People die every day, dude. You don't have to be old to die.
Millionaire wasn't elderly.

I find it hypocritical that people are mourning this guy when everyone treated
him like garbage. Especially on fxnet.

Well, there may be some that realize they didn't treat him so well who are reflecting on their actions and not feeling so great about them. So maybe those are not mourning him so much as wishing they'd acted differently.


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On 10 Jun 2024, Dumas Walker said the following...

People die every day, dude. You don't have to be old to die.
Millionaire wasn't elderly.

I find it hypocritical that people are mourning this guy when everyone treated
him like garbage. Especially on fxnet.

Well, there may be some that realize they didn't treat him so well who
are reflecting on their actions and not feeling so great about them. So maybe those are not mourning him so much as wishing they'd acted differently.

yeah i'm not really sure why anyone would feel bad about it after the fact.
i'm surely not going to reconsider other things i post just because i think
the person might kick the bucket soon. do people get a free pass to be
annoying because they're ill? NOPE

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Re: Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: Kaelon to paulie420 on Sat Jun 08 2024 10:46 am

I suspect that for people who were already adults and working professionals in the 1970s and 1980s when BBS'ing as a hobby took off, they are now in their 80s and 90s, if not older, and we'll continue to see the same sort of trickle of long goodbyes.

There was a guy local to me that was my first experience on FidoNet. It opened a whole new world to me. But I remembered that he was "older" at the time. I looked up his name and saw he owned a house in plantation so I wrote him a letter and he wrote me back! Still doing great in his 80s.

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Re: Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Mon Jun 10 2024 07:31 am

People die every day, dude. You don't have to be old to die.
Millionaire wasn't elderly.

I find it hypocritical that people are mourning this guy when everyone treated
him like garbage. Especially on fxnet.

Well, there may be some that realize they didn't treat him so well who are reflecting on their actions and not feeling so great about them. So maybe those are not mourning him so much as wishing they'd acted differently.

I actually stood up for him for a little while but then he started annoying me too so I just blocked him.

He was sort of like our guy phil where he does weird shit and asks questions that he knows the answer to.
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Re: Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: fusion to Dumas Walker on Mon Jun 10 2024 01:39 pm

yeah i'm not really sure why anyone would feel bad about it after the fact. i'm surely not going to reconsider other things i post just because i think the person might kick the bucket soon. do people get a free pass to be annoying because they're ill? NOPE

his constant voting questions is the reason i disabled it on my system.
I don't want people knowing my favorite color!
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Re: Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: MRO to fusion on Mon Jun 10 2024 01:25 pm

I don't want people knowing my favorite color!

Because it's mauve?
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Re: Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: The Lizard Master to Kaelon on Mon Jun 10 2024 04:58 am

There was a guy local to me that was my first experience on FidoNet. It opened a whole new world to me. But I remembered that he was "older" at the time. I looked up his name and saw he owned a house in plantation so I wrote him a letter and he wrote me back! Still doing great in his 80s.

i had a girlfriend through bbses and a few bbs people i was friendly with for a short time. when the web took off everyone jumped off bbses.

i did have an experience where i showed this guy how to do doorgames and it really increased user activity. I killed 2 people in lord and he banned me.
he didn't realize that the game is about doing that and you get respawned.

That guy was 26yrs older and he was in a special area where he was a local call to 4+ areas which was huge back in the dialup days.
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Re: Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: fusion to Dumas Walker on Mon Jun 10 2024 01:39 pm

i think the person might kick the bucket soon. do people get a free pass to be annoying because they're ill? NOPE

Was he really that annoying? Usually he just tried to post some conversation starters, but it seemed not everyone was interested in those posts. IMO that's hardly annoying.

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Re: Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: Digital Man to MRO on Mon Jun 10 2024 12:19 pm

Re: Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: MRO to fusion on Mon Jun 10 2024 01:25 pm

I don't want people knowing my favorite color!

Because it's mauve?

wrong.
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Re: Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: Digital Man to MRO on Mon Jun 10 2024 12:19 pm

I don't want people knowing my favorite color!

Because it's mauve?

I was guessing puce.

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Hello Digital,

On Mon, Jun 10 2024 19:19:44 -0500, you wrote:

I don't want people knowing my favorite color!

Because it's mauve?

I thought it was salmon? ;)

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Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: Accession to Digital Man on Mon Jun 10 2024 04:44 pm

Hello Digital,

On Mon, Jun 10 2024 19:19:44 -0500, you wrote:

I don't want people knowing my favorite color!

Because it's mauve?

I thought it was salmon? ;)

Regards,
Nick

I'll never tell my favorite color.
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Re: Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: Nightfox to fusion on Mon Jun 10 2024 12:59 pm

Was he really that annoying? Usually he just tried to post some conversation starters, but it seemed not everyone was interested in those posts. IMO that's hardly annoying.

Oh, I think TM was pretty annoying, in a "tone deaf" kind of way.
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On 10 Jun 2024, Accession said the following...

On Mon, Jun 10 2024 19:19:44 -0500, you wrote:

I don't want people knowing my favorite color!

Because it's mauve?

I thought it was salmon? ;)

lol i like salmon. i happen to be wearing a salmon colored t-shirt right now ;)

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Re: Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: fusion to Dumas Walker on Mon Jun 10 2024 01:39 pm

i think the person might kick the bucket soon. do people get a free pass to be annoying because they're ill? NOPE

Was he really that annoying? Usually he just tried to post some conversation starters, but it seemed not everyone was interested
in those posts. IMO that's hardly annoying.

I found him quite annoying. Pretty much every single one of his posts/questions were completely inane and ridiculous. Often incomplete
and out of the blue. Nothing wrong with conversation starters, but that
isn't what he was.



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Re: Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: fusion to Accession on Mon Jun 10 2024 10:19 pm

On 10 Jun 2024, Accession said the following...

On Mon, Jun 10 2024 19:19:44 -0500, you wrote:

I don't want people knowing my favorite color!

Because it's mauve?

I thought it was salmon? ;)

lol i like salmon. i happen to be wearing a salmon colored t-shirt right now ;)

i know it's gay pride month but you don't have to out yourself right now.

That being said, I have an ungodly amount of carhartt shirts. like i can fill 2 of the biggest sterlilite containers with them. non of them are pink.
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Re: Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Mon Jun 10 2024 09:34 pm

I found him quite annoying. Pretty much every single one of his <
posts/questions were completely inane and ridiculous. Often incomplete <
and out of the blue. Nothing wrong with conversation starters, but that <
isn't what he was. <


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Re: Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: The Lizard Master to Kaelon on Mon Jun 10 2024 04:58 am

There was a guy local to me that was my first experience on FidoNet.

This reminds me that I have completely lost touch with my original FidoNet guru. He was also older than me and lived in a nearby city. He was NC264 from the beginning of net 264 and I took it over from him probably around 1990 or so. I wish I knew how to connect with him again, if for no other reason than to say hello.

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Re: Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: MRO to fusion on Mon Jun 10 2024 09:53 pm

That being said, I have an ungodly amount of carhartt shirts. like i can fill 2 of the biggest sterlilite containers with them. non of them are pink.

Carhartt T-shirts are all I wear (except when visiting customers for meetings and such. I will wear them when working in a customer plant.)

They are my favorites...

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Re: Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: Bf2k+ to MRO on Tue Jun 11 2024 11:01 am

Re: Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: MRO to fusion on Mon Jun 10 2024 09:53 pm

That being said, I have an ungodly amount of carhartt shirts. like i can fill 2 of the biggest sterlilite containers with them. non of them are pink.

Carhartt T-shirts are all I wear (except when visiting customers for meetings and such. I will wear them when working in a customer plant.)

They are my favorites...

They last forever, but get pocket rips if you keep your phone in there. Also they fade. So i have like 1000 faded shirts.
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Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: Accession to Digital Man on Mon Jun 10 2024 16:44:16

I don't want people knowing my favorite color!

Because it's mauve?

I thought it was salmon? ;)

I have THREE salmon shirts. All the cool kids these days wear salmon.

( I thought maybe black demin)


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Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: Mickey to Accession on Tue Jun 11 2024 07:08 pm

I have THREE salmon shirts. All the cool kids these days wear salmon.

Wasn't pink the new black for a while?

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Re: Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: MRO to Bf2k+ on Tue Jun 11 2024 03:08 pm

They last forever, but get pocket rips if you keep your phone in there.

Yep... when that happens, I cut off the sleeves and wear them in the pool and to the beach.

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Re: Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: Bf2k+ to The Lizard Master on Tue Jun 11 2024 10:51 am

There was a guy local to me that was my first experience on FidoNet.

This reminds me that I have completely lost touch with my original FidoNet guru. He was also older than me and lived in a nearby city. He was NC264 from the beginning of net 264 and I took it over from him probably around 1990 or so. I wish I knew how to connect with him again, if for no other reason than to say hello.

The entire fido archives (or a decent amount) are availble somewhere. I was able to read through some older posts that way, might have some leads for you.

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Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: phigan to Mickey on Tue Jun 11 2024 07:47 pm

Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: Mickey to Accession on Tue Jun 11 2024 07:08 pm

I have THREE salmon shirts. All the cool kids these days wear salmon.

Wasn't pink the new black for a while?

if you are gay
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Re: Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: The Lizard Master to Bf2k+ on Wed Jun 12 2024 03:59 am

The entire fido archives (or a decent amount) are availble somewhere. I was able to read through some older posts that way, might have some leads for you.

Thanks for that info... I'll look around.

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Re: Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: Bf2k+ to The Lizard Master on Wed Jun 12 2024 06:38 pm

Re: Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: The Lizard Master to Bf2k+ on Wed Jun 12 2024 03:59 am

The entire fido archives (or a decent amount) are availble somewhere.

I
was able to read through some older posts that way, might have some leads for you.

Thanks for that info... I'll look around.

dunno, what i've seen is a real mess. ozzmosis was great. but what i've seen of fidonet archives are a mess and i'd rather use them.
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Quoting Mro to Phigan <=-

Wasn't pink the new black for a while?

if you are gay

If I had a pink shirt I would wear it and send you pics of me in it while Andrea kissed me. At the end of the day we'd all laugh and it would be a
fun time.

Shawn
P.S. I don't think the pain pills have worn off yet but I'm sending this anyway becuase I think it's funny.

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Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: MRO to Accession on Mon Jun 10 2024 06:00 pm

I'll never tell my favorite color.

We know it is black, because it matches your heart.

(By the way, it seems to me The Millionaire achieved his goal of starting a conversation with that favourite color question. Too bad he didn't live to see it)


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Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: Arelor to MRO on Thu Jun 13 2024 06:45 am

(By the way, it seems to me The Millionaire achieved his goal of starting a conversation with that favourite color question. Too bad he didn't live to see it)

Nobody found his obituary, so there's no proof he died.
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Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: Arelor to MRO on Thu Jun 13 2024 06:45 am

We know it is black, because it matches your heart.

Hey, don't lump him in with us other black-hearted people.

DaiTengu

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MRO wrote to phigan <=-

Wasn't pink the new black for a while?

if you are gay

(Looks down at my coho salmon polo shirt, picture of my wife and two
kids.)

Incorrect.



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P.S. I don't think the pain pills have worn off yet but I'm sending this anyway becuase I think it's funny.

Being on pain pills that haven't worn off yet is the best time to post on
BBSes and social media. :D


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On 13 Jun 2024, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

MRO wrote to phigan <=-

Wasn't pink the new black for a while?

if you are gay

(Looks down at my coho salmon polo shirt, picture of my wife and two kids.)

Incorrect.

i mean.. that doesn't prove anything. let's see how that shirt looks under a blacklight ;)

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Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: Dumas Walker to TINY on Fri Jun 14 2024 09:27 am

Being on pain pills that haven't worn off yet is the best time to post on BBSes and social media. :D

We used to love reading the posts after getting back from one of our evening BBS gettogethers... How long it took for the first after-action report posting determined how good of a night it was.
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Re: Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: poindexter FORTRAN to MRO on Thu Jun 13 2024 07:08 am

MRO wrote to phigan <=-

Wasn't pink the new black for a while?

if you are gay

(Looks down at my coho salmon polo shirt, picture of my wife and two
kids.)

Incorrect.

sound gay to me.
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Re: Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: fusion to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Jun 14 2024 12:30 pm

Wasn't pink the new black for a while?

if you are gay

(Looks down at my coho salmon polo shirt, picture of my wife and two kids.)

Incorrect.

i mean.. that doesn't prove anything. let's see how that shirt looks under a blacklight ;)

i thought he adopted his kids. and I knew a gay guy who called his other dude his wife 'jenny'.
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Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: MRO to Arelor on Thu Jun 13 2024 07:48 am

(By the way, it seems to me The Millionaire achieved his goal of starting a
conversation with that favourite color question. Too bad he didn't live to
see it)

Nobody found his obituary, so there's no proof he died.

Do we even know if or where obituaries are even published where he lived/lives?

Nightfox

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Quoting Dumas Walker to Tiny <=-

P.S. I don't think the pain pills have worn off yet but I'm sending this

Being on pain pills that haven't worn off yet is the best time to post
on BBSes and social media. :D

Laugh. So long as you don't mind having to answser for it the next day. :)

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Re: Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: MRO to fusion on Fri Jun 14 2024 06:36 pm

Re: Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: fusion to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Jun 14 2024 12:30 pm

i thought he adopted his kids. and I knew a gay guy who called his other dude his wife 'jenny'.

Jennifer is a good name. I don't know why anyone crazy enough to do a stunt like that, but that's sad.

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Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: Nightfox to MRO on Fri Jun 14 2024 06:22 pm

Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: MRO to Arelor on Thu Jun 13 2024 07:48 am

Nobody found his obituary, so there's no proof he died.

Send me money. ;)

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Re: Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
By: cr1mson to MRO on Sun Jun 16 2024 09:25 am

i thought he adopted his kids. and I knew a gay guy who called his other dude his wife 'jenny'.

Jennifer is a good name. I don't know why anyone crazy enough to do a stunt like that, but that's sad.

well because back then in the 90s people didnt talk about how they were gay all day. now everyone is gay and you can't talk about being straight.

i dont talk period and dont want other people to talk about their orientation. i don't want to see it, i don't want to hear it.
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Quoting Mro to Cr1mson <=-

well because back then in the 90s people didnt talk about how they
were gay all day. now everyone is gay and you can't talk about being straight.

Well you can, but you'll become a meme if someone takes your pic, AND the people you tell you are "just straight" will look at you with disgust in
their eyes.

i dont talk period and dont want other people to talk about their orientation. i don't want to see it, i don't want to hear it.

This is how I feel. There are at least 1000 things wrong in the world
that are more important then your sexual orientation. How about we start worrying about some of those?

Shawn
Click/Clack Clickclack/Clickclacked. (I identify as an old toaster)

P.S. Before you all jump at me, I'm not anti anything, I just don't give
a shit about your gender. Be who / what you want to be and leave me the
fuck out of it.

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