[osiris]

Originally Posted by Dork. 

Can we pinpoint a date when MacNN plunged into the toilet?

Maybe it was Sep 2005....

Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth 

I don't think I was a Lounge regular until November 2005.

So he was off by a couple of months.

[Dakar the Fourth]

That's what I was implying genius.

[osiris]

Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth 

That's what I was implying - genius!

corrected.

[Dakar the Fourth]

I'm still ahead in the grand scheme of things. Oh, and I would have used a comma.

[nonhuman]

A colon is totally the correct choice of punctuation there.

[Dakar the Fourth]

Or a correct choice of where to punch osiris.

[nonhuman]

If you say so. I'm not really into fisting.

[osiris]

Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth 

I'm still ahead in the grand scheme of things. Oh, and I would have used a comma.

Delusions of grandure, I say. And you would've used a rotting corpse if it were grammatically correct.

Is this being recorded?

[- - e r i k - -]

Originally Posted by chris v 

Ah, what's come and gone -- I too remember it all:

Misha was an admin when I first joined, and seemed like a great guy.
Powerbook Dude had a spectacular flameout.
OS X 10.0.0.0.0 killed the server with a hammer for about 3 months.
News Factor Network never knew what hit 'em.
We damned Bill Gates for his Rugged Good Looks.
We scoffed at the iPod.
Chris_H was the funniest human ever to grace the internet, except for Fat Barry. Every single Fat Barry post is a monumental classic of human achievement. I miss him like I miss the sun on a cold, cloudy day.
There was a time before the Pol/War lounge existed. I saw it formed with my own two eyes.
Zack S once psotted an extremely inflammatory gif. Tooki was made to be unhappy.
Liquid Engineer started a side-forum for those who wanted to really let it all hang out.
It blew up real good after about 2 years. Some drifted back, some grabbed hold of a little dingy, and we've been floating lost ever since.

Sorry, I got kinda misty-eyed, there.

Hear! Hear!

I'll drink to this post! Cheers!

[Steve]

This is bringing back some great memories from the day (when I posted and read the forum more regularly).

[analogika]

Originally Posted by Shaddim 

It was when the Tooki monster ran away.

No, he left long after the Political Lounge turned into a shithole and the stench rose to the regular Lounge.

[voyageur]

Originally Posted by dcmacdaddy 

COOL MEMBERS

• maxelson - The teacher from Massachusetts who would have kitchen-recipe duels with Mastrap. (This is like 2000-2002)
• Voyageur - She was like a female Glenn: smart, reasonable, logical, knowledgeable on a lot of subjects, and generally all-around pleasant. (plus really pretty)
• Demonhood - for his locks involving "The Burninator". (I used to think he was one of the artists behind Homestar Runner.)
• WDLove - a nice, pleasant chap. (before he got all icky-friendly with Cody Dawg)
• The Chris guys - a couple guys from Texas (named Chris) who had smarts, sarcasm, and a decidedly liberal point of view.
• MikeMxx - xx was a changing number and he was pretty entertaining with his posts but then he left to go into detox (?) and clean up his life. A few years back someone looked up him and he was still in Jersey but sober (if I remember correctly).
• Face Ache - He is still here but not nearly as active as he used to be. Wicked, wicked sense of humor.
• Salty - For pure entertainment value.
• SimeytheLimey - He and I both lived in DC--I think he is there still--and he would argue the finer points of law with everyone. He loved to "trap" people in logical discussions using his extensive knowledge of the law. Became a lot more smarmy and annoying as the years progressed but he was always an interesting and intelligent poster.
• Mindfad - for his great Photoshop skills and snarky sense of humor.
• Spliffdaddy - Because . . . just because.

MEMORABLE THREADS (for good and bad reasons)

• The Cody-Dawg "Save Terri Schiavo" thread - I think that was the first/only thread that hit 20 pages in less than 24 hours.
• The days of "Damn Bill Gates . . . " and "All Your Base".
• The llama wars.
• The image caption threads with Olympic gymnast-girl.
• Any number of war threads where the debate was civil albeit impassioned. (Those days were a l-o-n-g time ago.)
• The days of the forum re-design and all the discussions about layout, colors, stars (types and colors), and signatures.

I love you too.
I believe you've been sent an invite by someone else to join some of us. Check your PMs.