Who was the first tomb-stoned DUer that you can remember?

[DemoTex]

Lonstar! Tomb-stoned 5/2001. He was an arrogant Freeper asshole.

[NoPasaran]

1. Jiacinto!

King of DU's Boot Hill

[DemoTex]

7. Oooooh. He was a pain in the ass!

[tigereye]

43. yeah, me too

he was cranky, as I recall.

[madrchsod]

67. he was crazy.....

i think he was last seen in iowa......

[Awsi Dooger]

75. DU is a lesser forum without Jiacinto

He knows his stuff, particularly regarding Maryland politics and obscure races and demographic trends around the country. He would start high caliber threads, often analyzing races from a different angle than I was using, and it was very helpful. I hate to see his reputation trashed around here, focusing solely at the end.

At that point no question he was having personal troubles and that spilled over to his DU posts, but the guy had 25,000+ posts and most of them quality. No question he would go on tilt occasionally, like the Nader threads.

I rarely visit Daily Kos but I've seen Jiacinto there. Same basics, known as one of their more conservative members.

[SarahB]

92. That would be mine. nt

[Arugula Latte]

2. The one I was most happy about being booted was Mr. Benchley

Obnoxious Lieberman Lover. He was around waaaaaay too long. x(

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. Yes, I was happy for months when that piece of shit got booted.

I miss Bob Boudelang, but wow - Benchley was a class A fucking asshole shitbag.

[MrScorpio]

14. Bring Back Boudelang!

I miss him!

[Robeson]

8. Damn you! You beat me to it.....

...I still relish the day he got boot-ed....:party:

[Dr. Strange]

24. Yeah, right. Why don't you try peddling that pant-load to your fellow NRA skinheads.

He was gone before I got here, but I remember his gungeon posts well from my lurking days...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

31. He was my most unfavorite tombstonee.

What a douche. I did a little happy dance when I found out he was sleeping with the fishes, so to speak.

[distantearlywarning]

97. I didn't know that guy got tombstoned.

But I'm happy he did. I don't think I ever read a single one of his posts that didn't piss me off. What a rude, condescending asshole he was!

[LynzM]

4. NightTrain

Um, and the skinny dude artist with the long hair who wouldn't leave SarahBelle alone, though I don't remember his name right now... the Lounge, circa 2005. LOL

[Wapsie B]

5. Longgrain

or something like that.

[last_texas_dem]

44. Longgrain

I totally missed out on whatever situation caused him to be tombstoned, and ended up looking back and finding it when I realized he wasn't posting anymore. I totally couldn't picture him being a FReeper, so I knew there had to be some other reason he was TS'd. I always liked him, as he tended to be pretty good-natured and I remember some of the interesting music and art/photography threads he used to post.

[Wapsie B]

54. Yeah, I liked his taste in art, and I got along with him fine.

With others it was a different story.

[DS1]

11. That guy was a trip

Nighttrain. I know there's names I know before him, but the lounge doesn't go back far enough.

[Maddy McCall]

16. Remember the fundraiser?

Weird all the way around.

[DS1]

17. No

bad memory

[Maddy McCall]

18. He wanted to hook up with someone...

...but he was too cheap to buy the plane ticket, so he ran a fundraiser on DU to raise the money to buy him a ticket to go meet this other person.

Ick.

[Robeson]

19. O.K. I think it's time to que in the Twilight Zone music.....

...after that one.

[Maddy McCall]

21. Yeah.

LOL. :D

[DS1]

she's still here, and got married to someone out where she is

and good for her

liberalhistorian

[Maddy McCall]

39. Didn't know that.

I couldn't remember who the other person was in that couple.

Indeed--good for her.

[Maddy McCall]

13. What a scary guy NightTrain was.

Something about cursing out an elderly woman and throwing her diapers at her...that's when I thought, "This guy ain't right."

LongGrain...there was the irk factor, but I really do think that he was harmless. I think he's come out as transgendered now. More power to him--I wish him well.

[Name removed]

93. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Maddy McCall]

108. Why did you put "express himself" in quotations?

I thought I knew what went on with him and you back then, but, in all honesty, I don't. I certainly don't know what transpired at that other website. They guy had/has some problems--that's probably true. He may have been creepy. Like I said, the irk factor was definitely there.

I don't think, though, that he posed a danger to anyone, but I could be wrong about that. If I missed something in that whole drama, please let me know.

Regardless of all that, I do think that it's good that he's found a place in his life where he can express his gender identity. Having a relative with gender dysphoria, I can tell you that, unexpressed, it is a huge problem that impacts all areas of life.

[SarahB]

112. I'm long done with DU drama.

Nothing in my former post was in any way intended to disparage transgendered people and I make a public apology to you or anyone else if I came across that way. I do hope he's happier and more at peace now. I just don't forget situations where 1.) someone I expressed absolutely no romantic interest toward someone (just the opposite) who continued to post my pictures and try to infer a relationship that was not there and then 2.) months and years later make nasty comments about me on other websites.

He and I came to a peace long ago and I frankly don't care, but I was genuinely a bit nervous for some time due to his repeated, strange behaviors. I probably should have posted directly to LynzM as she knew more about the situation at the time and my response was more an acknowledgment of her.

Like I said, I really don't give a rat's ass about DU drama crap (or any website for that matter). In fact, I'd rather get a root canal or than deal with it again. My comment. My mistake.

[Skittles]

6. I remember Lonstar

back when I was lurking :D

[DemoTex]

20. We B Old!

But we b good. God, I remember those hot USAF pics you used to post. Remember my hot Vietnam pics? But I hope I never see these current hot-heads posting about those old farts: Skittles and Demotex.



LOVE YA', SKITTLES!

[Skittles]

26. BACK AT YA MAX!

GREAT PIC! :hi:

true story - I was only in the Air Force for four years but for a decade after, guys in Austin would walk up to me all over the place and say HEY! Weren't you that hot blonde in the CBPO? LOLOL.

[Fleshdancer]

84. are you still in Austin?

I only ask because I'm in Austin and the idea of knowing there's someone in town who can kick some ass is a good thing! :D

[Skittles]

86. alas, no

I lived in Austin for 17 years but am currently in the DFW metroplex :o

[Fleshdancer]

87. well hell

From Austin to DFW??? I don't hear that very often from Democrats. :D

[Skittles]

88. sometimes I feel it is my fate in life

to torment conservatives, and there is a never-ending supply in this area of this piece of shit state

[CreekDog]

59. d00d you must get all the chicks driving that thing

:applause:

[Skittles]

90. pilots are the worst skirt-chasers

but TONS of fun - that's my experience from the Air Force :D

[Aristus]

99. Looking good, Mac!

:thumbsup:

Yeah, Skittles; can't we see those great pics again? B-)

[Danger Mouse]

9. Not first, but best...

Zandor.
I practically threw a party when he finally was shown the door.
Hated that bastard.

[Maddy McCall]

10. CoraRose. Booberdawg.

Can't remember which was first to be banned.

[DS1]

12. Lady Democrat was the first incarnation

[Maddy McCall]

15. That's right.

Then CoraRose, then GingerSnaps, also Democracy something or other. I'd bet she's still somewhere around, too.

[lost-in-nj]

22. OMG

I remember all of these


except LONSTAR!!!!!!!!!



LOL



lost

SKINNER BAN ME RIGHT THE FUCK NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
or something like that


(not really) :)

[Steven_S]

23. I remember all those folks too,

I think WaltStar was the 'Skinner ban me now' guy.

[Maddy McCall]

27. Link to the thread right here.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2507034

:rofl:

[Reverend_Smitty]

29. Best response by Skinner EVAH!!!!!

:rofl:

[NoPasaran]

34. I'd be willing to bet that's the most-bookmarked thread in DU history

[Maddy McCall]

37. Definitely in my bookmarks...

along with all the quirky weird stuff that pops up here and there. :D

[Danger Mouse]

35. One of my favorite posts ever.

:D

[laconicsax]

40. OK (nt)

:milk through nose:

and I'm not even drinking milk. I think I need to see a doctor.

[DemoTex]

32. LONSTAR might have been the first.

I was here from the get-go. I registered as DEMOTEX in early May, 2001. I knew the jig was up then. I fought it, but we have lost. Lost big time.

[Reverend_Smitty]

25. Not the first but remember that whole kerfuffle with COLiberal and his wife?

*that* was a mess!

[Wapsie B]

28. Yes it was.

Very ugly indeed.

[Maddy McCall]

30. Remember the "Let's Play!" thread?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=2401161


Warning: Gross.

:puke:

[DS1]

38. I'm not clicking that, I'm already sick

[Maddy McCall]

42. You remember what's there, huh.

It's nasty as anything I've ever seen posted at DU.

[Reverend_Smitty]

45. Oh my...

If I recall properly things started going downhill for them right around that time with the whole "Fat Actress" thing and I think she was right in the middle of the Woody Allen wars and the "I hate everyone under 25" wars

and now advanced search is disabled because we are at level 1 so I can't re-live the "good times"

[Maddy McCall]

46. Yes...

I do remember all of those battles. Oh gawd, the fat acress one. :rofl: We weren't even allowed to discuss the show because of her. That was the way her hubby and she worked...they'd enter a thread that they didn't like, create a huge flame war, and then the thread would get closed. Over and over again they did that.

She was always squarely in the middle of whatever huge drama was going on in the lounge. And he was always two steps behind, with his, "Don't talk to my wife that way" line, even though she started 99% of her own problems.

[Reverend_Smitty]

47. yes a dynamic duo those two were...

and what about the other dynamic duo of CubanLiberal and Padraig...oh wait...

[Maddy McCall]

51. Jeez...

how'd this thread go that long without them being mentioned?

A priest, a lawyer, a cop...what else was he/they?

:D

[Reverend_Smitty]

57. Ah Tony and Paddy...we miss thee/thou

Renaissance men/man that's what they/he were/was

[mitchum]

91. Bookstore owner and orphan resulting from an IRA bombing

[Reverend_Smitty]

48. dupe

[RevolutionaryActs]

62. That just makes me think of ChavezSpeakstheTruth's reply

on the "Fun's Over" post.


So fucking wrong, but so fucking funny.

[madrchsod]

ductapefatwa

10,000 posts!

[WildEyedLiberal]

89. Holy fucking shit. I won't have an appetite for a week.

I remember the not-so-veiled sex threads they'd post in the fat forum and elsewhere, the mental images of which have scarred me for life. I'm pretty sure that reopened all the old wounds. :puke:

[DarkTirade]

33. Eh, I try not to get too attached to them.

The only trolls whose names I remember are the two plastic ones on either side of my monitor.

Or rather... there WERE two on either side of my monitor before I moved... I think they're still packed away somewhere. :)

[CreekDog]

36. Creekdog. What a PITA he was.

brain dead posts
weasely behavior
the list goes on

what a bonehead.

give him credit though, he hated Rush. :applause:

[Dr. Strange]

49. And it was that hatred that ultimately led to his downfall...

when Geddy Lee rose up in a surge of righteous anger and slew CreekDog in the great Battle of Lamneth. And Alex Lifeson used the CreekDog's entrails to fashion new guitar strings, and Neil Peart used his dessicated epidermis for drum skins.

There are those who say, however, that one day the evil CreekDog will rise again, to steal the music of Rush, plunging the Lounge into a long period of darkness, which will not end until that naked guy on the cover of 2112 comes to liberate the planets of the Solar Federation. That's what they say...

[CreekDog]

53. d00d! You played way too much D&D (while listening to Rush)

:rofl:

[Dr. Strange]

69. Believe it or not, I've never played D&D.

But I have listened to some Rush...from time to time.

[CreekDog]

72. that IS hard to believe

but i'll take your word for it. :pals:

[Kingofalldems]

41. Rod Barnett--- I believe was the name

I was a lurker then and I spotted him very quickly. He lasted a long time but somehow got nabbed.

[Shakespeare]

50. OMG! He's the reason I formally signed up with DU!

I'd lurked since day one, and just couldn't stand his little freeper rants. So I finally signed up a couple of weeks later, and began verbally thrashing him every chance I could get. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I sorta miss the days when we could use the freepers as chew toys!

[Seashell Eyes]

52. Cuban Liberal

I was just a lurker then.

[Blue_Roses]

58. I didn't realize he was banned

what happened?

[Reverend_Smitty]

60. oh wow...

you could write a novel with all the drama that surrounded that one, but the gist of it was that he and his partner Padraig turned out to be the same person and nobody is quite certain if anything they said was actually true

[Kingofalldems]

64. Wasn't he supposed to be a cop in Miami?

[Duncan Grant]

55. DarkPhenyx

A day without DarkPhenyx is like a day with sunshine.

[Maddy McCall]

56. Who was that?

Wasn't that person a sock for someone else? I remember the name, but can't recall anything else.

[Duncan Grant]

61. One of the most argumentative posters to darken the doors of DU.

Mind you, there are others who rival him.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=2004161&mesg_id=2004161

[RevolutionaryActs]

63. Dookus.

:(

[Maddy McCall]

65. I raise a glass to my dearly departed bud.

...and to Tucker.



Dook was single-handedly the funniest DUer ever to grace DU.

:toast:

[MissMillie]

95. I love, love, love, love, love Tucker

:loveya:

[Awsi Dooger]

79. Dookus was a riot

I don't even know what happened there. I wasn't posting for a while then suddenly Dookus was gone.

Same with TruthIsAll, who I rarely agreed with but he had a huge presence here, tons of data. I heard he got baited into arguments a few months after the '04 election, and was tombstoned as a result.

[IndianaJones]

66. HugeDittoHead. nt.

[crim son]

68. I have an oddly short memory for these things

though I do remember WaltStarr. There have been a couple others whose departure I have not mourned, but more for personal reasons than because they were FReepers.

[Roon]

70. Cuban Liberal

He posted pictures of himself in his underwear on the net, he was HAUGHT!! But now, I don't think he used his real picture. He was a freeper.

[Danger Mouse]

71. Rev_acts04. The smell of booze finally cleared up from the lounge after she got booted.

:hide:

[yewberry]

73. I remember the who, but not the when.

Lessee...

ScreamingLordByron
Seventhson
JCCyC
vetwife

I was going to say slinkerwink, but her profile is still active. I guess she's just gone.

[murielm99]

77. Yes, seventhson.

How did that go on for so long?

[BrotherBuzz]

113. Oh, vetwife....

Now that one had some issues. I understand she ultimately found her legs at one of the conservative sites.

Seventhson unwittingly outed himself to me with his cover story that always morphed just enough to sound plausible. The Devil is in the details. He finally did publicly out himself on, what , election night?

:rofl:

[devilgrrl]

74. 'JustMe' 'muddleoftheroad' 'zandor' 'Solo_in_MD'

Good Riddance!!!

:nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke:

[jgraz]

76. Can't remember the first, but I'd like to take a moment to celebrate the last

fightindonkey



A big DU buh-bye to you! :hi:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

78. Jesus! You can get stoned off of TOMBS??!!??

To think of all that freaking pot I bought back in the day... :banghead:

[Maccagirl]

80. Starpass

She was from Kennebunkport and her rants were the bomb. Her hatred of all things Bush was over-the-top even for DU-but she was so much fun while it lasted.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

81. Jeez, have I just been here too long or does noone remember

Carlos? The nadir of Ralph Nader?

[Steven_S]

96. Who could forget Carlos?

And the crisis of the week. Remember when he told us he was mugged because he had a lisp? It was sad and funny in a weird, Carlos sort of way.

[UrbScotty]

82. Skinner (nt)

[JackBeck]

83. At first I could remember their names.

But once you take them on and they start piling up, it's kind of hard to keep track.

[Fleshdancer]

85. Walt Starr deserves the TS Hall of Fame Award n/t

[annonymous]

94. Anyone remember Catpower2000?

She would go ballistic over gramatical errors. Many a thread erupted in a flame war and they would be on Loungue topics. I also remember Jiacinto, COLiberal, Walt Starr, CoraRose, Cuban Liberal, and Screaming Lord Byron. I found Jiacinto to be a real PITA and a major Lieberman defender. I don't remember Lonstar at all, but I joined DU in early 2002.

[DS1]

98. catpower2000 is here under a new name with permission

and she's a new person, a complete 180 from the cp2k persona.

some of us tombstonees have recovered

[Burma Jones]

100. the princess

that whole "more room in here" thing was a doozy

[madinmaryland]

101. Not the first one, but CarlSheeler4U.

Ran in the RI democratic primary in '06, and then disappeared after losing. Always enjoyed his posts and actually campaigning here!

It may have been that he supported Chafee in the general election.

[AlCzervik]

102. Seventhson.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

109. wasnt that the freeper who came out after kerry lost?

[malta blue]

103. The TS that most affected me was Distressed American. nt

[Redstone]

104. You know how bad my memory is, so I did enjoy

the reminders people posted here.

Longgrain was the one I knew the best; he was kind of a likable-loser sort of guy until he drank. Which he did, too frequently, and way too much.

I'm not sure if the booze was the trigger for the kind of behavior that got him the Granite Chiclet, but even if it was, there as NO excuse for that behavior, and he got plenty of warnings.

Redstone

[Blue_Tires]

105. Carlos and muddle of the road

[rug]

106. I haven't recovered yet from the loss of zozosmom.

[NoPasaran]

107. Yes, what she lacked in longevity she more than made up for in entertainment value

I'll think of her always when I hear "OBAMA KOOL-AID ZOMBIES".:cry:

[youthere]

110. I can't say the name...let me just say "fat actress" .

[Deep13]

111. Modem Butterfly nt