Wasn’t there also some doofus called green eyed blond or some-such who turned out to be a fat old guy in a Lazy Boy recliner...lol
My regret is I failed to sign up in 97 when I was just lurking..a 98 sign up is pretty good but a 97 is the gold standard :-)
Hard to believe I have been around here for 20 years...whew.
Came close to getting banned once but they went easy on me because I notified the moderator and begged him to remove my ridiculous post!
Hint, don’t take Ambien and a couple hours later jump out of bed because you thought of something spectacularly brilliant to post! :-)
It was NOT brilliant, it was spectacularly stupid.
Like you, I lurked for 15 months before registering. I was even on MS Chat with Yellow Rose of Texas, amom, Two Thirds Vote Aye, Towanda and some others during a lot of the Don Morgan shake up etc but had not yet registered. Yellow Rose finally talked me into it, LOL.
Those were indeed some fine days to have been involved.
There are dozens of old timer stories I could tell but one that I recall that made Jim pull his hair out was we had a thread discussing what was going to come out of Drudge about the Jesse Jackson love child. One of the posters guessed, and I mean plain guessed, what Matt Drudge would use for the url to post a story he had promised to hold until the next morning. We could therefore call it up and quote it from his page that was not yet linked.
Matt e-mailed Jim hotter than hell thinking his site was Hacked by FR posters. It was really his own fault as he had put the story he had promised to hold till the next morning on his server, unlinked. Jim was mortified that it looked like his posters were hacking Matt and the truth of the matter was really benign.
He took down the thread and gave time-outs and bans and really expressed hurt and disgust that we would misuse his site to cut into Matt’s trust with other news sources.
But, we had Jesse Jackson’s love child before anyone else in the nation had it, LOL.
You are right about Classy-Green-Eyed-Blond and she/he was only one of many pretend posers. Deep-in the Hurtgen-Forest was perhaps the saddest. The poser got in too deep and probably became ashamed or what he/they did by the time Sneaky Pete outed him.