Meet Frank

"Baaaah," says Frank.

This is Frank. Frank is the LiveJournal.com mascot. He helps us with random programming when we get behind, and occasionally he answers tech support requests. Frank's really quite versatile.... he even does the yardwork sometimes. When the lawn gets overgrown we go, "Hey Frank! It's lunch time.... go eat the lawn!". It's really a win-win situation.

The Full Story
The year was 1944. The war in Europe was winding down. Allied troops had entered Germany and were slowly making their way towards Berlin. German troops were on the run from the almost continous assaults from both the Eastern and Western fronts.

This was also the year of Frankenheimer (Frank) the Goat's birth. Born to a poor German farmer who was unexpectedly drawn into the war, Frank spent most of the first years of his life alone, eating whatever he could find. Tin cans, grass, and the stray artillery shell.

However, one day, a troop of American soldiers happened upon him. They took pity on the poor goat, who was trying to eat the remains of a German Tiger Tank. They pulled Frank the Goat off of the tank and placed a helmet on his head. From then on out, Frank the Goat was an American. He listened to Glenn Miller as the troops advanced. He ate dinner with Eisenhower and predicted the start of the Cold War.

But then, a mistake. He ate Franklin Roosevelt's shoe at a dinner party. Ashamed, Frank flew back to America and began his life again. He traveled from town to town, selling discount vacuum cleaners. Then, one day, while devouring one of his products, he come up with an idea.

He went to Cambridge and created the "ENIAC". His name, however, was missing from the records for his alleged affair with Marilyn Monroe. From then on out, Frank was at the fore front of the computer industry. He put up the money for Bill Gates to begin work on DOS. Frank even helped code a bit, creating the idea that the screen looked sexy as white on black.

Gates, who prefered black on white, quickly stole Frank's idea. Disgusted, Frank left and began work to create a global computer network. Cruel fate took his gift to the world away from him when AOL came onto the scene and stole all his ideas during an Instant Messenger chat. (Frank later swore he thought it was a 18 year old goat from Boise).

Ashamed again, Frank took his twenty five dollars and got on a bus to Seattle, hoping to get a job at one of those nifty coffee shops. However, the City of Seattle looks down upon goats in kitchens, so Frank was forced to beg for money outside of the Space Needle.

And then, one night while stealing a passed out college student's wallet, he stumbled upon a scrap of paper with three letters on it.

BML.

Frank nursed the college student back from his drunken stupor. Thus began his relationship with Brad Fitzpatrick. Together, they worked hard and created FreeVote, a Internet site created so that people could argue whether Britney Spears was a better singer than Christina Aguillera.

Their pride and joy, is of course, LiveJournal. A place where people from around the world could share their daily lives with others, and hopefully, learn to appreciate each other's strengths and weaknesses.

Frank the Goat's dream... shall it ever be realized?

It's up to you all to find out...

Biography by jgambrell

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Do you want to email Frank? He loves getting mail .... frank@livejournal.com.