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Title: poll: when did.....
Post by: franksolich on January 18, 2012, 04:18:22 PM
This poll was inspired by a personal message from a member.

When did you become familiar with the primitives on Skins's island?

Before you joined conservativecave and found the DUmpster?

After you joined conservativecave and found the DUmpster?

By "familiar," I guess one means knowledgeable of the nature of the primitives.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: Carl on January 18, 2012, 04:31:59 PM
Before,started with links from Drudge editorialists and then DUmmie FUnnies on FR.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: Ogre on January 18, 2012, 04:41:11 PM
Started with CU and DUmmie FUnnies.  I think it was one of the first things I found at CU.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: Rebel on January 18, 2012, 04:43:28 PM
Since I started posting on Conservative Underground during the Jesse MacBeth posergate.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: Freeper on January 18, 2012, 04:44:48 PM
I have been at DU since the day they opened the doors, thanks to Neal Boortz seeing the sign held up at Chimpy's inauguration and posting it on his site. I even managed to post for a few days before they banned me.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: miskie on January 18, 2012, 04:49:16 PM
I was moling primitives even before the island existed, on usenet, as NoSoup4U. I learned about DU from FR, when I first joined, I was accused of being a DUmmie. 
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: Chris_ on January 18, 2012, 04:50:35 PM
I have been at DU since the day they opened the doors, thanks to Neal Boortz seeing the sign held up at Chimpy's inauguration and posting it on his site. I even managed to post for a few days before they banned me.
http://m.boortz.com/weblogs/nealz-nuze/2003/may/02/2003-05-02/
http://www.boortz.com/weblogs/nealz-nuze/2003/dec/01/2003-12-01/
http://www.boortz.com/weblogs/nealz-nuze/2003/nov/06/2003-11-06/

Good stuff.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: franksolich on January 18, 2012, 04:52:21 PM
Before,started with links from Drudge editorialists and then DUmmie FUnnies on FR.

I saw my first primitives the morning of January 20, 2001, during the C-Span coverage of the inauguration of George Bush.

I lived in Omaha.  I had a television at the time, for the convenience of guests; I myself never paid much attention to it.  The computer was in another room.  I was on the computer at the time, but once in a while had to go to the kitchen for another cup of coffee, which meant I passed through the living room, where the television was.

On one of those trips, when C-Span was covering the parade, the instant I walked into the living room and glanced at the television screen, there appeared my fellow alum Skins and Lord Marblehead EarlG in the crowd, hoisting a "DEMOCRATICUNDERGROUND.COM" banner above themselves.

I made note of the name, and later checked it out; I even registered and posted.

But that was January 20, 2001; it wasn't until election night of 2002 that I bothered making Skins's island a "favorite place" on my computer.  I went there a little bit more often, but not much.

In late summer-early autumn of 2004, with the advent of the DUmmie FUnnies, it occurred to me that here was a wealth of anthropological material.  I've always been "into" anthropology and sociology, I suppose because I find it fascinating, how humans interact with each other.

It was during Beth's Scamdal of spring-summer 2005 that I began focusing upon specific primitives for study and analysis; before then, the primitives had been merely an amorphous blob, a quivering sea of the faceless anonymities of a lynch-mob.

Our old home had a forum specifically dedicated to the primitives, and I found that more to my liking, when gathering anthropological material, and so I became active there the autumn of 2005.  The DUmmie FUnnies were, and are, great, but I needed more in-depth material.

And then I came here in early January 2008.

I'm convinced that it was a message from God that this was to be my life's work; that I just by random chance happened to walk into the living room that certain thirty seconds the morning of January 20, 2001 because God meant it to be.  If I had been a few seconds earlier or later, I would've never known.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on January 18, 2012, 04:59:14 PM
I became a forum junkie at protestwarrior.com.

They shutdown for a looong while.

I was banned for one of their interim spin-off sites after getting into it with their Ronulans.

Then I wandered into CU and found their dumpster.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: franksolich on January 18, 2012, 05:09:41 PM
I have been at DU since the day they opened the doors, thanks to Neal Boortz seeing the sign held up at Chimpy's inauguration and posting it on his site. I even managed to post for a few days before they banned me.

You know, even though I spend only about ten minutes a day thinking about the primitives, I look at it as other people look at television; it's my substitute for television, what with all the drama, all the excitement, all the soap operas on Skins's island.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: Odin's Hand on January 18, 2012, 05:13:03 PM
A fellow poster/friend ("Skizz" a.k.a. Atomic Lib Smasher here) posted some selections from them, via CU, on a site we both posted on. I followed the links and registered at CU and saw Fister running his fat fingers about how "Bush was about to invade Iran within months".
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: Duke Nukum on January 18, 2012, 05:26:47 PM
I was aware of the Prims from near the very beginning. I was on Free Republic a lot more in those days. One Freeper made even a parody site called Al Quada Underground in that first year.

At the time, I was still under the impression that liberal hippie types were wrong-headed but well-meaning and if I wasn't disabused of that notion prior to 9/11/2001, there was no doubt in my mind about the character of the liberal hippie types in the wake of 9/11/01.  Not only where they not well-meaning, they were deranged and full of hate.

After that, I didn't visit the DUmp much and didn't give them much thought until PJ Comix started up DUmmie FUnnies.  Then I found our old home and then I was here.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: dixierose on January 18, 2012, 05:31:21 PM
I became aware of the primitives through reading Dummie Funnies on FR.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on January 18, 2012, 05:38:36 PM
I believe I found CU and DU from links to politicial blogs mentioning one or both of them on AK-47.net (A subset of guns.net these days) back shortly after DU was born.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: GOBUCKS on January 18, 2012, 05:48:36 PM
It was when Rush first mentioned what contemptible lunatics they are.

Not sure the year, 2003, 2004? Probably before the Iraq war in 2003.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: WinOne4TheGipper on January 18, 2012, 06:10:59 PM
This poll was inspired by a personal message from a member.

When did you become familiar with the primitives on Skins's island?

Before you joined conservativecave and found the DUmpster?

After you joined conservativecave and found the DUmpster?

By "familiar," I guess one means knowledgeable of the nature of the primitives.

Before.  I heard Rush mention the place in the early 2000s.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: FreeBorn on January 18, 2012, 06:11:35 PM
I checked "after" but I must add I believe I first became acquainted with them strictly in an anthropological sense long before I became interested in politics.

Definitely it was during the bicentennial year, 4th grade. My class was shown the movie "The Lord Of The Flies" over a three day period in 16mm black and white movie format. For a while I was more enthralled with that than the National Geographics I kept hidden under my mattress.

Once I discovered the Cave and subsequently teh DUmp everything just clicked.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: Ballygrl on January 18, 2012, 06:18:17 PM
Before, around the 2004 election, although I only visited a few times.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: shadeaux on January 18, 2012, 06:19:02 PM
I happened to be reading some news story years ago and someone from The Democratic Underground was interviewed.  I went over there to read and I thought it was a joke site.  I said to myself, this cannot be real.  It was.   :mental:

Once the DUmmie FUnnies took off I was in and hooked.  Been laughing ever since.



 
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: Ballygrl on January 18, 2012, 06:37:56 PM
I think it was sometime right after the 2004 elections because I missed the total meltdown which must've been epic.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: jukin on January 18, 2012, 06:40:46 PM
Late 2003 from a friend that sent me an email that said "Go Poke This Hive."  I did and got immediately banned then went into mole mode(s). Found CU in late 05 and they went down 07(?) and found CC.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: Freeper on January 18, 2012, 06:46:16 PM
You know, even though I spend only about ten minutes a day thinking about the primitives, I look at it as other people look at television; it's my substitute for television, what with all the drama, all the excitement, all the soap operas on Skins's island.

It's the same for me. Whenever I read a news story or hear something that Rush, Beck, or Hannity says I know exactly how the primitives will react to it.

Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: franksolich on January 18, 2012, 06:53:55 PM
I think it was sometime right after the 2004 elections because I missed the total meltdown which must've been epic.

The big meltdown was election night 2002, though.

Someone hacked Skins's island, and posted one of those little grey rectangular displays announcing "ALL YOUR SENATE BELONG TO US."

I wish I'd kept a copy of a screen-print of that.

It just totally wiped out Skins's island for about the next day; by the time it was back up again, the loss had been somewhat absorbed by the primitives, and they weren't as hot and excited as they would've been.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: BEG on January 18, 2012, 06:57:04 PM
Before...I can't remember if it was at FR or CU.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: longview on January 18, 2012, 07:09:42 PM
After.  Though having watched people like them, and possible some of them, at protests and in neighborhood communes during the 60s in Detroit.  They amaze me, though I certainly don't mean that as a compliment.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: JakeStyle on January 18, 2012, 07:13:57 PM
The big meltdown was election night 2002, though.

Someone hacked Skins's island, and posted one of those little grey rectangular displays announcing "ALL YOUR SENATE BELONG TO US."

I wish I'd kept a copy of a screen-print of that.

It just totally wiped out Skins's island for about the next day; by the time it was back up again, the loss had been somewhat absorbed by the primitives, and they weren't as hot and excited as they would've been.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v319/Bovine/7b5492bc.jpg?t=1326935486)
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: Ballygrl on January 18, 2012, 07:16:14 PM
The big meltdown was election night 2002, though.

Someone hacked Skins's island, and posted one of those little grey rectangular displays announcing "ALL YOUR SENATE BELONG TO US."

I wish I'd kept a copy of a screen-print of that.

It just totally wiped out Skins's island for about the next day; by the time it was back up again, the loss had been somewhat absorbed by the primitives, and they weren't as hot and excited as they would've been.

Oh! I was wondering why some people here referred to "All Your Senate Belong To Us". Someone actually hacked the website? :lmao:
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: Ballygrl on January 18, 2012, 07:17:35 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v319/Bovine/7b5492bc.jpg?t=1326935486)

OMG! :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

So did that pop-up on every message?
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: Freeper on January 18, 2012, 07:29:38 PM
The big meltdown was election night 2002, though.

Someone hacked Skins's island, and posted one of those little grey rectangular displays announcing "ALL YOUR SENATE BELONG TO US."

I wish I'd kept a copy of a screen-print of that.

It just totally wiped out Skins's island for about the next day; by the time it was back up again, the loss had been somewhat absorbed by the primitives, and they weren't as hot and excited as they would've been.

The meltdowns in 02 and 04 were classic, however the forthcoming meltdown when Scott Walker doesn't get thrown out of office will probably be the best one yet.

Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: Ballygrl on January 18, 2012, 07:33:00 PM
The meltdowns in 02 and 04 were classic, however the forthcoming meltdown when Scott Walker doesn't get thrown out of office will probably be the best one yet.

Any idea when the election is? I think the signatures were just turned in and have to be reviewed. BTW Walker was on Rush last week and Hannity today, the State has a surplus now and people have gotten property tax breaks, so let's hope the people of Wisconsin will notice it.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: Freeper on January 18, 2012, 07:35:59 PM
Any idea when the election is? I think the signatures were just turned in and have to be reviewed. BTW Walker was on Rush last week and Hannity today, the State has a surplus now and people have gotten property tax breaks, so let's hope the people of Wisconsin will notice it.

No, I'm not sure when it is, I seem to recall hearing maybe in March, but not certain.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: Duke Nukum on January 18, 2012, 07:39:29 PM
Nobody knows when it is going to be yet. They just turned in the fraudulent petitions yesterday and the G.A.B. is going to go to court to ask for more time to go over the sigs of Mr. Hilter and M. Mouse.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: Ballygrl on January 18, 2012, 07:52:31 PM
Nobody knows when it is going to be yet. They just turned in the fraudulent petitions yesterday and the G.A.B. is going to go to court to ask for more time to go over the sigs of Mr. Hilter and M. Mouse.

And also the signatures of the guy who admitted to signing the petition 80 times to get back at Bush winning the 2000 election:

http://www.therightscoop.com/wisconsin-man-admits-to-signing-about-80-petitions-to-recall-scott-walker/
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: GOBUCKS on January 18, 2012, 08:44:11 PM
Election Day 2004 has to be the pinnacle for DUmp lunacy.

Remember in the afternoon, from around 3pm until polls closed, the exit poll rumors were spreading like wildfire, showing John F'n winning by huge margins all over the place.

The DUmpmonkeys believed ever word, and were ecstatic. I'm sure lots of them had drained their champagne bottles long before the first actual returns started trickling in.

As the tide turned, especially in Ohio, the shock and anguish of the DUmmies was a beautiful thing to behold.

The finest evening of freudenschade one could ever hope to have.

Even if the forces of civilization defeat the jug-eared muslim this November, the DUmp reaction could not be more enjoyable than it was in 2004.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: SarasotaRepub on January 18, 2012, 09:04:10 PM
I found DU before I was a member of CU. I saw CU mentioned on DU by an old member some of you might recall...MeowMeow.

He was trashing CU so I popped over and joined. I will lay claim to starting CU's Best/Worst forum even though it wasn't called that
way back then. I simply started bringing over the nutcase posts.  :-)
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: Ballygrl on January 18, 2012, 09:17:15 PM
Election Day 2004 has to be the pinnacle for DUmp lunacy.

Remember in the afternoon, from around 3pm until polls closed, the exit poll rumors were spreading like wildfire, showing John F'n winning by huge margins all over the place.

The DUmpmonkeys believed ever word, and were ecstatic. I'm sure lots of them had drained their champagne bottles long before the first actual returns started trickling in.

As the tide turned, especially in Ohio, the shock and anguish of the DUmmies was a beautiful thing to behold.

The finest evening of freudenschade one could ever hope to have.

Even if the forces of civilization defeat the jug-eared muslim this November, the DUmp reaction could not be more enjoyable than it was in 2004.

I was working that day and had the radio with me, I was listening to Sean and he was talking about the exit polls, sometime during the 5PM hour Sean got info that the exit polls were wrong, he told everyone to get out and vote, I think it might've been Rove who was the guest and told Sean the exit polls were wrong? needless to say it was a heck of an election, Minky and I saw the meltdown on another board that went on for weeks! :lmao:
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: Duke Nukum on January 18, 2012, 09:32:27 PM
Election Day 2004 has to be the pinnacle for DUmp lunacy.

Remember in the afternoon, from around 3pm until polls closed, the exit poll rumors were spreading like wildfire, showing John F'n winning by huge margins all over the place.

The DUmpmonkeys believed ever word, and were ecstatic. I'm sure lots of them had drained their champagne bottles long before the first actual returns started trickling in.

As the tide turned, especially in Ohio, the shock and anguish of the DUmmies was a beautiful thing to behold.

The finest evening of freudenschade one could ever hope to have.

Even if the forces of civilization defeat the jug-eared muslim this November, the DUmp reaction could not be more enjoyable than it was in 2004.
As an aside, the HBO documentary, Left of the Dial, while a sympathetic look at the founding of the long defunct Err America radio network, had some very funny footage from election night 2004.

If you have never seen Left of the Dial, I highly recommend it. It is actually a rather honest attempt even if they try to put a positive spin on the utter disaster that Err America was to that point.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: Ballygrl on January 18, 2012, 09:41:40 PM
Left of the Dial, starting at the 4:00 mark :lmao:

[youtube=425,350]3aPiP6gjOLY[/youtube]
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: Minky on January 18, 2012, 09:45:45 PM
I was working that day and had the radio with me, I was listening to Sean and he was talking about the exit polls, sometime during the 5PM hour Sean got info that the exit polls were wrong, he told everyone to get out and vote, I think it might've been Rove who was the guest and told Sean the exit polls were wrong? needless to say it was a heck of an election, Minky and I saw the meltdown on another board that went on for weeks! :lmao:

Remember how we were chastised for celebrating in the conservative forum? I was relentless. No one will shut me down. The consequences of banishment didn't scare me. Chat was awesome back then too!!

We had an IRC chatroom that everyone knew about, but few entered. If they did, they would take exaggerated stories to the libs and try to put us on the defense about having a place to talk. That small group of 5 or 6 people was AWESOME! We stood firm and knew our shit. <3
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: JakeStyle on January 18, 2012, 09:46:05 PM
Left of the Dial, starting at the 4:00 mark :lmao:

[youtube=425,350]3aPiP6gjOLY[/youtube]

That Maddow guy is a jackass.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: Ballygrl on January 18, 2012, 09:49:34 PM
Remember how we were chastised for celebrating in the conservative forum? I was relentless. No one will shut me down. The consequences of banishment didn't scare me. Chat was awesome back then too!!

We had an IRC chatroom that everyone knew about, but few entered. If they did, they would take exaggerated stories to the libs and try to put us on the defense about having a place to talk. That small group of 5 or 6 people was AWESOME! We stood firm and knew our shit. <3

I mentioned that here a while back. We had to sit there and listen to whining and tantrums, and only 1 person from the left congratulated us, after like what? 2 weeks? we said screw it and we had a party in our own little conservative forum AND WE WERE TOLD TO STOP GLOATING BECAUSE WE WERE THROWING IT IN THE LEFTS FACES, seriously? we were in our own forum, we were furious and on fire over that.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: Splashdown on January 18, 2012, 10:00:48 PM
It was DU that introduced me to CU, and from there, here. I owe DU a bit of thanks--along with the Paulbots--for bringing me here to CC.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: BEG on January 18, 2012, 11:33:05 PM
I mentioned that here a while back. We had to sit there and listen to whining and tantrums, and only 1 person from the left congratulated us, after like what? 2 weeks? we said screw it and we had a party in our own little conservative forum AND WE WERE TOLD TO STOP GLOATING BECAUSE WE WERE THROWING IT IN THE LEFTS FACES, seriously? we were in our own forum, we were furious and on fire over that.

Sounds like the parenting board  that Shade and I were on way back when.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: Skul on January 19, 2012, 01:24:46 AM
I only became aware of DU, and CC, because of DUmmie FUnnies.
Curse you, Charles, and the beaver you rode in on.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: franksolich on January 19, 2012, 05:14:55 AM
Wrapping up this unscientific poll, it appears the overwhelming bulk of the audience in the DUmpster are those who had already acquired a taste for the primitives before coming to conservativecave, rather than coming here first and then acquiring that taste.

I always sort of wondered myself (in addition to what a member had wondered in a personal message), as it did seem like most people new here already knew, or know, a great deal about Skins's island and the primitives; obviously knowledge they picked up earlier in bits-and-pieces from other places.

This is good "marketing" data, and we're happy to be a central meeting-place, a clearinghouse, of primitive lore.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: diesel driver on January 19, 2012, 05:29:44 AM
Before I joined CC.

I have been a fan of DUmmie FUnnies for years at FR.

Frank's occasional "announcements" on FR about the primitives on Skin's Island got me to come over here for a peek.

I liked, I joined, and here I am, 3,840 some posts later.   :-)
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: franksolich on January 19, 2012, 05:36:05 AM
Before I joined CC.

I have been a fan of DUmmie FUnnies for years at FR.

Frank's occasional "announcements" on FR about the primitives on Skin's Island got me to come over here for a peek.

I liked, I joined, and here I am, 3,840 some posts later.   :-)

You know, I wish I would've saved those DUmmie ALERTS!, which dated back to the Scamdal of 2005.

I had originally wanted to use the Drudge blinking red-and-blue siren light, but could never adapt it for that, and so instead ended up using an image of the late red round one on some obscure television show.

It was great for developing the "screaming headlines" talent; I never knew I had it in me.

After the Scamdal was all said-and-done, I then switched over to a photograph of Skins's island to herald a DUmmie ALERT!

But about a year, a year and a half ago, I started getting the impression some on the DUmmie FUnnies (not the writers, but their audience) didn't care much for the interruptions in the threads, and being a nice guy, I quit.

They were a lot of fun while they lasted, though.
Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: franksolich on January 19, 2012, 05:53:24 AM
Just out of curiosity, I went to see if any of the original (during the Scamdal) DUmmie ALERTS! are still there.

This is a random example; the image that was removed was that of the late red round one on some obscure television show; I had deleted it from my photobucket account after the Scamdal, and the original evaporated when a computer crashed on me, circa 2008.

(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/da1.jpg)

(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/da2.jpg)

Title: Re: poll: when did.....
Post by: Dblhaul on January 19, 2012, 12:02:11 PM
Found DU a couple of years ago, kept going back for the laughs.

Then I found this place and read most of the DUmmies posts here, with great comentary.