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…and then I’ll be off to exile in Brazil. Not to fulfill my life’s dream of finally forcing Gleen(s) Greenwald(s) to eat his sockpuppets, although I’m sure I’ll take time out for that while I’m waiting for the plastic surgery to be completed, but to hide out from hordes of angry Rotties.
You see, today is April 1st, a day known for… well, we all know what that day is known for, don’t we?
A few weeks ago, I realized that said day was drawing nigh and, in the best tradition of Empire, I needed to prepare the yearly prank. I was tiring a bit of the old Pink Bunny Template Gag, but I couldn’t really think of anything else. Until an unnamed co-conspirator came up with an idea so wickedly brilliant that my sick mind just couldn’t say “no” although, judging by the rustling of weapons being readied among the LCs assembled here, it might have been better if I had :wink_ee:
Why not set up a site run by an obsessive Moonbat, dedicated to harassing, well, myself? Imagine the fun until April 1st, when all would be revealed. Of course, my aforementioned sick brain, as it is wont to do, took this simple idea and ran wild with it. A good gag needs a climax, after all, and what better climax than for this unknown, hypothetical Nemesis to finally achieve what other Moonbats have had wet dreams about since this site went up, namely to shut down the Evil Right Wing Death Beast, once and for all?
And thus “Ian” the psychotic, obsessive, stereotypical Moonbat was born, with a little help from the unnamed co-conspirator.
Of course, for “Ian”, that is to say “me”, to get me shut down, he’d have to have some sort of credible leverage, such as a barrage of not-so-veiled death threats from yours truly and, for that to happen, “Ian” would have to be one singularly disgusting and obnoxious bastard. After all, nobody would’ve believed for a second that I’d go off on a frothing hyperbolic rant against some random nobody, just because. That would’ve stunk to high heavens and, as I found out, it’s damnably hard to get one by you guys. “Ian” had barely opened his mouth before people started wondering about him, and it didn’t get easier as the days went by.
So mustering all of the Moonbat offensiveness and deranged howling that are regular occurrences at places such as the Daily Kos and the comments section of the Huffington Post, “Ian” set out to be even more offensive than they are. Which is really fucking hard, I might add. Hard because it is hard to outdo them in insanity and outrageousness and even more hard because I had to take a long acid shower after every crazy “Ian” post, just to get the stench out. Actually, I’m not sure I’ve managed to get it quite out yet, and my skin is quite raw, let me tell you.
Writing that unutterable crap was, by far, the hardest part of keeping this prank going. But it wouldn’t have had a chance in Hell of working without it.
So “Ian” gradually built up his offensiveness as April grew nearer, until he crossed the one line that must not be crossed: He insulted our troops. And that was when he, that is to say I, got both barrels and then some. “Ian” of course went ballistic, whimpering about threats and swearing up and down that I’d go down for this, all according to plan.
So last night, an “official HM suspension notice” went up on the site, announcing that the site had been taken down for threats of violence etc. etc.
Of course, that’s when the whole damn thing blew up in my own conniving face. Karma really is a bitch, and beware ye who seek to dig a grave for others… You see, I hadn’t taken into account just how much offense you, dear readers, would take, nor had I taken into account how quickly Hosting Matters operate. Within minutes, which is why quite a lot of you probably never saw the official looking fake suspension notice but got diverted to the standard “Access Denied” screen that we keep for banned trolls, HM had taken down the fake page, started an investigation of the access logs, locked down access to the site and changed the password to make sure that the hackers, because that’s who they assumed were responsible, wouldn’t get back in.
If this had been a test of their commitment to site security, I’d say they passed with flying colors. I couldn’t believe how fast they were.
Of course, they informed me of all of this via secure email, which is when I realized that my, er, “clever” April 1st prank had blown up in my own face, and if this makes you all laugh out loud, then I can’t say as I blame you. I’d be laughing my ass of if I were you, thinking “serves him right.” Because I never meant for them to get involved, and I do apologize for any unpleasantness and waste of time I must have caused.
So I had to serve up a healthy helping of humble pie for myself and tell them what was really up, with an appropriate amount of groveling and pleading for forgiveness, and, as an everlasting testimony to their sense of humor, they graciously refrained from chewing my ass out. To be more specific: they thought it was hilarious. I can only hope that the rest of you feel the same or I shall be a resident of Brazil for quite a while :wink_ee:
Of course, on top of all of this, I also had to answer all of the wonderful supportive emails from all of you, G-d bless you all, get the site back up and running and put up a notice that Hosting Matters were in no way involved, which they weren’t. And thus the “hack” attack was born.
So, to all of you: Thanks for playing along, and I hope you’re not too offended to learn that His Majesty is an inveterate prankster. Well, at least on that one day of the year.
Thanks for all of the support as well. It was truly heartwarming, although I’m sure that you feel more like wringing my neck right now.
Also a big thank you for the beautiful, merciless, vicious smackdowns of not only “Ian” but even more so the real Moonbat trolls, “LC Hastings” and “Dwight” that were daft enough to be lured into the honey pot of Moonbat Madness that was “Misha Watch.” The truly brutal Fiskings you handed out over there were a thing to behold and it was quite the experience to be on the receiving end of them. No wonder trolls are so scarce on this site. I wouldn’t want to pick a fight with y’all, verbal or otherwise.
And finally, in case I still have a pulse in five minutes, a big thank you to all of you for your sense of humor. If not, then please not in the face. I want an open casket :wink_ee:
Alright, comments are open. Let me have it, and no holding back…
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Well done, Your Majesty.
April 1st, 2007 at 10:50 AMUsing
Hey, FIRST! April First, I might add.
April 1st, 2007 at 10:51 AMUsing
Well, done, Emperor, although in, “the last days,” it became pretty obvious.
April 1st, 2007 at 10:58 AMUsing
I smelled a “moonrat” early on which probably explains why I never tried to post there. A well done prank nonetheless.
Semper Fi
April 1st, 2007 at 11:03 AMUsing
Thank G-d it’s OVER! It’s been hell living with this and keeping the secret that I was sworn to! I’m still laughing my ass off that it blew up in his face the way it did! The look on his face when I showed him the lock-down page from hosting matters,…. it showed up about 10-15 min after he put up the fake page… was totally priceless!!! Because he had to figure out if he’d been hacked or what happened. PRICELESS!!!
April 1st, 2007 at 11:06 AMUsing
Indeed. Caught in my own prank there for a moment. Can you say “poetic justice?” I knew you could. :lol_wp:
April 1st, 2007 at 11:09 AMUsing
Yes, reading the royal fiskings of the real moonbats was delightful, I must say.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:10 AMUsing
Hah!
Breath taking. Simply breath taking. I sent the sattelite image of the address so I can’t say I wasn’t suckered. But when you spelled ‘dishonourable’ with a u I was near certain it was DJ.
A Site to behold!
April 1st, 2007 at 11:13 AMUsing
HEHE very clever. seemed real to me-probably because I did not pay close attention
April 1st, 2007 at 11:22 AMUsing
I actually put that superfluous ‘u’ in there to point suspicion overseas, since you guys were getting awfully warm, and damn fast too.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:24 AMUsing
Well at least I know that it wasn’t the Lortabs that I’ve been taking (dental problems) that were making me think of all the reasons that this had to be a joke.
1. Misha normally ignores such irritating ankle biters. He as giving this one alot of attention.
2. DJ was being vewy, vewy, qwiet. Not one to allow a fellow Moonbat to be skewered without at least a token show of support, I expected something out of him about this.
3. That incredibly angry post that Misha made over the “Murder and Rape Inc.” about the military was the hook. I knew it was a joke after that. Misha is way too smart to publicly post such a threatening rant.
Soooo…I decided to stop posting in those particular threads. I figured I’d just sit back and watch the fun as the rest of the Rotties chewed away on an imaginary toy. ROFL!!
Excellent Job Sire!! :king_tb: :thumbup_tb:
April 1st, 2007 at 11:25 AMUsing
Woohoo! Thank you sire for an out of the ordinary weekend.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:25 AMUsing
Not 110% sure, but I believe it has been RR who has been positing the April fools prank theory over on the Bark practically since the beginning. (my apologies if it was another member of the Rott - AEOCRS)
I withheld an opinion, just refused to give the little squirrely yipster hits to his site - until ‘Ian’ posted about Soldiers. :nono_tb: Then I was certain it was not a hoax.
WRONG.
:doh_tb:
April 1st, 2007 at 11:25 AMUsing
Well Done !!!! Now as to our little discussion of last eve. You don’t depose very well now do you? The BS detector was wall to wall in alarm and you almost swallowed the bait.
I’ll give you an 8 1/2, ya’ smarmy bastich. Retributions will follow, I bought into it for a bit.
I hear Brazil is rather nice this time of year, but beware the plastic surgeon that also hold credentials in urology.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:28 AMUsing
How much traffic did “MishaWatch” get during its run? It would be funny to compare it to, say another frothing-at-the-mouth lib blog…
April 1st, 2007 at 11:29 AMUsing
Ah, yes. I forgot to add:
Have ‘fun’ in Brazil!
:devil_tb:
April 1st, 2007 at 11:31 AMUsing
Thanks!
And the chew toys over there weren’t all imaginary. “LC Hastings”, for instance is the notorious nutjob calling himself JC Christian, Patriot, and “Dwight” is very much a real Moonbat too.
I know. That bit of the prank made me want to go take a long bath in a tub full of lye to get the stench off of myself. But I needed something that would fully justify my real self going completely ballistic and post death threats to “Ian” and, like I said, there’s no way anybody would’ve believed that I’d even consider doing that over an ordinary, run-of-the-mill, Moonbat insult.
I still need that lye bath, though.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:33 AMUsing
LOL.
Well, that was right after things had taken a quite unexpected turn for the land of “Holy Shit, what have I DONE?”, when HM got involved and thought I was being hacked. So on top of being a bit rattled (serves me right - lol), I had to come up with something, and FAST :shock_tb:
:surrender_tb:
Tall and tan and young and lovely
April 1st, 2007 at 11:39 AMThe girl from Ipanema goes walking
And when she passes, each one she passes goes - ahhhh…
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I thought it was wonderful, though I was on to you, Sire, earlier on. :wink_ee:
Oh, and I didn’t report anything to the Dept of Justice either. I was pulling a little April 1st on you as well. :devil_tb:
Can we still keep MishaWatch?
April 1st, 2007 at 11:39 AMUsing
I just pointed “Dwight” over here. His entire raison d’tre will vanish in an instant!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! :devil_tb: :doh_tb: :redface_wp:
April 1st, 2007 at 11:39 AMUsing
And how was I on to the joke so soon?
I know you’re not thin-skinned, Sire! (And it was a bit much. *wink*)
April 1st, 2007 at 11:44 AMUsing
Yeah it’s quite smelly here at the palace!! :sick_ee:
April 1st, 2007 at 11:45 AMUsing
:lol_wp: Sadly, I’m hardly in a position to complain, now am I?
Well, it’s not my site, I had somebody else set it up for me to make absolutely sure it wouldn’t point back to me (I wonder who?, heh), so we’ll have to see what he wants to do with it.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:46 AMUsing
I just wasted two hours compiling email addys to bcc: an email explaining to them that no, they were not banned, the site was just hacked, etc. - all on a prank?!?!??!
So help me, Misha, if you weren’t my best friend… :doh_tb:
April 1st, 2007 at 11:48 AMUsing
ROTFLMAO….Damn it! I Bit on it hook line an sinker… :wallbash_tb:
April 1st, 2007 at 11:50 AMUsing
And just who is the “Unindicted Co-ConspiRATor”?
Who dreamed up “Boinking Chickens@gmail”? And the NAZI part. Do tell! Or we will start a Congressional investigation complete with ‘process crimes’!
April 1st, 2007 at 11:52 AMUsing
I can be calm…I will be calm…
I am buying a ticket to Brazil to force you to listen to Hillary’s singing for making my BP go up so high!
Good one, though!
April 1st, 2007 at 11:52 AMUsing
I say it was DJ….Fess up DJ…you’re just devious enough to do it…and the simplicity of the “misha watch” website would of been childs play for you …
April 1st, 2007 at 11:57 AMUsing
So how come you ban Ian’s Boyfriend after my first post??!!!!!
April 1st, 2007 at 12:00 PMUsing
PIMF - banned.
April 1st, 2007 at 12:00 PMUsing
I didn’t. I didn’t ban anything, it was just that the damn spam filter kept messing up (most likely because of the intense traffic), so I had to constantly, manually clear comments caught in the queue. So when you guys got “banned”, it was actually the stupid filter retroactively throwing your posts into the moderation queue until I could pull them out again.
April 1st, 2007 at 12:03 PMUsing
I’m agog, Emperor…
This has got to be the best organized April Fools’ I’ve seen in a very long time. I was completely taken in. (Just remember what they say about “payback” though…)
And Radical, you’re absolutely right. As much as we all got suckered — well, Dwight, do tell: How does it feel?
April 1st, 2007 at 12:08 PMUsing
Thats what I get for never looking at MishaWatch. I did not even get to see it coming.
Last person who pulled an April Fool’s gag in this family was a distant cousin, who for some strange reason has not been seen since! :eek_wp:
April 1st, 2007 at 12:33 PMUsing
Gut hooked like a catfish.
April 1st, 2007 at 12:39 PMNice job.
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Prank was a day early. You broke one of the unwritten rules of April Fool’s : only good on April 1st!!! I know DJ had something to do with this as well. You’ll get yours next year, I promise …
BTW, where is the torturer? Do you have two personas, Misha?
April 1st, 2007 at 12:43 PMUsing
[…] ‘Tis that time of year again, isn’t it? […]
April 1st, 2007 at 12:54 PMUsing
Rrriiiight!
Empress, you should know by now not to encourage this kind of thing.
Ian’s STILL a wanker. Imaginary friend or not.
April 1st, 2007 at 12:55 PMUsing
From Michelle Malkin: Can Nancy Pelosi Even Get Into Syria?
April 1st, 2007 at 12:58 PMThe best April Fool’s jokes are the ones you inadvertently play on yourself …
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*clapping* Woo-HOO!!! Thank you for such fun, oh Emperor! That took a lot of work.
Baboo tipped me off early with their post, so I wasn’t quite fooled for long.
I’m STILL trying to figure out who the LC was though - I had been leaning towards Lord Spatula, but his post above seems to clear him.
It’s one of the GLORs, isn’t it? C’mon! Give us a better hint!
Absolutely stellar - Though I had NO idea Hastings and Dwight were real. THAT part got me.
Orion
April 1st, 2007 at 1:04 PMUsing
I sort of figured it out when no one would answer the question “Why don’t you just ignore him?”
BTW, several of the posts by “cb” were me.
April 1st, 2007 at 1:08 PMUsing
I think it should be left up to see how many moonbats from that rogue’s gallery blogroll (nice touch) still come over to support their “ally” :devil_tb:
April 1st, 2007 at 1:10 PMUsing
My first reaction to “Misha Watch” was that it had to be a joke, too - and I said as much on both your first “Ian” post and at the first of the “Misha Watch” posts you linked - but when your site got “hacked” I was starting to buy into it, too.
Never mind hiding from us, Sire: you might want to keep a low profile around the Hosting Matters people for a while, too…
Oh, and regarding your Brazilian vacation: You ARE going to take the Empress along with you, right? Because we all know what they say about the hot and willing Brazilian women…and if you go down there alone, you might be taking your life in your hands if you ever try to return home.
Or even get within rifle range of the Empress. :lol_wp:
April 1st, 2007 at 1:15 PMUsing
Beware the anacondas, you ………Grrrrrrr! Well done, your majesty.
April 1st, 2007 at 1:15 PMUsing
Brazil’s too good for ya Emperor, I think you should be sentenced to a weeks worth of bath house tours in San Francisco…… :cheese1_ee:
Good one, I too bit it hook, line, and sinker, but didn’t post all that much….I tend to avoid the debate sites like Bare Knuckle Politics and such as they tend to slide down into personal insults and leave the topics behind. But, when I was in the mood, I took my shots at those idiots hastings and dwight (wasn’t sure if they were real or not)….THEY must be having a hell of a morning, knowing that they were taken in like that. That’s the best part of the joke to me, talk about hooking a couple of BIG sucker fish.
So Emperor, I posted under a couple of alias’s to drive a point or two over there…names like Ian’s Other Mommy and Ian’s Bubba, were you able to discern our true identities when we did that?
and where the hell did you get that Godawful ugly photograph?
April 1st, 2007 at 1:23 PMUsing
I haven’t laughed so hard in a long time.
We got the idea because I noticed that JT Davis had started to post a bunch of trackbacks here from Liberaltopia and I joked with Misha that if it continued, I might have to start up a “MishaWatch” site to handle all of them. And that is when the April Fools idea hatched.
First, I didn’t want to create the suspicion that I had ANYthing to do with this, since I would most likely be the logical culprit.
Secondly, Misha was TOO liberal for even MOST liberals. He took it to the extreme.
I told Misha last night that it was a wonder that people hadn’t caught on because of my lack of posting on the MishaWatch threads.
I dunno. I might just let the domain float away. I might offer it to JT Davis if he wants it. Of course, the current site on that server will go dark because it served its purpose.
If it runs at all, whoever takes it will have to pay for the hosting.
That was me. I actually have a throw-away gmail account under that name.
I didn’t think of it before, but I just checked my mailbox there and found the following email:
(click to enlarge)
Part of this was my fault. I forgot to tell Misha that before he redirected the site to the fake suspension page, he needed to rename the folder the site is located in so that it created a “403″ error message. I thought about it when I was on the road Friday, but then forgot to tell Misha. When I got his email last night with the “Oh Shit! URGENT!!!” subject line, I remembered.
Aaron and his partner spent the night watching all of the speculation and anger here, laughing their heads off. It was all I could do last night not to spill the beans myself. It was too damn funny.
When I created that “HM suspension page” :
I deliberately put the following at the bottom so that people wouldn’t try contacting HM:
If you had clicked on the email addresses listed there, it would have sent an email to stacy@hostnnatters.com Misha had been concerned about people contacting HM if they saw the suspension notice.
If this had been a REAL notice, you all would have flunked.
From what the stats say, there were a total of 5076 visits for the entire month of March.
The “hacking” thing really worked out in favor of this prank.
April 1st, 2007 at 1:25 PMUsing
Bravo!
Much better than the damn bunnies.
And, yes, you got me as well. Considering that there’s Chronwatch and LGFwatch, why not a Mishawatch?
Guess I’ll head back to qrz.com where they’re flaming a muslim apologist to ashes.
April 1st, 2007 at 1:36 PMUsing
I KNEW IT ALL ALONG!!!!!!!!!!
April 1st, 2007 at 1:39 PMEr…..no…..I didn’t have a clue. I was even arguing with Bacon about it. Bacon knew all along.
Damn. Don’t know whether to laugh at myself for being so easily duped, grieve the “loss” of a Nutjob moonbat to beat on, or be royally pissed off at the Emperor. Ah…screw it. Excellent joke Boss!
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Prank wankers.
April 1st, 2007 at 1:40 PMUsing
[…] to show that Misha has a sense of humor, we perpetrated this little joke on […]
April 1st, 2007 at 1:40 PMUsing
LMAO! Fantastic work, Emperor! Your putting a post of mine in there drew me in like corn brings in a ‘possum, LOL! I got dibs on getting to wear the April fools hat for falling for it so hard!
April 1st, 2007 at 1:49 PMUsing
Such sublime delight. Forget what I said about the anacondas, Sire. I OWE you big time. I simply had to pay a vist to mishawatch, leave a luv note for dwight. I think we should all pay him a visit, ya’ know what I’m sayin’. And sorry about shittin’ on the carpet, Sire……now I can go back there.
April 1st, 2007 at 1:51 PMUsing
:lol_tb:
April 1st, 2007 at 2:02 PMUsing
Okay, I admit. I’m WAY too naive. I really thought it was legit. I figured if Jeff could have a stalker, then Misha could, too. :blush_tb:
April 1st, 2007 at 2:04 PMUsing
Not a bad assumption. I HAVE actually had the occasional nut obsessing over me in the past, so it wouldn’t be all that surprising, really.
April 1st, 2007 at 2:09 PMUsing
I figured something was wrong when half the old trolls started being mentioned here and there.
April 1st, 2007 at 2:25 PMUsing
This was a glorious prank.
April 1st, 2007 at 2:27 PMUsing
Hehehe I don’t care who ya are, that’s funny, right there!
April 1st, 2007 at 2:35 PMUsing
I’m truly humbled. I thought I was a pretty good prankster (got a good one about Anatomy lab from 3-4 years past), but I am standing in the presence of a royal jokester. Ya had me. I admit it, and have no issues with that. You make evil look good.
April 1st, 2007 at 2:40 PMUsing
Yeah, I’d say you are in more danger from HM than us. Annette was not laughing last night.
That was a reply to me for my email entitled “You people just ended your company”.
oops.
And DJ, when we get pissed off about something we WILL find a valid email address somewhere.
:lol_wp:
April 1st, 2007 at 2:59 PMUsing
Muwahahahahahaaaaa! *The* April fool! I win!
April 1st, 2007 at 3:04 PMUsing
Bahahaha. That is awesomesauce.
April 1st, 2007 at 3:39 PMUsing
Well, I must admit, this prank convinced me to register. I had wondered as to the origin of “MishaWatch”. Hooking a few real moonbats was a treat. I wonder if they dare show their face again?
April 1st, 2007 at 4:26 PMXnks for a good laugh.
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I have to ask, who played the part of “pigfeet”? That one really cracked me up.
April 1st, 2007 at 4:30 PMUsing
I think I posted over there on the first day MishaWatch was up and then abandoned it for being too ridiculous. Not that I thought it was a prank but that I thought it was a parody done by someone who wanted the Rotties to look bad through over-reaction.
I do take exception to DJ’s assertion that MishaWatch was over the top. That kind of stuff is out there all over the place. It worked because it was so close to the reality.
This was the giveaway that it wasn’t a moonbat hack after all. If there had been an Ian, he would have included something like:
“We will consider requests, pleas, or complaints from interested third parties… Yadda Yadda”.
The next clue that the hacking story was a fake was when I realized that TAIR was running on Linux and not on Windows. I can believe that a Win host could be taken down but that is a rare occurance with Linux.
Finally, one gripe. Isn’t an April Fools day prank supposed to happen on April Fools Day? If, Sire, you are true to this tradition then here is my theory: Your comment telling us this was all a hoax is the ACTUAL prank and there really IS an “Ian”, who really DID hack TAIR. That is, unless you are starting a new tradition of April Fools pranks NOT happening on the appointed day. I suppose the Emperor can do what he wants but he’s messing with the President of the Galaxy here and he doesn’t take kindly to such finessing of the calendar. :mad2_ee:
April 1st, 2007 at 4:32 PMUsing
It had me going until friday:
April 1st, 2007 at 4:36 PMUsing
Well you (and kwongdzu) both have a point there, but I was going by Danish time… Yep, that’s it. Danish time. :tongue_laugh_ee:
April 1st, 2007 at 4:38 PMUsing
Next you’re going to tell us that you’ve seen Morgan Fairchild naked. :smirk2_ee:
April 1st, 2007 at 4:45 PMUsing
We were foolish to forget how strong the force is with this one.
Nice job sire.
April 1st, 2007 at 4:51 PMUsing
Misha.
Over here.
A little closer.
*WHACK*
THAT is for sending me to the legal library on hacking issues…and its a bloody good thing for you that you posted this…I have three emails ready to go to two private detectives I have contacts with in the US.
And when you get to Brazil…bring me back a tanned young thing, circa age 20, clad in very little.
Grrrrrrrrrrr :lol_wp: :lol_wp:
You are truly evil, my Emperor…I have much to learn
April 1st, 2007 at 4:52 PMUsing
But in a good sort of way of course.
April 1st, 2007 at 4:55 PMUsing
DOH!
I never even CONSIDERED DJ.
Now I feel really stupid.
Orion
April 1st, 2007 at 5:03 PMUsing
one more thing kind of curious about this whole thing. The local school district where I work has blocked all blogs and chat rooms. I can’t read the Rott or Malkin or sites like that while at school….but the really interesting thing was:
I could access misha watch at school :hmm2_ee:
suspicious
April 1st, 2007 at 5:07 PMUsing
Misha,
Bravo, you cheeky bastard!!! Well Played!!
I tend to stay out of pissing contests, but I was watching from the sidelines, cocked, locked and ready to rock should the need arise, and swallowed the whole fucking thing hook, line, and sinker…
Your April Fools Kung Fu is very powerful.
April 1st, 2007 at 5:15 PMUsing
Grrrrrr… Now it seems so obvious and I feel really stupid. :wallbash_tb: :doh_tb:
Good Work Sire! You got me. Although it was good practice.
(me at mishawatch)
But how many of the troll commentators were you and how many of them were actually liberals?
April 1st, 2007 at 5:17 PMUsing
I guess we’ll never be able to trust the Sire ever again. Something about “crying wolf” comes to mind.
I keeed.
*ducks*
April 1st, 2007 at 5:23 PMUsing
I meant the trolls on mishwatch. Good point though LC Beeblebrox.
April 1st, 2007 at 5:26 PMUsing
I assumed that is what you meant, Merc. After all, I don’t believe for one second that His Majesty would troll his OWN blog. :cheese1_ee:
April 1st, 2007 at 5:32 PMUsing
That may soon change, brother Jaybear…. . Of course, as they do in typical lefty fashion, this will be twisted around in order to victimize them. These creepazoids are truly a piece of work. I sit here, cherubic countenance beaming, smilin’ like a Cheshire cat, relishing and savoring the notion of them quietly seething, frothing for vengeance. Misha has made some more enemies. We will have to watch his six big time. Now all they have to do is one simple thing………come to the Rott.
April 1st, 2007 at 5:39 PMUsing
Funny. The same thought occurred to me. :smirk2_ee:
April 1st, 2007 at 5:48 PMUsing
The clue is the IP address to the site. Hosting Matters shares IP addresses with HUNDREDS of other sites. I have my own unique IP addresses.
April 1st, 2007 at 5:56 PMUsing
The Imperial Agent Provocateur said:
Only proving that great minds think alike!
April 1st, 2007 at 5:58 PMUsing
I feel outdone
My April Fools joke was Taking the NY Times flag down and raising the old Soviet cross and hammer flag over my local Liberal Newspaper, A NYT afilliate
And while I was scheming, I was biting in to your bill of goods
Good Grief
Enjoy Brazil
I will be hiding in the Philippines from my Liberal enemies at the newspaper ( its Holy Week there )
ShiningWolf
April 1st, 2007 at 5:59 PMUsing
Why the name Ian?
Is it a play on the “I am” from God?
April 1st, 2007 at 6:18 PMUsing
Well I have not been on this site for a very long (hardly a month), so I got taken in hook, line and sinker.
HOWEVER…had it been anyone other than your Imperial Highness who pulled this one, I would tell you to take it all and…well, do not very nice and probably physically impossible things with it. As it is, I have come to respect you and the other dawgs around here enough to be able to laugh at it all: Ya got me, Boss!
LONG LIVE MISHA!
April 1st, 2007 at 6:24 PMAnd death to the pwned trolls!
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Well, around that time of year anyway… Heaven help me should I ever get an actual attack during the Spring. :lol_wp:
I know that LC Hastings and Dwight were the real thing, and I know that I didn’t troll the site as anybody (other than “Ian”, obviously).
April 1st, 2007 at 6:58 PMUsing
No, I needed a face, and I simply googled “Socialist” images and clicked through the possibilities until I got to Ian’s picture. When I saw it, I just KNEW that was the one. The face just screamed for recognition on a site called “MishaWatch”.
I also knew that Juandos’ first move would be to do a “whois” on the domain, so I deliberately registered the domain under the American National Socialists, with Demitri Bagons as the contact. (I am surprised that nobody bothered to check out Dimitri Bagons (Lord of the Rings)
April 1st, 2007 at 7:02 PMUsing
I’m taking your word for this Sire, given that it is now 2am April 2nd in Denmark. :cheese1_ee:
April 1st, 2007 at 7:02 PMUsing
That makes me feel a little better, because most of my arguments were in the comments. But wow, you got me good with that one. :blush_tb:
April 1st, 2007 at 7:22 PMUsing
Alright…
I’ve got about 5 bag of feathers available and I know where to get a rail, but does anyone know where I can get my hands on about 10 gallons of tar?
:guns_tb:
April 1st, 2007 at 7:25 PMUsing
If I Devoted That Much Effort to an April Fools' Joke……
…I darn well ought to get some death threats out of it.
Emperor Misha's "hacked blog" had a lot of us fooled because it happened on March 31. Moral: Those of us who wait until April 1 are the fools. Well done, Mish.
April 1st, 2007 at 7:32 PM…
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You wanker!! (and I mean that in the aussie way) suckered me in nicely!
April 1st, 2007 at 7:42 PMIve been beclowned!!!
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I havn’t even looked at the site but am confused.
Who is the real Ian step foward please. Was it DJ or Misha? They have both admitted to posting Ian posts.
DJ..
Misha…
Are the two one and the same? Just something to think about.
April 1st, 2007 at 7:44 PMUsing
Misha,
The South is honoured to in include you among her sons.
You’re just our kind of scoundrel!
Freain’ riot!
‘Can’t wait for the next one.
*klink*
April 1st, 2007 at 7:47 PMUsing
I think you have hit on it SkyWatch! Your theory lines up with mine. It is now clear that DJ and Misha are one in the same person (I know that I have not personally seen them in the same room together).
So now we know. After all this time, it turns out that Misha HAS been trolling his own site. That explains a lot. :surprised_tb:
April 1st, 2007 at 7:50 PMUsing
(best burns voice) Excellent! You turned this site over your knee and gave it a pranking it won’t soon forget. Smithers! (yes, Mr. Burns) Release the mechanical Richard Simmons on him…
April 1st, 2007 at 7:53 PMUsing
But which one is the “sock puppet?”
April 1st, 2007 at 7:54 PMUsing
There is only one. Just Misha. Understand SkyWatch? No “DJ”, no “Ian”. Just the Emperor.
Although, now that I think about it, I am thinking that maybe there is some other, as yet to be discovered persona lurking in the shadows, a kind of ghost writer we know as “Misha” but not really Misha after all. Hmmm.
Hey, gotta run. I’m going to go refit my tinfoil hat now. It seems to have become misaligned. :confused_ee:
April 1st, 2007 at 8:08 PMUsing
can I have a hat too? Not a tinfiol one but maybe beaver?
I’m still not sure on that whole emperor thing. I have always felt in my loins we should shoot anyone who takes that name on sight. I do however believe in seeing the person before I shoot them. ( It’s a balistic thing)
April 1st, 2007 at 8:19 PMUsing
Actually,
I may have been the first to do the WhoIs…
I know I was the only one to check SS records and Immigration records, and determine that there was no Demetri Bagons…not that the name Bagons sounded remotely authentic on someone with the first name Demitri.
I knew all along it was a wind-up, but didn’t know that Misha was involved. Last night I offered him the services of my private army, the Izzedine al-Haqr al-Karachiya brigade, and his non-response told me he didn’t really want to find out who “hacked” the site.
April 1st, 2007 at 8:24 PMUsing
Oh, one other important thing, Sire.
Please don’t ever, EVER, delete Princess Natasha’s comments!
She, and her smackdowns, are priceless, and I still ROFLMAO at comments she made almost 3 years ago.
April 1st, 2007 at 8:26 PMUsing
No. DJ never posted anything on “Misha Watch”, it was all me. All HE did was register the domain, set up the site and find the picture for the “About” page.
I take full responsibility for anything that “Ian” aka the “Dog Catcher” posted, because I wrote every single word of it.
April 1st, 2007 at 8:27 PMUsing
Fool me once my bad, twice I should learn, Thrice I am not very good at the conspiracy stuff.
April 1st, 2007 at 8:45 PMUsing
Well I can think of one…..
April 1st, 2007 at 8:56 PMUsing
Why, from Steve, of course:
Now THAT would be the ultimate April Fools joke, wouldn’t it? :lol_wp:
Sorry, we are two completely different people.
How many people actually use their real name online?
Misha’s right. I built the car and gave him the keys, and he drove like the wind. While all of you went for a ride, I sat on the bleachers and watched the race — laughing my head off.
April 1st, 2007 at 9:08 PMUsing
Actually, in case you didn’t notice DJ, most of us are not laughing.
April 1st, 2007 at 9:13 PMUsing
Misha, you magnificent bastard! The piece de resistance (pardon my Fwench) of the whole joke was that actual lefties were so deluded that they fell for it and defended the sock puppet. I want to see pictures of their faces after they discovered that they had been had!
April 1st, 2007 at 9:18 PMUsing
I still love you guys…just sayin’.
April 1st, 2007 at 9:19 PMUsing
I know I had spot 100 post a bit ago was there some behind the sceens deals made Lady Heather to get you spot 100?
April 1st, 2007 at 9:24 PMUsing
Okay, all of us who are actually Misha, stand up…I know *I’M* actually Misha too..
Orion
April 1st, 2007 at 9:24 PMUsing
I agree. One of the several unfortunate things about this “prank” is that DJ had to be a part of it. Had he not, given his proclivity to routinely defend the indefensible, he likely would have been the first in line defending “Ian”. As has been mentioned before, the fact that he didn’t show up with a defense in this thread is the thing that made it seem kind of hinky.
April 1st, 2007 at 9:25 PMUsing
Three comments.
1) The Force is strong with this one.
2) I was kinda wondering about the joke thing myself, but, being somewhat snowed under recently, didn’t do any posting at MishaWatch, just read it. (Hey, Boss! Any chance you could save the site and archive it here?)
3)…
Random Numbers I’ve got five gallons of sprayable in the garage, want it?
April 1st, 2007 at 9:26 PMUsing
Hastings is furiously backtracking. He only wanted to hurl insults because “that’s all you do.” He knew all along because:
What a miserable, pathetic prick! :devil_tb: :lol_tb: :thumbdown_tb: :rolleyes_tb:
April 1st, 2007 at 9:31 PMUsing
4) Why does the chorus from “The I-95 Song” come to mind???
April 1st, 2007 at 9:33 PMUsing
My oh my, some of us have said some rude things to the poor trolls in Mishawatch. Back under the bridge time, counting panhandled change. How unkind…and why I am simply enjoying the hell out of it, watching the Rotts circle…………….? Must be a character defect. Or Karma and her rear view mirror…
April 1st, 2007 at 9:45 PMUsing
So…
Just out of curiosity, what do I win for having called this - in comments - some three days ago?
- MuscleDaddy
April 1st, 2007 at 10:16 PMUsing
Nice one, Misha. You had me going there at the beginning, but towards the end I was thinking, “THis is getting so ridiculous it HAS to be a joke.” Didn’t think it was you though.
April 1st, 2007 at 10:19 PMUsing
Seriously - send me another shirt or something:
http://www.nicedoggie.net/2007/?p=403#comments
I was even ‘First!’ that day…
- MuscleDaddy
April 1st, 2007 at 10:21 PMUsing
OK, got me damned good. :dunce_tb: :wallbash_tb:
BRAVO! Excellently played! :clap_tb: :clap_tb:
Beeblebrox
Hasn’t everyone?
The funniest part was markiepoo trying to claim he was in on it and Misha and DJ smacking the ever lovin piss out of him.
Followed by markiepoo’s inevitable “rage”
F’ng priceless!
Oh, this has been one helluva fun ride. Even bangie thing was getting into it. In fact, after the whole Mishawatch episode I think she might be ready to comment here soon, at least when she’s done with our home re-modelling project (read she decides what she wants and I do the work!)
April 1st, 2007 at 10:24 PMUsing
P.S. Watching the two real trolls get torn to shreds was FABTASTIC fun! BiW, Orion, Staci and Lady H, ya all were incredible! Now to see if either Hastyturd or Dweeb/markiepoo come by here for the real thing.
Oh and DJ, fantastic find on the real Ian, you’re right, that pic just absolutely SCREAMED for attention. Good choice.
To all the conspirators, bravo! Especially you Empress. The other night in the Bark when I asked you about Misha’s reaction to Ian, damn you played it cool Milady.
April 1st, 2007 at 10:29 PMUsing
It strikes me as readily apparent Dave has already torn this fucker a new asshole. Are these people gluttons for punishment? It would seem so. Besides, I like Dave, and trust him too. And like with crunchie, this is truly priceless…..every word of it. Life is never dull at the Rott….nope.
April 1st, 2007 at 10:29 PMUsing
Most of me is, and that is all that counts.
Then you don’t know me as well as you think you do. I have my own real-life Ian posting over at Liberaltopia, and you won’t see me commenting on those threads. (g’wan, look)
I tend to make it a point NOT to get involved in threads where the only point is to drag down other sites that I am involved in. It doesn’t matter whether I agree or disagree with the people on the site that is being trashed — I just won’t do it.
If you want to debate the issues, that’s one thing, but if the primary purpose is to swat noses (for lack of a better term) then I am not going to get involved.
I have stated here and at a few of the other sites I am involved with that while we don’t agree on a lot of political things, I don’t find anyone here to be “inhuman”, degenerate, immoral, or even bad people.
Realistically, if you take everything as a whole, there is very little in life that we do disagree on — and even that is minor when you look at the big scheme of things.
What makes things look like there is this great divide is because we only focus on the things we disagree on. It creates the illusion that we disagree with EVERYTHING.
With the exception of a very tiny segment of the population, we all have the same hopes, dreams, and desires. Our only disagreement is the road we take to get there.
We get on this box, and from the comfort of our house or office we hurl arguments and insults at each other, then we walk away and somehow manage to carry on our day-to-day lives, interacting with everyone else, and somehow manage NOT to create havoc. Why? Because the glue that binds us is stronger with the things we have in common, than the things we don’t have in common.
April 1st, 2007 at 10:47 PMUsing
I never said I didn’t like DJ/PP. I just can’t talk politics with him, just like 80% of the people I’m likely to meet here in the Puget Sound Area.
As for “Hastings” showing his hook-nosed, pasty-face here, I thought I heard he got hisself onto Spat’s shit list and PNG’d from the site. It would be fun if he came by to play, though, wouldn’t it?
April 1st, 2007 at 10:51 PMUsing
This should make the MSM in a day or two.
After all the put the Scooter lied on front page for a few weeks.
The “new Yorker Times”…. right wing blog places joke on Americans and it backfires.
Right wing blogger comenters say BS. new Yorker Times is silent.
April 1st, 2007 at 10:58 PMUsing
We come HERE to talk politics. Most people would rather talk about something else in the real world. We tend to try and get along. To blow off steam, we come to places like this. It is part of what keeps us sane in the real world.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:18 PMUsing
BEST April Fools Day prank evah!
I’m sorry I missed most of it–I had resolved to NEVER click a Misha Watch link a day or so after “someone” (haha) had left the comment in my blog that there was puppy-thrashing going on over there. (D’oh!)
April 1st, 2007 at 11:19 PM:dunce_tb:
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Wait…
Puppy thahing that is the IMAO site?
April 1st, 2007 at 11:32 PMUsing
Wait…
Puppy thashing that is the IMAO site?
April 1st, 2007 at 11:33 PMUsing
Swing by Keizer some time, first pint’s on me for this one.
And thanks for the compliment Crunchie!!
Orion
April 1st, 2007 at 11:39 PMUsing
I am so confused, Misha is the shoot my guns that I will never let you know site witch means for me ..please hillary come knock on my door and say hi.
And who else does the Emperor go far.. McCain? Fudge Mcain I will vote 3rd party breforehim.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:39 PMUsing
It is sad that I have to choose between a person whocant lead and a people who don’t want to too. Ohh well , lets be wimps.
In the next election what are my choices?
of the people who have a chance of winning?
A few people who want to use the government to push cristian values on me or the others ( and you should die) who want to teach my children that being gay is ok when they have barly leaned that it takes a boy and girl to make baby.
So my choice is bible thumpers or dipshits.
April 2nd, 2007 at 12:32 AMUsing
And please do not tell me the 3rd way…that is the Grinich way which is the same as thew Bush way.
Ask him what the the 3rd way is. If honest he will tell you a one world government.
That is Newt the 3 rd way.
April 2nd, 2007 at 12:47 AMUsing
Bill Richardson is a person I will listen to but he is to middle.
Thompson I am interested in but had dang well better telling what his juck would be.
April 2nd, 2007 at 12:57 AMUsing
??!
April 2nd, 2007 at 12:59 AMUsing
I agree DJ.
??!
April 2nd, 2007 at 1:40 AMUsing
OK.. I was asked for a Rosie dipshit person conspiracy so her it is.
Mishasha and DJ got together and descided that they would mess with us. A few of us made silly comments that turned out too be true and then DJ denied it so would get in troubles.
Misah took full respusibility for the whole thing as a true conservative would when they did it. Misha did it all but I still think him and DJ are one and the same so proove me wrong
April 2nd, 2007 at 1:44 AMUsing
Was Carol Bernat the origanal sock puppet “lamb chop”?
That lil sock on her hand that said it’s alraight”?
April 2nd, 2007 at 1:54 AMUsing
I noticed DJ is using Vista “the poor sucka”
April 2nd, 2007 at 2:08 AMUsing
Still ??!
Unless you are the only person on this speck of dust that thinks Misha and I are the same person?
:lol_wp: :lol_wp: :lol_wp: :lol_wp:
(it took me a while to decipher what the hell you were babbling about…)
Hint: You are supposed to use tin foil for the conspiracy hat, not saran wrap — that usually shrinks down and constricts blood to the head.
Yep, and lovin’ every minute of it. Since I’ve been using it, I have not had one bad moment, not one non-responsive program, and it is solid as a rock. I can’t say the same about using an over-patched leak-hole like XP. In the six months leading up to the official release of Vista, I was having to reinstall XP everytime MicroShaft came out with its monthly updates.
That being said, I wouldn’t recommend Vista unless you have a machine that can handle it. I have a dual-core dual Xeon machine with six gigs of RAM and this baby just hums along like it is nobody’s business.
So yes, I am more than happy with my Vista.
April 2nd, 2007 at 2:28 AMUsing
Exceelent job Emperor and DJ. I just take a little joy that it kind of backfired there at the end…I’ll call this one even.
and
It wasn’t Burnett, it was Shari Lewis.
April 2nd, 2007 at 2:44 AMUsing
Um…no…that was Shari Lewis that starred with Lamb Chop.
April 2nd, 2007 at 2:50 AMUsing
Dang SoCalOilMan you were faster than I was. :tongue_wink_ee:
April 2nd, 2007 at 2:51 AMUsing
I have forgetten what we are argueing about but I always liked Freddie and the magic flute.
April 2nd, 2007 at 3:40 AMUsing
Damn. Not only did I bite hook, line and sinker, I damn near swallowed the boat! I grovel before a masterwork of pranking. And Emp, if you go to Brazil, I’ll take a . . . oh, hi, dear!
*pssst. Nevermind.*
April 2nd, 2007 at 7:18 AMUsing
Did SkyWatch start drinking heavily last night, or did the flying monkeys bogart his pc? I have noticed the same thing before, lucid posts followed by progressively stranger and poorly edited ramblings.
April 2nd, 2007 at 8:05 AMUsing
It is the monkeys.
April 2nd, 2007 at 8:17 AMUsing
Oh MY GOD MISHA…OH MY GOD. I fell for it hook line and sinker……so much in fact dear emperor that (GULP) I Really did report Ian (YOU) to the DOJ, the Secret Service and the FBI !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Im soooooooooooooooooo Sorry !!!!!
I wonder if you can undo a report???
HH
April 2nd, 2007 at 8:42 AMUsing
Oooh crud ..now you might be on the government database.
April 2nd, 2007 at 9:03 AMUsing
So, no more “Tales From the Shallow End of the Gene Pool”?
*sigh*
April 2nd, 2007 at 9:41 AMUsing
Now, you may know the people who have reistered guns.And the governmenent will be coming for them. That sucks.
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:08 AMUsing
That’s alright, we will disavow any knowledge of you, and tell them you must be some kind of crank. :wink_ee:
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…Hello, Your Rottieness…
…still needing a t-shirt over here….
- MuscleDaddy
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:24 AMUsing
If you wish to put crud back on LC just give his name up as someone who knew a person that had a gun.
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:27 AMUsing
Orion Sez:
(cut to MMM standing up..)
I’m Spartacus, er, um, I mean Misha!!
April 2nd, 2007 at 12:14 PMUsing
This can all be filed in the same section the Rednecks do after the famous last words are holler’d “HEY YA”LL WATCH THIS!”
And..
April 2nd, 2007 at 3:42 PMNote to LCs, SkyWatch is doin’ good, working around some aggrivating physical disabilities which could make some of the stuff confusing.
I’m glad he’s banging away, determined to be heard.
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Finally,
Somone understands me. I am happy.
April 2nd, 2007 at 4:51 PMUsing
Just reread the post (Which I havn’t looked at for awhile) and Misha wants a open casket.
(not in the face). I may be off a little bit but if I have to get shot I want it in the face. Quik, easy and gross. Thats how I want to go.
April 2nd, 2007 at 5:12 PMUsing
If one should be so lucky to choos:
April 2nd, 2007 at 5:46 PMI was thinkin’ maybe vapor lockin’ after a six hour orgasm..
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That’s what I’M talking about!!!
(Or being found shot dead at age 85 in a hotel room with a 25 year old woman, the apparent victim of a love triangle…)
April 2nd, 2007 at 9:50 PMUsing
Guess they call him St Peter for a reason.
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:09 PMUsing
Nope, ’twasn’t me. Like I said, I’ve been too busy doing fiancée stuff with the fiancée. Even if Mein Imperator had been kind enough to let me in on it (glare), I probably still wouldn’t have had time to help out.
Sucks being as in demand as I am.
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:21 PMUsing
Drat. I thought I had you pegged on that one, Spats…Was worth a try!
Orion
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:20 AMUsing
-SHOT OUT-
ATTENTION ON DECK!
Oooooo, you evil Sith Lord you. What I would like to know is who played the part of the evil villian HASTINGS. The comment about f-ing my wife (even though I have been divorced for some time) still rankles. Still and all, it was pretty good target practice and allowed my crew to sight in our main guns. I’ve been in the stateroom for far to long. Repairing rail cars is a very exhausting job for one of my advanced years and all I do now is sleep, eat, and work. I love this site so much that it is impossible for The Captain to be upset. Good joke! There was also something uber smarmy about the guy with the fucking blackberry. I mean, really, no one in their right mind would ever try to defend themselves in that manner. I’m chuckling just thinking about it. Very good joke. The USS RIGHT WING STANDS OFF YOUR STARBOARD BOW AND SALUTES YOU!
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:16 AMUsing
Captain, nobody was playing that part. That asshole was for real. He’s probably some waste of humanity who was banned from here long ago.
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:28 AMUsing
Ahhh, thanx Mike. Bet he’s feeling like he’s wallowing in water up to his scuppers by now!
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:38 AMUsing
Oh, and by the by, I still think I “Coyned” the phrase, “Able Bodied Led Stopper” … Hee hee, ABLS, damn, Misha had me pissed!
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:39 AMUsing
No problem, Cap’n. As far as the guy claiming to be using a blackberry goes, the impression he gave me was he barely able to cope with an Etch A Sketch.
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:52 AMUsing
SkyWatch, my apologies. It is too cold here for monkeys of any sort, so I’m not really up on extermination methods. As far as eliminating other flying creatures, though, I have a friend who recommends a 12 guage magnum semi-auto with no plug. At least, that’s what he hunts chukars with. He gets his bag, but shoots 75 rounds to do it. It’s like hunting with an AA gun.
April 3rd, 2007 at 8:15 AMUsing
LOL, good one Misha. I had some idea with that guy being so over the top. I did think Hastings was a sockpuppet.
I actually thought it was ALL him. Did anyone else notice “Dr Dave’s Spam filter” on the bottom?
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:54 AMUsing
Staci,
Also, “Dwight” admitted that he was indeed ole Markiepoo(bear).
Said to send you lots of love too. *snicker* :wink_wp:
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:53 PMUsing
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Dammit! Let’s see if it goes up this time…
April 4th, 2007 at 3:29 PMUsing
HERE
April 4th, 2007 at 3:30 PMUsing
affitti a firenze…
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