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Friday 23 October 1998

Dude!

I just found a ton of pics and have scanned several.

This is my favorite of them all. I was on the front page of The Daily Cougar, UH school newspaper on Friday 18 March 1994, which is Maggie and Molly's birthday!

These 3 pics were all taken by me or Will when we went down into the control room under the big water fountain at UH.
On my site, these pics are in a directory called step, which was an acronym for Sub-Terrain Exploration Posse. I'll scan more of these, and I think I can find our charter.

Oh yes! I have just scanned and uploaded the initial formation of the ultra-top-secret ultra-short-lived Sub-Terrain Exploration Posse

This was taken after we played High Speed Wall Collision with the disc.

These are of me and Marcel posing as Kristof and Kristof... It's a long story. Okay, I'll tell you.

I was on the Homecoming Committee in 1993 and fanagled myself the position of Recycling Day Chairperson. All semester, Marcel and I had been doing our impressions of Hans and Frans from Saturday Night Live.

"Yah, dasright!"

So anyway, we thought, wouldn't it be cool to make a TV commercial advertising Recycling Day and we could be Hans and Frans and it will be great!

Then we were all, wait 'Hans and Frans' might be a trademarked name, so we won't use it. Hmmmm.. what are some good German names? hmmmm.

That semester we were taking Databases with Dr Eick, a tall almost hulking man with a thick German accent. (We had so much fun doing impressions of him, but that's a different story.) His first name was Kristof.

Kristof!! That's a great German name! Hmmmm okay we need one more..

We couldn't think of another good german name so after a while, a conversation went like this:

"Dude. Why don't we both be Kristof?"

"Dude! Hmmm. Let's try it."

"I'm Kristof!"

"Yah, und I'm Kristof!"

"And if you don't recycle, we'll be pissed off!!!!!"

YES!!!!

So we put on sweat pants and sweat shirts, stuffed them with balloons and made the commercial, which was entirely entirely so much fun.

The film editor put the thing together and put it on the UH (campus only) TV station and it was great. Except there was no audio recorded with it.

Sigh.. So no one got to hear our super hilarious accents and our oh-so-witty names. But we had fun.