Ya made yer bed, toots! 
Rape month is gonna suck too.
"I apologize to everyone; what I did was categorically wrong, and I regret my actions.
I’m sorry to those of you who were hurt. I’m even sorrier for those who found it funny, because you’re all terrible people, and now you have to live with yourselves."
Obviously we differ on this, but what I got from his apology is that he agreed it was a bad idea (“wrong” if you want to put it that way, although I think that’s a bit strong), he is genuinely sorry to have hurt anybody’s feelings, and obviously he isn’t going to do it again. It’s sure as hell a lot more conciliatory than I think is warranted, based on the molehill magnitude of the offense. My version would probably have been, “It was wrong of me to think you people are reasonable. I’m truly sorry I made that mistake. I won’t do it again.” A bona-fide three-element apology!
Just for the record (since it’s still being referenced from time to time), but Chefguy and I talked to each other in PM and resolved it all shortly after he made that post. LSLGuy and I too.
Given the obvious date and subject matter, I strongly suspected a April fools prank. Total strangers typically don’t out themselves in a pm. I appreciated the attempt at humor. YMMV.
Whatever you’ve got planned for next year, please include me in it. I’m strongly considering pitting you for your oversight in leaving me out this year. That’s patent favoritism and I should not have to tolerate it.
Damn it, I should have known better. As everyone knows mods are in fact advanced robotic constructs, possibly extraterrestrial in origin, for whom gender has no meaning. How could I be so naive?
Can you post the conversation?
Yeah, right. Like Idle should get off that easy. You frickin’ bleeding hearts don’t know how to administer true and just punishment for egregious misdeeds, do you? Unless Idle’s head is fully conscious while astride the tip of the pike, it ain’t no punishment at all. Go back to Execution 101, ok Wimpy?
Bricker, I sniffed your posts out in about 15 seconds. And, to be perfectly frank, I found them to be so revolting that I was compelled to turn you in to the bar as well as the Nuremburg tribunals (I’m still awaiting a call back from them) , charging “extreme crimes against nature.” What the hell were you thinking, dude? Man, oh man, it’s ok to call Saul, but think twice before thinking “I better call Bricker.”
…just to be clear, it was you who went on the long spiel about butt plugs and goats, right?
Well, well, well…look at Ms. Fancy pants Idle, thinking she can just waltz right in here, shake her big fat horse ass, open her flabby duck lips and say, “I’m sorry.” “Sorry” doesn’t cut it, sister; not for what you did; no way, no how.
Idle, I really hope that you don’t take this the wrong way and I really don’t mean to offend you in any conceivable way, but I think you’re the most horrible life form that has ever existed on planet Earth. You are worse than a giant mosquito carrying malaria and HIV in his nose tube. By comparison, you make Hitler seem like a good choice to babysit your Jewish kids. You are the kind of person ISIS kicks out saying, “that bitch is too vile for us.” How do you live with yourself? Do you wake up every morning and say you’re sorry for being born? You should, you know.
You’ve got to do a lot better than, “I’m sorry”, honey. What you did on April 1, 2015 is so despicably deplorable; my head literally explodes every time I think about it. (It really does, I’m wiping brain matter off my computer screen even as we speak).
If you want any type of sympathy from us— your judge, jury and executioners— you have to say, “I’m very sorry for what I did. “ Only then, perhaps, can we start to take you seriously and show some modicum of leniency toward you.
And, if you have any desire whatsoever to get back with me on a deviant sexual level, you have to go a step further and say, “I’m very, very sorry for what I did, daddy.”
There you go Idle, my balls are in your court. How are you going to play this out?
And, just to be clear…you are a chick, right, Idle?
Only in this sense:
http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/8336/bugsbunnydrag2bw3.png
No, but he’s forever lost the ability to set anyone straight about it if they call him female. It is destine to become a board meme.
I loathe April Fool’s jokes, as I posted in a thread years ago.
As jokes go, though, this one wasn’t so bad.
IdleThoughts is neither male nor female. IT is an ‘it’, like Tiresias, throbbing between two worlds.
Except in IT’s case, it is a sexless text-based life form, whose pranks throb between inanity and mediocrity.
Me too! Me too! (waves hand)
You’re hilarious and I love you too.
Come to daddy, baby!
O.k. I need to say something.
The attitude that Idle Thoughts displays is problematic. The dude treats the board as his own personal playground. The board had to create a whole 'nother forum because he likes “thread games”, and now he is playing again. Idle Toughts is pushing this board in to bullshit banality.
The more I read these two threads, the more I believe Idle Thoughts has pulled off something very Andy-Kauffmanesque. Never have I seen so many people at this board so incensed and outraged at another man’s idea of simple performance comedy.
Well done, madam, well done!