The Clone in Hell page.
Marsalt.stupidity must invade Mars!!!!!Forbidden Planet
Bill on MarsIncidentally, Shakespeare's The Tempest was the inspiration for Forbidden Planet.Planet Proctor
Krypton
A company I once worked for sent me to Japan to train on some new computer technology. It cost them thousands of dollars for that 11-day trip. (It was company policy to spend big bucks when sending their representatives overseas--even when said rep is a lowly technical writer.) When I returned, I was full of knowledge and enthusiasm. I was ready to write manuals and set up service training seminars. But nobody was interested. All they wanted was a report summarizing my trip. Not wanting it to be a total loss, I wrote that report--which was dry and technical--then wrote this unofficial report for my friends and cow orkers.
I used to lurk in alt.fan.warlord though I had an idea of what was going on until I read the FAQ.
I couldn't decide whether to categorize alt.stupidity as a place or a thing. I think for those of us who go there often, it's a place. So is alt.stupidity.spatch.We usually go to the Internet to get together, but sometimes we go to places to meet in person.
The alt.smouldering.dog.zone is a newsgroup that was originally created in 1992 and then later abandoned for some reason. A few years after that, "a group of very chatty pirates found themselves in the midst of email hell" and decided they wanted a newsgroup of their own. So they started searching for a pre-existing one that nobody was using. They discovered ASDZ and—after making sure it was empty—took it over.Nosy was one of the members of the original ASDZ and mentioned it several times when making comments in alt.stupidity. Some time after the turn of the century, I got curious, checked it out, liked what I saw, and started posting there. (This was after it was taken over by the pirates.) Eventually some of the Zoners began to post in alt.stupidity.spatch—resulting in a bit of cultural exchange.
The Dog Zone Home Page provides more details about ASDZ. It was originally written by Alan Lucky Powers (A.K.A. Trig Cove) in 1997 and is currently maintained by Kim, the official ASDZ bartender.
The BillDing42 web page was lost, but now is found. It has some duplicate links, plus some that haven't been seen on my pages for years.I'm not sure when or where I created this web page. It was sometime after 1995 but before 2019, when I moved my files en masse to its current location at DreamHost. It could have originally been on Earthlink, AOL, or MindSpring servers. Probably not on Compu$erve, though.
In any case, the original link to it has vanished, mysteriously; so it sat there on the web, alone and forgotten. I rediscovered it when I was going through all my web pages to update them. Now it's back.
For awhile, I'd forgotten where Antelope Freeway was. But then Whatzisname gave me directions.
Mr. Play-A-Day used to post humorous plays to alt.supidity, one of which mentioned in passing mouth figurines. Tortess noticed it, followed up, then the rest of the froup made the phrase a regular feature. Alas, Tortess's post appears to be lost in the mists of time, but maybe the original Play-A-Day manuscript is located here.
This place has more Wilkinsons than you can shake a clone at.
Do you like music from the '50s and '60s? Catch The Wanderer.
What, Me Worry?.Mad Magazine used to be a bit of a rebel. They satirized everything--including advertising--so it was their policy not to accept real ads. However, in 2001 they sold out. Woe,woe, woe. Madison Avenue finally won. If Bill Gaines was alive today, he'd be rolling over in his grave. Here is a similar opinion.
If Doc Savage and Tarzan got into a fight, who would win?
Bill Wilkinson's Heath Company Page.