Original "Walldude" threads, 2005

[Ralph Wiggum]

For those who aren't familiar with why we often refer to someone who "Walldude's" themselves at the DUmp.
This was all originally captured in real time at CU in 2005.
The original threads from CU have vanished after several server crashes.  However, the DU links still work.

For your Friday enjoyment, my friends. 

walldude  Donating Member (1000+ posts) | |   Tue Jul-12-05 10:53 PM
Need some ideas here friends, I have the attention of alot of Freepers

 built a video wall (hey, I am the walldude koo koo koo choo) this week for a trade show in Denver. Turns out the show is The Christian Retailers Association. Every goddam freeper this side of the Mississippi is here. Luckily the booth I'm working in is selling videos of the old BBC versions of The Chronicles of Narnia so it's not too bad. However a lot of the booths, and there are hundreds of them, are full of freeper propaganda. I got a chance to walk around today and saw and heard so much about our wonderful President and his Christian values that I almost puked up my lunch. It really pissed me off, so I went back to my booth and did a little editing. I added a single frame graphic to the video I'm showing that says Impeach Bush! A single frame is 1/30th of a second so it's totally subliminal. There are two days left on the show and I want to do something bigger and better for the last day. Now I can't do it in my booth because, well, I'd like to get paid, but I can get on the show floor before everyone else. I was thinking of printing up fliers or something and leaving them in all the booths. But I'm not sure what to put on them. I want it to be effective but simple. Here's some of the things I saw today to show you what I am up against:

Books:
George W. Bush: The Greatest President Ever
George W. Bush: The Life Of A True Christian
The Secrets of Gays And Why They Shouldn't Be Secret
Accept Christ Or Pay The Price
The Evolution Lie
Noah And The Dinosaurs

T-Shirts:
Friends Don't Let Friends Go To Hell(??Then who am I gonna hang out with?)
Legalize... Prayer(I didn't know it was illegal)
Many, Many, Bush T-Shirts

Odds and Sods:
Scripture Candy
Bible Action Figures
Rapture Kits(I intend to ask tommorow what exactly is included in a Rapture kit.)

Now before you start flaming me for being anti-Christian imagine being a progressive, liberal, Jew, and spending a few days surrounded by this stuff, it'll make you nuts. There seem to be alot of nice people there but the level of ignorance is astounding.

So please, if you have an idea of a simple but effective message or photo or something I could put on a flier post it here, tommorow I will choose something, print up a few hundred of them and leave them in every single booth in the place.....

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4087162

And, the result:

walldude  Donating Member (1000+ posts) | |    Thu Jul-14-05 11:43 PM
Lost a job over a DU post.. We are being watched friends...

Where to begin? I wanted to post this yesterday but I was told to keep my mouth shut until the show was over(read the post, you'll understand) if I wanted to get paid for the work I had already done. The night before last I made this post:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

As you can see I had some great suggestions and was prepared to combine some of them into the flier yesterday to spread around today. I never got the chance. At 12:30 in the afternoon yesterday the head of the company I was working for came to the booth and told me the client hadn't paid the bill and I had to leave, they were shutting the booth down. This has happened before on rare occasions so I didn't think it was too strange. About 4:00 that afternoon I get a phone call. They called to ask me how to run the videowall. Well, at that point the guy just starts rambling about how they had to send someone else in, because "security" had called saying a guy working at the show posted a message on an Internet board under the name of Walldude and was "threatening to blow the place up". (I obviously let a little too much information out in the original post, they had no trouble figuring out who I was. I had actually tried to edit the post later to remove the city and booth info but the edit time had expired) Now, he's telling me this as he has a copy of the post right in front of him. I was so shocked all I could do was argue semantics with him for a few minutes. Then I told him what to do to run the wall so the show could continue and hung up. I was stunned. They had turned what I wrote into a "security risk" and had me removed from the show.
Now I only lost a day and a half's work over this, but I doubt the company will ever use me again. I have alot of friends working there and work is pretty thin in the summer, so that kinda sucks. But what's really bothering me, is the fact that someone actually saw the post and alerted someone about it. All anyone will tell me is "security called" and they have no idea how security found out. As more and more of the shock wore off, and my brain started functioning again, I started to get so pissed off that I couldn't see straight. I tried Googling different keywords and combinations of words from the post to see if it showed up but it didn't. I tried other search engines to make sure, but it looks like they weren't specifically hunting for posts related to the trade show. That means someone was here, saw the post, put the old GOP spin on it and got me fired from the gig.
Now the really ****ed up part of this if you think about it is, they all had copies of the post. Security, the decorating company, the company that hired me. It was obvious I didn't threaten to blow the place up, I even talked about how nice alot of the people were. Yet, even with the facts right in front of their faces, they still insisted on repeating the mantra. How easily the weak minded are swayed. I started thinking that if people are this easily manipulated I really should of bought one of those Rapture Kits while I had the chance.
I hope the story doesn't get passed around to other companies I work for, the spin has already got me making bomb threats, next they'll have me on the show floor with bombs strapped to my chest screaming Allah! Allah! That would probably end my career real quick.
Other than that I am unscathed. All this, plus a death in the family this week, coupled with the attempts to spin Rove into a hero has only steeled my resolve against the growing fascism in this country. I realized that most of the people are sheep, happy to go about their lives believing everything the government tells them. Like the Germans in WWII, they won't bother to see the truth until it's too late. The least I can attempt to do is make sure they can't claim ignorance....

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4107281

edited by franksolich to add dates the primitive posted these; nothing else altered, sorry.

[67 Rover]

After that episode despite Walldude's claims to finding a bigger better job in actuality he went on to live the simple life in his Buick posting under a different name Bobolink(sp) on DUmmie underground and stealing WiFi.   

[SVPete]

  There is a reason I do not post information about my present - and usually not my immediately previous - employer in discussion forums. Obviously, Admins and sometimes Mods can see the IP addies from which I post. walldude's post had grounds for canning him - hijacking a customer's presentation, using his convention exhibit hall access for purely personal purposes. But Libs & Progs are known to target people who carelessly give clues to their employers online just to injure people of different political views.

[Texacon]

I hate we lost the original CC thread(s) on this. They were epic.

He went on to claim he opened his own business and was fabulously successful. Making more money than a person should be allowed to make, to much applause from his fellow DUmmies. Within weeks he was begging and talking about how he’d made all his success stories up. It was glorious in the unfolding.

KC

[Ralph Wiggum]

I hate we lost the original CC thread(s) on this. They were epic.

He went on to claim he opened his own business and was fabulously successful. Making more money than a person should be allowed to make, to much applause from his fellow DUmmies. Within weeks he was begging and talking about how he’d made all his success stories up. It was glorious in the unfolding.

KC

The Cave didn't exist yet in 2005. But it was a hilarious incident of someone sabotaging themselves.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Thanks Frank for adding the dates!  Copied & pasted on my phone, so it didn't capture that important detail.

[USA4ME]

Also a link to this gem...

"The Stalking of Andy Stephenson"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=383284&mesg_id=383284

Contains the lies told by Beth. Fun read!

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[Old n Grumpy]

 

That was choice!! A dip shit got a 100x Karma payback!!

madeline_con Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore    Fri Jul-15-05 12:00 AM
Response to Original message
36. May be able to find Pro Bono
   
attorney just itching for something like this.

Right, he will have better luck finding a pro bono hooker.  The guy shot himself in the foot, TWICE!!

[franksolich]

Thanks Frank for adding the dates!  Copied & pasted on my phone, so it didn't capture that important detail.

No big deal; it's just that I think the dates are important because it gives those unfamiliar with the details an idea of how long ago these events were, and explains why it's not always possible to find ancient threads, such as those lost when conservativeunderground crashed circa early 2008 of 2009, which caused a lot of really good stuff to evaporate.

[franksolich]

Also a link to this gem...

"The Stalking of Andy Stephenson"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=383284&mesg_id=383284

Contains the lies told by Beth. Fun read!

I'm very happy someone saved that (I didn't).

Others of course played important roles, but I always considered this my own greatest accomplishment on the internet.

[FlaGator]

It is sad that he doesn't get the fact that he violated the trust of the people who hired him and that will stick with him. You can't be trusted with something simple then you can be trusted with something complex.

[Old n Grumpy]

"The Stalking of Andy Stephenson"

I read that and don't get it. Was the whole thing a scam?

[Texacon]

The Cave didn't exist yet in 2005. But it was a hilarious incident of someone sabotaging themselves.

Were we posting it on CU?

KC


On Edit: I see where you said it was posted on CU. I don’t ever remember dates of things.

[Gwitness]

Thanks Frank for adding the dates!  Copied & pasted on my phone, so it didn't capture that important detail.

ahhhh...memories.   dude was a dumbass that got what he deserved.

[FlippyDoo]

"The Stalking of Andy Stephenson"

I read that and don't get it. Was the whole thing a scam?

If I remember correctly, coach (or some other conservative) allegedly infected Andy with cancer. Then Beth allegedly heroically led a fund raising campaign to allegedly save Andy's life. She raised 1.78 gazillion dollars. The hospital was going to allegedly use it to cure Andy, and they would have allegedly succeeded except for one alleged fact... Coach (or some other conservative) allegedly strolled (on foot and kicking puppies) from Nebraska to the hospital and allegedly hid the magical money under a phone book along with some magic beans. As the hospital staff was looking for the magical money they allegedly knocked the magic beans into a trash can. The beans then allegedly grew into a huge beanstalk that grew way into the sky until it allegedly ruptured the roof of the hospital. As they allegedly ran from the mean rethuglican giant that came down from the beanstalk time ran out on Andy.

As I said, all of the above is if I remember correctly.

[franksolich]

If I remember correctly, coach (or some other conservative) allegedly infected Andy with cancer. Then Beth allegedly heroically led a fund raising campaign to allegedly save Andy's life. She raised 1.78 gazillion dollars. The hospital was going to allegedly use it to cure Andy, and they would have allegedly succeeded except for one alleged fact... Coach (or some other conservative) allegedly strolled (on foot and kicking puppies) from Nebraska to the hospital and allegedly hid the magical money under a phone book along with some magic beans. As the hospital staff was looking for the magical money they allegedly knocked the magic beans into a trash can. The beans then allegedly grew into a huge beanstalk that grew way into the sky until it allegedly ruptured the roof of the hospital. As they allegedly ran from the mean rethuglican giant that came down from the beanstalk time ran out on Andy.

As I said, all of the above is if I remember correctly.

That's probably about the best anybody's going to get, as it's been thirteen years and a lot of water past the dam.

And also, a couple of weeks ago after I decided I wanted to leave freerepublic, I went through and deleted all--I repeat, all--of my personal messages, of which more than a thousand--I repeat, more than a thousand--were written and sent between April 30 and July 7, 2005, which was probably the largest collection of Andyania in existence, and they'd been written in real time, as they happened.

It wasn't until I was done that I thought.....oooops.

It would've been a treasury of information about the scam that rocked the internet.