Sue U wrote: ↑Tue May 09, 2023 3:32 am
Well, I guess 1998 was the peak year for the Cafe since I joined in 1999 and it was all downhill from there.
I don't know; I remember the thread that developed after Katie Barefoot and I met at the MN State Fair in 2001. There had been a couple of meet-ups of d'Arteans on the east side of the country, and I attempted to set up a FtF for people in the central part of the country. Turns out Katie and I were the only two people to show up, so Katie
(bless her mischievous heart!) came up with the idea that the board members would want to know how it was — or if the Axe Murderer showed up and got us both — so we would each post as if it had been a total, complete waste of time and effort.
We did so, and the board literally erupted with comments from all and sundry, thinking that we were on the level and that what Katie said about me (and what I said in rebuttal) were legitimate. It took about three days or so before someone finally figured out that we had our tongues so far in our cheeks
(our OWN cheeks, that is — get'cher minds out of the gutter!) that we were choking ourselves, and we had to 'fess up. In fact, I even made and kept printouts of the thread in the now-forlorn hope that someday Katie and I might sit back, re-read them, and recall how we first met.
I think the board didn't peter out until the Cyberbabes who monitored the board stopped being quite so hands-on. We started getting a lot of spam and trolls, then they changed the format of the board and people gradually migrated elsewhere... So what handle did you go by on the CarTalk board, Sue?
-"BB"-Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
