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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? (27 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 (27 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. (...) (27 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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