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Re: Nano?
« Reply #20 on: April 26, 2012, 12:04:12 AM »
The other one was a PLF kook whose online name I can't even remember now...

Just remembered it. Does anyone remember the PLF member with the online name of "orions?"

He had some goofy tag line (anyone remember it?) that he liked to quote all the time like it was cosmically profound or something...can't remember what it was...so I looked for that phrase plus his online name plus his philosopher hero, Manly P. Hall...took about an hour or two to find him. He had left clues all over the place at kook conspiracy sites and I eventually tracked him down to his place of business in Arizona...surprised it wasn't outside of Area 51. He's an artist...big surprise, right?

Anyway, as I said, I've only bothered to look for two people from a forum. It has to be someone who is truly irritating and who also makes me wonder just who they really are for me to take the time to look them up. I am still amazed at how some people don't cover their tracks online.

Now that I think about it, I might have tried to track down nano himself. Not surprisingly, I couldn't find him...he probably invented that screen name for that one unique site.
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Re: Nano?
« Reply #21 on: April 26, 2012, 07:35:17 AM »
It's been a while, but I remember Orions by name, if not attitude.  The names we've already mentioned (and some better left unmentioned!) I've had my share of run in's with also.  Then there were the specialists who only chimed in on certain topics, I remember Old Jim (I called him Old Jaundice)...bitter old bastard, always thought waterboarding was on par with tossing people into ovens, Geneva Convention this & that...ugh!  You knew the topics and who would say what and the flaming was on.  The psuedo-intellectual jackasses like wDight & he-who-shall-go-unmentioned being the most insufferable.  April was a grade-A dingbat.  I could see her chaining herself to a redwood or something and being sawed in half.  I also see Del posting at HotAir, not sure about the turn to the dark side, but I cannot say I was overly impressed by anything he posted that I read.  I might have to pay closer attention to that.  It's kind of hard commenting in their format, and posts can go ignored or just passed by in the side-chatter.
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Re: Nano?
« Reply #22 on: April 26, 2012, 08:47:22 AM »
vladimir estragon

Now there was one repugnant little troll. I gave him kudos for his staunch partisanship but, like everything else leftists do, he always took it too far. I remember that he fancied himself a wordsmith and a pretense towards a grand education (ivy league?) but showed by the ramshackle construction of his arguments that he was every bit as self-taught as I am.

In one particularly repellent exchange he ran out of ideas but not venom and started accusing me of being a pedophile. He had a way of casting aspersions that was like the guy who cuts a silent fart as he's exiting an elevator, leaving the stench for those who remain.

I no longer even recall the name of the moderator (Jim something?) who banned him.

There's one that I would have loved to meet up with in the "real world".

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Re: Nano?
« Reply #23 on: April 26, 2012, 08:59:11 AM »
I always read that as "vladimir estrogen"!   ::hysterical::

Yeah, he was another one who was a legend in his own mind.  I remember he used to extole the virtues of the homosexual lifestyle, although he was not a practicing one himself, merely an apologist for their deviant lifestyle.

Funny him accusing you of deviancy.  But that's a typical leftard for ya!  Accusing others of what they themselves do or condone!
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Re: Nano?
« Reply #24 on: April 26, 2012, 09:23:04 AM »
Does anyone remember the lady who was always championing the virtues of comprehensive immigration reform? She once slipped up and said that if illegals got thrown out she would have to cut her own grass because she couldn't afford to hire actual citizens to do it. She never lived that one down.

I think she went by the name "jen the neocon." I made up a little graphic (with actual forum quote) to piss her off:


And then there was my other favorite nut of the female persuasion, april. Remember sweet little april? I had a nice graphic for her, too:

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Re: Nano?
« Reply #25 on: April 26, 2012, 10:00:36 AM »
...I no longer even recall the name of the moderator (Jim something?) who banned him....

That would be Jim Hoft, of gatewaypundit. The powerline boys had little interest in moderating their forum, and for a while before closing up shop, they ceded the responsibility to Jim Hoft.

When you look at forums that are out there, and think about what they had there, they were utter fools from the very beginning. From what I saw, they had the top forum on the Internet, and certainly far and away the best conservative forum. They regularly had posts that would top 20-30K responses within a few days. You could make a post and in 30 minutes, it would be 5-10 pages long, with people chiming in in real time, having actual ongoing conversations.

A forum like that needed minimum of one moderator for each of the highly trafficked categories, 24/7/365. Which probably meant about a dozen or more mods, making sure that a few were available during the overnight hours.

It also needed some presence by the site proprietors. People came there in the first place because of the fame garnered by their involvement in the "RatherGate" scandal. Hinderaker popped his head in every so often, but they basically created the forum and turned it over to the wolves.

With the traffic they had, they could've turned that into a mega-conservative forum that today, does not even exist, and it could've been extremely profitable. Their lives, their finances, and conservatism on the Internet could all be enhanced today if they had taken responsibility for stewardship over the great gift that fell into their laps. Instead, they neglected it.

On a side note... anyone remember my thread there, "A Prayer for April"? I was a new Christian at the time, zealous to demonstrate my faith, and expressed it in a genuinely-worded prayer for the dumbest box o' rox on the forum. I was just f***ing blasted from all sides as people argued whether I was being genuine or passive-aggressive, and the thread went on to become one of the longest ever on the site.

This was MY "April" Trap...



Then there was "Seaberry"...



And I can't remember who this was...

"A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means."

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Re: Nano?
« Reply #26 on: April 26, 2012, 10:15:31 AM »
It was my memory that the moderator was Joe Malchow and he was mostly absent...perhaps looking in once or twice a day to see if things where beginning to spiral out of control. The place pretty much was unguided until the very end when there were some ban hammers dropped and then they just pulled the plug.

But yeah, they pretty much had the biggest forum for conservatives and just didn't see the value in it. If we had a tenth of that kind of traffic I don't know what we'd do.
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Re: Nano?
« Reply #27 on: April 26, 2012, 10:22:02 AM »
It was my memory that the moderator was Joe Malchow and he was mostly absent...perhaps looking in once or twice a day to see if things where beginning to spiral out of control. The place pretty much was unguided until the very end when there were some ban hammers dropped and then they just pulled the plug.

But yeah, they pretty much had the biggest forum for conservatives and just didn't see the value in it. If we had a tenth of that kind of traffic I don't know what we'd do.
That's right, I forgot about him. I think he was there from the start, helping them get it up and going, and Hoft came on board when Malchow left. Joel, wasn't it? For sure I remember a couple email conversations with Hoft at the time, so I know I'm not imagining his involvement, I'm just unsure of the timeline I guess.
"A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means."

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Re: Nano?
« Reply #28 on: April 26, 2012, 11:05:08 AM »
It was my memory that the moderator was Joe Malchow and he was mostly absent...perhaps looking in once or twice a day to see if things where beginning to spiral out of control. The place pretty much was unguided until the very end when there were some ban hammers dropped and then they just pulled the plug.

But yeah, they pretty much had the biggest forum for conservatives and just didn't see the value in it. If we had a tenth of that kind of traffic I don't know what we'd do.
That's right, I forgot about him. I think he was there from the start, helping them get it up and going, and Hoft came on board when Malchow left. Joel, wasn't it? For sure I remember a couple email conversations with Hoft at the time, so I know I'm not imagining his involvement, I'm just unsure of the timeline I guess.

I thought it was Joel, too, but he is on the masthead at PL now as Joe.
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Re: Nano?
« Reply #29 on: April 26, 2012, 11:15:36 AM »
Here's a blast from the past. A quote from nano on his board from February 19, 2010:

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As to my health if I make it till the morning I will be surprised.

I can't even cut and paste articles I see that normally I would post here.

I just had a phone call with my sister and said basically my last goodbye to her and she was here only yesterday to visit.

Yep, over two years ago. What a drama queen...

And then there were the pathetic suck ups. From the execrable "evon" dated same time:

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Seeing a group of posters, who used the hospitality of your forum to make over 20,000 posts among them, leave in a manner designed to hurt you, then act as though they were victims, was the saddest thing I've seen on the Internet.


And from the prophetic and gullible CG:

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I did not know of your health problems .... as of now you are in my prayers ...
The board will recover and prosper ... a few people leaving will not kill it.

And he may have been "dying" and unable to "cut and paste" but nano was still able to brag in his usual delusional way...

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Not to give it away but my companies built 3/4 of the backbone that is the internet today.

It is still out there and still working and helping us all.

Yeah, nano and algore: father and mother of the internet. Sure.

More nostalgia from drama central:

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I just woke up after what goes for me as a long sleep by my standards of late. Still hurting and in deep pain.

I haven't been a drama queen on this but had a sincere belief I would be leaving.

Thank all of you for your most kind words.

It took 20 minutes and 18 edits to type this so it looked a bit presentable.

And then this:

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Part of that is the alcohol I am consuming to kill the pain. Normally I drink only a few beers but yesterday I went through 2 1/2 fifths of Southern Comfort out of need to kill pain off.

Kitty just woke me up with her desire for food. She is a beautiful thing.

Co-inventor of the internet, world mover and shaker, posting on a "free" forum site, alone with his cat. And claiming to drink enough SC to kill a moose. Give me a break.

He would check in every few days to keep the sympathy posts coming...

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For those who would like to think I am recovering you are I am sorry to say wrong.

I am suffering from oxygen slow starvation and getting worse.

Soon I may lose my sight or my sanity and the rest will be an auto pilot end trip.

Remember...this was all written two years ago.

This went on for weeks until people started to wise up and just left the forum altogether. They blame us leaving for their problems but seriously, it was nano and his never-ending "goodbye cruel world..." posts that drove many away.

Good times, good times...
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Re: Nano?
« Reply #30 on: April 26, 2012, 11:21:51 AM »
As Charlie Brown would say..."good grief"!   ::)
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Re: Nano?
« Reply #31 on: April 26, 2012, 11:25:14 AM »
Well, in spite of his bizzarro web persona, it just may be that he's passed on for real now, since he is AWOL for several weeks.
"A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means."

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Re: Nano?
« Reply #32 on: April 26, 2012, 11:32:30 AM »
Yeah, could be.

Don't know.

I wouldn't put anything past him at this point. So if he's room temperature, may he rest in peace. I thank him for what he actually did for us but have no illusions about his "legend."

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Re: Nano?
« Reply #33 on: April 26, 2012, 11:33:46 AM »
Hey, dig the new avatar BTW Trap. What prompted the change?
"A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means."

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Re: Nano?
« Reply #34 on: April 26, 2012, 12:22:34 PM »
Hey, dig the new avatar BTW Trap. What prompted the change?

Got curious about what was available for the "Uncle Duke" image...looked around and there was really only this one image in addition to the one I already had. I may have to dig through my book collection for an old copy of "Doonsebury's Greatest Hits" and see if I can scan another one up of my own. Maybe one where he is on acid...those were always kind of funny. I liked some (but certainly not all) of Hunter Thompson's writings plus there was the obvious Colorado connection. Gary Trudeau is a serious liberal turd and he created Duke to mock conservative "extremism" and "hypocrisy" so screw him...I'll use the character anyway.
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Re: Nano?
« Reply #35 on: April 26, 2012, 01:17:05 PM »
"micadelic" volunteered several times to get a handle on the slow-loading problems, and to help moderate, to no avail.

"Miss Orange" (?) used to call it "the whirling circle of death" or somesuch.

I imagine the PL boys realized they had a tiger by the tail and it must have been daunting at the time.  And it just kept getting bigger and more unmanageable.  I'll never understand them just killing it instead of being willing to hand it off to those more willing and able to deal with it.

I, too, remember Jim Hoft moderating; swapped a couple of emails with him myself.

I used to have a broken merry-go-round gif for "Vladimir Estragon" (I've since dumped it) who was a liar of the first order; "I have a son in the military" -- NO HE DIDN'T -- and claimed to regularly BBQ lamb with his "muslim neighbors" -- SURE YA DO.

I also remember introducting to wDight the historical correction as regards FDR not only not "saving" the country during the Great Depression, but being instrumental in its length and depth.  Talk about apoplectic denial.
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Re: Nano?
« Reply #36 on: April 29, 2012, 05:08:37 AM »
Okay, so morbid curiosity got the better of me and I went to CT just now to look around.

Crap, what a dead site. Only four members there in the last 24 hours .... the execrable Evon...


Whenever Evon didn't like a post she'd act like a frustrated old maid who'd just been felt up for the first time . Maybe it's because she's a frustrated old maid who's been felt up for the first time . I wonder if she's finally gotten used to being felt up ?

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Re: Nano?
« Reply #37 on: April 29, 2012, 05:27:30 AM »
It's been a while, but I remember Orions by name, if not attitude.  The names we've already mentioned (and some better left unmentioned!) I've had my share of run in's with also.  Then there were the specialists who only chimed in on certain topics, I remember Old Jim (I called him Old Jaundice)...bitter old bastard, always thought waterboarding was on par with tossing people into ovens, Geneva Convention this & that...ugh!  You knew the topics and who would say what and the flaming was on.  The psuedo-intellectual jackasses like wDight & he-who-shall-go-unmentioned being the most insufferable.  April was a grade-A dingbat.  I could see her chaining herself to a redwood or something and being sawed in half.  I also see Del posting at HotAir, not sure about the turn to the dark side, but I cannot say I was overly impressed by anything he posted that I read.  I might have to pay closer attention to that.  It's kind of hard commenting in their format, and posts can go ignored or just passed by in the side-chatter.

It was funny when Nano and Dwipe would get into the most violent arguements and threaten each other with physical harm when in actuality if they ever came face to face they'd both run like hell in opposite directions . Those two were butt cheeks of the same rear end !

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Re: Nano?
« Reply #38 on: April 29, 2012, 04:40:46 PM »
Heh!  I love it when SH brings his "A" game, rarely does the master disappoint!

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Re: Nano?
« Reply #39 on: April 30, 2012, 04:03:29 AM »
Heh!  I love it when SH brings his "A" game, rarely does the master disappoint!

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I thank you ... ::falldownshocked::