Some CABALs are bigger even that YOURS! For divulging the secrets of (75 million years ago) INCIDENT II (very space opera) your NAME will now BE submitted to the SEA ORG! FLAG OPERATIVES will decend UPON your house withIN moments. PTS meet the WRATH of XENU in his MOUNTAIN PRISON. This BOARD is now in the control by the LOYAL OFFICERS of TEEGEEACK.
–Wait, some things are probably too true to be mocked, I actually wouldn’t put it past somebody in Clearwater to be monitoring the board, just wishing he could decend upon you. Or upon me for mocking them.
Anyways, funny stuff Fenris, thanks for the laughs.
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You guys really are OT!
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And don’t say Xenu. You want all those engrams to kick in? One thing I can tell you about Dopers-- very few of them are likely to have been through the Wall of Fire.
It starts out bad, gets worse, seems ready to die off, then derails into some sort of bizarre surrealist performance art somewhere around page three. From here things pick up speed, descending in an ever steepening downward spiral. And then Freak makes a final post. And a little later comes out with:
And that’s pretty much it. Finally TubaDiva takes pity on everyone involved and snuffs the damn thing on page five.
Didn’t anyone tell Agent SPOOFE that the anal telephone was only a red herring? Agent Mudd, I believe you were in charge of that. That’s likely why you have curly quotes.
I looked back at some of the linked threads, and two things occurred to me:
With gaspode vs. Satori the vegetarian…why was everyone so mean to that guy? I read the thread just waiting fo some one to come in and call gaspode out for being a royal prick, but no one seemed bothered by it. I mean, maybe the guy’s facts were off, but at least he was polite about it. I felt kind of bad for him.
Screwtape wasn’t lying, he was joking. I personally thought he was pretty funny. Again, I couldn’t see what made people so adversarial toward him.
As another board member said a few months ago about that very thread (paraphrased): “Until then I never thought I’d actually see someone actually descend into madness.”
I can’t really say anything about any of the other posters mentioned in this thread, but I always liked Gaspode. At the very least, he provided one of my favorite flames in this thread (specifically, the Dungeons and Dragons reference, on the second page of the thread).
I find it hard to believe that he stopped posting to SDMB specifically because of a disagreement over how many pounds of grass it takes to produce a pound of meat.
I also think its fairly smug of someone to congratulate themselves for making someone else stop posting on the boards.
The poster you were refering to was Special K, or some version thereof, if I remeber right. Please note that there is another poster named Special_Kay, whose history does not include any of the drama I’m rembering.
The poster claimed to have a rare, fatal disease, but would not provide any specific information on it. Some people began to doubt her claim. Her husband then started posting under her name, saying that she was not expected to live past last September. Various means of proof were requested and denied, ending with the husband saying he would come back in September with proof of her death. I haven’t seen anything about it since. This is all from my memory of a year ago, so I may have some elements incorrect. I couldn’t find any links, any help would be appreciated.
Maybe, but you might feel differently if the poster was calling you a “dipshit”, a “liar”, and “ignorant”, in spite of your carefully researched cites from industry sources, while the best that they could offer to refute them was “I’ll find the original source that actually says C70% when I get back to the office Monday.” Good riddance, and that much more ground gained in the War on Ignorance.
I kinda hooted my old name of the board. It was drayton after Michael Drayton, the 16th century poet, but the only Drayton poem I knew was Sonnet 61. I felt like a poser so I changed it.
Concidently, guess what Simpsons episode is on in my area.