The MLP "make me laugh" thread..

[CRobbins]

 

[edro]

I'm obviously a Sanitation Logistics Engineer.... I have to figure out the logistics involved in making sure my trash can is rolled out to the road according to schedule, arranging removal of said trash container from roadside at proper time, and verifying it has returned to service in its proper location in working order...

 

[Chango Malo]

Know this: Real veterans are reluctant to talk about their exploits.

There's a reason. All that crap has long lost any glamour for them. It was lost the day they engaged in it.

Also, nobody really understands unless they were chewing the same dirt.

Frogfur was none of that.

He once "reminisced" about his "airborne" training. Lol. Quote: "Jump school at Subic bay".

..There is no jump school at Subic Bay, PI.. There is only one jump school, and that is at Ft Benning, GA.

My grandfather served in the OSS in WW2. He never told war stories. Talked a few times about instructors he had; I remember him talking about a Miss Kim who taught Mandarin and a certain Lt. Jameson who had also worked for the B&O. Never said a word about the work he did overseas though other than "OSS, we did photography as needed" His group ended up working for Gen.Stilwell by the end of the war. Lt. Bob More, center. they just painted the graffiti on the sign behind them. You can guess the date the picture was taken.

 

[LP121]

I'm gonna consult that guy if I ever need to update my resume.

He knows how to punch things up!

 

[SteveC]

Didn't someone do a Mod parody rant of the Nicholson line from "A Few Good Men"... I thought that was pretty funny.

 

[mtgguitar]

Where's that pic of Sable with his "Bitches don't know about my nibs" shirt?

I think the nibs threads were posted the year I joined MLP. I hadn't posted much so I researched 'nibs' before I asked what they were.

 

[JonCanfield]

The only one I was here for was Alvin, the kid with the nasty sweatpants who claimed to have dual Plexi stacks and played Chibsons he pretended were real.

Alvin didn't make the list until page 3!

 

[lpfan1980]

fixed your post

How and why he guttup on da rooof eye dooont knoooooo?

 

[PapaSquash]

Basically, frogfur lied about literally everything he posted on MLP.

It wasn't just his "war record" that he falsified... he even told lies about his personal life, his family, where he lived, what he did for a living, who he knew socially, and so forth.

The board will never know exactly what-all we who did his background investigation learned about him, because it really isn't germane to much of anything and serves no purpose to out him.

The point of our investigation was never to out him, but instead we merely wanted to know what we really had when it came to him. We kept waiting to see if he'd start trying to coax money or valuables out of other members, because we've had more than just a couple of former members who had tried that sort of thing in the past.

But plain old poseurs, such as frogfur turned out to be? Small potatoes to us.

You see, we've caught so many poseurs and BS artists on this site that I've found it amazing to see just how many people continue to believe whatever they're told-- and at face value, no questions asked.

But the main game is really only this:

We're out to bust scam artists who are soaking other members for money and gear.

Never mind the legion of Walter Mitty types who come here and pretend to be somebody that they are not. Those people aren't actually destructive to other members. They're just full of baloney.

But we do become upset when somebody decides to lay some bogus hard luck story on the board, and then starts collecting donations from members who feel sorry for the lying bastard.

The moderators and a couple of our investigators were aware of who and what frogfur really was for literally months before he was finally outed. We snickered nastily, shrugged, and let it slide.

What finally got frogfur burned was this: he was continuously rude to anybody whose perspective was different from his. He should have named himself "frog mouth" instead of "frogfur".

Ultimately, his game was to try and convince us that we were talking to somebody like the drill sergeant played by R. Lee Ermey in "Full Metal Jacket", with frogfur woofing at everybody and being the big veteran of a million forgotten battles. He figured that with that falsehood in place, he could browbeat other members and order affairs in a direction he personally preferred.

Then too, he was going to pretend that he was the Wise Warrior... he's seen it all, done it all, and here's why YOU better not go there... you dig?

We've got a lot of others on this site who are likewise full of crap when it comes to their personal history. It wasn't just frogfur.

One of my favorites is a guy who claims to be a "regional distribution manager" for a major oil company, who is actually just punching cash register keys at a gas station.

And there are many, many more just like him out there. Lots and lots of exaggeration to be found on the Internet. It's not just MLP.

But what happened to frogfur was this: somebody who really HATES those stolen valor guys-- and disliked frogfur's high-handed approach as he spoke to other members-- recognized some crap that frogfur posted as being genuine plagiarism. That is, frogfur did two posts that were copied straight out of a book written by an actual Vietnam veteran.

And the guy who spotted that decided to post to that effect. I saw who the author was, and because I knew frogfur's real name, I understood that frogfur really had committed plagiarism.

But before all that?

We let it slide. No harm in letting some old BS artist carry on. It was also amusing to see all those who just believed the guy without questioning anything at all.

So again: I could write at considerable length to describe all those things we learned and verified about frogfur before somebody else finally came along and outed him for plagiarism.

Nobody but the moderators would know about any of this, except that when frogfur was exposed as a plagiarist, a couple of members who had somehow become fond of the Frog of Death decided to try and defend him. So, they attacked the guy who outed him.

And that's when I let a little bit of what we already had on the old prevaricator come to the fore.

Oddly enough, one of the two frogfur defenders has been perma-banned since then, and the other guy kind of stays on the down-low.

But even at that: you guys will never know how much BS the Fighting Frog actually laid on this board in toto. We never let out so much as one tenth of what we had on that guy. There was no reason to do so.

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So, for those of you who are reading this, who have a whole lot of BS that you laid on the board about who you are and what you've done, be aware: we don't really mind. It's no big deal to us. And if others are dumb enough to believe you, so be it.

Not our problem, man.

It's even possible that we find your posts interesting, even though we don't believe much of what you have to say.

But if we see somebody who wants to sucker others into giving him valuables or money, and see that he's lying about his circumstances and is really just a swindling grifter... well, that is something that calls for intervention.

--R

makes me wonder what they've figured out about the rest of us!

 

[MikeyTheCat]

makes me wonder what they've figured out about the rest of us!

well I’m not even a has-been as I never made has.

 

[Roberteaux]

makes me wonder what they've figured out about the rest of us!

We don't actually look hard at everybody, or even at the mass majority. A member has to be a real standout in some way (usually a negative way) that causes us to really start to eyeball that person.

Certain behaviors that catch our attention have to be demonstrated on a more or less consistent basis before anybody starts to wonder about a member. Even at that, things don't go into higher gear unless we sense a ripoff at hand. Mere attention whoring is only enough to pique one's interest, not to really go to work on it. People who wish to stand out and be memorable should take joy in the idea that some of us are watching all that and, yes: we're remembering.

As for your honorable self:

I've been reading your posts since I showed up here, almost two years after you joined. You've always been a well-spoken, relatively genteel and personable sort of member-- and one who comes off as such naturally, not as a result of virtue-signaling or attention whoring.

When you're present in a thread, you don't insist on anything... you're not a shit-stirrer or inflammatory.

You don't have some big point to prove, or some larger-than-life character to present us with. You're not full of bombast or false humility, and your messages come off very naturally. If somebody were to justly rebuke you, you probably wouldn't simper that you were just joking.

So you're not a troll.

And you don't post messages designed to bring you sympathy. You don't siphon from others around you, if you follow me.

You're interesting to read, and your posts are always germane to the topic of a thread without being some sort of self-serving infomercial.

As members go, you're a-ok and good for the site.

--R

 

[LtDave32]

And you don't post messages designed to bring you sympathy. You don't siphon from others around you, if you follow me.

This.

This is a valuable thing NOT to be, this.

There are those who suck the resources right out of folks.

Papa Squash is not one of those guys.

 

[Roxy13]

Alvin didn't make the list until page 3!

Alvin said I was a bully. No doubt I've been called many things, but that one was a first.

 

[KP11520]

And if Zucchini is part of his family, he has no idea how much love they'll get! LOL

This.

This is a valuable thing NOT to be, this.

There are those who suck the resources right out of folks.

Papa Squash is not one of those guys.

 

[ErictheRed]

What about Romro or whatever his name was?

I've got to say that I do miss Tommythunders, he definitely brought the laughs in a unique way.

 

[Mockbel]

Sable was an Asian kid who wanted more than anything else to be a bona-fide luthier.

He would go into the Luthier's Corner and "advise" all this horribly wrong shit.

He would get a virtual beating from the real pros who were in there at that time. He would post some really stupid, wrong shit. The pros would nail him to a cross for it. Then he'd motor right along, all in stride, popping up elsewhere like whack-a-mole.

He claimed to be a real luthier several times. He also publicly asked people to send them their old, valuable guitars for him to practice on. He also didn't know how to adjust a truss rod. -This is after his claim to being a luthier.

Yes, he really did that.

What he was most famous for was claiming he could make binding nibs on guitars with frets over the binding. He said he could by the common method of melting ABS binding shavings in some acetone (which is how I cement by binding to bodies and necks), he could install and shape binding nibs on nibless necks.

He kind of forgot that one would have to cut both sides of the fret ends to do that.

He also forgot that it's a completely worthless procedure.to even try.

LOL

I don’t know why this made “Glarry” pop in my mind !

 

[Mockbel]

Sable "bought" a "Wine Red LP Custom" and when he was having problems with the "seller" he came to MLP to ask for advice and tell us all about it. Link - It takes a while to get going.

By the way, I made your avatar, that's awesome my work lives on!

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It is a 25 pages thread ... I changed my mind.. MLP is funny

About the avatar, it is super cool

 

[Deftone]

There was a thread titled...
Have you ever shit your pants?
1st response (I think was from River)

"Long pants or short pants?"

Still makes me laugh.

 

[Deftone]

im 16.... woot!

Go forth and bang chicks.

 

[Deftone]

I've got to say that I do miss Tommythunders, he definitely brought the laughs in a unique way.

Yea, TommyThunders, Diceman, Boles, Rich, JoeyDego, DJWilbanks, & FrankieOliver....miss those guys.