Here’s your wallet back.
Well, for the most part, I think it’s a damn good song on a damn fine album. But the mathing was a bit advanced for me.
If you want to live by the blues, you have to die by the blues. That’s right, I am crushing your head. There is no defense. Take that and smoke it with this blues guitar!
Oh, yes, I remember that one! I think the guy eventually made up fifteen friends who all agreed with him. He quoted excerpts from their emails, all of which sounded exactly like him.
Yes, one of his (many) central arguments was that of course the incidents had all taken place, because why would we imagine that a young boy sent away to summer camp would make things up?
I don’t think I participated in the thread, no need to as everybody else was making quite reasonable arguments, but I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. He moved the goalposts every time he posted something new–a textbook example of the tactic, I still believe.
He saw himself as an expert on radio and pop music of the era (had he possibly been a DJ at the time?) but so completely missed the point of this song…it was astonishing.
Thanks for reawakening the memories!
when I was here the first time there was a chick who seemed ok until everyone noticed every thread she made was about blowjobs … after she was banned and we had the great board shutdown she followed us to the temp replacement board and was banned there too …
then there was a supposedly Brazilian exchange student who posted here for a bit that lived with a Jehovahs witness and couldn’t figure out why her exchange parent didn’t like the fact that she got drunk all night and got a tattoo … I think they moved her on to the next place or she got kicked out of the program … (it was some type of tour it seemed )
Pajama Bottom Girl guy. He wasn’t odd so much as a romance writer who was deemed a troll. I enjoyed reading his improbable romance.
Oh and suicide machine guy who posted a lot in great debates. Man, I am bad at remembering screen names.
Oh, Dio. He was crazy but I miss him. My armchair diagnosis is Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder.
I once rebutted his argument that ‘‘anyone can tell’’ by posting a pic of myself at various ages and asking him to guess which one was underage (I looked like a young adult from the age of 12.) Fail.
he reads to us from something called Ulysses. DChord458’s performance in that thread was one of the most remarkable examples of the tenacious defense of an untenable position I have ever seen: 88 posts over a period of 3 weeks in which he relentlessly continued to argue for his flaky idea against the mountains of evidence and personal experience posted by everyone else.
His last posts on the board were in that thread. I don’t know if he left in embarrassment or died of exhaustion.
.999… /= 1
Man, that thread was a crank magnet. It was started in 2000, got zombified in 2012, and then kept getting bumped by one loon after another it finally got closed.
There’s the 9/11 truther who proved…something…with washers, paper and sticks.
He still does an occasional drive-by.
The Holocaust denier who incinerated chickens.
There was also Seethruart, and his “Tiny anomalies/artifacts” that he found in Apollo photos of the Moon. Alas, all the links have long since rotted away to his world-shaking enlargements of NASA photos of the lunar surface. You young whippersnappers can only imagine the glorious vistas presented, of page after page of extreme close-up pictures of…dirt. And rocks. On the Moon!
Even we old-timers only have memories, now dimmed by the passage of the years.
My two favorites will always be Le Jacquelope and VCO3/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW.
I have a special place in my heart for certain kinds of trolls, and he was one of them.
The cardboard tube guy is still active. 
What about the guy you tangled with who was obsessed with proving that Jimi Hendrix was murdered!!!. Something about copious wine consumption. Oy, what a nut.
You do realise that is actually a thing? or at least with orangutans it is. Here’s one that fortunately got rescued, but apparently its not a one off case:
http://orangutan.or.id/ponys-new-life-2/
It’s amazing to me that I have a post in the first page* of a 44 page thread* that was started in the year 2000.
- Using default web-based board settings, YMMV.
My Favorites (no clue on usernames…sorry) include…the woman that wouldn’t move one seat over in a full movie theater because she had gotten her seat early.
The woman that would pull out a book and start to read when she got bored on dates.
The young kid (anonymous or something) that would write begging for advice on how to pick up women.
And the guy that got evicted from his apartment because he never picked up after his dog.
Opal was a well-loved member of this community, but she did have that thing about the word “buckeyes”…