From one of our more astute posters (We have a few)

IF we are able to figure it out, and have some participation of real people, this "Speakeasy" may actually be born as a message board, sort of like one of the simple BRAVENET Boards

We have noticed a big drop in traffic on all THREE DR Boards, we can't imaging having your name parodied would cause people to stop posting, and certainly are not so pompous to believe that, but if anyone has any evidence this is true, PLEASE let us know as this would defeat our entire purpose, kill the golden goose, shoot ourselves in the foot and so on. We don't want any harm to come to those boards, they are our "Rice Bowl," without them and their cast of characters we do not exist

Likely just a coincidence, I hope :-(

Coming soon: Our honest, not satirical opinions of posters. This will take some time, piss quite a few off etc. It will be based on reviews of posts (We have been searching archives from Day 1) snippets of personal information posted purposely or inadvertently, nosey neighbors, anything we could find. if you want to tell us anything about yourself to clear the record BEFORE we post, feel free

That's all for tonight, sleep for a while, hit the delete all button for man/child in the morning and , who knows, it's nice to not have to work :-)



And now a message from a decent poster, with an idea we really like
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Dear nah,Holy wow, my internet connection went down 2 days ago and I had to put a message on hold. Now I can't make head nor tails of the events here. This is an excellent sign. Despite some kicking and griping to the contrary, you might be filling a void in the DR message board circuit. The drowned-out, shut-out, and off-topic voices have an after hours joint in which to hang out and duke it out. It tickles my funny bone the way you keep apologizing for deleting one poster's comments. Purely for the humor of it, mind you,I don't care who the poster may or may not be. I do find it boring to read the small minded gutter language. Witless. I'm not so sure about the ID of Miggles. I never read many of his posts on DR1, if it's who you think it is. Too longwinded, my eyes crossed whenever I tried to get through them. . Anyway, nah, your place is beginning to resemble an internet speakeasy… isn't the word 'speakeasy' too cool in this context? I picture an old Chicago style after-hours blues bar, downstairs, transit tracks overhead, Dickless Tracy, other famous detectives, and all manner of gangsters wandering in at all hours, concealed verbal weapons drawn and ready. Uh huh, I like the feel. It's all in Toon Town Technicolor, as well. I can't remember the name of that film from awhile ago, where everyone turned into their 'toon images. Surreal.ON some writer's boards, I had always found that flame wars fed more participation than anything real or substantial—one only has to watch the number of hits on anything resembling a flame war to see the truth of this. Writers are way more accomplished at verbal jousting than the flames one sees in the typical DR message board battle. The DR1 flames are kindergarten in comparison. Either scenario, the majority not actually in the arena fighting are no different than the spectators of old Rome. Christians & lions, and such. Bloodlust. Just one more aspect of good ol' human nature. Some things never change.I had begun to ask, before the internet connection failed, if you had noticed my parody of the 'name that poster' game? Heck, you obviously have much bigger fish to fry… or is that roast? I was very relieved to see I did not correctly guess #4! I admitted I never read Rick Snyder's posts, not a one. :) I never even checked to see what new posters might have qualified. It was hearsay and assumption only. Holmes, if he existed, would be mortified.For the love of parody! How many ever do consider the posts/thoughts of others? I guess you know that. Which is why "Know it alls in DR" took on a life of its own. heh. It's true! One question: are there more know-it-alls here (DR) than elsewhere? … I had some thoughts on this, but they were serious ones, and really that's not what this speakeasy is about. I'm trying to think of a way to participate; I'd much rather clown around than be serious, but I spend pitiful little time on the boards, so what's to contribute?