To paraphrase the old saying: “I went to the opera and a hockey game broke out.”
[last one]
You could just see somebody like José Carreras drilling into a sustained note, and catching a puck in his pie hole.

(That didn’t start as a rhyme but turned into one halfway through typing it.)
Didn’t start as a rhyme but became one over time?
Sometimes they are a poem before you get to know 'em.

You and the rest of the snarkers/troll hunters aren’t very bright are you?
Says the poster who is outraged due to having misread a couple of posts.

Because Octopus had been trolling us for 8 years. Martin_Hyde is the major leagues.
huh, he’s only been here 8 years?

I’ll give Martin Hyde this, he was a good troll and actually very knowledgeable in many areas and great at researching others.
Yes, his non-trolling posts were sometimes excellent. Even many of his posts that I thought were morally bankrupt were well thought out and interesting reads.

Can we get back to finding trolls, pretty please?
go for it!
Anyone else hear the song, I dont wanna grow up, Im a trolls r us kid? (Paraphrased)

huh, he’s only been here 8 years?
It’s possible that he’s been here longer, but he can’t count higher than that because he runs out of tentacles.

No one would mourn their loss, except their sockpuppets of course, as demonstrated by GreysonCarlisle.

I can’t deny having had the same thought earlier today, but is there any solid evidence of this?
Do the world a favor and use the sock as a ball-gag, you vainglorious putz.
Make sure it’s the sock that crossed the road, m’kay.
Well I’ll go out on a limb and say I really don’t think you’re a sock puppet or a troll. In fact I think you’re a good poster. It seems like a weird conclusion and misinterpretation anyway.
From what I saw, you didn’t like the ruling we used to ban Martin, not the fact we banned Martin. Is that more or less correct? I went back to the ATMB thread yesterday and added a third post in fact.

Well I’ll go out on a limb and say I really don’t think you’re a sock puppet or a troll. In fact I think you’re a good poster. It seems like a weird conclusion and misinterpretation anyway.
Thanks.
From what I saw, you didn’t like the ruling we used to ban Martin, not the fact we banned Martin. Is that more or less correct? I went back to the ATMB thread yesterday and added a third post in fact.
I mean, Martin’s been on my block list for a while–just one of only 14–so no, I don’t give the first shit that they got banned.
I did see your update, though. Long trolling. I love it!

I could say the same about most of the hive and their economic, social, and political views. Other than the detail about it being fortunate.
Oh yeah, about that hive, If that was true, Biden would be supported 100% and yet a lot of criticism can be found in this board of how he is not confronting the right at the levels that are needed or his half-hearted moves to deal with the issues.
For real hive behavior you need to look at what you have on your side:
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/vzx34d/this_horrifying_truth_about_whats_going_on_in/
(Video in Reddit from a charismatic church in the USA that does not see that wall of separation between church and state and uses “woke” in the way I noticed a lot of the right is using it, as a way to say to other whites and business (that want to help minorities) to stop being “N**** Lovers”.
The way they chant all the words in their “swearing” is what hives are made of.
Keep your eye out for variations of “grooming”, that one’s really catching steam with right wingers. The new talking points must have been delivered.
(I don’t even like li-iiver!)
I’d be more inclined to think that octopus is one of MH’s socks than for GrsysonCarlisle. Octo could just be experimenting with a different way to troll.

I’d be more inclined to think that octopus is one of MH’s socks than for GrsysonCarlisle. Octo could just be experimenting with a different way to troll.
It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that there’s just one trock with many arms.
Octo is either a boring troll or mentally disturbed. And, in regards to MH, if you keep up a fake persona for 2 decades just to (quietly!) pull a joke on some randos in a message board, I may suggest you get some help. This is not normative, productive human behavior.
Anyway, I am very open about who I am, can easily be traced, and really gave up worrying about internet anonymity sometime in the late 90s, a good half-decade after my first doxxing.

Octo is either a boring troll
There’s no either about it. Some posters I have on ignore I will occasionally sneak a peak at when it seems like they are involved in a substantive exchange on a non-controversial issue (or if, as with MH’s last bowel movement, they are just embarrassing themselves and I want to see what all the fuss is about), as evidenced by the replies to them. But Octo? Never had the urge.
I honestly don’t understand why you guys persist in letting it toy with you. Put it out of your misery already.
I don’t see any reason to think he can’t be both.
Though, do note that, by “mentally disturbed,” I do not mean the same thing as “mentally ill.” I’m talking about the type of disturbed mind that makes trolling seem fun to people.
I don’t see any reason to put that kind of evil on the “mentally disturbed.”

Octo is either a boring troll or mentally disturbed.
Nah; that poster is just plain stupid.

And, in regards to MH, if you keep up a fake persona for 2 decades just to (quietly!) pull a joke on some randos in a message board, I may suggest you get some help. This is not normative, productive human behavior.
This is exactly what I came to say. Besides the revolting dickishness, I’m curious about the pure time sink. Trust funder who also has no real responsibilities (spouse, kids…)?
I guess that’s unfair — some of our prolific (non-troll) posters DO also have real responsibilities.