The greatest elaborate scenarios that people really believed

The lesbian pot-luch wedding in Jacksonville, Florida.

Jeez OP, I'm no grammer nazi at all and I usually couldn't give a shit but your post is a mess.

Kisses, R1. But of course you must be the OP here, or the bad spelling is contagious.

Oh, dear! That's supposed to be pot-luck.

I've heard about the frosting thing…wish I could have read it. Sounds hysterical.

Possum babies in the bathroom cabinet drawer!

Didn't she crab walk?

[quote]Kisses, R1. But of course you must be the OP here,

No, I'm not the OP.

Daniel Bexton (-?) shooting lizards in his yard.

I never heard of the PedEgg Cheese grating thing - sounds like a fun ride though.

But r6, there was photographic evidence of the possum.

I'm still trying to wrap my head around Paul/Faul. Damn you DL conspiracy maniacs!

Shit-Bra--HANDS DOWN! Because it was posted around the same time Melissa Gilbert and one of her husband's had gone through either a divorce or a rough patch and one of the things that had been confirmed was that she tied her kids to the couch and forced them to watch Little House reruns!

The Gargoyle thread wasn't exactly an EST as there was a real gargoyle, with photo and video evidence; same with "Possum in the Drawer."

I initially thought the "Autumn Harvest/Once Around the Garden" was real, imagining the look of the restaurant and people involved. I was more hoping it was real.

They were elaborate scenarios based on fact.

I still do not understand why the oyster pancake thread was deleted. It was harmless.

Ben making a video of himself masturbating and accidentally sending it to all his contacts from his blackberry.

R17 that one was fantastic

People were on the fence about one I posted once which sucked, because it was entirely true!

I had been working as an assistant to the CEO of a film editing company in Burbank and she had a son with developmental problems. Not sure if it was autism or aspergers or what, but it was clear he had emotional problems. She would bring him in from time to time (usually when his teachers needed her to pick him up from school) and he was a terror, running around the office, knocking things over, screaming, and one time, which is what I posted about, he walked into my cubicle, said he had to 'do a bm' and pulled down his pants and went to the bathroom in the corner of my cubicle. Okay, I started cracking up a little because I didn't know HOW to react and it all happened so fast. Then he started crying and his mother walks into my cubicle (it was RIGHT outside her office), hugs her son, looks at the bm, and wants to know what I said to make him cry. I hadn't said ANYTHING to the little bastard and I told her I said nothing but she didn't believe me. Then she went into her office with her son and slammed the door.

It was already 5:45 so I just left work. I wasn't about to pick up the poop and I went home. I figured she'd take care of it or the cleaning crew would. Well, next day, it was still there, and the cleaning crew had just put a paper towel over it and it smelled really bad.

It was a small company and we didn't have an HR Dept. I logged on to check my email (before the days of smartphones) and there was an email from her saying she hoped I could 'take care of things' before she got in, but I didn't and wasn't going to.

Long story short, this turned into a thing. I pretended like the poop wasn't there, so did the cleaning crew and 3 days later, it was finally cleaned up after I went home. I guess she took care of it. About a month after that, I was let go do to a 'restructuring,' but I know it's because of the 'incident' with her son.

I liked when Meryl Streep opened a thread on Christmas Eve when she had guests in the next room and would answer all of our questions.

That was real r20

vegan Thanksgiving

The possum in the drawer made me laugh out loud.

I had to be told that the lesbian potluck wedding was an EST on one of those DL greatest hits thread. I was disappointed.

Can't remember all the details but the guy whose landlord was doing something shady in his rented garage. There were frequent updates about the landlord entering without permission and the OP wondering if he should call the cops.

The pot-luck wedding was real. The OP discussed it in another thread about successful threads (Only on DL .... threads about threads ... like this one). Anyway, she said everything worked out, the wedding was lovely, and, best of all, they are still together!

My neighbor is a gargoyle was real- there was those videos.

[quote]vegan Thanksgiving

So many posters believed it.

Remember when two of the gals went in search of Hootz? I LOVED Hootz.

"Once Around The Garden" was a fake????

WTF? Nooooooo!!!!!!!

She became a DL icon, but the 'little girl kisses doll' started off as an EST where the storyteller was telling various stories about his creepy encounters with her. And then she took on a life of her own.

Yes, R30. The OP admitted it later. He "specializes" in elaborate scenario threads. This once was particularly well crafted in my opinion.

Let's Roll Cinnamon Rolls was intended to be a spoof on the activities of the Widow Beamer but some people thought it was real since she was so over the top in her media whoring. It was a great thread because so many people joined in the fun.

Happily there were no jackasses like we have today who try to dump on any creativity with their "This . never . happened"

Danny from Ohio and his suitcase.

Sumerian housewives.

Datalounge was good back in the day.

"Datalounge was good back in the day."

A phrase first written on DL's second day of existence.

I would like to read the Danny/Denny and the suitcase thread again, though.

Ohh I remember Hootz! I was the one who told him that I went to the bookstore and he wasn't there! I never went to the bookstore. I don't live anywhere near there. I just figured he lies because he logged on as two different people, but he had the same style of typing. I figured I would call his bluff. He believed it and never came back once I said that I was at the bookstore and there was no one even remotely resembling his description.

What WAS the shitbra about? Still unclear.

Hootz! That's the name of the guy in W. Virginia. I'm on the fence about the cattle rancher in Oregon, but his delivery reminds me of Hootz's.

r33 = whining Elaborate Scenario troll

The poster of "My neighbor is a gargoyle" later admitted the whole thing was a fake and his friend posed for the film of the creepy neighbor out on the ledge smoking.

You're not even a good or funny liar, R40. The gargoyle just moved out.

40 replies and still, until now, no mention of the est that set the standard for all would-be best ests?

"I'm in Love with my Father-in-Law" had it all-outlandish plot, sex, cliff-hanging suspense and hundreds of posters who hung on for the ride.

And the reason it's the best ever est is because it succeeded in, at first, getting most repliers to buy in hook, line and sinker.

Then the op subtly changed the tone of his posts to let you know you were had, although some insisted that the scenario HAd to be real.

The OP of that thread stepped forward several years ago to take a bow. He even offered a few tips on how to create a good est.

If you're out there op, take another bow.

Two words:

Dustin. Dewind.

I'm convinced that "I'm not running a bed&breakfast" was REAL!

Oh, and it was "Sumerian FARMwives"!

I enjoyed the sheer audacity of the man moving his nephew with Down's Syndrome who'd been orphaned into the "trick room", and thus upsetting his husbear, who felt like the relationship would be on the skids as they would no longer be able to bring home "thirds" due to the irritating presence of the orphaned Down's Syndrome nephew.

I was let go do to a 'restructuring,'

Oh, dear

Yeah, the "Once Around the Garden" guy had posted so many. The lesbian who kept siccing her dog on her gf was another he did...

I still love Claire and Bread Pudding, though not an EST. It was all so well told from beginning to end.

Butterfish and Danny/Denny.

Could somebody explain "kisses doll"? I've always heard the phrase here but never known the context.

claire and her bread pudding still kills me in a good way

Was the Red Dragon cheese an EST?

R49 someone posted a thread about "The Weird Little Girl Next Door" who would say bizarre things like "I know who can stop the rain. King Kong can stop the rain." After the bizarre comments she'd always kiss her doll. So "kisses doll" became a running DL joke in elaborate scenarios threads.

Who knows if there was any truth to that poster's story or not but a daughter of my cousin can blurt out the most amazingly inappropriate so you never know.

I'd also toss in the wedding cash bar for elaborate scenarios people believed.

The other thing the 'little girl' OP/poster mentioned was that the little girl would say things (and kiss her doll) and they would come true.

I can't remember what things exactly (nothing super catastrophic), but he made her sound creepy (*very* Bad Seed-ish)

r25, the OP claimed that his landlord was a voyeur who was secretly filming him through pinholes in the wall of his apartment. He also rented a garage and was worried that the landlord would/had stolen some tools.

People tried to find flaws with his story, but I still believe it.

I absolutely do not buy the Oregon Rancher's tales.

[quote]I'm convinced that "I'm not running a bed&breakfast" was REAL!

I agree with you. Didn't it begin as a brief, angry cry for sympathy? If I recall correctly, the hapless OP provided the further pathetic details of tonic and turkey meatballs and owning only two towels in response to the barrage of criticism that came in place of the expected support.

R55 is absolutely right, and even the 'brief, angry cry for sympathy' description made me laugh with its accuracy. The OP truly thought that the DL would agree with him and came back to defend himself several times. It just got funnier.

The weird little girl next door thread was hijacked by an unfunny imposter, which may be why some people think it was an EST. The OP didn't try to spin it into anything bigger, which is what made me think it was real. I've saved the original thread somewhere, but from memory her best (seeming) non sequiter was 'King Kong will stop the rain.' *kisses doll* Then OP heard the Creedence song wondering who will stop the rain and got deeply creeped out.

My top three:

Danny and the suitcase in NYC Once Around The Garden/Autumn Harvest

and the yet to be mentioned Help! I Sent A Cell Phone Video Of Myself Masturbating To Everyone In My Phone Book!

[quote]Was the Red Dragon cheese an EST?

No. An EST is a person. EST = Elaborate Scenario Troll.

An elaborate scenario can be a factual scenario(gargoyle next door) or fictitious scenario (Let's Roll Cinnamon Rolls).

The chick on Facebook obsessed with Nick Carter was wonderfully elaborate.

r51 Originally est stood for elaborate scenario thread- a thread that sets forth a seeming actual outlandish occurance, but upon getting further into the thread it's obvious we've all been had by the OP

Est then evolved, or devolved to mean elaborate scenario troll- a an elaborate scenario thread.

I'm no exctly sure what r58 means.

I wish "I'm in love with My Father-in-Law" was archived.

A lot of people fell for the gay nephew missing in DC thread.

Correction:

Est then evolved, or devolved, to mean elaborate scenario troll- an op who aspires to write a good elaborate scenario thread.

R37, the "shitbra" wasn't an elaborate scenario, but just a strange anecdote someone witnessed that has continued to be referenced over the years on DL. It started when someone posted that he was entering a grocery store and saw Melissa Gilbert on her way out with a whiny kid. As the kid began to act up, Melissa warned him what sounded like, "Don't make me use my shitbra!" or "Don't make me get out my shitbra!" For days after that, there was discussion on what a "shitbra" might be.

R37 and R63, months later, Melissa Gilbert went on the Howard Stern show (when he was still on terrestrial radio) and he asked her about that. I remember listening to it and she just about DIED. But I've never been able to find the link since.

Typical DL Poster, talking about the shitbra!!!

[quote] An elaborate scenario can be a factual scenario(gargoyle next door) or fictitious scenario (Let's Roll Cinnamon Rolls

Not true. An EST is a troll. All EST threads are false. It is an art form to write a good EST. That is why reality doesn't count.

So far, this has been an Extremely Scintillating Thread! Thanks for filling in the blanks for this relative noob.

It's gross, but worse is power heated yoga - that's the current craze. I had to stop going to yoga because of too many gross guys acting like they were back in their high school wrestling practice.

Can someone please explain the Cooked Non Event Toast? I was on vacation from DL when it happened and I couldn't find the source at the time.

Hey r43 - I'm still here!!

[quote]. An EST is a troll. All EST threads are false. It is an art form to write a good EST.

Okay, now you all are just trying to confuse me. How does one write a troll [person]?

I agree with R59, the Kelli and Nick Carter thread. Hilarious, and it got me through a very stressful Christmas (2010) and New Year. The people posting were as funny as the crazy obsessed chick. Some asshole had to fuck it up though.. Of course.

"I just slept with Jani Lane", one of ten best "real time" threads ever.

Both threads still available to read.

Wait, the Jani Lane thread and the Nick and Kelli thread were real, right?

What was the Nick Carter thread about?

Here is that delicious thread for you, r74:

There was also "I'm in Love with My Half-Brother" about a guy who, in a town attending his estranged dad's funeral, notices a really cute guy in his motel. At the funeral, finds out it's his brother whom he's never met.

They fell in love. It was fairly popular for a while.

Wait, R76. Are you saying that one wasn't true? I'm shocked.

The hierarchy:

1) A skillfully constructed and well-defended fictitious elaborate scenario is the ne plus ultra thread on Datalounge. Very rare.

2) A true elaborate scenario that is interesting enough to be accused of being false.

3) An attempt at achieving thread type 1 above that fails for being too preposterous or too poorly defended.

and at the bottom

4) A lame attempt at thread type 1 in which the OP posts the elaborate scenario and then disappears (aka the "hit and run.)

The last two are technically the work of an elaborate scenario troll. The OPs of first two will be accused of being ESTs, but are not actually trolls at all. They are heros.

The acronym EST is rather carelessly tossed around with respect to all four types, hence the confusion.

R26, as the OP of the thread (me at R3), I assure you that the Jacksonville lesbian pot-luck wedding reception (so that the girls could save their money for a trip in the RV since they had kids and grandkids living with them and their health problems kept them from working - with concerns about alcohol and who was going to decorate in the back yard and handle the sign-ins) was indeed an ES, and I'm the disgusting T.

The later posts on how things were doing in their lives were intended to try to get the original up to 600, but it never quite made it.

The whole thing came from my being at one time the only man in an apartment building of blue-collar lesbians in Carondelet in St. Louis. I loved them, and learned a great deal about sisterhood from them, but this is exactly something they would do, and not understand why people would question it. I also learned how to conduct a broken beer bottle fight on the front lawn, carry a body down the steps when you thought you had killed your trick (she was just drunk), and how to manage cat custody when three ex-lovers and their partners (who also had been girlfriends of two of the fighting exes in the past) lived in the same building.

Solution - Get her pregnant and have KITTENS!!!!!

[quote]. I also learned how to conduct a broken beer bottle fight on the front lawn, carry a body down the steps when you thought you had killed your trick (she was just drunk), and how to manage cat custody when three ex-lovers and their partners (who also had been girlfriends of two of the fighting exes in the past) lived in the same building.

I wish I could believe you.

Just go fuck Tod, bump.

The thing about Demi and the whip-its.

That thread about Griselda Medina.

Also, the possum in the drawer thread was fascinating in its own right.

I claim credit for "Brokeback in Suburbia," which appeared more than a few years ago. It was all about my fictional hot boss who was leaving his wife for his best friend from college. Got hundreds of responses.

I thought that was real R84.

R69, I also need to know about the cooked non-event toast. What is it?

The butterfish thing is real. In certain people eating it causes you to poop oily orange colored mucus. This is why it's illegal in many states. You never know if you're gonna have a reaction ... until you do.

It's also called 'White Tuna'.

Sounds like an EST post, but it isn't.

I'm amazed at how clueless some people are. "Elaborate scenario" does not mean "thread I remember fondly." The following are not elaborate scenario threads:

Sumerian Farmwives--DLers at play

Melissa Gilbert's shitbra--celebrity gossip

Meryl Streep "Any questions?"--Celebrity impersonation or real interview with a legend.

Lisa Beemer Let's Roll Cinnamon Rolls--DLers at play/celebrity impersonation.

"I'm not running a bed and breakfast--Hapless invitation of sympathy

Kelli and Nick Carter --Mocking internet freak. (Unless our OP actually created the FB account in which case it was a meta-elaborate-scenario.)

Butterfish may cause those symptoms but the thread was created by the "Autumn Harvest," "Demonic girlfriend," "baby dyke who poured a two-liter of coke on top the floor" guy.

[quote]Kelli and Nick Carter --Mocking internet freak. (Unless our OP actually created the FB account in which case it was a meta-elaborate-scenario.)

No, that one was real. Some bitch here threatened to out the stalker and send her this thread. As I recall, the thread started pretty tame, with OP asking advice wondering if he should contact Nick Carter's management about her.

Then it just got kind of out of and as her posts got more and more bizarre, OP realized Kelli was pretty fucked up and mental. Still it was hilarious watching someone so delusional post that shit.

r88, I agree with all of yours except "I'm not running a bed and breakfast here"--that WAS an elaborate scenario and so fits the topic.

I guess I weighed in at number 2 EST.

Glad it was my only one.

[quote][R88], I agree with all of yours except "I'm not running a bed and breakfast here"--that WAS an elaborate scenario and so fits the topic.

Debatable whether "some random trick thought I'd provide breakfast and a shower" is all that elaborate.

Dustin you made all that up?

Has anyone mentioned the "official" version of 9/11 yet?

[quote]2) A true elaborate scenario that is interesting enough to be accused of being false.

No, it was all true.

I've posted a couple elaborate scenarios that were in fact true. The last time I did, the EST police in here jumped on me like overeager rookies on a COPS episode.

Honestly, "EST police" -- do you ever get out of the house and mix it up a little? If you do, bizarre real-life events and bizarre humans WILL indeed cross your path every once in a while.

p.s. That said, my nominee for best EST that was actually a fake ES: That guy who posted "HELP! I accidentally just sent a video of myself masturbating to everyone in my cell phone contacts!"

It got better and better as the posts went up into the hundreds. Toward the end he was claiming he lost job, family disowned him and he had to move out of state.

oops, I see a few others already nominated that one. Still.. what a classic.

bump for the gargoyle

As someone who has been here for a long time, I can safely say the turkey meatballs thread was not an EST. It was before everyone cried EST on everything. That one was completely real.

the little girl/kisses doll thread was not an EST. It started out as something real but too many people blew it out of proportion and many were led to believe it was an EST.

I remember the guy who started the "Kisses doll" meme writing an explanation of its origins. There was, in fact, a creepy little girl who carried a doll around his building. She would come up to him and utter the most inane statements and he didn't know how to respond.

She approached him one day and said the thing about King Kong stopping the rain. If you've been around kids, you know they can say some crazy things but his tale was so entertaining and funny that people thought it had to be fake.

I've been on DL for several years and have started real threads, only to have them shut down by the screeching EST police. Once, I got banned for posting the most benign thread. I cannot remember the damn topic, though.

This is why, when I read threads that sound too crazy to be true, I often accept them at face value. Because the truth can be stranger than fiction.

Bump

"If Obama gets the nomination, McCain and Palin will win"

Thank you, R101 (turkey meatballs towels was NOT an EST).

And, yes, EST means a scenario that did not occur in real life, not just that the troll is trolling for a reaction. The whole point of elaborate scenario is that someone is concocting an elaborate scenario to make it seem real.

Was Daniel Bexton shooting iguanas in his yard real?

Daniel BOON shot an iguana, not Daniel Bexton.

Melissa Gilbert learned firsthand about the shitbra from Helen Lawson when La Lawson guest-starred on an episode of "Little House on the Prairie". Lawson uttered/screeched, "Don't make me get out my shitbra, Half-Pint!" and the rest is history (well, DL history).

Ginny and the office gang haven't been mentioned yet.

How can the turkey meatballs thread be an elaborate scenario? I remember it. The OP was maybe two sentences max, if that much. It was something like, 'I hooked up with a guy last night and he wanted to shower and eat breakfast the next morning, can you believe the gall of some people.'

It wasn't until later when other posters started calling the OP out did he add more details. An elaborate scenario is all laid out in the OP. And if I'm not mistaken, the OP's Myspace account (that was when Myspace was the big thing) was posted, etc. When the other posters saw that the OP was cute, they cut him some slack. I wish I had a copy of that thread.

Wait, you mean gargoyle neighbour was a fake?

Say it ain't so!

Yes, turkey meatballs & two towels was NOT an EST.

Neither were Frosting Dad or Red Dragon Cheese, imo/afaik.

Wasn't "Sows At the Trough" the original frau office pot luck thead?

I still laugh when I think about it.

Sorry, "Sows" was real, not and EST thread.

The obese daughter in law with the can of frosting was my favorite by far. The situation and the reactions of the parties involved sounded so realistic it had to be true, at least in part.

Baked Potato Bar party was my personal Favorite

My lover has the AIDS and all the rest of you do now.

The Satanic puppy killing boyfriend

R109, maybe people were confused by the fact that someone impersonated the OP on the turkey meatballs thread, making it seem fictionalised until trolldar stopped that in its tracks.

Weapons of mass destruction.

"Cooked non event toast," wasn't an EST. Some queen was whining about the food someone served at a party. They wrote something like, "They didn't serve anything that was. Cooked non event toast!"

Remember the lunchtime trolls? They would each post a thread and whichever thread had the most responses by the OPs deadline was the winning thread; the losing OP had to buy the winning OP lunch that day.

The gargoyle neighbor wasn't a fake. A jealous queen just wishes he had created such a thing.

One of my favorites was the guy who was convinced his landlord was spying on him with hidden cameras, and was preparing to break into the landlord's apartment to find proof. He was live-posting his surveillance of the landlord (much like the gargoyle thread). That was quite entertaining.

To elaborate on R120, "cooked not event toast" was a typo for "cooked, not even toast."

The beyonce pregnancy

Thank you, R24, I havealways wondered WTF that really meant.

I think "Thug Duck" was real.

Oh yeah, R121, that rings a bell ...

I wish the "I'm in love with my father-in-law" thread had been saved.

I wonder if its easier or harder to string people along now that Primetime is constant and no one is posting.

It's MUCH harder.

What about one 'cowboys' in like Montana who lived with his husband on thousands of acres that had been in his family for decades? He told the story of how one of is ranch hands,a migrant worker was killed by a mountain lion and was simply buried on the ranch. When posters started suggesting he could be charged for not reporting the death, the OP could not defend himself and his EST ran out of steam.

It got pretty funny when other posters started sharing pics of their family 'estates,' pics of the Grand canyon, Mt Rushmore, ect.

Once Around The BUMP

I lost my meds...

I worked really hard on that thread. I feel like I should've won an award for my commitment and dedication to that. I know plenty about those kinds of drugs...so it wasn't hard to get into the details, but I knew it would get a bunch of freaks really REALLY riled up - and I was right. Of course, I just pushed their buttons even more by acting crazier and crazier. Specifically, it was interesting to me that the more distressed I made myself sound, the more people attacked - and seeing that happen was actually the point of it. I noticed many DL members like to find people's weaknesses (stated or unstated) and go in on them like vultures...because it somehow makes them feel better about themselves (I assume). So yes, that was my #1 trollage this year. I have done a few others. I'm not sure what I feel like admitting to right now.

All the threads were deleted because (I can only guess) Mediopolis didn't want to deal with IP address requests from CVS.

Can someone either link or explain the Once Around the Garden thread?

It sounds intriguing. Thanks!

R135

Enjoy:

Here you go, R135:

A few months ago my partner opened up a small restaurant. It's a quaint storefront in a northeastern small town that I would describe as "metropolitan rural." He is chef and manager and I serve as the front of the house.

The menu is New American and in my opinion, quite delicious and upscale, but my partner for some reason has seen fit to install a small salad bar with an assortment of leafy greens and other vegetables.

The menu has two options for the salad bar. The first is called "Once Around the Garden" - allowing the customer one visit to the salad bar. The second, most expensive option is called "Autumn Harvest" - allowing endless visits to the salad bar.

Needless to say, many customers order "Once Around the Garden" only to pull an "Autumn Harvest," visiting the salad bar multiple times. I don't have much training in restaurant management but I usually just let them do it because it is embarrassing for all involved if I call them out on it.

My partner disagrees. Having assessed the receipts and the salad bar inventory, he quickly realized what was happening and viciously chewed me out. I am now instructed to closely monitor customers who order from the salad bar, and if someone violates policy then I am to point at them and say "Once around the garden, sir!" (or Ma'am).

I've had to do this twice so far and it was so humiliating, and the customers got pissed, and neither left a tip. I think it's doing more harm than good, but it's my partner's restaurant, so I suppose I'm required to follow his orders.

R135, have at it. It's a riot from the get-go.

If you read through 'til the end, all is revealed. Beautiful.

Jeezus, you bitches must all have that one bookmarked, too.

I don't know if anyone will remember this, or even if they thought it was true, but someone posted here about being kicked out of "the fancy Joanne's Fabrics" and it was just hilarious.

I remember it because someone posted about being called the King of the Seam Ripper in home ec, which I thought was hilarious in my post-wisdom-teeth-extraction Vicodin stupor.

I Was Asked To Leave the Fancy Joann Fabrics

It was during a free sewing class. The 'instructor' was the same thyroidy-eyed bitch who always screws up my fabric cuts.

I was 'sewing too fast to control the stitches' and one thing led to another and I asked the woman if she would just fuck off. I don't think she'd ever heard that word before.

She asked me to leave. The five other students looked at me like I was a psychopath. I should have knocked over some bolts of fabric on my way out.

—Now, I'll never learn to sew a place mat! (536 views)

*My lesbian lover used our PedEgg to grate cheese for our dinner guests' pasta*

I lost it at that one...Hahahahahaha.

What was the OP again?

Jodi and Jonathan's wedding.

R141, reading it now...soooooo good.

[quote] This Joann is in the nice suburb where the sales bolts have a lot of fabric left on them and are neatly displayed...My local Joann's doesn't even offer classes and most of the fabric bolts are covered in shoe prints or hair.

R141, gay marry me!

What about the one with closeted gay boyfriend who got run over?

One day the current "In Lust With My Cousin" threads will join the ranks of the classic Datalounge EST stories, but for now many people seem to believe it, crappy photographic "evidence" and all...

Of recent vintage, the "About to lose my job" guy caught masturbating in the company parking lot by the CEO or some other suited exec had enough plausibility to gain virality, but there remained the lingering scent of EST about it.

I know several people upthread (back in 2012) said that lots of these threads were "revealed" to be ESTs, but I don't think that's true. We had people claim they were the creators of those threads when they weren't.

About six years ago we had a thread specifically for linking to old favorites, and someone requested the Danny in NYC thread. I bumped it for them. About a half hour later, someone started a "confession" thread, saying they started Danny and the lesbian crab-walk and all of the best EST threads we'd had lately. I dunno if anyone here was on DL when this was going down but if you were, you remember a shitstorm broke out. People got mad, and I heard (but didn't see) mods showed up in the "confession" thread. I do know all those threads disappeared (most are back in the archives now, thankfully). The thread where the guy "confessed" was deleted, too.

Since then I haven't believed a single person who "confesses" to starting a popular or EST thread.

Oh, and the "kisses doll" thread was an EST. The dude came up with the idea after seeing someone say, "Kisses, doll" in a thread, but forgot the comma. A few people teased that person for saying "kisses doll" because it sounded like they were kissing a doll; thus, an EST was born.

Jodi's wedding ("When do the tears STOP?") was a real classic. It got so out of control the OP had to intervene and admit he was an EST.

The daughter and the extra can of frosting was also great because it was perfectly detailed--it was so specific as to seem real yet not so overspecific it seemed dreamed up.

The lesbian lover and the PedEgg was one of the ones where you knew immediately it was fake but it was so clever it still made me laugh.

Why does it matter if they're real or fake?

You don't have to believe you're really in outer space to enjoy Space Mountain, do you? Just ride the roller coaster.

It's... it's not actually outer space?

Holy shit, this thread is still open?!?!?

Well, it is now, Dredger.