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Old 03-02-2005, 02:53 PM   #1
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This thread would certainly be incomplete without a link to Rimbaud's latest jest.

His crazy caption for this picture made me laugh longer and harder than anything else has in recent memory.
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Old 03-02-2005, 03:46 PM   #2
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One time a few years back I was surfing around the Quiz Room and I saw this newbie post in one of my favorite threads. I think his name was The Saucepan Man or something ridiculous like that. I thought to myself, "Ha! I like this new kid on the block...I hope he sticks around."

Then it got even better when the Quiz Room was nearly falling apart and Beren87 and his following started lobbying for a mod there, with Beren as the lead candidate, and me somehow...(go figure). B-W in his sensible fashion took no notice and after a while Beren stopped coming to the Downs and the crazy newbie I liked a way back was suddenly Quiz Mod.
The moral of the story is... it was fun to watch. Oh, and The Barrow-Wight is always right.
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Old 03-02-2005, 06:28 PM   #3
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Old 03-02-2005, 09:03 PM   #4
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Oh boy. I am still just as good at making a fool out of myself as I was back then.

Let's see. To this thread I would add about 75% of anything that Rimbaud posts.

Fond memories of Entish Bow tom-foolery are also up there. Squatter was brilliant in that. And in general.

One of the more hilarious instances of newbies-gone-bad that I remember was a character named Zones that, as I recall, seriously tested the Barrow Wight's patience with meaningless threads and nonexistent grammar. Unfortunately, the brilliance of Zones has been lost in the great move. *tears*

Also, and I will never, ever, forget this, I remember a conversation with Estelyn in which she pointed out her "favourite" new member of the Downs. The memeber in question had just started a thread entitled "wot an eru????"

Actually, I should have more examples that don't involve newbie faux pas (God knows, I've been there, I'm not trying to be a crabby hypocrite)... I just can't think of any right now.
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