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Posted by John Hazelton (Member # 898) on 12-13-2001, 02:59 PM:

For some goofy reason someone at work forwarded the following web site to other employees:
http://www.howfreshisthisguy.com/index_all.shtml

I had no idea what it was, but I had a look (though I still don't really know what it is).

I was looking at the photos, and amazingly, I saw a familiar face in the tenth row down, second column.

Or should I never have brought this up in the first place?

Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 12-13-2001, 04:09 PM:

WTF?

I even read his mission statement and still don't know what it's about.

All your fresh are belong to us.

Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 12-13-2001, 04:12 PM:

I discovered this site long ago while doing a search on my name. It's kinda funny.

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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Information Site

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 12-13-2001, 05:18 PM:

I didn't recognize you at first there Evans.

I wasn't sure if this was an insult or not, but Jesco White is on there too. That's pretty cool!

Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 12-13-2001, 09:58 PM:

Well, Brad, do you recognize the dude below?

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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Information Site

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 12-13-2001, 10:06 PM:

Who the hell is Jesco White?

Posted by Dwayne Caldwell (Member # 417) on 12-13-2001, 11:10 PM:

You don't know who Jesco White is Joe!? You should be ashamed of yourself.

Jesco White is THE dancing outlaw! Tap dancing hillbilly extraordinare! The PBS documentary is hilarious. At first I thought it was a joke, but the contest where the family members drove their trucks around and around in circles seeing who could kick up the most mud with their tires in the backwoods felt a little too real to me. I don't know what the name to describe the sport is, but I'm sure it's hillbilly in origin. And anyone that proudly brags about the number of squirrels they have shot annually must be the real deal.

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The man with the magic hands.

Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 12-14-2001, 12:23 AM:

Ha ha! I'm sure glad Joe asked that question. I was thinking the exact same thing, only I thought he was someone important that I should have known, like Thomas Jefferson. I really must watch PBS more often. Obviously, The Learning Channel isn't cutting it.

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 12-14-2001, 03:43 AM:

Dwayne, you forgot that Jesco is also really Elvis.

I will now play John Pytlak...

Click here for a short sound clip of Jesco.

Jesco in the IMDB

A Jesco White fan page

Report about Jesco going to jail for assaulting his wife.

You can order his documentary here.

Jacob Young (the director) interview.

Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 12-14-2001, 09:59 AM:

Cool. I didn't know who Jesco was until this thread came along. I think this is the first thread with my name in the title of the thread.

For some more pictures of me that you won't recognize (like the one above where I was 19 with short hair), look at
http://home.hiwaay.net/~criswell/pictures/old_st01.html

Most people that knew me before I grew my hair out would recognize many of the pictures of the "younger me", but nobody I've met during the past 9 years would, since I started growing the hair in 1991.

I guess I got on the "fresh guy" site because in the site description, it mentioned collecting links to websites made by guys that present themselves in a way that seems "guileless and honest". My personal WWW site was oriiginally made on March 2, 1995, back when having a WWW page was the new, cool thing to do. WWW pages back then could be simple, and it was the content that mattered more than the looks. I used my WWW page as a way to express myself, and back then, I "opened up" much more than I do now about things. Note that my name is not even on my main home page anymore (it just says "The Long-Haired Dude". I did some reorganization of my WWW site back in 1996 and 1997, but the site has been mostly unchanged since 1997. In fact, I've removed some things that I felt might be telling people a little too much about myself. I've thought about putting some of my poems on the site, but never have.

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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Information Site

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 12-14-2001, 07:18 PM:

Evans you need to Photoshop a beard, long hair and some glasses onto those younger pics of you! I like the final picture where you have the tinted "Mr. Suave" or "Mr. Las Vegas Singer" style glasses on.

Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 12-15-2001, 07:59 PM:

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Evans you need to Photoshop a beard, long hair and some glasses onto those younger pics of you! I like the final picture where you have the tinted "Mr. Suave" or "Mr. Las Vegas Singer" style glasses on.

Well, Mr. Morph, I think you might be more talented at that sort of thing than I am. Try taking the black and white "19-year-old" picture above and putting long hair on it. I fear that eventually, I'll end up with a bunch of strange pictures that change every time someone hits the reload button. I've tried the long hair thing in Photoshop, but I never could make it look natural. I'm sure there are people out there that can do it.

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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Information Site