DomainGang often pokes fun at various domainers. It’s part of what we do.
We’ve parodied Frank Schilling, Rick Schwartz, Dr. Kevin Ham (often known as “The man who owns the Internet“) and we definitely poked fun at Chef Patrick (because he cannot cook).
But we could not find a way to make fun of Bruce Marler.
This busy domainer is a true, hard-working development mole.
So we jotted down the 10 reasons we cannot possibly make fun of Bruce Marler:
- Bruce Marler wears glasses. So we can’t make fun of him. OK, so Chef Patrick wears glasses too, but he also has tattoos which means he’s a tough, mean guy.
- Bruce Marler has finished at least one marathon. And that’s really cool in our book, because Pheidippides – the original marathoner – actually died after he completed his feat of announcing to the Athenians that the Persians had lost the battle of…Marathon.
- Bruce Marler actually possesses a sense of humor. So what’s the point of making fun of someone that can’t get upset? No, Bruce is cool as a cucumber.
- We did Bruce Marler’s twitter background and avatar. So we can’t go back and poke fun at him. No sir.
- Bruce Marler is daring. He quit his day job and took a crappy TLD (in our opinion) and turned it into a profitable web site. Yeah, that’s Missouri.me
- Bruce Marler knows how to cook – but he won’t do the dishes. And that proves that Bruce is da man. No man does the dishes but a true man can cook.
- Bruce Marler retweets a lot. Which is cool in our book, so we can’t make fun of him.
- Bruce Marler once placed a huge banner linking to DomainGang.com and he interviewed us. We can’t make fun of Bruce, even if we wanted to, for this reason alone.
- Bruce Marler does not belong to the “jerk circle” of the old domain elite. He’s a rebel, so we can’t make fun of fellow rebels.
- And finally – Bruce Marler is a friend of Tia Wood‘s. And we don’t want to mess with Tia – no way!
Yep. Bruce is a good domainer. It’s hard to poke fun of someone who deserves respect. But, I am sure DG will find a way one day! 😀 There has to be a photoshopping opportunity somewhere. 😀
I can see there will be a challenge now:) Thanks DomainGang!
There is only one factual error, I have two tattoos as well:)
This cracks me up,
@Tia – Nice to see it is because of you I do not get picked on, I knew you had my back:)
The Chef is not really mean. But hey, it’s Saturday night and there’s an open bottle of wine – come get your glass!
@Bruce – I wouldn’t go that far. 😛 HEHEHE. I might can stop Lucius but I don’t know if I can stop Giovanni.
Giovanni is probably asleep – after eating all the bananas, the pineapple AND the watermelon at the DG basement.
True, that Giovanni is a piece of work I hear!
Aww too bad, should have contacted some of the people that have to work for Bruce. We could give you some dirt! Haha
Uh oh, Bruce – Pandora’s box is wide open LOL
Oh man, and Nick would be the one too. This is scary, VERY VERY scary:) Nick hears me at my worst. I need to pay him more now…
How did they find out?
It’s a good thing that I decided to keep my private life on the DL :p Wouldn’t want the DomainGang coming after me. Always strategizing 🙂
“…after eating all the bananas, the pineapple AND the watermelon at the DG basement.”
Now your serving watermelon too?
Next I suppose it will be 401K matching a and a generous defined benefit retirement plan.
I guess with all the healthy fruit being served you don’t need to offer a health plan.
Patrick, the watermelon was a bonus for the “Yo!” article that generated so much traffic. But I must say that next time I get to keep a slice of watermelon in advance – Giovanni devoured it all.
@Lucius – Nick is a twitter boy and domainer in training so he saw it there or maybe it was the email I sent him to let him know that he is also not allowed to make fun of me:)
Bah! I taught Bruce everything he needs to know about being a “maverick” (not true). I showed him my techniques not to go for the jugular when he’s being questioned (not true), and I also showed him how to lure funny blog sites to talk about him in a positive way! (not true).
Hey, why am I posting on this website when I hate it? DAMMIT ACRO! Quit baiting me!
😉
I worked with Bruce at that at company he quit to pursue a “crappy” TLD…..I can attest first hand his leaving that company had nothing to do with his new found love, this was a “crappy” company, thats all!
Now see that is what I like, when my friends get along:)
Right. Stephen Douglas as Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde.
I don’t know Bruce, but like to read his stuff. Pretty smart guy I think. Nice guy too, as he answered some of my e-mails with advice. What I like most about him though is he proved that the world doesn’t begin and end with .com, no more than the only valuable land in the world is on the beach front. If one were to be totally honest, there are a lot of domainers that can’t think past .com
It is ridiculous to think that the internet will only be controlled by .com. All it is going to take is a major company to start advertising .me, .you, .piss, and the world will catch on very quick.
Mark, well said. I just hope .piss won’t make the cut at ICANN 😀
really nice job you’ve done there on missouri.me Bruce
excellent design and layout and functionality