Last Friday....

[Drebin]

...was a big day for us and we missed it, consumed with Ole Miss news and all.

But last Friday was Avid Reader Day, proclaimed to be celebrated the Friday before summer solstice.

For those who don't know The Avid Reader, well, you don't know him because he doesn't want to be known. He is a celebrated entrepreneur, photographer, and champion of civil liberties. He speaks seven languages and types 85 words per minute. He did not score a 24 on the English section of the ACT because in his day, they didn't have the ACT. But if they did, he would have scored 40 on a 36 point scale.

The Avid Reader was the Most Interesting Man In The World when the dude in the beer commercial was still shitting green.

We're a little late, but it's never too late to celebrate greatness. Here's to you, Mr. Avid Reader.

If you have your avid reader stories, add them here. Many of us have them.

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

Too much Rue'n going on.

 

[AFDawg]

Avid Rue-der.

 

[Shooter McGavin.sixpack]

Avid Reader set into motion this conspiracy against UM. He also scaled Mt. Everest, swam the Atlantic Ocean, and signed up for insurance on the Obamacare website without any complications....all on a lazy Thursday afternoon.

 

[Drebin]

The Avid Reader is "Emily"

 

[MeridianDog]

Avid Reader is currently manning the American Wing of the International Space Station.

When he isn't troubleshooting critical aspects of mechanical and electronic functions within the operation of the ISS he is manning "highest level" classified spy equipment he personally developed in 2012, under contract to gather additional documentation for the NCAA supporting charges they have leveled against a school they will only identify as TSUN.

Evidently illegal activities carried out by individuals they categorize as "Boosters" in some "grove" of trees on TSUN controlled property will be made public sometime in the fall of this year, during "Death Sentence" hearings.

If you watch the ISS films on the NASA cable network you can sometimes see Avid Reader moving across hatch openings in the background, many times in a Maroon T-shirt.

 

[Palmettodog]

Avid Reader foresaw the future many many years ago in a county far far away. He started his journey on a trip to the Heartland. He started as a mail clerk, eventually working his way up to runner. Reaching a clerical position after many years but he knew he'd have to go higher to accomplish his ultimate goal. He sacrificed through this time of tole and anguish. Many nights of skirt steak without Dales, end cuts of pork tenderloin, and stale Blue Moon with Cuties.

Everyone always questioned his drive, his ultimate goal, his endgame, but he had a vision and he knew that he had to be in place to help set the college football world in motion. Due to his grand visions as an infant he knew that he had to be in the right place at exactly the right time, the right day, the right minute. He was given a vision or rogue disregard for rules, money changing hands and other forms of debauchery disguised under the veil of spiritual guidance. "I must prevail", he said, "This cannot continue for all that is good". Well, he accomplished his goal, and prevail he did. There's no other explanation.

Cheers to you Avid Reader. From my cup in South Carolina to yours in Indianapolis, IN. Your sacrifice does not go unnoticed.

 

[OneParticularHarbor]

That's going way back in the day in the board's history. But yet, Avid Reader can bend time to "way back in the day".

 

[EngDawg]

Some say he's allergic to the colors Red and Blue, and that if he would have been AD instead of Larry Templeton, wouldn’t have been a feckless ginger gum chewing buffoon and ruined it for all of us. All we know is he's the Avid Reader...

 

[TaleofTwoDogs]

Avid Reader knows when IT is coming. There, top that!

 

[bruiser.sixpack]

I admit it. For a long long long long long long long long long time..... I was THE avid reader.