Someday someone is going to put me up a wall in The Pit, and I won’t even know the thread existed until I find it. Someday.
Why would that have been exempt from the long/shot scale differences?
The fake quad, Mkay, Nkay (something like that) and the hilarious poster who publicly mourned her even faker death.
Sorry I don’t remember any names, but one day there was a mild debate about nothing too interesting between Mr. A and Mr. B, both of whom had about 60-80 total prior posts in their histories. At some point, Mr. A said something that made no sense coming from him, but would have been just like Mr. B to say. After a dozen or so more points and counterpoints, Mr. C entered to suggest A and B were in fact just one poster arguing with himself, who had goofed and tried to bury his mistake under an avalanche of follow-ups (so far, so normal, right?).
But now Mr. D, with over 3000 lifetime posts under his belt, arrived to agree with Mr. C approximately thus: “you know, I think you’re right! I bet that’s JUST what happened!”. Whereupon Mr. E (an admin) announced that Messrs. A, B, and D had all just been banned.
The thread then quickly petered out.
That was umkay. Here’s the thread she started:
Tuba’s banning of umkay, with commentary:
SDMB posters discuss umkay’s banning:
I don’t think she’s been mentioned yet, but years ago, we had a poster named Claudia VonL, who defended the telemarketing industry, and who was famously taken down by Cervaise in this thread:
(Note that Cervaise links to Claudia’s arguments in the first post of his thread.)
ETA: If we ever set up a “SDMB Hall of Fame,” I nominate Cervaise’s “The Telemarketer Speaks, I Respond” thread for inclusion.
kanicbird has some well, unconventional beliefs. For instance:
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[li]A man and a woman become one when they are married. If they have disharmony, it is a sickness of the one body, not two differing opinions.[/li][li]Children inherit the sins of their parents, all the way back to Adam.[/li][li]Humans begin as statues of clay in hell.[/li][li]Medical science has misled us from seeing demons possessing people.[/li][/ul]
Rather than spam multiple links, I tried to find one thread that encapsulates them all. The fun starts here.
Interesting how half the posters in that thread are banned.
Melin was pretty odd.
Legion was fun with the Marianas Trench.
Cesario was a prick as our nicks were so similar (it was suggested I use a tag “Not the kiddy Diddler”)
Can anyone find the guy who claimed he came up with “Supercalifragiliciousexpialidotious” based on a random assortment of letter blocks? It was in response to one of Cecil’s columns. Pretty damn odd…
The fun starts in Post 15
One of my favorite parts:
Wow Morbo!! Thanks for finding that!
Here is a one hit wonder from Chainsawvictum that deserves mention.
Well, given there’s a new snark thread, I figured I’d do my part by being a little “odd”, and revive this one!
And speaking of odd…Why, that Vinyl Turnip sure is the oddest fellow!
No?
:o
(Actually yeah Machineaforce is on the odd side of things.)
(as this thread goes back down, down, down, down…)
Careful. One day I may get even.
Too perfect a setup.
I suspect a new occurrence of the “Mr. A and Mr. B” situation described in this thread’s first page.
But does he steam a good ham? That’s the real question.
Well, I invented the word “The” and I demand that you all stop using it RIGHT NOW!
All those previous linguistic references? Fraud. They were back-filled into literature, movies and sound after I invented the word in 1982, because it was such a useful word.
I apologize for the existence of this thread.
What defining terms are left for “odd” after OTRU claims all who are tangentially trolls? Double jeopardy, and all that.