Progressive Boink

[Mally]

When I was a kid I used to lie really often. I wanted to make my life seem more interesting, I suppose. One time my friend, whose parents were divorced, was telling me about how she spent part of her time with her mom and part with her dad. I decided that sounded interesting, so I told her my parents were divorced, too, and I explained our custody arrangement. (My parents were married.) Once I told some bullies on the playground that they better be nice to me because my parents were millionaires. They did not buy this.

Ugh, I was such a little dweeb. I have many more, but I better stop before I start loathing myself too much.

[Rusty Cooledge v2]

One time this kid I knew who had ADD and not only looked like Beavis but constantly acted like him and Cornholio (This being in 2nd grade) tried telling me there was an episode where Butthead cut his butt off and put it on his head and it shit in the air and Beavis traveled the world trying to hide from the shit but it kept landing on him. I believed him for years.

The fucked up thing is this kid really thought he was Cornholio. My one best friend told me a story from around that time of going in the bathroom and seeing "Cornholio" just kinda skipping class, talking like cornholio and making a mess with the toilet paper.

[Brandon]

I think it was around Christmas of 2001 that I told the owner of the restaurant I was running that I was B.

I was crazy jealous of his/your writing ability, my boss knew I enjoyed writing, and we have the same first name. How could it not work!? CUT TO THE FUTURE - I quit the job, enlisted in the military, B/you wrote a kickass book, and I felt bad. I never felt bad for pretending to be you/him before, but when I read Seven Hill City, I was upset with myself for being a big ole' faker. I bought a second copy of the book, sent it to Robyn (that was the lady's name that owned the restaurant) with a note apologizing to her for lying.

So that's the best compliment I can give B/you. I pretended to BE YOU man.

[Brandon]

P.S. She thought I was cool and a good writer when she thought I was B/you.

[B]

So that's the best compliment I can give B/you. I pretended to BE YOU man.

I'll add you to the list of 20 or so people I've found online doing the same thing. No harm, no foul, friend.

[Brandon]

Plagiarizing your stuff is an offense, yes.

Pretending the "Thompson Stroud" bullshit was a pseudonym is a step in the right direction. After all, my middle initial is also T and my high school English teacher's last name was Stroud. I had a backstory, dammit. Eff those other 19.