For the t shirt, sort of: The Golden Age of DU.

[EFerrari]

If we could write about the mythical GA of DU, what would you add? :)

The Golden Age of DU

When sniffa still cussed like my momma and there was no FDA warning on TahitiNut and SwampRat tagged all the big forums and the WaPo posted kpete and babylonsister shook it. H2O Man suggested we sharpen our rough tools and Judi Lynn recruited me for El Diablo Chavez.

[Arctic Dave]

1. K&R.

Ahhh, the good ol' days.

[EFerrari]

3. Skinner insists there is no GA of DU and he's probably right.

But, why let reality spoil a good story. :P

[Arctic Dave]

22. Tell him, "when the brass is polished, you can't tell the difference".

[EFerrari]

28. LOL! "When I got my polish recipe from KitchenWitch and OMC thought I was an idiot

for spread that stuff all over."

[omega minimo]

40. Wasn't the GA

pre-OMC :yoiks:

[EFerrari]

42. . . .

:spank:

[omega minimo]

44. ow

:evilgrin: :rofl:

[hfojvt]

2. no mention of William Pitt?

What sort of golden age is that? And what about Carlos? When I first came to DU it seemed like half of the threads were devoted to debunking Carlos.

Also, shouldn't that be

"when sniffa stiLL cussed Like my momma ..."

Put those L's in caps or SkittLes wiLL KICK YOUR ASS!

[EFerrari]

5. So, write it. "Shouldn't that be when sniffa stiLL cussed Like my momma

and what, no mention of William Pitt? What sort of golden age is that?"

[hfojvt]

14. those who can write, write

those who can't, just cast asparagus.

[EFerrari]

18. Now, see, THAT is what we need on a t shirt!

:toast:

[tkmorris]

9. When jiacinto was a troll

and we all knew it but he was OUR troll damnit, so we took it easy on him. Sort of.

[EFerrari]

10. Before the Terrible Confusing Time of the Second Name Amnesty

and we still had Andy and Sapphire Blue on our cases every damn day. :)

[scarletwoman]

11. Ha! The very first post of mine that was ever deleted was a post to Carlos.

And that smarmy fuck deserved every vulgar word of it. My only regret is that he may not have read it before it was deleted.

[EFerrari]

12. "When the mods saved Carlos from scarletwoman. Hail, our merciful mods."

lol

[tularetom]

4. There were giants in those days

[EFerrari]

6. "There were giants in those days. Thank goodness they left us their stash."

:rofl:

[gratuitous]

7. Whatever happened to gratuitous, anyway?

Man, that guy was always my favorite. I mean, if he was a guy.

[EFerrari]

8. . . .

:yourock:

[scarletwoman]

13. MY Golden Age was from the time I joined until the membership went over 10,000.

It's been downhill ever since... :cry:

[EFerrari]

15. "And they listened to the water, that awful noise."

[H2O Man]

71. Hey!

Water is nice noise.

[seemslikeadream]

16. The Meeting Room and Ask the Admins

and there was no dungeon

[EFerrari]

19. What was The Meeting Room?

Man, I missed it!

[hfojvt]

27. way before my time, but Pitt has written about it

DU had an underground forum, a secret, invitation only forum, that was shut down after it was apparently infiltrated by a troll or two. This was probably in 2002.

[EFerrari]

29. Does this mean we don't even share a hearty handshake anymore?

Say it ain't so. :)

[scarletwoman]

32. Sorry, you have it wrong. It wasn't "secret, invitation only". It was the first split off into

a sub-forum, but anyone could post there. I was here when it was formed and was part of the move to form it.

sw

[scarletwoman]

30. Ah, those were the days... Desert Rose and Eriadne. We were the 3 sisters who loved to talk about

metaphysical stuff -- along with several others. So many complained about us posting it in GD that the admins finally gave us our own forum to play in, "The Meeting Room". Of course, it was immediately overrun with assholes who had nothing better to do than spend their days posting mocking and derisive crap when all we all wanted to do was to discuss things on a different level.

That was actually the beginning of all the "groups" that DU now has. E. was a real radical who got ts'd some years back, DesertRose rarely posts anymore -- I still hang around because I'm a pathetic old woman living alone and DU is the entirety of my social life. :P

sw

[EFerrari]

33. So that was the beginning of DU groups? Wow.

And I bet Skinner STILL has his eye on you. :P

[scarletwoman]

37. I try not to cause TOO much trouble around here. Cripes, after all these years I'm more or less

just part of furniture.

Also, after all these years, I'm pretty darn good at knowing just how far up to the line I can go without crossing it -- or crossing it so subtley that no one notices. }(

sw

[EFerrari]

41. Sounds like good advice to me, for me.

"No one ever changed anyone's mind on the internet." -- The Magistrate.

[scarletwoman]

43. Ah, The Magistrate. I miss him, he's been absent for some time.

The Magistrate was the first person who ever sent me a pm to compliment me on a post I had written, totally out of the blue. We became fast friends after that.

[EFerrari]

45. The first time I remember His Honor addressing me

he was pointing out that I was forwarding a ridiculous conspiracy theory and I'm afraid he was right. lol

I miss my friend, too. :)

[lumberjack_jeff]

17. When Bob Beaudelang gave us what for. n/t

[EFerrari]

20. And when we could take it. Sort of.

:)

[OffWithTheirHeads]

21. Enzo

There was a time, maybe still, when it cost more to have an unlisted # in the phone book than to have a listed one. As such, I have been listed under numerous monikers. D. Duck, and Enzo Ferrari among them.

My question: Have you ever owned a Ferrari?

If you have, what did you think?

I've owned two. They were fun but...
Ferrari is an Italian word. It means...In the shop.

Oh yeah, I still miss Carlos whose head would explode every time you mentioned Ralph Nader and though he is still with us, I miss "Underpants" scrolling avatar.

[EFerrari]

25. Ferrari is the Italian for Smith.

:)

I never owned a Ferrari, no.

[lpbk2713]

23. NewYawker99

DU's own Welcome Wagon lady.


I miss her. :hi:

[EFerrari]

24. ****MILESTONES**** lpbk2713 has reached 14,000 posts!

Congratulations, lpbk2713!

:toast::party::toast::party:

:hug:

[lpbk2713]

26. ... and that too

Thanks.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[eleny]

31. When DUer "DuctapeFatwa" was around

[EFerrari]

34. Who was that, for those of us who don't know?

[eleny]

36. I'm pretty sure he was around back in '04 when you joined

I hunted around and I guess he has a blog
http://ductapefatwa.blogspot.com/

And lots turned up in a Google search of DU but that url is way to big to post. :(
Somewhat controversial but always had the best nickname.

[EFerrari]

39. When I joined DU, I couldn't keep anyone straight

and just mostly read for content. What a moran. lol

[eleny]

51. me too

:hi:

[scarletwoman]

47. A great loss, a terrible loss. He had the most amazing mind.

He'd post something that had so many layers and levels to it, that reading it was like dropping acid. And once you got the knack of what he was talking about, it was like a sunburst, like a diamond being shot into your forehead (hat tip to "Apocalypse Now"). He made way too much sense for most minds around here, so of course he was exiled.

sw

[eleny]

52. he has a blog...

http://ductapefatwa.blogspot.com /

:hug:

[scarletwoman]

58. I couldn't get it to load. Last time I checked on it, it hadn't been updated in a couple of years.

He's moved on... somewhere...

[eleny]

60. P.S.

I was looking at his blog and found that he hadn't posted in years. So I hunted around and found this page where someone wrote that people thought he passed away.
http://vradul.googlepages.com/ABlowtoUSExceptionalism.txt

That page is in html but look about 5 lines from the top where the reference to him begins. Sad.

I Googled some more and find nothing on the web for several years. So perhaps it's true that he died.

[Dogmudgeon]

35. I miss BareKnuckledLiberal

He left and was replaced with that asshole Pigwidgeon.

Thank god THAT joker's gone!

--d!

[EFerrari]

38. . . .

:)

[Political Heretic]

46. When nothingshocksmeanymore was still around. And ductapefatwa. And we had no GD:P

I've been around since 2001 I think? But as I wrote about in my profile, I left for a while, and started with a fresh name because a) I didn't like my old one and b) I wanted a fresh start.

You can probably still look me up by the old though - Tillich ... or Tillich77 I don't remember

I was kind of an asshole back then :(

[EFerrari]

49. "When some of us were assholes on our way to being sweethearts

and some of us were still waiting to happen."

:rofl:

:hug:

I miss my dear friend, NSMA.

[Not_Giving_Up]

48. What about progmom?

I remembering spending so much time here that I was driving down the road one day and say a billboard advertising program cars. I did a double take, because at first glance, I swore they were advertising progmom cars.

You can't possibly leave Will Pitt out of the t-shirt!

[EFerrari]

50. Write it and he will be here.

lol

I didn't want to be so forward as to write his bit because many of you were here first!

Edit: for, um, clarity.

[Crunchy Frog]

53. When Underpants had the scowling underpants running accross his sig.

[EFerrari]

55. Your post is no good without pictures!

But, fits perfectly with our epic, "When Underpants had the scowling underpants running across his sig and That Aprille With His Shoures Soote . . "

:)

[Crunchy Frog]

69. Ooh, sorry about that. Here ya go.

[EFerrari]

70. Omg.

:rofl:

[Arugula Latte]

54. ... and Kephra posted a big chunk of the breaking news ...

:(

[EFerrari]

56. I think that was before I was here or before I could navigate well.

When did DU lose Kephra? I remember his mother coming here and talking to his friends. :hug:

[Arugula Latte]

57. I think it was January of '05.

He was here from the start of DU, as I recall.

edited to fix date

[EFerrari]

65. In that month, I was still only reading the Election Reform forum.

So, I missed the whole thing. But remember, later, DUers marking anniversaries and of course, his mom checking in.

[bridgit]

59. Why should it include names of DUer's at all

:shrug: Or is it to be like: Whamo! ~ Hula-hoops, or: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ~ The Golden Age of The Hollywood Star Machine, stuff like that :thumbsup:

[EFerrari]

61. No, sweetie, it's about including as many of us as we can work into

a line of story. Just the opposite.

"As when bridgit hit me over the head because she thought I was being stupid -- and who knows, she was likely right. But, I was sore anyway."

lol

[bridgit]

68. Hmm, I see (holding chin w/palm tapping index finger to lips), then we *do* need...

matcom :bounce:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

62. Namaste

To all the brilliance that has graced this board. :thumbsup:

[EFerrari]

64. For the daily gifts and also, for the funny.

:thumbsup:

[scarletwoman]

63. There was a really cool guy here for awhile, an old ex-pat living in Mexico.

I'm ashamed that I can't remember his username -- it was "poco" something. I don't think there are many DUers from those days who would remember him, he didn't post a lot, but when he DID have something to say -- PAY ATTENTION!

He was in his 60s, an old activist. He kept trying to teach people how to get organized, how to form a resistance movement, but most people just ignored it. He gave really good advice -- stuff like how to start by forming small cells of activists, and how to reach out into your community and listen to peoples' concerns.

It was really valuable stuff. I think he eventually drifted away because he realized that hardly anyone here was serious about doing anything in the real world. We could surely use his experience now.

sw

[EFerrari]

66. I remember an expat living in Mexico -- because we got updates

during Katrina. But I thought that was a lady. Maybe that was a different DUer.

ETA: And I wouldn't be surprised at getting it wrong because was crazy with worry about merh and Swampy and all our Gulf Coast DUers during those terrible days.

[scarletwoman]

67. This was way before Katrina. He was definitely a man, in his 60s.

He was long gone years ago. He pre-dated DuctapeFatwa. It's bugging the shit out me that I can't think of his username -- otherwise I'd try doing a search.

Oh well. It's really kinda weird to me that I've spent so many years here, and seen all these people come and go. I left DU back in 2004 during the primaries, and stayed away for almost a year.

The DU abides.

;)
sw