Did anyone see the Simpsons episode where Grampa was a greeter? He got hurt (or something) and exclaimed, "This place would go to hell in a handbasket without me!" So Homer took over, but of course slacked off, and people were walking into walls and terribly confused. It was much funnier than I'm describing.

Was InnerSpaceman's post on page one an April fool's thing? Or is he seriously that pissed off?

I can sort of understand why some people were upset, but not to the degree they took it. This might get me some bad mojo, but come on people. Let's take our underwear out of our butts and learn to laugh at ourselves.

Prudence, I hope you don't really feel like that much of an outsider. I love reading your posts.

I was wondering that as well. His post was definitely convincing. I hope he's not that angry, that'd suck. :(

We saw him tonight and he was fine after GD took one in the jaw, the dentist should be able to take care of that and then we'll be back to normal.

Ahhh. Well, all's well that ends well.

oooh, butch!

but i am still considered capable of mean-spirited bull$hyt. what can the dentist do about that?

Give you nitrous

I knew (after a momentary confusion)-the only one that actually baffled me was the Eliza getting married posts- otherwise it was too sudden and I know two of the players personally- and the others by online rep......but I can see how it might upset some people.

Ah well, cest la vie!

If anyone should be pissed, it's me.

The whole day before I was telling myself that tomorrow was April Fools and that I always get fooled because I'm so damn gullible. But how am I supposed to remember that when I'm dragged out of bed and shoved into the situation?

GD calls me at 9:07am Friday morning. I was on Spring Break, and had been intending to get up at 9...but of course I had hit the snooze, so he woke me up.

"Have you seen the bad news at the board?"
"Um, no. Can you just tell me or do I have to go see it?"
<pause>
"....I think you should see this for yourself."

Half asleep, I boot up and see the main page, with the Disneyland word replacement. I try to look at stuff but the board is running way slow. I hit new posts and see the members list, but then things stop loading. I log onto IM.

"Did we get hacked?"
<pause>
"....It would seem so. Did you hit new posts?"
"Yeah, it goes to the members list. The board is down. What's going on??"
<pause>
".....Someone got banned."
"Who?"
"Go to the Parking LoT."
"I CAN'T. WILL YOU JUST TELL ME WHAT THE FVCK IS HAPPENING?"

He explained things to me and all I could think was "why would Chris delete the thread and get rid of the information? And he would suspend Kevy, not ban him. We don't do those things. And Kevy couldn't hack us, could he?"

I was beginning to resign myself to the situation when GD told me it was a joke. Grr.

But as soon as I got over my annoyance I found it funny. The only reason the joke went on so long was because GD wanted everyone to have an opportunity to get fooled.

Prudence, they told NOBODY until they were fooled, including me. This has nothing to do with being cliquish.

Besides, why do people get so angry? Nothing was harmed here. If people were pissed at Kevy and Scott it means that the joke went well. Both of them have a good sense of humor about these things. Everything is back to normal, so shouldn't everyone be GLAD that it was a joke and not a real situation?

I'm sure that those that were fooled are a bit embarrassed, especially those that posted in anger. They pulled one on you, neener neener. So what? You're human. Time to laugh at yourself for being had, or at least let it go. That's what I'm doing.

I guess it's good to know that people care so much about our board and the people in this group.

That doesn't change the fact that he said some pretty acidic things about Kevy and ML. If he didn't mean those things, he should post and say so. If he did, he should back up what he said. That's pretty uncool.

CP, I totally agree. I was really busy that day so I missed all the fun. I even forgot to April fool's Michael. Oh well, there's always next year. :evil: