09-09-2000 06:11									#31
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No, I wasn't here for the previous elections. Did people actually take them seriously?
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Let me explain Ming's reaction...

People took the original elections SO GOD-DAMNED SERIOUSLY that a flame war erupted after "The Grand Alliance" (engineered by Imran & Starchild as a combination of about four or five parties) lost not one election, but TWO, and started a revolution to depose LordStone1 (head of the ultimately victorious Apolyton Unaffiliated Party, of which I now regret being a member). I was caught up in a flurry of insults with Mike Jeszenka, and it became so annoying that I actually considered leaving these forums (something LS1 eventually ended up doing), but I loved them too much to go. Then Ming came, and everything was suddenly right in the world.

Believe me, Murg, people took the original elections seriously enough to turn it into a flame war. If you don't believe me, ask Imran, Starchild, LS1, GS, David Floyd, Coug, etc. (but by PM or e-mail - keep it out of the public square) to recount their experiences with the original elections. As far as I'm concerned, the elections were the OT's darkest hour.



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	09-09-2000 06:14									#32
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Murg: I think LS1's initial reaction says it all...

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As the former President of Apolyton, I urge you not to do this. It is simply not worth it.

If you do this, you will know who your true friends and who your true enemies are. I learned that lesson in a very big way in May 1999. Do not do elections. Do not vote for a president or anything like that.

It just isn't worth it, and I think I'm the only person qualified enough to know that and to tell you that. Go and have fun. This really messed up my life for a few weeks, IRL. It was a very low point in my life when I exiled myself. It is not fun at all.
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tjp25@cornell.edu | reismark@nycmail.com | GO ITHACA FLAME! - AFFL Leader
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Vote Gore/Lieberman 2000: Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow
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	09-09-2000 10:51									#33
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Yeah, go reismark! I remember the flames after the election! And the Grand Alliance was a coaltion involving Boshko as well. Our plan? To eliminate the Apolyton Government. Well, we did so as revolutions (which I said in my first post on the subject), and then... we got Ming... .

Really ****ed up things..

	10-09-2000 01:32									#34
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	10-09-2000 06:15									#35
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