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JAM said:

I remember when I first came to RSB, I had dial-up modem. RSB was my first experience posting on the Internet. When I read some of the posts, my blood began to boil and I responded to all of them consecutively, boom-boom-boom-boom.

The only problem was that most times, my reply posts might not show up until a day later because I was on dial-up modem.

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Alex Kanapilly said:

I was there too. I went to the Jimbo Jambo and we had an event here in Denver at the old Family Fun Center.

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misterpoole said:

I was on there but didnt participate a whole lot. Too many theoretical posts and not much action. Jimbo was an exception and then there was FL unfortunately. I did order one of my first custom cues on rsb from a newbie cuemaker murray tucker aka wood butcher. Still play with that cue today...good times.

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Murray Tucker said:

That makes me so happy that you still have the Cue. What year did I build that one? Had to be 01 or 02. All my records are in storage with my machines.

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TATE said:

I read it but didn't participate. I didn't care for the layout. I found the totally unfiltered posts foul but amusing. I guess by the time I started reading it, it was almost dead.

I participated in Billiards Digest Cue Chalk Board, which was a format similar to AZB. Fast Larry came on a few times with his crazy stuff and that's how I found out about AZ Billiards. I guess he terrorized all the forums.

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JAM said:

I remember the "computer-sniping suckerpunching monkeys," as I called them at the time. OMG! :rotflmao: I think the Monkey Wars started from a quote from an RSB-er named "Hamster" about monkeys slinging things at each other in a pit. I can't remember Hamster's full name. Was it David?

My favorite post on RSB was from Smorgie. I was the token "noob," as he called it, of the group. I soon learned the ropes after a few verbal swipes from veteran posters, so I started swinging back.

I made the typical newbie faux pas by correcting someone's spelling in a thread, and Smorgie replied:

JAM astounded me with:
"And I've probably typed more typos in my lifetime than all of the
posters in this chatroom combined. At 150-plus words per minute, I thank the good Lord for spell-check."

(*<~ 150 WORDS PER MINUTE?
Yipes! Not only am I unable to 'read' 150 words per minute, I can't even 'think' that fast.

btw newbie, this is NOT a chat room.
IT IS A NEWSGROUP !
NEXT, Doug
~>*(((>< Big fish eat Little fish ><)))*<~

To which I replied:

I'm sorry about that. Let me find my way back through this crowd of chattering monkeys here and get back to my designated Newbie corner.

JAM (Monkey see, monkey do?)

And then Smorgie hit me with this:

(*<~ Nope ! Monkey see, monkey do-do.....imo
NEXT, Doug ~>*(((>< Big fish eat Little fish ><)))*<~

I'm not sure why, but that really tickled my funny bone. Smorgie and I became online friends right from there. We developed an Internet friendship exchanging messages back and forth, public and private.

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simco said:

Just being curious as to who is still active.Thanks for the info over all these years.:thumbup:

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lfigueroa said:

This may have been the story you were alluding to:



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This was the post...



Let me try to explain what happens when someone new joins a newsgroup

like RSB and gets attacked.



Social Scientists put eight monkeys in a room. In the middle of the

room is a ladder, leading to a bunch of bananas hanging from a hook on

the ceiling.Each time a monkey tries to climb the ladder, all the

monkeys are sprayed with ice water, which makes them miserable. Soon

enough, whenever a monkey attempts to climb the ladder, all of the

other monkeys, not wanting to be sprayed, set upon him and beat him

up. Soon, none of the eight monkeys ever attempts to climb the

ladder.



One of the original monkeys is then removed, and a new monkey is put

in the room. Seeing the bananas and the ladder, he wonders why none of

the other monkeys are doing the obvious, but, undaunted, he

immediately begins to climb the ladder. All the other monkeys fall

upon him and beat him silly.



He has no idea why. However, he no longer attempts to climb the

ladder. A second original monkey is removed and replaced. The newcomer

again attempts to climb the ladder, but all the other monkeys hammer

the crap out of him.This includes the previous new monkey, who,

grateful that he's not on the receiving end this time, participates in

the beating because all the other monkeys are doing it. However, he

has no idea why he's attacking the new monkey.



One by one, all the original monkeys are replaced. Eight new monkeys

are now in the room. None of them have ever been sprayed by ice water.

None of them attempt to climb the ladder. All of them will

enthusiastically beat up any new monkey who tries, without having any

idea why.



Unfortunately you are this week's new monkey...



David "The Hamster" Malone

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There was also this gem:



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They say this is an actual true story. * *Happened in Wildwood, N.J., in

1959.

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Guy goes into the bar with his pet monkey. *The Guy quietly sips his drink

but the monkey jumps around all over the place; grabs an olive and eats it,

grabs grabs a cherry and eats it, grabs an pearl-onion and eats it. *Then

the monkey jumps over on the pool table grabs the cue ball and SWALLOWS IT

WHOLE !

The Bartender screams; "Hey, fella', your monkey just ate our cue ball !!"

Guy; "Oh? *Well, he does tend to eat anything and everything. *I'm so sorry.

I'll pay for the cue ball and the other things; no problem. *I'm so sorry."

He pays the Bartender and walks out...

One week later the same Guy walks into the bar with the same monkey. * Guy

sips his drink and, again, the monkey REALLY goes crazy. * He grabs a

peanut, jams it up his butt, pulls it out, and eats it! * He grabs an olive,

jams it up his butt, pulls it out, and eats it! *Grabs a peanut, jams it up

his butt, pulls it out, and eats it !

Now, the Bartender is really enraged ! * *"Hey You!, your godamned, stupid,

MONKEY is up to his old tricks again and this time he is offending

our customers by his depraved and obscene activities! * What you gonna' DO

about it ??? !!!!"

Guy; "Well yes, he's been doing that for several days. *Since eating that

cue ball last week, he insists on measuring EVERYTHING."

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McD.DaddyDave * in McMaryland



--

/s/ David E. Nixon *in Maryland "A Faire Lande of Pleasant Living”

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Lou Figueroa

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pltrgyst said:

Hi Jam, Mike Page, Patrick Johnson, Lou Figueroa, Bob Jewett, and anyone else I missed!

I was around from the first weeks of Usenet onward, first as m14430@mwvm.mitre.org, and then as both pltrgyst and entrpoop

Still have great memories of events like the RSB get-together in Toronto with David "Hamster" Malone and many others. Still have the Boy/Jun Santos cue I won up there! And Hamster Tales, of course!

And in the Jimbo Jambo pic, that's me at the far right, looking over Jimbo's left shoulder.

Jam, are you still running around Maryland? We're retired, down in Florida (Smorg's neck of the woods, actually) now.

Don't really shoot any more, since I lost the sight in my right eye from a -- of all things -- volleyball accident.

-- Larry
pltrgyst@xhost.org

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JAM said:

....The only problem was that most times, my reply posts might not show up until a day later because I was on dial-up modem.
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Maybe dial-up modems were a good thing. It would give people a chance to think more clearly between posts -- and calm down.

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pltrgyst said:

Hi Jam, Mike Page, Patrick Johnson, Lou Figueroa, Bob Jewett, and anyone else I missed!

I was around from the first weeks of Usenet onward, first as m14430@mwvm.mitre.org (Dexter Medley was the name of one of my wife's horses), and then as both pltrgyst and entrpoop

Still have great memories of events like the RSB get-together in Toronto with David "Hamster" Malone and many others. Still have the Boy/Jun Santos cue I won up there! And Hamster Tales, of course!

And in the Jimbo Jambo pic, that's me at the far right, looking over Jimbo's left shoulder.

Jam, are you still running around Maryland? We're retired, down in Florida (Smorg's neck of the woods, actually) now.

Don't really shoot any more, since I lost the sight in my right eye from a -- of all things -- volleyball accident.

From groups.google.com, here's an RSB post of mine from 1994:

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Dexter Medley 9/8/94

whi...@freenet3.scri.fsu.edu (Whitney Elfner) writes:
>: ...) according to what you were trying for, or if you sink a high
>: numbered ball you weren't
>: trying for, you get penalized that number of points.
>This is a regional variation, the normal rules are every foul is 7
>points for the other player. There is also an additional penalty for
In Europe, the penalty is played as the original poster described it, with
a minimum of 4 points penalty for any foul.

>brown=4 I have seen this as purple also

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Often done for TV...

-- Larry

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lfigueroa said:

Jimbo Jambo.

Lou Figueroa

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lfigueroa said:

Jimbo Jambo.

Lou Figueroa

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JAM said:

Hi, Larry. Did you used to live in Virginia? I think I remember that, but I may be wrong.

I recall you as the RSB-er with the high intellect. Your posts sometimes went above my head, but I guess that doesn't take much. I always regarded you as the intelligent one. Your posts were always informative and a good read. Sometime I had to read them twice so my pea-brain could absorb the wisdom nuggets you shared.

Good to read you again!

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lfigueroa said:

Jimbo Jambo.

Lou Figueroa

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