# Where have all the Phadreus' gone? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 3, 2005, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-phadreus-gone/288204 "2005-02-03T17:34:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-phadreus-gone/288204/21 "2005-02-03T20:06:39Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > Let’s see, you want me to name some of these suspected trolls here, but, in the very next breath, you tell me the rules say I shouldn’t. Pure genius, there **Dio**. But don’t worry, this thread isn’t about you. While you may have all the credentials for a pantheon of Idiocy, I wouldn’t certainly wouldn’t call you a troll. Partisan hack? Sure. Poor debater. Sure. But, in my humble opinion, you’re not a troll. Does that cheer you up some? Actually, yes. I confess that based on one or two of your other posts I thought you might be making an elliptical allusion to yours truly so I probably took it more personally than I should have. I was being paranoid. My apologies. I must have a hole in my tinfoil…ah yes, there it is…all better now. The bad thoughts are gone… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-phadreus-gone/288204/22 "2005-02-03T20:13:30Z")
I was always kinda proud of my role in outing **Uekte** / **Cleverman** / can’t remember his other “supervillain” aliases. Didn’t he claim to have more “identities” that he hadn’t “exposed” yet? I wonder if he paid to register them… ---
**Author:** ![confessorknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@confessorknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/confessorknight)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-phadreus-gone/288204/23 "2005-02-03T20:24:16Z")
Wasn’t **Uekte** also **King Nifty** for a while? ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-phadreus-gone/288204/24 "2005-02-03T20:27:05Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > Actually, yes. I confess that based on one or two of your other posts I thought you might be making an elliptical allusion to yours truly so I probably took it more personally than I should have. I was being paranoid. My apologies. I must have a hole in my tinfoil…ah yes, there it is…all better now. The bad thoughts are gone… 😉 Unless you channel your considerable passion to: grand paranoid conspiracies involving the FBI, male circumcision, hatred of minorities, or proving that **Gaudere** and **andros** (IIRC) are the same person, you’ll never make it with the big boys of the past. I would suggest that you fabricate an entire traumatic episode of your life, report about it in Great Debates using broken English or all CAPS, offer $10,000 to anybody who can prove you wrong, and then have a huge meltdown in the Pit. Then, you’d be on to infamy. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-phadreus-gone/288204/25 "2005-02-03T20:36:06Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > Back when I first started lurking, and eventually signed up to this board, there were some very… interesting … posters. Well, to be honest, there were a fair amount of loons. Posters like **Phadreus** , **Bjorn** , **FORMERAGENT** , **ARG220** , and **Wildest Bill**. Each of these posters now reside in the Pantheon of Idiocy of the SDMB. These posters, and many like them, set a high standard for sheer stupidity, and troll-like behavior. They had verve. They had elan. They had a certain Je ne sais quoi. Do not misunderstand me, I do not miss them. This board is much better off without them, despite the hilarity at their expense. But they definitely made their mark. Loudly and in your face. You know, it’s funny. By the time I registered, **Wildest Bill** was the only one left. That must’ve been an eventful year. Let’s see, who else? There was **Sea Sorbust** , who was obsessed with asteroid defense and based his theology on algebra. And then there was that guy with the Engelbert Humperdink fetish…what was his name? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-phadreus-gone/288204/26 "2005-02-03T20:39:56Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#): > > And then there was that guy with the Engelbert Humperdink fetish…what was his name? Her name. **deeward** That was a case of a quick flameout. A 30 day guest period would have been enough for her. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-phadreus-gone/288204/27 "2005-02-03T20:55:23Z")
> [@confessorknight](#): > > Wasn’t **Uekte** also **King Nifty** for a while? Yep. That’s one I had forgotten about. And as long as we’re here, let’s not forget **justhink** , who we all decided was a random text-generating bot. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-phadreus-gone/288204/28 "2005-02-03T20:58:30Z")
> [@andros\*](#): > > What, no mention of [Jack Dean Tyler](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=43031) and the recent [Anti-JDT](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=296091)? Or Mark Serlin’s psychological experiments and poofy-hair fetish? C’mon, that’s some good crazy there. It’s truly regrettable that **Manny** never got his Phaedy-bucks! 🙂 But are you all forgetting the inimitable **FriendOfGod**? - Attribution of quotations in this post is intended to be for humor value only. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-phadreus-gone/288204/29 "2005-02-03T21:10:25Z")
> [@Dooku](#): > > Yep. That’s one I had forgotten about. > > And as long as we’re here, let’s not forget **justhink** , who we all decided was a random text-generating bot. IIRC, **Justhink** was outed as being capable of rational though (based on other on-line writings) and that was what lead to his banning. Searched for the thread, but have not had luck. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-phadreus-gone/288204/30 "2005-02-03T21:17:39Z")
Just for the record, it was Phaedrus (not Phadreus), as in the Platonic [dialog with Socrates](http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/phaedrus.html). He was my favorite of the bunch. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-phadreus-gone/288204/31 "2005-02-03T21:20:44Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#): > > IIRC, **Justhink** was outed as being capable of rational though (based on other on-line writings) and that was what lead to his banning. Searched for the thread, but have not had luck. He was? Not that I ever saw. He was just plain odd. Good times, good times. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![paperbackwriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@paperbackwriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paperbackwriter)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-phadreus-gone/288204/32 "2005-02-03T22:11:06Z")
There’s still some pretty high-grade crazy around. **Rex Fenestrarum** ’s totally bizarre meltdown in an otherwise innocous GQ thread about permutations of lottery numbers springs to mind. **Zagadka** ’s current fetish for sock puppets recalls King Nifty. **Crandolph** and **New Iskander** are laying the groundwork for nominations to th One-trick Pony and Chowder Society. It isn’t as high-test as the crazy we used to see, granted, but it’s still pretty amusing. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-phadreus-gone/288204/33 "2005-02-03T22:14:41Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > He was? Not that I ever saw… Yeah, I am almost 100% sure that this is the case. Perhaps a wandering Mod or someone else that remembers this can back me up. Wonder if that was one of the threads that was lost during our Winter of Missed Content ™. ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-phadreus-gone/288204/34 "2005-02-03T22:14:56Z")
As I’ve said many times, I miss the Wildest one. A lot. Let’s not forget the immortal IDBB, who changed her name at some point. ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-phadreus-gone/288204/35 "2005-02-03T22:22:06Z")
I’d just like to add a couple of my fav’s: Hiryuu, whom I’m convinced was actually new-age charlatan Dan Winter, and that moon landing hoax nutter. Can’t even remember his name. Here’s the scary part, I don’t think these guys ever got banned. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-phadreus-gone/288204/36 "2005-02-03T22:24:01Z")
> [@Waverly](#): > > that moon landing hoax nutter. **seethruart**. May have had more caps. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-phadreus-gone/288204/37 "2005-02-03T22:27:58Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > You mean you don’t have that $10,000 socked away somewhere? No. Only tree-fiddy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-phadreus-gone/288204/38 "2005-02-03T22:33:21Z")
> [@paperbackwriter](#): > > There’s still some pretty high-grade crazy around. **Rex Fenestrarum** ’s totally bizarre meltdown in an otherwise innocous GQ thread about permutations of lottery numbers springs to mind. I missed that one. His fly-off-the-handle, bizarre goodbye post, while no **Freaky Feeley** , certainly rates at least a 5 on the crazy meter. His overreliance on the tired cliche of being an oppressed conservative on a liberal board docks him a few points, though. A good read though, thanks. > [@paperbackwriter](#): > > **Crandolph** and **New Iskander** are laying the groundwork for nominations to th One-trick Pony and Chowder Society. I think **Crandolph** just got off on the wrong foot after getting up on the wrong side of the bed. But my OP was, in a very small part, referencing **New Iskander**. He’s more the newer type of poster: an easily-dismissed, drooling idiot, who just clogs up the boards with his tripe without offering any of the good bizarreness from the good old days. Or maybe I’m just getting older and more hard to please, but I’d like to see a bit more entertainment from the idiot crowd. ---
**Author:** ![InkBlot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5e925/32.png) [@InkBlot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InkBlot)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-phadreus-gone/288204/39 "2005-02-03T22:36:15Z")
My goodness… _blinks_ I’ve just read the entire Beryl\_Mooncalf thread linked about. Although I’ve been lurking since easily 2001, I somehow missed that one entirely. Thats…thats… Incoherent just doesn’t seem roubust enough of a term for that. Wow. :eek: How did y’all survive that? InkBlot :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-phadreus-gone/288204/40 "2005-02-03T22:44:44Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > You fail to mention my all-time favorite, the only one that I had an active role in pushing to the brink of [meltdown](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=4033601&postcount=259): **Beryl\_Mooncalf**. PANTY HAMSTER AIR BISCUITS!!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-phadreus-gone/288204.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-all-the-phadreus-gone/288204.md?page=3)