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ORIGINAL: vinc0net

Hi all,
Interesting to hear that quite a few witp players are in Charlottesville or visiting. Could people tell more about their link to C'ville or its university ? I was a graduate student there 20 years ago (GSEAS) and go back occasionally, for consulting or as visitor. I am now in Europe with a faculty position in the field of... AI, games and simulation (!)
Cheers,
Vincent

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ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

Bullwinkle, we would have been classmates if my parents hadn't have moved from Richmond to Atlanta when I was still in high school (dad's office was relocated - it wasn't a voluntary move), so instead of going to UVA I ended up at UGA. While still in high school I used to take weekend trips up to C-ville (with the dream of attending Mr Jefferson's university).

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ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

One of my HS classmates received a basketball scholarship to The University, but he flunked out before he reached the varsity team. He had been a good boy in HSk, but had way too much fun in C-ville.

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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

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ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

One of my HS classmates received a basketball scholarship to The University, but he flunked out before he reached the varsity team. He had been a good boy in HSk, but had way too much fun in C-ville.

That's pretty easy to do.

But for the good will of a visiting Probability professor (I didn't know there was a final grade called "D--" but I got one) I would have flunked out first year. I escaped, didn't go on probation, and graduated with honors three years later. (That story got me at least two jobs. Four-oh-all-the-way is boring and for pre-meds only.)

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ORIGINAL: Blackhorse


I work in Washington, DC, next to the Navy Yard.

There are several good watering holes nearby on 8th street (S.E.) across from the Marine Barracks. I'd be delighted to hoist a beer or three with a fellow Forumite (or forumites).

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Hey, scofflaw-you got some sort of problem with that?

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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Hey, scofflaw-you got some sort of problem with that?

Not as long as you've got no problem with us librul artists getting all the women while you grinded on Organic.

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Hey, scofflaw-you got some sort of problem with that?

Not as long as you've got no problem with us librul artists getting all the women while you grinded on Organic.

Doh!

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ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

LOL... one of my friends was a ME student at Georgia Tech. Whenever his brother and I would visit Atlanta during those years we would try to get him to go out with us for pizza and beer but he would always beg off saying he had to study. He ended up graduating with a 4.0 average having spent co-op summers with Pratt & Whitney and Genrela Dynamics - but we had a lot more fun in our years of school than he did.

He got a job at the Naval Weapons Testing Center at Dahlgren, MD after graduating, worked there for fifteen years and then flipped out. I think that the pressure of being under such security scrutiny got to him... or maybe it was just the guilt af having attended the North Avenue Trade School.

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Now now. I'm sure for every 4.0=basket case story you've experienced, there are many more 'non-serious student flunking out of school and life' story that counterbalances it.

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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Now now. I'm sure for every 4.0=basket case story you've experienced, there are many more 'non-serious student flunking out of school and life' story that counterbalances it.

Yeah, that Bill Gates is a real luser!!!!

(I went to school with his wife, but before she was the richest woman on the planet. I wish I'd groveled a bit more.)

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
Now now...there's plenty of opportunity for that AFTER you're married, as you will discover.

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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

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ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

LOL... one of my friends was a ME student at Georgia Tech. Whenever his brother and I would visit Atlanta during those years we would try to get him to go out with us for pizza and beer but he would always beg off saying he had to study. He ended up graduating with a 4.0 average having spent co-op summers with Pratt & Whitney and Genrela Dynamics - but we had a lot more fun in our years of school than he did.

He got a job at the Naval Weapons Testing Center at Dahlgren, MD after graduating, worked there for fifteen years and then flipped out. I think that the pressure of being under such security scrutiny got to him... or maybe it was just the guilt af having attended the North Avenue Trade School.

I had a friend who had a 3.9 in ME and was in NROTC. He wanted to fly so bad he could taste it. Instead, that one year, Rickover didn't get enough vols for nuke pipeline so he drafted. My friend tried to flunk the infamous interview with The Old Man, but Rickover liked his spunk and took him. We met up again in Sub School, him out of power school and prototype and me from OCS and Supply Corps School. I got a boomer in Kings Bay, he got a Scotland boat.

A year later he was on the beach on a psych hold. Long story short he went nuts on patrol due to repressed claustrophobia which the repression caused to manifest as paranoia and hallucinations. As soon as he got ashore it let up, but he got a medical discharge with a disabilty award. Thundreds of thousands of dollars in training down the drain.

And he would have been a GREAT pilot.

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Now now. I'm sure for every 4.0=basket case story you've experienced, there are many more 'non-serious student flunking out of school and life' story that counterbalances it.

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ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

You attended the Supply Corps School? Then you spent some time in my college town... Athens, GA, right? I was there in the late '70s and almost all of the '80s. Good times!!!

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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

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ORIGINAL: Blackhorse


I work in Washington, DC, next to the Navy Yard.

There are several good watering holes nearby on 8th street (S.E.) across from the Marine Barracks. I'd be delighted to hoist a beer or three with a fellow Forumite (or forumites).

As luck would have it, I'm staying at the Courtyard Navy Yard.

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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

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ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

You attended the Supply Corps School? Then you spent some time in my college town... Athens, GA, right? I was there in the late '70s and almost all of the '80s. Good times!!!

Yep. Nov. 1980 to May 1981. H. Walker's big year in football. Dooley's Junkyard Dogs.

SC School was a neat place, too many reasons to list here. So I'll list two: 1) About a mile to sorority row. 2) The only bar open in the state on Sundays outside of the Atlanta metro, serving $.25 cocktails with a federal no-tax liquor store one floor down selling by the bottle.

(Plus we all had cars, jobs, and those cool white uniforms.)

Good, good, GOOOD times . . .

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ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

I was a five year student, so this was my final year - which was also the only year that I had season tickets for football (was I prescient in deciding to buy them that August?).

Most of the military brats were pretty popular because they could go the the PX at the supply corps school and buy kegs at a cheaper price than at the local package stores.

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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

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ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

I was a five year student, so this was my final year - which was also the only year that I had season tickets for football (was I prescient in deciding to buy them that August?).

Most of the military brats were pretty popular because they could go the the PX at the supply corps school and buy kegs at a cheaper price than at the local package stores.

I was commissioned on Nov. 7, took a week of leave to buy a car and see the 'rents, then reported into the school about the 17th. Football was about over, but they knew they were headed for the national championship game. The town was a little crazy between then and New Years. I think the B-52s had recently left town to go national, but the bar music scene was pretty great. It was the era of the mechanical bulls/"Urban Cowboy" and it seems like every place had one, plus lots of girls in tight jeans waiting to be Debra Winger.

Yep, booze is pretty cheap when it''s exempt from all state and local taxes due to its being sold in a one-square-mile federal enclave in the middle of the Bible Belt. I think a bottle of decent vodka was about $2.00. As I said, the O-club had highballs for a quarter 24/7. (OK, about 18/7; they needed to wipe down.) Interestingly, a game of "Asteroids" was also a quarter, same as anywhere else. So, game of "Asteroids" or another G&T? Hmmm . . . decisions, decisions.

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ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

It sounds like you arrived just before the "Good Old Fashioned Hate" game against Tech. We were pretty confident going into that one, but they were the team who had just tied Notre Dame a couple of weeks earlier - moving us up into the #1 ranking.

I know that football overshadowed this, but while you were there we had Dominique Wilkins playing on the hardcourt. I think that REM got going just after you left. And, no, I didn't frequent any of the clubs with a mechanical bull. My favorite bars at that time were Somebody's Uptown ($1.30 pitchers on Tuesdays), The Chameleon, The Last Resort and T K Harty's. Oh, there was another on Broad Street downtown that had 50 cent longneck Budweisers on Fridays, but I can't recall the name.

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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

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ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

It sounds like you arrived just before the "Good Old Fashioned Hate" game against Tech. We were pretty confident going into that one, but they were the team who had just tied Notre Dame a couple of weeks earlier - moving us up into the #1 ranking.

I know that football overshadowed this, but while you were there we had Dominique Wilkins playing on the hardcourt. I think that REM got going just after you left. And, no, I didn't frequent any of the clubs with a mechanical bull. My favorite bars at that time were Somebody's Uptown ($1.30 pitchers on Tuesdays), The Chameleon, The Last Resort and T K Harty's. Oh, there was another on Broad Street downtown that had 50 cent longneck Budweisers on Fridays, but I can't recall the name.

I remember that someone had recorded a "Dooley's Junkyard Dogs" song and every station in town played it every other song for two months. I never went to a game, but I knew fellow students who did, including one very Italian guy from Babylon, Long Island who almost got a severe beat-down when the hot-dog vendor couldn't understand his order. ("Gimme tree haw dawgs! No, tree! Wassa matta?! I saaaaid, tree FRANK-futtahs, ya crackuh!!")

I don't recall the names of any bars. I recall the inside of one we went to a lot. Mostly red brick, several rooms, a bull, sort of a country Gilly's-esque vibe. Lots of women with hair to the waist, tight jeans, and cowboy hats. More often I just hit the O-club. There were sorority girls most nights, the price was right, and my room in the BOQ was a three minute walk with no DUI risk.

There was also this country eatin' place way out in the county that the faculty turned us onto. You ate at picnic tables, maybe it was even a log building; I don't recall. They brought huge heaping platters of fried chicken, fried catfish, fried frogs legs, corn bread, pulled pig, slaw, beans, hash, and pitcher after pitcher of sweet tea. The place was usually full of truckers and logging crews, but they left us alone if we left them alone. I think it might have been next to a little piece of swamp, and had a screened porch with more tables for when it was nice out. Started the weekend there quite a few times, accompanied by fifteen of my closest friends.

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ORIGINAL: madflava13

Unfortunately it looks like I may be away on business - what dates are you traveling to DC?

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ORIGINAL: Blackhorse

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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

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ORIGINAL: Blackhorse


I work in Washington, DC, next to the Navy Yard.

There are several good watering holes nearby on 8th street (S.E.) across from the Marine Barracks. I'd be delighted to hoist a beer or three with a fellow Forumite (or forumites).

As luck would have it, I'm staying at the Courtyard Navy Yard.

That's not luck, sir, that's fate!

PM me if you think you'll have an evening free for a beer.

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ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

The restaurant you are thinkingof could be either Charlie Williams' Pinecrest Lodge or the Swamp Guinea (which was even further out of town but is mentioned in the bookl "Blue Highways" by William Least Heat Moon), though my bet is that you are talking Charlie Williams. I don't really expect you to remember all the bars - I was the one who lived there from 1976 to 1989, so they were ingrained into my brain a tad bit more! I still don't recall the bar you are talking about, but I didn't go to the country music establishments. This former hippie turned cyclist valued his hide too much to risk that!!!