So, barzun. What happenned?

He turned out to be an old troll in disguise and got banned?

I think he just got bored.
Nothing more to say, it's not really worthy of any more discussion.

It really was a tragic scene. Initially amusing, but when you consider that this was his moment, that he'd plotted and built up to for months, it takes on tragic proportions. It brought to mind this guy, only without the potential physical benefits of playing squash.

How pathetic you gotta be to want to get the attention Don Piano's getting?

He probably wanted to do it before the site went down for the weekend.

It was a brilliant plan. He spent weeks getting beaten horribly in every debate he started, at which point he revealed he was a troll. I'm not even sure why he thinks he succeeded. I had more fun laughing at him than any troll we've had in a long time.

Yeah the drunken angry mortgage payment tourettes haiku's were fun.

I can't remember the last time I saw a retard take off his mask to reveal he has downs syndrome, then claim it as an emphatic victory. Good for him I suppose, it'll make for a great story at his 12th birthday party.

Damn, reading through those threads was like opening some sort of CHUD time capsule. Still, good riddance.

I didn't read the thread with the big reveal, but that was kind of a duh. If he really wants to surprise us somehow, maybe he should try using less obvious screen names, instead of trying to impress us with the books he wants us to believe he's read ("Barzun," "JohnShade," and I'm pretty sure "Mamalujo" was him, too). If he just called himself "Hank" or something, he'd be a lot harder to spot and ridicule for being a pretentious jackass.

Um... could someone link to his meltdown, please? I've been away from the computer, under the weather, and missed all the fun.

EDIT - Never mind. Found them. To think I missed out on learning what sort of bizarre accusation he'd level at me. Since Lisa got "secretly a man," I'm not sure what would be left for him to use in a feeble attempt to put another smart girl in her place. Good riddance.

Maybe we should start a pool on what his next name will be. I'm betting on Cervantes.

I got 15 on Descartes. Who's taking Hume?

You're a... a... marsupial!

Please, no, I don't need the possible confusion.

Too popular. It would be like going with "S. Dedalus" instead of "MaMaLuJo" or "Humbert H." instead of "JohnShade." If he didn't have a slight misogynist bent, I'd guess "Paglia" or "LilyBriscoe."

So even after he's gone, we're talking about him? Yeah, we really showed him....

I'll own up to the fact that I hadn't heard of Barzun until you called him out on it, hence I missed the meme he's established. But, good call.

I would imagine, should it ever happen, he'll feel the same way.

I'd guess Ayn Rand. He will not conform and he has a small problem with gender.

While he's absolutely an idiot, he likes to paint himself as erudite, thus the high culture-referencing screen names. He wants you to be aware that the guy who's calling you a man and threatening people with an attack from his "pendulous balls" is a cultured man of refined taste.

Is that a Tom Collins with a tampon in it? If so, I agree with your assessment.

Well, Phil IS incredibly absorbant and allows me to get on with my day.

Thanks, Dave. I now have this picture in my head of Barzun in a smoking jacket, sitting in a Victorian era style drawing room with a fireplace, settling into a comfy chair, holding a glass of brandy and thinking "Now, how shall I amuse myself this evening? I know, I shall make false and outrageous accusations about several of the participants on the CHUD Message Boards. I believe... yes, I shall make that scurrilous mountebank Devin most perturbed by addressing his weight! Genius!!!"

"Next, I shall administer a frontal assault on that rapscallion, Uncle Cthulhu, by implying a heretofore relationship with the gentleman who wrote "Hackers", a wonderful cinematic treat featuring an oh so winsome Angelina Jolie. Jeeves, more brandy!"

"Finally, my coup de grace! I shall make most merry on the message boards by causing the fair LisaNewYork several conniptions most profound by accusing her of being not a creature of feminine alignment, but a GENTLEMAN of dubious character! Ah, the wagging tounges, shock and disbelief that will result amongst my CHUD chums from my peccadiloes! Oh, Barzun, how do you do it? Jeeves! My laptop!"