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Re: The existence of Todd (was Re: **Bad Trader??**
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Thu, 23 Sep 1999 16:52:40 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jeremy Sproat writes:
David Eaton wrote:
In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Scott Edward Sanburn writes:
There was something BEFORE LUGNET? :)
There are legends of a world once wrought with chaotic messages, spam, • flame,
and the occasional unrequested post from porn and infomercail cites... This
world was called RTL. Then the almighty Todd did come, and he did say: "Let
there be LUGNET!" And behold: LUGNET did come forth! And he separated the
LUGNET from the RTL, and saw that the LUGNET was good. Some still say, • however,
that this phantom world of RTL still exists to this day, merely hidden by • the
glory that is LUGNET.

I knew a guy who said he had been there.  He explored the murky depths of
RTL, and escaped tell horrid tales of off-topic messages, threads of flame,
and the shapeless "me too" creatures basking in the insipid cold glow of the
Beforeworld.  Against my council, he went back again to map the chaos and to
find the legendary Source of the Off-Topic Posts...and I never heard from
him again.

I don't believe in the before-Lugnet.  I think this whole "RTL" thing is an
urban legend.  I mean, everyone has a story like this one.  'I knew someone
who knows this guy who reads RTL...' but when you try to follow the chain
back, it eventually disappears.

James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: The existence of Todd (was Re: **Bad Trader??**
 
(...) Piffle. I was just there today. If you made a map of the area it would be marked "Here there be larval flamers". We may WISH RTL went away but it's still there, like a bad penny, it keeps coming back. Now, is it a sin to go slumming to RTL? (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
  Re: The existence of Todd (was Re: **Bad Trader??**
 
(...) Yes, my son, you have sinned indeed. But the Lord Todd is forgiving. You must plead with him for His forgiveness. Your pennance shall be four "Hail Todd"s. DaveE (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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  Re: The existence of Todd (was Re: **Bad Trader??**
 
(...) I knew a guy who said he had been there. He explored the murky depths of RTL, and escaped tell horrid tales of off-topic messages, threads of flame, and the shapeless "me too" creatures basking in the insipid cold glow of the Beforeworld. (...) (25 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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