On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 1:19:18 PM UTC-5, pigo wrote:
On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 11:45:38 AM UTC-6, wrote:


The troubles here lasted a few years, more than a decade and a half ago..
Today, most of the damage persists, although social media also took its
toll on this once vibrant community.

The troubles lasted nearly a decade and a half. Stopping only a few months
ago. Though who knows how the legal process had a hand in it.

Trunky caused much of the ski talk to go elsewhere even before social media.
But SM now would have rendered this forum extinct long ago. It probably only
survives because it gave us someone to **** on.

I meant the part of the troubles leading up to the court order, and the following time when it was ruining peoples' careers by having its colleagues call their employers.

Anthea hardly qualifies as Helen of Troy, but the actions she innocently and inadvertently set into motion led to near-epic consequences.

I know that one previous regular here was working on a "Lord of the Rings" parody about the troubles -- but dropped the project after re-reading Alexander Pope's "Rape of the Lock" and some of the historical criticism associated with it. I think that only the parody of the "One ring to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them" verse ever made it to RSA.

Somebody else took a stab at parodying the book of Mormon, titling it "The Book of Moron" and casting Donald Trunk as Joseph Smith and most of the male characters in the book, in the style of "Wicked" where the bad-guy witch was portrayed as a sympathetic character. They did a lot of character work-up but not as much writing as the "Lord of the Lift Tickets" work -- and when they met the "Lord of the Lift Tickets" author on line and learned about Pope's "Rape of the Lock," also abandoned the project.

Why? Because -- the names of the two protagonists in "Rape of the Lock" are lost in history but the deed has survived in Pope's writing since 1712 -- for three centuries -- and is now enshrined in the halls of classic English literature.

Hardly a fate befitting a sleaze like Donald Trunk.

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