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Prank Post From 2006

Submitted by fire with fire on Fri, 04/08/2022 - 10:02am

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As of 2006 I was the former owner and current prominent poster of an internet message board kind of like this one. We had at that time around 30 or so regular members and we all got to "know" each other fairly well. In that group, from time to time I would post a satire of news articles in the tradition of Art Buchwald. My guiltiest pleasure in my online existence is when somebody buys one of my put-ons. The following was copied from the now-defunct board and the entries from other parties have been removed. Around half the posts took this wild tale seriously. I always thought that this was prescient -- but hardly anybody else ever agrees with my assessment of myself. Nevetheless, with Sleep Joe as President, following four years of Donnie Fucknuts, I think this wacky take on American Civic Life is worth reading. If you don't agree, oh well.

Open Thread - 04-08-22 - An Announcement About The Dose

Submitted by JtC on Fri, 04/08/2022 - 8:19am

Effective Monday, April 11, The Dose will be suspended. It will be taken under consideration to reinstate if the pandemic flares up again.

If something happens that is covid/pandemic news worthy then folks can write an essay about it. We'll use the same parameters as The Dose, no covid/pandemic essays will be on the front page. The Dose was created in concert with our open discussion policy and as an effort to protect c99 from censorship or outright banning of the site, at least that's what the hope was in keeping it from the front page. I can't prove that the move worked but we (c99) are still standing, so there's that.

We also ask that members not discuss pandemic news in the open threads so as not to penalize the hard work our OT authors put into their essays. If you have something important to say please say it in an essay.

A huge thank you to our open thread authors for stepping up and publishing The Dose whether in agreement with it's content or not. All open thread authors were given the option to post or not to post The Dose and all, in accordance with our policy of tolerance for all sides of an issue, accepted the responsibility.

Thank you.

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