ROY X CONE contest, 1.1.11 - 2.1.12

[tsunamiboy85]

You will soon all be BEGGING ME to stop posting boxer fits.

Now that I, and the rest of the board I am sure, want to see. Remember to document any wear, rips and tears (especially butt and crotch rips). No homo, just plain curiosity at how these evolve together with The Jeans.

Even though I am not in the contest, it would be nice, and an ego massage if the leather patch would have at least a teeny mention of "T-Rex" or something, but I am not demanding anything, just wishful thinking.

I think there's nothing left to be said about not being in the contest. This is life. Win some, lose some. Saying anymore just makes one sound like a whiner, no offense meant. 'Nuff said.

Here's to ROY, and the select 30, for what I am sure is going to be a great competition.

[Farhad]

Oh, I forgot cheers Roy

Also Cheers Roy6, rnr, paul T, and almostmostimportantly, Almostnice

[almostnice]

much much better!

[lostinthesupermarket]

Now that's a proper glass of beer.

[tg76]

An excellent idea. I know roughly where most of the contestants live, but if you all want to pm me with the city/ state or provence or prefecture / country, I'll compile a list for posting.

I believe TG is in your neighborhood?

yeah there is just a bit of water a different tone of english an extra star on a flag a different government and a change of currency between us!.. and we dont eat our national animal

^ Yay!

We will get a head-start compared to everybody else

Unless someone lives in New Zealand...

here!..

[roy6]

^same hemisphere, whatever.

[fre-co]

I heard about this before ROY went on hiatus and I held off buying his jeans at $150 to be part of this. I and many others were committed back then knowing that we were missing out on great jeans at a great price with just the hope of something special here.

It's gonna be a great contest, I like the fact that Europe is well represented and look forward to some UK meet-ups. Now if only I could find a legitimate reason to take a business trip to Germany......

[fre-co]

yeah there is just a bit of water a different tone of english an extra star on a flag a different government and a change of currency between us!.. and we dont eat our national animal

here!..

It's virtually the next street!

[dkatz]

An excellent idea. I know roughly where most of the contestants live, but if you all want to pm me with the city/ state or provence or prefecture / country, I'll compile a list for posting.

I was actually thinking it would be cool to do a map - I'm a visual guy. Even a Google map with a little thingy where each of us is located would be rad.

Oooo... given that it sounds like a few of us will be a bit mobile in 2011, it would be even cooler if we could somehow put together a map that we can update whenever we go somewhere. Kind of like how a Google map looks like when it's showing directions, but a separate little line for each of us.

Anyone have any idea how to do that? I actually have GIS software on my computer... but NO idea how to use it.

[tg76]

I was actually thinking it would be cool to do a map - I'm a visual guy. Even a Google map with a little thingy where each of us is located would be rad.

Oooo... given that it sounds like a few of us will be a bit mobile in 2011, it would be even cooler if we could somehow put together a map that we can update whenever we go somewhere. Kind of like how a Google map looks like when it's showing directions, but a separate little line for each of us.

Anyone have any idea how to do that? I actually have GIS software on my computer... but NO idea how to use it.

there are those where have you been maps on facepalmbook... could we steal that somehow,,, or add another of this

http://www.superfuture.com/supertalk/vbgooglemapme.php

or we could all get tracking devices and a live feed to the world where we are.... no stalkers allowed

[mikecch]

tg is from NZ. Do us proud mikecch!

Thanks kino, will do

^Melbourne meetup where we all get to touch mikecch's jeans?

yeah there is just a bit of water a different tone of english an extra star on a flag a different government and a change of currency between us!.. and we dont eat our national animal

here!..

Damn your 2 hour head start~

Kangaroo and emu are mighty tasty...if anyone is visiting Melbourne over summer, I'll show you our national emblem animals in a burger!

[Farhad]

tg, don't feel bad. I was born in Iran and people ask if I'm Arab, speak Arabic, and lived in the desert!!! It's the same as calling japanese person Korean! LOL

Fre$co- you wont find that reason in almostnice. well it will be a reason, but it won't be a legitimate one

dkatz- we can put a tracking device on all of us. kind of like house arrest but with denim. The question is, what would be our curfew :confused:

[dkatz]

^hahaha I love the tracking device idea. Oh wait, no I don't!

Yeah, TG - any idea how we could make a map like that for ourselves? If we just wanted one point for where each person lives, it should be easy to do in Google (I think), but the movement part would be tough

[Paul T]

Glad we're all here.

One thing Chris shoulda mentioned was that when we quickly had to pick quickly the last few, we knew we had to go for separate continents - and figured the Irish economy needed some help. SO make sure you all drop in on lostinthesupermarket and consume lots of beverages!

Lots of drinking ro ROY, which is entirely appropriate; also we need to drink to the wonderful Ralph Tharpe. He loved this idea straight off, Cone are a massive company, but he, and Kara, made it happen!

Cheers, Ralph!

[mikecch]

^ Very true, big thanks to Cone - Ralph and Kara in particular

When can I start blogging and post some stolen pics btw???

I'm getting itchy blogging fingers~~~

[kino]

^hahaha I love the tracking device idea. Oh wait, no I don't!

Yeah, TG - any idea how we could make a map like that for ourselves? If we just wanted one point for where each person lives, it should be easy to do in Google (I think), but the movement part would be tough

something like this? http://maps.google.com.au/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=117990064908276307180.0004953c55e4628abf370&ll=1.054628,52.03125&spn=164.802303,181.054688&z=2

can invite other people to collaborate so that they can update their own location.

quite easy to set up http://maps.google.com/support/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=guide.cs&guide=21670&topic=21676

[DocBlue]

Oooh,come on,lets hug each other.

now i know why you want some new SM and latex collection to pop up.....

[dkatz]

something like this? http://maps.google.com.au/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=117990064908276307180.0004953c55e4628abf370&ll=1.054628,52.03125&spn=164.802303,181.054688&z=2

can invite other people to collaborate so that they can update their own location.

quite easy to set up http://maps.google.com/support/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=guide.cs&guide=21670&topic=21676

Ah! I see you can draw lines.. that could work for the "movement" idea.

And... I can't edit the map to include myself. Hmmm.

[SLAB]

congrats to the chosen few; guess i wasn't 'special' enough, no hate though

wear them to the max, i know most of you will

[kino]

Ah! I see you can draw lines.. that could work for the "movement" idea.

And... I can't edit the map to include myself. Hmmm.

i created that one under my google account as a sample

[dkatz]

Right then, here we go:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=102142699161213526741.0004953f49485e64368f1&ll=22.268764,5.273438&spn=125.089901,316.054688&t=h&z=2

It looks like in order for everyone to be able to edit the map, I would need to invite them and (I assume) they'd need Google accounts. Sooo once everyone's locked in we can sort that out. Would be fun to continually update each of our markers with our most up-to-date fit photo. Am I getting ahead of myself?

[Shorty Long]

Stopping by to say hello, good luck and express my excitement for the upcoming competition.

I'm looking forward to it.

[mtchfrnk]

All the single ladies should commit to growing their beards for the duration of the contest. By the end they'd fit right in to the JOTOW thread.

I hope that the absence of photoillustrations so far in this thread is NOT the trend over the next year. Pictures of jeans speak louder than words about jeans! Except when the Four Horsemen denim philosophers are speaking...

[Vinneus]

Goddamn! 24 pages in 24 hours! too bad im already wearing my original Roys almost exclusively!

Edit: Free hair cut or color (TG76) for anyone in the contest! (must wear jeans though, as i plan on leaving my mark on them )

[grooveholmes]

you are the sweeney todd of roys. (and yes, i know he's a barber, not a stylist)

[The Clerk]

Ok, so big thanks to PaulT, roy6, mrswitch, almostnice Roy himself of course and Ralph Thorpe and all the guys at cone for getting this off the ground. This will be my first competition and I'm pretty chuffed to be doing it in such exalted company.

Let the fun begin...

[rnrswitch]

I heard about this before ROY went on hiatus and I held off buying his jeans at $150 to be part of this. I and many others were committed back then knowing that we were missing out on great jeans at a great price with just the hope of something special here.

It's gonna be a great contest, I like the fact that Europe is well represented and look forward to some UK meet-ups. Now if only I could find a legitimate reason to take a business trip to Germany......

I think this is the case for most of the contestants, of course, barring the "lucky 3."

Y'all had a little faith in ROY, and the hack organizers of this thing. Thanks to y'all as well.

[ranonranonarat]

Goddamn! 24 pages in 24 hours! too bad im already wearing my original Roys almost exclusively!

Edit: Free hair cut or color (TG76) for anyone in the contest! (must wear jeans though, as i plan on leaving my mark on them )

always waiting to take up the offer from you.

[Paul T]

Just to bring my end of Phase 1 to an end - I've replied to everyone who PM'd me first, to say thanks very much for your interest, and sorry everyone couldn't get in. It's a great vindication of ROY.

Now I've replied to the PMs I realise there are well over 60 people who missed out and didn't complain - thanks for understanding. I shall only say that the one person I've noticed who did gripe was the last but one to PM!

Some people seem to think this was all some kind of beauty contest; it wasn't for me, I simply wanted to get as wide a spread of interesting posts, across ages and continents if possible, so Cone get some cool blog entries. I know lots of others would have done a great job - but the best way to prove that is in a future contest or other thread here on SuFU. I'll continue to look forward to all your posts.

And Vinn - you remain our style inspiration.

[glimmertwins]

Wow - I have been on hiatus from this board for a few weeks(too damn expensive when I spend a lot of time here)....but it looks like I picked a good time to come back. This contest looks freaking amazing - can't wait to see the photos.