All Our Yesterdays: A Dl'er looks back

I remember all of that. I used to love the thread Josh’s cocktail party thread. There was also a poster who used to call himself “retarded /jsoh” complete with misspelling and the slash.

I remember Blue Agave. That was entertaining gossip stuff.

Pepperidge Farm remembers!

Squirrels.

Death.

Designated Intern, OP?

I remember Bictorian Era DL

Victorian.

I remember:

The Fabulous OP and his subzero

Fa and fights with the maid

The “I’m in love with my father in law” saga

Lulu and Tequila Mockingbird

Cackle Cackle

Kirker, his father, his store in Austin...people would say the most vile things to him and he never flinched

Judy “Pills” Garland and her descent into madness and addiction-remember the retort people would put as the first reply on a JPG thread? (“YOU AND YOUR NAME ARE THE PROBLEM”). Or when Kirker told JPG she wasn’t his type and Judy then clogged DL for the next 8 hours with threads about it.

Daniel Bexton and. Justin’s weird Single White Female psychodrama

I still think Josh’s book was the beginning of the end for DL. It changed after that

Judy was one of the most talented singers ever. She also had a lot of pain and struggle throughout her life. Despite that, she had a good heart, which is hard to encounter in Hollywood. At a time when gay people were oppressed beyond belief, they identified with her struggles and she theirs.

Oh honey! Judy wasn't coherent enough to identify with anything but her next fix. You're confusing talent with empathy.

If you really believed that, JP, you would change your insulting screen name, which only contributes to the image of Garland as a pill-popping no-talent better off forgotten, not an artist on the level of Sinatra or Picasso or Callas.

YOU and YOUR NAME are part of the problem, JP.

OP, I'm re-reading the Dragon Cheese thread in the archive available on Manvox.

I remember the times reading posts by Rich Russian Lady didn't come with a bitter taste afterwards.

[quote] OP, I'm re-reading the Dragon Cheese thread in the archive available on Manvox

My second favorite site is Manvox.

It has a great user interface, r14.

I've been glad to see charlie posting again lately.

Does anyone know if Cackle Cackle is still online? I wonder about the price of gas in Half Moon Bay.

Cackle Cackle is dead, son.

I remember the Galloping Gourmet and his overblown, drama-soaked dinner parties.

Remember Crazy Mint? Didn’t he get scared off by another psycho poster?

And nobody has mentioned crazy ass SS Terri :) yet.

kirker's purchase of Ghetto Tara was a real classic.

Also:

*Thom Bierdz posting as "Robert Murrae" and freaking out when people said they thought Louie Anderson was more attractive than he was, just to prompt him to lose his shit.

*Jenna/Libby's endless postings about her illegitimate child (whom the forum named "Figment") conceived by Russell Crowe.

*All the MichFest threads.

*The almiqui and his fiendish plans to take over human civilization.

Was The Galloping Gourmet the same poster as the Fussy Menu Troll who would tell us his multi-course meals he had planned for dinner parties to celebrate bizarre holidays like Arbor Day? And then he would fume because his boyfriend's family never appreciated them.

Let’s not forget SURPRISE ANAL!!!!

How can we forget, R22? She married George Clooney.

As others have mentioned, the gossip has ebbed and flowed since its peak. However, maybe five years ago brought a blip like no other.

A poster showed up for one night and unloaded. We figured out who he was. Fe vanished along with the threads in which he posted.

Another poster in the same era, whose life intertwined with certain luminaries, arrived with a moniker and posted for about a month before slipping into anonymous posting.

So you never know what you'll get here.

Remember... you know.

The Mr. Hollywood threads. Was he legit?

I don't remember the Mr. Hollywood threads, r26. I did leave a subtle clue in r24 about the identity of the poster who unloaded his soon-to-be-vanished Hollywood takes one night.

Cheers R(24), thank you. Mr. Hollywood was unique. Sort of always in an airport VIP lounge, on the verge of flying somewhere exotic, or allegedly in a fine Beverly Hills hotel, pontificating about old Hollywood and Real Estate. I think a lot of us couldn't figure out if he was legit or typing from a basement while he stuffed his face with doughnuts. I could never figure him out. Catnip for trolls.

[quote]I'm re-reading the Dragon Cheese thread in the archive available on Manvox.

Link, please!!!

I absolutely remember crazymint! I used to exchange emails with him. Great guy.

Omg I remember so many of these old DL names. Wish I’d been around for the gossip from the “vanished” poster. Did he say anything interesting?

You can just go to Manvox, r29. Anyone who tells you that you need a Cyrillic keyboard to get there is lying.

Mention this thread and Bartosz may give you a free avatar upgrade. It’s worth a try.

Anyone else remember the “In the City” poster?

Price Leatherbarrow

Zack

Bexton and Justin’s mental illness (and to a lesser extent JPG) did some serious damage here. It became so bizarre and messy that it was like living in the land of Trump. The constant and endless long lying fictional monologues and trolling. It took several permanent IP bans and at least a year to recover. I don’t think things really turned or were at their worst with JKP, he was more an ignorable annoyance who disappeared into an unreturnable hell which he deserved: reality TV.

The REAL disaster arrived with the Obama/Clinton Wars in 2007, a truly ghastly time that brought this place to its knees and almost finished it off. DL at its absolute very worst. It’s never completely recovered. That conjoined with the Noodles horror was an incredibly dark time for DL I left for almost a year during that period. Anything else recently has just paled by comparison.

Posters don’t leave; they’re forcibly taken off to rehab (which is why I wear good shoes at all times).

Let’s face facts; most social media friends suck. You may try other platforms, but you’ll return to the mean girl table.

Drinky poos

Helena Handbasket

Voice Of The Night (VOTN) - still shows up now and then and I've enjoyed each post.

Shobe

And you couldn't keep up with the posts! It moved so quickly.

Brandon! Trolling us with photos and his bi-vibe.

G/R/Umpy

Then there was the guy who mistakenly sent a naked or porno photo to everyone on his phone, and the flyover guy with his luggage who wanted to visit New York to get laid.

Thank you R39 for remembering Brandon and G/R/Umpy. I miss them. I also miss SusieLee and The Dominionist Wackyness Troll.

[quote]I still think Josh’s book was the beginning of the end for DL. It changed after that

In retrospect, it really was kind of the last wacky thing that happened before the board completely turned. The 2008 elections really did a number on DL, though, more than Josh's threads.

That said, people getting banned for complaining about Josh's threads lost DL a lot of loyalty. It was right around that time we had a bunch of HuffPo articles posted here and we'd get banned for complaining about HuffPo spam, too. Then on top of that, we had an anti-Obama racebaiting troll who told crazy stories ("I was in Walmart and an entire family of Negroes defecated on the floor in the candy aisle") and a moderator showed up and told us we would be permabanned if we called those stories out as ESTs. He said DL had always been home to ESTs and we didn't understand the DL culture.

This was all in about 2008 and it really wrecked the site.

[quote]the flyover guy with his luggage who wanted to visit New York to get laid.

Danny, frequently misremembered as Denny.

Someone showed up one day and said they'd written all the good threads lately, the Once Around the Garden. Turkey Meatballs and Danny Lost in NY and all of them, and someone at Mediapolis got so mad they deleted all those threads, the thread where the EST writer claimed credit, and banned a shit ton of people who went running to one of the "refugee" sites to ask what the fuck happened.

Huh, I realize that happened in 2008, too. Odd.

The Danny thread is available again, thankfully.

Muffie Potter Aston, Sommers Farkas and the rest from New York Social Diary. I miss them.

[quote] Someone showed up one day and said they'd written all the good threads lately, the Once Around the Garden. Turkey Meatballs and Danny Lost in NY and all of them, and someone at Mediapolis got so mad they deleted all those threads, the thread where the EST writer claimed credit,

I’d forgotten about that. I wondered at the time if it was true. DL never really seemed to have enough traffic to be able to come up with so much fiction. Brandon = pffft. Total amateur hour compared to the legendary trolling done here previously.

Who was the "Hollywood insider" who got to the point that people didn't want to say her name or she'd appear? She kept saying everybody was straight. I think she may have had three names.

MichFest was so much fun. I miss it now that it's gone. One year, we even had a MichFest Thanksgiving thread where the men and male children had to eat in the unheated garage.

- Camp Brother Sun, the concentration camp - "I'm telling you NOW so I don't have to tell you THEN." - the freeloader who whined and got a free trip - the tree that used to be the watermelon tree - Breast Casting for wimmin of color. NO latecomers! - "As a fat womon, would I be useful on garbage detail?" - workshifts

Would someone please describe the Red Dragon Cheese thread. I joijned shortly after and have always been very curious. TIA

peg and her drive by postings

white belt man

This one went above and beyond.

I'm bummed that I won't have an advice about getting top dollar for this year's textbooks.

A guy tried to buy Red Dragon Cheese at a deli counter, but the deli bitch wouldn't sell him the amount he wanted because he needed to have some for his regular customers.

The Azmodeus thread is still up.

[quote]Who was the "Hollywood insider" who got to the point that people didn't want to say her name or she'd appear? She kept saying everybody was straight. I think she may have had three names.

You are thinking of SusieLee. She was the real deal.

I don’t care what you remember.

"I want to visit the LaBrea tar pits" was comedy gold. That along with "The Fucklings of 1929 is now on TMC", I think it was named that. It was a riot!

R55, it was “I Don’t Give a Flying Fuck” is on TCM. I think I was even the OP of that thread. It was started in response to someone on a Let’s Pretend We’re TCM thread or a classic film thread posting “I don’t give a flying fuck what’s on TCM” and people started using “I Don’t Give a Flying Fuck” as a film title in the thread.

When did Wund Girl first appear on the scene?

I miss Princess Latifah. She seemed like a thoughtful person. I wonder if she posts anonymously?

I liked Josh! Why did he take such a beating here?

Because he had public success, R59.

[quote]I miss Princess Latifah. She seemed like a thoughtful person.

Yes, and Magdalene.

Remember Kipper, the helpful bisexual librarian from Las Vegas? She was run out of here too.

One of my favorites was Lee Ann DeVette. She was vicious and the only one who rendered Bexton and Kirker speechless.

Also-whatever happened to Mizez Slocombe. She was a lightning rod.

The John West Hollywood gossip thread was one of the best.

Didn't the red dragon cheese clerk also have a bubble butt in Cambridge mass?

Anyone remember cream of wheat kiddie pool wrestling with Tammy cruise?

Lesbians with Canes

Cubefraus

Summer of my German Legwarmers

Shitty Little Ann

[quote] Didn't the red dragon cheese clerk also have a bubble butt in Cambridge mass?

No. That was Phillip of Formaggio Kitchen.

Sows at the Trough and The Running of the Heffertitis

Sumerian FARMwives

Thank you R52 - that still remains one of my all time faves.

You guys have brought back a lot of funny memories (another being the daughter with the frosting and the guy who was pissed his one night stand asked for -a clean towel to take his shower with after a night of fucking.

There is one that still haunts me from a guy who only had a few days to live (he had been suffering from cancer). He was giving us updates and they just stopped and the consensus was he passed. I am going through my own cancer battle and think of him often.

I’m also going to go out on a very long limb and sign with what had been my authenticated name.

A bit of trivia about the Red Dragon saga...

The type of cheese was initially a big secret. The OP refused to name it until about 200 posts in and everyone [italic]really[/italic] wanted to know, as well as wanting to know why he was trying to buy so much (3 lbs I think?). I want to say it was a for Fourth of July cookout?

A lot of the thread was taken up with arguing about the quality of the EST. It was around 50/50 between those who thought it was one of DL's great threads and those who hated it and said it would be forgotten.

The sales clerk's big line at the end, after they had gone back and forth about why she wouldn't just sell it to him as there would still be some left after his purchase, was: "I DON'T KNOW YOU!"

Price Leatherbarrow wearing a helmet on the shuttle bus to his cosmetology class slays me even now.

I'm pretty sure the DL title was, "Who Gives A Flying Fuck' is on TCM Tonight"..it was one of my faves.

I still have a printed out copy of the first twenty pages or so of the original "What Was Your Favorite Helen Lawson Show" I introduced many a coworker to DL on that one thread alone.

The poster whose scenario involved his sister-in-law, Jodi, refusing to allow him to go to her funeral with his husband (her brother). In response, the husband refused to attend, so she posted about all this melodramatically on FB (or so the scenario went), and added "WHEN WILL THE TEARS STOP?" So many people believed this EST that when they found a woman on the Internet named Jodi who fit a lot of particulars of the story and was getting married, they started attacking her on-line. The EST was then forced to admit on his threads that it was all an elaborate scenario he had made up.

The year of the "Noodles" war, which began with one poster trying to made the term "noodle" happen as a euphemism for penis, and other posters telling him it was stupid. Eventually it got more and more out of hand, with more and more posters using the term to provoke the poster complaining about the term, and then more posters started complaining about the term and calling the poster "Noodles." Eventually it got so bad the webmaster had to step in and stop everyone from accusing people of being Noodles.

At about the same time, we got the first of Momma's many postings about having anonymous sex in midtown Manhattan (on the subway, in the Port Transit Authority), usually involving her saying "YUM!" loudly to men who would find this irresistible and would then draw near to fingerfuck her. I think she was the same poster who liked to post scenarios of herself poking women in the haunches on subway platforms with her umbrella and saying, "Move it along, toots!"

The nasty Miss Helen Bedd, probably the most gratuitously mean and unpleasant troll in the history of datalounge. She would just go after people for no reason whatsoever. She was finally run out of here by posters repoeatedly identifying her as David Dean Bottrell, an extremely geeky gay character actor,. All posters had to do as to post his picture and identify Miss helen Bedd as him and she would shhut up (though nothing else could get her to stop). Eventually she left, but she posted here for years.

[quote] I still have a printed out copy of the first twenty pages or so of the original "What Was Your Favorite Helen Lawson Show" I introduced many a coworker to DL on that one thread alone.

Please do take pictures and post it as a thread. I so wish the promised archive of a DL threads had materialized. I would have paid a lot for that.

[quote] The year of the "Noodles" war

[quote] The nasty Miss Helen Bedd, probably the most gratuitously mean and unpleasant troll in the history of datalounge. She would just go after people for no reason whatsoever. She was finally run out of here by posters repoeatedly identifying her as David Dean Bottrell, an extremely geeky gay character actor,.

Ah. Good times. Good times.

David Ehrenstein, the gay journalist who would post here as himself all the time with his extremely strong opinions about everything. he had very strong ideas about what gay men should do to be proper gay men, and he would get furious if you would post gossip he didn't agree with (usually involving the supposed homosexuality of his idol Lena Horne, whom he swore up and down was straight). he would often have meltdowns over the weekends, and he often seemed drunk. People loved teasing him over this sort of thing to the point where he'd absolutely lose it. He insisted he was leaving forever, and then after a few weeks started posting as The Knight of the Iguana, and everyone knew right away it was him. He eventually left for good. I don't miss him, even though the people who made him lose it always gave me a chuckle--he was such a smug and self-righteous know-it-all that he was difficult to take.

Remember when someone claiming to be Larry Kramer showed up here on World AIDS Day to chew us all out for gossiping about celebrities rather than taking political action to fight AIDS, and David immediately sucked up to him? "Hi, Larry!"

R77, why are straight me so stupid?

Anyone remember making fun of Joy in Canada and eventually sending her a wedding gift?

Look what I found on Manvox!

The Weird Little Girl Next Door

This 6 year old child gives me the creeps. It's like she can control minds. She says strange but harmless things that later penetrate and dominate the thoughts of people she comes in contact with.

Last week I asked her what her favorite movie was and she said "King Kong". I asked her whch cversion she preferred and she stared at me and then kissed her doll. She looked back up at me and said, "King Kong can stop the rain!" And then she ran into the house.

The next day I was in the car with my brother in law and he insisted on listening to a oldies station. Playing on the radio was "and I wonder, still I wonder, WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN". I looked at my brother in law and said "King Kong"

Fatty On The Lam is what sucked me back in

White Belt Man was a racist fuck who got outed for his racist posts.

I don't know why anyone would remember him fondly... well, there's an obvious reason I guess.

Meanwhile, the "move it along toots" troll was also racist.

It's somewhat depressing to see these assholes get the rose colored glasses treatment including some of the truly unhinged posters who convinced themselves that trolling made them important.

How do I find Manvox? And yes I did google it.

[quote] Meanwhile, the "move it along toots" troll was also racist.

How was this discovered?

[quote] How do I find Manvox? And yes I did google it.

Before you could just go to manvox.com and enter your contributor code. You had to be invited by an existing member and get your code that way. That’s all changed in the past couple of years. Now not only do you have to be invited but you also must be sent an individualized link to access the site. The site was down for a while, however, and could only be accessed via existing threads starting around 2016. Being a Russian/Eastern European site, perhaps it had to do with laws against the promotion of homosexuality? Chilling effect. In the 2000s and early 2010s it was the most popular non-Western gay message board and chat site. Now it seems to be limited to a dwindling number of cognoscenti.

Birthday Dinner Gone Wrong

last friday i accompanied my roommate to a birthday dinner for his friend, whom i'd met before and gotten along with just fine. i expected i'd be splitting the tab with my roommate and a couple other people - picking up the birthday girl's tab, right? well first, not everyone shows up for the dinner, so it's three people picking up the birthday girl's tab. but second -- the birthday girl brings her childhood friend CLAIRE who is also having her birthday that night.

so now i am at this dinner -- at a pricey steakhouse -- where i am dreading having to split *two* tabs between three people. i find out claire -- who by the way is clearly a closeted lesbian -- had picked the restaurant out because it was her favorite. (i had been protesting via email for a cheaper and better alternative, THE PALM, but to no avail.) she knew the menu well -- not only did she tell the waitress that she wanted her "loaded baked potato," but she indicated exactly where she wanted it on the table, that is, right next to her.

claire was also hostile, as many lesbians are, and took light hearted small talk very seriously, as many lesbians do. for instance, she was not friendly to my theory on the difference between a real date and a non-date. "where are you from?" she asked me. "los angeles," i toldher. "that explains it!" she replied. as the meal ended, the waitress brought claire and the original birthday girl two free desserts -- chocolate cake and cheesecake.

claire grumbled, as she had been openly discussing the bread pudding she's wanted to order all night. my friend and i had already asked for the check so we could split it and leave early -- we had stuff to do. as the check arrived, claire sent it back, asking the waitress to add a bread pudding to it. but the birthday girl felt guilty and offered to take us out to dinner sometime -- with claire. claire didn't actually say she was guilty, she was enjoying her bread pudding. my roommate thinks this wasn't a big deal, but i feel like i was financially raped. am i in the wrong here?

AAron Carter and his muse Kelly

Oops I meant Nick Carter and his muse

Who could forget Bellagio Horror

Remember the Robert Repulveda Jnr threads?

And the screenshots of DL's Spaz Troll's posts getting into Pink News because he made up a story about Fadi Fawaz and GM arguing in the Maldives?

Good times.

R62 Yes! YES! KIPPER!!. I was trying so hard to remember her. Please Kipper, if you're still around please send us a shout out. The last we heard you had a condition that required hospitalization. We (I) miss hearing from you. You are the woman that awakened me to Burning Man! Please check in if you can.

Cackle Cackle likely died over 10 years ago. He would be well into his 90s today, at least. For a while we had a particularly morbid troll who impersonated him, but never came close to capturing CC’s posting style. It was pretty bad, but what was worse was the many here who insisted the ersatz CC was the read deal.

Some people can’t let go.

Less than 10 years ago. Pretty sure this was the real CC in 2014, and I'd swear in 2015 or 2016 he popped up and mentioned he was still around but having trouble walking as much as he used to. He said it in some random thread that got deleted and I remember being pretty irritated by that.

Trolldar, r84. It was chaos here for a while when trolls forgot trolldar had been implemented.

The reason I didn't like the Kisses Doll troll is that they had obviously seen someone who had signed off on a post with, "Kisses, doll!" and tried way too hard to make it into an EST about a creepy BAD SEED kind of girl.

I also thought the "Jackie on assistance" typo was trying too hard.

But I've noticed I've always had different taste than others here.

[quote]He eventually left for good.

Ehrenstein finally left after embarrassing himself by trying to start a thread about straight men, but accidentally calling it "Why Are Straight Me So Stupid?"

Classic. We dunked on him for weeks.

I miss the guy who would report the gas prices at half moon bay

Turkey Meatballs, Baked potato bars, caneface and MichFest. Good times!

No mention of "Dialing the Phone with a Pencil"? That's the thread that got me hooked.

And all our yesterdays have lit the way to dusty death.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player

Who frets and struts his hour upon the stage and then is gone

It is a tale told by an idiot

Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,

To the last syllable of recorded time;

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more. It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.

I remember everything.

Omg r71 the short bus thread! One of my favs!

I miss that guy that bought Clair dinner. Not sure if he posts here anymore...

R86 thank you

Clairs friend was such a fashion diva. First guy I ever saw wearing plaid Marc Jacobs shoes.

I've been around since 98... The thread that made me crack up more than any other was Famous Jon-Benet's throughout history.

I also have fond memories of the real time development of Denny and his suitcase.

Most of the other absolute classics have been mentioned above.

One of my favorite Ehrenstein ("Urine-stain") memes was the poster who claimed that he encountered David in the parking lot of "an upscale restaurant in Santa Monica" and proceeded to give him a "vicious face-slapping." That one grew some good legs.

[quote] I'm pretty sure the DL title was, "Who Gives A Flying Fuck' is on TCM Tonight"..it was one of my faves.

You’re welcome.

I remember Rose and her unruly daughter, along with her "Squirrels...death".

Also Denise the Michfester who wanted to transport other 'festers' across the country, who could pay for their rides with either weed or pussy.

And who could possibly forget the guy who couldn't keep his daughter out of the canned frosting, as well as "cake and graxy"?

Also, where, oh where did Karem Malicki Sanchez go?!

Did he head in the same direction as all the HKN Havenettes, once Kristin Stewart announced she's a big 'ol dyke? I believe that place died with a whimper, rather than a bang....

[quote]well as "cake and graxy"?

That was cak and graxy.

Soft butch sous chef.

I typed 'cak'

The forceful try-hards who pushed every dumb typo and auto-correct as the new DLism for the ages were always the worst. And yes, most of them were intentional “mistakes” milked deliberately. A typo is actually not “lol” funny.

Keram was outed aa a troll who was boosting his own posts and trying to make people think he really was KMS.

me, queen of wit and all that shimmers in the pale god dam moon light honey.

Dog Fucks Baby In The Ass

Cackle Cackle was in his seventies in the mid 90s, so he could be only in his eighties now.

r82, I don't think anyone is "celebrating" "Move it along, toots.," any more than we are celebrating David Ehrenstein or any of the other trolls. Also, I never thought that that particular troll was white.

Helen Lawson made me laugh so hard that I cried. Those were some clever posts.

I miss Cousin Lover and the Door Whore threads. What happened to those guys?

R53, it wasn't SusieLee. She was great. Maybe Lee Ann Devette? Was Devette banned?

r115 = bad at math

"Dialing the Phone with a Pencil" used to make me laugh so hard people wondered if I was going to be able to breathe.

I loved (and now we know it was made up by the same guy who did "Once Around the Garden") the Thanksgiving with the lesbian sister and her vegan partner who requested she eat on the porch so as not to watch people eat meat on Thanksgiving. Then she broke down when somebody fed her dog turkey. It was so believable. This writer took all the worst traits we assign to ourselves, put them in posts and we believed them all.

** Some guy named Boone shooting lizards on his deck brought out all the PETAs.

** No one remembers the gloat posts of the "In the City" guy? Posting from his terrace "In the City."

Stewart Swerdlow. Weird paranoid posts. Anyone else remember him?

r122, Iirc, the thread you remember is "I just shot a 4 foot alligator Near my Pool in the Backyard." The OP went by Daniel Boon, dropping the "e".

I LOVED that thread. That OP wasn't taking shit from an alligator and he wasn't taking shit from anybody who replied to his thread. Some posters developed a crush on him.

And, yes, for the millionth time, the EST that has never been equaled remains "I'm in Love With My Father-in-Law." Wow. Bravo. Brava; what-have-you.

The OP of "Father-in-Law" came forward and took a bow. I asked him for another installment and he politely declined saying he had "retired" those characters.

There was also the guy who went to his father's funeral in another town, was cruising a hot guy who turned out to be his unknown half-brother. Things went from there.

Sows at the trough thread

Bump

r45, SWF?

The Herbert Ross Troll threads were good fun for awhile.

[quote]Cackle Cackle was in his seventies in the mid 90s, so he could be only in his eighties now.

Seriously? Are you okay? Do you know what the date is? You either need a math lesson or a wellness check. The mid 90s started over a quarter century ago. Someone in their 70s in the mid 90s would be much closer to 100 than 80 today. A 75 year old in 1994 would be 100 today. Do the math.

R115 is posting from 2004.

When [bold] was added, typos fucked it up and you’d get assholes exclaiming,”How very bold of you, Sir”[bold] and it would fuck up the entire thread.

Good times

Can't believe no one has mentioned the continual Iola/Cheryl exchanges

Nan Michiganwomyn

Saved from the late, great Michfest board, where it all began:

[quote]You have disrespected my boundaries, Rainsong. I have stated the boundaries in the topic title. Please respect me and them and refrain from posting here again, Rainsong. I have just stated my boundaries again.

Yes, Lee Ann Devette or whatever the fuck her name was was banned along with Bexton, r11fat, and all their ilk. Whatever happened to that awful site where they all lived in exile? Did it finally shut down due to lack of interest?

I remember Grumpy / Rumpy / Umpy.

[quote]I've been around since 98... The thread that made me crack up more than any other was Famous Jon-Benet's throughout history.

I started that and wish I'd saved it. "JonBenet Wayne Gacy" and "JonBenet ValjonBenet" were two of my favorites.

R134, they were on a refugee site run by Tyb*e for a long time, and it did pretty well for a while before T took it over. When DL was down for a few months in 2011 or so, lots of people went there. But when T took over, he let the trolls run rampant and most everyone left.

The story about T having to take control didn't make sense. They said the original owner was some fundie homophobic lady, but the board got shut down because she allowed gay porn to be posted there. What fundie frau does that?

Not only was the ‘Let’s pretend we’re Sumerian farmwives’ thread great but another similar one set in, I think, Salem was sidesplitting. Anyone remember it?

There was the British guy going to uni who posted here too...Angry Young Brit or something like that. He had a cat and lived in a little cottage type place.

[quote]He had a cat and lived in a little cottage type place.

The local public suckatorium? Poor thing.

ThE Miss Warwick threads (with the mentions of manager Lamont and Zombie Nippy) could be very funny..

AYB turned into a lunatical raging racist misogynistic self loathing homophobe conservative. It was very sad.

[quote] Tyb*e

I don’t know who this refers to and I’ve been here since 1999-2000. What was the place called they went to? I went once and never again. It was a total disaster.

My new neighbor is a gargoyle

I've only been here for two years.

There are others, but the first thread that pops into my head as a favorite is the one where someone was given only $300 to cater a company picnic for 300, as part of an interview process for the same company (or something like that, I have the detail off I'm sure).

[quote] Stewart Swerdlow. Weird paranoid posts. Anyone else remember him?

Definitely.

[quote] When was added, typos fucked it up and you’d get assholes exclaiming,”How very bold of you, Sir” and it would fuck up the entire thread. Good times

That was annoying because the bold was so bold and the italicized text hard to read. I recall someone would finally have enough and insert the command to end bold or italics.

So young, R145.

[quote] AYB turned into a lunatical raging racist misogynistic self loathing homophobe conservative. It was very sad.

He used to (still does?) run an unofficial DL Facebook group. As his racist views became more evident people started leaving the group. I’ve not been there in a number of years. People used to post there when there was prime time here or the site went down as often used to happen (and still does from time to time). After he posted as Angry Young Brit or AYB he switched to posting as Sawsages McGee or just Sawsages. He said the AYB moniker no longer suited his views and persona. I think he still lurks.

I always thought AYB stood for "Average Yellow Boy."

[quote] I always thought AYB stood for "Average Yellow Boy."

Why?

Probably because I got accustomed on DL to seeing "AWG" on a near-daily basis, R151. And the DL fact that some guys are yellow. What else could it mean, really? Oh, and I'd never, ever heard anyone mention "Angry Young Brit."

[quote]Remember John Kilmer-Purcell using this site to publicize his book?

OPRAH’S ON THE PHONE!

The above quoted story about dinner for Claire was so well-written and funny. Bread pudding became the catchphrase for lesbians. And Claire, rude Claire. Would love to know what became of her.

Nacreaous layer of permacum.

[quote] Nacreaous layer of permacum.

So often misquoted as “precum”.

[quote] And the DL fact that some guys are yellow

Asian DL posters?

The "Yellow Cake from a Mix" brought out the worst (which is the best) in DL.

R158, I remember seeing that thread but unfortunately never read it.

[quote]Muffie Potter Aston, Somers Farkas and the rest from New York Social Diary. I miss them.

Great recent NYSD thread

[quote]The "Yellow Cake from a Mix" brought out the worst (which is the best) in DL.

I can no longer eat cake. I wish I could read about it. Even from a box.

R137. I have no idea what went on behind the scenes, but, that story about a straight woman with very conservative views running a message board for gay men & lesbians makes zero sense. Ty-Ty's "Love me, love my Erna" stance was the death knell of the "Z" place.

I guess this wasn't THAT long ago, but surely many of you remember "Oh, FANK you -- you fixded my cheeseburger!"

And of course Let's Roll Cinnamon Rolls, courtesy of Lisa Beamer.

Both classics, R163.

Here's the link to Daniel Boon's thread

Sorry: I meant Cacckle Cacklew as in his 70s in the mid 00s, 10-15 years ago. I mistyped.

There was barely a Datalounge in the mid 90s.

[quote]that story about a straight woman with very conservative views running a message board for gay men & lesbians makes zero sense

It was obviously a lie. I remember someone on L-Chat saying so and Ty showing up and flipping out on everyone because they didn't believe his tale.

I don't think he lurks, R149. We have a far-right-wing troll who keeps trying to pass himself off as American but then slips and says something like "colour" or "the boot of the car" and we laugh at him, at which point he says he has dual citizenship.

Lots of trolls like that on Twitter, too, strangely enough. Weird that so many non-Americans are so heavily invested in Trump being president.

[quote]it would fuck up the entire thread.

You'd have to unbold someone else's bold! That was the worst.

I also remember when you couldn't type plus signs on the board, they just wouldn't show up. Probably a remnant from the dial-up modem days when, if you typed three plus signs in a row (or was it four?), it would log you off. Trolls loved doing that.

Some of the funniest threads where the threads dedicated to trying out the formatting options.

Let's be a Brocklyn Pizza Parlor in 1990 NYC was comedic gold!

The only "manvox" site I can find is in spnish and is a radio station.

Come on, provide a link! It's not hard: on the Manvox site, press Ctrl+D, then Ctrl+C, then come back here and use Ctrl+V to paste the url into a post in this thread.

I remember the terrifying prospect of Marshall Law!

I remember when people used to wish that whore Nomi Malone a happy birthday on DL yearly darlin. I guess even they got sick of her skanky ways.

[quote]surely many of you remember "Oh, FANK you -- you fixded my cheeseburger!"

Nah. I don’t think so.

Bonnie Mace was always good for a dry heave or six.

I enjoyed the celebrity stuff like Tom Cruise couch jumping on Oprah and Star Jones marrying big gay Al.

Della at R124 has a faulty memory. See r165.

I sometimes miss the Idiot Libertarian Troll/ELEOP. I'm sure after fifteen years, that Weimar-level hyperinflation is just around the corner.

Another character that I miss, particularly today, was our resident socialist/communist. I don't remember an authenticated name, but he was a really hard core, old school socialist/communist/union rep guy. It always seemed as if he somehow wandered on to the wrong board.

[quote] I remember the terrifying prospect of Marshall Law!

That was a much-missed precursor to Grand Maul Seizure.

Elizabeth Mitchell and the Chalupas.

Can someone please post a link to the "I only have $300 to cater a company picnic for 200 people" thread? I've searched but can't seem to find it.

The Spaz Troll appearing in Pink News .

Another vote for the "I'm in love with the FIL," probably the first EST. Even better, there was some deranged authenticated troll (114 & Rochelle), a desk clerk at a Motel 6, who claimed to know every hotel desk clerk in Dallas and threatened to expose the two illicit lovers to proper Dallas society the next time they checked in to a no tell motel.

I think it was this one, R183.

I go back a long way on DL (the late 1990s) and as much as I hate this place, I keep coming back because of the occasional laugh:

Dancing with the Tsars

Free Refills

The very first Olive Garden thread

The Weird Neighbors Down the Street

Movie of the Week (where we created our own movie titles/plots)

The one about what Brokeback Mountain would be if it were directed by another director

Why is Daphne Zuniga sitting next to Stephen Spielberg at the Golden Globes?

Celebrity Fragrances

I Hate Queens

Dataloungeland

Infant of Prague

Let's Roll Cinnamon Rolls

Cash Bar at a Wedding

Hello Matt, It's Me Ben

Possum in the Drawer

Sows at the Trough

That Damon Butt

Turkey Meatballs

Helenesque!

here

There was a very funny thread where we started talking about office stuff and then everybody became a personality and it became an office in 1971 with bitchy secretaries.

Was that where Ginny from Billing originated?

Does anyone remember one about tacky weddings? It wasn't the cash bars one, I don't think. I just remember someone complaining about ham salad.

I had no idea ham salad was even a thing.

[quote]I had no idea ham salad was even a thing.

Some people will put mayo on ANYTHING.

I think Ginny from Billing was Fraus at the Trough.

[quote]I sometimes miss the Idiot Libertarian Troll/ELEOP. I'm sure after fifteen years, that Weimar-level hyperinflation is just around the corner.

He's still here. He doesn't post as much as he used to, thankfully, but he still pops up every now and again. He's still convinced the Fed is evil, that gold prices are going to skyrocket, that the economy is doomed, and so on.

He also posted in some of the political threads last year, revealing himself to be a quasi-QAnon believer, not going all out but definitely buying into that whole "Deep State" conspiracy. He was also convinced that Republicans were going to gain seats in the House in 2018 and warned us all not to come crying to him when that happened.

[quote] The Spaz Troll appearing in Pink News .

Who or what is the Spaz Troll? What is its nature? What do it do this troll you name?

I believe this is the original Ginny thread, where she collapsed:

One of the highlights from the Ginny thread, before the office staff started to claim her belongings:

"The ambulance whisked her away a little while ago. Dana in Accounts Receivable is throwing around the "T" word..."Terrorism." She claimed she saw some mysterious white powder in the kitchen area. Glenda said it was probably from the box of Krispy Kremes that was in the kitchen, but who knows? The office is in mayhem. Everyone is terrified. Suzanne has called for a meeting at 11 to keep us all up to date. Gail is Accounts Payable told me that Ginny looked pale this morning and didn't down her usual breakfast. Arlene, her friend in Billing, said that Ginny was vomitting a 1/2 hour before she collapsed. Dear god in heaven!"

[quote]Some people will put mayo on ANYTHING.

BARF! I still think of our poor, intrepid DLer, having to eat a ham salad sandwich in someone's backyard.

Is it a regional thing?

Ham and pickle salad is the way to go.

Carry on

What is a ham salad sandwich?

When I first came here in 2001, Star Jones was endlessly funny because she was so hilariously deluded about the fact that people could see right through anything she said. I remember one poster would report nearly every day on something she would say that revealed either her love of food or her anxieties about not being married and not having children: e.g. "Star said on The View today she doesn't like Halloween because she doesn't enjoy children at her door asking for candy. Now, why do you suppose Star doesn't want to give out candy to children?"

Was Sobe mentioned ? Lots of good gossip

There were lots of great jokes when Tom Cruise married and then impregnated Katie Holmes. That was pretty hilarious.

[quote]When I first came here in 2001, Star Jones was endlessly funny because she was so hilariously deluded about the fact that people could see right through anything she said.

I do remember the group story titled "Star's Big Day: The Marriage of Bigaro."

Just mentioning the Marriage of Bigaro will STILL make me giggle.

[quote] I do remember the group story titled "Star's Big Day: The Marriage of Bigaro."

[quote] I do remember the group story titled "Star's Big Day: The Marriage of Bigaro."

Me too. Tehe.

One line I remember from "Star's Big Day" was about her riding down the aisle on her "gleaming white Li'l Rascal scooter".

From the Datalounge Archives 53 B.C. ("That Messalina's A Dirty Old Ho" "Cruisius is Not Gay - by Uranstainius the Elder")

The MichFest Threads ("The Cuntry Store" "The Rainbow Express Rides Again" "Cheeseballs")

Dialing The Phone With A Pencil

The 9/11 Thread

Wasn't it Shobe? Even a tad before my time and I was pre 2000, I believe.

[quote]The MichFest Threads ("The Cuntry Store" "The Rainbow Express Rides Again" "Cheeseballs")

The woman that felt shamed on the DART bus to the DART tent because she had an invisible disability.

Old-timers discussing the "shigella year," when mass diarrhea broke out on the land.

Discussion of the number of electrical outlets available in the DART tent vs. the number of CPAP machines that were coming.

The Denny Scott Portfolio thread may be gone, but his art lives on.

[quote]Wasn't it Shobe?

Yup, it was. She was great. In hindsight, I wonder if she was someone like Jada Pinkett-Smith (or some other Hollywood-insider lesbian), purposely putting on a fake persona to covertly dish actual dirt.

You’ve been here a long time, R212. A long time.

Indeed, I have, R213! Coming up on 20 years.

A Denny Scott sexpot

ArrozConPollo

Dame Celestia Crackhead

Same here, R213. I was here when there were separate forums including the Prancing Pony Lounge and the Health forum.

Nobody wants to look back at the Dataloungeland theme park? Is the annual Datalounge reunion still held there?

[quote]Nobody wants to look back at the Dataloungeland theme park?

The type is so small, I can't read it.

R219, sorry, it was the best I could find. Actually, the earlier versions were funnier, but they were really unreadable.

[quote]I think Ginny from Billing was Fraus at the Trough.

I know about SOWS at the Trough -- is there a FRAUS at the Trough as well?

Right R221. Oops.

Ginny from Billing actually gave birth to twins before she died. No one realised she was pregnant!

Some woman from her office, during an astral projection session in the local park during lunch, managed to convene with Ginny after she just crossed over. Unfortunately from her description though, it sounded more like this woman was raped by the groundskeeper after she passed out.

From the Ginny thread, right after she croaked:

"Oh everyone. Ix92m so excited and just wanted to share my most extraordinary experience. I spoke to Ginny a few minutes ago, and she wants everyone to know that shex92s fine, happy, and transitioning nicely.

As most of you know, Ix92m a bit psychic, and spent my lunch hour in the park attempting to visit the astral plane. Ix92ve never really been too successful before, but as I centered my chakras and tried to see with my third eye, I felt this tremendous WHOOSH and began to leave my body. (By the way, I saw Kenny in Shipping pee in a corner of the loading dock as I was flying away. Someone might want to talk to his supervisor, Mr. Johnson about his behavior. Itx92s neither professional nor hygienic. Anyway.)

In an instant, I was transported to the most beautiful field of red poppies. In the distance was a glittering city, which I can only describe as heaven. It was green, and sparkling and glistening. Ix92ve never seen anything so beautiful.

I couldnx92t believe I had actually transcended the physical experience and was now in the spiritual plane. As I stood (or more accurately hovered), marveling at the immense beauty of where I was, I heard a voice call out my name.

Riversong!

Riversong!

Trembling, I lifted my eyes to the figure now materializing and thought, x93What the fuck is Ginny from Billing doing here?!

After Ginny calmed me down (you CAN get majorly P.Ox92ed in the hereafter, it turns out) she told me that she had just died giving birth, that she was happy because she really doesnx92t like kids, and was relieved to get away from Pat, who she said is a complete tool. Her words (or astral thoughts), not mine. She also told me that they have casinos in heaven, and that Gramma was glued to a nickel video slot and can smoke and have all the Bloody Marys her heart desires and would get back to me.

Anyway, Ginny said to say hi to everyone at work, to not get too skeeved out by what you find in her desk, and that she left a note about Mr. Bastenberry and a dead hooker tucked inside a Lean Cuisine in the breakroom freezer. The note, not the hooker, LOL. (A bit of humor from the other side).

By the way, Ginny looked really pretty in heaven. Apparently you can appear anyway you want. Heavenly Ginny has now gone down 12 sizes to an 18. She was wearing the most beautiful dress, but for some reason forgot to re-imagine her calves and ankles. The T-strap shoe didnx92t do much to alleviate the effect. And I wouldnx92t have taken that bouffant to heaven, but thatx92s just me.

Anyway, Ginny hears your prayers and comments, and (for the most part) appreciates everything said about her.

Oh, and she wanted me to single out Brenda in Accounts Receivable, who she said she hated in life, but now has only the most heavenly divine love for. She wanted Brenda to know that she shouldnx92t worry about her husband Malcom cheating on her with that cheap blonde at church, but should keep an eye on that red headed guy from the construction site. I donx92t know what that means. Ix92m not privileged to know all of the wisdom from the great beyond.

And then, suddenly, it began to snow. In heaven of all places. With another tremendous WHOOSH I felt myself pulled from this heavenly fairy land of poppies and glistening green cities, and was plunked back into my body. As I started to come to, I heard, very softly, x93Mrs? Mrs?x94 I was groggy and confused, and had the strangest feeling that Ix92d just had sex as my privates were tingly (sorry to be so graphic). That must be a side effect of successful astral projection. I didnx92t have to worry. One of the grounds keepers in the park, Luis, saw my eternal soul begin to leave my body and threw himself on top of me to try and keep me from flying away into the ether. He is both kind, and gifted.

Ix92m going to try an astral projection tomorrow at lunch, and Ix92d love if some of you would join me. Ix92ll leave an astral projection sign-up list with Marla the new receptionist tomorrow morning.

Namashday, everyone!

Dark Lesbians

[quote]Ix92d

Who?

x92 = single apostrophe, so Ix92d = I'd.

Thank you, r227.

2014's "Waiter at the IHOP" thread that turned into a murder mystery in 2018, starting at reply 202, which was my post. DL detectives started digging.

The consensus was that the cute waiter's girlfriend had him killed, though she was never named as a suspect. Her Instagram feed turned creepy the month before he was found dead. I copied some of the pages and reported it as an anonymous tip to the county in which he was found. I got a form-reply that the investigation was not in their jurisdiction. I dropped it because it seemed like something that would go nowhere.

I know there are amateur detective sites. If anyone is a member of one and knows the ropes, it would be a good mystery for them to look into. Do it for the cute "Waiter at the IHOP".

ShinjukuBaby? Or am I thinking of another site? Or am I just having a run of the mill stroke?

R230, I recall that name, ShinjukuBaby was here , then he posted at the "Q", then, he vanished. I remember lots of lively discussions about Josh Kilmer-Purcell, but, I recall very little of what he actually posted.

I remember Shinjukubaby too. Was Madeleine the dominatrix? She was great.

I’m having some random flashbacks reading this thread. I think I gave advice on The possum in the draw thread.

I never got the fuss over Mr Hollywood but Susie and her friend were a nice addition.

....

It was Magdalene, I believe R232. God, I've been here a while.

Magdalene was a terrific writer with a sharp mind, a lot of wisdom and some juicy insights. I miss her.

The Magdalene

Thanks R234 & co. I’m not sure if she popped up in a thread recently or I’m imagining it. That’s where all the dish on Christian Bale came from wasn’t it?

I found the Robsten threads kind of fascinating for awhile. That fandom was so bizarre. I imagine the woman who ran HKN wears a MAGA hat these days.

Michfest is what somehow brought me here and got me hooked on DL, but I was late to the game. I think it was just a year or two before Michfest ended. But wow, the laughs!

I remember the guy who claimed to be having sex with his straight Blatino cousin. He would post grainy pictures of "cousin" as proof. It went on for a while, but I don't remember how it ended.

Ah, you've reminded me of the "Blatino Husbear" r238.

....

Has anyone mentioned Princess Diana Scream?

That arrived the same day I did.

The "Let's be Victorian Era DL" got me hooked. That was some brilliant shit.

Has anyone mentioned "nacreous layers of permacum" yet?

Yes, R243. R155 did.

R241, I don’t think anyone has yet.

Brooklyn pizza parlor! Thanks to the guy who added that to this thread. Oh man, the uncles who were gay... Angie, Vinnie, the O'Connells and more.

I haven't made it all the way through, but the very early Helen Lawson threads were hysterical. Her unseen television specials, vulgar outbursts. Delightful stuff.

I remember the "I'm not running a Bed and Breakfast here" thread. OP only had one towel in this bathroom and turkey meatballs in the fridge. Classic.

I remember how Kirker was called fat all the time. I wonder what happened to Kipper and pornchick? Magdalene had the best groupie stories.

The "Love at first sight"/Dustin Dewind saga.

And of course the 9/11 thread: The WTC is an insatiable bottom.

[quote]r72 I still have a printed out copy of the first twenty pages or so of the original "What Was Your Favorite Helen Lawson Show." I introduced many a coworker to DL on that one thread alone.

Oh! I would so dearly have loved to read this!

R246 you are welcome! I didn't participate in the Brooklyn Pizza Parlor thread but read it afterwards and thought it was brilliant. Happy to share it :)

He had two towels, r247. TWO!

One of the most screamingly funny DL happenings was a 2007 "field trip" where "Brendad Ickson" trolled the old Daily Mirror boards about the Maddie McCann case. The Britfraus' hysterical, outraged reactions were comedy gold.

I tried to find the old threads on the Wayback Machine to no avail—the Mirror forums are there, as are numerous threads specifically about the case, but I guess their admins deleted the good stuff before it could be captured.

I miss Price and Kipper. The helmet on the bus thing was priceless.

I was just about to remember the DL field trip to the McCanns forum. Good times.

Wasn’t there another field trip to the blog of some Canadian engaged couple, which ended in them coming over here, but they were really nice and some DLers donated money or something? God my memory is bad.

I’m Theatre Brit, but time to reveal my secret identity: I was also The Hanukkah Hamster (less popular sidekick to the Christmas Mouse).

Someone on another thread namedropped Queen Helene’s Mint Julep Masque, and it didn’t get any likes so I don’t think most posters got it.

Tchk, kids today. No sense of history.

There was also a field trip to IHOP (International House of Prayer). I wish I could remember the details.

^ I don't remember IHOP, but I do remember New Light Christian Center and its First Lady, Dr. Bridget Hilliard.

Background for the unfamiliar:

Dr. Hilliard is the wife of the pastor of a scammy prosperity-gospel megachurch in Houston. Back around 2006 or 2007, somebody here found an announcement at the church website for her 50th-birthday extravaganza eleganza. Guests had to pay $100 to attend and were strongly encouraged to bring a present from her "suggested gifts" list, which consisted exclusively of a) cash; b) Gucci, Chanel, or Louis Vuitton handbags; and c) gift certificates to Saks, Neiman Marcus, or Escada. Dataloungers tipped off the Houston media, whereupon the church took down the gift registry. I think somebody may have also dropped a dime with Miss IRS.

The church still holds the extravagant birthday party for her, by the way.

I tried to find it on YouTube, but I remember an unintentionally hilarious male cover of Over the Rainbow, complete with an animated bluebird that was DL catnip for a while.

Found it, R256

"Wasn’t there another field trip to the blog of some Canadian engaged couple"

Wasn't their name Beer? Something and Heidi Beer?

Bless you, R258.

Are you sure that wasn't Bear and Bee? Who got divorced, IIRC?

Remember Six in the City?

The Canadian couple were Canadian Joy and her husband (forget his name). She was a sweetheart and an excellent sport. I forget why we thought they were so funny, though.

Rob and Heidi Beer were The Most Boring Couple on Earth. They too found out about DL and were cool about it.

Bee and Bear were the insufferable vegan hipster couple. They did indeed get divorced. I always thought Daniel (Bear) was gay.

I had forgotten all about that one, R255. R20 at the linked thread is the only reference I can find to the IHOP field trip.

[quote]I remember a few years back when a bunch of us joined in their forum. I remember joining as Cheryl and they somehow took me in because I was so much of a narc. We had them going for a day or two but then they wised up.

What happened to the DL thread about the new DataLounge rules & regs? Just suddenly disappeared like Trump's hair.

Guess it got too hot in the kitchen?

A moment of silence is in order for the podcast-running, gut-telling, storage-locker-crying demise of Bee and Bear...

[quote]I went for a run... A very sad, lost, frustrated & broken hearted run to Sausalito. I put my phone in airplane mode and filled my ears with podcasts to drown out my thoughts... I was feeling lost, abandoned and an overall sense of fear. My gut told me something was very wrong & anxiety that I hadn't felt since childhood was becoming a weekly occurrence. A month later those feelings would make more sense as my 3.5 year relationship came to an end. All at once everything changed. It was either stay or go... with all my items packed into storage I found myself needing a new job, an apartment and the strength not to go back.

[quote]I knew I'd be fine... Life has been harder, more painful & more heartbreaking. As an adult though... this was so very different.. this was a pain I didn't know existed. When the world you've chosen & built starts to crumble...When you trust someone with your good, bad, silly & crazy and then they are no longer your best friend & protector. It's a real shock. When you find yourself crying in a storage locker surrounded by all you have left, it can feel very unfair. Then you remember how good life really is, hit the reset button and try again.

Bear got remarried ... to a woman!

all the people who had friends, and then they died

the demon-possessed lesbian life partner scuttling across the floor like a crab

I know someone just mentioned this, but I already had in written out with a little more

the pretentious Six in the City mom from flyoverland with the adopted Asian daughter (of course named Lily), those three boys sleeping in a wobbly death trap of a triple bunkbed and the possibly cookie-smelling Charity:Water husband

pages showing only 20 posts at a time. And then, walls, all of a sudden, you could set it to show up to 60!

And then, walla, all of a sudden, you could set it to show up to 60!

Don't sit up too fast, bottom!

[quote]scammy prosperity-gospel megachurch

Redundant.

We can't let anyone forget the subject that got me here in the first place -- the wonderful Margarine Fountain!

That and the guy who slept with Janie Layne and kept us posted as it was happening were my all time favorite DL moments.

when DL killed Rue McClanahan

when the Marcia Gay Harden people invaded

The World Trade Center is an insatiable bottom

The sky was so blue that day

[quote]the pretentious Six in the City mom from flyoverland with the adopted Asian daughter (of course named Lily), those three boys sleeping in a wobbly death trap of a triple bunkbed and the possibly cookie-smelling Charity:Water husband

They went back from whence they came, right?

Also, the fucking gay hipster that bakes but also married a woman.

"Also, the fucking gay hipster that bakes but also married a woman."

Oh, God, yes. What was the name of his blog? I really need an update on him and his "lucky" bride.

Piefolk.net, I think.

He and the wife divorced, I do know that.

Lisa Beamer’s “Let’s Roll: Cinnamon Rolls” stores.

Thanks, R280. He's just as crazy (and pretentious) as ever.

I should have mentioned that the bottom bunk in the patched-together mess that Three in the City slept in pulled out like a trundle bed but the kid chose to sleep in it pushed all the way in, as it is in the photo.

I still laugh about the "Naked or Dressed Pasta" thread.

Me, personally, I'll eat it any way you're serving it.

It's NOT Walla

It's NOT Viola

It's VOILA, damn it!

Wund Girl! Oh, my yes. She was always so wundy!

Miyoshi Umeki does not the get the respect here she once did. And that's sad.

And I always enjoyed the guy who would post at length about the man going up into the man.

I miss the ramblings of Joan Steffend and her Yellow Tail chardonnay.

When Dallas lipstick and Prada queens were a thing

Remember the woman posting about her threesome with Misha Barton and her bf (greasy Brandon I think?)? That was entertaining.

r191, please return your gay card immediately.

The early 00s Duke’s may wars

Duke may or may not.

What did Josh Kilmer-Purcell say on Data Lounge, I think that was before my time here. Now he just uses Facebook to promote, promote, promote, him and his nellie boyfriend call all of their sucker customers, neighbor.

Kirker's store. Oh, my. I had forgotten about that. The photos of his store which were made available here were unforgettable.

Thank God it was in Texas and, therefore, of no consequence.

I thought JKP lifted some stories here for his book. I know he tried some out here.

Wonderful memories here! Thanks for mentioning "Helenesque"! That was me. I also talked about her musical version of "The Miracle Worker" called "It's Water, Helen!". I'm friends with Price L. on Facebook because of DL.

[quote]They went back from whence they came, right?

Yes, but only after her brother-in-law Ryan died after donating part of his liver to his brother Chad. (Her husband was Rod and they were his brothers.) It made the national news for a couple of days.

That was a decade ago and one of her kids was in college by then, so he must be pushing 30 by now. Even the youngest must be in college.

R74, I loved how unhinged he’d become when we did that.

[quote]Kirker's store. Oh, my. I had forgotten about that. The photos of his store which were made available here were unforgettable.

A lot of it was the descriptions. I remember something about him talking about how perfectly balanced a $500 lamp was.

Someone find Kirker's SM so we can see how fat he is now.

The last time I saw Kirker, he was posting at the "Q" board, someone teased him about over-flowing a toilet at a party. Kirker (from what I recall) is usually unflappable, however, he pitched a hissy fit to end all hissy fits, all over such a silly story & denied it vehemently!

"It's Water, Helen" still makes me squeal with laughter. Thank you for that.

I was happy to see the Princess Di Scream mentioned here, I was the one who put it here in days gone by.

Kirker taking a dump at a party at a friend's home was a hot topic her for... two years?

For old times' sake.

the uncountable number of threads where a Christianist/Republican was caught with a cock up his ass, e.g., George Rekers, Ted Haggard, Larry Craig, Roy Ashburn, Ed Schrock, Mark Foley . . .

The many mysteries surrounding the demise of Pastor Davey’s young wife

The Finding Prince Charming threads were the best of modern DL. Whoever coined "the inflamed foyer of his colon" has my undying lurve.

Does anyone remember peg, the Republican troll?

peg pretty much vanished after Obama was elected

The Anthony Hopkins stalker was so weird.

And all the Kevin Spacey posts which turned out to be prophetic. Remember "A Cry For Help: The Taking of Kevin Spacey's Phone"?

An example of peg's style, possibly even the original peg (although more likely a copycat) at r2 in the linked post.

[quote]Once again, liberals show their complete lack of understanding of the Constitution. Congress's sole power is to appropriate money. Once that is done, it is the president's prerogative to spend it in any way he sees fit. If the DemonRATS don't like it, they can withhold funding next time... like that's gonna happen.

Inflammatory and stupid.

More on Cheryl and Peg. A nostalgic look back in a 2011 thread. Someone on that thread admitted to having made up the story about Peg being a PNW lesbian:

[quote]Nah, that was made up. I know because I made it up. Longtime poster here and I've confessed more recently in other threads to having concocted the "peg is a lesbian from the PNW" tale. Pure fiction.

[quote]The original "peg" was an avid poster of GOP propaganda, but who he or she really was is lost to DL history.

R310 Any details on the Anthony Hopkins stalker/troll? I always see them mentioned here but nobody ever has details except for the Anthony Hopkins attending fisting parties in L.A in the early 90s rumour.

Anyone heard from DR AMY BISHOP?

David Ehrenstein, of course.

R303 R305

The scream is funny, but whoever posted the slo mo version was truly doing the Lord's work.

Many years ago we had a long thread that was a parody of an internal office email chain. Posters assumed various office worker personas and were sniping back and forth at each other. It was hilarious, I wish I'd saved it.

[quote]Remember Red Dragon Cheese? And the people who said the thread was in the useless archive but it never was?

never first hand, but I arrived directly after it.

[quote]Remember the infestation of Entertainment Weekly-reading soccer moms?

nope. when was that?

[quote]Remember John Kilmer-Purcell using this site to publicize his book? Remember Kirker of the no discernible job but leisurely lifestyle?

I'm likely one of the few who met him a couple times at meetups when he was posting her regularly. actually a super nice guy in person

[quote]Remember "Once Around the Garden" vs. "Autumn Harvest"?

yes, and I ignored it

[quote]Remember what happened to the cake frosting? Remember?

NOT WITHOUT MY DAUGHTER. actually, one of the most entertaining trollings I've read

[quote]all the people who had friends, and then they died

LOL! we just weren't that into them!

I was later than the JKP kerfuffles but I did see an Ehrenstein fit a few times.

peg was heavily rumored to be a Log Cabinette named Patrick Guerriero.

R312, that guy went around claiming he made up every meme and decent EST we ever had. I would absolutely not believe anything he said about what he allegedly made up. He might have, but he was probably a troll just pretending to be a master EST writer.

Butterfly's Honey, the Mariah Carey megafan

I don't miss G/r/Umpy per se as I enjoyed the fuck out of the collected weird sayings thread we had.

He was terribly racist and sexist but some of the shit he'd say was so off the wall as to be hysterical. I think he asked once whether the Queen wiped her own ass. Another time he wondered if his roommate's cat wore tiny kitty tampons. The places his mind went to.......

I might as well stay in the bathroom and read; this thread has me on the verge of pissing my pants every other post. Too funny!

I was around in the David Eherenstein (sp?) days and he was unhinged. He was on here constantly. Posters would deliberately bait him, and he would take the bait every time, going into a crazy meltdown as the other posters kept on with it. He would rant and rave at us and call us poor excuses for gay men if - God forbid - we weren't familiar with some obscure French art house film from the 60s or some minor Hollywood starlet from the 40s.

One example I can remember is David ranting at some posters because they didn't know who Joan Fontaine was. Then someone mentioned that Joan Fontaine played Mrs. Garrett on 'Facts of Life' and that really sent David over the edge.

Two fairly recent classics:

Joan Crawford named Republican Presidential nominee!

And

At home with Mrs. Alfred Steele

David Ehrenstein taking the “MC Sirius” bait, and the ensuing meltdown, was the best. I wish I had saved it.

Has anyone mentioned the Prancing Ponies? (I suspect the answer is yes, but I forget and am too lazy to scroll back to remind myself. I've read this entire thread and it is wonderful.)

David Ehrenstein could be a douche, but he had some good dirt every now and again

r329, yes, I remember them and their "fearless leader" Miss Pinkie (or whatever the hell her name was). They posted so much that the moderator yelled at them for hogging bandwidth.

Prance, ponies, prance!

Does anyone remember the specifics that caused White Belt Man to be outed as a racist? All I can remember is one day he was the same guy who posted all the fun nostalgic threads, and the next day, everyone was calling him White Sheet Man.

The thing that sticks in my mind most about White Belt Man was his constant presence here. I don't care what time of day or night, there was always new posts from him, it was down-right creepy.

R327, I loved both of those threads

R330, I’m jive

Leanne devette was a great troll

R332, I don't remember the specific post but he was one of the ones who got caught up in the early days of red-tagging. It turned out that he was all over a couple of the racist threads, posting some rather vile comments. Once he got tagged, it was all over for him.

Jesús, This thread has taken me back. I've been trolling here for 15 fucking years. You bitches owe me years and years of my life.

Surprised that nobody mentioned the Marcia Cross fiasco of 2005. Or Luka Magnottas insane ramblings right before he was caught.

[quote]the next day, everyone was calling him White Sheet Man.

LOL

WBM was also KELT, if I recall, and their inanities all blur together, so I can't remember what it was specifically that he said. KELT said things like we should make slavery legal again, so if the sheet fits...

[quote]Butterfly's Honey, the Mariah Carey megafan

Okay, gays!

When you had to choose if your thread was about politics or not

And God help you if you made the wrong choice, R341!

I miss Butterbean. He scared the shit out of all of us, live blogging Hurricane Katrina from New Orleans.

Didn’t ShinkujuBaby post through the Japan earthquake?

Of course the 9/11 threads.

The Melissa Hargitay fiasco. .

Miss Helen Bedd was such a huge cunt, thank god she got ran off the board.

Iowa's Loddie

[quote]WBM was also KELT, if I recall, and their inanities all blur together, so I can't remember what it was specifically that he said.

WBM and KELT weren't the same person. WBM had a very distinctive posting style and was known for starting inane "listicle" threads. If he still lurks here, he's undoubtedly fond of the polling feature.

KELT was a Southern eldergay who liked to talk about Golden Age actresses and such. He also had a unique writing style marked by a fondness for ALL CAPS. Plus, KELT could be bitchy, whereas WBM was considered boring but nice—that's why it was such a surprise to find out he was a racist. (If memory serves, what did him in was posting as "Aunt Jemima" in GWTW-style darkie dialect.)

WBM used to say that he looked like figure skater Kurt Browning; KELT posted a photo once and didn't fit that description.

Corn fed gays

Miss Warwick!

Did anyone find love on a.com?

But we still don't know how we discovered he was a racist.

It was the Aunt Jemima thing that R349 mentioned, I remember that now.

KELT also posted banal, nice, everyday kinds of things, and when trolldar hit, we discovered he was posting racist trash with unsigned posts. It made people think he was WBM, and I personally agreed, but mostly based on what he posted over on a classic movie forum I belonged to. When his racist posts were outed, I realized he was the racist troll we had been dealing with for years. Think he eventually got banned; I left that other forum ages ago.

But I wouldn't be hugely shocked to find out he was just a similar type of person to WBM and not actually WBM.

I loved reading the thread that killed off our lovely Rue McClanaghan!

Judy Pills is the poster with tongue cancer. Did you know that? I hope he got through it okay.

Good God Miss Agness, Kiki and his hijjusly overpriced used furniture emporium. I'll bet he's still paying daddy back for that outlay.

Does anybody else remember Ken from Philly? He claimed to be dying of pancreatic cancer.

I have no idea how skeptical I should have been of him, but he really had a genuineness that made me think he was for real.

While we’re on illnesses, did anyone ever own up to trolling as Robin?

R356 The one who recently talked about tongue cancer? That was Judy Pills? Wow.

WEHT Brandon?

he had a nice dick.

. . . .but couldn't live forever

[quote]That was Judy Pills? Wow.

yup

I always thought the Betty Broderick troll was actually Betty. She took everything about the case so personally. She probably had someone smuggle her in a Smartphone.

[quote]But we still don't know how we discovered he was a racist.

Yes, we do. The webmaster got fed up with the racist threads and so he instituted the red tag system to tag the more virulent trolls. Just as is the case today, when you're tagged, all of your posts are tagged. So, literally overnight, all of those harmless White Belt Man posts were tagged and then when people read the racist threads and posts, they found out why.

If I recall correctly, WBM issued a somewhat pathetic apology, then disappeared.

spam posted by ip address 5.226.139.164 removed.

Kirker was such a smug asshat. WEHT to him?

Kiki is currently employed by the Texas Dept. of Motor Vehicles as a license examiner. I hear he fails a high percentage of applicants he deals with.

[quote]WEHT Brandon?

R361: He served time in prison in Texas for using a couple of stolen credit cards, he covered his torso with trash tattoos and after he got out he got in a bad car accident and smeared his nose across his face.

I saw pictures of him post-crash and he was even uglier than while he posted here.

Didn't Jason live somewhere on Long Island?

My pussy stinks.

[quote]I saw pictures of him post-crash and he was even uglier than while he posted here.

He wasn't ugly at all -- he was quite handsome.

Kirker today

And as insufferable as ever!

Here's a toast to ...

Dead and Blatant, our first mascdudegaybro

Conservatards Lindy, Longe, and dickfitz2

Petra Dirty-Girl and Silly Raminals, the finest in Eurotrash

Man Michiganwomyn, acclaimed directress of [italic]Gaia Valley,[/italic] the non-penised adaptation of [italic]Brokeback Mountain[/italic]

Becka: Sad. Very sad.

Whatever his name was who was always ranting about Darkspawn stealing IHSG from Rumorboy

Lynn and tinabina, our favorite straight gurls

JohnEric, friend of Price and lover of David Sterling

"Thank you for the daily lesson, Isis, but I think there's a runaway bear that needs catching."

[bold]RACI$T LE$BIAN VEGAN TROLL ALERT!!![/bold]

Lulu, Slapper of Maids

Arroz con Pollo and his big ol' platano

^ NAN Michiganwomyn

I think MAN Michiganwomyn sounds interesting (!)

I do remember him, r358. I think that was 2006/7

Man on The Land!

Man on The Land!

Man on The Land!

R380 Yes? You rang?

(LOL)

All this talk about the IHSG drama has me wondering how long I've been here. Long enough I remember when people started using the R-number to refer to posts instead of timestamp.

The person who started a post complaining that their new neighbour hadn't introduced themselves yet got dragged mercilessly.

Oh and Datalounge Danny

Ahhhhh......brings back very fond memories of a simpler time when DL was a hoot and full of words and wisdom posts.

Please come back VOTN. I miss all your well-informed posts.

Who was that woman who posted good old Hollywood gossip? Her father was a stage actor, Kurt something.

What was that guy's name who seemed to always get away with murder here? I think some said he was an actor. Was it "Miss Helenbed"? That seems to ring a bell.

Dan Motherfuck, the teen who stuck his head out of the party bus skylight and got semi-decapitated by a concrete bridge.

Okay never mind. I see Miss Helen Bedd has already been discussed.

When it was NEVER too soon for clever wordplay following someone losing body parts on roller coasters

The troll who signed his posts Q.E.D. He would attack posters left and right in a very snotty and vicious manner. Nasty piece of work. I think he's gone now, too.

Nope, still around.

We haven't heard from John/PMBT lately ... I often wonder what happened with him.

[quote]Who was that woman who posted good old Hollywood gossip? Her father was a stage actor, Kurt something.

SusieLee, a.k.a Susan Kasznar

Speak for yourself.

Similar thread from 2008. Some funny stuff there.

[quote]The first time I posted something, I didn't realize it wouldn't come up immediately, so I accidentally posted it three more times.

[quote]This newbie accident was greeted by posts which called into question my mental capacity, my cock size, my lineage, my literacy, and my right to exsist. All over what was essentially a clerical error.

[quote]I knew these were my kind of people.

The thread also includes posts from Torta and Dustin.

A thread from a couple of years ago about the named posters here. More nostalgia.

Master photographer Denny Scott

BOB MACKIE'S CREATIONS

^^ ooops, that was for the "Things You Thought Were Glamorous When You Were Little" thread.

Ah yes, the Homosex threads. LOVED those.

I loved those

Has anyone mentioned Pollyanna Prisspot Schoolmarm's reign of terror?

She sounds divine!

Gail Grinds. We've not seen anyone who better lived the values of Data Lounge.

The African Baby Catalogue was amazing. Wish I had saved it, too. But I did find the classic post from I'm not running a Bed & Breakfast here:

"I met a guy last night and brought him home. We hooked up until about 4:00 am and passed out. We wake up this morning and he asks me to make him breakfast. I thought he was joking at first, but he was serious.

I told him that I don't do breakfast and he said it was rude not to offer him something. I explained that I don't have anything in the house except turkey meatballs, protein shake mix and tonic water. He asks, "how do you live like this?" I explained just fine and told him that he is more than welcome to go to a restaurant, but there would be no breakfast served here and there was no need to comment on how I live and that I had stuff to do, so it was time for him to take off.

Then he asked, "well can I at least take a shower?" I then explained that it probably wouldn't be a good idea because I don't have guest towels. I don't like breakfast and I don't like to share towels and he looks at me like I'm insane. I don't understand guys that want to make themselves at home after a random hookup. "

Let me tell you about Debra Messing.

I used to volunteer at a Sudanese school for blind children with cancer. Yes, blind with cancer. Eye cancer. One day the door opened and in came Debra Messing - she had heard about the school from Charlie Rose, when the two had attended a lecture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on African maskmasking and had run into an Afrikaaner Doctor without Borders. (Debra, as it turns out, speaks several languages.)

Well, she showed up with a copy of the Rodgers & Hart songbook tucked under one arm, a bag of candy in the other arm, and Billy Stritch coming in behind her with a baby grand on a dolly. Debra embraced the children, some of whom had cancer dripping from their sightless eyes, and proceeded to put on a "one-woman Broadway-style show" in that malarial hut we called a schoolroom.

When it was over, she kissed each child tenderly and presented each one with an iPod filled with the great music of the world. While they were squealing with delight, she took me aside, produced a checkbook, and wrote a sum that enabled corneal transplants for all the children AND endowed us with a new building that made Oprah's school look like an outhouse. And after she left...I thought my heart was going to break when one of the smallest children looked up at me and said, with tears in her sightless eyes: "Who was that cunt?"

I loved it

Let me tell you about Deb Messing (1/2)

In early January, I had just returned to the States from Victoria, where I had been immunizing some of the indigenous tribes there in the grueling Australian midsummer heat. I'd been home barely a week when the earthquake struck Haiti, collapsing building and killing thousands, and within the day I was headed back to the airport -- destination, Port-au-Prince.

Commercial flights were, you may remember, were unavailable for days afterward. I was standing in LAX, cursing my stupidity, when a woman tapped me on the shoulder. "I noticed your bag," she said (I was carrying my Medecins Sans Frontieres kit). "Are you trying to get to Haiti?"

The woman told me she had chartered a Cessna and hired a pilot skilled enough to land it in a small parking lot if necessary. "We have one more seat," she said, insisting I come with her.

There was a brief argument on the tarmac -- apparently Anderson Cooper had been promised a seat, but my mysterious benefactor said medical help was more important and insisted I take his place. When I boarded the small plane, I found it filled with a veritable United Nations of aid workers, all as somber as I.

Once we were in the air, her warmth and humor quickly put an end to our initial shock. She introduced herself. Though she was obviously well-off, said the biggest regret of her life was dropping out of medical school just short of getting her degree. (She had supplied portable DVD players under each seat, and it wasn't until the flight was underway and I was engrossed in a double feature of her films "The Women" and "The Starter Wife" that I realized she was a film actress.)

The devastation in Haiti was beyond description. We had to land in Cite Soleil a few miles outside the city and take a Jeep down a rutted road, where we came across a roadblock of armed guerrillas that terrified us all, but Deb took them aside and conducted negotiations in perfect Haitian Creole. (The DVD players from the plane flight came in handy as barter, and they allowed us to pass.)

There were so many buildings collapsed in the city center we didn't know where to begin. We set to work in a pile of rebar and concrete, where a team of National Guardsmen was scaling the rubble with scent-rescue K-9s. When a dog would alert to someone trapped below, the National Guard would excavate the site, and if the patient showed any sign of life, the Guardsmen would carry them to us on a makeshift stretcher and we would begin triage there, in the middle of the filthy Avenue John Brown. (Deb was a great help here, too, holding the patients' hands and singing to them softly; her husky contralto was perfectly suited to "La vie en rose" and brought a tear to the eye of even some hardened rescuers.)

As the day went on, fewer and fewer patients were being brought to us and the rescue K-9s, sadly, were only uncovering corpses -- and small ones, covered in concrete dust, their mouths open in a silent scream. We realized, to our horror, we were excavating a day care or elementary school.

I was setting the crushed leg of one old woman who was hysterical with shock, eyes rolling back in her head, babbling. I tried to hush her, but Deb stopped me.....

Let me tell you about Deb Messing (2/2)

Deb put her shell-like ear to the woman's mouth, inadvertently smearing her earring with blood, and listened to the old woman's wheezing Creole. The expression on Deb's face changed from puzzlement to incredulity to horror.

"Stop!" she yelled to the Guardsmen atop the rubble. "This woman's grandchild is buried up there!" she told them, pointing to a precipice of gnarled rebar and crumbling concrete.

The young Guardsman who was helping us was a towheaded Southerner, probably no more than eighteen. "We can't, ma'am," he told her.

Deb would have none of it. "She says he's alive; she can feel his cries in her heart!"

"Ma'am," the Guardsman told us, "it's not safe up there, not even for the dogs." "Then I'LL do it!"

Quick as a wink and before any of us could stop her, Deb was scaling up the face of the rubble like a mountain goat, her Tevas barely finding purchase on one crumbling piece of cement before she shinnied to the next. (Later we would find that mountain climbing had been Deb's passion as a teenager.)

The Guardsmen stood mute and unbelieving, but the towhead found his voice: "Ranger!" he cried. "Help her!"

The biggest of the German shepherds raced after Deb, catching up to her just as she reached the spot the old woman had described. Deb and Ranger fell to digging, the animal with his paws and Deb with her hands, while we could only watch from the ground and pray.

After a few minutes, Deb staggered to her feet, holding a tiny object in her bloodied hands. "Jean-Phillip - pe!" she yelled to us. "And he's alive! Il est vivant!"

The most hardened Guardsman could not hold back his tears as Deb descended from that pile of rubble containing so many corpses of the young, pressing the tiny miracle to her breast as Ranger led the way. When she finally reached the ground, I held out my hands for the baby, but Deb shook her head.

"He needs her touch," she said. "And she needs his."

With that tender smile I had seen in "The Starter Wife," she placed the infant in the arms of his grandmother, where he worked his tiny fists for a moment before letting loose a cry in the destroyed streets of Port-au-Prince.

"The kid's got some lungs on him," said Red. "That's the sound of a healthy baby."

Deb put her finger to his lips. "No," she said. "That's the sound of LIFE."

As the other medics turned their attention to the blood and glass in Deb's feet (she had lost her Tevas on the downhill climb), I looked at the old Haitian woman on the stretcher. With one hand, she pressed her grandson to her heart; the fingers of the other hand worked an invisible rosary.

Her parched mouth moved in silent prayer, and I knelt next to her to dampen her cracked lips with a few drops of water from my canteen when she suddenly grabbed my sleeve with a strength belying her advanced years. At that moment, the blood left her face, and I knew we had lost her; she had held on in hopes of an angel saving the life of her grandson, and now that God had done His work, she was ready to meet Him.

I bent down to moisten her lips once again, and in a palsied wheeze, she uttered her last words:

"Qui etait cette cunt?

The Deb Messing shit was never funny.

Anyone remember Mermaid Girl?

She was truly the People's Porpoise.

[quote]"Qui etait cette cunt?

That is, R410.

That indeed is funny.

r410 is demented.

The Marriage of Bigaro

R410 is Debra Messing

that derailed the pleasant thread

The "So and so Here" threads were hysterical, at least in the beginning.

As were "Sows at the Trough."

Is r12 serious? Is there really an archive available? And it has the Red Dragon Cheese thread? Why can't I find this manvox she speaks of? I'VE BEEN WANTING TO READ THAT DAMN THREAD SINCE I DISCOVERED DATALOUNGE. DO NOT TEASE, I BEG OF THEE!

What happens on Manvox stays on Manvox.

Here's a link to a copy of the original Sumerian Farmwives thread. It's a bit hard to read because they just copied and pasted the original thread into new posts but you can still get the gist.

Lets pretend we're Sumerian farmwives growing chickpeas in 3500 BC!!!

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Oh, fuck! One of those troublesome tribes of the Israelites just killed all our children and cut open our pregnant women because their nasty god told them to! Husband, this is getting ridiculous. We've gotta move.

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Honey, please go raid the next village. I need to sacrifice a newborn to Baal next full moon.

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Unca, that burlap wrap you've swathed yourself in is just tres, tres divine. I'd sacrifice one of my children to Dagon to have it, especially for the next harvest!

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Those chickpeas sure are growing!

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Goomgam, are things okay between you and the hubby? I notice your left hand is hacked off.

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Has anyone read the Gilgamesh epic? Is it worth the 10 goats for the entire set of tablets?

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Is that Catherine Zeta-Jones??

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ƒ¥é¬ß †?˜i¬† µ?o??

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That stranger said his name's Dicklark and he has a favorite song. I'm placing a merkin upon my chin and rolling stones at him as I style.

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I've GOT to do something about these love handles! The midsummer public orgy in honor of Istarte is coming up, and I need to get in shape. It's so hard to get that tenth-baby weight off.

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Enkidu = insatiable bottom

by: Cherylak—my sabre-toothed pussy stinks! reply 12 03/11/06 @16:36

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Cher is giving her farwell concert tonight. Another one.

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I heard King Penises likes the homosex where the man go up into the man!

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Isn't it wonderful how Baal was wise enough to make the human body self-cleansing?

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Village elders, I woefully regret that my lady parts doth emit fumes most foul!

by: Cheryl, the sickle-wielding peasant reply 18 03/11/06 @17:07

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Astarte is ANGRY. The chickpeas are dead.

We must sacrifice seven virgins!

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We must sacrifice seven virgins!

From around here? Good luck with that!

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That nice new young water carrier has a nice bulge in his loincloth!

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Pheh! He's inleague with demons..

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ALL RIGHT, BITCHES! I'M MISSING A CHICKPEA!

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In the future..said chickpeas shall be known as garbanzo beans

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*kisses crudely-made hoe*

Not that long ago but still a classic: "Draining spaghetti is so middle-class."

"What was the very first thing each of your parents said when you told them that you were gay?"

[quote]"Are you a bottom? I bet you're a bottom."

hilarious

The DLer whose grandmother couldn't believe he was gay.

Because he didn't wear an eyepatch.

R421 : That thread was fun until AIKC or an AIKC-adjacent poster tried to turn it into some kind of "rap battle".

The threads that expose the class insecurities of DLers are always a fun read.

The Golden Girls if they took place nowadays.

This included Blanche unwittingly sexting a teenager, Dorothy coming out as non-binary and Rose needing a designated safe space.

Some posters on here have much better ideas and wit than a lot of TV writers nowadays and this was a pleasure to read!

[quote]Some posters on here have much better ideas and wit than a lot of TV writers nowadays

Many of the things I've read on DL over the years have been funnier than anything SNL has ever done.

What ever happened to Ciaran? I believe he went to med school many years ago. He was harassed so much that he left or stopped authenticating. I remember when everyone accused him of being that other Irish guy - tiger something.

The "Famous JonBenets Throughout History" thread

Earrings...caftans.....

Massive pussyhound. Big Bush supporter.

Did we also have a pasta-drain level thread about whether or not you should take the soda cans out of the cardboard box before you put them in the fridge.

How have we gotten this far with no one cradling a mug?

Yes we did R432!

Hold me, David!

The mayo wars

This is the best thread. We need to keep it alive because it's important for the new people to know. We are a cultural phenomenon. Absolutely. We.

Thank you Muriel.....

R436 you MUST come and teach at the DL Institute!

Beyond just the MichFest threads, I must say I miss the poster who believed that the sisterwomyn used their mooncups to catch moon beams.

The absolute tizzy of Jake Gyllanhal, Austin Nichols, and John from Cinncinnarti

The MichFest threads were hilarious. All the rules, regulations, boundaries being stated and the many physical ailments!

Your post wounds, r440. Please don't disrespect the wimmin or the Land. I am asking you once -- do not make me have to ask you again!

Stuff it in your twat sideways, Laurel.

Your pussy stinks, Burke

My pussy can open a can of tuna fish, Laurel, so watch what you say!

The Let's make a Jennifer Aniston movie' thread was imaginative and witty.

The " If Hollywood movie studios were run by dataloungers" thread:

Love it ALL

[quote]My pussy can open a can of tuna fish,

Can and HAS, apparently.

I love this thread SO MUCH. We must keep it alive. ALIVE, Bick!!!!!!!!!!!!

I meant Brick, not Bick.

Where's My Wine, Asshole!

Griselda Medina is in Conchetta's desk.

The original Little House on the Prairie thread starring Pa Ingalls and his tight pants

As r197 pointed out, few of us will forget the feeling of unmitigated terror and stomach-sinking the day we saw that Ginny in Billing had collapsed.

May Ginny's memory be a blessing.

Ginny in Billing will stop the rain.

*kisses doll*

Remember the lesbian who kept siccing her dog on her partner? Her face would get dark and she'd speak in a deep voice and say, "Get her!" and the dog would attack.

That was one poor traumatized, Extremely Scary Tale!

You know who we haven't mentioned....?

who?

What happened to the "Let's Be an 80s Sitcom" thread? That was hilarious.

This thread has gone on long enough without me telling you about Bootsy Gumdrops, my first cat that I got at a shelter.

The guy who wanted his mother to receive cancer treatment in Paris because it just seemed so glamorous to be in Paris. Obvious EST in retrospect but he really got people going with his insistence that so what if his mother didn't speak French or was a French citizen, it would be so nice to stroll among cafes while she was undergoing treatment.

I'm ashamed to admit I started the never-ending series of "Footballers in Love" threads. I saw some random image of two supposedly famous players in an intimate-looking situation and posted it. I know nothing about soccer! I don't even remember the names of the players. But the threads went on and on and on for a year or two.

Holy shit!

I never did understand the bread pudding or cake icing threads, but those were before my time

The insane arguments over the EXACT boundaries of various NYC neighborhoods are always fun.

I don't understand why cak and graxy are funny. They're just typos. Maybe funny for a second, maybe for the typist. But why are some still laughing about them 10+ years later?

Die in a grease fire, r466.

I don't look back and I don't eat yesterday's pound cake.

If I ever have a cat, I will name her Miss Sissy Boodles (DL cat icon).

R465, see R86.

It was around this time of year that we would have our annual Michfest thead. All of the rules and regulations that were discussed! The committee meetings, the allergies/sensitivities, the mobility issues, the multitudes of physical ailments and psychological disorders (often self-diagnosed). And of course, finding a power outlet for the CPAP machine.

I loved those threads.

Are you telling us NOW so you don't have to tell us THEN?

I have stated my boundaries. Please respect them.

Another fan of the Gargoyle Neighbour thread.

Also, the thread about how black olive hummus tastes like ass. And:

Vintage Porn ("This thread is useless without daguerrotypes")

Man with "fetish for flatulence" tells police he was sexually assaulted

Anyone ever had a pet that was really smart?

Getting Ready for my cruise on RMS Titanic

and the classics I Was Asked to Leave the Fancy Joann Fabrics, and Clown Dies at Macys Thanksgiving Parade

Remember that woman - Susy - who started posting because she was stuck in bed recovering from surgery, and her parents were Hollywood actors/insiders? She met a lot of famous people and was able to comment personally on a LOT of Hollywood types.

WEHT to Susy? Did she die?

R477, I think so, yes.

What was her real name?

I often think of the OP that Nana Mouskouri called by mistake.

Not very long, but pretty funny: Canadian Joy's wedding!

R479 - all I remember is she went by Susan. Her father was a character actor.

Susie Lee is the person who posted with the show biz info.

[quote]Die in a grease fire, [R466].

I resemble that remark.

I don’t think anyone has mentioned the Linda Lavin threads about our hate for her abc her singing, the variants of the Alice theme song, how she once had possibilities, and how she should have been in One Day at a Time, with Bonnie in Alice.

^^ that was my introduction to datalounge! When FEUD was starting up, an imdb member posted something like "There's a neeeeewwwwww Joan in town, an' she's look-in GOOD! There's a fresh Mara Hobel in the neeeeiiiighboooor-hood!"

And someone else wrote, "This is eerie....all night I was reading a long thread about that stupid song over on datalounge!"

They even posted a link.

There's no information about SusieLee dying, though the last we heard from a friend of hers, she went to live with her son in Italy so maybe we didn't get any death notices here in the States, but I'd assume we would.

R486 That Lavin/Alice thread is a treat!

This made me howl.

[quote] I saw her when she replaced Tyne Daly in the 89 revival of "Gypsy". (Hey, the tickets were free.) Let's just say, "Err, no" & note that her performance marked the only time I have ever actually booed during curtain call.

R486 thanks for posting the thread. I enjoyed it all over again!

The loss of all the threads in the Great April 2008 Purge

[quote]Surprised that nobody mentioned the Marcia Cross fiasco of 2005.

I did at r475, but you may not have recognized it because I said Marcia Gay Harden!

When QWERTY would get drunk and stop by

Anyone remember the field trip to OMM? Some of you fuckers made up fake profiles. Claire: hobbies are bread pudding and shit like that. The OMM bitches fell for for awhile, then a more savvy one realized what was going on and one of the baby fundie-bitches followed us here and proceeded to make a fool of herself. I think her name was Tanya Vakser or Vasker?

Good times.

I don't remember the names and this may have been mentioned already, but there was the whole wedding fiasco where the DL infiltrated a wedding website - either the registry or RSVP responses or something. The bride ended up flipping out.

Wasn't it that someone thought they knew the bride? Piss poor at remembering the details, only that it was hysterically funny.

R339

Nope, White Sheet Man and Kelt are not, nor were they ever the same person.

I never said a thing about making slavery legal. Some of you cretins are not only rabid, you're simple minded.

R484, moi aussi!

I remember when the Christmas Moose was just four years old! Time flies!

I have to say it. I miss Grumpy/Rumpy/Umpy He was a pain in the ass. I worry about his cat. He was living in rooms in someone else's house, wasn't he?

Miss Warwick.

Glad to see that Kelt authenticated, I just blocked that cocksucker.

R498 It was his roommate Tammy's cat.

This thread has a few hilarious examples of the types of things he used to ask.

The cat was named Tanya, no?

Tammy was the cat, not the roommate. LOL

R504 I stand corrected!

AH yes....Margo was the roommate. Tammy was the cat

R500

Back at ya cupcake !

Raci$t Lesbian Troll Alert!

I remember the troll that would always show up in every thread with something like "Misogyny kills!"

Susie Lee was Susan Lee Kasznar Worth, daughter of Kurt Kasznar and Cornelia Whooley. She was a minor actress and model in the 50s and 60s but knew lots of people through her father. There is no death date on her IMDB page and she's only 74 so I assume she's still kicking somewhere.

Kurt Kasznar did not have any children, according to all the biographical info online.

[quote]The Let's make a Jennifer Aniston movie' thread was imaginative and witty.

Here-

[quote]I remember the troll that would always show up in every thread with something like "Misogyny kills!"

I remember

Your misogyny is killing us!!

R511, you are partially correct. A lot of online resources do state that Kurt Kasznar had no children.

But not all.

[quote]Your misogyny is killing us!!

Stop the misogyny! It's killing us!

THINK OF THE CHILDREN

R516, get out of here, you Epstein apologist.

Is Kelt the "cupcake" troll?

Nope. There are half a dozen people here who use "cupcake," including one who has taken the handle, "cupcake."

R513 R515 Yes! That was the message.

Sometimes there would be slight variations tailored to the message it was posted in, but it showed up in E V E R Y thread for a while.

R16 Won't someone PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN???!!!?????

Dark Lesbians was some of the best stuff ever.

We need a second thread soon. This is pure gold !

The original Helen Lawson thread was just brilliant.

R518

Occasionally, yes ..............

R524 does it still exist somewhere?

Julianne Moore, Seriously!

I loved TaxTrollEA advice. He was lovely.

Every time someone mentions "Two turkey meatballs and a towel" I hear it in my head in Chris Rock's voice.

Mrs Patrick Campbell, who also went by Catherine of Siena. I know he is now Erna, but he's not as funny as before.

[quote] I know he is now Erna

Cunt!

Alas.... Gloria Vanderbilt...Short used to post charming personal anecdotes and analysis about "Andy." But no more.

[quote]r490 The loss of all the threads in the Great April 2008 Purge

...obviously a preemptive Russian strike. It's just no one caught it at the time [bold]: (

A practice run for the heist of thousands of documents from the DNC!

KELT was on a roll back in 2014, posting a lot of race-baiting threads like this one, which is still grayed out.

And he did say something about slavery not being a big deal on one of his many GWTW threads.

I don't know if anyone recalls a thread from many years ago that made fun of some high school year book that was posted online? It turns out that the girl DL branded the class slut had just died and DL was showing up in Google searches on her name. Family and friends started to post and it turned into a free for all.

I don't know if anyone recalls a thread from many years ago that made fun of some high school year book that was posted online? It turns out that the girl DL branded the class slut had just died and DL was showing up in Google searches on her name. Family and friends started to post and it turned into a free for all.

Data Lounge doesn't mix well with reality. And reality has little use for Data Lounge.

[quote] on one of his many GWTW threads.

Well, fiddle-dee-dee.

[quote] I don't know if anyone recalls a thread from many years ago that made fun of some high school year book that was posted online? It turns out that the girl DL branded the class slut had just died and DL was showing up in Google searches on her name. Family and friends started to post and it turned into a free for all.

I don't remember that one, just the wedding or wedding registry one, where eventually DL'ers confronted a groom or his sister or something.

I wonder whatever happened to Mr. Chiffon Lemay?

The current "Toddler disappears in baggage conveyor" thread may well belong to this list in time, if it keeps going as it's begun.

When the posts you made were bright yellow in a thread.

Trolldar! It accidentally outed a whole lot of trolls. The first day we got trolldar I used it on someone being a big frau in one thread, then blithely went along to other threads, not realizing that every post someone made would be yellow -- I thought it only worked on one thread at a time.

Accidentally discovered a beloved authenticated user was their very own fan club. Also discovered minutes later that the fake Keram Malicki Sanchez was spamming the board talking about himself as though he were really the actor. KMS was outed by someone else but no one ever mentioned the authenticated with fake fans.

Anyone remember Ms Wendell? "My cooter is itching, y'all, I'm serious!"

The Cheryl/Iola wars.

Slappy Squirrel, who would spin elaborate tales about David Ehrenstein being slapped in various social situations.

When webmaster/editor!/Muriel decided

-what was Wit and Wisdom , and six or seven selected posts would appear in the side margin

-what was freaks and flames, and posts about scat and flatulence were dealt with severely

Tubgirl caused a big stink around this place.

WHET Tubgirl?

There was one thread from around the time red tags were introduced. Someone posted a headless torso shot (with bulge showing) that I remember looking like what we would eventually think of as Grindr pictures. Anyway, there was a link to a Yahoo (?) profile page, and a person claiming to be that guy started posting. And there were a crapton of posts about how hot the guy was.

The next day, fully half of the thread was red tagged. I think the guy and three of his admirers were among the those tagged.

At which point, someone said something like "OP, look at this thread and see how you feel about yourself"

Can somebody please link Dark Lesbians / Lesbians with canes?

[quote]Tubgirl caused a big stink around this place.

Amateur.

[quote]r548 Can somebody please link Dark Lesbians

just put the keywords plus datalounge in google

when the goatse could shock

Bump

This thread is too long. Where's the Butch Sous Chef? And WEHT that guy who went to NYC for the first time and was walking down the street with his suitcase, then he stepped into a dive bar.... you know the guy...

[quote] And WEHT

Another DL tradition trampled on.

*sigh*

Hell, where's Anthony Recker, minor-league catcher?

[quote] Hell, where's Anthony Recker, minor-league catcher?

Who is he? Who does he hope to be?