'Beneath You'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
The site's founder is a 55-year-old computer programmer near Rice Lake, Wis., named Fast Eddie -- not his real name but his online "handle," which he asked to use for this article for fear that drawing too much attention to himself would go against the site's collaborative spirit.
Interview must have been done a little while ago -- he turned 56 last week. (OK, I'm being a bit creepy researchy. I was in "want to figure it out!" mode last week.)
for fear that drawing too much attention to himself would go against the site's collaborative spirit.
I find that part bitterly amusing.
Wait, what RL name did you look up for that birthday, Hil?
I find that part bitterly amusing.
I am daid, pay no attention to me.
ION, I have to confess that I just sent my first text message that consisted solely of the letter K.
Did you figure out his real name, Hil?
The Gus persona was remarkably consistent. I'll give him props for that. I would still like to know why.
I loved Allyson from the beginning. My favorite people are the ones who say openly that the emperor has no clothes, plus Allyson gets extra added snark points.
(I got another fatal error posting this. I've gotten quite a few in the last week. Anyone else?")
A martial arts meets yoga thing? 'I FORM THE YOGA FIST! YOU CANNOT DEFEAT ME!'"
I'm on my phone, so I can't link to it, but search for "Kung Fu vs Yoga" on YouTube. It's hilarious.
Isn't anyone else tired of the Gus talk?
Not me! At least, not when there are new articles coming out in major media outlets with new semi-true stories about us in them.
The Gus persona was remarkably consistent. I'll give him props for that. I would still like to know why.
Maybe he just wanted to be liked? And after a few years of pretending, he decided that hoodwinking the community that had welcomed him was not fair, so he, er, retired the Gus persona. In the most dramatic way possible.
I don't think he did it for malicious reasons or because he liked fooling people and was secretly laughing at us the whole time. It may have been something that got out of control, and he thought killing Gus off was the only way out of the lie.
Isn't anyone else tired of the Gus talk?
Not me either. Interesting to have the truthiness come out.