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Friday, October 28, 2005 - 12:05amSanction this postReply
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His recent postings made me wonder. Google came up with the following, from

http://www.legacyca.com/faculty.htm


Andy Postema - Physical Education/Coach
Deleted email
Andy has a BS from Aquinas College in Health, Recreation & Physical Education with a minor in history. He holds ACSI Certification and has taught for 12 years and coached for 14 years. Andy is married to Cory, and they have two sons at LCA, Zachariah in 4rd grade and Noah in 2nd.

All sports with his family, reading and crossword puzzles are Andy’s favorite activities. He is glad to be a part of the LCA family. Andy chose to be part of LCA because of the school's vision for the future and the potential of the people here. His life verse is Philippians 3:10-11: “I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.”
The photo is from a different angle than the one on SOLO, but the shapes of all the recognizable elements - nose, brows, mouth etc. - are identical. If this is the same Andy Postema who has been posting on SOLO, it explains a lot.

(edited by Dean to remove email address)
(Edited by Dean Michael Gores
on 10/29, 1:29am)


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Friday, October 28, 2005 - 4:08amSanction this postReply
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This is the second thread I've seen that was devoted entirely to abject pettiness.

Must be something in the water.

:o(

SmS


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Friday, October 28, 2005 - 4:29amSanction this postReply
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This is absolutely repugnant that you would post personal information about another user here - especially when you don't even know if it is him. Of course all sorts of information is available on the web, that doesn't mean it is necessary or appropriate.

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Friday, October 28, 2005 - 4:47amSanction this postReply
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Summer & Ashley,

Thank you for denouncing this foolishness.  Obviously I am not the gentleman identified in the lead post.  (For one thing, I'm black.)  All that this thread confirms is that those named Andy Postema are a handsome, athletic, and fertile breed of men. ;-)  Now shall we google "Adam Reed" and see what assortment of reprobates pops up?

Andy

(Edited by Andy Postema on 10/28, 4:48am)


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Friday, October 28, 2005 - 5:34amSanction this postReply
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Andy, the photograph Adam posted looks like a chunky version of Rowan Atkinson -- not you.  But you piqued my curiosity when you said you are black.  Is that a joke or are you serious?  You look quite Caucasian in your photograph.  Not that it matters, but your comment jarred me enough to ask.

(Edited by Luke Setzer on 10/28, 8:36am)


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Friday, October 28, 2005 - 5:51amSanction this postReply
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Luke,

My mother is West Indian.

Andy


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Friday, October 28, 2005 - 5:58amSanction this postReply
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What conceivable purpose could this thread serve, except to attempt to undermine the arguments in Andy Postema's posts by means of an implied ad hominem attack -- i. e., Postema is secretly a "Christianist," ergo his posts.

I think simple fairness demands that this thread be strangled in its crib.

Are you there, moderators?

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Friday, October 28, 2005 - 6:01amSanction this postReply
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Andy -- Ah, OK!  Thanks for sharing!  I had to do a little geography refresher but now I understand.

  StKitts

(Edited by Luke Setzer on 10/28, 6:04am)


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Friday, October 28, 2005 - 6:31amSanction this postReply
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Robert B,

You correctly identify the malice involved, but there's a contingent who has had their daggers out for me from my very first appearance here.  I don't need the moderators to handle them for me, especially if the worst they can do is accuse me of being a Christian.  Their angst seems to stem from the fact that I refuse to think poorly of Christians.  I never will.  I was raised in the Catholic Church and that was the one place I was never treated with contempt by bigots or patronized by so-called liberals because of my race.  I was given my due as an individual, which is more than I can say of my detractors here.

Nevertheless, I appreciate your denouncement of this thread.

Luke,

I'd like to say you're welcome, but I'm not pleased to have answered anything at all here.  Who am I is no secret, but it is a bit galling to explain myself.  These facts are irrelevant to any argument I have made in this forum.  Besides I am still scratching my head over that photo of yours showing a group of white people examining a group of black people like a zoological exhibit.  I can assure you my mother was not someone to lay about the roadside waiting for hand-outs from curious tourists.  I'm sure you had no ill intent in displaying this photo.  Still, it's odd that you did.

Andy

(Edited by Andy Postema on 10/28, 6:34am)


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Friday, October 28, 2005 - 6:49amSanction this postReply
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Andy, when you told me you consider yourself black because your mother is West Indian, that meant absolutely nothing to me.  I confess a degree of ignorance about world geography.  I used Google in "Moderate SafeSearch" mode to find images of West Indies natives using the key term ["West Indies"+natives] and that was all I could find.  No offense intended -- just trying to learn a little more about an area I have never visited.

A new search using ["West Indies"+locals] yields this more productive photo:




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Friday, October 28, 2005 - 6:51amSanction this postReply
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When I woke up this morning and read this thread I was absolutely appalled.  This is probably the lowest I've seen anyone stoop around here. 

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Friday, October 28, 2005 - 6:52amSanction this postReply
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I agree with Andy's comment on the picture posted by Luke. More suitable would have been noting that Colin Powell is the son of immigrants from the West Indies.

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Friday, October 28, 2005 - 7:02amSanction this postReply
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Luke,

It's OK.  I've read enough of your posts to know that there was nothing but good ol' fashioned curiosity behind your question.  Normally I would've answered it happily.  The context of this thread made it sour for me.  But I'm not going to let the ill will of others seep into the dialog between you and me.  So be assured I have no negative thoughts about your curiosity.

Andy


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Friday, October 28, 2005 - 7:02amSanction this postReply
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Well, Merlin, if I had known that, I would not have had to do any research in the first place.

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Friday, October 28, 2005 - 7:08amSanction this postReply
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Jody,

I appreciate your disgust, but if you think about it, it's more whacky than appalling.

Andy


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Friday, October 28, 2005 - 7:18amSanction this postReply
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Adam,

Once again we see you need to apologise to Andy. Talk about Ad Hominem. What the hell is going on with you man?

Ethan


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Friday, October 28, 2005 - 7:10amSanction this postReply
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Adam,

Are you blind.

"The photo is from a different angle than the one on SOLO, but the shapes of all the recognizable elements-nose, brows, mouth etc. - are identical.

The nose, brows, and mouth are different. You could have put the pictures next to one another but then your post would even be more unbelievable.


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Friday, October 28, 2005 - 7:39amSanction this postReply
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It's three in the morning here in NZ & I just got up for a comfort call. Checking my computer on the way back to bed I saw this thread. Adam, what the HELL is this? You'd better damn well apologise.

Linz

PS - Andy, keep up those KASS posts, my friend.

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Friday, October 28, 2005 - 7:51amSanction this postReply
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Adam- you might want to send an email to Andy sub-two, telling him to disregard any unusual "inquiries" he's received since you posted his email address.


rde
Always There To Help


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Friday, October 28, 2005 - 8:19amSanction this postReply
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Okay, in the interest of balanced journalism, I got into it.

Who is Adam Reed?
 
Indeed, a tricky question, even using Google. My initial conclusion was that Adam Reed is actually an actor, noted for his work in the "Sealab" series:



You can see why I was drawn to this- in addition the gray hair, eyepatch, the general bone structure and fleshtones allowed me to determine that he resembled a Caucasian male that, what with having the same number of ears, eyes, nose,  and even if not especially mouth, bears a striking resemblence. How "ironic" that he played a scientific type.

But, alas, going to the movie databases, I realized that this was Adam Reed III, and clearly we are dealing with one, and only one Adam Reed. Dig deep, I told my psyche, dig deep. Fortunately, memory came to serve. Or so I thought...

I was convinced that it was one of these guys:

Cast Photo

But that fell apart quickly. I was confusing the character ("Jim Reed") with the series (Adam-12). And, if anything, it would've been the guy on the left- stretchy, that, even doing a forensic "roll-back-the-clock" comparison sketch of the one photo we do have of our Adam Reed.

Back to basics. Sometimes, people get too obtuse when they use search engines. Why not go to www.adam-reed.com?  And what do I find, but:



Now, we're getting some paydirt. Clearly, this is some kind of crude self-portrait, in the form of a facial casting.

    

I rest my case.


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