AT oldtimers?

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Paulson

Originally posted by: bill_n_opus
Checking in.

I remember the old days of GUTB and Buy.com coupons and JellyBelly threads announcing "Jelly Belly is open right now!"

Hey Paulson - you'd have probably 30-40k posts if you totalled everything right?

I don't really know, first time I was banned I had something like 10,000 posts... Over at AGN3D I believe I had a couple thousand.

I was originally banned here under the name paulsonator..

lotta history

Weren't you like 12 or so when you came over here?How old are you now? What ever happened to that little friend of yours that use to post here?

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: Paulson

Originally posted by: bill_n_opus
Checking in.

I remember the old days of GUTB and Buy.com coupons and JellyBelly threads announcing "Jelly Belly is open right now!"

Hey Paulson - you'd have probably 30-40k posts if you totalled everything right?

I don't really know, first time I was banned I had something like 10,000 posts... Over at AGN3D I believe I had a couple thousand.

I was originally banned here under the name paulsonator..

lotta history

Weren't you like 12 or so when you came over here?How old are you now? What ever happened to that little friend of yours that use to post here?

Wasn't his name hubbs? I was wondering about that the other day too.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Yup. Paulson and Hubbs.

 

[Lounatik]

I am definitely old school. There were less than 1000-1500 members around when I first signed on. I used to hang out in the OC forum when I was just getting into this computer building phase.

I remember daring to poke my head in here every once in a while and didnt think I'd like to converse with a bunch of weirdos;>)

I was officially cross-pollinated when, I believe, Harvey may have been ripped off and started to post on the other forums and we assaulted some bozo who did it to him. Also there was the whole Hoy fiasco and the resulting pics from uberneumann. Ahhh fun times.

Edit : I forgot that Hoy was also GUTB and also some other aliases. Funny that.

Peace

Lounatik

 

[BuckNaked]

Originally posted by: Sunner
Been a frequent visitor since Anand moved to his own domain, when was this? 97? 98?
Visited once in a while when he had his Geocities site.

Same here... Started poking around in late '97... As far as age.... bleh, turning 40 this year....

 

[classy]

I been on Anand's forum boards since 1998. I just feel luv here.

 

[classy]

AGN..................oh the memories. That board was tight.

 

[DerwenArtos12]

this accoutn isn't an old timer, but I used a friends for a year before I got mie and lurked for a long time before that. Eventually I learned enough from reading here that I got to start infroming the newbs.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: Wingznut
"Old timer", as in actual age... Or when we joined AT?

Either way, at age 35 and over four years logged at AT, and I probably fit the description.

Without a doubt!

 

[Paulson]

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt
Yup. Paulson and Hubbs.

Ok, here's the thing... Jordan Hubbard, my friend from clarkfield minnesota had the same internet service as I did (mvtvwireless)... The moderators thought we were the same person because we posted from the same IP.

In it's older days, mvtvwireless was stupid, and we each had our own private ip addresses (for instance 10.1.x.x) and when we accessed a website, our external or public ip address was something like 199.3.18.100 or something like that.

I'm a senior this year, I'll be 18 on April 2nd... Hubbard is a jr. in high school... I don't really talk to him that much, he thinks he's too cool haha.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: Corn

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: etech

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: etech

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: Stifko

Originally posted by: Perknose 10/09/1999 4:32PM -- Logged in late that day.

Hey I remember you, I was gonna go and what you cream some creep during lunch in Wash Sq park back in '99.

Ha, ha, yeah. I waited there for an hour but he never showed up. Just another keyboard warrior, I guess.

You waited for an hour to beat someone up over what was said on an internet message board? Amazing.

Crapping in an AT old timer's thread? A new low, even for you. :|

Crapping? Why Perk, I just commented on how amazing it was that someone would take the internet so seriously that they would want to beat someone to a bloody pulp over some posted comments. Don't you think it is amazing?

Relax, tech (as if you ever really could), no one beat anyone else to a bloody pulp. Still, I remain unafraid to face anyone down. Cowards die a thousand deaths (or, like you, just snipe from the safety of your keyboard), a brave man dies but once. You are a small and a bitter man. You sense, but cannot consciously realize, that life has passed you by, and that others are having way more fun than you. So you yap at the heels of others, a bitter ofd biddy. Poor, poor etech.

Far be it from me to stir the pot.......................(OK, well maybe not ) But really now Perky, maybe you should have followed your own "Relax" advice before challenging some moron to cat fight over something said on the forums. I'll be the first to give you props for having a sack large enough to give you the courage to face some unknown pimply faced geek who called you out here on the net, but I am by no means impressed by it, nor the pride expressed in this act........but one does wonder, how bitter can a man be who looks for a fight over something said on the net? The only reason someone wasn't beat to a pulp is because one of two dorks was too cowardly to show up......... You and Etech are the same, as am I. If he's bitter, than so are you, and so am I. So......relax Perky, or don't.

Well, I guess we've officially hijacked this reunion thread (sigh). Sorry, Hzl, this will be my last post on the subject. There are a flood of memories, and I need to unburden myself.

First of all, Corn, I didn't "challeng(ing) some moron to cat fight", he called me out. He was in New York, and probably saw from my profile that I lived in Pennsylvania. Probably figured he could blow hard and posture like crazy w/o any real life consequences, like so many here do. He was coming on all "gangsta" and said he'd just got out of jail. What he didn't figure on was that I had regular business in NYC and knew all five boroughs well, better than many, many residents. You see, I was a P.I. for fourteen years, and went up there regularly, often into parts of NYC most folks never get to see.

So, I simply called his bluff.

Turns out, specifically, that I was going to take my then live-in girl friend Jessie up to Manhattan to the doctors that next week. Her doc's office was actually on the same street as the NYPD headquarters regularly featured in Hill Street Blues, right near the village. Our routine for these trips was that I'd drop her off, then go get the insanely great bargain at the famous Gray's Papaya (two freshly grilled hot dogs and a cup of fresh papaya juice for something like $1.95) and then go park near Washington Square and take our dog Cinnamon to the dog park where we both would have a lot of fun species watching and mingling and interacting with species specific life forms, each to our own. On a warm, sunny day in the village, nothing beats it.

So I told the guy who so manly said, "I'm gonna beat the living crap out of you" that he could have his opportunity, that I 'd be at the dog park in Washington Square between 1:00 pm and 2:00 pm on Tuesday, etc. I helpfully described myself and Cinnamon. I limp, so I'm not hard to spot, you know?

He never showed.

I was never looking for a fight. I never am. I didn't spend 14 years as a PI, going in to the worst neighborhoods at night, almost always unarmed, looking for fights.

But I am eerily unafraid. I trace this back to my extended special adventure just out of high school. A lot of young men that I knew, some of them pretty damn well, are dead. They don't have the pleasure of posting on computer forums. Their earthly pleasures have long since ceased, but not mine. Why me?

Ever since, I've thought of my life as living on borrowed time. Fear, at least physical fear, has long since been driven right out of me. I am just not afraid to die. It is a very liberating feeling. The price of how I acquired it is not.

Don't worry, I'm a pussy about myriad other things. I am not Thor, even in my own mind. We are all squalling babes, yearning for reunion with our Mother's teat. The biggest posers are the ones who would ever deny this.

I don't like posers and blow hards. I am 53 now. I had the great good fortune to grow up in suburbia at the height of the baby boom. After school, about 20-30 of us would get together in the local park and play the sport in season. No adults were involved, yet there were less major disputes and really bad acting in one year than there are from the adults in the stands in even one little league baseball game. In the company of your peers, truth reigns and who you are is how you are, for everyone to know and see. So yeah, I'm old school, and don't take kindly to internet posers puffing out their chests anonymously.

Man, this whole episode brings back a flood of memories. Jessie, my Jessie, I miss you more than words can ever say.

We had been living together at my old apartment in Line Lexington, Pa. for about four years. I had the entire first floor of an old Victorian home, hella spacious, with character out the wazoo. There were bay windowns in the bathroom! We had met at my church. Inside of four months, we packed up her NJ apartment (where she had moved from NYC, where she had moved from her native Chicago) and started cohabitating.

Once, a guy from the old AGN FS/FT was gonna drive down from Berks County to complete a trade in person, but at the last minute my work called, and Jessie was home, so I sent her. The guy was in his 20's (I forget his nic), so he assumed I'd sent my Mom! We had fun with that on the forum for quite some time. "Mom says Hi."

We were just about to get married by then.. Neither of us had ever been married before. She was 40, I was close to being 49. We were so grateful that we had found each other, you have no idea. I had never in my life asked anyone to marry me, though I had been myself asked. I sure asked Jessie, and she said, YES!

We were married in the (spacious and beautiful) backyard of our minister's home. It was the best decision I ever made. Jessie wanted a house of our own, something I had decided I might never have in this lifetime. But she wanted it, so I let her take the lead. It's called loving someone.

The first week, we looked at two houses, both on interesting properties (there is still gorgeous land to be had here in once rural Bucks County, Pa, but you'd better act fast, development is destroying it as we speak). Both houses were reasonable, though, for a reason. Both looked like they had been lived in for 30-40 years by a couple who had then gone off to their respective fates -- small, dingy and dull rooms inside. I am not the master handyman, so this was not going to work for us.

So I sat down with Jessie, took a deep breath, and said: "We're not going to make compromises here. We have to live in what we buy.We're not going to move unless we really love the place, even if we have to spend much more -- whatever it takes. I want something that's light and airy. Anyway, finding the right place is a process, and can take time.

The third house she found, the very next week, is the house we bought. Skylights, catherdral ceilings, arches everywhere, nearly two acres, all out back, with a stream, next to an old farm. My Jessie!

Jessie died July 26th, 2001, of complications from surgery for throat cancer. She was 42. Her car still sits in my driveway. I just can't bring myself to part with it.

So, relax, yeah, good advice Corn. Life goes on, with or without you. It's like the Delaware River over by New Hope and North -- Frenchtown and Reigelsville. It doesn't give a damn about your triumphs or tragedies, it just keeps flowing. It just is.








*One interesting sidelight that just came back to me: At the same time as that guy wanted to duke it out in NYC, there was an uber young (like 16 or so -- it's all relative, folks) asian kid with extremely poor language skills and a seeming "attention deficit disorder" personality posting that he had a 366 Celeron chip that he could o/c to 605 (I think, this was a long while ago).

At that time, nobody on the forums had yet heard of such a thing, and, especially given his presentation, no one was inclined to believe him. But he lived in NYC, and kept insisting that it was true, so I simultaneously made plans for him to meet me at the dog park during the same hour.

He also never showed, but seems to have genuinely made the effort, according, after the fact, to him and some of his friends who vouched for him (and mentioned that he was a little, you know, hard to pin down at times).

Turns out, subsequently, that there were such chips, and he was telling the truth. You see, you never know. That's why I like to meet people face to face, and take their measure. Truth is always stranger than fiction. Most people, face to face, are forced to get along, and do -- they find a way to. Face to face, it's the way we humans interacted for eons before all this technology made us grandiose and bellicose semi-strangers.

 

[hzl eyed grl]

I used to go to AGN also. It's been closed down for a long time now, hasn't it?

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: hzl_eyed_grl
I used to go to AGN also. It's been closed down for a long time now, hasn't it?

Yup. Long gone.

 

[Corn]

:beer: for Perky. PM coming your way.......

I miss AGN and do regret not posting often at PCA (the post-AGN hangout for most of the AGN era traders).......

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: etech

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: etech

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: Stifko

Originally posted by: Perknose 10/09/1999 4:32PM -- Logged in late that day.

Hey I remember you, I was gonna go and what you cream some creep during lunch in Wash Sq park back in '99.

Ha, ha, yeah. I waited there for an hour but he never showed up. Just another keyboard warrior, I guess.

You waited for an hour to beat someone up over what was said on an internet message board? Amazing.

Crapping in an AT old timer's thread? A new low, even for you. :|

Crapping? Why Perk, I just commented on how amazing it was that someone would take the internet so seriously that they would want to beat someone to a bloody pulp over some posted comments. Don't you think it is amazing?

Relax, tech (as if you ever really could), no one beat anyone else to a bloody pulp.

Still, I remain unafraid to face anyone down. Cowards die a thousand deaths (or, like you, just snipe from the safety of your keyboard), a brave man dies but once.

You are a small and a bitter man. You sense, but cannot consciously realize, that life has passed you by, and that others are having way more fun than you. So you yap at the heels of others, a bitter ofd biddy.

Poor, poor etech.

jesus christ man get a life.

 

[Perknose]

jesus christ man get a life.

Please keep reading past that post, Ameesh, I do have one (life).

 

[oddlink]

that dog looks exactly like mine does, cept mine is like 7 human years now.....

 

[hzl eyed grl]

I miss AGN and do regret not posting often at PCA (the post-AGN hangout for most of the AGN era traders).......

I sometimes go to PCA myself. It's also a nice forum to hang out in.

Originally posted by: oddlink
that dog looks exactly like mine does, cept mine is like 7 human years now.....

Cool. Post some pictures!

 

[classy]

Speaking of AGN, does anyone remember winwinwin the notorious trader? That guy made more enemies. I'll never forget the time when JohnM sold this one guy a video card and fan was falling so the guy calls him at 2am in the morning and cussed out his wife and him. LOL Man the looney happenings there were classic.

There's been some classic moments here but over there it was a bit more loose. Some of those memories will be forever. Nothing like good forum boards

 

[Corn]

I was never a big trader at AGN, so other than Hoy (Putostank), I wasn't too familiar with the worst of the traders, but over in the video card forum the most hated troll was Orkinman.

Holy HOY Batman!!!!

Those were good times!!!! .....and where is Finality?

Edit.....This one almost made me cry........

 

[nullshark]

Wow, lots of familiar names (if not avatars) in this thread to bring me back to the days when I couldn't wait to come back from the bar and read all the new posts Oh happy belated b-day, hzl

I was still just lurking in the WMC days but I have saved on my hdd a copy of butter (as well as Endymion's original nef thread), hehe:

....................................
A snippet:

Endymion:
what is it with these newbies making multiple sh*t posts to get up to member or senior member status? nef the retard as i shall now call him posted just tested like 10 times or something lame. wtf is wrong with you retards?

Later...

Endymion:
i am now going to use 'nef' as an insult

Still later...

Russ:
Endymion,
I'm sure there are many retards insulted by the comparison.
Russ, NCNE

....................................

Yeah hzl, you were the Queen

As originally posted by Imaginer in June of 2000...



And here is the revised thingy

Thy Official Commandment Constitution of La Cerveza League of Nations.

Ye thy Arrogantly domineering and overbearing, Easily angered and violent, Prone to outbursts of temper and rage, extreme in everything, withith thou imagination lacking in moral restraint or any restraint of any kind, which thou never been seen, members withith extreme zeal or enthusiasm shall choose to liveith thy own life on thy new, clean, and purified world under thy La Cerveza League of Nations as how one sees it in their visions.

However, thy must be careful of thou carefully laid outth rules which will effect ye membership and rank in the League. All members musnt violate thou set forth commandments of the League and thy shallt break these newly set forth rules shalt be sent to thy dungeon of Imaginer full of thy disgusting filthy horrid crabs and be brutally biatched out of thy thread of jhu and there will be noth mercy on thou branded pathetic fool.

Grand PooBah of commandment constitution Imaginer shall be head of revising, refining, and fulfilling requests and thy objective of the La Cerveza League of Nations. Grand PooBah of Commandment Constitution Imaginer shall not accept any complaints or requests of thy pesants but upmost important people as long thy obey Thy Rule Quatro.

Thy own possessions, property, and whatchamacallits shallt haveth their wealth weighted in clams. Thy official tresurer of La Cerveza League of Nations shallt be Shuxclams. Thou official duty of thy clams of the Nation is to carefully inspect and observe forth any defects and vile crabs. The official tresurer shant ever collect any kind of revenue from any of thou members of thy council but only 2 clams forth extreme important contingencies.

Thy Rule Uno
-Thou shant dishonor anyone in the council of the League.

Thy Rule Dos
-No earthly exsistance or uneartly exsistance or any exsistance of any kind can flame thy founding members of the council.

Thy Rule Thres
-Naps, milk, beavers, clams, bananas, and beer thou officially recognized art thou League's up most priority thingies.

Thy Rule Quatro (Now been slain by Thy Revised Rule Quatro)
-A request for a amendment for thou constitution be made in ye old english and espanol. Thy requests shall not be heed from pesants or trolls of lowly order.

Thy Rule Cinco
-Thy one called Squire Paulson shall be recognized by all members and will be granted thy 9:30 PM siesta time by official count of his squirehood.

Thy Rule Sies
-Thou shall not let ye trolls, crabs, long armpit hair, maiden bodily folicles or any other prohibited relics or creatures withouth thy consent of counsel. Any other forbidden objecth must be proclaimed in ye old english y espanol and brought before thy counsel for judgement.

Thy Rule Siete
-Any position on thy counsel must be agreed on. Ye position must not be forced by ye army of thy own mother country.

Thy Rule Ocho
-Thy fair maiden hzl_eyed_grl shall officially claim the section on thy globe Europe. However, thy Grand PooBah of ye new constitution Imaginer shall have half of Switzerland and all of Germany.

Thy Rule Nueve
-Thy special holiday shallt include thy time of ye counsel member's birthing day (birthday). Thy time of special celebration beginnith on midnight of thy date til thy midnight of thee nexth day.

Thy Rule Diez
-Thy demon icon knight, dennilfloss shall be offically recognized as head DJ of La Cerveza League of Nations.

Thy Rule Once
-Thy feminine member hzl_eyed_grl will be crowned the royal queen that will preside under this League.

Thy Rule Dose
-Thy fair sweet maiden sailorette shallt noth be denied of attention.

Thy Rule Trece
-Thy evil ailment of the body called obesity shall be prohibited for consideration of thy newly formed festive nude days.

Thy Rule Catorce
-Thy pimpdaddy stuclark shallt be forever on taketh thou role in this purified society as thy Master Maiden Upbringing Co-Ordinator and Lord of thy Paper Clips y Lapices. Thy duty to make sure the dames art fairly pleased y thy pencils art sharp as a knight's sword.

Thy Revised Rule Quatro
-Thy Requesth for a rule shall beth made in where anyone canth comprehend thy words. Thy official sacred parchment shall be revised in part ye old english, english, and some tid bits of espaniol to where any being shall comprehend the immortal meaning of the constitution.

Thy Rule WhateverILostCount...
-Thou shall have rampant postal workers in each of thy members of thy council's army. Each member's army shallt limith diecinueve (19 for thou non espanolers). Thou army shalt employ nothing but hyper chainguns made out of rubber firing rabid blood sucking and flesh eating crabs.
-If thy nother shroomed cut geek shalt produce a monopoly corporation producing crap consecutively, thy members with thy savage beserk postal worker gurrella with their rubber chaingun firing rabid crabs shall storm that geek's house and take over thy monopoly without mercy. And at the end, thou hooded gremelins from thy can of greml-its shall coat thy ruined geek's house with... um...

Thy Rule Penis
-Thy official unit of weight shall be based on a wild and rampant beaver of 5 years and thy unit of length shall forever be recognized by the La Cerveza League of Nations as the average sized penis! The speed and velocity of any kind of moving object shall be measured in the unit "Shabboying" the time it takes for a penis to errect. Any comparison shalt be made in this manner.

Thy Rule Boob
-Thy offical measurement for volume and mass shallt be deemed upon the "Boobz" unit where every weight and mass shall be measured upon a B cup boob and thy unit "MegaBoobz" shallt be measured on thy size of a DD cup for thy weights and mass.

Thy Rule Cookies
-Thy La Cerveza League of Nations shall be provided abundantly with thy good wholesome cookies of thy organization of Girl Scouts. These rations shall be provided year round and must be accompanied by milk byth the law!

Thy Rule Temporary CoverUp
-If needed, thy members of thy La Cerveza League of Nations shall have the right to a free makeover, cosmetics, or makeup and hairstyling ath any qualifying hours in the day depending on thy willingness to show their membership card or their army of rabid postal workers with rubber chainguns and crab ammo.

Thy Rule Telepathy Trash
-Thy members with thy special gift of mind communication shall not pass any garbage over the mindwaves.
-No mind spaming any people with thy special gift of telepathy.

Thy Rule GoingApe
-Thy official diet shalt includeth thou yellow fruit deemed bananas everyday.

Thy Rule Freeware and Shareware
-Feminine members or any fine and sweet maidens shall have a siesta requirementh of doning nothing but nothing to adhere with thy newly imposed standards of sleeping chamber requirements (the SSCR) by stuclark and any revisements to the SSCR shall be made by Imaginer and will beth a newly formed clause in the Constitution. Ideas for thy SSCR will be suggested and agreed upon by stuclark and his female subjects.
-Since it is thy duty of feminine members to showth it all, fellow masculine members shall be hereby responsible for the warmth and protection of these fair maidens when it comes to the sleeping chambers.
-It is also thy duty of the masculine members to provide thy comfort for thy feminine members but feminine members shalt not abuse this power all the time.
-Any offensive and wrong abuse to the SSCR shall be a resulth of a severe gang beating. And possibly a bomb to thy wrongdoer's home.

Thy Rule GentleManlyTouch (Revised)
-While Thy Rule Freeware and Shareware states thy fine and sweet females have to bear nothing on their skin for the sleeping chamber, thy rule hereth will allow them to be provided by a nightly ritual back massages covering every desired part of thy figure withth thy desired product from any merchant such as Bath and Body works.
-This ritual shalt not be violated or performed wrongly under thy rule or face dire consequences.
-Thy evening ritual shall go rewarded in any form equal to the value of thy massage.

Thy Rule Concubine's Corral
-Thy organization of thy female group headed by pimpdaddy stuclark shall be equally balanced by thy new group called the CC.
-Thy group CC shalt be callth what one wants it to be but thy official name is Cock Corral.
-Thy head of thee new organization shall be taken by Crysla. Any rule of conduct for thy organization under the League shall pass through thy maiden and shall be added to the RCC (Regulation of Cock Corral) by Imaginer which shall be a newth clause.

Thy Rule Sies
-Thou shall not let ye trolls, crabs, long armpit hair, maiden bodily folicles or any other prohibited relics or creatures withouth thy consent of counsel. Any other forbidden objecth must be proclaimed in ye old english y espanol and brought before thy counsel for judgement.

And if they do get in...

Thy Rule WhateverILostCount...
-Thou shall have rampant postal workers in each of thy members of thy council's army. Each member's army shallt limith diecinueve (19 for thou non espanolers). Thou army shalt employ nothing but hyper chainguns made out of rubber firing rabid blood sucking and flesh eating crabs.

....................................
I don't think I saved that Secret Society thread anywhere, just the rules, hehe. Man, one day I'll sit down and read through all the saved threads I have, I've forgotten so much... Of course, revelling in that nostalgia would take the better part of a day, if not more

Hoy!!! Ahahaaa!

<Montalban>
"But you... I never forget a face, Mr.... Hoy? Isn't it? I never thought to see your face again."
</Montalban>

 

[kranky]

Man, the oldtimers are everywhere! hippy, Perknose, nullshark!

All I can say is Perknose, that's about the saddest story I've ever heard. You have my sympathy. As heartbreaking as it must be, it's good that you had what time you had. So many people never do.

Can I make a request? If anyone knows how to get in touch with WombatWoman, could you PM me? I won't ask you to break a confidence.

 

[erikistired]

agn 4 life.

 

[hzl eyed grl]

OMG! Did you save that, Null? I haven't seen that in AGES! That brings back some major memories.

On a side :music: :


WE GOT OUR DSL CONNECTION TODAY!!!!!! WOOHOO Tim brought my computer upstairs so I can now get online more frequently. I can also visit and keep a better watch on my forums. Never know what all those nefs are up to!

 

[Geekbabe]

I miss AGN,those were the good old days for sure