> > > On Mar 7, 2009, at 7:02 AM, OrionWorks wrote: > > BTW, the introductory phrase you often use seem extremely unique to >> me, i.e.: "As the smoke cleared, [insert poster's name here] mounted >> the barricade and roared out:" It might be interesting to perform a >> search on this phrase (or similar phrases) in order to unravel the >> history of their prior use in other discussion groups. >> > people used these ways of re-writing and re-defining the automated response editing of old messages on BBS's, various BBS Softwares allowed one to write them as anything at all, and this would fit in with a thematically chosen BBS of old. of course, this only makes sense to those of us who have downloaded QWK packages and responded with REP's, the times of randomized signatures based on quotes, offline message reading, nightly polled message networks between BBS's and so on.
the good times.
