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Just a bit curious...

What brought each of you here? Im trying to gain a better picture of how it was that we all managed to find each other
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En fuego, bebe.
 
um.. well.. i was sitting in #hotdeals on efnet when i saw Alien asking who wanted to be a mod for a new forum.. so i said i would..
 
I heard about it from kezzer.

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You may think I'm a loser
That I don't really care
You may think that it's forgotten
But you should be aware
'Cause I've learned to get revenge
And I swear you'll experience that some day.
- Lene Marlin
 
Once uppon a time there was this place where people would gather to tell others where to find stuff for free. A young college student spent many an hour lurking around the place looking for something for nothing. One day he dropped in and found that the mods had become nazi's and wouldnt alow for anything good to be posted. Some where in this thread there was a message . . .
check out this place www.aliensoup.com
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the young student decided to click on the link and he figured that he would keep an eye on this new place to see how frutfull it would become. One day he was board at work and decided to do a little browsing on the web. He stumbled into the Water Cooler and never looked back.

I am proud to admit that college student was me. Aliensoup Forever
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Mother Should I Trust The Government - Pink Floyd
 
I helped Alien with a new layout (from version 1, to the 1st version 2)
He asked if I wanted to mod the support forums and I said I would....so here I am.

<FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="1" FACE="Verdana, Arial">This message has been edited by ukliam on January 11, 2001 at 06:38 AM</font>
 
My story jives with Prox's - only instead of "college student", substitute "theologian-for-hire".

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My knob tastes funny.
 
Heh..Crom showed me the Hot Deals section here. I got addicted from there.
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"Scars are souvenirs you never lose." ~ GooGoo Dolls
 
I used to go to some really crappy forums and one day decided to go to the UBB website to look at other forums and Alien Soup was one of the first ones there and it caught my eye. I haven't looked back.
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Alien: ...I mean, your **** makes a noise...that's just...disturbing
 
Well, I was very ill. Having one of my *sick spells*. High fever and the whole bit. So one day I couldnt stand it any more and crawled down to my computer. Some how I ended up here.?

Never had been on a message board or done chat b4 AS. Guess it was fate.
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But part of the reason for my odd name must have been the fever.(Think I'll change it.)

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Always be yourself. If they can't take a joke, *@#% em!
 
Same with Prox's and Poss' stories. Only I posted way more here than I did, there. I think I might have posted 3 times over there.

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Does driving a car from Saturn make me an alien?

I'm just a quick pee. - liltaz, fastest pee in the West!

That which does not make me barf, makes me stronger - possum37, fugly.net guru.
 
i used to post quite a bit over at mycoupons &lt;ducks quickly&gt;
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i think i found a link for aliensoup somewhere on anandtech, but i'm not sure. anyways, this place is now my permanent home
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the more complete story of why i left mycoupons is somewhere on this board. dan was the original poster and it was very funny. i must bump it forward for our reading pleasure (in "rants" forum)
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"would you like some snake eyes?"
 
OK, this is somewhat of an embarrassing story, but I hope you all like me enough by now that you won't think less of me for it...

My boss (at the place that went outa business, hah) told this marketing intern we had to find every online coupons/deals site she could and post $10 off $20 coupon codes. About a month later the intern left to go back to school, and my boss gave me the list of sites she had posted to, and said "OK, go post on all these sites again for me" Sigh. What fun. OK.

I get to the Soup and am thinking "What the hell is this, this doesn't look like the other ones" but register, make my stupid post, and move on.

About a week later, my boss says "OK, go post those coupon codes again." I said "What are you nuts? If I post again so soon people are going to accuse me of spam and they'll boycott the site! That would be totally counterproductive." He said "Hmmm that's weird, don't these people want deals?" I said "Yeah but not the same ones over and over...trust me I've been online for a really long time, I know how the online community works." He said OK and that was that. Told me to post again maybe in a month.

Meanwhile I thought these coupon sites were pretty cool since I shopped online a lot. I figured I should start posting other codes on them to be a "good neighbor" since I would be using codes others posted. Pretty much I just came to the Soup and a few others, and on the Soup I never left the Hot Deals forum.

When my company lost funding, I didn't have much to do at work. I'd go ask my boss for stuff to do, and he really didn't have anything for me. So I'd spend all day online, bored, and when I was on the Soup I decided to poke around a little more and discovered the other forums. Soon I started posting like crazy, and now I'm an addict.
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Are you sorry you asked yet?
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Ah HAH! So *that* explains...

They will be opening in NY and NJ within the next few days, and I think some more states over another few months (got a friend who works for them so I have inside scoop
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http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/001790.html

Inside scoop indeed!
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My knob tastes funny.

<FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="1" FACE="Verdana, Arial">[This message has been edited by possum37 on January 11, 2001 at 11:08 AM]</font>
 
Well, poss, it was true, I DID have friends working there...
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At the time I had no idea how cool everyone here was so what did I care?

Now I'm glad the **** company folded, and I'm still on the Soup
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Originally posted by hermanm:
Now I'm glad the **** company folded, and I'm still on the Soup
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Dot-coms may come and go like the wind, but the Soup shall always remain...

And we're glad you're still here!
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My knob tastes funny.
 
I was invited by an internet fantasy hockey league into which I was randomly thrown. I might add that I was invited EARLY in the season as not many members seemed to think much of me by the 10th week. Sports fans are a serious bunch!


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"Say My Name, Say My Name"
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PsychoticIckyThingimajigger brought, well told me, here/about this place

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Sit back, buckle up, and strap yourself in...this will be a bumpy ride on a joy ride!
Hey, it's the least I can do, and you know that's all I do
 
Thanks for the credit, finally!

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You may think I'm a loser
That I don't really care
You may think that it's forgotten
But you should be aware
'Cause I've learned to get revenge
And I swear you'll experience that some day.
- Lene Marlin
 
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