Rumors: A Historical Record of Mystery

[grant1simons2]

Nope. If you look at what Avian posted, he saw it a year before it was posted on Skyscraperpage, (not SSC). So unless someone on here created it in 2013 but deleted it promptly after they posted it but was saved by RetiredBanker who later showed it to Avian.. Then it wasn't from here

(not snarking btw)

[acs]

So... That was a real proposal then? Maybe not by the "consortium" but by someone else?

[twincitizen]

Avian stated at least twice in this very thread that it was real, and he had seen it previous to it showing up online. Real as in "not a hoax", but not real in the sense of it having a chance of ever getting built.

[Silophant]

"Ryan" has a bit of a hate for Urban even though he hasn't even been on here.

One if the first posts by TexasRE that was supposedly passed on from Ryan details how he checked this forum out and decided we were all childish angry hypocrites. It was the first post to mention "angry bois", I believe. Anyway, his main evidence for our hypocrisy was all the crimes we admitted to in the Embarrassing Confessions thread, which, at that time, was in the accountlocked Anything Goes area, and on the second or third page to boot. So "Ryan" definitely spent a surprising amount of time here, for a big shot exec who's so busy he has to have a friend post to SSC for him.

[Minneboy]

Avian stated at least twice in this very thread that it was real, and he had seen it previous to it showing up online. Real as in "not a hoax", but not real in the sense of it having a chance of ever getting built.

I think Nasa said he had seen it before it was outed.

[Minneboy]

Also it was TexasRE/June who threatened action if those posts weren't removed. Not just here but the other 2 forums as well.

[MN Fats]

Also it was TexasRE/June who threatened action if those posts weren't removed. Not just here but the other 2 forums as well.

So we should just post them again and see who sues?

[PhilmerPhil]

We could post them everywhere with a caption that says: Photo supplied by Rick Christenson. That'll get him talking.

[jennifat]

One if the first posts by TexasRE that was supposedly passed on from Ryan details how he checked this forum out and decided we were all childish angry hypocrites. It was the first post to mention "angry bois", I believe..

It seems strange to me that a white-bread, supposedly straight, devoutly Christian man in his 50s (or older?) would even be familiar with the term "boi". The use of that kind of modern gay slang suggests to me that whoever is behind all of these phony aliases is likely a much younger person.

[grant1simons2]

Or someone who is just around young people a lot. Boi is used now just as slang for a guy

[Nick]

With the i?

[Minneboy]

One if the first posts by TexasRE that was supposedly passed on from Ryan details how he checked this forum out and decided we were all childish angry hypocrites. It was the first post to mention "angry bois", I believe..

It seems strange to me that a white-bread, supposedly straight, devoutly Christian man in his 50s (or older?) would even be familiar with the term "boi". The use of that kind of modern gay slang suggests to me that whoever is behind all of these phony aliases is likely a much younger person.

boi=gay, hmmm as a 56yo gay man I've never heard that before. Maybe i should change my name.

[grant1simons2]

Yes. With the i. Trust me, it's a thing

[MN Fats]

Still a strange thing to say in the context that it was posted in.

[PhilmerPhil]

boi: Not that uncommon.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TIy3n2b7V9k

Remember, Rick is internet savvy. He's been around message boards and MySpace for a long time. It's not out of the realm of possibility that he's familiar with these nuances.

[jennifat]

[boi=gay, hmmm as a 56yo gay man I've never heard that before. Maybe i should change my name.

Well, you are over 50. Seriously, that's not a knock on you; it's very much a generational thing.

I understood the reference to "angry bois" as a vaguely derogatory swipe at the fact that a lot of posters here are gay men. Why else would one spell it "bois"?

[DFPegg]

Also, "white-bread, supposedly straight, devoutly Christian man in their 50s (or older)" sometimes have private lives that aren't so much the former. Double lives from being wound too tight.

Cacorro sometimes in Spanish. Down low brother if you will.

In other words, the use of "boi" maybe means the profile is handled by someone younger or maybe means he hangs with a young gay crew on the side or maybe something else.

For me, it doesn't mean anything specifically yet but it did always strike me as out of character for the staid patriarch he would try to project.

EDIT: What Jennifat said too

[grant1simons2]

June sent me this while we were talking about Saks off Fifth on November 1st, 2014

Oh, I forgot to answer the Saks question. Yes, Saks is still looking. We've discussed the City Center with Shorenstein & Saks. Saks wants to be downtown, plus they know the demographics are changing rapidly. What they want to do is eventually change back to a full-service Saks store rather than Off 5th. Don't worry though, that situation will be resolved, you'll feel more confident once you read Ryan's outline. Oh, there's a 15 message rule on here, so if I don't respond, that's probably the reason why. Just so you know.

[IllogicalJake]

Maybe "boi" is just a silly attempt to give all of the characters more different writing/spelling/grammar styles? That was my assumption for a while, anyway.

[MN Fats]

Some exciting new developments on Ryan's LinkedIn page