Most Memorable GL Moments

[firemeboy]

Anybody have some favorites out there?

I have two.

I will always remember the old Buzzsaw/Solver (what that his name) conversations of many years ago. Solver has posted some stupid puzzles, then claimed that the answers weren't correct. He began ranting all over the whole board. And everywhere he went Buzz followed, reasoning, yelling, slamming and cursing. I used to get onto the board and look all over to find the latest 'action'. Hilarious.

The second one is two users long since gone, though one of them may have been Araya. They were discussing some puzzle involving a boat. There were pages and pages of formulas. They looked like something you would see on the bathroom wall at MIT. They debated the finer aspects of boyancy, weight, and attributes of fluid. Very entertaining if you skipped the formulas...

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[Pablo]

1. "Go Crazy Doggie"

2. CzarJ's "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH" following a post in which someone made a point by denying the existence of Santa Claus.

3. Just about every post by Coyote.

4. Borodog calling someone a "Fuckwit".

5. Courk's response: "Mommy, I learned a new word."

6. Solving a Paladin puzzle.

7. The "Ask IS" column. I told him I had Tourette's Syndrome and Narcolepsy and asked him for advice. He suggested I go somewhere that sleeping and swearing would be normal, such as to a Cleveland Browns football game.

8. Fried Egg becoming a (gasp) Libertarian(?)

9. Agreeing with Fried Egg. I forget what we agreed on.

10. Creating the best response ever to one of Borodog's rants, only to have him say, "Your 'response' was unresponsive, so I quit".


I love this place.

[HyToFry]

Finding out that PsychoFlame was none other than our beloved Macros. Since then, I've had a place in my heart for Trolls. You never know when they might become beloved members. Hell... even Will is doing better every day.

[extropalopakettle]

Hey, look what I found: http://www.greylabyrinth.com/Forums/Forum2/HTML/000001.html

[Death Mage]

Hahahash! Go crazy doggie! Is that post acrhived somewhere, I'd love to re-read it.

And I'm still waiting for one of the greatest GL moments.. Will's banishment ceremony.

[Logain]

Go Crazy Doggie has to top my list too DM. It was by Bill Clinton if anyone can track it down from some archives or something.

Two of my favorites are 1) When Buzzsaw (I think) posted as The Dude in the first GL Mafia Soap and killed off mathgrant. 2) When IS hijacked the OT thread two people were using as their personal chat room and kept harassing about sexual fantasies and then posting as (forget the name)'s brain.

[firemeboy]

Buzzsaw later became more succinct in his put downs. I seem to remember a lengthly reply to one person, followed by a "Oh, and (forget name), go bark at the moon."

[extropalopakettle]

Here's The Old Forum. Lot's of Solver!!!! stuff, and all the old timers.

[Samadhi]

It's been around since before the year 102? Damn, I didn't know it was that old.

[chief ten beers]

A less than satisfactory answer was given to a puzzle (Shadow of Flight) that many GL'ers had spent effort attempting to solve (apparently some spent more effort than others). This prompted extropalopakettle's topic:
The Minotaur is being absurd! I would like to see that thread again.

I learned right away that extro is no one to mess with.
The Minotaur didn't have the balls to debate extro's issue, but apparently in revenge, stole his password instead.

[chief ten beers]

Those were the good old days, weren't they firemeboy? Does anyone else remember "larry" in the old forum? extro, do you remember larry?

[TANSTAAFL]

I don't know if it was my first post, but I found one I posted on 7/30/99. I may have only been here off and on the first couple of years, but I've been here for almost 3 1/2 years already! the time just flies...

[extropalopakettle]

Shadow Answer: Minotaur is being absurd.

It was in the middle of that thread that I switched from 'extropalopakettle' to 'extro...' due to mysteriously losing my password. Now I'll probably lose it again.

Larry? Who's Larry?

[Quailman]

Wasn't it Buzzsaw who said to Wyatt in a gun thread (the very first one), "My name is Buzzsaw and I am a drunken redneck."?

And I wonder what Amy is up to these days...

[Samadhi]

I'd love to see the thread where Buzzsaw bent Borodog over.

[chief ten beers]

Does anyone remember Hank and araya debating the structural virtues of wood vs. steel? It started as a Bulky Boats riddle somthing like..."if two boats are the same size and strength, one is constructed of wood, the other steel, which one is heavier?"

Hank contested the answer and so represented the 'wood point of view' and araya took up the steel position. The debate was largely over my head but interesting.

[chief ten beers]

Samadhi, I think it was Murray who swayed Boro, not sure.

[firemeboy]

That's the one I was talking about! Hank! I forgot his name. That was a classic thread. Is that one still around?

[extropalopakettle]

Boy, the general tone of things sure has changed. Did I really seem angry in this post? (yeah, I was "Larry")
http://www.greylabyrinth.com/Discussion/Messages/1968.htm

[chief ten beers]

I didn't catch the direct reference to that riddle in your opener, firemeboy. The riddle posted by Hank was "Bulky Boats riddle, originally posted elsewhere by Brillo"

Hank's thread would have been more correctly called "Bulky Boats riddle, originally posted by Brillo who stole it directly from the game 'mindtrap' ".

[chief ten beers]

LOL extro! You know who "Brillo" was, right?! LOL!

[chief ten beers]

extro, your tone wasn't so much angry. It was more of a "can't someone else explain this to the moron" kind of tone.

edited because I am a Moron.

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[Aarondalf]

Apu: Please to be removing your thumb?

=^_~=

I think this is Brillo:

[Brillo]

That's not Brillo, you bastard! Wait til I get the Rolo photos into the paint shop! Steffi too! This means war, you SOB!

[Aarondalf]

Haha! Sorry, I saw that pic just then and couldnt resist. I love Brillo. Its all just jokes.

[Samadhi]

[chief ten beers]

Samadhi? Is there some reason you might want to cause trouble for me? Can we talk about this, old buddy?

[Samadhi]

I'm not causing trouble for you.

[Coyote]

Just when I was starting to think of myself as one of the 'old-timers', a thread like this gets started and puts me right back in my place!

At least I remember ol' phsyco_flame. And the polymorphing kakopo!

[HyToFry]

Buzz just sparked a memory for me.

During a very hot debate between several of the GLers we were yelling and screaming and this and that. The thread quickly went from 10 to over 200 posts in a matter of hours. Then, in the midst of all the fighting, Buzzsaw posted "Holy Shjit Man!"

It was the funniest thing I've ever seen. <-- period.

[Hitchhiker]

Could somebody please, please explain "Go crazy doggie" for this clueless newbie*?

*Newbie: (n.) 1) Person who has been on the Grey Labyrinth less than a year. 2) Person who never knows what's going on but can usually at least pretend to.

[HyToFry]

As far as I know/can remember... it was a Paladin puzzle...

[Death Mage]

I don't think it was a Paladin puzzle. I think it was some n00b who made it. He gave this laterial puzzle about a dog attacking, and the answer was something (I think) about the guy going into someone else' house in the middle of the night and abusing the dog, or something to that effect. It was... bizzare to say the least, and ended up becoming a GL Catch Phrase at the time.

[HyToFry]

Ah... it must have been in VSP. No wonder I didn't see it.

[Aarondalf]

Yes, thats the one. IIRC I flamed him pretty bad as well. HE KEPT US WAITING SOOOOO LONG! Gah.

[mith]

Buzz telling Amy to bark at the moon was definitely one of my favorites.

Also, I remember back in the early GLC days, seeing a certain thread starting by Paladin which mentioned the ongoing adventures of CzarJ and Courk. I believe I was paranoid for a bit after that (thread: the first Soap thread, paranoid because, as far as I am aware, Paladin was never in chat to know about that).

[sappy]*~insert reference to Luna here~*[/sappy]

[Courk]

5. A while ago I started a thread asking for the pros and cons of owning a hedgehog. Eventually the topic changed to manatees. Tom (anyone remember him?) said that I should get a manateeny and keep it in my tub. (A minitee!)

4. Earlier in the thread someone posted "All I know about hedgehogs is that they make a lot of noise when they're mating." I responded with something like, "I would rather have more pros than cons." Then, my favorite part, Pablo came up with a whole list of pros, including, "They are easy to find when they are mating."

3. The rest of that thread.

2. Zarriar's "Oh no! A baby ate my dingo!" sig.

1. CJ's "My plan for world domination is to attack England then Poland."

[wordcross]

Agreed coyote. I often vaunt the fact that I've been registered on the GL longer than hy has, but i didn't post at all the first year, so it wasn't until the forum switch that i actually have any posts. Sadly, I remember none of the things mentioned in this thread barring the last two things courk just said.

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[Coyote]

100. 'Level EightyFour' posted some sort of anti-social diatribe--I can't recall what it was, something about certain people deserved to be killed or something like that. A couple of folks posted mild rebukes along the lines of "Hey, that's not very cool.", which of course just made Lvl 84 increase his button-pushing.

Then Borodog showed up. Borodog was not amused, and said so in no uncertain terms.

Lvl 84 backed down, and fast! "Hey man, I was just joking, don't take things so seriously..." But it was too late...Boro's teeth had clamped down firmly on his prey and he wasn't about to let go! It wasn't a pretty sight, but somehow, no one seemed to work up much sympathy for poor ol' Lvl 84.
That's when I first learned that Borodog was not one to be trifled with.

99. Paladin posted a puzzle that involved several people in a bar who were buying each other drinks. To add a personal touch, he used the names of some of the GL regulars for the people in the puzzle. All the Glers mentioned began making posts, and got progressively drunker as the thread went on.

98. The Ktulu ran a 'Lost in the Forest' game. Everyone playing had to select three different items to bring into the game to help them survive. One of CzarJ's selections was his teddy bear Jojo, who somehow managed to get himself involved in every situation confronting the players. Later in the game, when interest seemed to be waning, CzarJ carried on an absurd multi-post 'lecture' by some german professor who was trying to analyse the game despite being repeatedly smacked in the head with heavy objects. Every time he got hit the sound effect was done with an accent!

Originally posted by Professor von CzarJ:

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*vhack!* OW!! *vhack!* OW!! *vhack!* OW!!

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Maybe you just had to be there, but it's one of the few times I've literally been in tears from laughing so hard.
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More memories to come when I think of them...believe me, there's been a lot.

[Mr Nigma]

(newbie pocking his head in where it probably doesn't belong)

Mine is the long discussion between mainly Fried Egg and myself about defining intelligence and then consciousness. The discussion got pretty deep, and I think I almost Awakened.

*scrambles quickly away*

[edited to change the name, I'm pretty sure it was FE]
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I'm a figment of my imagination.
Cognito, ergo sum.



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