I really like Lurker.

I'm assuming he had one shot of absinthe too many and was arrested arguing with the Bob's Big Boy statue in less than pants.  I could be wrong, though.

Lurker would be fine and fun for a couple days to a week, and then, all of a sudden, he would pick out an individual and decide that they'd wronged him or something, and follow that person all over the board and harass them and saturation-post and generally make a massive nuisance of himself.

This is only a guess, but my guess is that these cycles were pharmaceutical in one way or another.

When he was fine, he was fine.  When he wasn't, it wasn't worth the times he was fine.  All in all, I'm relieved he's gone.

No, no, Orange. High school was far more polite and mature, but I must confess along with George, I enjoy the site far more without him around. He could be very funny and - certainly - imaginative, but the tantrums and paranoia almost made me quit the site a couple of times.

I don't know if you ever checked on High Street during your absence, but at times it was pretty overwhelming.

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We just need for Sophie to adjust his Amway supplements so that the Happy and Funny Link personalities will be the ones that control him.

Ever the Loving Family!

I think he moved.

Lurker left me a message a few weeks ago. Oddly enough, he thanked me for hounding him so intensely, and avowed that my analysis of his personality finally helped him make the decision to change his life. Accordingly, he decided to leave High-Street in search of personal growth. After several hours considering his options on Craig'sList, he has entered into a contractual obligation with a 400lb "gurgitator" (competitive eater) named Mordechai. Lurker's new life involves lying naked on the floor with his head locked into the bottom of Mordechai's trailer-commode, his mouth wedged open and his nostrils hooked and flared. Mordechai makes the rounds of official IFOCE events (hot-dogs, strawberry shortcake, mayonnaise - it's amazing what and how much some people are willing to eat for money and fame). Apparently Mordechai's happiness was incomplete. Now that he and the little fellow have built a life together, he feels empowered to eat like never before. Lurker is also happy. His life is simpler and less anxiety-ridden, and his mental health issues are responding positively. He says he has no regrets, despite the monotonous nature of his diet. And although he admits he's a already a bit tired of pre-digested hot-dogs, he lives for the days when Mordechai eats 40 or more pecan pies, and he's really looking forward to the corn harvest. Let's all wish Lurker (and Mordechai!) the very best of luck in their loving symbiosis.

    "Eatin' poop...and loving it!"

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I like Lurker and he's empirically a nice guy so there. With all due respect and in the nicest possible way, up yours, sweet Wilber.

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icangetyouatoe wrote:

I like Lurker and he's empirically a nice guy so there. With all due respect and in the nicest possible way, up yours, sweet Wilber.

So which part about Lurker trying to twist the knife when he found out one of our members' friends had died of AIDS did you like the best?

icangetyouatoe wrote:

Did he? I missed that. Oops.

Surely, you must've loved the casual invocation of Adolph Hitler when things were hitting a lull.

Sophacita, you do have a way with a phrase....:'creepier than a child molester with leprosy.'

When the young-uns are a bit older, I think it is time you whip out a book.  Seriously



D

Dmtdust wrote:

Sophacita, you do have a way with a phrase....:'creepier than a child molester with leprosy.'

When the young-uns are a bit older, I think it is time you whip out a book.  Seriously



D

Thank you.

I was at a total loss when he came at me with the death wish, but I think it summed him up.

He was a total dick to his gay brethren, and a certified fag hag. I think he's not really gay.

What is that rule that started on Usenet where if someone invokes Nazi germany as some sort of metaphor for the online argument or adversary, it means their argument is full of shit? It's like "Benson's Law" or something, only not Benson.

I guess I defend Lurker too because I know how easy it is to lose your temper on an online forum, and a.) end up sounding like a total asshole or b.) in response to "a", become a part of a torch bearing posse who paint the poster's assholitude as like, on par with Stalin's pogroms or Scott Peterson, all in this tone of aggrieved, righteous indignation.

All of us-every one-undoubtedly can be provoked into being a jerk, Lurker's problem was he had very thin skin, and lashed out when he felt criticized. I don't think that
makes him a sicko, necessarily. I mean, come on, Dirckman just wrote a post about chasing a driver into a convenience store parking lot and making her cry. (and kudos for him for embracing his dark side.)

The internet-with its warm cloak of anonymity, can make us all into monsters, and these forums just the halls of a large online high school. It's fun to poke at posters who act like jerks, as Lurker undoubtedly did, but you gotta admit, we're all fairly articulate and can dish it out as well as anybody. With Lurker, it obviously struck a raw nerve and he freaked. It's not the end of the world. For all of us to wring our hands about how hurtful and awful he was, how permanent and painful the damage he caused, seems....I don't know...what's the word?

He was insecure. He may have been going through a rough time. For chrissakes, I've been there. The only difference is I kind of outgrew, I hope (and pray) throwing words around like spears, recognizing they can hurt as much as anything, even from a stranger. Stupid, I know, but maybe I'm kind of stupid to begin with...

Anyway.

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icangetyouatoe wrote:

What is that rule that started on Usenet where if someone invokes Nazi germany as some sort of metaphor for the online argument or adversary, it means their argument is full of shit? It's like "Benson's Law" or something, only not Benson.

Godwin's Law says that as an argument progresses the chance of a comparison to Nazi Germany approaches one.  The Corollary states that whoever invokes it first has lost the argument, I believe.

Lurker disappeared ablout the time that Tim Russert died.  Could it be?  Or maybe Jesse Helms?

You're probably right, George. Especially now that I'm convinced he was really Yves St Laurent.

http://dpsinfo.com/dps/2008.html

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Tsk.

Dmtdust wrote:

Okay kids... have you scared him away for ever? 

Does anyone have Lurker memories to share?

Ahh, yes - I recall the time that Lurker posted a link from EBaum (Okay, so it was "lifted" from SomethingAwful, and reposted with an EBaum imprint; But, what-ever).  And, we all just wondered what in the fuck he had to be thinking whilst he defended "the validity" of his post for days on end.  Ah, man - That was . . .   Well, it simply was (And, no-thing more).  Does that at least "scratch" the type of memoriam which you were seeking?  Be-Cause, I've a shit-load of stories just like that one.

Dirckman wrote:

My Lurker recollection was how he would thoughtfully remind us every chance he got that he was gay.....

Wait . . .  Lurker was gay?  But, he was so life-less and could bore a room to tears with-in six key-strokes.  Oh, 70's "sit-coms;" You've failed me again.

Snowball wrote:

This is only a guess, but my guess is that these cycles were pharmaceutical in one way or another.

Oh, it's just so fucking easy to blame the poor, innocent diazepam that was simply minding its own business, isn't it?  No, it certainly had no-thing to do with the manic-depressive be-hind the postings.  And, you wonder why people hate pseudo-liberals.

icangetyouatoe wrote:

What is that rule that started on Usenet where if someone invokes Nazi germany as some sort of metaphor for the online argument or adversary, it means their argument is full of shit? It's like "Benson's Law" or something . . .

Wait . . .  I thought that "Benson's Law" was the one which states that any "sit-com" must include an elderly white male bordering on retardation who miraculously finds his-self in a position of social importance which he would be other-wise unable to cope with absent a wise-cracking pseudo-minority.

icangetyouatoe wrote:

I mean, come on, Dirckman just wrote a post about chasing a driver into a convenience store parking lot and making her cry. (and kudos for him for embracing his dark side.)

And?  Most of us are all-so convinced that Dirck killed Cherry after a night of passion; But, as long as he entertains, we're willing to over-look such trivialities.  Lurker, on the other hand . . .  Well, he just bored every-body to tears.  And, if that's not a sin in the eye's of your god, then you need to seriously re-examine your faith.  Jesus is a pussy (And, not in the good way) - Dionysus, sure as hades, wouldn't have put with that kind of shit.