Okay, so what asshole took MarkIbold@gmail.com?
 

Every American—indeed, every human being, regardless of nationality deserves to be rightfully and accurately represented on the World Wide Web—the communication gateway into the next century and beyond—without having to resort to nonsensical aliases with random strings of numbers tacked onto the end. In an era of global wireless technology, our very identities are at stake. It's highly unethical at best, criminal at worst, for others to wantonly abscond with them.

If only, asshole, you could have seen the anger and revulsion that washed over my face as I found that MarkIbold@gmail.com, Ibold@gmail.com, Ibold.Mark@gmail.com, and MarkIboldRules@gmail.com had all been taken. If only you could have felt my heart leap to my throat upon realizing that Markibold@gmail.com would not work either, as Gmail addresses are not case-senstitive. If only you could have heard my cry of anguish when, in a last, desperate move, I typed in crookedrain@gmail.com, only to be rejected once more and finally forced to accept the abomination that is Mark.Ibold20061@gmail.com.

Please, whoever you are, come forward. I will not ask you to relinquish the email adress, or even hand it over. I just need peace of mind.

i feel your pain, mark. especially MarkIboldRules@gmail.com would have been such a cool address for you. why don't we all spam these people, whoever they are?

You crazy, man.

have you tried hotmail? 'Mark'

Gmail is the new hotmail. I use it because it has a 'G', therefore showing that not only do I have an email adress, I have a 'G' email adress. Gangsta.

I feel Mark's pain.

for my 40th birthday i'll get me a "gangsta"mail address too. hopefully SunCityGirlRulez@gmail.com will be free... please don't take it!

taking gmail-address and joining a hip internet forum is the thing to do when having a 40th birthday ibold style. the ibold & beautiful... happy birthday mark!

nice avatar sun city girl, i havn't seen that one used before. anyone who who that girl is?

thanks. i'm not sure if it's told on the sleeve notes but someone here probably knows?

I wanted Disappearer@gmail.com to be my email, but it was taken, so I spelled it without one of the P's.

So you have to explain every time so people don't think you just can't spell?

Yes. :(

Does posting your email address on a forum permit strangers to bombard you with adoring, obsessive, potentially lascivious emails, peppered with entendres about stroking your bass?

did it ever occur to you that there is more than one Mark Ibold on the planet?

Happy Birthday!

Same thing happened to my man Sean Penn

cursor, click here

Yeah, I was thinking about that.

i want the chick from be your own pet to get a better band and have sex with me

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there is only one mark ibold. all others are just impostors WISHING they were mark ibold.

Repped.

MArk Ibold is my favorite, hes so cute and mark iboldy and bassy playerly.

Throw yourself down the stairs as that might give you some ideas for a better name.Go on,do it.

if that really is mark ibold....he needs to get a life and stop worrying about such petty things.....besides, having an email address with your name in it usually isnt a good idea....i would think a former member of pavement would be more original

I would not.

ha ha, this is too funny. as for the "deserving" and such-- unfortunately life's a bitch, and the web is "first-come first-served".

anyway a look at public records shows a few mark ibolds are "americans" deservng of their names. there might be more in other english-speaking countries.

http://find.intelius.com/background-verification.html?

i would try calling them up on the phone & demanding they renounce their identity on your behalf.

my suggestion: go spend $10 at goddaddy and buy yourself the markibold.com domain. that will give you access to such email addresses as mark@markibold.com, theoneandonly@markibold.com, and nobodybutmegoddammit@markibold.com -- run, and do it before one of these board pranksters gains the upper hand & tries to resell it to you for millions...

Don't be such a showboat. You're quite obviously doing this just to solicit fanmail.

For fifty bucks and a case of Mad Dog (lime, preferably), I'll start your fansite. I will, however, need the occasional nude photo to post, simply to keep the visitors' interest piqued. But only if you're well groomed. No one likes woolly bass players.

OH YEAH???

Show me a picture of the netherregions, and then we'll talk.

(Sidenote: this is no comment on my personal body hair preference. I prefer to keep that private, true to my characteristic prudence.)

Are you OK?
What have you done with truncated?

You can bet on there being ten times more hair down there.

Show me yours, and I'll show you mine.

i love how this thread became all about pubes now

Does that mean Mark Ibold is a fake Mark Ibold. Shocking.

yes, but why would that other mark ibold need an email address?

and this is just funny.