JoeyM wrote:
friedgreencorrado wrote:
Don't know how we got started using "canoe" for a spam post, tho..I just saw everyone else doing it and chimed in.
I've heard tell that back in the olden days, when we didn't have '!' buttons, the webmaster instructed users to use the word - which normally would not appear on this site - when they saw spam. The webmaster would then find all the spam by searching for the word....
Well, also becuase at the time, Per was the webmaster and the board survived an assault of russian spammers offering nekkik Brittney Pix and wang pills. So Canoe provided an odd word that he could search every morning and delete the threads.
Per was also the originator of the "Dork" ranking. I believe he refered to us as "Dorktards" after some stunt or other we pulled. It may have the yard sale AT-AT he passed on his way to work, and while he debating going back for it, JG beat him to, he found out when he saw it later on JGs desk or some such. I think we laid into him pretty bad about that.
Our ranking system was intitially based on a level or "Tard." Then the first offering of "The PC Phrase" was made in all seriousness;
I couldn't love GRM the magazine or the website more, and believe me, I don't like to be the P.C police or anything or the guy who has a problem with everything thing, but I do have a problem with this... I find it a bit offensive that you use terms like "Tard", "Dorktard, Powertard" etc etc... for your little descriptions or whatever in the land of cyberspace. I myself do not have special needs, nor am I am I mentally challenged, but I feel sensitivity for people with special needs as I am especially needy, and my Girlfriend is pursuing her masters in the field....
These terms although I'm pretty sure are not even real words, are obviously meant to resemble the words used to describe who are mentally challenged, and it appears that they are used on these boards in a joking sense which, as I view it, makes light of people who are internetually challenged. It just dosen't seem right to me, thats all. I know that it's not my message board, and that no one forces me to post here, but all the same, some things are wrong when they really don't need to be.
Thats pretty close to how it went. Per wisely changed it to a "Dork" ranking system, but the irreverant pack of clown we are, took that phrase and abused it like Hongers do a case of Natty Light.
Right about that time they also decided the board was a bit blue in the launage department. Tim had just bought a Berkley which became three Berkley's within a week (Some believe this was the origins of the Patio contruction threat. The intial quote was from Queen Dork herself and mentioned you bury peaple upright under patio pilings so they can't be found)
(This pic was taken shorty after she dispatched The Boss Honger, but before it "caught" fire)
Hence, Berkley became the word for, well Berkley
The other raging debate centered around the GRM crew recently ditching the E30 M3 project for an E36 M3 project. There was some debate that the mag was getting to "uppity," as E36s were still kinda pricey at the time (for this pack of sandwichpockets anyway). So E36 became synonomus with Poo.
Somewhere there was Mother's Father's Chinese Dentist for the vulgar verson of folks who copulate with MILF's and I think Shiney Happy Peaple was Per being punch drunk after rebuilding this board for the 80th time prior to the appiontment of the current Website Overlord.
Bob Costas showed up after Queen Dork mentioned she simply hated him sometime in 08. We agreed, and that year Guido the Clown got an autographed picture of him at the Challenge.
At least thats how I remember it.
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