leviramsey Posted January 28, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted January 28, 2011 Worth a read, if you have a few minutes to spare: Confessions of a sports messageboard [underage] cock tease The description of the messageboards (well, Usenet groups, actually) is just fantastic. The first group I became active on was the one for the New York Knicks. Used to the quick and ephemeral banter of Talk City chat rooms, I lurked for quite some time, intimidated by the way certain bullying writers could turn an innocent observation into a rollicking flame war spanning dozens of paragraphs and available in perpetuity online. The people who posted on the Knicks group, starved even back then for a championship, had little time for jokes. But I ultimately dipped my toe in — to praise John Starks, natch. The New York Rangers board, my next stop, was more affable — one user mailed me a carefully curated VHS tape of famous hockey fights through the years, and another said he would send me a copy of the Matteau! Matteau! Matteau! game, although I can't remember if he ever did. There was enough cross-pollination between the various metropolitan-area hockey teams' Usenet groups that about half a year later I began reading other teams boards too, defending the Blueshirts' honor against Devils fans, who were uniformly kind, polite, and informed, and Flyers fans, who were totally not. (The Fishsticks-era Islanders group was a particularly desolate place, populated mostly by sadsack crickets meeping "Fire Mike Milbury!" all through the night.) If the Islanders thread was an abandoned lot, the Flyers newsgroup was the smutty swingers club down the street. The subject matter consisted of roughly 30 percent hockey talk and 70 percent cheesy banter. Women — called "chippies" – were periodically made the subjects of strange fantasy scenarios and beauty pageant-like rankings. It was virtually impossible to type anything that wasn't immediately twisted into a double entendre. One long-running gag, which preceded my appearance on the newsgroup and which I never fully understood, revolved around sex with Dana Plato's corpse. The newsgroup's official FAQ listed, among other acceptable discussion topics, "Comparisons between Ron Hextall's 5-hole and a prostitute's genitalia." The Flyers newgroup was my favorite by far. I'm not sure when I started to lie, but it seemed like no big deal. Upholding a cherished tradition among so many high-school-aged girls throughout history, I shrugged and added two years to my age. Fifteen became seventeen. The truth just sounds different.... (I'm also a sucker for anything regarding late-90s Usenet/listserve culture) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted January 28, 2011 Moderator Share Posted January 28, 2011 Learned a new word today by readin' one o' dem der books. Circumlocution. Hadn't even heard it used before. I like when that happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted January 28, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted January 28, 2011 Talkin' in circles again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted January 28, 2011 Moderator Share Posted January 28, 2011 Yeah, one of them roundy things what doesn't have sides Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theunderstudy Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 Yes they do! Inside and outside! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 Hm...what exactly are the protestors intentions? "More on the praying protesters: at the end of their prayers, tear gas was fired at them by the security forces, prompting an angry response from the crowd and many shouts of "Allahu Akbar" (God is great)." :shock: an army and tear gas? wtf is he gonna do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theunderstudy Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 Some of them are really in denial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 Serious question, who's face is more like Play-Doh, Harry Redknapp or Andrew Lloyd Webber? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted January 29, 2011 Moderator Share Posted January 29, 2011 They both kind of look like Edgar the bug guy in Men In Black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B36villa Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 laughing at the absolute fruitloop who just done the weather on itv omg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 Is it just me or is Google being a bit odd today? a few times I've clicked on links that have taken me to some random website instead of the one I clicked on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Is it just me or is Google being a bit odd today? a few times I've clicked on links that have taken me to some random website instead of the one I clicked on I've used the same excuse in the past. Hopefully you're missus is a little less i.t. savvy than mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theunderstudy Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Crispy - Just ask "does this smell like chloroform to you?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Snigger (at Chris's post). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Haha, well funnily enough I was trying to find a patch for FM 2011 and the link took me to some dating website instead of Sports Interactive :? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Inspired by Westerns, I've decided to introduce some old school venacular into my vocabulary. Now, excuse me while I fix me some toast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulieB Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 One of my mates emailed me that her best friends son got to play against Peter Crouch on Thursday for Askrigg, for a new Mars advert that's due to be aired soon. As the village won a competion to get a £125K grant for sports. Crouchy came t'up North in a helicopter. Mars held an open bar for the whole village afterwards. Northern Echo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 I think i'm going to partake in what some call an 'all-nighter', otherwise i'd not wake up in time to watch the tennis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claret75 Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Don't be a fool boy, you go get yourself some shuteye now...you hear me boy?!!?! That was that Hillbilly wasn't it...damn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milfner Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 I'm quite tempted to do the same, want to watching the boxing too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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