Lurked since about '98, member since 00', missed this...wanna ping me to some info on this history?
Arthur McGowan posted a vanity once, shrill and frantic, about all the pings he was getting. He basically screamed "Stop pinging me!" to the whole forum in about three paragraphs. It was hilarious!
What ensued can only be described as a feeding frenzy. Sorry, Arthur, I normally wouldn't ping you, even while mentioning your name, but this thread was simply too much to ignore.
Let the record reflect that the Arthur McGowan vanity thread is one of my top three of all time. The 'How to Properly Flame' thread and the 'Richard Gere Haiku' threads were also very good, but alas, were deleted from FR servers long ago.