talked at length in DMs. I don’t even remember what about, I do remember printing out some of them they seemed that meaningful at the time. After a while he and his daughter died in a tragic car accident - head on I believe. Caused by a seizure. Mother Russia - his wife was devastated. Never knew any of them in person, not even sure what they looked like. But it was then that I realized there is no distinction between the internet socials and in real life. Loree was after that I believe though maybe Loree was first I don’t recall now. What I know is both of those posters and their deaths had a profound impact on me. There’s no place for online bullying for those who believe in the importance and power of kindness and connection.  That’s just my bottom line. 

Edited April 27 by troph

[Rip76 4928]

Wow reading those links.

That sucks about Loree and Zork.  I did know about her, but I did not remember that about him.

RIP to both of them.

On a side note - I had no idea that Hornfans is still around.

[Macklemore 2872]

On 4/9/2024 at 4:43 PM, mdmost said:

Loree was on Hornfans.com and predated Shaggy. It was in 2006.

https://www.hornfans.com/threads/friends-of-loree-please-read.6667/

https://www.hornfans.com/threads/well-miss-you-loree.6660/

I miss old school hornfans. Seeing some of those old handles in those threads makes me yearn for the past. Things were so much better back then.

[Fudge Nuggets 19190]

On 5/1/2024 at 7:28 PM, Macklemore said:

Things were so much better back then.

Especially the football program until this past season.  That makes everything seem better back in those days.

[Ten Bears 2481]

On 4/26/2024 at 8:02 PM, troph said:

Snoop Dogg and I got into it a few times then took it to the side and talked at length in DMs. I don’t even remember what about, I do remember printing out some of them they seemed that meaningful at the time. After a while he and his daughter died in a tragic car accident - head on I believe. Caused by a seizure. Mother Russia - his wife was devastated. Never knew any of them in person, not even sure what they looked like. But it was then that I realized there is no distinction between the internet socials and in real life. Loree was after that I believe though maybe Loree was first I don’t recall now. What I know is both of those posters and their deaths had a profound impact on me. There’s no place for online bullying for those who believe in the importance and power of kindness and connection.  That’s just my bottom line. 

I thought Mojica was the deceased handle? Or maybe he was a friend.

[troph 24805]

44 minutes ago, Ten Bears said:

I thought Mojica was the deceased handle? Or maybe he was a friend.

he also had multiple accounts over the years. blinking envelopes and such.

[fattyflattie 4639]

On 4/26/2024 at 7:58 PM, troph said:

That’s Cajun, he’s living his best life on the boat fanatics thread.

No shit.  She did have one of the best avatars ever.   I don’t think anything here influenced Zork, everyone was in his corner, some just more gruff about their advice than others.     I believe the snoop dog thing was after Loree. I remember snoops, but nothing of her situation.  Would be curious if the poster that lit her up was in this community.  

[Herbie Hancock 7348]

I said it earlier in this thread, but since it was brought up I’ll say again: this website had absolutely zero to do with Zork’s demise.

[jimmyjazz 45957]

On 5/19/2024 at 9:11 AM, Ten Bears said:

I thought Mojica was the deceased handle? Or maybe he was a friend.

He was driving a car I had loaned him.  It was a total junker, but I still remember the call his wife made to me that morning, she was so worried about the totaled car.  Nobody cares about a car. 

Top 5 worst phone calls I've ever received.  He was sick with cancer.  He was probably going to make it, but his little girl?  Devastating.

[Armybrat 40849]

That tragedy was one of the saddest things ever posted on HF.

[bschoolprof 6254]

Not to derail too much, but this thread is reminding of all the depressing and crazy real-life-intersecting-with-the-internet happenings over the years on various boards:

• The first I remember was the "cut his package clean off" guy dying.  I don't remember the details.
• Then there was the one that was posted in semi-real time involving the guy and his girlfriend that got a ride with a older dude in his sports car after drinking and they all died in a car accident.
• Then of course there was the crazy towing guy turning out to be a pedo rapist and serial killer rock thrower
• The author of the "nice cock, buddy" 1999 big 12 championship game story dying (I think) of a drug/alcohol overdose (not terribly shocking I suppose)

Other more recent crazy random shit:

• the guy that said he had to murder his wife because she interacted with other people during covid, and then disappeared
• the old physicist ex pat with a penchant for disturbingly young thai hookers
• besthugecocks.com

 

Other stuff?  

[jimmyjazz 45957]

1 hour ago, bschoolprof said:

the old physicist ex pat with a penchant for disturbingly young thai hookers

@RayDog

Last post of his I see is a bit over 3 years old, but I'm not exactly adept at searching surly.

[Gil Bang 25960]

6 hours ago, bschoolprof said:

Not to derail too much, but this thread is reminding of all the depressing and crazy real-life-intersecting-with-the-internet happenings over the years on various boards:

• The first I remember was the "cut his package clean off" guy dying.  I don't remember the details.
• Then there was the one that was posted in semi-real time involving the guy and his girlfriend that got a ride with a older dude in his sports car after drinking and they all died in a car accident.
• Then of course there was the crazy towing guy turning out to be a pedo rapist and serial killer rock thrower
• The author of the "nice cock, buddy" 1999 big 12 championship game story dying (I think) of a drug/alcohol overdose (not terribly shocking I suppose)

Other more recent crazy random shit:

• the guy that said he had to murder his wife because she interacted with other people during covid, and then disappeared
• the old physicist ex pat with a penchant for disturbingly young thai hookers
• besthugecocks.com

 

Other stuff?  

I'm alive and well.  

[Rimbo 25936]

On 4/18/2024 at 12:23 AM, DCA_HORN said:

Nobody kills themselves because of a message board post.

Not only are people killing themselves over social media/message board shit, it's basically one of the top contributors to teenage depression and suicide.

e.g. https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157180971/10-things-to-know-about-how-social-media-affects-teens-brains

I myself missed the whole Loree suicide thing because I was taking a self-imposed break from Hornfans before it happened. I literally scrambled my password so I couldn't log in again, and only found out about Loree later.

[bschoolprof 6254]

1 hour ago, Gil Bang said:

I'm alive and well.  

I thought there was a guy on Hornfans named Big Will or something similar that posted threads like that and I thought he died.  

[Gil Bang 25960]

7 minutes ago, bschoolprof said:

I thought there was a guy on Hornfans named Big Will or something similar that posted threads like that and I thought he died.  

The "handle" is dead.  The man is alive and well. 

[bschoolprof 6254]

Just now, Gil Bang said:

The "handle" is dead.  The man is alive and well. 

ha - glad to hear!

[Braff Zacklin 13575]

4 hours ago, Rimbo said:

I myself missed the whole Loree suicide thing because I was taking a self-imposed break from Hornfans before it happened.

Self imposed? I call bullshit.

 

[Rimbo 25936]

54 minutes ago, Braff Zacklin said:

Self imposed? I call bullshit.