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cool, i hadnt read that article before.
Poor child, no wonder he wrote back, being nicknamed buckwheat!
Okok, in all seriousness, that was a good article
Poor child, no wonder he wrote back, being nicknamed buckwheat!
Okok, in all seriousness, that was a good article
Buckwheat! Oh my gosh! Poor baby! I can't believe they called him Buckwheat!
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]7 seas of Rhye wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Buckwheat! Oh my gosh! Poor baby! I can't believe they called him Buckwheat![/QUOTE]
I know! No wonder he never talked about his childhood! I would die of embaressment if it ever came out that my childhood nickname was BUCKWHEAT!
I know! No wonder he never talked about his childhood! I would die of embaressment if it ever came out that my childhood nickname was BUCKWHEAT!
it's kind of sad that they completely lost touch...
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color="queenie">macbethscrazywife wrote: [/QUOTENAME]it's kind of sad that they completely lost touch...[/QUOTE]
It is, but thats what happens. How many close friends from say elementary or high school do you think will be your frend in 20 years?
It is, but thats what happens. How many close friends from say elementary or high school do you think will be your frend in 20 years?
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]WhatMustHeThink wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color="queenie">macbethscrazywife wrote: [/QUOTENAME]it's kind of sad that they completely lost touch...[/QUOTE]
It is, but thats what happens. How many close friends from say elementary or high school do you think will be your frend in 20 years?[/QUOTE]
that's the thing, it only works if both people are willing to make the effort. i'm still close friends with a girl i met when we were 5, and we haven't seen each other in four years...so it's definitely possible. yes, sometimes people just grow apart...but i think this guy was right when he said that freddie had moved on, emotionally. and from his interviews, you can tell that he wanted to just leave everything about his childhood in the past. including friends.
It is, but thats what happens. How many close friends from say elementary or high school do you think will be your frend in 20 years?[/QUOTE]
that's the thing, it only works if both people are willing to make the effort. i'm still close friends with a girl i met when we were 5, and we haven't seen each other in four years...so it's definitely possible. yes, sometimes people just grow apart...but i think this guy was right when he said that freddie had moved on, emotionally. and from his interviews, you can tell that he wanted to just leave everything about his childhood in the past. including friends.
Buckwheat... lovely nickname. :P I understand the Buck portion, but why Wheat? What IS Buckwheat? xD
Anyways, great story!
Anyways, great story!
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color="queenie">macbethscrazywife wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]WhatMustHeThink wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color="queenie">macbethscrazywife wrote: [/QUOTENAME]it's kind of sad that they completely lost touch...[/QUOTE]
It is, but thats what happens. How many close friends from say elementary or high school do you think will be your frend in 20 years?[/QUOTE]
that's the thing, it only works if both people are willing to make the effort. i'm still close friends with a girl i met when we were 5, and we haven't seen each other in four years...so it's definitely possible. yes, sometimes people just grow apart...but i think this guy was right when he said that freddie had moved on, emotionally. and from his interviews, you can tell that he wanted to just leave everything about his childhood in the past. including friends.[/QUOTE]
Thats 100% true. Freddie just didnt want it. I can see his point in some ways, but its still sad.
It is, but thats what happens. How many close friends from say elementary or high school do you think will be your frend in 20 years?[/QUOTE]
that's the thing, it only works if both people are willing to make the effort. i'm still close friends with a girl i met when we were 5, and we haven't seen each other in four years...so it's definitely possible. yes, sometimes people just grow apart...but i think this guy was right when he said that freddie had moved on, emotionally. and from his interviews, you can tell that he wanted to just leave everything about his childhood in the past. including friends.[/QUOTE]
Thats 100% true. Freddie just didnt want it. I can see his point in some ways, but its still sad.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]7 seas of Rhye wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Buckwheat! Oh my gosh! Poor baby! I can't believe they called him Buckwheat! [/QUOTE]
Maybe that's why they later called him Bucky. We all thought it was because of his teeth, maybe it was just short for Buckwheat. Though, the 'why' of Buckwheat remains unanswered...
Maybe that's why they later called him Bucky. We all thought it was because of his teeth, maybe it was just short for Buckwheat. Though, the 'why' of Buckwheat remains unanswered...
I got a dollah.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME] My Pretty Dictionary Sez :[/QUOTENAME]1 : any of a genus (Fagopyrum of the family Polygonaceae, the buckwheat family) of Eurasian herbs with alternate leaves, clusters of apetalous pinkish-white flowers, and triangular seeds; especially : either of two plants (F. esculentum and F. tartaricum) cultivated for their edible seeds
2 : the seed of a buckwheat used as a cereal grain.[/QUOTE]
If there's some other meaning, I don't know. I mean, this dictionary is pretty spiffy, but it doesn't know everything.
Also, no one fucked up before 1945. That's just not the way they did things.
2 : the seed of a buckwheat used as a cereal grain.[/QUOTE]
If there's some other meaning, I don't know. I mean, this dictionary is pretty spiffy, but it doesn't know everything.
Also, no one fucked up before 1945. That's just not the way they did things.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]From Wikipedia :[/QUOTENAME] However, the interview was actually with a man named Bill English, [==>]who had made a career of claiming to be the adult Buckwheat.[/QUOTE]
What ? How do you do that ?
I'm really Freddie Mercury. Pay me money.
What ? How do you do that ?
I'm really Freddie Mercury. Pay me money.
if you said, "i'm freddie mercury's lovechild," someone out there would believe you. sadly.
and give you money.
and give you money.