How do you know if someone has been tombstoned?

[mykpart]

Just curious.

[longship]

1. You hear crickets... Lots and lots of crickets.

nt

[orleans]

2. do a search on their name, get an old thread

and click profile.

[mykpart]

3. Will it show on their profile that they are banned?

[Journeyman]

4. It'll show a tombstone. . .

nd the legend, "Here lies a disruptor. He disrupted poorly."

[mykpart]

5. Thanks, Journeyman. EOM

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

8. You don't even need to search their posts

Click on the index card-looking thing found in the row of icons at the top of every post (like this one). When it takes you to the profile, look to the left side of the page and you'll see a 'search username' option. Type in the name and you'll get their profile.

[CarbonDate]

6. FYI:

A few of us got in trouble for using that as our avatar. I won't talk about why (since it's a lot of water under a lot of bridges), but I'll just highly recommend against using it.

I'm not sure, but I think I'm still banned from using custom avatars because of it.

[Behind the Aegis]

7. who is it?

I don't recognize the pic.

[Journeyman]

11. My avatar is Lenny Bruce . . .

or in his more "Hollywood" form, Leonard Alfred Schneider, and I can't imagine CarbonDate refers to him -- I've used Lenny as an avatar for years, and as I pointed out elsewhere, he was persecuted more than his share in life.

[Behind the Aegis]

12. Thanks.

I have no clue who he is. I guess Google will be my friend! :)

[Journeyman]

13. Lenny Bruce was one of the premier satirists of his day. . .

Bruce was a standup comedian, a devastating social satirist in the '50s & '60s. His views proved too controversial for the day and he was arrested many, many times, usually on the pretext of obscenity. He was eventually exonerated on all counts but the persecution ruined him. He couldn't get work; the nightclubs feared they'd be prosecuted too. He died, still fighting his oppressors, in 1966. His final trial was overturned on appeal five years after his death. The governor of New York, George Pataki, posthumously pardoned his remaining conviction in 2003 -- a testament, said the governor, to the State's commitment to the First Amendment.

If you're interested, he wrote one of the seminal books of his era, his autobiography, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People. It's available in paperback.

Dustin Hoffman starred in a film version of his life, titled simply Lenny.

"The truth," he said time and again, "is what is. The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is only what is."

In the throes of his legal concerns, wracked by drug addiction and consumed with worry, he tried to soldier on, to perform when his mind wanted only to rest. After one particularly grueling show, he felt the need to apologize to his audience:

"I'm sorry if I wasn't funny tonight. I'm not a comedian. I'm just Lenny Bruce."

George Carlin considers him the funniest man he ever encountered. So did Richard Pryor. Which is kind of funny, in its way, as they were the only two comedians who placed higher than Lenny on a turn-of-the-millenia poll of the "100 Greatest Standup Comedians of All Time" by Comedy Central.

. . . One last, four letter word for Lenny Bruce. Dead. At forty. That's obscene.

[Wonk]

14. I think they meant using the DU tombstone pic as an avatar.

I'm not sure though :shrug:

I wonder who this thread is about, and if I'd care if they were banned?

[Journeyman]

9. Do you mean the Tombstone from banned posters. . .

or my avatar of Lenny Bruce? It couldn't be Bruce -- he was persecuted enough in life (and too, I've used it for years with no repercussions yet).

[Vidar]

10. LOL