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Title: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 09:24:44 AM
Quote from: Henry Hawk on August 16, 2016, 08:18:14 AM
It is the same as it was in 2006.....just different topics.

Holy shit!  We've been at this for 10 years?   :spooked:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Exterminator on August 16, 2016, 09:42:16 AM
Quote from: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 09:24:44 AM
Holy shit!  We've been at this for 10 years?   :spooked:

Apparently so...I just looked at my profile and it says I registered September 22, 2006!   :biggrin:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 10:27:43 AM
Quote from: Exterminator on August 16, 2016, 09:42:16 AM
Apparently so...I just looked at my profile and it says I registered September 22, 2006!   :biggrin:

:eek:

;D
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 10:30:07 AM
Quote from: Exterminator on August 16, 2016, 09:42:16 AM
Apparently so...I just looked at my profile and it says I registered September 22, 2006!   :biggrin:

Wow! 

My profile says I registered here exactly 10 years ago today.

August 16, 2006

:spooked:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Exterminator on August 16, 2016, 10:57:55 AM
Quote from: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 10:30:07 AM
Wow! 

My profile says I registered here exactly 10 years ago today.

August 16, 2006

:spooked:

Happy anniversary!  :biggrin:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 11:27:12 AM
Quote from: Exterminator on August 16, 2016, 10:57:55 AM
Happy anniversary!  :biggrin:

TYVM!!  ;D
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Henry Hawk on August 16, 2016, 12:47:12 PM
Quote from: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 10:30:07 AM
Wow! 

My profile says I registered here exactly 10 years ago today.

August 16, 2006

:spooked:

When I say 10 YEARS!...I mean 10 YEARS!  :razz:

Seems like yesterday.............................

Then it was a few years on the "Hey Martha"...... :yes:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 12:50:53 PM
It does seem like yesterday.  Time has really flown. 

I think the Hey Martha was active at least 2 years itself prior to us finding our way here.  I think HM started sometime in 2004 if I recall correctly. 
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Exterminator on August 16, 2016, 01:46:44 PM
Quote from: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 12:50:53 PM
I think the Hey Martha was active at least 2 years itself prior to us finding our way here.  I think HM started sometime in 2004 if I recall correctly.

Who remembers the old whack-job from Trona? 
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 02:26:04 PM
Quote from: Exterminator on August 16, 2016, 01:46:44 PM
Who remembers the old whack-job from Trona? 

I remember a lot of whack-jobs on the Hag, but not that one specifically.  What was their screen name?  ;D
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Exterminator on August 16, 2016, 03:56:24 PM
I can't remember but he was always talking about mooslims and thought Mariska Hargitay was manly.
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Henry Hawk on August 16, 2016, 04:29:24 PM
Quote from: Exterminator on August 16, 2016, 03:56:24 PM
I can't remember but he was always talking about mooslims and thought Mariska Hargitay was manly.
That sounds familiar....there was somebody who was foghorn leghorn.............who was very liberal, and that is why I decided to use Henry Hawk...
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 04:42:38 PM
Remember DaveJar and Sweaty Kathy?   :rotfl:  ;D
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 05:03:19 PM
Quote from: Henry Hawk on August 16, 2016, 04:29:24 PM
That sounds familiar....there was somebody who was foghorn leghorn.............who was very liberal, and that is why I decided to use Henry Hawk...

I thought you were CWM on Hey Martha. 
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Palehorse on August 16, 2016, 07:37:24 PM
A decade on this platform? Holy hell y'all are a bunch of blabbermouths!  :biggrin:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: me on August 16, 2016, 07:37:38 PM
I registered Sept. 19, 2006 but didn't talk much then due to this being my first forum. I did play the silly games we had going though......I just may have to see if I can find what I remember as my first profile pic and put it up for a while.....  :yes: :biggrin:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Palehorse on August 16, 2016, 07:38:33 PM
Looks like I'm the newbie: October 29, 2006, 12:54:17 PM  :biggrin:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: me on August 16, 2016, 07:44:55 PM
Quote from: Palehorse on August 16, 2016, 07:38:33 PM
Looks like I'm the newbie: October 29, 2006, 12:54:17 PM  :biggrin:
Man, you are a blabber mouth. I've been here longer than you and look at the post counts.........lol   Found my original profile pic.   :biggrin:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 07:48:10 PM
Quote from: Palehorse on August 16, 2016, 07:37:24 PM
A decade on this platform? Holy hell y'all are a bunch of blabbermouths!  :biggrin:

You're one of the biggest!  :razz:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Palehorse on August 16, 2016, 07:52:16 PM
Quote from: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 07:48:10 PM
You're one of the biggest!  :razz:

:biggrin: :icon_twisted:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 07:52:43 PM
Quote from: Exterminator on August 16, 2016, 03:56:24 PM
I can't remember but he was always talking about mooslims and thought Mariska Hargitay was manly.

After consulting with another member, was it Tinfoil, Tinfoil Hat, or some such?
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Palehorse on August 16, 2016, 07:53:32 PM
Quote from: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 07:52:43 PM
After consulting with another member, was it Tinfoil, Tinfoil Hat, or some such?

I remember that sumbitch!  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 07:55:19 PM
;D

What about DaveJar and Sweaty Kathy?  :rotfl:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Palehorse on August 16, 2016, 08:22:36 PM
Quote from: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 07:55:19 PM
;D

What about DaveJar and Sweaty Kathy?  :rotfl:

That was like watching snails mate. . .  :mad:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 08:24:42 PM
Quote from: Palehorse on August 16, 2016, 08:22:36 PM
That was like watching snails mate. . .  :mad:

:yes:  :rotfl:

Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 08:25:53 PM
That's also where we all first ran across she whose name shall never be spoken!   :spooked:

She has a 'jar' around here somewhere.  ;D
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Palehorse on August 16, 2016, 08:31:10 PM
Quote from: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 08:25:53 PM
That's also where we all first ran across she whose name shall never be spoken!   :spooked:

She has a 'jar' around here somewhere.  ;D

Oh damn. That's akin to remembering when you got cancer. Or "caught the diabetes".
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 08:33:14 PM
Quote from: Palehorse on August 16, 2016, 08:31:10 PM
Oh damn. That's akin to remembering when you got cancer. Or "caught the diabetes".

:rotfl:  :yes:

(https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/PHOTO/LARGE/common_raven_2.jpg)

< The above is an inside joke for PH.  He'll know what I'm talking about. >  :wink:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: AbbyTC on August 16, 2016, 08:40:39 PM
Quote from: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 09:24:44 AM
Holy shit!  We've been at this for 10 years?   :spooked:


Quote from: Exterminator on August 16, 2016, 09:42:16 AM
Apparently so...I just looked at my profile and it says I registered September 22, 2006!   :biggrin:


Quote from: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 10:30:07 AM
Wow! 

My profile says I registered here exactly 10 years ago today.

August 16, 2006

:spooked:

Hey!  I've been registered for 1 year and 27 days!  With a whopping 341 posts, well, 342 counting this one.   :biggrin:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 08:41:40 PM
Quote from: AbbyTC on August 16, 2016, 08:40:39 PM


Hey!  I've been registered for 1 year and 27 days!  With a whopping 341 posts, well, 342 counting this one.   :biggrin:

Well get ta' talkin'!  ;D
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Palehorse on August 16, 2016, 08:52:28 PM
Quote from: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 08:33:14 PM
:rotfl:  :yes:

(https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/PHOTO/LARGE/common_raven_2.jpg)

< The above is an inside joke for PH.  He'll know what I'm talking about. >  :wink:

:devil29: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Palehorse on August 16, 2016, 08:55:34 PM
Quote from: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 09:24:44 AM
Holy shit!  We've been at this for 10 years?   :spooked:

I dare say some of us for 16 years or more. . . I first met Y at the old IndyStar forums back in the day. . . And he lured me over to the HB "fish wrap " forum. . . And the rest is history. . . And a damned large window of it!  :spooked:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: AbbyTC on August 16, 2016, 08:56:47 PM
Quote from: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 08:41:40 PM
Well get ta' talkin'!  ;D

:biggrin:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 08:57:21 PM
Quote from: Palehorse on August 16, 2016, 08:55:34 PM
I dare say some of us for 16 years or more. . . I first met Y at the old IndyStar forums back in the day. . . And he lured me over to the HB "fish wrap " forum. . . And the rest is history. . . And a damned large window of it!  :spooked:

HM was only around a couple of years or so, correct?  I'm fairly certain it went totally kaput around 2006 after starting up in 2004. 
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Palehorse on August 16, 2016, 08:59:25 PM
Quote from: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 08:57:21 PM
HM was only around a couple of years or so, correct?  I'm fairly certain it went totally kaput around 2006 after starting up in 2004.

Yup. The trolls and detritus feeders ran them ragged in short order.  You know it was bad when "Numbnuts" (NamvetMike) was given the keys to the kingdom.  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 09:01:06 PM
Quote from: Palehorse on August 16, 2016, 08:59:25 PM
Yup. The trolls and detritus feeders ran them ragged in short order.  You know it was bad when "Numbnuts" (NamvetMike) was given the keys to the kingdom.  :rolleyes:

I remember that sumbitch!  :biggrin:

He would never come over to the Zone because of Y.  :rotfl:

Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Palehorse on August 16, 2016, 09:01:53 PM
Quote from: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 09:01:06 PM
I remember that sumbitch!  :biggrin:

He would never come over to the Zone because of Y.  :rotfl:

Him and "Sweeper". . .  :rolleyes: :mad: :rolleyes:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Palehorse on August 16, 2016, 09:03:04 PM
<- - -40,896 for those keeping score. . . (In under 10 years I might add).  :icon_twisted:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Palehorse on August 16, 2016, 09:04:09 PM
Quote from: Palehorse on August 16, 2016, 09:03:04 PM
<- - -40,896 for those keeping score. . . (In under 10 years I might add).  :icon_twisted:

And in January it will be 10 years of it from this very same Mac. . .  :spooked:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: AbbyTC on August 16, 2016, 09:04:28 PM
Quote from: Palehorse on August 16, 2016, 09:03:04 PM
<- - -40,896 for those keeping score. . . (In under 10 years I might add).  :icon_twisted:

Geesh, I fee so insignificant.   :wink: :biggrin:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 09:07:27 PM
Quote from: Palehorse on August 16, 2016, 09:01:53 PM
Him and "Sweeper". . .  :rolleyes: :mad: :rolleyes:

(http://picproxy.topixcdn.com/pics/up-LQCG859DK8QFKOAV-m)

:biggrin:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Palehorse on August 16, 2016, 09:09:36 PM
Quote from: AbbyTC on August 16, 2016, 09:04:28 PM
Geesh, I fee so insignificant.   :wink: :biggrin:

It quality that counts; not quantity.  :wink:

I actually think that count is stunted due to some paring of ancient postings that took place early on.  :biggrin:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Palehorse on August 16, 2016, 09:13:57 PM
Quote from: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 09:07:27 PM
(http://picproxy.topixcdn.com/pics/up-LQCG859DK8QFKOAV-m)

:biggrin:

:angry:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 09:19:55 PM
Quote from: Exterminator on August 16, 2016, 01:46:44 PM
Who remembers the old whack-job from Trona? 

Quote from: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 07:52:43 PM
After consulting with another member, was it Tinfoil, Tinfoil Hat, or some such?

Bumping that up for Exterminator. 
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 09:27:20 PM
Quote from: Palehorse on August 16, 2016, 09:04:09 PM
And in January it will be 10 years of it from this very same Mac. . .  :spooked:

You sure about that?  I got my first MacBook in 2007 and I'm fairly certain you got yours a year or two after I got mine. 

I might be wrong about that though.  That was a long time ago. 
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 09:39:32 PM
I think Libby was on the Hey Martha too. 
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: libby on August 16, 2016, 10:20:36 PM
Quote from: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 09:39:32 PM
I think Libby was on the Hey Martha too.
Sure was. Duke and Bo D and I were posting on the old Bluefield Daily Telegraph posting board when it made the move to Hey Martha. I joined here on Dec 8, 2011.

My, how time flies!   
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 10:24:18 PM
That's right.  Duke Jupiter came from Hey Martha too. 

Duke (just like an ole' timer) Jupiter

:biggrin:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: me on August 17, 2016, 12:16:22 AM
Kind of sounds like I'm the only one who wasn't on another forum before this one.
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Exterminator on August 17, 2016, 08:20:35 AM
Quote from: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 07:52:43 PM
After consulting with another member, was it Tinfoil, Tinfoil Hat, or some such?

There was a Tinfoil Hat but I want to say this guy called himself Billy Bob or something like that?
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Henry Hawk on August 17, 2016, 08:37:11 AM
Quote from: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 05:03:19 PM
I thought you were CWM on Hey Martha. 
I was until not long before I left, I changed it....but that was my inspiration.  Do you remember foghorn?
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on August 17, 2016, 09:53:57 AM
I do remember Foghorn!
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: The Troll on August 17, 2016, 10:46:03 AM
Quote from: Locutus on August 17, 2016, 09:53:57 AM
I do remember Foghorn!


  I say, I say Boy no one forgets Old Foggy.   :no:  I say Son, don't let your mouth flap Boy, you heard Boy, speak up Son. :haha:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Anne on August 17, 2016, 01:19:07 PM
I registered in December 2008. I was on the HB forum and came over here when it closed. It got really nasty the last few weeks. One person I remember was Kent. He wouldn't take his kids to see Santa Claus, said he wouldn't lie to his kids.
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on August 17, 2016, 01:33:48 PM
I remember Kent as well. 
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Anne on August 17, 2016, 01:42:03 PM
Quote from: Locutus on August 17, 2016, 01:33:48 PM
I remember Kent as well. 

I though he seemed bitter, but I didn't know him except on the forum so sometimes it is difficult to grasp true feelings.
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on August 17, 2016, 02:11:21 PM
Quote from: Anne on August 17, 2016, 01:42:03 PM
I though he seemed bitter, but I didn't know him except on the forum so sometimes it is difficult to grasp true feelings.

Well, for the record, I tend to agree with him on his Santa Claus position.   :biggrin2:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on August 17, 2016, 06:13:03 PM
Quote from: me on August 16, 2016, 07:37:38 PM
I registered Sept. 19, 2006 but didn't talk much then due to this being my first forum. I did play the silly games we had going though......I just may have to see if I can find what I remember as my first profile pic and put it up for a while.....  :yes: :biggrin:

:spooked: :spooked: :spooked:

She whose name shall never be spoken used that exact avatar once upon a time.  :spooked:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: me on August 17, 2016, 06:17:26 PM
Quote from: Locutus on August 17, 2016, 06:13:03 PM
:spooked: :spooked: :spooked:

She whose name shall never be spoken used that exact avatar once upon a time.  :spooked:
Don't know who that would be since I got it from one of those avatar sights where there were a bunch to choose from as well as a couple more dancing ones.
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Palehorse on August 17, 2016, 07:41:09 PM
Quote from: libby on August 16, 2016, 10:20:36 PM
Sure was. Duke and Bo D and I were posting on the old Bluefield Daily Telegraph posting board when it made the move to Hey Martha. I joined here on Dec 8, 2011.

My, how time flies!

Damn! Has it been that long? Hell it only seems like less than a year ago that you joined here to me.

I swear the older I get the faster a year goes by. . .  :spooked:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Palehorse on August 17, 2016, 07:42:20 PM
Quote from: me on August 17, 2016, 12:16:22 AM
Kind of sounds like I'm the only one who wasn't on another forum before this one.

That frigging Avatar you are using MUST be banned immediately! (And I am sure you know why). It was used by she whose name must never be spoken.  :mad:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Palehorse on August 17, 2016, 07:43:05 PM
Quote from: Exterminator on August 17, 2016, 08:20:35 AM
There was a Tinfoil Hat but I want to say this guy called himself Billy Bob or something like that?

I remember that sumbitch too!  :yes:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: me on August 17, 2016, 09:27:46 PM
Quote from: Palehorse on August 17, 2016, 07:42:20 PM
That frigging Avatar you are using MUST be banned immediately! (And I am sure you know why). It was used by she whose name must never be spoken.  :mad:
I do remember someone liking it when I used it come to think of it and she took it and used it too so I changed mine. I'll have to find the other one I changed it to.
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: me on August 17, 2016, 09:31:50 PM
This is the other one I used.
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Y on August 31, 2016, 03:48:58 PM
Quote from: Exterminator on August 16, 2016, 01:46:44 PM
Who remembers the old whack-job from Trona?

I do.  He went under several names because he kept getting banned.  Tinfoil, Tinfoil Hat, Billy Bob etc. were some of them.  He was good friends with Numbnut Mike who was a mod for Anderson while it was on HM and then headed up the last HB forum created after HM imploded.  Basically, no one but Mikey's socks would post on the HB forum he ran.
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Y on August 31, 2016, 03:53:16 PM
Quote from: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 09:24:44 AM
Holy shit!  We've been at this for 10 years?   :spooked:

The Zone has been around since 2000-2001 (I could document it as far back as 2001 and think it existed before then).

It started out on free forum platforms that kept disappearing as the free hosts went under.

It finally moved to its own hosting here in 2006.

I've been around since the origins, but now only off and on.
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Y on August 31, 2016, 04:11:06 PM
Quote from: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 12:50:53 PM
It does seem like yesterday.  Time has really flown. 

I think the Hey Martha was active at least 2 years itself prior to us finding our way here.  I think HM started sometime in 2004 if I recall correctly.

HM evolved as a national platform for local CNHI newspaper's local paper's forums such as the original Herald Bulletin forum. 

HM imploded due to bad and corrupt management; putting corrupt people like 'Sweeper' in charge (Sweeper who became embroiled in a phishing scandal, sexual improprieties, and sexual harassment on HM), allowing local forums to put bad moderators in place like Mikey and Tattoo Vampire with all their trolling, biased moderating, and socks;and all the lawsuits aimed at CNHI and the local papers for their bad forum management practices and corrupt admin and mods.

The original HB forum was so 'Wild West' that you could catbird others screen names, post libel and others personal information, and was full of trolls - just like Topix nowdays. 

If HM had not been corrupt and instead been properly run and moderated, Topix would have never grown - or possibly ever existed.  Back when HM closed, most of the trolls from there moved to Topix due to the similar corrupt and lax administration.

Now, practically all the old trolls have been replaced by new ones, and any decent posters have either stopped posting, or quit forums altogether because of bad experiences like HB, HM, and Topix.

That this place never put up with trolls has been both a boon and a curse.  It's still here for that reason, but there aren't droves of people here for the same reason.  You can have traffic if you allow trolls, but there will not be any intelligent discussion ever.
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Y on August 31, 2016, 04:17:15 PM
Quote from: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 05:03:19 PM
I thought you were CWM on Hey Martha.

Hank used that on the old HB prior to HM and he may have carried it over for some time on HM.
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Y on August 31, 2016, 04:23:14 PM
Quote from: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 08:25:53 PM
That's also where we all first ran across she whose name shall never be spoken!   :spooked:

She has a 'jar' around here somewhere.  ;D

Old Kooks is still around - just like Ziggy (Tattoo Vampire) - under various screen names trolling Topix. 

Neither one of them ever grew up - like most of the posters on Topix so they fit right in there with the rest of the immature howling baboons clawing and fighting with each other.
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Y on August 31, 2016, 04:31:13 PM
Quote from: Palehorse on August 16, 2016, 08:55:34 PM
I dare say some of us for 16 years or more. . . I first met Y at the old IndyStar forums back in the day. . . And he lured me over to the HB "fish wrap " forum. . . And the rest is history. . . And a damned large window of it!  :spooked:

And the Muncie Star Press forum run into the ground by the idjit who sabotaged HM with his AFP which, like Topix with Tolles, was only a manipulative personal revenue stream.

IINM, the Indy Star forum still exists but, like so many other forums due to bad management, allowing trolls to make it a shadow of its former self.
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on August 31, 2016, 04:35:24 PM
Quote from: Y on August 31, 2016, 04:23:14 PM
Old Kooks is still around - just like Ziggy (Tattoo Vampire) - under various screen names trolling Topix. 

Neither one of them ever grew up - like most of the posters on Topix so they fit right in there with the rest of the immature howling baboons clawing and fighting with each other.

Yeah I noticed that.

You can't appease those Topix people much.  They seem to thrive on the infighting that goes on there daily.  They fight 24/7/365, fighting the same fights, against the same people, using the same insults, over and over, for years now; holidays included.   :rolleyes:  They roll out some of the most childish insults, like, "Do you need a tissue?" etc. when going back and forth with you, rather than addressing any topic in a cogent manner.   Of course, maybe they're incapable of addressing anything in a cogent manner and all they're capable of is childish insults.   ;D

I just don't get it. 
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Y on August 31, 2016, 04:36:17 PM
Quote from: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 09:01:06 PM
I remember that sumbitch!  :biggrin:

He would never come over to the Zone because of Y.  :rotfl:

Quote from: Palehorse on August 16, 2016, 09:01:53 PM
Him and "Sweeper". . .  :rolleyes: :mad: :rolleyes:

Because I had the dirt on them and neither one of them could argue themselves out of a brown paper bag. 

They couldn't stand being on places where they didn't have their finger on the button and weren't in control. 
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on August 31, 2016, 04:38:42 PM
Quote from: Y on August 31, 2016, 04:36:17 PM

They couldn't stand being on places where they didn't have their finger on the button and weren't in control. 

This also reminds me of Topix. 

There is something definitely strange about some of the 'regular posters' around there and which posts are chosen for removal.  It seems to me that content is removed more so because of whom is targeted rather than the content of the posts themselves. 

I witnessed something along these exact lines happening a couple of Sundays ago. 
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Y on August 31, 2016, 04:46:01 PM
Quote from: Locutus on August 31, 2016, 04:35:24 PM
Yeah I noticed that.

You can't appease those Topix people much.  They seem to thrive on the infighting that goes on there daily.  They fight 24/7/365, fighting the same fights, against the same people, using the same insults, over and over, for years now; holidays included.   :rolleyes:  They roll out some of the most childish insults, like, "Do you need a tissue?" etc. when going back and forth with you, rather than addressing any topic in a cogent manner.   Of course, maybe they're incapable of addressing anything in a cogent manner and all they're capable of is childish insults.   ;D

I just don't get it.

It's beyond me.  I can't understand how some of those people being the age they are acting as they do - repetitively.  It's as if they have no other purpose or goal in life.

One of the other things that offends me about them is that they appear to be inveterate liars down to the last one...

...but that's something you get when you have such systemic falsities that place allows with the blatant use of multiple accounts and unregistered posting.
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Y on August 31, 2016, 04:51:19 PM
Quote from: Locutus on August 31, 2016, 04:38:42 PM
This also reminds me of Topix. 

There is something definitely strange about some of the 'regular posters' around there and which posts are chosen for removal.  It seems to me that content is removed more so because of whom is targeted rather than the content of the posts themselves. 

I witnessed something along these exact lines happening a couple of Sundays ago.

Oh that place is as corrupt as they come, just like the old HB and HM forums.

Corrupt capitalism for a revenue stream, bad administration/moderation, ties to mods and/or mods posting, along with unregistered posting and multiple accounts...

...<sarcasm> how could that possibly be a recipe for disaster?</sarcasm>
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Y on August 31, 2016, 04:58:13 PM
Quote from: libby on August 16, 2016, 10:20:36 PM
Sure was. Duke and Bo D and I were posting on the old Bluefield Daily Telegraph posting board when it made the move to Hey Martha. I joined here on Dec 8, 2011.

My, how time flies!

That was a crackpot area, especially when they allowed Ziggy/Tattoo Vampire to moderate it behind the scenes and post to boot. 

Those WVians that stay planted there seem to be as fundamentalist and RW as they come - all to their own detriment. 

One has just about never met any group so proud to vote against themselves.
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on August 31, 2016, 05:04:53 PM
Quote from: Y on August 31, 2016, 04:58:13 PM
That was a crackpot area, especially when they allowed Ziggy/Tattoo Vampire to moderate it behind the scenes and post to boot. 

Those WVians that stay planted there seem to be as fundamentalist and RW as they come - all to their own detriment. 

One has just about never met any group so proud to vote against themselves.

Speaking of that area, remember Dingo Don Rose and his Army of Idjits?   :rotfl:

That was classic!  :big grin:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Y on August 31, 2016, 05:14:11 PM
Quote from: Anne on August 17, 2016, 01:19:07 PM
I registered in December 2008. I was on the HB forum and came over here when it closed. It got really nasty the last few weeks. One person I remember was Kent. He wouldn't take his kids to see Santa Claus, said he wouldn't lie to his kids.

Yes it did for several reasons. 

One of which was the publisher at the time was posting on the forum and attacked another poster of a differing political persuasion with an attack that amounted to libel.  CHNI leadership, the HM admin - Sweeper, and the HB mod - Mikey, all allowed it to stand resulting in a law suit.

Another was KPaul, that idiot admin who ran the Muncie Star Press into the ground and was canned for his efforts, started a forum for a personal revenue stream and manipulated Anderson members to join and fund him.  KPaul was fermenting as much trouble on HM as he could in order to up his income from AFP.  It took quite a long time, but it seemed everyone finally figured out what he was all about and the place vaporized.

Kent appeared to be a reasonably decent guy who was taken in first by KPaul, and then by Kooks.  He seemed to have a lot of home/personal problems and finally disappeared from forums.
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Y on August 31, 2016, 05:17:26 PM
Quote from: Locutus on August 31, 2016, 05:04:53 PM
Speaking of that area, remember Dingo Don Rose and his Army of Idjits?   :rotfl:

That was classic!  :big grin:

Yup!  Him and old 'pastor' John the old troll.   :biggrin:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Y on October 06, 2016, 05:45:03 PM
Quote from: Y on August 31, 2016, 04:23:14 PM
Old Kooks is still around - just like Ziggy (Tattoo Vampire)

I was recently let in on that both of those jealous little weasels have been putting up 'Zone' forums etc. to attack me and the real 'Zone' - even though DNP has had the place for years.

I'm going to make certain DNP knows what the two are up to.

It's hilarious that neither of them have the intestinal fortitude to look me up here and come at me straight on.  Some folks just never grow up.
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: pariann on October 07, 2016, 09:31:54 AM
Quote from: Locutus on August 16, 2016, 09:24:44 AM
Holy shit!  We've been at this for 10 years?   :spooked:

I wish....I've been on a really long hiatus.  :)
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: pariann on October 07, 2016, 10:04:32 AM
Quote from: Y on August 31, 2016, 05:14:11 PM

Kent appeared to be a reasonably decent guy who was taken in first by KPaul, and then by Kooks.  He seemed to have a lot of home/personal problems and finally disappeared from forums.

He left Indiana, interest in Indiana forums left him.  They don't even use the yahoo messenger any longer...though if I looked hard enough, I would probably find him or his wife on Facebook.   They were really nice people, I knew them outside of the forum.
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Sunny on October 15, 2016, 09:21:16 AM
September 18 2006...wow! Nice to see good things last. :)
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on October 15, 2016, 07:23:32 PM
Sunny!!!!!!!  :big grin: 

Wow!  So good to see you!
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Palehorse on October 15, 2016, 08:05:47 PM
Quote from: Sunny on October 15, 2016, 09:21:16 AM
September 18 2006...wow! Nice to see good things last. :)

And there she is! The prodigal member returns!  :smitten:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: me on October 15, 2016, 11:43:17 PM
Quote from: Sunny on October 15, 2016, 09:21:16 AM
September 18 2006...wow! Nice to see good things last. :)
Hi Sunny
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Sunny on October 16, 2016, 06:32:00 AM
Quote from: Locutus on October 15, 2016, 07:23:32 PM
Sunny!!!!!!!  :big grin: 

Wow!  So good to see you!

And the same to you, my dear long, lost friend! How are things in FL?? A little excitement down there last week!?
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Sunny on October 16, 2016, 06:38:59 AM
Quote from: Palehorse on October 15, 2016, 08:05:47 PM
And there she is! The prodigal member returns!  :smitten:
The wanderer....yes, it's been way too long. I'm grateful to see some familiar faces & a warm welcome after all of this time. Hard to believe and great to see everyone here for a decade!
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Sunny on October 16, 2016, 06:41:39 AM
Hello me!

I see Pari up there, too.  :island:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Exterminator on October 16, 2016, 01:45:35 PM
Hi, Sunny!
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Sunny on October 16, 2016, 06:59:54 PM
Quote from: Exterminator on October 16, 2016, 01:45:35 PM
Hi, Sunny!

Hello, Exterminator. How's it going?  :)
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Y on October 28, 2016, 06:05:46 PM
Well hello, Pari and Sunny!

Two wayward lambs...

:biggrin:

I'm not here much, but glad to see y'all!
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Sunny on October 30, 2016, 03:13:38 PM
Quote from: Y on October 28, 2016, 06:05:46 PM
Well hello, Pari and Sunny!

Two wayward lambs...

:biggrin:

I'm not here much, but glad to see y'all!

Likewise, Y!  8)
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: pariann on November 07, 2016, 07:29:57 PM
Quote from: Y on October 28, 2016, 06:05:46 PM
Well hello, Pari and Sunny!

Two wayward lambs...

:biggrin:

I'm not here much, but glad to see y'all!
I don't know about wayward...I'm pretty much in one place.  Except for my day trips around Indiana.  I love these!!
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on November 07, 2016, 07:52:56 PM
You were wayward from here for a long time!   :razz:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Y on November 08, 2016, 10:29:42 AM
Yup!

I ain't here much, but I ain't wayward!   :razz:

:biggrin:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: pariann on November 18, 2016, 09:24:58 AM
Quote from: Locutus on November 07, 2016, 07:52:56 PM
You were wayward from here for a long time!   :razz:
I'm still not up to fully being here.....I get on at work, but I have two bosses over my shoulder and I can barely take a minute to read before I have to switch my page.   sigh.
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on November 18, 2016, 09:50:01 AM
That's what you get for becoming working woman!   ;D
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Y on November 18, 2016, 02:34:17 PM
She has to work now to send me money 'cause she's making Brent those damn sammiches!   :razz:

:biggrin:

Where's my money!

Where's my sammich!

:razz:

:biggrin:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Y on November 18, 2016, 02:35:00 PM
Quote from: Sunny on October 30, 2016, 03:13:38 PM
Likewise, Y!  8)

Has that Sunny gone wayward again!   :razz:

:biggrin:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on November 18, 2016, 06:08:08 PM
Y's lookin' for ya' Sunny!   ;D
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Palehorse on November 18, 2016, 08:27:04 PM
Quote from: Locutus on November 18, 2016, 06:08:08 PM
Y's lookin' for ya' Sunny!   ;D

It's winter time. The sun isn't around much. . .  ;) :biggrin:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: pariann on November 21, 2016, 09:56:01 AM
Quote from: Y on November 18, 2016, 02:34:17 PM
She has to work now to send me money 'cause she's making Brent those damn sammiches!   :razz:

:biggrin:

Where's my money!

Where's my sammich!

:razz:

:biggrin:
His arms are NOT broke, he can make his own sandwich and I have to pay for my new car. !!!!  :yes:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Palehorse on November 21, 2016, 03:50:20 PM
Somebody told me there were sandwiches here. . .  :drool1:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Henry Hawk on November 21, 2016, 03:52:25 PM
Huh???  :spooked:   sandwiches?
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on November 21, 2016, 03:55:02 PM
Italian sandwiches anyone?  ;D

(http://blogchef.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Quiznos_classic_italian_sandwich_1.jpg)
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on November 21, 2016, 03:55:54 PM
Here's some Italian beer to go with them:

(http://www.thebeerstore.ca/sites/default/files/styles/brand_hero/public/brand/hero/Peroni_TBS_BottleGlassImage_0.jpg)
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Henry Hawk on November 21, 2016, 04:03:39 PM
(https://static1.squarespace.com/static/542d948de4b0c8590fff218b/t/54f60017e4b012224d33b447/1425408027784/French-Dip-Sandwiches-Au-Jus?format=1000w)(http://www.dongo.org/pictures/a_french_beer.jpg)
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on November 21, 2016, 04:04:27 PM
This thread is starting to look like the Hawk's Bar & Grille!  ;D
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on December 08, 2016, 06:35:01 PM
Quote from: Y on December 08, 2016, 05:29:55 PM


...you're the LW version of Tony Light.

Now there's a name I haven't heard in awhile!  ;D
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: parkerdivine on December 08, 2016, 06:47:47 PM
Quote from: Locutus on December 08, 2016, 06:35:01 PM
Now there's a name I haven't heard in awhile!  ;D

Awww...me neither....he was so republican....too bad we can't get him here...I think I know where he's posting, though, along with some other WV folks.
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on December 08, 2016, 06:56:00 PM
Quote from: parkerdivine on December 08, 2016, 06:47:47 PM
Awww...me neither....he was so republican....too bad we can't get him here...I think I know where he's posting, though, along with some other WV folks.

I think he was here once upon a time.  Or maybe that was a previous version of the Zone. 
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: parkerdivine on December 08, 2016, 06:58:59 PM
Quote from: Locutus on December 08, 2016, 06:56:00 PM
I think he was here once upon a time.  Or maybe that was a previous version of the Zone.

He was certainly entertaining..albeit not as polite as Henry Hawk.  There's a story about him and posting on another forum which I can't reveal, but suffice to say it made him endearing to me.

BoD, too.
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on December 08, 2016, 07:02:06 PM
Quote from: parkerdivine on December 08, 2016, 06:58:59 PM
He was certainly entertaining..albeit not as polite as Henry Hawk.  There's a story about him and posting on another forum which I can't reveal, but suffice to say it made him endearing to me.

BoD, too.

He always came across to me as being a bit racist, especially given the Obama avatars which he would routinely use.

Bo D is a class act all the way around.  He could disagree without being disagreeable.  :yes:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Palehorse on December 08, 2016, 07:04:38 PM
Someone mentioned BoD a little bit ago, and it got me to wondering just where int he hell he has gotten off to?

Boy retires from work and then "poof". Has he retired from posting as well?

Here's to yah Bo D. Season's Greetings to you and yours, and I hope we get to hear from you soon brother!  :food5:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Locutus on December 08, 2016, 07:06:02 PM
Maybe he'll come back around once the newness of his retirement wears off.  ;D
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: parkerdivine on December 08, 2016, 07:06:35 PM
Quote from: Palehorse on December 08, 2016, 07:04:38 PM
Someone mentioned BoD a little bit ago, and it got me to wondering just where int he hell he has gotten off to?

Boy retires from work and then "poof". Has he retired from posting as well?

Here's to yah Bo D. Season's Greetings to you and yours, and I hope we get to hear from you soon brother!  :food5:

I've seen him on a forum....he's alive and well...and still BoD. That was me, Palehorse...I mentioned him...I posted on the other forum with others, too.
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: parkerdivine on December 08, 2016, 07:07:23 PM
Quote from: Locutus on December 08, 2016, 07:02:06 PM
He always came across to me as being a bit racist, especially given the Obama avatars which he would routinely use.

Bo D is a class act all the way around.  He could disagree without being disagreeable.  :yes:

That is so true.....Bo D was a class act.
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: The Troll on December 08, 2016, 08:40:49 PM


  I would guess he was posting on company time, just like Henry Hawk does.  :haha:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: Henry Hawk on December 09, 2016, 07:56:34 AM
Quote from: Palehorse on December 08, 2016, 07:04:38 PM
Someone mentioned BoD a little bit ago, and it got me to wondering just where int he hell he has gotten off to?

Boy retires from work and then "poof". Has he retired from posting as well?

Here's to yah Bo D. Season's Greetings to you and yours, and I hope we get to hear from you soon brother!  :food5:

:food5:
Title: Re: On forums and 10-year anniversaries
Post by: libby on December 09, 2016, 02:45:35 PM
Quote from: Locutus on December 08, 2016, 07:02:06 PM
He always came across to me as being a bit racist, especially given the Obama avatars which he would routinely use.

Bo D is a class act all the way around.  He could disagree without being disagreeable.  :yes:
Tony and I often disagreed, sometimes angrily, but he said once that he liked me, and I guess I (sometimes) felt the same way about him.  ;)

As for Bo D, he is indeed a class act, a quick thinking intellectual.