# We 99ers--a Straight Dope Longtimers Poll & Scrapbook. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 26, 2004, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-99ers-a-straight-dope-longtimers-poll-scrapbook/236587 "2004-03-26T16:24:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-99ers-a-straight-dope-longtimers-poll-scrapbook/236587/101 "2004-04-07T19:10:39Z")
> [@Tapioca Dextrin](#): > > Are we having a post party or what? Hey! It’s my 1000th post! Whadya know. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-99ers-a-straight-dope-longtimers-poll-scrapbook/236587/102 "2004-04-07T19:10:49Z")
Member #402 checking in - five years, one week, and one day. Don’t have much to add; most everything I remember (and some I didn’t) has been listed already. **Demo** , the lovely **TVeblen** is now an IMHO mod, so yeah, I’d say she’s still around 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-99ers-a-straight-dope-longtimers-poll-scrapbook/236587/103 "2004-04-07T19:58:47Z")
Member **94** checking in… Someone redecorated. What happened to the bean bag chairs? ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-99ers-a-straight-dope-longtimers-poll-scrapbook/236587/104 "2004-04-07T20:07:13Z")
Cat pee. Don’t ask. These new chairs are much lower maintenance. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-99ers-a-straight-dope-longtimers-poll-scrapbook/236587/105 "2004-04-07T20:16:59Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > Cat pee. > > Don’t ask. > > These new chairs are much lower maintenance. Cats pee? :eek: I thought they just prespired… Wow. ---
**Author:** ![Mame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@Mame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mame)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-99ers-a-straight-dope-longtimers-poll-scrapbook/236587/106 "2004-04-08T12:27:22Z")
Mainly a lurker - assumed I’d have the lowest post count, but was under done by Jools! Had another name for a while, due to a glitch with my work computer, and I had a low post count with it too. Wonder if I’m the earliest Aus doper still around? Has anyone mentioned M Masterton yet? ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-99ers-a-straight-dope-longtimers-poll-scrapbook/236587/107 "2004-04-08T13:58:35Z")
> [@Nekosoft](#): > > I most remember the Pyroto Invasion, but don’t recall if it was in '99 or '00. I had forgotten all about that! And Pimp Wars! Many of the things you all are mentioning seem not so long ago, I guess time really does fly. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-99ers-a-straight-dope-longtimers-poll-scrapbook/236587/108 "2004-04-08T21:35:20Z")
Hi! I’m honestly not sure when I first joined the team, but it was back in the AOL days. I remember the _boards_ before the advent of the push pins, and I could’ve sworn I read and posted to the AOL Straight Dope board before push pins, but maybe I just lurked during the pre-pin days. (Correct me if I’m wrong, but the old posts from before push-pins were all vaporized at the switchover, yes?) Before push-pins there _were no threads_. You’d open the board and see individual posts in a list like this: ```auto Why are there D and C and A batteries but no B batteries? [JKFabian] Hey Cecil are you smarter than Marilyn vos Savant? [Dschaf2000] Why are there D and C and A batteries but no B batteries? [HpstrDufuz] What's the difference between good cholesterol and bad cholesterol? [WubbleChap] ``` But I found my first posts, August-September of 1997. And I found the first thread I ever started, “God is a CAT! A proof…” a thread parody of a half-dozen threads with titles like “Is God Really the Devil in Disguise?” / “God Exists, No Need Experiment” / “Does God Exist?” / “Does God Exist? Let’s try something new…” / “God DOES Exist–Proof” / “God Does NOT Exist, a Proof”, etc. aol://5863:126/mB:59300:54753 and since it’s still extant (yes, that’s a live link if you have AOL), I guess that means I didn’t post to SDMB until after the pins had arrived. I remember… **ARG** had a predecessor. **Jim Tull**. Arrogant Bible-thumping fundamentalist spewing his stuff in every thread. Whoa baby. He had a lot to do with those “God” threads. The “Snark” guy, gay Mormon with serious guilt issues. Kept cropping up with different usernames, and he came across to this board… **SnarkHunter** , **Hypersnake** , **Hypersnark** , names like that, remember him? I remember **Kiltgrrl**. Kiltgrrrl. Kiltgrrrrl. However she spelled it. What the heck ever happened to her? I don’t remember much about the earliest and most notorious trolls, like ~PerkyDan~, but I remember the meltdown of \*\* AmplSample\*\* (she was an event right around the time I started posting, thin-skinned and would make personal attacks on anyone who disagreed with her – wow). I remember ongoing in-jokes, the 1999 equivalent of 1920s-style death rays and fucko off – “ass ass ass, as much as I want” (pertaining to freedom from censorship, I forget who said it first). “insluted”, a legendary typo. heh heh. I remember “Manny Peoples” – that wasn’t his user name, he was ZPhobiaZ or SZPhobiaZS, something like that. > [@](#): > > IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR T MAN BE CREATOR OF GOS CAUSE IN THE BIBLE IT TALKS ABOUT HOW IN THE BEGINING THEREWAS GOD. THIS MEANS THAT GOD WAS THERE BEFORE MAN. I HOPW THIS HAS HELPED YOU, IF YOU EVER NEED TO KNOW ANYTHING FEEL FREE TO ASK ME, AS THERE ARE MANNY PEOPLE WHO DO. I remember that the ubb software on this board was at first very hard to use. No “New Posts” button back then. Other things that made it awkward. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-99ers-a-straight-dope-longtimers-poll-scrapbook/236587/109 "2004-04-08T22:34:47Z")
I co-hosted Staurday chats with Ranger Jeff during our last month or so at AOL. > [@AHunter3](#): > > I remember “Manny Peoples” – that wasn’t his user name, he was ZPhobiaZ or SZPhobiaZS, something like that. Someone posted under the latter back in October and was immediately banned. ---
**Author:** ![Balduran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Balduran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balduran)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-99ers-a-straight-dope-longtimers-poll-scrapbook/236587/110 "2004-04-08T23:03:53Z")
Jeez, don’t any of you old fogies remember **Freak Freeley’s** final freak? So sad when the mind goes. ---
**Author:** ![Balduran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Balduran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balduran)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-99ers-a-straight-dope-longtimers-poll-scrapbook/236587/111 "2004-04-08T23:08:05Z")
And I would have been a 99er but I lurked for 6 months like a good newbie damnit! ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-99ers-a-straight-dope-longtimers-poll-scrapbook/236587/112 "2004-04-08T23:11:15Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > The “Snark” guy, gay Mormon with serious guilt issues. Kept cropping up with different usernames, and he came across to this board… **SnarkHunter** , **Hypersnake** , **Hypersnark** , names like that, remember him? > > I remember **Kiltgrrl**. Kiltgrrrl. Kiltgrrrrl. However she spelled it. What the heck ever happened to her? > > “ass ass ass, as much as I want” (pertaining to freedom from censorship, I forget who said it first). > > “insluted”, a legendary typo. heh heh. > > I remember “Manny Peoples” – that wasn’t his user name, he was ZPhobiaZ or SZPhobiaZS, something like that. [http://fathom.org/teemingmillions/injokes.html](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions/injokes.html) ← this page has a bunch of the origins of things… Bermuda999 started the “ass ass ass” thing. Roshnee made the “insluted” typo. [Snark](http://fff.fathom.org/forums/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=1511) is still actively posting on a lot of boards, including Fathom. Melis, aka Kiltgrrrl, aka KRFTMSTRSS or however it was spelled, has a livejournal here: [http://www.livejournal.com/users/starcrossedlady/](http://www.livejournal.com/users/starcrossedlady/) ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-99ers-a-straight-dope-longtimers-poll-scrapbook/236587/113 "2004-04-08T23:58:14Z")
Member 411 here. I originally just posted at and read the Comments on Cecil’s Columns forum. I remember pointing out an error in the manhole covers column, and describing Rouleaux triangles - I think I was the first to bring up that shape. Even when I started reading the other forums, I was terrified of the Pit for years - now it’s the forum I read first. I used to read Cecil’s columns on AOL, but never posted in the forums back then. I read all the JDT threads religiously as they were happening - they were a riot. I started reading the other forums just a little too late to have known Wally, but I read all the threads I could find after he died. I remember WildestBill and the “Gotcha Ya” thread. ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-99ers-a-straight-dope-longtimers-poll-scrapbook/236587/114 "2004-04-09T03:29:52Z")
> [@Ringo](#): > > I had an alter-ego (that I turned a dime on to **TubaDear** ) named **bug\_vomit**. You were **bug vomit**? I loved **bug vomit**! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-99ers-a-straight-dope-longtimers-poll-scrapbook/236587/115 "2004-04-09T04:58:48Z")
Wow. Quite a walk down memory lane. I posted a little bit at the AOL site, and toddled over here in time to be #731. Five years ago I was still married to my first wife, and we were talking about children. Wow. Time really is a river… ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-99ers-a-straight-dope-longtimers-poll-scrapbook/236587/116 "2004-04-09T05:28:11Z")
> [@Weirddave](#): > > Wow. Quite a walk down memory lane. I posted a little bit at the AOL site, and toddled over here in time to be #731. Five years ago I was still married to my first wife, and we were talking about children. > > Wow. Time really is a river… I couldn’t have said it better myself. I’m glad this thread came up, because it inspired me to do a post search on myself tonight. My first thread is long gone, but there are quite a few early ones left. I re-read the postings by members who are long gone, who I had almost forgotten. The walk down memory lane was fun. I anticipate more fun down the road, too. What a great crowd you Dopers are. This board has been so good for me. It’s sharpened my debate skills, and even helped me better my critical thinking. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-99ers-a-straight-dope-longtimers-poll-scrapbook/236587/117 "2004-04-09T05:39:27Z")
How are you doing searches to find your old posts? When I search for my username, the oldest stuff it seems to want to show is from 2002. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-99ers-a-straight-dope-longtimers-poll-scrapbook/236587/118 "2004-04-09T13:17:48Z")
I was just about to ask the same thing. I only return a maximum of 500 results when I search for posts under my name, which is just about 10% of my total output. The oldest I get are from August 1999, but I’m sure I started posting earlier than that. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-99ers-a-straight-dope-longtimers-poll-scrapbook/236587/119 "2004-04-09T13:52:40Z")
I would have been a 99er too if I didn’t take so long to get into the Internet, and lurk for a few months. I’m Doper #5677. ---
**Author:** ![blahedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a4c791/32.png) [@blahedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blahedo)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-99ers-a-straight-dope-longtimers-poll-scrapbook/236587/120 "2004-04-09T16:01:41Z")
> [@Clark K](#): > > Glad to see I’m not the only veteran with an absurdly low post-count (although even you aren’t quite down to my level.) Heh. I started lurking in late 1999, but didn’t get my account until Jan 2000. So I’m not a '99er officially, just a wannabe; but I am a board veteran, and I do have a pretty low post count (just posted my 100th in the “Boards going subscription” thread). Can’t compete with **Joools** , of course. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-99ers-a-straight-dope-longtimers-poll-scrapbook/236587.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-99ers-a-straight-dope-longtimers-poll-scrapbook/236587.md?page=7)