- What’s up with the name Youngmanridge? It sounds like a gay porn site!

You can be assured this isn’t a gay porn site. The name Youngmanridge was born a few years back when Giggles, Roachito, and Shortstick were planning on getting a house together. We decided that we were going to give our place a name and ended up combining our names together. We could tell you how we did it, but then I'd have to go out and kill people who hate cliches. Anyways, getting a place together never worked out so the name kind of sat dormant for a little bit until we decided to put together a website.

- So what’s up with this history of the website?

The List

To know about the history of the website, you have to know about “The Discovery List”. A few summers back Giggles and Shortstick started writing down quotes and other miscellaneous stuff we learned from the Discovery Channel. Shortstick learned one night that “It is very important to have a flash light with you if you are in the Serengeti” and he kept telling family and friends how important said flashlight was. If memory serves us correctly, Giggles suggested that we needed to start writing stuff like that down and a monster was born. Giggles and Shortstick went out drinking on a weekly basis (sometimes Roachito joined us, but he was on lockdown most of the time) and would get pretty tanked. We’d head home and “enhance our buzz”, watch the Discovery Channel, and write a bunch of stupid stuff down. Once Roachito freed himself from his psycho bitch, he started joining in the fun with us. We’ve had other contributors along the way, including Shortstick’s brother and the future Mrs. Giggles.

What the hell does the list have to do with the website?

After we had compiled a decent amount of entries to the list, we started reading some of them to random folks who we came in contact with (mostly family and friends). While some of the shit on the list doesn’t make a damn bit of sense, quite a few people thought it was pretty funny. After making people crack up, we decided that we had to publish the list in some way and there is really no better way to do it than the WWW.

We dusted off the old Youngmanridge name and decided we would use the name for the site. Once we decided that we were going to have a website and what the name would be, we started deciding what we wanted to put on the site. Even before we had our domain name registered or any content outside of the list, any time something cool would come up, the quote always seemed like “that needs to go on the website”. After talking about it (website) for a few months, Shortstick and Roachito went to the Starwars convention a couple of years back. We thought about how cool it would have been to document the event (and our extra-curricular activities) for the website, but we didn’t have one yet. When we got back home, Shortstick registered the domain name and we started working on the site. Hence, Youngmanridge.com was born.

- What’s up with the content? Why is the scope of Youngmanridge.com so broad?

When we first started Youngmanridge, we didn't have any content outside of "The List". Our original intent of the site was to write about stuff that we liked in a "positive" sort of manner because the 'net, more often than not, is a collection of negativity. Most of our early content happened to be about subjects that interested us. In the spring of '04, the direction of the site changed when we came up with the concept for "The Stink Yard". Even though our focus is now pretty much on the "Stink Yard", we will still post some articles about "stuff we like" from time to time.

What is a "Stink Yard" and why is it the focus of your website?

Simply put, "The Stink Yard" is our cheesy horror movie review page. For whatever reason, after we rented and reviewed "Miner's Massacre", Giggles and Shortstick decided that it would be a good idea to start reviewing cheesy horror movies. After trying to figure out the title for Miner's Massacre (an abbreviated account can be found in the review), we came to the realization that there aren't that many sites on the net that take the time to review the obscure titles from the horror genre. Hence, the focus for our site was born.

The title for the "Stink Yard" was born after throwing some ideas out on a long-lost post in the forums by Giggles. The "Stink" part of the title is somewhat obvious, with us reviewing stinky, cheesy movies. "Yard" comes from grave yard to invoke the horror aspect of the section. Either that, or Shortstick wrote a whole lot of bullshit right now.

How come you don’t use your real names?

The content on this site isn’t exactly fit for our bosses, grandparents, and whoever else might be shocked to come upon this site and be pissed off. Giggles, Roachito, and Shortstick all have jobs that are in the public eye. Since we don’t make any money from the website as of this moment, we decided it might be a better idea to use nicknames for the time being.

Since you don’t use your real names, what’s up with your nicknames?

They are our “gang” names. One night, while we were partaking in some “extra-curricular” fun, we decided that we needed gang names. It should be noted that the Youngmanridge dudes are three middle-class white guys.

Shortstick got his name from a joke that Roachito cracked one night while we were playing pool in a cramped room. If anyone has ever played pool in a room that isn’t quite big enough to not hit your cue against the wall, you’ll know what we are talking about. Sometimes you have to use a shorter stick to make your shot. Roachito had to use the short cue to make a shot, so he said “(name) hand me the short stick since you have experience with them” or something like that. Even though Shortstick doesn’t like people implying shit like that, it was a good joke.

Giggles got his name from laughing all the time when he partakes in “extra-curricular” fun and getting the Giggles. Sometimes he can’t stop laughing and turns blue in the face from lack of proper breathing. Either that or it’s his asthma. We haven’t figured that one out yet.

Roachito got his name from “Little Roach” and after a while, we started calling him Roachito because it sounded more Latin. The name Little Roach came from him always trying to get the last little bit of “extra-curricular” fun.

And even though it isn’t a gang name, LordSubD has a great explanation of how he got his name on his personal website. He hasn’t been jumped into the gang yet, but he is sort of a charter member (Shorstick and LordSubD met back in 4th grade) so we let him choose his own name.

Any other stuff you can tell me about the website?

Between April and September 2003, the website was kind of dormant. Shortstick was working on a new design and after a while he kind of gave up on it because he was working on a design that was far too complicated for his abilities. After a while, he came up with a design that was more workable and we’ve been going strong since.

What does Youngmanridge have in store for us in the future?

Honestly, we don’t know right now but we are always looking to make the site better. The current version of the site you are seeing is about the fourth redesign we have done. All we know is that we will continue this site as long as we feel like it (and Shortstick keeps paying for it).

We are looking into doing a video game branch of the site because we seem to have a decent database of video game reviews building up and it would be nice to have a collection of links to walkthroughs or have them stored on our site. We’ll see it if ever comes to fruition but it should be cool if it does.

If you have any other questions or you happen to be a hot chick (sorry, had to slip in some “sexist pig” stuff in the FAQ somewhere), email Shortstick.

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