Dude, I remember when Poly (fill in the blank)

[Ecthy]

Noone has a clue what that means though.

[Hueij]

Originally posted by Ecthy
Noone has a clue what that means though.

nOOb...

[Ecthy]

Having oneself banned isn't it? Time to have breakfast.

[Hueij]

So you do know...

[Monk]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Monk sighting!

[Ecthy]

Time t ohave breakfast now... went to the supermarket to get some food, now I feel empty.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by techumseh
Whatever happened to Spink and that yo-yo guy?

Spink is Park Avenue.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Zkribbler


Whoa, whoa, whoa! Last I heard, you were headed for a couple of back surgeries and were very concerned that you'd never work again! This is terrific news!! --except that "17 hour day" part.

got 1-2 hand surgeries, spine healing looks good so far and some cortisone shots forth coming to support the muscle area

I ended up dispatching, but trying to heal up.


Back at ya all

[Monk]

What's with the feta jihad, Spiffor? I never knew there were jihadists working against my country on a non-prophet basis.

Nice to see you again either how, but watch it - I'm pro-cheese.

[Colonâ„¢]

Originally posted by Grandpa Troll


Oh, thin Ice here, I have heard about it, must have missed it.

Now, is it against the rules to "ask" what was it?

People were bashing Mongolia?

I gotta tell ya, when I think of Mongolia, and not an expert, but as for word association, I would think of people living on steps, (not doorsteps but the terrain)

I say thin ice because sometimes people have said a closed thread or removed one is taboo to speak of, which it had to be deleted for a reason.


Gramps

Well, we're speaking of a time when Clinton was still president and when the WTC was still standing. NASDAQ was still hotter than hot and few were yet willing to believe the euro would actually get launched. And as it happened, American jet fighters were engaging themselves in one of their periodical bombings of Iraqi palaces and airports. And as customs required, the ritual was supplemented by fierce denouncements of American 'aggression' and 'militarism'.

Fortunately for the mental well-being of Apolyton, we had this certain Danish red-haired nihilist amongst us. This Dane, who also possessed a keen sense of irony and who only was shaken out of his tranquility when History049 was trolling him, was known as Monk.
And as usually is the case when you got the right man at the right place at the right time, something special happened. You see, Monk was sitting there behind his bulky CRT monitor, spottily connected to the internet with his 28k dial-up, illegaly drinking beer as an underage, and he was staring bewilderedly at all the shouting going on between people who only the minute before were so peacefully playing the Vikings in their latest world-conquest. Everybody was so serious. And then the moment came, he witnessed a thread called: "US bashing". As soon as those letters crossed his eyes, the machinery in the irony segment of his brain began to set in motion, fueled by alcohol, and spurred to extra haste by the fear of yet another connection breakdown. He would create a mock-thread. In this mock-thread he replace the US with another country. An insignificant country. A country nobody ever bashes. And people would pretend it was important. After rejecting countries such as Burkina Faso for being too unknown, Belgium for being too significant, and his native Denmark out of foresight, Monk chose Mongolia as the ideal target for his mock-thread. And thus was born: the "Mongolia Bashing" thread.

After a hesitant start, some people suspected a pernicious attempt to covertly bash the US, and some confusion surrounding the subject of this bashing, the more irony-minded ones amongst the Apolytoners got the message and they did what Monk had hoped them to do. And oh, how they bashed Mongolia. They tore it apart, like hungry wild dogs assaulting a sweetsly spiced marinated steak, as if Ghengis Khan had come back to life and his victims had the chance to avenge themselves. It was unheard of. It was a riot. It was hilarious. After a first Mongolia bashing thread there came a second one. The outpouring of ironic mock-bashing continued unabatedly.

Alas, as the English proverb puts it ever so eloquently, all good things must come to an end. You see, back in those days, the dear leader commonly known as MarkG did not have a sense of humour. Worse, He wanted Civilization-related discussions.
So when the Mongolia bashing thread appeared on His radar, He did not understand it. He did not understand what people were doing. He did not understand its ironic intent. All He could see was a "silly thread". And He could grudgingly tolerate serious discussions that were not related to Civilization, mostly because it allowed Him to vent his anger over what he considered to be pseudo-Macedonians, but He could not tolerate "silly threads". And thus He struck with His ungodly powers and the Mongolia bashing threads, those fountains of refreshing irony, which had united friend and foe alike in their mocking, those threads were deleted. No warning. One minute people were wiping away tears of laughter, the next they were catapulted back into harsh reality.

The outrage was enormous. Saddam, Tomahawks, chemical weapons, they were all pushed into the background. MarkG feebly attempted to deflect the anger by pointing at complaints from a sour grape (whose name I'll respectfully refrain from mentioning) but to no avail. He had clearly underestimated the attachment people had grown to the Mongolia bashing threads, as it had allowed them to exercise long-repressed creative energies of irony. His lack of empathy had boomeranged straight back into his face.

But not even He could put the genie back in the bottle for history had been made. You see, the Mongolia bashing threads, subtly evolved from pure mocking, to mocking with a storyline. Great powers were invented, empires even, with only the loosest semblance of reality. And thus, the Suriname threads were born, which ripened the new great Apolyton tradition of story threads. They went into space, colonized distant star-systems, and fought massive fleet-wars with destroyers and dreadnoughts with one another. The story thread got their very own sub-forum. They were transplanted into Civ2 MP as the Democracy games, and yes, one might even claim that the famous AAR's at the Paradox forums are a distant descendant of the Mongolia bashing threads.
And this may not be all, rumours has it that the vehement counterreaction propelled MarkG to appoint a moderator to cushion the blows in future controversies, yes, it that even stimulated MarkG to develop a sense of humour.

Yet, even though the proud tradition of story-threads survived this attempted homicide at early age, the later threads would never contain quite the same untamed spirit as the original 2 threads.

And this, my friend, is the tale of the Mongolia bashing threads.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Monk
What's with the feta jihad, Spiffor? I never knew there were jihadists working against my country on a non-prophet basis.

Your "feta" is an affront to everything that is good and holy in this world, and it must be purged for good.

Nice to see you again either how, but watch it - I'm pro-cheese.

You're pro-cheese too?

Join the Jihad then We need more people who like cheese, and who'll thus destroy the evil that has infected your land

[MRT144]

Originally posted by Spiffor

Your "feta" is an affront to everything that is good and holy in this world, and it must be purged for good.


You're pro-cheese too?

Join the Jihad then We need more people who like cheese, and who'll thus destroy the evil that has infected your land

id be more than happy to issue a fatwa for the pro cheese jihadis as long as i get a piece of the brie.

[Japher]

I remember when Faded Glory wasn't dead

and I haven't been here all that long

[Ecthy]

His tragical death struck us all as totally unexpected

There also used to be a guy called 1212 Problem here. That guy was annoying

[Japher]

I remember when I use to be ordered, on a regular basis, to have a nice day