I've just encountered yet another website by some guy who thinks he's All That and feels the need to tell the world about it. Self-promotional websites of this sort confound me, I always wonder if they're for real, or a joke. Are they sincere and just inadvertently hilarious, or are they meant to make me spit Coke all over my monitor?
Opinions? Other cheese-wad sites to share? Bueller?

Here's the url. :) www.rubberburner.com/

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2000

Answers

This is my favorite bit so far of the aforementioned fella's site. Oh the cheese factor!
(Kelly is becoming such the html pro, *awe* [*snicker*])
directly from Curry's site:

Words or facts like above can only tell so much. My experience is that you have to sit down and have a cup of coffee with a person to really get to know him/her. Most people who sit down for a coffee with me almost always like me in one way or another. Anyway, to find out your personality, make a cup of coffee and write words that come to your mind.

*howl*!!! What if you don't like coffee, though? Do you think Swiss Miss instant hot chocolate would do?
*gigglefit*

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2000

Check out The Lone Lion's page (beware, music is involved):


I cannot believe this guy. I peed myself laughing, and I *do* think he's serious.

BTW, I got this link from Tomato Nation, where it's referred to as a textbook definition of "misguided." And I'll drink to that.

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2000

Sorry about that - here's the URL: www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/9511/

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2000

Kelly, I told everyone at work that guy was my boyfriend. They are all jealous, especially b/c of his understanding psychology on *different* levels.

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2000

It's a good thing Curry listed Terracotta blonde for Hair. It saves me the embarrassment of saying Prematurely balding if anyone gives two shits. But such wisdom comes with the complex embodiment of great personal appearance (style) and a huge personal interest in heavy-duty motors (engines). Back the fuck up!

-- Anonymous, July 22, 2000

Thanks for sharing Klee! Since you asked I think your new boyfriend is a fine specimen. Not only is he tough and tender but I bet he looks super hot in your favorite slip! [forgive me, I could not resist!]

-- Anonymous, July 23, 2000

Curry!!! That cracked me up!! I think he is REALLY serious! Killin me! ha!

-- Anonymous, July 23, 2000

Do you guys really think that rubberburner dude is for real? I mean, I'm thinking if I had an ex-boyfriend that I really hated, this is the website that I would make for him - at least until he tried to sue me or something. What do you think - was the page made as a cruel joke/revenge by someone who hates this guy, or do you really think he made it himself?

-- Anonymous, July 23, 2000

well, no I didn't think it was a joke, but you just gave me a fabulous idea for the next person who pisses me off.. heh heh.

-- Anonymous, July 24, 2000

please post more of these, they're making my day!

-- Anonymous, July 24, 2000

it's a shame, but rubberburner.com is an advertising thing.

at http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois

FALLON MCELLIGOTT (RUBBERBURNER-DOM) 901 Marquette Ave Suite 32 MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55402 US

and fallon is an advertising company.

I think they said it was a teaser for a lee jeans campaign coming this fall. (this was being discussed on a webgrrls list I belong to, which is how I found out it was fake. I didn't go look it up on my own.)

there certainly are real sites like that, though.

Anita of Anita's BOD and Anita's LOL

-- Anonymous, July 24, 2000

okay Sarah, here you go. :)

http://www.aristotle.net/~domiller/index.html

-- Anonymous, July 24, 2000

also, try

http://www.love4two.com/ It's truly, um, interesting.

Should I even bother posting Mahir's url, or is that a given? :)

Sorry, btb, that my url's aren't showing up as blue links (are they called hyperlinks?). My html-ability doesn't go very far, alack.

-- Anonymous, July 24, 2000

these are great. i am so mean for laughing at these people!

i'm a little scared to see the ad campaign that will be led by Curry.

-- Anonymous, July 24, 2000

i poked around a little bit, and that Patrick guy is the grandson of the founder of Reynolds tobacco, and he's now a rabid anti-smoking advocate. i've heard of him!

doesn't make his list o' qualities in a "lady" any less smarmy, but still.....

-- Anonymous, July 24, 2000

Okay...several HOURS ago while here at work I was surfing around trying to find another queer website to post here (the ones listed above were too good and I wanted more!)

Quite by accident, I found a site that I explored in its entirety, getting increasingly fussy and grumpy when people would call me or ask me questions here and actually expect me to work. As if.

This lad does not fall into the self-promotional category, and I feel kinda bad even associating him with this topic. I'm not sure how best to describe his site "Avocado Memories" except to say it is an incredible walk down memory lane, a hilarious look into his odd and quirky family. He writes well, I laughed out loud a few times, and I now feel pretty good about the appearance of my house -- well, sort of. Go check him out at http://www.geocities.com/whclark.geo/index.html

-- Anonymous, July 24, 2000

Hey Laura, if these sites had been "queer" they'd probably be stylin' instead of cracking us all up......

That Lone Lion is so great. I'd show it to my co-workers, but they're all Programmers too and might get too upset. I think a couple of them also have names for their cars.....

-- Anonymous, July 24, 2000

Jill is sooo-ooo jealous that my boyfriend Curry is soooooo hot. She wishes her boyfriend had terracotta blonde hair. *flounce*

okay, that grossed me out. I have to go shower now. ;-)

-- Anonymous, July 25, 2000

Klee, back off. Don't you be messing with my man! He only defies perceptional contradictions with one woman, and that be me!

-- Anonymous, July 25, 2000

Y'all do know I meant "queer" as in "weird", not "queer" as in "homosexual"...not that there's anything wrong with that, ha ha ha...

-- Anonymous, July 25, 2000

I'm so relieved to hear Curry's site is fake because I figured it had to be. And I believe/hope the Lone Lion's is fake, too. I think a lot of people have been inspired by Mahir.

-- Anonymous, July 25, 2000

Ha! When I read that rubber burner's site, I died. People I work with must think I am weird. But for real, that is a great idea for revenge, which if my boyfriend continues his act, he may be the next rubber burner!

-- Anonymous, July 25, 2000

Heh. I knew a NASCAR wannabe like Curry dropping a Blur reference was too good to be true.

The Lone Lion reminds me of--surprise, surprise--a Russian I dated very briefly. He, too, thought he was All That and a Bottle of Vodka despite the fact that he looked like Sam the Eagle from the Muppet Show...well, he would have if Sam had been a toothpick with an adam's apple. I was a size 6 and he complained that I might be too fat for his taste. I'm 5'9". I weigh twenty pounds more now and people say I'm not fat. You do the math. I figured that either I'd get anorexic to please someone I didn't think I liked all that much, or I'd dump him. Guess which choice I made? Right. We have enough fat-obsessed unrealistic males out there without me encouraging their delusions by dating them and giving into the whole fucked-up mess by starving myself to fit better into the 'ideal' waif image. Do svidaniya, Comrade. He can go date a giraffe for all I care.

-- Anonymous, July 25, 2000

CURRY IS REAL, DAMMIT!!! LA LA LA! I CAN'T HEAR YOU...

-- Anonymous, July 25, 2000

I knew it was too good to be true. A girl can dream, though, can't she? sigh.

-- Anonymous, July 26, 2000

Sometimes, when our heroes die, it means it's time for us to honor and adopt the heroes' qualities within ourselves.

Curry is dead. Long live Curry.

-- Anonymous, July 26, 2000

http://www.melanieonline.com/

-- Anonymous, July 26, 2000

Has anyone suggested Tom Arnold's site yet? www.marrytom.com

Some of my co-workers nominated another co-worker but sent in a picture of a rose instead of the requested photograph of the applicant. She got rejected by Tom Arnold without ever actually asking him out herself! How many women can say that?

She thinks it was hysterical, fortunately.

-- Anonymous, July 26, 2000

No! Curry is not dead! scrnwrt and I still have to finish choreographing the hair-pulling part of our Catfight!! He's MY BOYFRIEND!!!
*gigglefit*

-- Anonymous, July 26, 2000

Reading this forum at work was a mistake. Going to Curry's site only compounded said mistake. Oh, the pain from not shrieking aloud! Oh! Oh! Oh! I'm saving Tom Arnold for my lunch break though....

Kel? Scrnwrt? Whoever marries this Curry Was a Racecar Driver guy, can I be a bridesmaid, please?

-- Anonymous, July 27, 2000

He might need a Groom's Maid too to carry his long terra-cotta blonde hair.

-- Anonymous, July 27, 2000

Dwan, since it will obviously be me, of course you can. My "gown" will be a white satin racing jumpsuit, with tulle attached to my helmet for a veil. And as my maid of honor, your racing jumpsuit and helmet will match the racecar.

-- Anonymous, July 27, 2000

Lisa D, you get to be Coif Girl. Your job is to carry Curry's hair and ensure that it is, at all times, looking its Terracotta'ed Best.

scrnwrt, you really need therapy, dear, since it is I who will be taking The Legend That Is Curry to be my lawfully-wedded Husband. I know that reality is hard to accept, but you need to try. It is I who will Pledge to Obey my Husband, TLTIC (The Legend That Is Curry), for richer and poorer.
You know, you ought to sit down with a nice cup of coffee. In the immortal words of Curry, it's the best way to get to know yourself.

(bl-ECCCCH, barf *ptooey*! I can't continue this charade any longer! He's yours, scrnwrt!! ;-) )

-- Anonymous, July 27, 2000

Don't worry, Kelly. I'll still invite you to the wedding.

-- Anonymous, July 27, 2000

Guess who I saw on TV tonight?! Curry was racin' go-carts with that little spokesdoll, Buddy Lee, in a Lee jeans commercial. Good times.

-- Anonymous, August 03, 2000

HA! Check out this story guys.... http://www.wirednews.com/news/culture/0,1284,37985,00.html he he.

-- Anonymous, August 03, 2000

here's a note from the person who showed me Curry's site to start with:

i just found out he is part of an ad campaign for lee jeans. in a buddy lee sort of way. so is this guy: Super Greg

I haven't looked yet.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Cury could kick Supergreg's ass any day of the week! I wonder if Floosie thinks Curry is cute, too; I think Curry looks a lot like Kid "Rawk".

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000