To: faqsnlojiks who wrote (5956 ) 11/7/1999 7:51:00 PM From: Joana Tides Read Replies (2) | Respond to
Hi Joe, whereya bin? Good 2C U!!! Gotta get some attributions straight hyar....got a mind like a steel trap when it comes to demdar....(no Blue, UR) - BLUE invented "Techstock" in a post about an imaginary cyber rock concert one day in '98 way back yonder to Celebrate A Bottlerocket Launch at our old place (Sad to say The "Techstock" concerts weren't enjoyed by all in those days, oh well, that's why they got wilder so much faster remember it Blue, LOL?!) . Blue also wrote the first "BOOM SHAKA LAKA LAKA Wanta Takeya Hiiiiigher" back then too. For the new board on SI coinciding with the New Year, i guess i probly called it "Techstock '99" then, but it's Blue's. Blue and MOOOOONS (John Mooney) serendipitied the Code 909 Thing, now THAT was a magic moment... that very day GNET started to Really VaVaVOOOOOM...ahh, sweet memories. My favorite of mine is "Quack" and i don't think i invented it, i probly heard it someplace else and just kept spreading it like rose fertilizer, but i'm really not sure. And the understanding or inspiration (whichever) for that one came from (remember?) - (i forget what movie it was) Groucho Marx is sitting on a park bench, he's reading a newspaper using the "NY Subway Fold" that keeps the columns for the stocks straight. Suddenly those amazing caterpillar eyebrows go up to his hairline, he JUMPS UP like he's on a Spring!! Then Groucho puts the paper down on the bench and strides away quickly, saying to a dowager he almost bumps into "Gotta see a man about a duck". So the man sitting next to him picks up the paper, looks at it, and whistles. Doesn't take a rocketscientist to know he's playing the market, he's got The Shoes and The WS Fold and The Swell Suit On and the briefcase and stuff. You know, just the way we all dress for our StockWork LOL.
