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Old 08-21-1999, 10:15 AM
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Old 08-21-1999, 03:55 PM
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Old 08-21-1999, 04:15 PM
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Saw them on the search page, where I got the weirdest result yet, that place is becoming interesting just because of its WAGs. Anyway, what are they? I think I mean ,Why are they?
(aside from; forum b: a public meeting place for open discussion) , what goes on in a private forum, huh? huh? i bet it's really neat. i bet they talk about the anti gravity rocket ship with the faster than light laser that deletes stupid postings and everything. Shoot, there went my points for brevity, I like boxers better any way.
Oh,speaking parenthetically, of course, I guess I should have communicated more punctually, but I thought it was time to put a full stop to that period of silliness.


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Old 08-21-1999, 05:25 PM
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I never noticed that before, mr. john! I'll bet they have secret handshakes, human sacrifice and free beer in there.
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Old 08-22-1999, 12:42 AM
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PS You DO get points for brevity, though.
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Old 08-22-1999, 07:01 AM
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You mean, like, where the illuminati meet?
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Old 08-22-1999, 08:06 AM
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Oh look ,dex has deigned to poke his head out of the private forum. What's the matter dex? The smoke from the 'incense' get too thick? you don't fool us, we've heard that illuminati used to cover up the real conspiritors way too often. I bet they got Hitlers brain in there, and Dillingers 'gun', maybe even Franco's pancreas. You just get back to the sdorgi, and stop taunting us. We don't really care. Aw,come on can we just peek thru the key hole ,please, we won't tell, come on, honest, we'll be quiet.

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Old 08-22-1999, 08:25 AM
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Not clear if this is a bug or a feature, but this board appears to let you set up new forums. See, for example, Forum 9
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Old 08-22-1999, 08:37 AM
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My handle isn't authorized to search private forums...hmmm...imagine that?!

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Old 08-22-1999, 09:30 AM
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Mine neither ,connie, sorry to bust your unique bubble of paranoia. but white blew it, that close to be allowed into the inner circle, and let the secret out.
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Old 08-22-1999, 11:09 AM
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Every one come to forum 9 but do not go to the test thread there is a revolution there. but both factions are actually THEM.and there is some rabble rouser in there. I tried to stop it and institute a benevelent regime, but was unsucessful. come to 'a new regime'. come on, connie, you and sly can be the ministers of peaceful cooperation.
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Old 08-22-1999, 11:43 AM
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Permission to enter, please?
If not, then it's o.k. I'll just sit in the corner, quietly, a single tear in my eye, and wonder why nobody loves me anymore.*sigh*

Are they buying it?
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Old 08-22-1999, 11:43 AM
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AH, man, now I can't get into forum 9! I posted two topics in forum 8 but now I can't get there either. You know it seems to me if there was a place THEY didn't want us to go SOMEONE could have answered the ? in the first place. forum 7 any one?
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Old 08-22-1999, 11:55 AM
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"Forums 8 and 9" are forum areas that have been, as yet, unassigned to a topic.

It's a bug in the UBB system that y'all found them and had access to them in the first place.

Thanks for finding that for us, though; all this is a work in progress and we're discovering new things every day.

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PS Now that you all know, guess I have to kill you.
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Old 08-22-1999, 01:49 PM
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i have scaped i had to. mt master.. er friend mr john has tried to reply to moderater david 5 times, each time greeing that teyre is no comspiracy, each time using his usual wit and wisdom n the spirit of great reparte. each time his pass word is not stored, each time he has clicked 'forgot your pass word?', the result is that SD has no one registerd with that email dress, he went to 'preferences' ithnk and got the password emailed to him, he copied and pasted it right into the space. submit,"there is no one registerd with that password,' he tried to reregister "there is already someone registered with that name".
he told me to tell you he truly believes ther is no spiracy, really , i don't no who to trust any more. bet this doesn't post either.

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Old 08-22-1999, 03:58 PM
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Wow I been somewhere in someplace , but I am back now. Holy smokes! down in 'review topics' below here it says, "Connection timed out'! There ARE some "things man was not meant to know." and I was gonna ask the diva to bring all of forum 9 up here as a topic as a reward for discovering the 'bug', just so I could see who finally won. but I am scared now.

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Old 08-22-1999, 04:09 PM
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he is right I was there conection timed out. i am afraid.
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Old 08-22-1999, 04:21 PM
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The two Forum 9 threads were: test and new realm.

The two (vastly inferior, not that I'm being judgmental) Forum 8 threads were: ho ho! and he hee.
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Old 08-22-1999, 05:08 PM
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I was in cyber space again
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Old 08-22-1999, 05:21 PM
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whitetho is one of THEM! the only way I can get to forum 9 or 8 is thru his links! Favorites and forum 9 folder results in 'access denied' and when I return here to post SD claims I don't exist! I know you will all be saddened to learn I have killed not mr john THEY told me he was the reason I couldn't post! Even though he had a completly different Email address. HA! he is dead now and THEY are still controlling me. It is ok, the brown nosing ,sycophantic, little toady was redundant anyway I don't need him! SLY! CONNIE! now is the time with the way you two cooperate nothing can stop us! Do not go to 'test' it belongs to them. Go to 'a new realm', bask in the benevalence of it's peaceful ruler. FREE THE PIXELS! UNITE ELECTRONS, YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT YOUR BONDS! Don't beleive David there IS a conspiracy.

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Old 08-22-1999, 06:22 PM
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Whoa! I've been locked out of the palace. Yet another bloodless coup. I'm off to Paraguay for R&R, obscurity, Samba dancers, and a little brooding and take-over-the-world-and-return-to-my-rightful-place-in-the-grand-scheme-of-things-plot-hatching.
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Old 08-22-1999, 10:50 PM
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And it was such a lovely place.No moderators to bother us, no late posters repeating what was posted at the top. And now for the lack of a forum pass word we are all prevented from posting. We shall not see such days again soon my friends. And poor not mr john, gave his life for nothing, such a tragic loss. Such a promising future before him as a toady to such a benevelant leader. Ahhh, alack and alas. a moment of nonposting in his honor would not be amiss methinks. AND NOW! ON TO GD ! There is some terrorizing that needs doing! FREE THE SD 7!

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Old 08-23-1999, 12:10 AM
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You know it seems to me if there was a place THEY didn't want us to go SOMEONE could have answered the ? in the first place.
Frankly, john, I didn't know what you were talking about 'til whiteho posted the link. If I would have understood the question, I would've responded and told you that I didn't know what you were taking about.

In other words, I didn't understand the question, and even if I had, I didn't know the answer 'til TubaDiva just told me. As you saw whwn you got there, there were no secret discussions in those forums -- it's just that they aren't in use. Kinda blows away C3's little conspiracy "thoughts," I'm afraid.
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forum 7 any one?
I encourage it! (That's Great Debates
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Old 08-23-1999, 12:31 AM
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help me... that I am imprisoned in forum 9 I do not know that the word
of passage... I am all alone. I am hope of scared.i that approximately
obtains this I will try to pass this in smuggling outside with a fish of
Babel which swims close want me to help

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