Hunting down the missing

[tim]

this was before my time. I'd kind of picked up that spork references had a controversial origin, now I know why.

[Naylzie]

Cat was wicked awesome!  I, too, hope she's made it through everything okay; I remember how stressed out she was when she disappeared.

It's interesting to me to see how some of these things were legend by the time I arrived.  Cz, as a person/poster doesn't really sound familiar, but the NAME looks vaguely familiar to me.  I also wonder, to some degree, why we are so concerned about leaving out internet handles.  Not that it really matters all that much, being that these are primarily people who we would rather not see return, but as it stands, we are relatively a private community at the moment, rather than the more public and open-to-scrutiny place we were in during that time.  The risk of any naming/shaming going on is fairly slim, and that's about the only reason I can easily conjure for being cagey.  It's just kind of confusing to talk about, is all.

I vaguely remember the MPD nonsense, and, if I'm thinking of the right incident, I think I may know why nobody really remembers what it was about.  I don't think that the cause was a cause, so much as an opportunity for mischief.  As I recall, we had multiple trolls that turned out to be the same person or something, and then we had a rash of regs creating secondary accounts and/or account sharing, or maybe it was a couple of regs that nobody knew was the same person?  Something.  It's fuzzy, and the more I try to remember the more confused it gets.

I think the meathead/levi thing comes down to "which time?"

[threatsicle]

Cz wasn't their handle. Only abbreviated. Don't think we're omitting names out of fear like saying VOLDEMORT. Googlebots just picks up on a lot of interesting things.


Oh yea. Also had a random bar bump-in/encounter with Meathead due to my strange friendship with Buddyhead, but pretty sure I shared that on board already.

Basically told him that naut told me to slap him. He told me not to physically do it though, which was a disappointment (to me). He also expressed mild curiousity about the fact that the nin.com thread was still kickin' when I mentioned it. And that was pretty much the extent of our brief convo.

Cube and black animus, anyone?

[r00]

I miss screamingcube.  8(  I guess by now he has become assimilated in China somewhere.

[Naylzie]

No, no, I remember Cz, and what it's short for.  She flamed out around my arrival.  I don't remember most of the bigger issues you guys have mentioned.  Just sort of the end.  Good point on the googlebots though, that's entirely fair and I (obviously) had not considered it.  Friggin spiders. 

Cube and BA were cool, too.  Not sure I knew that being assimilated in China was a probability, I suspect I may have missed that in one of my absences...  or maybe it's just been that long since he's been around.

It amazes me how well some of the rest of you have retained names.  I'm REALLY bad with names.  I need faces to remember them.  If you started tossing old avatars at me (provided they weren't the generic PI defaults) I could probably start spitting out names.  Even when we had camwhore threads, a part of how I started remembering people was pairing avatars with signatures more than actual usernames.  I dunno.  I'm probably fucking weird for that.  Sometimes when someone would chance their avatar back then, I'd completely lose the thread of the conversation because I would suddenly have trouble identifying the speaker, like a book with a lengthy dialogue with odd paragraphing and poor use of quotation marks.

ETA: The other thing that threw me was when name changes became available, I was on a mini-hiatus, I forget why.  Hell, at the time, I might have been grounded or something equally stupid.  We had dialup in the house back then (omg) so it was much harder for me to sneak online without my parents knowing since the cord had to go across the friggin kitchen and it took out the house phone as long as it was connected    How I do not miss those days.  (And, for that matter, how I do not understand why we didn't just get a second line for the internet.  It wouldn't have broken the bank, by any stretch).  I remember Obfu was one of the ones who changed her name (can even see her original avatar in my head, by which I mean the first one *I* saw) but she changed her avvie with it and it took me FOREVER to figure out she was herself after the fact.    

[r00]

weren't you like twilight_faerie_<something-or-other>?


and yeah... where's obfu?  Goose, do you have contact info for her?

[Aaron]

this was before my time. I'd kind of picked up that spork references had a controversial origin, now I know why.

Same. TPD explained it to me a long while ago. When I got my Spork...


I remember Vivian and how often her posts were just or some other face. And I'm pretty sure Zombie Jesus was a MPD. I have no clue why, but his name has always stuck with me. And the tread calling him out on his MPDing seamed almost like a joke.

black animus. I remember the name. Not quite sure I remember much of their posts... Wasn't there another Kiwi as well. I remember him posting stories he had made. I just don't remember his name...

[Goose]

and yeah... where's obfu?  Goose, do you have contact info for her?

No, I don't.    I know TPD's been on the hunt for her too.

[TPD]

i'm not sure where i would start with obus, actually...
i wish i would. we need that cdn pi contingent.

still no word from matt on like a mailing list, eh?

[Aaron]

I love how you talk about cnd people and then throw in an "eh" at the end. AMAZING.


Also that was one of the cooler parts of the trip to Canada. Hearing your friend A say "Eh" ya. no lie.

[dee]

Isn't Obfu Emily? And if so, are she and Stu no longer speaking? 

[threatsicle]

obfu = canadian
oper = australian (emma)

[TPD]

And for the record i'm not married to Boom...
That's the other Theo... but i wish i was.

[Naylzie]

weren't you like twilight_faerie_<something-or-other>?

Still am, actually.  I've always been Nayl_Girl here, except for the one time I got locked out of the account and couldn't get my password sent to myself because the email it was attached to was dead, but twilight_garden_faery was my yahoo handle (favourite Cure song + faery), which was condensed to twilytgardnfaery for AIM and consequently everything else.  My account on the original PI has been around much longer than I've had that yahoo account though, and I created that specifically for a shoutcast (I think) sponsored chat with Robert Smith being hosted in a yahoo chat.

Oper was cool too, sad to hear she'd had a falling out with someone... is that why she left, or just a coincidence?

[boom]

And for the record i'm not married to Boom...
That's the other Theo... but i wish i was.

No you don't, trust me. I don't think there is any other man on earth that can put up with a pain in the ass like me