Re: A walk down memory lane, in slippers (mostly NZC)

[Alan McDonald <alan.mcdonald2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott Swanson wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Jul 1998 jacqueb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >List History? Well, there was a post where a person totally flamed
> >Zerxes (anonymously) and compared the list to a "psychedelic
> >concentration camp" complete with Zerxes passing out tabs of brown
> acid.
> >[I thought it was really funny, btw.]  This rather "innocuous on it's
>
> >face" post stirred up a lot of past issues and everyone started
> battling.
> >
> >If you go and read the archives, you can see that that sole post
> started
> >up a round of squabbling that addressed old, dead and buried issues
> about
> >the "hunter". It really wasn't the Ladies' trip to England that was
> the
> >sore/turning point. It was the digging up of "old" Hunter issues
> again
> >and such.
>
> I'm not sure which post Theolyn's referring to here, but the one I
> remember is the infamous "Billy Bob Pieper" post, where one disgrunted
>
> ex-DGer (disguising himself "Billy Bob Pieper") lambasted Zerxes as a
> dictator.  Zerxes tried to laugh it off, but then a few others brought
>
> up a couple examples of Zerxes' past dictator-like actions (banning
> Tom Bergeron; "The Hunter" incident; etc.)  That escalated into quite
> a raging debate, but the shit didn't really hit the fan until Zerxes
> basically flipped out and started saying things like "This is MY list
> and I can do ANYTHING I want with it, including banning ANYONE at
> ANYTIME!  If you have a problem with that, prepare to be unsubbed!"
>
> Well, that's the way *I* remember it, anyway.  ;-)
>
> Later,
>
> Scott
> (swandwn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)

HiThe post was called "Welcome to Pieper's pit" . Other famous posts
include "The impolite post (NZC)" and "DG - The truth explodes" Classic
stuff :)
Alan