The first was Infovore and is still around and I haven’t really noticed being odd normally.
The third is probably R3d Anonymous (formerly Anonymous User) who is also still around but definitely odd. He also had a really, really big obsession with getting into MIT for a while, and it seems like he has really strict parents. I don’t know if he still has the hangup about virgins, dating, his height, and whatnot. He actually reminded me of how I was until a few years ago but then went on a completely different developmental path.
This (NSFW) was by far his oddest thread, and by oddest I mean that despite the fact that I posted a joke I was very creeped out inside. Keep in mind he was underage at the time.
I just remembered, who was the person (woman?) with the ghost BFF? I think she eventually agreed to some sort of test and had her faith shaken because it didn’t work?
That was FORMERAGENT. Here and here are two of his threads, and then finally here his “coworker” uses the message board to try to get in contact with him to warn him that he is in danger. Needless to say, all the other posters take this very seriously.
psikeyhackr who made that stupid model. His main obsession was with the fact that there was a model of the Tacoma Narrows bridge and not for the towers. Nothing could sway him that these things did not compare at all. The mods finally told him to knock off the monomania.
What about that guy who believed he had a near-death experience? Wasn’t there even something about testing his abilities to remote-view by some poster putting up something for him to identify the next time he went on one of his astral trips? Whatever became of that? (Sorry for vagueness, it seems I have limited memory space available for the details of the various kooks that roam around…)
There was one poster who brought a bunch of instruments and sound equipment to a Borders store and started some unsolicited jamming in the cafe area, then got all pissy when they wouldn’t comp him a sandwich. He was all “but I’m providing quality entertainment on my $10,000 sound system and kickin’ flute licks, why the hell can’t you give me a ham and Swiss with mustard?!” I seem to remember him questioning the musical tastes of the poor Borders employee he was berating, his totally unwanted awesome jams were worth at least a prepackaged sandwich. Because that is a normal transaction that people engage in daily. 1 flute jam = 1 saran wrapped sandwich.
It read like an episode of The Office if Dwight Shrute was a musician.
Weren’t there two different posters that were convinced their upstairs and downstairs neighbors “followed” their movements in their apartment just to make noise and berate them?
Freakalette. At least, I think it was spelled that way.
Zenster
My favorite from when I first joined was the incomprehensible Bj0rn. Reading his stuff was my first experience with word salad.
These days though, I just read about some woman who preferred to have ongoing affairs in her head with, let’s see… maybe celebrities or just people she made up or glimpsed in a store. I dunno. I just know whoever it was occasionally had her driving poorly in traffic because of it.
Is CC Citizen (CCC Citizen?) still around? The “I’m a brilliant mathematician but am too fat to walk to the bus stop or call people on the phone” guy . . .
