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Title: I'm doing a Poll!!
Post by: squiregaby on November 16, 2011, 10:30:49 AM
So...this Charlie character on "Knights" of Mayhem says everyone knows his name.....I want to disprove this!

SO....REAL Knights excluded.....who ACTUALLY knew who he was BEFORE this show?
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Post by: Merlin the Elder on November 16, 2011, 10:45:12 AM
I certainly did not know his name. But now that I know it, I'll be happy to provide raspberries whenever I see him perform his feats of superhuman ego.
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Post by: arbcoind on November 16, 2011, 11:01:37 AM
Nope, don't know him.

Gina
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Post by: Lady Christina de Pond on November 16, 2011, 11:14:11 AM
never heard of him
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Post by: PollyPoPo on November 16, 2011, 11:19:07 AM
We saw him at Sherwood Forest Faire last spring.

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Post by: Breandan on November 16, 2011, 11:23:37 AM
Never heard of him, and I played around a bit with the Seattle Knights and have been working ren faires and following jousting (granted, mostly in Europe) for 20 years
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Post by: Monsignor de Beaumanoir on November 16, 2011, 12:15:42 PM
I knew of him due to his alleged resume.  >:(
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Post by: Sir William Marcus on November 16, 2011, 12:30:36 PM
Quote from: Warrior Monk on November 16, 2011, 12:15:42 PM
I knew of him due to his alleged resume.  >:(

Ditto
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Post by: dreamwalker on November 16, 2011, 12:58:22 PM
Charlie who?
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Post by: DonaCatalina on November 16, 2011, 01:13:43 PM
Charlie? I didn't know there was a Charlie.
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Post by: LadyStitch on November 16, 2011, 01:30:56 PM
Never heard of him
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Post by: Baron Frederick on November 16, 2011, 05:02:59 PM
Never heard of him,who's  Charlie?
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Post by: Rowan MacD on November 16, 2011, 05:15:39 PM
     Never heard of him.   He may have been (and/or still is) a very obscure member of a team somewhere at sometime.  
    Seems to be at odds with his press, don't you think?

I was able to find a link to an article about him in Renaissance Magazine:

http://queue.typepad.com/renaissance_faires/2009/05/renaissance-people-charlie-andrews.html
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Post by: renfairephotog on November 16, 2011, 06:39:12 PM
Never heard of him before the show.

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Post by: NoBill Lurker on November 16, 2011, 06:44:03 PM
Nope...
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Post by: renfairephotog on November 16, 2011, 06:50:38 PM
you can set up poll with options and show results. Last tab on the top og the page.

Mark Read  |  Notify  |  New Topic  |  Post new poll    

Option 1:
Option 2:
   Allow user to change vote.
   Show the poll's results to anyone.
Only show the results after someone has voted.
Only show the results after the poll has expired.
Title: Re: I'm doing a Poll!!
Post by: Breandan on November 16, 2011, 06:59:02 PM
Quote from: Sir William Marcus on November 16, 2011, 12:30:36 PM
Quote from: Warrior Monk on November 16, 2011, 12:15:42 PM
I knew of him due to his alleged resume.  >:(

Ditto
the fake Navy SEAL thing, or something else on top of that?
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Post by: angusmacinnes on November 16, 2011, 07:13:09 PM
Nope never heard of him.  And IMHO the show is of low quality.
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Post by: Sir William Marcus on November 16, 2011, 08:27:30 PM
Quote from: Breandan on November 16, 2011, 06:59:02 PM
the fake Navy SEAL thing, or something else on top of that?

Currently, just the fake Navy Seal thing I'm aware of.
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Post by: MrHyde on November 17, 2011, 12:40:20 AM
Nope.

In the words of Texas Ranger in Talladega Nights:  Someone didn't love you enough when you were little, did they?
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Post by: dreamwalker on November 17, 2011, 12:40:35 AM
Yeah the whole fake Navy SEAL thing so not cool in my book...*FAIL*
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Post by: Mairte on November 17, 2011, 10:12:32 AM
Before the show? NADA.
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Post by: Lord Virgo on November 17, 2011, 03:45:50 PM
I thought he was on Jersey Shore but that must been a different idiot.  So no I never heard of him before the show
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Post by: FFoNCRF on November 17, 2011, 03:55:43 PM
I thought he got fired from "2 and 1/2 Men" but now I find out it is someother low life A**hole. Never hope to hear from him again.
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Post by: SirRichardBear on November 17, 2011, 03:56:56 PM
I saw him at the joust at Sherwood but didn't know his name till the show and thought he was a jerk at Sherwood with his whole this isn't a show scam.  Sorry if its not a show then I don't need to put anything in the jar do  I.  
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Post by: squiregaby on November 17, 2011, 04:01:31 PM
You guys crack me up! :D  I'm thoroughly amused at a lot of the responses :D

I didn't THINK everyone knew who he was because....hellooo I'm a squire and I didn't know who he was....
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Post by: dreamwalker on November 17, 2011, 06:29:41 PM
Better find out which village is missing their idiot and have him returned....
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Post by: Adriana Rose on November 17, 2011, 07:17:37 PM
nope, just the guys from Noble Cause.

I hope his mother smacks him silly for being such an arse on tv
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Post by: MrHyde on November 17, 2011, 11:20:49 PM
Thanksgiving dinner at his house...... Mom pass the potatoes.... <<<<WHACK>>>>  OW!  Mom!  What was that for?  For being an arsehole on TV arsehole!
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Post by: Mairte on November 18, 2011, 02:38:32 PM
I always thought it was the really insecure ones that needed to try and be so tough. I would prefer any of the other knights over Charlie. ::)
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Post by: DonaCatalina on November 18, 2011, 04:37:06 PM
I saw we all take scrap pieces of black fabric and wave them en masse during the show.
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Post by: Mairte on November 19, 2011, 05:14:51 PM
We arent supposed to throw rotten eggs or tomatoes or something?
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Post by: DonaCatalina on November 21, 2011, 01:54:34 PM
No...we're supporting the black knight 'cause he's really the good guy.
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Post by: Mairte on November 21, 2011, 04:15:35 PM
Yes, for supporting the black knight. I meant the refuse for Charlie. ;D
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Post by: DonaCatalina on November 21, 2011, 04:19:07 PM
LOL. Go for it. I don't have any rotten veggies.
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Post by: Mairte on November 21, 2011, 08:24:05 PM
I am sure I could FIND some! :D For a good cause and all of that.
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Post by: dreamwalker on November 24, 2011, 11:24:29 PM
What's this about him being MIA?
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Post by: Carl on November 25, 2011, 06:12:32 AM
Never heard of him but I do know Brian and DJ from MIRF
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Post by: BLAKDUKE on November 25, 2011, 10:08:31 AM
Poor Charlie, Poor, Poor misunderstood Charlie..  I knew of him long before the show.  He and Shane Adams of the Knights of Valor were partners.  Charlie and Knights of Mayhem would do faires in the western half of the country and Shane would do the eastern half.  Then there came a time when they had to get together to do some shows in the south.  I worked with Charlie in a few GCRF events.  We also worked together in that abortion that was held for one weekend in Sarasota.  I think alot of you are taking to much of what is being shown  to heart.  Don't forget that this is a sort of reality show kind of thing.   If this was for real and in earnest somebody would surely have gotten knocked in their arses.   Most people would not bother watching it if it were are all nice and lovey-dovey.    Sort of like the old Boyd Coddington show or the father/son
biker show.  It's for television, not for real.

The BLAKDUKE
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Post by: Breandan on November 25, 2011, 11:45:59 AM
His stolen valor issue is well-documented, and existed prior to this program, and he has a long history of such behavior, so he's got a lot of damning issues that existed well before the show.
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Post by: BLAKDUKE on November 25, 2011, 12:08:15 PM
Quote from: Breandan on November 25, 2011, 11:45:59 AM
His stolen valor issue is well-documented, and existed prior to this program.

Please explain................
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Post by: Breandan on November 25, 2011, 07:05:32 PM
Quote from: BLAKDUKE on November 25, 2011, 12:08:15 PM
Quote from: Breandan on November 25, 2011, 11:45:59 AM
His stolen valor issue is well-documented, and existed prior to this program.

Please explain................
He has claimed on numerous occasions, including in his press kit that he sent to various media agencies who were interviewing him such as the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/magazine/11Jousting-t.html?_r=1) and ESPN, that he was a Navy SEAL during Desert Storm, served in Mogadishu and was involved as part of a "black ops" team in the "Blackhawk Down" incident, and so on. The problem is, according to his own military records (http://www.pownetwork.org/pownet.secure/mason_robert_charles_andrews_2.pdf) gained by FOIA, and information provided by researchers into Stolen Valor incidents (http://www.pownetwork.org/phonies/phonies1142.htm) (including former SEAL Team One member Steve Robinson and SEAL Team Two member Don Shipley, who specialize in exposing frauds), he never completed BUD/S nor was he ever a member of any SEAL team at all. He spent 4 years on active duty with the Navy, and 4 in the Navy Reserve, and the only school he completed was Equipment Operator Class "A" School. The units to which he was assigned according to the FOIA records released were not SEAL units, or units to which a SEAL MOS would ever be assigned.

I have already had run-ins with some of his supporters who try the whole "You don't know the real story, he was Black Ops, they scrubbed his record" crap. I have security clearances through both DoS and DoD, trust me, even the secret squirrel guys have paper trails that ping on a FOIA, even if it is a document so heavily redacted that it's all black ink. I know a BS artist when I see one, and he most definitely is one. He has neither the disciplined temperament nor the professional bearing of a military professional, much less a SEAL. He strikes me as a puffed-up blowhard bully, and the documentation refutes his macho claims. He has recently backtracked, saying he has never claimed to have been a SEAL, despite the paper trail he has already left, so the man has no honour in my eyes.
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Post by: Zardoz on November 25, 2011, 10:27:12 PM
I've seen him in relation to jousting stuff, and at Sherwood Forest Faire last season. Never knew his name.
He seems to have a lot of 'input' in the TV show, so that rather than being a doucumetary style show as one would expect from the National Geographic channel, it's mostly about Charlie and his ego.
So it is, as BLAKDUKE implied, 'just a TV show' like Orange county choppers. Looking at it that way, since most folks in the motorcycle industry view the OCC guys as pretty much "total clown shoes" as the kids say, it's not surpising that most rennies see this piss artist the same way.  
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Post by: DonaCatalina on November 28, 2011, 05:22:35 AM
Breandan, you reminded me of a CIA report I saw back in 1980 something. ========= agent was involved in incident in =============that included =========== and later that same day the same agent was interviewed by agency monitor========.