11-02-2006, 09:57 AM
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#1 | | Senior Member
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| The REAL reason the board was down was...
- to suppress the vital, incisive political discussions in the run-up to elections.
- to increase economic productivity
(insert your reason...)
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11-02-2006, 10:18 AM
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#2 | | Immortal
Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Heidelberg, GE
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| TRRTBWDW:
a denial of service attack by a certain bandanna-wearing fencing Luddite.
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11-02-2006, 01:12 PM
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#3 | | Senior Member
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| - revenge attack by the USFA central office after all the unfavourable comments concerning their website and its performance.
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11-02-2006, 01:23 PM
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#4 | | Senior Member
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| It was terrorists.
Or El Nino
Or mold (inside joke I guess)
It was illegal imigrants trying to steal our jobs
Well these seem like the scapegoats that everything else is blamed on lately anyway. I personaly think that it was space aliens trying to take over out comunicarion systems.
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11-02-2006, 01:37 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member
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| It was Inquartata. He crashed all that confounded technology.
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11-02-2006, 02:23 PM
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#6 | | Incorruptible
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| The handball discussion forum attacke the boards because they were tired of us stealing their Olympic thunder (what little of it there is).
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11-02-2006, 05:30 PM
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#7 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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| The massed smell of all the epeeists on the board finally proved too much. 
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11-02-2006, 06:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Inquartata The massed smell of all the epeeists on the board finally proved too much. | Yes, I think that was it.
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11-02-2006, 08:37 PM
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| The sheer volume of the debates between Inq, Pidge, Jeff and other sufferers of verbal diarrhea overwhelmed not only the site's servers and the backups, but also 80% of the Google cache. Google retaliated by making Craig and Gav personally re-type all the entries lost from their cache, before they'd let them have their data back.
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11-02-2006, 10:45 PM
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#10 | | Epee fencing addict
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| I expect it was the new foil timings. They overloaded the circuitry of the scoring boxes and it all back-fed into the fencing.net computer system. Next thing you know, no lights on the computer. 
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11-03-2006, 06:59 AM
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| I blame the media
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11-03-2006, 08:13 AM
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| George Bush, of course.
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11-03-2006, 09:36 AM
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| Don't be silly...it was the Masons.
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11-03-2006, 10:07 AM
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#14 | | Incorruptible
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| Actually, Craig and Gav got together and decided that there weren't enough game threads and they thought the best way to inspire this very thread was to voluntarilly take the site down for 2 weeks.
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11-03-2006, 11:36 AM
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| the real reason: Craig went on a two-week Caribbean cruise... 
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11-03-2006, 01:34 PM
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#16 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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| ...on the Black Pearl, dressed as---oh, no, we already have a Jack Sparrow on the board...so, then---Will Turner? Norrington? Please, god, not Elizabeth! 
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11-03-2006, 02:26 PM
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| It probably has more to do with the number # 17,060 than anything else.
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11-03-2006, 03:05 PM
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| 4 8 16 28 32....
hehe, I think that's right anyways.
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11-03-2006, 04:00 PM
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#19 | | Senior Member
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| Someone on the Lost island forgot to type in the numbers.......
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11-03-2006, 10:10 PM
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#20 | | Bitter young coach
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| The computer just couldn't deal with one more post whining about polls being flawed and commited digital suicide...
Or maybe it went down so certain members would be free to devote all their time to hunting down ReverseLunge. 
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