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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!backlog1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!backlog1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!xlned.com!feeder3.xlned.com!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!u10g2000vbd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <8b0ab842-1e98-4913-a30d-81f06976ad43@u10g2000vbd.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: OT: Banned driver gets off. Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:13:14 -0700 (PDT) References:  <936c6561-30cc-4ea1-a349-b6cf779f1f2e@l12g2000yqo.googlegroups.com>  <0961ba09-f461-4c60-ac92-306765701401@q37g2000vbi.googlegroups.com> <7kkj359s775qlnmbufsen9q0dd9q614u3k@4ax.com> <8ddedb17-736b-4125-bd18-71ce273042ae@n30g2000vba.googlegroups.com>  Lines: 60 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.150.242 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1245363195 28607 127.0.0.1 (18 Jun 2009 22:13:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:13:15 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: u10g2000vbd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.150.242; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 4816 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:710626

On Jun 18, 9:16=A0pm, Tom Crispin  wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:18:04 -0700 (PDT), Nuxx Bar > >  wrote: > >Conveniently enough, this "ignoring" suddenly seemed to start at > >exactly the same time that I asked you to explain the Lou Knee > >"joke" (you said you'd do so, after all, and it's been a long time > >now). =A0This is, of course, because there's no joke, Chapman posted as > >Lou Knee, and you were taken in by his lies (yet another example of > >someone giving Chapman far more credit than he deserves). > > The Lou Knee joke has gone on long enough. =A0The time is right for some > sort of explanation. =A0I expect this explanation will generate > pointless replies for some time to come, but I hope it will be the > beginning of the end of this at times amusing and at times absurd > saga. > > The Lou Knee username and password was widely circulated by anonymous > email. =A0The password, which I cannot (for obvious reasons) divulge, > was a joke in itself. =A0In the anonymous email, the sender, who used > privacy.net, suggested using Google groups to post messages using the > Lou Knee account to "yank [Judith's] chain". =A0It certainly did that. I > lost count of how many different people posted under the Lou Knee > pseudonym, and Judith's focus on just one post from an IP address used > by an anti virus remailer, Guy Chapman and a Taiwanese golfer became > farcical. =A0The accusation on nym-shifting for logging on to Google > groups using a valid account was a typical Judithism (i.e. well wide > of the mark). =A0And targeting just one person while several were > involved in the joke was typical of her obsession with the man. > > The joke has clearly run its course, and for some time has been > tiresome. =A0It is time we saw the beginning of the end of this current > obsession of Judith, and while things may get worse for a while, I > hope they will soon improve. =A0I would have revealed the joke far > sooner, and wanted to, but with so many involved, I had no desire to > upset others who had taken part in the joke by revealing what was > going on.

Oh right! Hilarious! So Chapman *did* make the "piece of shit" post, and *that's* why he wouldn't deny it! Wow, you really got us good...great joke. We've been made to look so stupid by being right all along.

How do you know how many different people posted under the "pseudonym"? Were you excitedly emailing each other saying "I just made such-and-such a post"? In which case, who claimed to have made the first Lou Knee post (as if I even have to ask)?

What fun it must have been. A really clever, well thought out prank. Never mind that it took you so long to explain...the punchline was well worth waiting for.

(If I'd been sucked in by a genuinely high quality joke, I'd be the first to admit it. But I honestly think this one was rubbish, and it just shows how hypocritical many of the "regulars" are, and how eager they are to do the exact same things that they accuse their opponents of.  Still, I guess you deserve some credit for explaining it in the end.  Is the Lou Knee account still available?  If so I think I'll get it shut down.)