I can't find Chuck's 10AM announcement of the TB2000 split actually on the board, though Shimoda has linked to it.

Chuck's announcement

Found out in the Unk's thread "Time Bomb dies" thread:

Unk's board announcement

Was it AbbyLane calling Polish Nobility a "lemonsucking dweeb" that pushed it over the edge? Or someone trying to do handwriting analysis on a typefont signature PN uses? Madness, sheer madness.

These bozos have it back to front -- it is not "how you gonna survive Armageddon if you can't handle insults in a forum," but the reality is "how will you be worth living with after Armageddon if you are such an obnoxious PITA in what is ostensibly a community right now?"

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2001

Answers

Funny quote, FM! LOL

New board, Hot Stuff

Shift happens, it has been said....

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2001

FM....the link to chucks remarks comes back as error...what is happening...........I will go see what I can figure on my own!!!! will check back here, IFFN I can get in with the NEW pw.

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2001

Chuck's announcement above already deleted.

New board set up by Chuck et al at: Bomb shelter

Is it bringing in religion if I ask which board now has apostolic succession? Or is everyone protestants, as it were?

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2001

Naw, Firemouse. . .this has been a long time in coming. . .

Long time. There comes a point to where ya' say "Enough's ENOUGH".

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2001

Well, I try not to protest(ant), because it just gets boring after a while.

I think everyone will probably just switch over to the BombShelter. About time that Ed had some peace and quiet. Sounds like the TB archives will stay up, but maybe it's time to start printing more good stuff again.

It's looking like here in the northeast we will skip spring and go directly into summer. Eventually. Like maybe July.

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2001

Can't say about central NC, Brooke. We have a monsoon season, thanks to David, and that will no doubt be followed by the usual dry summer, where the ground cracks menacingly and you start wondering when the camels will start dropping dead of thirst.

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2001

Good grief, now even Mom can't tell us apart. :-(

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2001

personally, I gave up trying to tell you apart a long time ago.

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2001

Barefoot, it should be easy for you, just assign one of your personas to follow each of us around. And I already told ya'll, I'm the one covered with delicate cat hair, Brooke is encrusted with dog crud.

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2001

I caught that distinctive description between hairballs and loyal companions earlier, but cannot remember which witch is which.....

unless I see the hairball address, that is....

[hack! hack! ooof!]

MOM! she hit me!!!!!

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2001

Not fair, Brooke took a shower and has no dog crud and anyway I hit the E instead of the S cos they're close together and I STILL haven't found my good glasses and these have a scratch right in the middle and I don't touch type--WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME--BLOOD??? It's only a friggin' S. Here, give me back the E and take this damn S.

Oh, that's so much better.

Now, would someone please define "hijacking a thread"?

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2001

I'M the witch, though occasionally a bitch (and a cat-person, not a dog-person). The rest are, whatever... that's between you and them and how many times you want to get swatted. :)

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2001

Odd, I can't find Chuck's thread on the TB2K board, but linked to it through Shimoda's thread on the first page. Maybe I already had it stored in cache before it was deleted. Anyway, the basic message was that Chuck and the other sysops, except Cascadians, were splitting off to the new board. No one wants to talk about the reasons. Who can blame them? Jeez, I hate to see this happen.

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2001

As thread owner I'm not aggrieved. But if it is time to run off and start my own offshoot forum in a fit of pique, I claim first dibs on "Lemon-sucking Dweebs" as a forum name.

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2001

Damn! Carl, can we change the name of this forum or is it writ in stone? Quick, before she registers it and I have to pay her millions to get it!

You know, before TV and VCRs and Mario Brothers and such, my Dad and his friends used to stand in front of the bandstand at the local park and suck lemons. They were Sousa-type brass bands, of course, and seeing the kids suck lemons rendered them dry-mouthed and unable to play. I guess that's what a lemon-sucking delinquent is, don't know what a dweeb does with his lemon-sucking.

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2001

ROTFLMAO !~!~!~!

Old Git, who was just talking about hi-jacking a thread??????

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2001

Wellllll, snot really thread drift. More like a slight thread nudge.

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2001

I just wanted to say that I think they did a great job, at least for a while. When Old Git left, I could see the starting of the end. I knew that Brooke held on and she did a good job.

My hat is off to ALL of the old sysops at that board. May they take a well needed rest (but please continue to post). Hopefully, any board that they land on will be without much problems for a while.

If I never said it before (to them or to you here), THANK YOU!

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2001

If only all of them--or even most--had been so understanding. Thanks, Sheeple.

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2001

"snot thread drift"

Funny you should mention that. I heard tonight on the radio a snippet about a rather narsty substance found in some caves called "snottite." Had to go look it up. Aren't you glad I'm such a good researcher with a mission to expand your horizons?

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2001

If that doesn't take you to the right page (their html seemed a bit wonky) do a search on snottite on the page that comes up.

So I'm still a little confused. Who has custody of Ed Yourdon? And how are Chuck and Zog etc going to keep everyone making nice-nice with each other when they have mostly the same cast of characters and the same rules that very clearly didn't work or weren't being enforced?

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2001

I think I may be able to sell this to a Hollywood screenwriter. LOL Blessings, David

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2001

One could make a really cool art installation by putting all the past and present posters on all the various boards on index cards, and then stringing them up on multi-colored bits of string according to who they are allied to and with whom they have mutually repellant relationships, where they post and where they lurk. Little atomic bomb stickers for every time someone has left the forum and said why.

Or maybe go all out and do some of the board postings as a piece of found opera? Data Junkie's aria, "I think someone has cast a spell on this board," or Polish Nobility and AbbyLane's deathbed duet (having stabbed each other with jewelled daggers) ,"Lemonsucking Dweeb/You made me see a nasty link, the Anti-Christ will come/O Shut up and stop bothering me." But if I'm not careful I'm gonna get this mixed up with a nother board where I discuss CS Lewis and such, and will confuse Goddess Venus with a road production of "Out of the Silent Planet."

I think I better toddle off to bed before I free-associate more... G'night.

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2001

Snottite:

It looks more like snotloose to me.

There has been little or no interest on Ed's part to keep TB going, not for a long time--he's been busy trying to recoup the income he lost in the year or so preceding rollover. Your question about how ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen TeeBee is akin to the revelation of that there little lad who said, '"Oy, look! The Emperor's nekkid!"

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2001

ROTFLMAO, uncontrolled for a few minutes there! And what about Gilbert & Sullivan--"A sysop's lot is not a happy one"?

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2001

Oh Firemouse. . .Thank you so very much for providing me with MUCH needed laughter and relief!

Golly. . . I needed that! Whew!

-- Anonymous, April 04, 2001

And how are Chuck and Zog etc going to keep everyone making nice- nice with each other when they have mostly the same cast of characters and the same rules that very clearly didn't work or weren't being enforced?

Simple.

Underwater steel cage knife fights.

-- Anonymous, April 04, 2001

Aw, hell, I hate to play hard-butt, BUT. . .

PLEASE use your usual handle so we know you're not trespassing! Most of us know Barefoot is also Winkie Man, so that's okay.

As you see, the BS is starting up again on both TBII and TBIII and I get real paranoid about someone slipping in here and starting up the same crap uner an unknown handle. I LIKE this nice, quiet place to relax and share news and practical hints and, as this thread so amply illustrates, participate in some much-needed humor in this tension-riddled world. I know it's a funny post, no harm done at all, but I just don't want the habit of multiple handles starting up. (She said, having used many herself on other forums.) Couldja use your funnies in the fake e-mail address instead?

-- Anonymous, April 04, 2001

Snot-loose and fancy-free...

Maybe there should be a t-shirt: "I'm a sysop. Why don't you kick me now and get it out of your system?"

-- Anonymous, April 04, 2001

Firemouse, you could start a tee shirt company -- Lemon Sucking Dweebs

The first "Kick Me" shirts could be black gothic lettering on a lemon background.

Do you have secure credit card ordering online, yet? (;

-- Anonymous, April 04, 2001

Abby is now calling PN "a wart on the ass of society." So teh T-shirt would have to read, "Lemon-sucking dweeb of a societal ass-wart." Sounds like a sysop to me.

-- Anonymous, April 04, 2001

While it may surprise you, even I have my limits as far as tacky discourse goes, and "wart on the ass of society" reaches that. Snottite is at least Science.

-- Anonymous, April 04, 2001

So teh T-shirt would have to read, "Lemon-sucking dweeb of a societal ass-wart." Sounds like a sysop to me.

I'd like two, please. That way, I'll always be assured of having a clean one. ;-)

-- Anonymous, April 04, 2001

You're right, I am surprised, Mouse, but also strangely relieved that you have your standards. I prefer "arse-wart," but that's just me.

-- Anonymous, April 04, 2001

I think I'm a little more sensitive about diseases we've actually had around the house. Those couple of months of dealing with little Elphine's plantar wart and little Thumper's thumb wart made them distinctly a drag. Or maybe I just didn't think it was as catchy as "lemon-sucking dweeb."

But cheer up about this unseemly bout of tastfulness coming from me, I still have that gruesome, revolting forward on the nostril worms that I can lay on y'all some day when you least expect it (or most deserve it).

"Please accept this offering so that Old Lady Misfortune will never again hock phlegm in our faces." -- Ren and Stimpy

Your friend,

Firemouse

-- Anonymous, April 04, 2001

Easier on the eyes now?

-- Anonymous, April 04, 2001