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fish_antlers

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posted September 04, 2005 08:47 AM

Edited By: fish_antlers on 4 Sep 2005 09:49

ZX-12r.org to be back up soon

Spoke with Dale via email. A system upgrade combined with a long weekend is the source of the delay.

Site will be back up shortly. He approximates 1 day.

Cut him some slack. It's a holiday.

Click here to visit fish_antlers's homepage.

b ralston

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posted September 04, 2005 08:58 AM

good to hear i been tryin for a few days to get on there!!!!!!!!!
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posted September 04, 2005 11:50 AM

Thanks for the info fish.
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posted September 04, 2005 12:07 PM

Thanks Fish,
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kram

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posted September 04, 2005 01:12 PM

quote:
Thanks Fish,

TurboBlew

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posted September 04, 2005 03:29 PM

lol... whoda thunk ol fishy would be dale's babysitter....

superninja12r

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posted September 05, 2005 09:12 AM

So this is where everybody hangs out when the .org is down.....or for those of you that have seen some of the politics should we say.

fish_antlers

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posted September 05, 2005 09:20 AM

this is where everyone hung out before .org existed

Connman

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posted September 05, 2005 09:23 AM

SN- Change that avatar dude - it scares the buh-jeezus outta me

aughtsix

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posted September 05, 2005 09:23 AM

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So this is where everybody hangs out when the .org is down.....or for those of you that have seen some of the politics should we say.

Heck, I never even knew about this place or I would have been here long ago...

It was because of the .org crashing - and the subsequent withdrawls - that I went 'a huntin for somewhere else to go and viola, I found Bikeland!

Think I'll stick around...

blueford

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posted September 05, 2005 10:41 AM

What's nice about this place, is it doesn't have a hyperactive mod running around slapping his stamp of approval or disapproval on every single thread on every topic.

Unless it's political and anti-US, where he just disappears until the smoke clears.

Here things flow naturally, no one is trying to channel the discussions or debates. It's nice to be treated like an adult.

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posted September 05, 2005 11:27 AM

it is up right now but appears to have lost a year or so,hopefully Dale gets everything back.

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trenace

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posted September 05, 2005 11:56 AM

Edited By: trenace on 5 Sep 2005 12:58

Hmm, anyone wanting backup of anything in the old Debates forum should go get it now, as when that board is running normally, Dale now has all such posts (anything on a thread not posted to in the last few days) blocked off from anyone 'cept him being able to read them. Now or never if you want to get anything from back then.

But, everything between Nov 8 of last year to the present still remains locked up where only Dale can get it, so copies of anything from then can't be recovered during this window of time.

Looks like an old backup is up, rather than the board as previously set up.

gunner

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posted September 05, 2005 12:02 PM

I can't log in. It says that I have used an incorrect user name or password.
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trenace

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posted September 05, 2005 12:06 PM

Edited By: trenace on 5 Sep 2005 13:31

Well, I'll recover a couple of "classics" while I'm there... Funny stuff to me, though these days prohibited or considered just too upsetting for the jangly-nerved there. Glad it's not lost forever thanks to this odd fluke! Though most likely the "auto-prune" policy will banish it away again very shortly:

Nov 3, 2004: CBS broadcast titan Dan Rather learned today that his "60 Minutes II" program has been cancelled. "I'm mad as a pig not invited to the dinner table," said Rather, but the journalist attributed the cancellation to "ratings thinner than November ice" and denied that any loss of credibility on his part was responsible. "I'm still sound as a pound, and snug as a junebug in an abandoned cornfield," reported Rather.

The veteran journalist was miffed, however, that a number of Karl Rove-exposing stories he had planned for broadcast now will never be aired. Instead of allowing such valuable information to "languish like a cat in an armoire," the award-winning broadcaster chose to publicy disclose his final authenticated "60 Minutes II" scoops here, as follows:

1. A mystical adept of Rosicrucianism, Rove is actually several hundred years old and at one time acted as counsel to King Louis XI of France, whom he instructed to vanquish Charles the Reckless, and to set up the first western printing press is Strasburg, thereby ensuring the mass distribution of the very Bible that would one day lead directly to George W Bush's re-election.

2. As a young Reagan operative in the early 80s, Rove ran crack cocaine and guns into the Watts section of California and was known to local gang leaders only by his street name, "Keyser Söze."

3. Dabbling in Kabbala, Rove accidentally animated anti-sodomite Golem Rick Santorum, whom he's since used brilliantly as part of a long-term strategy to energize the homophobic Republican base.

4. Acting on behalf of Dick Cheney and Halliburton, Rove ordered the assassination of 3 Stanford engineering students who had perfected the first-ever renewable energy automobile, which ran on boiling water and Maple and Brown Sugar-flavored Cream of Wheat. Then, in a ritual ceremony, Rove burned the blueprints while drinking the students' blood (mixed with bourbon and Maraschino cherry juice).

5. In ancient Aramaic, "Rove" translates roughly as "Mossad."

6. Margaret Cho? An RNC creation meant to discredit "progressives" by portraying them as slovenly elitist imbeciles who couldn't find funny if it was "strapped to a midget and riding bareback on the hood of a poorly maintained bumper car."

7. In 1977, Rove orchestrated the abduction of Elvis Aaron Presley, whom the US later used to defeat the ancient Egyptian evil of Bubba Ho-Tep. Presley's body remains in a barometric chamber in a secret vault beneath Disney's Epcot Center, kept alive on mushed bananas and bacon fat.

8. Experimenting with monkey vivisection in the Congo, Rove stumbled upon the AIDS virus and later became the first man to effectively weaponize it; subsequent super-secret Reagan Administration threats to unleash the disease on Moscow essentially ended the Cold War and drove a dagger into the heart of the equitable distribution of wealth.

In further news, Rather insisted that even if he had to "sweat harder than an armadillo" to get the story out, his expose of Rove's rocket-skate conspiracy will despite this latest setback nonetheless air shortly, swearing, "I'm still going to sting those Bush boys like syphilitic urine."

RATHER BLAMES ROVE IN ROCKET-SKATE MISHAP

NEW YORK - Veteran anchorman Dan Rather implicated White House Political Director Karl Rove as "the mastermind behind the so-called Acme Group" after his rocket-powered roller skates exploded during a Wednesday CBS Evening News investigative report.

Rather had donned the controversial Acme skates -- along with an Acme brand Bat-Man suit -- in a complicated sting operation to reveal what he termed a "deep conspiracy between the White House and internet partisans to cover up George Bush's shameful military records."

The investigation went awry soon after Rather lit the skates, releasing what NYU Physics professor Alan Sokol estimated as "20,000 to 30,000 pounds of thrust." The heat of the initial explosion was so intense that it singed the hair off several nearby CBS reporters, including Rather's anchor heir-apparent John Roberts.

The blast sent Rather hurtling along 53rd Street toward the Hudson River at speeds estimated upwards of 200 miles per hour, scarcely slowing as the runaway skates drug the hapless journalist over, under and through stalled rush hour traffic.

Rather frantically righted himself just in time to hurtle cleanly though the side of an MTA bus at 7th Avenue, leaving a gaping Rather-shaped hole. The impact sent Rather careening down the stairs of the 50th Street subway terminal, through a turnstile, and onto the tracks of the Uptown-bound 1 train.

"The incoming tunnel was sparking and lighting up, I thought there was some kind of power problem," said Carla Robertson, who witnessed Rather speeding through the tunnel at the 34th Street platform. "Later I realized it must have been his ass hitting the third rail."

Robertson said she didn't pay much attention whe she saw a spread-eagle Rather, screaming along the tracks on rocket roller skates.

"This is New York, so we see celebrities all the time," said Robertson. "Then I realized he was heading downtown on the uptown tracks."

Witnesses as far as Chelsea report hearing the collision as Rather met the next oncoming train, which sent the newsman rocketing skyward through a man hole cover at 31st and Broadway, arms flailing wildly, his rocket skates sputtering their last spare ounces of fuel.

Midtown bystanders looked on in horror as the award-winning broadcast titan began plummeting from his 3000-foot apex. Amazingly, though, Rather's arm-flailing and prescient decision to wear the Bat-Man suit had paid off. Regaining composure after the initial shock, he began soaring over the skyline of Manhattan, swooping through its concrete canyons.

Rather's high-flying antics came to a abrupt conclusion when he splattered into the New York Times building. Momentarily stunned, he peeled off the side into a desperate pummet, not realizing his Bat-Man wings remained adhered to a 38th floor window.

Gasping for breath as he climbed from his Rather-shaped crater on 43rd Street, he quickly faced another ignomy: his impact had jarred loose a grand piano that was hanging from a rope outside William Safire's 30th-story office. As the shadow of the piano slowly grew, Rather pulled out a tiny umbrella and picket sign that read "Yipes!!"

His lump-covered head peering through the demolished keyboard, Rather finally played a off-key rendition of "Taps" on his piano-key teeth.

Rather remains in guarded condition at Cedars-Sinai hospital, but says his legendary investigative ferocity "is as healthy as Olympic weightlifter's liver."

"Batten down the barn door, Aunt Gussie, we're got more stories coming, and I promise you that these will sting the Bush boys like syphillitic urine," said a defiant Rather.

Rather said that the CBS news team was already working on a new story that would "prove, once and for all, that Karl Rove made those rocket skates."

"I can't reveal much right now," added Rather. "We're still trying to line up the necessary catapult."

trenace

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posted September 05, 2005 12:09 PM

Aw man, there's a lot of shit there that has good memories, as well as interesting stuff, various news articles that would be hard to find, etc.

A real shame that it will all vanish in perhaps minutes or hours, never to be seen again...

Connman

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posted September 05, 2005 02:13 PM

Well it's back up. Everything from Nov. 2004 to present has disappeared.

gunner

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posted September 05, 2005 04:00 PM

What to FUCK!!!!!!!!!!! IS Dale up to???
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trenace

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posted September 05, 2005 04:03 PM

Edited By: trenace on 5 Sep 2005 18:51

I would guess it is not that he is up to something, but rather that he had to rely on some really really old backup. Hell about 3000 of my posts are gone! Actually that suggests to me that posts are missing not only from Nov 2004 to present, but a lot of posts prior to then as well, since I almost certainly did not make 3000 posts just since then. One thousand maybe. Well, could be 2000. But not 3000 I don't think.

The reason I think it must be an old backup, rather than the recent site but with posts deleted, is that it's not just the posts in the interim that are missing, but the site "organization" and structure so to speak is back to where it was back then as well.

Another reason is that stuff like old PM's is still there, whereas while the board was running, it had been in some mode where it was autodeleting all but the few most recent PM's one had. So this had to be an old "image" of the site.

Who knows he may be able to recover the missing material. If not, that would be utterly piss-poor management, especially seeing as this is not the first time around with this.

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posted September 05, 2005 05:59 PM

fo-ge-da-bow-dit

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trenace

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posted September 05, 2005 06:03 PM

True 'nuff!

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posted September 05, 2005 10:32 PM

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I can't log in. It says that I have used an incorrect user name or password.

+1

But I have been quite happy hanging out here!

kram

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posted September 06, 2005 03:46 AM

I get this message, "Sorry, but this board is currently unavailable. Please try again later."
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posted September 06, 2005 03:48 AM