Nope. It's me.

I've retired the "old" bapu.

I've asked Willy to disable, delete, ban or do whatever he wants with the old account.

To be clear, I'm not mad, upset or anything like that. Just decided it's time to finally prove that post count matters not to me. It seems that many did not believe it, so I decided to prove it with actions rather than words. If I'm not a man of my word, than what's the point.

So, I'm scaling back. No PMs. No profile. No signature. No goofy avatars. Those that have my email know how to get a hold of me if need be or want to.

Thanks to all of you. I'll be around.

This isn't "the wrestler gimmick" is it? You know where you go from being the "good" guy to the evil, yelling, fist waving "bad" guy. You start pulling guys hair and hitting them with folding chairs and parading around the arena grunting and throwing your arms in the air. You're not going to start that sort of nonsense are you? Although that might be tres cool now that I think about it.

And now it looks like he is about to immolate his old screen name as well.  

He does not need to  do this you know....

Word.

Just decided it's time to finally prove that post count matters not to me. It seems that many did not believe it, so I decided to prove it with actions rather than words. If I'm not a man of my word, than what's the point.

Oh man, now I've got to go back through all 36,000,000 ovvem because I must have missed the true meaning first time round....

Mooch is a good guy too.

Not saying anyone else isn't. 

Mooch4056

and at my wedding -- after I have the first dance with my wife - I am gonna ask bapu to slow dance with me to the continuous  strumming of a a minor chord -  Video tape it and post it i this forum as my rebellious counter attack!! 

You'll see!!!

I'm so up for that Mooch. It will be my pleasure.

He sounds like one hell of a dude. (but we know that)

Wonder where he Am right now?

The main reason I started visiting the CH is because of the overall "vibe', humor, various interesting personalities, and not so serious topics that were going in here. In fact, this is the 1st place I visit when getting online. 
It's the humerous personalities, openess, and overall positive nature of the CH that Bapu, Beagle, Bubba etc...(too many wonderful people here to mention) that make up this CH. It never really bothered me that the AM's, Ya's, Becan talk, post count and so on to the level where it made an impact on me. On the contrary, I welcomed it as part of the personality of the poster. Even if it was said on a serious fred, it never did affect nor alter my mood as this is an open forum and the intentions are good in nature. Actually, I've see Beagle wanting to have a serious answer in a thread and stated "serious" in the original post in which everyone respected his wishes. So, if someone wanted to have a serious discussion, it's quite simple.

It seems to me that if Bapu, Beagle, and the rest of the people have to change their "CH personality" due to a few complainers, then the whole environment here becomes unnatural, uptight, and unpleasant to visit.....if I wanted that, there's plenty of other forums that provide this in abundance. 
If Bapu can't be "unfunny" and Beagle has changed to only posting music news items, obviously these are not the same people that actually make up the CH an interesting place it used to be. It's like forcing a person who can only be serious, to be funny. 

I don't see any good in these changes. The spontaneous humor that was naturally brought out are more than often, priceless, and if this is being taken away from here........then it's really no point in visiting the CH as it will be just another forum.  I also think it's wrong that Bapu & Beagle have had to change in a drastic way, just to accomodate a few complaints. These are 2 of the few good guys that definitely don't deserve the treatment that's being given.

With time, I hope whatever this "doom on you" thing is will eventually evaporate and we can all come here to enjoy one another in our natural state.     
  

Mesh


The main reason I started visiting the CH is because of the overall "vibe', humor, various interesting personalities, and not so serious topics that were going in here. In fact, this is the 1st place I visit when getting online. 
It's the humerous personalities, openess, and overall positive nature of the CH that Bapu, Beagle, Bubba etc...(too many wonderful people here to mention) that make up this CH. It never really bothered me that the AM's, Ya's, Becan talk, post count and so on to the level where it made an impact on me. On the contrary, I welcomed it as part of the personality of the poster. Even if it was said on a serious fred, it never did affect nor alter my mood as this is an open forum and the intentions are good in nature. Actually, I've see Beagle wanting to have a serious answer in a thread and stated "serious" in the original post in which everyone respected his wishes. So, if someone wanted to have a serious discussion, it's quite simple.

It seems to me that if Bapu, Beagle, and the rest of the people have to change their "CH personality" due to a few complainers, then the whole environment here becomes unnatural, uptight, and unpleasant to visit.....if I wanted that, there's plenty of other forums that provide this in abundance. 
If Bapu can't be "unfunny" and Beagle has changed to only posting music news items, obviously these are not the same people that actually make up the CH an interesting place it used to be. It's like forcing a person who can only be serious, to be funny. 

I don't see any good in these changes. The spontaneous humor that was naturally brought out are more than often, priceless, and if this is being taken away from here........then it's really no point in visiting the CH as it will be just another forum.  I also think it's wrong that Bapu & Beagle have had to change in a drastic way, just to accomodate a few complaints. These are 2 of the few good guys that definitely don't deserve the treatment that's being given.

With time, I hope whatever this "doom on you" thing is will eventually evaporate and we can all come here to enjoy one another in our natural state.     
  

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Bub

The Kiosk Project

Wonder where he Am right now?

It's really not funny now. It's actually quite offensive.

Please don't do the Am or Ja thing anymore.

Since we're all so free to tell people what to do in this forum, please do this for me.

And 'The Bapu', if it's really you, sorry, it's not working for me. Please change back to the person that made me and a lot of others happy, the real you.

I would have PM'd you, but you've really put up a wall, and that's not the person I grew to have a lot of respect for here.

This sucks now ... just being honest.

Sorry about the PM thing. I'm really the same person just "dialing it back" as a few have suggested. In time I may well open up the PM thing. But I need a break form "Cakewalk forum" messages in my in box. If you want to contact me, studioqoqoldawtcawm (dot and com mispelled on purpose) has a contact me page. If you're concerned about "personal security" then maybe setup a separate free yahoo email account.

Mesh


The main reason I started visiting the CH is because of the overall "vibe', humor, various interesting personalities, and not so serious topics that were going in here. In fact, this is the 1st place I visit when getting online. 
It's the humerous personalities, openess, and overall positive nature of the CH that Bapu, Beagle, Bubba etc...(too many wonderful people here to mention) that make up this CH. It never really bothered me that the AM's, Ya's, Becan talk, post count and so on to the level where it made an impact on me. On the contrary, I welcomed it as part of the personality of the poster. Even if it was said on a serious fred, it never did affect nor alter my mood as this is an open forum and the intentions are good in nature. Actually, I've see Beagle wanting to have a serious answer in a thread and stated "serious" in the original post in which everyone respected his wishes. So, if someone wanted to have a serious discussion, it's quite simple.

It seems to me that if Bapu, Beagle, and the rest of the people have to change their "CH personality" due to a few complainers, then the whole environment here becomes unnatural, uptight, and unpleasant to visit.....if I wanted that, there's plenty of other forums that provide this in abundance. 
If Bapu can't be "unfunny" and Beagle has changed to only posting music news items, obviously these are not the same people that actually make up the CH an interesting place it used to be. It's like forcing a person who can only be serious, to be funny. 

I don't see any good in these changes. The spontaneous humor that was naturally brought out are more than often, priceless, and if this is being taken away from here........then it's really no point in visiting the CH as it will be just another forum.  I also think it's wrong that Bapu & Beagle have had to change in a drastic way, just to accomodate a few complaints. These are 2 of the few good guys that definitely don't deserve the treatment that's being given.

With time, I hope whatever this "doom on you" thing is will eventually evaporate and we can all come here to enjoy one another in our natural state.     
  

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yorolpal


That video is sure to go viral.  At least in the CH.  Can't wait.

It will be viral the minute Mooch prepares it, whether it gets released or not.

Just sayin...

Mooch wash yer hands before doing any video editing.

HTH

The Bapu


To whom it may concern (i.e. my CH friends):

A lesson I once learned is that if one person points out something it may be nothing. If two point it out, it may be something. If three or more point it out, it is either something or it's just the bandwagon filling up on inertia. I'll make no judgement on what it is (since I truly don't know) but more than three have suggested that I "dial it back", the place has no breathing room, inane chatter etc.

Whether they are right or wrong is of no concern to me until I can take a step back and do my own searching and fearless inventory (a 12 step process I use). It would be disingenuous of me to ignore the message and carry on as usual while attempting to do that inventory.

Thanks again to all of you (no matter what "side" you're on).

There are no "sides" to Bapu he is perfectly well rounded...

Jonbouy


There are no "sides" to Bapu he is perfectly well rounded...

Some moobs things never change.