Iowa City folks, did you know “smilie” has a fan page?

[QChawks]

I sure didn’t until recently.

you know the kinda creepy guy that wore buttons of young girls all the time. Seems to have quite the fan group.

Facebook Page

 

[TombItMayConcern]

Is it an old page as he died a few years ago?

 

[millah_22]

I know he meant well, but I was kind of creeped out by him

 

[Jackie Treehorn]

Is it an old page as he died a few years ago?

He did not die. Just moved.

 

[Obviously Oblivious]

Gary "Smiley" Bloore was a longtime fixture in the Iowa City and University of Iowa communities. I'm sad to read he has moved to an assisted living community in Maquoketa. While some folks may have found his demeanor unsettling, I found his easy going and cheery personality refreshing in a world awash in negativism. I hope he's doing OK and that he's healthy, happy and forever smiling.

 

[cigaretteman]

I sure didn’t until recently.

you know the kinda creepy guy that wore buttons of young girls all the time. Seems to have quite the fan group.

Facebook Page

They were Iowa Womens' Basketball players. He was a big fan.

 

[QChawks]

 

[JMSBFD]

I know he meant well, but I was kind of creeped out by him

I don't think you were really his type.

 

[IACub]

I didn't know he'd moved, I just figured he was still hiding out from Covid.

 

[Titanhawk2]

Ran into him at George's a couple years ago. Me with my beer, he had his orange Fanta. I had heard last year that he moved away. He was around when I started school in '82

 

[Obviously Oblivious]

I missed seeing him at the men's games this year, he's a really nice guy.

 

[Colonoscopy]

Yeah as long as you're cool with the fact that he masturbates constantly to his favorite players, because you know that's happening...

 

[lucas80]

I missed seeing him at the men's games this year, he's a really nice guy.

I saw him at a men's game this year.

 

[Obviously Oblivious]

Yeah as long as you're cool with the fact that he masturbates constantly to his favorite players, because you know that's happening...

 

[Doodads and Hoohah]

He is an Iowa City legend. After my youngest was born at Mercy Hospital, I walked over to Hamburg Inn to pick up some dinner and sat next to him at the bar and had a nice chat. He was eating hamburger patties with an absurd amount of ketchup.

 

[Pinehawk]

They were Iowa Womens' Basketball players. He was a big fan.

No, he preferred high school girls. It was creepy, but everyone just let him do it.

 

[millah_22]

Yeah as long as you're cool with the fact that he masturbates constantly to his favorite players, because you know that's happening...

Don't we all, though?

 

[Colonoscopy]

He is an Iowa City legend. After my youngest was born at Mercy Hospital, I walked over to Hamburg Inn to pick up some dinner and sat next to him at the bar and had a nice chat. He was eating hamburger patties with an absurd amount of ketchup.

Probably because we has mentally... off.

When you're off you don't have to pretend you don't find HS girls hot.

 

[Derekd3408]

No, he preferred high school girls. It was creepy, but everyone just let him do it.

We have one of those up in North Iowa as well. Travels to tons of HS boys events. Takes pictures with and of them. Shows up at their houses with pictures he's taken and invites them out to eat. His house is a shrine to HS boys and KIMT ran a story on him as a "super fan".

 

[Colonoscopy]

We have one of those up in North Iowa as well. Travels to tons of HS boys events. Takes pictures with and of them. Shows up at their houses with pictures he's taken and invites them out to eat. His house is a shrine to HS boys and KIMT ran a story on him as a "super fan".

Sort of like when you have a suspected neighborhood serial killer and you just throw unused corpses in his backyard to keep him from looking for fresh meat all the time.

 

[Pinehawk]

We have one of those up in North Iowa as well. Travels to tons of HS boys events. Takes pictures with and of them. Shows up at their houses with pictures he's taken and invites them out to eat. His house is a shrine to HS boys and KIMT ran a story on him as a "super fan".

Smilie made custom hats for his favorite high school girl athletes that said, 'I love Heather' (or, whoever he was there to see).
He would also make custom buttons that had pictures of the girls and he would show up to games covered in the buttons, wearing his hat, sometimes a custom t-shirt as well.

Then he'd talk to all the high school girls and take pictures with them after the games. He was doing this in the 90's, and it continued until recently when he had to move away.

Most just said he was harmless, and he probably was. But, it was definitely one of those situations where if something had happened, absolutely no one would have been able to say, 'well, I didn't see that coming'.

 

[Colonoscopy]

But, it was definitely one of those situations where if something had happened, absolutely no one would have been able to say, 'well, I didn't see that coming'.

You didn't see it, but you definitely knew it was happening.

 

[Derekd3408]

Smilie made custom hats for his favorite high school girl athletes that said, 'I love Heather' (or, whoever he was there to see).
He would also make custom buttons that had pictures of the girls and he would show up to games covered in the buttons, wearing his hat, sometimes a custom t-shirt as well.

Then he'd talk to all the high school girls and take pictures with them after the games. He was doing this in the 90's, and it continued until recently when he had to move away.

Most just said he was harmless, and he probably was. But, it was definitely one of those situations where if something had happened, absolutely no one would have been able to say, 'well, I didn't see that coming'.

There's a 0% chance the guy in North Iowa doesn't jerk off to all his pics of shirtless HS boys. The fact that parents let him near their 14-17 year old kids is insane.

 

[Colonoscopy]

There's a 0% chance the guy in North Iowa doesn't jerk off to all his pics of shirtless HS boys. The fact that parents let him near their 14-17 year old kids is insane.

He's probably mentally retarded. Like, your dog can masturbate it in the living room and you're like... eh... just a dog.

You can't hold it against them.

 

[CJBauer]

I remember absolutely trucking Smiley during the Quad vs Burge Foodservice softball (beer drinking) game the summer of 92...he must have flown 10 feet in the air...I can't for the life of me remember why I ran him over or why he was in my way...damn buttons went everywhere

I found him creepy, but everyone that worked with him said he was harmless...

 

[Derekd3408]

He's probably mentally retarded. Like, your dog can masturbate it in the living room and you're like... eh... just a dog.

You can't hold it against them.

He is not.