Reflections on a Year of Mr. Scratch's Blog
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:45 pm
Well, well, has it really been a whole year? My, how the time flies! It seems just yesterday that Dr. Shades had gotten this board back up and running, and, lo and behold!, he had included a blogging feature! Can I tell you it was difficult to contain my rancid glee over the prospect of getting to stick it to the Mopologists in blog format? No, I cannot. Let's just say that I could scarcely contain my elation.
Obviously, at first, it was the "Dossiers" which caught people's attention---in particular, the whole hullabaloo surrounding the dossiers of Pahoran and juliann, both of whom, for unexplainable reasons, objected to the use of their very well-known in real life names. The major-league whiners showed up in full force, including a rather "official"-sounding message from Mopologetic wonk and FAIR president John Lynch, in which he tried to dismiss any connection between FAIR and the LDS Church. In fact, it was shortly after his message that FAIR formally divested itself of the ironically named FAIRboard, which was subsequently reborn as the aptly named MADboard.
Who else? Of course, Dadof7 turned up to sanctimoniously whine about his entry, which he claimed had "offended" him, or hurt his feelings. (Gee, did you think about that when you were abusing your mod authority, Nomos?) Then were the mysterious "supporters" of Will Schryver, who showed up to contest every minor little piddling critique of LDS Apologia's reigning laughingstock. Most noteworthy of these was the decidedly unpleasant "Opie Rockwell," who accused me of having a "modest" endowment with no friends.
It was, really, the dossiers that reigned supreme---the poster called "Sput" once went so far as to say that they were "harassment," and they remain in somewhat high demand to this day, though the number of noteworthy posters has, for the most part, dwindled away, since all of the really good folks have already been immortalized in dossier form. On one other instance, one posted claimed to love the "mugshot" of DCP, which adorns several of the blog entries dealing with the man known to us all as "The Good Professor," whom, despite all his flaws and foibles, we will continue to love, and to ridicule.
So: to all you supporters and haters out there, three cheers! It has been a fun journey! And, of course, happy Halloween!
Obviously, at first, it was the "Dossiers" which caught people's attention---in particular, the whole hullabaloo surrounding the dossiers of Pahoran and juliann, both of whom, for unexplainable reasons, objected to the use of their very well-known in real life names. The major-league whiners showed up in full force, including a rather "official"-sounding message from Mopologetic wonk and FAIR president John Lynch, in which he tried to dismiss any connection between FAIR and the LDS Church. In fact, it was shortly after his message that FAIR formally divested itself of the ironically named FAIRboard, which was subsequently reborn as the aptly named MADboard.
Who else? Of course, Dadof7 turned up to sanctimoniously whine about his entry, which he claimed had "offended" him, or hurt his feelings. (Gee, did you think about that when you were abusing your mod authority, Nomos?) Then were the mysterious "supporters" of Will Schryver, who showed up to contest every minor little piddling critique of LDS Apologia's reigning laughingstock. Most noteworthy of these was the decidedly unpleasant "Opie Rockwell," who accused me of having a "modest" endowment with no friends.
It was, really, the dossiers that reigned supreme---the poster called "Sput" once went so far as to say that they were "harassment," and they remain in somewhat high demand to this day, though the number of noteworthy posters has, for the most part, dwindled away, since all of the really good folks have already been immortalized in dossier form. On one other instance, one posted claimed to love the "mugshot" of DCP, which adorns several of the blog entries dealing with the man known to us all as "The Good Professor," whom, despite all his flaws and foibles, we will continue to love, and to ridicule.
So: to all you supporters and haters out there, three cheers! It has been a fun journey! And, of course, happy Halloween!