Tell me more about Andreus

[ozguy]

From what I can gather, this Boston Pirate character is the only one who has claimed to have had personal dealings with the mysterious Andreus outside of J U B. He seemed quite passionate about this when he was posting early in this thread, so why has he now gone AWOL, amidst all the hoopla over this long-gone Jubber's identity? Seems to me that unless and until BP returns and provides us with some kind of absolute, irrefutable proof that:

a) Andreus was who he says he was, and that
b) BP knew the fellow and had dealings with him in the 'real' world,

then this thread is just going to keep on going around & around in circles and therefore, probably should be closed.

I dunno, maybe it's because I don't really give a rats one way or the other whether Andreus was real or not. It does amuse me, though, the way some of you have been carrying on about it as if your future happiness and fulfilment in life totally depends on knowing the 'truth'!

Been good for a laugh, folks!

 

[Callum]

I went through some of his post history and the faux-intellectualism was off-putting and annoying. I'm thankful for not having known him...or whoever he was.

Holy moly!! I can't believe this thread is still going on.

We've basically learned one can make an elaborate persona, have half a dozen on the side claim your 'real', have exceptionally odd and sketchy events occur in your life and a handful of people online will fall for it and honour your 'life'. Odd, but hey, their choice. Just makes them look silly, but whatever.

So...in a nut shell, we have a boat load of mentally ill people hopping on the Internet at any given moment. No surprise.

 

[bankside]

With all of this in mind, I believe I have fulfilled my role.

It is quite normal to find dead-ends and false leads.

Well now we agree.

How many photographers actually sign their work?
I re-read the first few pages of this thread. BP said Andreus was a translator - Egyptian/French, mainly. I didn't see in the first few pages where Andreus was a photographer.
Anything artsy fartsy I do with the intention of posting on the web, I'd put my Screen name on, not my real name.

Well there's a point.

Now, think about it. What genuine photographer would sign his work with a phony name?

Not sure. But I'm done with this. I'm going to go make better use of my time, looking at the works of Andrej Varhola or perhaps Emmanuel Radnitzky, or Marcus Rothkowitz. Given the subject however, I should probably stick with Dominikos Theotokópulos, or maybe Touko Laaksonen but ultimately I'll probably just fall back on Banksy. We still don't know his real name.


I'll leave you with a puzzle. What if Boston Pirate never knew Andreus but read about him online and couldn't resist the opportunity to write himself into the story? Figure out that conspiracy.

 

[xbuzzerx]

I love the notion in a 20 page thread of people feeling compelled to post in it to say how it's not worth their time...

As opposed to all the critical to world progress discussions we have here?

 

[Kahaih]

I love the notion in a 20 page thread of people feeling compelled to post in it to say how it's not worth their time...

As opposed to all the critical to world progress discussions we have here?

It’s even more amusing when you open the ‘who posted’ box and see how many times these people have posted in this thread.


Here are just the top ten contributors to this thread.

JohannBessler Posts 92

BostonPirate Posts 72

xbuzzerx Posts 62

justaguy Posts 55

Telstra Posts 53

stacy Posts 44

bankside Posts 42

rareboy Posts 42

G-Lexington Posts 35

borg69unimatrix Posts 28


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[justaguy]

justaguy Posts 55

I'm trying to get back up to 1000 posts so I can change my user title.

Actually I am a bit embarrassed by that figure. But I don't think I've been quite so much of a jerk since about page 5. It's just that I've always fancied myself as a male version of Angela Lansbury from Murder She Wrote. But now I think I'd much rather be an Austin Powers, who is more like what I'm here for, I've remembered .... so I think I've done my dash in this thread. Unless something startling comes up which changes my scepticism either way.

 

[refujiunderground]

It’s even more amusing when you open the ‘who posted’ box and see how many times these people have posted in this thread.

Here are just the top ten contributors to this thread.

JohannBessler Posts 92

BostonPirate Posts 72

xbuzzerx Posts 62

justaguy Posts 55

Telstra Posts 53

stacy Posts 44

bankside Posts 42

rareboy Posts 42

G-Lexington Posts 35

borg69unimatrix Posts 28


. . . . .

i got love for everybody on the list BUT this was fucking hilarious.

justaguy responded with embarrassment. notice that everybody else on the list has by noticably silent.

 

[blackbeltninja]

2. He put forward a photograph he'd supposedly taken. At the bottom of that photograph, he signed it.
3. Photographers would almost certainly use their "real name" as a signature.
4. We can deduce then, with a reasonable certainty, that Andreus Thanos wants us to believe that that was his real name

^Do you find any flaw in that logic?

Yes.

Lewis Carroll's real name is Charles Lutwig Dodgson, but is known professionally as Lewis Carroll. The same can be said for any number of musicians and actors who have a professional or stage name.

Here in .za, the indigenous people were obliged to use "white" names in order to please their colonial masters. Those who didn't have a white name as a second name - sadly still a common practice even in this day and age - were given one and forced to use it.

So.... any chance Andreus Thanos was just an anglicised half-version of his full Greek or ?Serbian (I seem to recall there being a link to old Yugoslavia in his heritage somewhere) name, made easy for us filthy foreigners and for him to work more easily in an English-speaking country which he used full time in the end?

-d-

 

[refujiunderground]

^I love a good mystery, RJ.

Back in the Dark Ages when people read books, I read mystery or detective stories voraciously. One week, I read five--yes, five--Agatha Christie mysteries.

Having said that, you will note that in the beginning of this thread, I believed Andreus was absolutely real. Someone said something that began to sow the seeds of doubt in my mind, which led to an investigation that unearthed a fraud.

I believe that almost everybody in here now believes he was probably a fake. (There might be one or two holdouts). In this sense, at least, we can probably call this most tantalizing mystery "solved".

The End.

(bibliography comes next. )

you know, it's truly not the end until someone confirms that he was a fraud. it's funny how bostonpirate hauled ass out of this thread about a week and some change ago now over this. you think he'll ever come back or he's forever on the 1am?

 

[sixthson]

I can assure you Master Ninja, in the 21st century, Greek names are owned with pride in the USA.

 

[HunterM]

It’s even more amusing when you open the ‘who posted’ box and see how many times these people have posted in this thread.


Here are just the top ten contributors to this thread.

JohannBessler Posts 92

BostonPirate Posts 72

xbuzzerx Posts 62

justaguy Posts 55

Telstra Posts 53

stacy Posts 44

bankside Posts 42

rareboy Posts 42

G-Lexington Posts 35

borg69unimatrix Posts 28


. . . . .

Oh man, my name is not even in the top 10. Looks like I have a lot of catching up to do.

Yay, 1 more post for me.

 

[xbuzzerx]

i got love for everybody on the list BUT this was fucking hilarious.

justaguy responded with embarrassment. notice that everybody else on the list has by noticably silent.

Why would I post conceding embarrassment? I was only responding to the number of people who come in and say something like "lol lock this" or "not worth our time" or "witch hunt" yet make the time to keep coming back and saying something to that effect.

I've found the thread interesting.

 

[star-warrior]

If this were a court, almost everything would have been thrown out as hear say.

It's nearing 1000 posts and we're still not much the wiser.

Never has so much bandwidth been devoted to this "ID".

 

[xbuzzerx]

If this were a court, almost everything would have been thrown out as hear say.

It's nearing 1000 posts and we're still not much the wiser.

Never has so much bandwidth been devoted to this "ID".

Including Andreus's whole identity, barring any ability to validate any of it.

People who bring up the "courtroom" reasoning seem to forget that part. The courtroom argument doesn't dismiss just the skepticism, it dismisses Andreus existing in lieu of evidence as well.

 

[ravenstar]

This thread is like a nightly soap opera. Every night when I get home from work I check it, and it's usually 2.5 pages of new stuff.

Frankly I think Enchanted is somehow connect to Andreus.

 

[ozguy]

.... I was only responding to the number of people who come in and say something like "lol lock this" or "not worth our time" or "witch hunt" yet make the time to keep coming back and saying something to that effect.

But it's so fucking entertaining!!! I'm with Ravenstar on this ... it's like a soapie that I'm hooked on ... can't wait for the next installment!! Plus I'm still waiting for that Boston Pirate character to come back ... he's got some explaining to do!!!

 

[frankfrank]

He may also be known as:

NASA stud heron

Sad Earth non-U.S.

(for Mitri?) sad arson he nut

Athens anus rod!!!!!

Andras is also a known powerful demon, who brings some other website and strife, warfare.

Undress is what you do when you want to show somebody your private parts.

She sure does; I've got most of her CDs. Would love to see her live in her Las Vegas extravaganza.

I saw her doing a live show something like forty years ago at the Continental Baths in New York City...I can't remember if it was actually BEFORE she became "known."

 

[BiMike]

But it's so fucking entertaining!!! I'm with Ravenstar on this ... it's like a soapie that I'm hooked on ... can't wait for the next installment!! Plus I'm still waiting for that Boston Pirate character to come back ... he's got some explaining to do!!!

As another member who was around during the whole of Andrus 'life 'on JUB I have followed this thread with interest but I think if the discussion continues we must go back to the first posting from BostonPirate.
Within a few minutes of Hooded Rat,( who has definately been around during the whole saga), claiming that Andreus was a fake, BostonPilot started posting claiming he personally knew Andreus.
I do not think BostoPilot, who was a very prolific poster, had previously posted anything about Andreus. He claimed for the first time that he personally knew him in Boston. No other member has throughout this Thread claimed that honour! At the time concerned presumably around 2006 there was another regular poster in Boston, forgot his name, but he met other members. Surely he would have been aware of Andreus in the gay community.
For two days BostonPilot posted continuously further details of Andreus's life as he knew it first hand ! Attacking anyone who challanged his views! Very much like Andreus himself did . After only two days of posting he completely disappears from JUB. If you remove BostonPilot's posts from this Thread you are very short of true facts and I think if it had not been for his intervention this Thread would have died a 'natural ' life!
I also think Enchanted's innocently raising this subject must have some doubt attached to it. In his last posting here before he was banned for a second time he makes other suggestions.
If people want to start another chase to keep this Thread alive BostonPilot or Enchanted have some answering to do !

 

[rareboy]

i got love for everybody on the list BUT this was fucking hilarious.

justaguy responded with embarrassment. notice that everybody else on the list has by noticably silent.

Hey.

I'm not embarrassed.

I'm quite proud of the contributions I've made to keeping this thread alive.

BTW. This is a pic taken by the photographer Andreas Thanos from Boston/Marblehead.

 

[HunterM]

^ What is this sexual device?