Name Change

[rado]

Ahhhhhhhh.....I feel better now :D

[Bouncer]

Shoulda never acted like a phaggot in the first place. :wave:

[Mr I]

Why did beast and rado have to create different names before

[Scrumhalf]

I want to change mine to Crazy Horse.

Hell, I don't even play rugby any more, so Scrumhalf sounds stupid TBH.

[Chadd77]

Please change mine to The Chadd77

[henry]

yeah change mine if you can bro make it henry

[Bouncer]

I want to change mine to Crazy Horse.

Hell, I don't even play rugby any more, so Scrumhalf sounds stupid TBH.

I can't stop you from doing that obviously but I wouldn't suggest it bro. It's pretty amazing how confusing it can be be for people once they get used to something. We all know you as Scrum. That is your identity in our minds. Crazy Horse is some stranger! How about I shorten it to Scrum?

[Bouncer]

Why did beast and rado have to create different names before

rado asked that his account be deleted when he was acting like a bitch. he made that decision. not sure what your talking about with beast, he shortened his name on his own.

[Chadd77]

Scrum, why crazy horse? lol

[Scrumhalf]

Nah, I don't really want the change, thinking about it some more. I was just thinking out loud that if I were to do it all over again, I would change it.

And Chadd, Crazy Horse of course was a great Lakota Sioux warrior. One of my great heroes from history. Thoroughly kicked the US Army's ass at the Battle of Little Bighorn, and was never defeated in battle.

From his Wikipedia page, quoted from Ian Frazier's "Great Plains" (fantastic book)... especially note the bolded phrase. Very powerful statement that was seared into my brain. The first time I had it put to me in that manner.

"Even the most basic outline of his life shows how great he was, because he remained himself from the moment of his birth to the moment he died; because he knew exactly where he wanted to live, and never left; because he may have surrendered, but he was never defeated in battle; because, although he was killed, even the Army admitted he was never captured; because he was so free that he didn't know what a jail looked like. His dislike of the oncoming civilization was prophetic. He never met the President, never rode on a train, slept in a boarding house, or ate at a table and unlike many people all over the world, when he met white men he was not diminished by the encounter."

[Bouncer]

Scrum I've been to the crazy horse monument. Went out there on a camping trip with my parents when I was a teen. Sad thing is, they haven't made much progress on the monument in the 15 years its been since I was there last.

[Scrumhalf]

Yeah, the whole monument is a weird thing bro. You know, Crazy Horse never wanted to be photographed in his life. To this date, no photographs of him have ever been found. Somehow, building a statue of a guy who didn't want his likeness captured on film or whatever, sounds perverse and disrespectful.

[Bouncer]

Not sure I agree.

There are many cases of legends, icons, and hero's who despised publicity yet have statues and memorials built in their honor.

If not for that monument I would have never heard of the guy. His cause and everything he lived for would be much forgotten by future generations. That would be a tragedy.

[Scrumhalf]

They can have a monument or a museum without a statue.

[Bouncer]

I don't see the difference. They are all about preserving the memory of someone worth remembering.