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@approxinfinity

You have addicted me with your crack and nicotine soaked Crimson Skin that you shamelessly tested out on us and then with drew to try to drive up the street price of KUBuckets.com access.

I demand the Crimson Skin.

Well, I insist.

Well, please.

Come, on, man, I need me some uncut Crimson Skin!

I've got the surgical tubing out and tied around my arm...

My vein is bulging...

What do you want me to do?

Alright, man, you can have my pic file of Oliva.

I'll throw in the keys to my car.

You want my house, man?

Take my !@#$%^ house!

What? No, I can't give you my 2008 KU National Champion t shirt. No. Noooooooooooooo!

Alright, its yours.

Shizz, take my autographed program by Wayne Flipping Hightower, man.

You want the photograph of me rope climbing up the outside wall of Allen Field House my freshman year and then the one standing bare assed naked on the roof?

Take it.

Whaddaya want, man?

My forge du Lagiole pocket knife I got for Christmas?

Take it.

You want my Moose Skowron autographed base ball he fouled out in old Muncipal Stadium when I was flipping six years old, man?

Take it.

Take whatever you want, just give me my Crimson skins!!!!!

(sobbing)

:-)

@jaybate-1.0 No, I want the Moose Skowron baseball. Most posters on here are only familiar with the Moose currently with the Royals. Skowron looked like his nose met too many walls. Or fists. Looked like a ballplayer, not a pretty boy who used a blow dryer. But again, if I remember right he wore a crew cut, so not much use for a blow dryer.

@approxinfinity Crimson skin, crimson skin, Crimson skin, Crimson skin, Crimson skin, Crimson skin ....

@brooksmd I remember da Moose. Yankees, Dodgers, Senators, White Sox & a Babe Ruth nose. Had one of his cards on my bicycle spokes...

All-- I don't want to bring it back for the TT game for obvious reasons.. But we'll bring it back at some point... (and I'll try not to break things... or revive the down-vote button.. )

@bskeet

Okay, but...

I have seen the best minds of a generation starving, hysterical, naked, looking for a crimson skin fix...

So maybe just for 1 game a month?

😄

P.s: if it's too much trouble, really, don't bother. Just having some fun. But I did like it.

@jaybate-1.0 Not that hard to do.. Just don't want to make the site RED for the RED Raiders.
.... now the Cowboys are a horse of a different color...

@bskeet

Did I miss the Crimson skin or is Firefox not displaying it?

@JayHawkFanToo said:

@bskeet

Did I miss the Crimson skin or is Firefox not displaying it?

You missed it. It was here a week or so ago for a day or two.

@Kip_McSmithers

Because of visiting family around the Holidays I did not come here much, but I am not sure I went two days without my KUBUCKETS fix...:)

@JayHawkFanToo : I think it was the day of or the day before the Kent State game.

@Kip_McSmithers

Ah...blacked out game, that would explain it.

@JayHawkFanToo : I hope I didn't confuse you. The KUBuckets had a crimson theme, not the Jayhawks.

@JayHawkFanToo

You really did NOT miss anything ... other than some darkness on your screen that Jaybate is calling Crimson. Quite frankly, I can live WITHOUT the Crimson Skin! Thank You ... .

@Kip_McSmithers

I know. I use Firefox for KUBUCKETS, because for some reason I have problems with IE 11, and I have it heavily protected since I also use it anytime I need to go to a web site I am not sure is 100% safe.

@JayHawkFanToo : FireFox user as well because IE sucked.

@Kip_McSmithers Here's another upvote for Firefox.

I'll make sure to test the changes a bit better on Firefox and Chrome next time. i spend most of my time on Safari (Mac) but I do use those other two browsers. I won't be testing IE (For those who have to use that browser, I feel your pain).

@jaybate-1.0 said:

I have seen the best minds of a generation starving, hysterical, naked, looking for a crimson skin fix...

HOWLING.

Red just ain't right!

I'm cool with it being a change of pace thing, but blue still has to be the standard. I'm sorry, I just don't think red is any way to live on the internet. There just aren't red themes, for a good reason. Red and yellow are for McDonalds and for Iowa State and that's it. They make you hungry, and they make you mad.

I think it's for the good of the many to stick with blue; we learned from the "dark theme drama", we want colors that are as innocuous as possible to not distract from the meat and potatoes, the posts.

@DanR Care to weigh in?

See Exhibit A ↗

Some of the earlier findings by Elliott and his fellow researchers are more unexpected. When even the tiniest scrap of red is experienced during some sort of competence evaluation situation (such as while taking an IQ test), study participants do not perform as well on the test and are motivated to avoid challenging tasks. In one of the test situations, the red exposure was limited to a participant number printed on the front page of a test booklet and in some cases the exposure to red in the test booklet was very brief (2 seconds) - in each case the ramification of seeing red were the same. The research team hypothesized that these results arise because in our society tests, homework, assignments, papers, etc., are often graded with red pencils and pens, and the associations learned between red and grading - and potential failure - affect subsequent performance and behaviors.

@approxinfinity

So...it is better dead than read...Oh I miss Nebraska once in a while, 2 guaranteed wins in BBall every year.

I think the current colors are perfect, easy to read, particularly for some of us older posters, and not distracting. I would say keep it as it is...if it ain't broke, don't fix it...

@JayHawkFanToo

I agree with YOU JayHawkFan - 2 !!!

@approxinfinity :cry: