Are famous people or undercover law enforement among Alias posters here?

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Just wondering if there are some real-live famous people lurking here or posting under alias. Also I's wondering exactly if Officer Friendly 5-oh was lurking around here, setting up millennium stings, profiling potential suspects.

-- coprolith (coprolith@rocketship.com), September 16, 1999

Answers

Yes, you found me out! I'm really brother William, former Federal law enforcement officer, and current Federal grand jury member...

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), September 16, 1999.

Glad you asked, I am Mae West, remember me? I'm not dead, never been dead.

"Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?"

"Everythings in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step towards getting it."

-- Mae West (MaeWest@MaeWesttt.com), September 16, 1999.


Mae: Did you used to mudwrestle?

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.com), September 16, 1999.

KoS, yes sir, so "why don't you come up and see me sometime big boy!"

-- Mae West (maewest@maewesttt.com), September 16, 1999.

Hey coprolith,

I was a long time lurker - like for more than a year when I saw something posted about mushrooms - which I actually knew something about & thought I had something to contribute.

I originially come from a MAJOR metro area with relatives that engineered the physical systems that made that world possible {daddy graduated with honors from No Spam's alma mater, grandaddy a major engineer/surveyor}

Mushrooms ironically have brought me from the shadows somewhat. I do know various folks in various capacities, if you think they are ahead of us goofballs on this forum, you are sadly mistaken.

PS Love your posts.

-- flora (***@__._), September 16, 1999.



I'm Fred Flintstone, and this is my friend Barney Rubble, and this is your life on drugs. Any questions?

-- Sheriff Fred Flintstone (sheriff@bedrock.org), September 16, 1999.

My real name is

-- BigDog (BigDog@duffer.com), September 16, 1999.

Oops. I meant, my real name is

-- BigDog (BigDog@duffer.com), September 16, 1999.

Hmmm. For some reason, TPTB are erasing my REAL name, which is VERY well-known nationally. Sorry.

-- BigDog (BigDog@duffer.com), September 16, 1999.

Stoopid question dude,

but with a name like flora what would you expect, is your e- mail real?

-- flora (***@__._), September 16, 1999.



I come here occasionally to see if you're still on to me. Most of you are, dammit.

-- John Koskinen (threeDays@most.ha.ha), September 16, 1999.

No one here posts under an alias. We all use our real names, coprolith.

-- Mara Wayne (MaraWayne@aol.com), September 16, 1999.

Hi, Bill Gates here.

Where do you think I got this handle?

Want some money? <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), September 16, 1999.


"Night Train" Lane is probably the most famous. NFL great, and what a fantastic handle.

-- Mike (Boxman9186@aol.com), September 16, 1999.

Hey Bill,

Could you spot me a hundred bucks so I can buy a few carton of Camels?

-- SgtSchultz (SgtHansSchultz@stalag13.com), September 16, 1999.



SgtSchultz,

I'ld buy you the company, but it's a bad business to be in these days. Too many law suits.

But here, go get yourself a truckload or 2:

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9/16/99, oh darn, 9/16/1999

Pay to the order of SgtSchultz

$1,000,000.00

Signed, Bill Gates

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No problem. I just set up a billion dollar education fund. <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), September 16, 1999.


Flora:

Are you a mushroom hunting fanatic?

My wife and I both greatly enjoy the sport. I've been at it for 25 years, she only about 2.

My email is real if you want to drop me a line.

-- Jon Williamson (pssomerville@sprintmail.com), September 16, 1999.


Do you like to mushroom wrestle? ;^)

All the regular posters here have become famous :-)

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), September 16, 1999.


Your wife is only 2 years old?

-- ?????? (?????@????.com), September 16, 1999.

PS SgtSchultz,

Please don't try to cash that 'til next year. I'm not going to have much money in the bank for a while.

Bill <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), September 16, 1999.


I enjoy posting here and try to come up with questions and ideas to help people think about what could happen with a little humor thrown in. I do not have a computer background. Neither Curly or I am smart enough to figure that programming stuff out or to remember it if we could. Our hats are off to youall that can do that and can recognize the problems that the gobmint can not or will not recognize and warn us about.

-- Moe (Moe@3stooges.gom), September 16, 1999.

somehow I can't picture Koskinen saying "dammit".

He thinks it of course... just turns into happyface talk when his mouth opens.

-- Linda (lwmb@psln.com), September 16, 1999.


Moe, I love you, Curly and Larry. You have brought laughter to millions. When I was a kid and watched you guys on TV, I thought you were kinda silly. But watching your reruns as an adult, man, you guys are really hilarious! I'd rather laugh at a bunch of morons than to listen to the bullshit of politicians and intellectual rhetoric. Laughter is the best medicine.

-- ~~~~~ (~~~~@~~~.com), September 16, 1999.

Hell, if Mel Gibson is here, Hon I want a date!! Married or not.. we only get to live once... hehe.... Hey Bill, will you buy me a private Island too, so I can become stranded with Mel..Then he and I can make little Road Warriors!!!!!

-- Cassandra (american_storm@usa.net), September 16, 1999.

Cassandra,

I have a few islands, so I could give you one I guess. The problem is that it's a little south-east of Florida. We've had a little rain down there lately, and expect a little more. Talk to me in a few months. Let's see if the island is still there then!

Bill <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), September 16, 1999.


I never said "dammit" until I found this forum. Dammit, dammit, dammit.

Now take those extra cans of Dinty Moore back to Sam's, you hoarders. My orders were strict. A half tank of gas on New Year's Eve, just the half jug of expired milk in the fridge, and those few cans of soup you don't really like which is why they've been in the pantry for a year already. And, oh yeah, $15 in cash. NOTHING ELSE!

There's a coin shortage, you know. I saw it on the CNBC business report tonight. I know it's you guys. Now roll those up and take them to the bank and DEPOSIT them.

Dammit.

-- John Koskinen (ThreeDays@most.ha.ha), September 16, 1999.


Survival,

for lack of a better word,

is good.

-- Gordon (g_gecko_69@hotmail.com), September 16, 1999.


I have no comment at this time.

-- Anymouse (NoWay@No.How), September 17, 1999.

We only admit, Mistakes Were Made.

-- Anymouse (NoWay@No.How), September 17, 1999.

Mr. Copralith,

Sir, your suspicians can be summed up in one word: Plausible Deniability.

Regards,

Major Flag, M*A*S*H Security Unit

-- Anymouse (NoWay@No.How), September 17, 1999.


Mr. K: Screw you! I'm taking my coins and I'm going to Las Vegas, NV for a vacation. I'm going to cash in those coins and have myself one hum dinger of a good time. If your worried about my coins, go to Vegas and pick them up. One arm bandits here I come!!!! One last fling until the fling fling's me.

-- chachingchaching (chachingchaching@chachingggg.com), September 17, 1999.

Yeah, uh, this is "The King". Uuuh, I got my motorhome filled with cheeseburgers there mumma baby. Course I'll be in Vegas on New Years, then were gonna head on out to my uuuhhh, top-secret underground Casino party village, if y'know what I mean. Yeaaauuuhh, we got like, uuuuh, swimmin' pools, restaurants, the whole 9 yards, y'know. Got even more goodies down there than I do above ground. Yeaaauuuh, I jus' whan' y'all t'know, like uuuhh, thanks to this here forum I'm ready to party in the year 2000. Course I always keep plenty o' food around no matter wha' year it is, yuuh know what I mean mumma baby?

Buuuuuuuurrrrwwwopp! Gimme a'nuthr cheezburgr there mumma. Bwwwop.

-- The King (vival@svegas.king), September 17, 1999.


Th..th..th..that's all folks!

-- Looneytooner (Elmer@Fudd.com), September 17, 1999.

I think the Flint/Decker troll is actually a science fiction writer named Barry Longyear. It's kind of hard to tell it's Barry Longyear writing the Flint/Decker posts since he's dumbed down his writing style so much, but I'm about 98% sure that who the Flint/Decker troll really is.

-- A (propeller@beanie.fan), September 17, 1999.

Well, I'm just an old country doctor, but hey, the view is better from up here.

-- Bones (he'sdeadjim@enterprise.shp), September 17, 1999.

Elvis here...

-- Anonymous99 (Anonymous99@Anonymous99.xxx), September 17, 1999.

well hot diggity darn. i guess this was a very very idiotic question indeed! admittedly it was posted half tongue-in-cheekedly. forgive me for the waste of bandwidth. although the answers here are EXTREMELY funny, so I guess i'm not THAT remoseful about clogging up the server. ho ho ho, c.

-- coprolith (coprolith@rocketship.com), September 17, 1999.

Well I was going to tell you my real identity(number 4 of 12, MJ that is), but the tinfoil will fly.

-- CygnusXI (noburnt@toast.net), September 17, 1999.

Uh, what's up doc?

-- Dave (aaa@aaa.com), September 17, 1999.

was that famous or infamous? =^)

Mike

=====================================================================

-- Michael Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), September 17, 1999.


I'm not sure how famous I am with the people I've successfully duped, but there's a good chance I'll be infamous next January. That's why my Y2K preps are different than theirs'. I've got a $40 million bunker and pre-admission clearance into the Witness Protection Program.

With a little plastic surgery, I'll come out looking just like Ed Yourdon, heh, heh, heh...

-- John Koskinen (ThreeDays@most.ha.ha), September 17, 1999.


* * * 19990917 Friday

Who cares?

We're all on the same "Y2K Titanic" without immunity to the dire consequences.

Keep the U.S. Constitution at hand and the powder dry to protect it and your loved ones!

Regards, Bob Mangus

* * *

-- Robert Mangus (rmangus1@yahoo.com), September 17, 1999.


Coprolith,

Gee, it almost feels pompous, to chime in with a serious answer after so many witty responces, but what the heck, if you can't be pompous on a computer forum, where can you be?

The only safe assumption, is that everyone who posts anonymously has their reasons. The reasons why any of us wish to remain annonymous can be multitude, and trying to figure out what a specific individuals rational may be, can make you crazy.

It's not an irrational belief to assume there might be gov't agents on the board. It doesn't say anything specific about our gov't, to believe that, but it says something about gov'ts in general. All gov'ts, the good, the bad and the ugly, all seek to perpetuate themselves and legitimize/rationalize whatever course they are taking. Hiring people to direct public opinion, in any venue, would be a likely course of action

You could have shills, which present the "happy face", or you could have agent provacatuers, which work to keep a particular hornets nest stirred up. That's where things get sticky. The gov't could have reasons for keeping a point of view that seems antithetical to it's position, alive and well.

Last night, I received an e-mail from a friend, that was a forward of a letter that her cousin sent to her. Her cousin maintains that the flare up of the Waco controversy was a smoke screen to draw attention away from the fact that the IRS and DoJ computers were crippled beyond repair (He presents a lot of "eveidence" in his letter). Just for the sake of argument, assume this person's theories were correct. The gov't could want agent provacatuers to keep that controversy boiling, because if it ended up being of only marginal interest, it wouldn't provide much cover.

So, you get into a situation where anybody, from any point of view, could be working here, on someone else's behest - Pollys, moderates, doomers. conspiracy theorists or conspiracy theorists-bashers, could all possibly qualify. I have my own list of people I'm a tad suspicious of, but why bring it up? I can't prove it, and all it would do is spark a flame war.

I like to use the forum as a guage of where people are at in their thinking, to find good food for thought and to pick up prep tips. I resist seeing anything I read here as absolute truth.

I suspect though, that most of us who post anonymously, just do it, for more mundane reasons. Like not wanting co-workers to realize that it's "THEM" you are poking fun at, with your posts.

As to the "famous people" part of your question, there probably are a few. But I want to use this opportunity to state that rumours that I am really a certain Australian born actor, who makes lots of action adventure films, are just not true. Yes, the evidence that I was in the films "Mad Max" and "Lethal Weapon", is true, but honestly, they were just bit parts. Really....that's all there was to it.

-- Bokonon (bok0non@my-Deja.com), September 17, 1999.


Uhhh, say, Bokonon.....I'd just like to extend my invitation to you, to ride out 2000 at our farm, once more.

Bring a kilt, I've got the pipes, baybeee.

:)

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), September 17, 1999.


I don't know if you'd call me famous. HaChoo! Oops the stock market caught a cold.

Now, I don't want to be quoted here, but I'll make you guys a deal. I'll give each of you permission to hoard, or "stockpile" if you prefer, an extra three days of toilet paper if you'll just shut the hell up. I was thinking about this forum as I was giving my speech this morning. You've got to shut up.

Yeah, I know you guys are right, and we're headed straight down the toidy. But give my little sheeple one last Merry Christmas, will ya? For cryin' out loud, let the big boys get out of the stock market before you start worrying Uncle Bud and Aunt Eleanor about their retirment portfolio.

Oh gotta run. Andrea hates to see me on the internet ever since she caught me looking for the Pamela Anderson video.

-- Alan Greenspan (MakinMeMad@you.too), September 17, 1999.


I would think that with the new technology that is out, anyone posting or lurking here would be extremely cautious. "The camera" is still in the state of testing, but the implications of the technology are extremely unsettling. Talk about invasion of privacy! Apparently, the camera enables utilization of the viewers' computer monitor as a camera "portal" into the lurker or poster's immediate environment. You can test the beta version of the camera yourself. (System Requirements: Your computer / monitor has to be no more than 4 years old.) http://sites.netscape.net/zumaltsp/camera1.html

-- anon (anon@anon.com), September 17, 1999.

WOW! I just did that camera thing, and though it is a little blurry, it took a picture of me through my monitor! I can see how that technology could be horribly intrusive when used for evil.

Scary!

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), September 17, 1999.


Will, anon and Unk Deeds,

LOL!

-- Bokonon (bok0non@my-Deja.com), September 17, 1999.


Dear Copolith (it's petrfied dino droppings ya? vell ya goat mir dere! Ich been Fats only to mein freunds.Ja Ich be Henry /the Anti christ of der bibel. after a hard day of subverting your freedoms at der trilat meetings I re-read der instructions from Bilderberg und plan neue vays to create der new techno-facist welt orderung! Und ve habe der chips ready ven der needed. Power ist der ultimate aphrodisaic,ya i said dat and der uselesseaters of meine address refers to mein comments when told of the radioactive population of der Marshall Islands (90,000 souls) I exclaimed no vorry, der just useless eaters! see ya at der camps---Henry

-- Fats H. Kissinger (draconionsolutions@uselesseaters.com), September 17, 1999.

I'm not famous yet but I will be in about 50 years, unless the y2k goblins destroy all my sonatas and symphonies.

Doesn't coprolith mean a "mound of dung" in Latin?

-- Forrest Covington (theforrest@mindspring.com), September 17, 1999.


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