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OG's of DATALOUNGE

I want to know the people who have been posting here since the beginning. I've been on and off Datalounge for years when I worked in the business and now when I (happily do not) but oh do I have a stories.

But I was just thinking, are the original 20- 30 something Dataloungers now 50's and 60's dudes? I'm in my 40's.

CURIOUS. Of course, I'm just waiting for the rude responses but if you are one of the originals make yourselves known men.

by Anonymousreply 530May 15, 2025 1:27 AM

I started lurking in 1999 and posting in 2000. There was already quite a crowd by then, and the gossip that got dished in here was much more raw and more plentiful than today. But then the Internet itself was so young then, too.

by Anonymousreply 1May 6, 2025 1:46 PM

Not from the beginning, but probably a year into DL. I lurked until 2003.

by Anonymousreply 2May 6, 2025 1:48 PM

Off and on since a few months before 9/11.

by Anonymousreply 3May 6, 2025 1:55 PM

A friend had been telling me about it for about a year and then the EW mention happened around the same tone so I looked it up. However, I missed the Red Dragon Cheese thread.

by Anonymousreply 4May 6, 2025 2:22 PM

Everyone here isn't male, OP.

by Anonymousreply 5May 6, 2025 2:23 PM

I guess I’m a relative latecomer. I was lured over by a “Defamer” link in 2005.

by Anonymousreply 6May 6, 2025 2:24 PM

About 20 years, maybe more. I love DL.

by Anonymousreply 7May 6, 2025 2:25 PM

I think I’ve been here more or less since the summer of 2001. I definitely remember the WTC being an insatiable bottom.

I took a break during the most intense parts of med school, and it wasn’t until COVID, which was during the first half of residency and fellowship that I came back on the reg.

by Anonymousreply 8May 6, 2025 2:28 PM

R5 is right, there were plenty of women among the majority demographic of gay men, back in the early days. For a while there was a DL subforum/category for “Lesbian Issues.”

by Anonymousreply 9May 6, 2025 2:49 PM

I’ve been here since the late 90s - probably ‘98 or ‘99. Found my way here from the Is He/She Gay message boards. Back then it wasn’t a single forum, there were multiple topic pages - does anyone remember what they were? I think there was a dedicated lesbian one. Entertainment/celebrity gossip got the most traction but there were also pages for politics and health. Maybe travel?

by Anonymousreply 10May 6, 2025 2:51 PM

And of course it was so much better last year

by Anonymousreply 11May 6, 2025 2:54 PM

[Quote] when I worked in the business

🤔

by Anonymousreply 12May 6, 2025 2:58 PM

What is "the business?"

by Anonymousreply 13May 6, 2025 3:00 PM

I started visiting in 2002. I didn't start posting until about 10 or so years later. One of the first posts I saw was the notorious 9/11 thread, and Let's Roll Cinnamon Rolls.

by Anonymousreply 14May 6, 2025 3:04 PM

I can barely remember last week, but I know I started on DL sometime after Prancing Ponies and before the 2008 election, so probably twenty years.

by Anonymousreply 15May 6, 2025 3:04 PM

How is Let’s Roll Cinnamon Rolls doing in this Trump economy?

by Anonymousreply 16May 6, 2025 3:10 PM

[Quote] What is "the business?"

Think it’s similar to “the works” or “the high hat.”

by Anonymousreply 17May 6, 2025 3:11 PM

Since 1995. I'm 61.

by Anonymousreply 18May 6, 2025 3:12 PM

That's not very helpful, R17.

by Anonymousreply 19May 6, 2025 3:15 PM

Since 2002. A bunch of posters joined around that time, because DL got mentioned in Entertainment Weekly. That’s where the “Concerned Team Mom” signature you will see here came from-it was originally “Concerned EW Reading Soccer Mom.”

by Anonymousreply 20May 6, 2025 3:18 PM

I think my first time here was around 98-99, another one coming from IHSG. I got away for a number of years, but I keep coming back.

by Anonymousreply 21May 6, 2025 4:11 PM

I’ve been here since around 2000. I’d say intermittently because there might only be two or three topics at any one time that catch my interest. I’m 72, so I was already old when I arrived on the scene.

by Anonymousreply 22May 6, 2025 4:20 PM

I started before the end of the 20th century, because I remember Y2K talk here. I came because Michael Musto posted something about the Datalounge in one of his articles, back in the day. It was indeed much juicier back then, with more Hollywood staff/insiders posting things, and more gay gossip. I think the growth of the internet has lessened the need for that type of content here - it's already been posted everywhere!

by Anonymousreply 23May 6, 2025 4:33 PM

Like several other posters, I came here for the first time in 1999 from IHSG and lurked for a year or two before I started participating. Drifted away around 2014, then came back as a regular reader/poster around 2021. I was 33 in 1999, and just turned 59 a few weeks ago.

by Anonymousreply 24May 6, 2025 4:33 PM

You told me Mitch Pileggi was a big bush supporter and major pussy hound and I collapsed and have malingered ever since.

by Anonymousreply 25May 6, 2025 4:36 PM

I honestly cannot remember, but know it was before 9-11.

by Anonymousreply 26May 6, 2025 5:24 PM

1997, but just lurked for years. My first post/thread wasn’t until 2005, probably March of that year and I rarely posted for several more years after that.

by Anonymousreply 27May 6, 2025 5:28 PM

I've been haunting this place since the fall of 2000, the era of a, I'm 59 now.

by Anonymousreply 28May 6, 2025 5:38 PM

Not original gangster but I’ve been posting since I was 19 in 2009.

by Anonymousreply 29May 6, 2025 5:39 PM

"the era of a"

I'm old, dammit!

by Anonymousreply 30May 6, 2025 5:39 PM

"the era of a"

Jesus...

by Anonymousreply 31May 6, 2025 5:41 PM

Is E d w i n a a naughty word here?

by Anonymousreply 32May 6, 2025 5:43 PM

You can’t post that name r32

by Anonymousreply 33May 6, 2025 5:45 PM

R33, how odd, but, this is Datalounge, oddness abounds.

by Anonymousreply 34May 6, 2025 5:50 PM

It is which really pisses me off given my affection for that dear old cartoon matchmaker.

by Anonymousreply 35May 6, 2025 5:51 PM

I was surfing DL into the new Millennium: 1999. I didn’t find my voice for a while and I was still working then so not posting. DL was great on the screen at the office less the occasional unannounced NSFW link until I sort-of retired in 2018. As one of about forty paying customers now who aren’t bots or chaos agents, I feel a greater need to contribute lest I check in and find no nothing new.

DL was a godsend during COVID.

by Anonymousreply 36May 6, 2025 5:55 PM

I'm pretty sure I was here in 2000.

I got here from some other site called something to the effect of "Is He Gay or Not" or something like that.

My friend and I were looking for evidence that Eddie Cahill (then guest-starring on "Friends") was, well, gay or not.

We had a friend who SWORE he fucked him in the late 90s before he was working regularly.

Turns out there was another thread on here with a bunch of guys who swore they had him too.

It was all the proof we needed...lol.

by Anonymousreply 37May 6, 2025 5:57 PM

I started here somewhere between 97 and 99, but I'm not sure which year exactly. It all runs together after a while. To be quite honest, I'm not even sure how I found it.

by Anonymousreply 38May 6, 2025 6:05 PM

My office was late to getting computers for staff, so I probably started visiting here in 1998 or ‘99 or so, was happy to share any opinions I had that I considered pertinent, and sometimes I shared gossip I had heard, generally second hand. Stuff I knew first hand I mostly kept to myself (counter to rumor, my generation of publicists often didn’t tell most of what they knew. This was even truer of older Hollywood hands who worked during the classic period. They knew where ALL the bodies were buried but would only offer up nuggets when flirting, bragging or drunk.

My old moniker for a long while was based on a character from Somerset Maugham’s “The Razor’s Edge,” played by Clifton Webb in the 1946 movie version. I got the idea because there used to be a guy that styled himself ‘Waldo Lydecker’ after another Webb Oscar nominated role in “Laura.”

Anyway, I’ve dropped in and out of Data Lounge over the years, sometimes I would keep it open on my computer all day but there were periods when things got very dull here and I’d stay away for months or even years. Just lately I’ve come back more frequently, often a few times a day, mostly to share opinions about movies, Broadway shows, TV series.

As for celebrity gossip, like many oldsters, I think most of today’s “celebrities” are cheap, attention-seeking hacks, and the only gossip I know is 30 years old or more, and about the last generation of movie stars that have any real claim to the name. But I’m not as cranky as I sound, I keep my hand in, go to the movies frequently and still have an eye for a cute male starlet.

by Anonymousreply 39May 6, 2025 6:18 PM

I started 2002 or 2003 with a few years break ~ 2007/8. I'm pretty sure I learned about DL from Michael K on D-Listed.

I'm 60 now and it's amusing that we now have so many threads about getting older (non-life threatening, non-debilitating conditions is the latest edition) and I really appreciate them and have found them helpful (I have photopsia! Though I didn't know what it was called)

by Anonymousreply 40May 6, 2025 6:19 PM

Many of you shut off your computer with your big toe.

by Anonymousreply 41May 6, 2025 6:22 PM

I've been here since the late 1990s.

by Anonymousreply 42May 6, 2025 6:25 PM

When I discovered that other little boys made aluminum foil Wonder Wonder bracelets, I knew I was home and had found my people.

by Anonymousreply 43May 6, 2025 6:30 PM

I've been here on and off since the late 90s as well, and I'll be 53 at the end of the month. Formerly authenticated, but that seems to have gone by the wayside for most.

by Anonymousreply 44May 6, 2025 6:31 PM

First found DataLounge in May 2002 while doing a Google search. Spent several hours that night reading various thread. Great gossip. Great dish.

But I figured it was just a one night indulgence and I'd never be back again. I didn't even make note of the website name.

Next day, I couldn't stop thinking about some of the juicy gossip I'd read. Loved that there was a gay take on these things. And such insider info. I wanted to go back and see if there was any follow-up to some of the threads I'd read.

Since I didn't know the name of the site, I had to recreate the original Google search with multiple tangents that ultimately landed me here. Place was as fun the second night as the first. I quickly bookmarked it and have been coming here daily ever since.

by Anonymousreply 45May 6, 2025 6:37 PM

Not an OG but have been here I guess since early 2002, before the EW mention. It was after 9/11 but the threads were still very active, the Let’s Roll Cinnamon Rolls bit was in full swing.

I pretty much looked the same but there was a filter for Politics and probably Gossip or Entertainment. There were only two choices. I never filtered the content because I likely correctly intuited it wouidn’t work anyone.

People were saying it was over even back then. It’s been my gateway to the internet ever since.

by Anonymousreply 46May 6, 2025 6:47 PM

*It pretty much looked the same. I, of course, still look 35.

by Anonymousreply 47May 6, 2025 6:48 PM

I remember when soap threads were banned, red tags were entertainment, and there were separate gossip and politics threads. I miss those days.

by Anonymousreply 48May 6, 2025 7:27 PM

Amazingly, everyone still looks 10 years younger.

by Anonymousreply 49May 6, 2025 7:27 PM

[quote] I’ve been here since the late 90s - probably ‘98 or ‘99. Found my way here from the Is He/She Gay message boards.

Hah! Same here R10.

by Anonymousreply 50May 6, 2025 7:29 PM

[quote]I remember when soap threads were banned, red tags were entertainment, and there were separate gossip and politics threads. I miss those days.

We ARE big. It's the pictures that got small.

by Anonymousreply 51May 6, 2025 7:31 PM

Some of us still look 20 years younger.

by Anonymousreply 52May 6, 2025 7:31 PM

Pope Buck I was the funniest DL regular ever.

by Anonymousreply 53May 6, 2025 7:35 PM

I’ve been here since the beginning. We originated on the Is He/She Gay? Message Board. I was 30. I turned 60 this year. I’ve wasted half of my life here! I don’t post with my authenticated name often because there are more nasty posters than there used to be, but there are also good people, too.

by Anonymousreply 54May 6, 2025 7:36 PM

[quote]I want to know the people who have been posting here since the beginning.

[quote]Of course, I'm just waiting for the rude responses but if you are one of the originals make yourselves known men.

You're rather a demanding old cunt, aren't you? And then you state you're waiting for the rude comments.

You started it, Carpetbagger.

by Anonymousreply 55May 6, 2025 7:42 PM

I found this place in 2004 searching for some political info. This place was frenzied! You could not keep up with the hundreds of threads and comments—and the red tags! I loved the WW sidebar which I made a few times. The wit was off the charts.

This place has changed me—some for the worse (I’m much more bitchy and cynical) and for the better (critical thinking skills improved.)

by Anonymousreply 56May 6, 2025 7:47 PM

I know a girl who posted on Datalounge in 1999. AND THEN SHE DIED!

by Anonymousreply 57May 6, 2025 7:55 PM

I've been here since 1999 and I just turned 34!

by Anonymousreply 58May 6, 2025 7:58 PM

I've been here since 2013, and I have been a much-beloved, respected, and even cherished contributor right from day 1.

by Anonymousreply 59May 6, 2025 8:00 PM

I stumbled upon this lunacy in 2018/2019 after I found a thread on Gay Male Soap Opera stars (Russell Todd, can you imagine) and the much reported sudden death of Phillip McKeon. I didn't figure out how to pay my $1.99 or actually post until 2024!

by Anonymousreply 60May 6, 2025 8:05 PM

I came here shortly before 9/11 and I remember" the sky was so blue that day".

by Anonymousreply 61May 6, 2025 8:11 PM

Much like Cheryl herself, R59.

by Anonymousreply 62May 6, 2025 8:13 PM

I still can not unsee Tubgirl.

by Anonymousreply 63May 6, 2025 8:14 PM

Well, if we ever have a DataLounge reunion, Christian Bale will undoubtedly skip it. He's such an asshole.

by Anonymousreply 64May 6, 2025 8:21 PM

I first arrived around 2001 via my job at the power company call center where I was relentlessly bored. I left for a few years but came came in the 2010s.

I'm 61 but easily pass for 22.

by Anonymousreply 65May 6, 2025 8:25 PM

I started lurking then posting in 2000. I remember David E., Blue Agave, shobe, Libby, and all the old gang.

And I remember when we had a separate "Flames and Freaks" section for trolls

by Anonymousreply 66May 6, 2025 8:27 PM

R61, I think I might have actually started “the sky was so blue that day” when I posted about my escape from the WTC on 9/11.

I was 35 then, 58 now. I discovered DL a few years before that.

by Anonymousreply 67May 6, 2025 8:30 PM

I just got here! I wasn't allowed on the internet unsupervised until I turned 18.

by Anonymousreply 68May 6, 2025 8:36 PM

I don’t know how soon after DL’s launch I became an habituae, but I have a memory of an old layouts, where you could only access maybe twenty posts to a given thread before directed to an ensuing page.

by Anonymousreply 69May 6, 2025 8:37 PM

This thread made me fall in love with Datalounge

Offsite Link
by Anonymousreply 70May 6, 2025 8:38 PM

How soon after DL started did we see posters who would point out to an OP the folly of his or her inappropriate apostrophes?

by Anonymousreply 71May 6, 2025 8:40 PM

Pardon me miss, but with all due respect. I have problems of my own.

by Anonymousreply 72May 6, 2025 8:41 PM

R71 The first post and the second responder on that thread.

by Anonymousreply 73May 6, 2025 8:43 PM

^YES, r71, 2 seconds. And there was no Spellcheck/Grammerly. For years, I only lurked and posted simple sentences due to grammar intimidation.

by Anonymousreply 74May 6, 2025 8:48 PM

I've only been here since 2004, but before that I used to post on ASG and I bet some of you bitches did too.

Somehow I missed IHSG.

by Anonymousreply 75May 6, 2025 8:51 PM

Was a very early adopter

Late 90’s

There were separate sections for politics, etc. “Wit and Wisdoms” were prominently and hilariously highlighted.

by Anonymousreply 76May 6, 2025 8:51 PM

August of 2001 for me and I was 20!

I believe I missed some of the shit that was brought up here for years like The Sumerian Housewives, but this place was a saving grace during 9/11.

The soap I watched, One Life To Live was hugely popular here then, so that was cool.

But 9/11 formed some kind of eternal bond with this site that I cannot shake, even when I hate it or the posters hate me!

by Anonymousreply 77May 6, 2025 8:56 PM

R74. For FUCK'S sake!! GRAMMARLY!

by Anonymousreply 78May 6, 2025 9:00 PM

R70, that's about when I started. I also love that thread.

by Anonymousreply 79May 6, 2025 9:00 PM

I miss the days when the first response to any thread no matter what the subject was incredibly bitchy often accusing the OP of being a CUNT.

by Anonymousreply 80May 6, 2025 9:02 PM

Some of us remember the real Cheryl.

Also, DL swag. I still have the ballcap.

by Anonymousreply 81May 6, 2025 9:05 PM

Op you’re a fucking liar.

by Anonymousreply 82May 6, 2025 9:07 PM

I came here because MLOP on the All That Chat website was talking about how sick this place was.

by Anonymousreply 83May 6, 2025 9:09 PM

I have been posting here for about 25 years…man those were the days

by Anonymousreply 84May 6, 2025 9:12 PM

R6 same for me. My work was boring most of the time and our online activities weren't really policed so I spent a lot of time reading Gawker, Defamer, etc. Once I navigated to DL via a Defamer post (I think it was about Linds Lohan), I was in bitchy gossip heaven. Still love it here to this day.

by Anonymousreply 85May 6, 2025 9:13 PM

DL was absolutely a godsend during COVID, R36. I kept a tab open constantly so I could switch back and forth from actual work to the various threads.

by Anonymousreply 86May 6, 2025 9:18 PM

I've been here almost from the beginning. Maybe five years into it. I wasn't a paid member back then. I simply adjusted to Prime Time when it was on. I remember the old website, too. ant to say we really got some good gossip back then. We were also incredibly bitchy. Seriously. And there were grammar police. And there were so many distinct, wonderful personalities that gave DL a real identity and uniqueness.

by Anonymousreply 87May 6, 2025 9:37 PM

JE SUIS LEGACY!

by Anonymousreply 88May 6, 2025 9:39 PM

I became a subscriber in 2006, so probably lurking a year before that. I too was lured by Defamer. Remember "Butterscotch Stallion"?

by Anonymousreply 89May 6, 2025 9:53 PM

Friends talked about it in late 90s - lurked 2001 or so - began posting 2002.

I've taken time off - up to 6 months - but I keep coming back.

23 fucking years - yikes.

by Anonymousreply 90May 6, 2025 10:00 PM

I started posting in 2000. I'm now 51.

by Anonymousreply 91May 6, 2025 10:08 PM

A latecomer, also in my forties like OP, I arrived in 2010.

DL is the longest relationship I've been in.

by Anonymousreply 92May 6, 2025 10:11 PM

Been posting since 2005

by Anonymousreply 93May 6, 2025 10:18 PM

I still remember where TheVoiceoftheNight got his username.

That was a looonnnggg time ago. I’m glad he’s still around.

by Anonymousreply 94May 6, 2025 10:53 PM

I don’t remember people stalking peoples posting history like people do now even when trolldar was a thing. That defacto person did a number on some posters. I guess the retirees logged in everyday and started accusing everybody of being him. Now it’s a become a culture of tracking people’s comments. It’s annoying.

by Anonymousreply 95May 6, 2025 11:03 PM

Yes, I was also here when Voice of the Night adopted his moniker. I thought it was a rather clever moniker to take one.

I guess we should say kudos to Al Holden for coming up with the name that inspired Voice of the Night.

by Anonymousreply 96May 6, 2025 11:18 PM

I loved making wit and wisdom back in the day - I felt like a STAH!

This has been such a community for me.

TWOP, Defamer, Gawker, Jezebel, IMDB boards all ☠️ and none of them meant as much.

by Anonymousreply 97May 6, 2025 11:20 PM

My pussy is wet.

by Anonymousreply 98May 6, 2025 11:28 PM

R97, that thread on the demise of TWOP was classic DL.

by Anonymousreply 99May 6, 2025 11:30 PM

I've been here since 2011. I think it was a Dlisted link that sent me here.

by Anonymousreply 100May 6, 2025 11:31 PM

R89 HA! Owen Wilson! Damn I loved Defamer.

by Anonymousreply 101May 6, 2025 11:34 PM

[Quote] That defacto person

So desperate for attention you even invoke yourself, r95. Ok are you happy now? You got attention.

by Anonymousreply 102May 6, 2025 11:34 PM

I'm guessing I've been here since 1995. That would be thirty years. WOW!

Of all the old posters, I miss David Ehrenstein the most. He was reliably crazy, opinionated, and fun. His infamous "Friday night meltdowns" were a work of wonder. Sadly, we lost him this March.

by Anonymousreply 103May 6, 2025 11:50 PM

[quote]Not an OG but have been here I guess since early 2002, before the EW mention. It was after 9/11 but the threads were still very active, the Let’s Roll Cinnamon Rolls bit was in full swing.

Same. 9/11 had happened and the Widow Beamer was EVERYWHERE. I was thrilled to find a like-minded community of cunts who saw through that opportunistic bitch.

I do miss opening DL and looking to see if any of my comments made Wit & Wisdom in the sidebar rail.

I can also tell you when I posted my first "Let Me Tell You About Deb Messing" thread — it was late 2005 or early 2006. I was on an extended business trip and bored out of my mind. It grew from there.

Probably not one person in 10,000 today could tell you who Joan Steffend was, but I used to amuse myself posting as the incredibly embittered Joan, drunk on Yellow Tail and incredibly jealous of any other home improvement show with a budget, no matter how small. Joan would dig in dumpsters to find things like a broken old school desk which she would turn into a "Kicky Santa Fe-style Study Nook" before getting drunk again.

I was also on DL the night Liza did her Home Shopping appearance and was shrieking "TURN THIS ON! TURN THIS ON!" Those who did made a party in the thread.

by Anonymousreply 104May 6, 2025 11:56 PM

I’m not an OG, I’m a relative latecomer. I started here in 2011 and soon after that posted my first thread, a game-thread about actors with confusingly similar names attending a fictional party. You know, “Tony Franciscus and Tony Franciosa just called — they will be there!”

I remember the drama surrounding Obama’s reelection campaign and the liveposting during the debate when Obama phoned in his performance, and you could almost FEEL the datalounge hyperventilating.

After that some of my favorite threads were several on Marilyn that went hilariously off the rails, and the first (afaik) dead bodies on Everest threads (2013?) which oddly stayed quite focused.

In 2016 I ran a thread about what online gambling was saying about the election.

I also first learned about the whole delicious Anna Delvey story from the DL and I still recall sipping a martini after work and enjoying that thread, then switching over to NY Magazine.

I know I’m a new poster in comparison to many, but I can’t remember what it was like before DL — positively antediluvian!

by Anonymousreply 105May 7, 2025 12:01 AM

I’ve been here since around 2005 or 6. When ever the prancing ponies were all the rage.

by Anonymousreply 106May 7, 2025 12:13 AM

Didn’t know that!! R20

by Anonymousreply 107May 7, 2025 12:15 AM

Same as R1. Started posting around 1999. I was 28 😕

by Anonymousreply 108May 7, 2025 12:19 AM

2001. I was looking for gay social sites on my first computer: a hand-me-down Apple a wealthy friend gave me.

by Anonymousreply 109May 7, 2025 12:27 AM

R70 mine was “Claire” and the damned bread pudding

by Anonymousreply 110May 7, 2025 12:28 AM

I believe I was the one that introduced/encouraged the use of "You fat whore!"

(which was something a friend used to say all the time.....regardless of whether one was fat or not)

by Anonymousreply 111May 7, 2025 12:31 AM

I recall blow outs between authenticated posters, like Judy “pills” and Justin and such

by Anonymousreply 112May 7, 2025 12:32 AM

ElderLez, are you 'Ellen From Iowa'?

by Anonymousreply 113May 7, 2025 12:40 AM

R112 - Judy Pills was a trainwreck. just batshit insane. Talking about helicopters over his house and threatening suicide.

I didn't enjoy reading all that. Felt like I was unwanted participant in a suicide / mental health hotline number.

by Anonymousreply 114May 7, 2025 12:43 AM

[quote] I guess we should say kudos to Al Holden for coming up with the name that inspired Voice of the Night.

Moment of silence for Nate Marston. I’m glad he’s free of his demons now.

That just unlocked a memory, of the first long, dishy soap thread we had, at least during my time here. It really ramped up during OLTL’s week of live episodes in 2002. We were all having a blast watching together, and it was beautiful because the week culminated with the show winning its first (and I think only) Best Drama.

It may be gone, but if DL had an official soap, it was OLTL.

I’m also having a hard time deciding my favorite red tag memory. I wasn’t present for it, but there was the time (very early on, it was a low number tag) where a racist troll got tagged….which also resulted in White Belt Man’s posts given the same tag. And suddenly, we were calling him White Sheet Man. There was also a thread, again in the early days, where someone posted a picture (this was before even camera phones, so it was a bigger deal) of a twunkish torso and (boxer brief clad) pelvis. There were a bunch of posts telling the guy how hot he was, and then WHAM half the thread was red tagged. Someone said something like “OP, take a look at this thread and ask yourself what you think about yourself.”

by Anonymousreply 115May 7, 2025 12:50 AM

Helen Lawson, bitches. The original OG!

by Anonymousreply 116May 7, 2025 12:57 AM

R115 Ah, Nathaniel was so lovely and beefy.....sad his demons got the best of him.

by Anonymousreply 117May 7, 2025 12:58 AM

Oh, gosh

by Anonymousreply 118May 7, 2025 1:05 AM

Datalounge was really great during the last golden age of broadcast television. Most people were watching the shows at the same home, so it had a lot of real time reactions to plot twists and sassy repartee.

by Anonymousreply 119May 7, 2025 1:20 AM

whet rumpy??

by Anonymousreply 120May 7, 2025 1:37 AM

VOTN wore a purple safety helmet to ride the bus and they will never be allowed to forget.

Unless, this my afternoon dementia kicking in…

by Anonymousreply 121May 7, 2025 1:41 AM

“Purple?”

Miss R121, what kind of homosexual are you? That safety helmet was *mauve*!

by Anonymousreply 122May 7, 2025 1:42 AM

[quote] Found my way here from the Is He/She Gay message boards.

So I guess you can always go back there.

by Anonymousreply 123May 7, 2025 2:23 AM

“The business” is obviously prostitution. Always has been.

by Anonymousreply 124May 7, 2025 2:24 AM

The "I'm in Love With my Father-in-Law" was the Gold Standard for an Elaborate Scenario Thread.

Sordid, tawdry, addicting, preposterous.

Hundreds of DLers bit hook, line and sinker for it and hung on for a wild ride.

Then the OP, with a deft, subtle shift in tone let us know he was pulling our leg.

It was glorious.

The OP/OG eventually came forward and took a bow.

I asked him for more installments of the plot. He politely stated he had "retired those characters".

It was glorious.

by Anonymousreply 125May 7, 2025 3:04 AM

Whenever I’m near the Port Authority, I keep a lookout for Denny and his suitcase.

I usually manage to get Autumn Harvest for the price of a Once Around the Garden.

Can someone let Griselda Medina out of her drawer?

by Anonymousreply 126May 7, 2025 3:08 AM

Apparently the ancient CURIOUS caps queen.

by Anonymousreply 127May 7, 2025 3:23 AM

I think I found myself here like R10 also

by Anonymousreply 128May 7, 2025 3:27 AM

Price Leatherbarrow wore the purple safety helmet. He was always fun. I read he is no longer with us.

At the other end of the spectrum we had Luca Magnotta. I missed most of that one. I vaguely recall being suspicious and curious but having some big social obligation. By the time I came back it was all over and a bunch of threads had been erased.

I missed the meat of the story, so to speak.

by Anonymousreply 129May 7, 2025 3:36 AM

Ah yes, Umpy.

So inappropriate but a few of his "questions" and the responses had me laughing until I was sore, and the "Let's Be" thread parodying him was *chef's kiss*

by Anonymousreply 130May 7, 2025 3:36 AM

Dustin, dear. You had your own drama.

by Anonymousreply 131May 7, 2025 3:41 AM

Wund is Love.

by Anonymousreply 132May 7, 2025 3:42 AM

R131 - That I did! Life is much better now.

by Anonymousreply 133May 7, 2025 3:43 AM

I am happy for you.

by Anonymousreply 134May 7, 2025 3:45 AM

We had some good straight women as well. Lynn, for one.

by Anonymousreply 135May 7, 2025 3:52 AM

I used to love when the Webmaster would start a thread or reply on a thread.

The red tags were fun too-“tubgurl fangurl;” “scat and other childish bullshit;” etc.

by Anonymousreply 136May 7, 2025 3:54 AM

I printed out one of my featured W&Ws. I couldn’t show it to anyone.

Felt like I should grasp it to my bosom and wander the streets City on Fire. I pitied Glenn.

by Anonymousreply 137May 7, 2025 4:00 AM

I loved when WW's were on the front "page." I was proud of mine.

by Anonymousreply 138May 7, 2025 4:05 AM

"Price Leatherbarrow... I read he is no longer with us"

Do you mean.....?

by Anonymousreply 139May 7, 2025 4:23 AM

It was around 2002 or 2003

by Anonymousreply 140May 7, 2025 4:27 AM

R111. Sure you were...

by Anonymousreply 141May 7, 2025 4:45 AM

I am not an OG, but a second generation for sure. I somehow find this site in 2004 because of the Marcia Cross lesbian gossip that was all the rage for two seconds.

I remember this not because I cared at all about Marcia Cross (I didn't then or now), but because I was actually 24 at the time DL had an ongoing joke handle that was "24 and 2 Hot 2 Be Believed".

And I 24! And I was insanely hot!

It was like a siren song calling me home...to my inevitable DL death.

by Anonymousreply 142May 7, 2025 5:15 AM

R105, remember your first thread! It was clever, and clever DLers kept it going for a while.

by Anonymousreply 143May 7, 2025 9:04 AM

R113 sorry, neither Ellen nor Iowa

by Anonymousreply 144May 7, 2025 9:45 AM

I've been here since 2000 - 2001 and still have old posts from that period saved to my own personal DL archive. The site back then had a distinctive red and purple color scheme. (I seem to recall that users could customize this.) The most striking thing about vintage DataLounge was the incredible pace. There was nothing like it-- not even Usenet moved that fast! It was the sharpest, funniest, most outrageous online community I have ever seen. I've spent countless hours here laughing my ass off. DL today is very slow and a more than a little tame in comparison to its glorious peak, but I guess we're all getting on a bit now.

by Anonymousreply 145May 7, 2025 10:44 AM

I recall the color themes you could choose

by Anonymousreply 146May 7, 2025 10:53 AM

arrived here looking for real names of gay porn "stars"

by Anonymousreply 147May 7, 2025 10:54 AM

R102 Don’t play yourself now. You still repeating that same lie and you bout 70.

by Anonymousreply 148May 7, 2025 11:21 AM

I discovered a couple of those

by Anonymousreply 149May 7, 2025 11:40 AM

I wasn’t authenticated at the time, but I was the one who started the infamous “Cash Bars at Weddings” thread. I had just returned from a wedding reception the night before where there was an open bar and many of the guests had imbibed themselves into a messy stupor. All I did was was make an innocent observation that while having a cash bar at a wedding should be considered tacky, they have some utility if it can mitigate the possibility of the reception turning into a drunken frat party.

by Anonymousreply 150May 7, 2025 11:50 AM

I introduced the gaggle of queens/Diana Scream video. Muriel made the original thread go into the ether but while I was searching for it I found this thread where DL’s collective memory pulled together a bunch of threads from the past.

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by Anonymousreply 151May 7, 2025 12:06 PM

The cash bars thread is classic! Thank you for starting it, R150.

by Anonymousreply 152May 7, 2025 12:12 PM

Man on land! Man on land! Why are straight me stupid?

by Anonymousreply 153May 7, 2025 12:42 PM

[quote]Man on land!

My final year of med school was a year after Michfest went to the Menstrual Hut in the sky. I spent July and August working at hospitals around Michigan.

You have no idea how much I wished it had been a year earlier so I could have attempted to be a MAN ON THE LAND.

by Anonymousreply 154May 7, 2025 1:00 PM

Didn't we do threads on Potato bars at some point, when they were a thing? And OMG the guy with the suitcase at the Port Authority! I died when I saw that. Thanks for making me remember him. Umpty was a mess. Didn't he and his cat live with some old lady at one point?

by Anonymousreply 155May 7, 2025 1:02 PM

Baked potato bars at weddings. There was a whole sub-genre of DL threads centered around weddings. What was the thread about the lesbian wedding in a backyard in Florida about? The OP admitted years later it was all fabricated but it was very popular for a while.

by Anonymousreply 156May 7, 2025 1:06 PM

It wasn’t a baked potato bar at wedding. It was a guy (allegedly) wanting to throw a party and thinking a baked potato bar with a bunch of fun toppings seemed like a blast.

I don’t remember if it was the cash bar thread or not, but we had one that was about trashy weddings, and we had a wedding photographer who had some doozies.

by Anonymousreply 157May 7, 2025 1:19 PM

I’ve been mostly lurking - and only occasionally posting - on DL since 1997/1998. I’m turning 50 soon. I particularly enjoyed the wit, wisdom, and bitchery of tennis, US politics, Old Hollywood, and award season threads. Some practical advice threads about a range of topics were also quite useful. The empathy shown in threads about ill DLers (e.g. OPB/Brian) was quite moving. I hope DL continues for a good while.

by Anonymousreply 158May 7, 2025 1:30 PM

Who was the poster that said Tim Walz presents himself as a secret weekend leather queen. It lives in my head rent free. It was so funny how it was stated.

by Anonymousreply 159May 7, 2025 1:37 PM

R151 I love you!

Both for the original video and then for the slo-mo one, which never fails to make me laugh.

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by Anonymousreply 160May 7, 2025 3:14 PM

[quote] Didn't he and his cat live with some old lady at one point?

Was Tammy his roommate's name or his cat's name? I can't remember.

by Anonymousreply 161May 7, 2025 3:15 PM

Tammy was the cat.

by Anonymousreply 162May 7, 2025 3:27 PM

R139 - yes he's dead. I believe cancer. Someone who knew him wrote about it on the Reddit DL thread.

IIRC, he was relatively young - I think he was early mid-40s by now.

Social media really did a number on most internet message boards - but DL is still limping along, albeit a lesser version of it's former self during its prime.

by Anonymousreply 163May 7, 2025 3:50 PM

R163, it’s not like we can revive interest with a foreign baby catalogue.

No, you’ll have to use science and make us something like a bitcoin and we’ll sell it to stupid people who want a coin with a big DL penis. I’ve heard these coins do math so I’m going to trust you to figure the details out on your own. You seem smart.

by Anonymousreply 164May 7, 2025 3:58 PM

R164 - A nude calendar of Datalounge posters hosted on ibb?

A 'is he 30 or 60' website with our pics?

Golden Girls unabridged dictionary and anthology?

by Anonymousreply 165May 7, 2025 4:04 PM

[quote] DL is still limping along, albeit a lesser version of it's former self during its prime.

Its!

by Anonymousreply 166May 7, 2025 4:07 PM

OK, an American ElderGay Adoption Catalogue.

It will have everything - with adoptees streaming witty banter with their Japanese families, taking communal baths with stout old people, trying on Tabbi boots with bunions.

I get to dress as geisha; I want those wood sandals and a bustle in the back.

by Anonymousreply 167May 7, 2025 4:33 PM

Whatever became of: BlueAgave, WhiteBeltMan, TequilaMockingbird, SusieLee (who claimed to be a Hollywood insider, with arcane gossip), and the Galloping Gourmet?

by Anonymousreply 168May 7, 2025 4:34 PM

[QUOTE]There was a whole sub-genre of DL threads centered around weddings. What was the thread about the lesbian wedding in a backyard in Florida about? The OP admitted years later it was all fabricated but it was very popular for a while.

In addition to the "I'm in Love With my Father-in-Law," the "Lesbian Potluck Wedding" in the backyard thread had everybody going for a while. Of course, DL would believe it's incredibly tacky and collectively said NO! to asking guests to bring a dish. The cheap lesbian trope was too much to resist. I remember some of the advice (no rice, throw bird seed; no to a balloon release because the event would take place in coastal Florida and could hurt marine life). I thought the OP of that one admitted it was an EST in a couple of weeks.

by Anonymousreply 169May 7, 2025 4:40 PM

I started that never-ending multiple thread of nuttiness called "Footballers in Love".

by Anonymousreply 170May 7, 2025 4:47 PM

I remember a brief period when a daily spate of ESTs would start showing up around 10am eastern time. Turned out it was a group of coworkers competing with each other for the most number of serious responses. The winner's lunch was paid for by the others.

by Anonymousreply 171May 7, 2025 4:47 PM

Around 2007, we also the "Help!"I have an Opossum family living in my bathroom drawer" thread that everyone assumed was an EST until the OP posted a photo of the squatters. IIRC, the advice was to keep them comfortable, they'll just move along.

by Anonymousreply 172May 7, 2025 4:54 PM

I didn't follow him/thread all that much, but was it determined that Brandon, who provided photos of himself was bi, amd real? He was a goodlooking guy, brunette, with a nice penis.

by Anonymousreply 173May 7, 2025 4:54 PM

Was Brandon the Canadian murderer, or am I mixing up two different posters?

by Anonymousreply 174May 7, 2025 5:15 PM

Brandon lived in Texas.

You're thinking of the iconic Luka Magnotta. And yes, I'm still convinced he was posting here.

by Anonymousreply 175May 7, 2025 5:16 PM

Tell us more about Magnotta please, Voice.

As I recall, he was apprehended shortly afterward.

by Anonymousreply 176May 7, 2025 5:18 PM

Some of this is lost to mists of time, but there were a series of posts about both the murder as well as the thing with the kittens even before he'd really hit the news. I just remember that there were an increasing series of posts about someone who either claimed to be him, or was at least hinting very strongly that he was. This kind of built up overnight (EST) one night, and then the following day, he was arrested in Germany, and the posting stopped. This was before the absolute ubiquity of smartphones, so Magnotta was arrested in an internet cafe looking at things about himself. The postings here would have been in the morning in Germany, and they stopped basically as soon as he was arrested. The thread was locked and then deleted shortly thereafter.

I remember there being some speculation that it was either a troll or someone in law enforcement trying to bate him, but honestly, it was too specific.

by Anonymousreply 177May 7, 2025 5:27 PM

If you're not familiar with it, google "dead internet theory." It posits that sometime almost 10 years ago (though estimates vary), the number of bots replying to internet forums and on social media reached a tipping point, and since then the majority, or at least an overwhelming number, of internet replies are from bots and not actual people typing out replies on their phones and tablets.

Would explain the massive uptick in trolling on DL in the past decade while the actual number of users declined.

Just a theory!

by Anonymousreply 178May 7, 2025 5:28 PM

R178 is a bot!

I'm sorry, I had to.

by Anonymousreply 179May 7, 2025 5:29 PM

[quote]law enforcement trying to bate him

Oh, DEAR!

That's an unpleasant autocorrect.

by Anonymousreply 180May 7, 2025 5:31 PM

I think getting bated by a law enforcement officer sounds pretty pleasant myself, VOTN!

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by Anonymousreply 181May 7, 2025 5:51 PM

Another one who disappeared was Peg, the GW Bush Republican troll.

by Anonymousreply 182May 7, 2025 6:14 PM

I was here for that Magnotta thing. It was the creepiest thing I've ever experienced on DL. I totally believe it was him. It was even creepier than the Justin versus EDB plotline, war/obsession/DL meet-up plotline, which ran for years on here.

by Anonymousreply 183May 7, 2025 6:19 PM

Anyone else remember Left is Right?

Straight woman (but a cool one) who I want to say lived in Austin?

by Anonymousreply 184May 7, 2025 6:46 PM

R168, Blue Agave died, there was a thread about him when he passed. I think Susie Lee died, too

by Anonymousreply 185May 7, 2025 7:15 PM

[quote] I didn't figure out how to pay my $1.99 or actually post until 2024!

When did it paying to post become a requirement? After many years of posting, I only started paying a few years ago.

by Anonymousreply 186May 7, 2025 7:37 PM

What was the name of the woman who, as I recall, was determined to be the daughter of Kurt Kasznar & provided a lot of insider gossip? And any idea when she reigned here?

by Anonymousreply 187May 7, 2025 7:40 PM

That was Susie Lee, r187.

[QUOTE]When did it paying to post become a requirement?

When Primetime became permanent.

by Anonymousreply 188May 7, 2025 7:56 PM

Thanks, R188, but what were the effects of Primetime becoming permanent?

by Anonymousreply 189May 7, 2025 8:06 PM

I miss Magdalena, she had great gossip on the Wachowskis and Christian Bale.

by Anonymousreply 190May 7, 2025 8:10 PM

We have far fewer right-wing troll attacks, but it's driven traffic down substantially, r189.

by Anonymousreply 191May 7, 2025 8:14 PM

I just read the Datalounge article on Wikipedia and it says it started in May of 1995, so I must have joined that summer. I have strong memories of reading it when I was in the first apartment in which I had my own room, and that would have been summer of 95. Wow, how time flies. I in college, super young and had only been out for a year. I probably came across it via Out.com, which in those days was connected to DL somehow.

I'll be 51 next month.

by Anonymousreply 192May 7, 2025 8:21 PM

I miss the Skincare woman - and the dominatrix.

Also haven't seen ShinjukuBaby in a long time.

AYB left a long time ago - he's actually had some success with his painting and art work.

by Anonymousreply 193May 7, 2025 8:28 PM

Susie Lee was real and yes Blue Agave died a while ago.

by Anonymousreply 194May 7, 2025 8:38 PM

[quote] what were the effects of Primetime becoming permanent?

Cheapskates like myself held out waiting to see if primetime would lift, like it usually did. During primetimes DL would slow down to a crawl with very few relies, judging by how slowly threads moved on the front page and new threads were added. Eventually, a good number of the cheapskates (including me) apparently accepted defeat and started paying to post. I suppose some people never joined on principle, not wanting to pay for what was previously free.

by Anonymousreply 195May 7, 2025 8:52 PM

[quote] I just read the Datalounge article on Wikipedia and it says it started in May of 1995, so I must have joined that summer.

I was on AOL and its gay chat rooms in 1995. Did DL have images or was it just text at the beginning? Modems were pretty slow

by Anonymousreply 196May 7, 2025 8:58 PM

[quote] AYB left a long time ago

Are you sure about that?

by Anonymousreply 197May 7, 2025 8:58 PM

R197 - I was actually friends with him for a few years - he came to stay with me once. But we fell out of touch. I don't see anyone posting here who sounds like him. God - that was over 15 years ago??

by Anonymousreply 198May 7, 2025 9:12 PM

But, R195 the 'pay to post' edict only came down a few years ago. Long after Susie Lee left us.

by Anonymousreply 199May 7, 2025 9:14 PM

indeed, even after sara lee

by Anonymousreply 200May 7, 2025 9:19 PM

Didn't AYB go hard right a few years ago? Pro-Brexit and pro-Trump, very "anti-woke." Am I misremembering that?

by Anonymousreply 201May 7, 2025 9:22 PM

I don't think I'm a OG, but I found DL by accident through 2 guys named Tom and Lorenzo. About 2007. Lol, I love coming here and I know you all won't like it, but I do love coming here.

by Anonymousreply 202May 7, 2025 9:33 PM

I can't imagine a time I wasn't spending all my spare time on Datalounge.

by Anonymousreply 203May 7, 2025 9:37 PM

R201 - more anti-establishment of any kind. Never far right. He hated Tories, Thatcherism, etc.

by Anonymousreply 204May 7, 2025 9:44 PM

I've been here since 2000, since I was in my early 20s. I've always appreciated the snark and biting wit, but of course there was more of it in the early days. No other place has ever been like DL. Of course, online forums were huge back in the 2000s before social media took over and we don't have nearly as much traffic here. I was here for the original 9/11 thread, and posted on it that night after I got home from walking almost 50 blocks back to my apartment. The phone lines were down and that thread was a way to be "connected," so to speak. I'll never forget it.

On a lighter note the original Helen Lawson thread, "What Was Your Favorite Helen Lawson Show?" was one of the funniest goddamn things I have ever read in my life. I wish it were archived.

I posted some of my reminisces of David Eherenstein on the recent thread about his death. He was THE bitter, misanthropic eldergay of all time.

by Anonymousreply 205May 7, 2025 9:58 PM

So true R 203. I listen to 70s music and I'm holding my Son in Laws moms dog, because her husband is in the hospital. She's a rescue dog and needs a lot of attention. So, I'm sitting here drinking and rocking her, while I'm on DL.

by Anonymousreply 206May 7, 2025 10:16 PM

Squirrels

Death

by Anonymousreply 207May 7, 2025 10:36 PM

Some of my favorite threads - Dude who adopted the Darfur Orphan by mail and his letters to the DO were sooo good. Also Lordes and Rocco as kids talking about their upbringing

by Anonymousreply 208May 7, 2025 10:51 PM

Who’s old and crusty enough to remember “Star and Al’s Wedding: The Marriage of Bigaro”?

by Anonymousreply 209May 7, 2025 11:06 PM

Omg R209

by Anonymousreply 210May 7, 2025 11:09 PM

I envy some of you for your memory on dates and places. Definitely here before 9/11, cause I remember those threads. So maybe 2000? But anyway, still love it. As we all know, it was SOOOO MUCH BETTER before, but really, it kind of was livelier and more dynamic. Still love it though.

by Anonymousreply 211May 7, 2025 11:14 PM

[quote]Who’s old and crusty enough to remember “Star and Al’s Wedding: The Marriage of Bigaro”?

Me.

That may just be the finest title we've ever come up with.

by Anonymousreply 212May 7, 2025 11:18 PM

[quote] On a lighter note the original Helen Lawson thread, "What Was Your Favorite Helen Lawson Show?"

I still remember a thread about Helen's Sesame Street appearance (and subsequent ban) that was pure gold.

by Anonymousreply 213May 7, 2025 11:49 PM

Whenever I see 'Al' I read it as AI - artificial intelligence. Sign of the times I guess.

by Anonymousreply 214May 7, 2025 11:50 PM

I literally read the Datelounge on a web tv at first

by Anonymousreply 215May 7, 2025 11:54 PM

So many old threads I wish I’d saved. My favorite was one titled “(something, I forget) For The Ehrenstein-Obsessed” which the OP intended as a continuing salvo in some kind of ongoing pie fight with Our David.

And I still don’t understand how it happened but someone replied early on, in character, as Nellie Oleson from Walnut Grove (Little House) and I chimed in as Harriet, her harridan of a mother — and instantly there were 6 or 7 of us rapid-fire role playing that show for all we could squeeze out of it.

David Ehrenstein and his attacker of an OP were left in the dust. We, the good people of Walnut Grove, had hijacked the thread 100% and we never gave it back. It went on like this for six or seven pages.

The overly instructional “Let’s Pretend…” threads have been cute, in the years since, but the sudden spontaneity of that Little House thread-hijacking and how detailed and hilarious it became, just felt like magic to me at the time.

by Anonymousreply 216May 8, 2025 12:14 AM

I LURVED the baked potato bar thread.

Also Leanne devette’s response paroday to it

by Anonymousreply 217May 8, 2025 12:29 AM

R196, it was just text for sure. The pics were much later, as I recall.

I just remember reading a ton of 90's gay gossip on here (in the 90s, obviously). I was living in LA then, knew people in the film industry. Lots of chatter about Bryan Singer, Kevin Spacey, and dreams of Ryan Phillippe's cock, which of course we've all now seen.

by Anonymousreply 218May 8, 2025 12:42 AM

Let's Pretend We Are An Episode Of Forensic Files was too funny.

by Anonymousreply 219May 8, 2025 12:43 AM

I more recent, but i miss Miss Warwick.

Could always count on her to put things into perspective.

by Anonymousreply 220May 8, 2025 12:43 AM

R218, now we’re really dating ourselves but I remember in ‘99 how newcomers would ask over and over for any gossip on “Matt and Ben” and you could just wait a few minutes for a good zinger of a reply from somebody who’d been around here for a few years.

by Anonymousreply 221May 8, 2025 12:47 AM

I remember it r209

by Anonymousreply 222May 8, 2025 12:48 AM

(gathering around the campfire, lighting my pipe)

Back in the day when newspaper comments were new on the internet, some soppy UK tabloid did a story about the missing child Madeleine McCann, which had all of the United Kingdom riveted. It was inundated with Britfraus and Scotfraus saying things like "Praying for the wee bairn and her family!" and "I hope to God the little mite is alive!"

Well, DL organized a "field trip" on the weekend and began laying the blame squarely at Maddy's toddler feet, with comments like "She was asking for it, with her saucy airs!"

No one was working on the web side of the tabloid because it was the weekend! So we had two glorious days suggesting that she had somehow provoked her own disappearance, and the frauen were going absolutely nuts.

MAJOR early DL hilarity.

by Anonymousreply 223May 8, 2025 12:58 AM

Lesbian Thanksgiving is still my fave. I busted a tear duct in my eye.

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by Anonymousreply 224May 8, 2025 1:01 AM

R224, nice, I wasn’t here for that one but now I’m recalling the Thanksgiving saga thread about Janice The Vegan.

by Anonymousreply 225May 8, 2025 1:07 AM

OMG I remember that r223! People from here were posting there under the names “Brenda Dickson” and “Patsy Ramsey, formerly of Boulder, CO.” The fraus went nuts when “Brenda” suggested the little tramp was asking for it.

by Anonymousreply 226May 8, 2025 1:13 AM

Remember to toast Cackle Cackle's star the next time you visit the DL Memorial Stroll.

by Anonymousreply 227May 8, 2025 1:47 AM

I didn’t get a cell phone until 2012.

by Anonymousreply 228May 8, 2025 1:56 AM

Celebration CAK

by Anonymousreply 229May 8, 2025 1:59 AM

A recent classic is also one of my all time faves -- The Abortion Hut.

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by Anonymousreply 230May 8, 2025 2:12 AM

What a litter of puppy amateurs you are! I have been here 119 (dog) years!

I win!!!

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by Anonymousreply 231May 8, 2025 2:16 AM

Some of my favorite DataLounge moments involve rather earnest humorless OPs who start out with a chip on their shoulder, fight everyone in the replies, and continue to melt down for the rest of the thread, never realizing that they stand no chance whatsoever against your average DLer. The guy who owned only two towels and angrily insisted that he wasn't running a bed and breakfast when an overnight guest wanted a shower comes to mind.

The late David Ehrenstein is another example of a poster with zero chill and a quick fuse. At least DE could be funny, and he knew a lot about movies.

by Anonymousreply 232May 8, 2025 2:19 AM

R232 - Mr. Turkey Meatballs?

by Anonymousreply 233May 8, 2025 2:42 AM

The very same, R233! You have a good memory.

by Anonymousreply 234May 8, 2025 3:18 AM

That was a hilarious thread, R209

by Anonymousreply 235May 8, 2025 3:19 AM

[Quote] [R105], remember your first thread! It was clever, and clever DLers kept it going for a while.

Thank you so much r143!

by Anonymousreply 236May 8, 2025 3:50 AM

WHET:

BILL TAYLOR

Anonymous In Kansas City

PMBT

by Anonymousreply 237May 8, 2025 3:56 AM

R237 shhhhh! don't summon the last two on that list

by Anonymousreply 238May 8, 2025 4:39 AM

One of my faves was "crying as I type." That came about during the Scott/Laci Peterson saga. According to the rules of DL justice, Scott was hot and therefore not guilty or guilty for understandable reasons, and thus it was an understandable crime. This, of course, didn't sit well with some, and hilarity ensued.

by Anonymousreply 239May 8, 2025 4:53 AM

NSYNC

*giggle*

- Latinagirl

by Anonymousreply 240May 8, 2025 5:01 AM

Been here forever. Was a teenager when I first joined. 41-years-old now.

by Anonymousreply 241May 8, 2025 5:38 AM

It's just a big picture of Tommy's face

RACI$T LE$BIAN TROLL ALERT

by Anonymousreply 242May 8, 2025 5:50 AM

[quote] How soon after DL started did we see posters who would point out to an OP the folly of his or her inappropriate apostrophes?

What does OG possess?

by Anonymousreply 243May 8, 2025 5:52 AM

I can remember the exact date that Muriel asked us for money for the first time: Thursday, September 11, 2003. (Eat your heart out, Marilu Henner.) I had seen Margaret Cho perform earlier that night, and I came home to find the DL covered in plaintive pleas for contributions. For $12 we received a code that provided access to the board during the newly-implemented prime time for a year. For $36 we got the code along with a t-shirt with "troll alert" on the front and the old brick-and-gold DL logo on the back. The t-shirt was quite comfortable and I wore it around the house for at least 10 years before it went into the rag bin.

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by Anonymousreply 244May 8, 2025 7:49 AM

I had to go to the Wayback Machine to find that old logo I linked above. Since it was right in front of me, figured I may as well share a sample of the old forum style for those who haven't seen it.

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by Anonymousreply 245May 8, 2025 7:53 AM

In the midst of all this reminiscing about vintage DL I have been trying to remember what the last page of the old site was, the dreaded number at which a post fell off. R245, your link answers that question. Thank you!

by Anonymousreply 246May 8, 2025 8:06 AM

After I stumbled across this site, around 2008 or so, there were two or three format changes accompanied by much grumbling. My favorite memory is when someone would post in bold but forget to close it so every succeeding post would be bold and then there would be angry posts in bold demanding the original commenter come back to fix it.

by Anonymousreply 247May 8, 2025 11:04 AM

r245 Interesting to see all that Gene Robinson coverage in the news section, looking back 22 years later. It caused a huge split and arguably the liberals lost in the end.

by Anonymousreply 248May 8, 2025 11:28 AM

And the frank rich columns would be quoted here. Gosh. . .

by Anonymousreply 249May 8, 2025 12:10 PM

DL has kept Vivian Vance, Dionne Warwick, and Liza with a scheeee relevant for years. Be proud!

by Anonymousreply 250May 8, 2025 1:04 PM

When I first arrived there was a troll that kept posting some message about 'MISOGYNY KILLS' in every thread.

by Anonymousreply 251May 8, 2025 1:19 PM

I remember that troll R251. In every thread almost - particularly if the word cunt was used. Obviously, it was used constantly and in every thread.

by Anonymousreply 252May 8, 2025 1:22 PM

This thread is useless without photos.

by Anonymousreply 253May 8, 2025 1:48 PM

“I think I just spit up in my mouth” was a common retort

by Anonymousreply 254May 8, 2025 1:56 PM

[quote] When I first arrived there was a troll that kept posting some message about 'MISOGYNY KILLS' in every thread.

And it’s GOT to STOP!

by Anonymousreply 255May 8, 2025 1:56 PM

RACI$T LE$BIAN TROLL ALERT

by Anonymousreply 256May 8, 2025 2:04 PM

As annoying as some Umpy threads were, I was fascinated at how his mind worked.

I remember one thread asking if Queen Elizabeth had maids to wipe her ass.

by Anonymousreply 257May 8, 2025 2:15 PM

*kisses doll*

by Anonymousreply 258May 8, 2025 3:04 PM

[Quote] My favorite memory is when someone would post in bold but forget to close it so every succeeding post would be bold and then there would be angry posts in bold demanding the original commenter come back to fix it.

Oh my god, you could format a whole thread? What fun!!! I’m sorry they fixed it.

by Anonymousreply 259May 8, 2025 3:22 PM

Yes, everyone was bitching instead of just closing the damn tag. Fun times.

by Anonymousreply 260May 8, 2025 3:28 PM

Ah, the trolls of Datalounge. We've had some real mental cases here over the years. Grumpy, Judy Pills, SS Terri and of course our dear departed Queen of Cunts David E.

One of our more recent batshit trolls, Poisoned Dragon, seems to have thankfully disappeared several months back when he finally got grey-lined. He was a whole other level of insanity.

by Anonymousreply 261May 8, 2025 3:29 PM

What did the EW article say? Does anyone have a link to it?

by Anonymousreply 262May 8, 2025 3:33 PM

I wonder if ELEOP is still around. He was the final form of a troll that would constantly tell us about how Obama’s policies were about to cause “Weimar-era hyperinflation” and that we all needed to buy gold RFN.

So, basically an InfoWars refugee, or a standard-issue republican in 2025.

by Anonymousreply 263May 8, 2025 3:35 PM

That crazy Brazilian lesbian troll from last year felt very old-school DL. The writing style reminded me of Judy Pills Garland.

by Anonymousreply 264May 8, 2025 3:38 PM

Judy was one of the most talented singers ever. She also had a lot of pain and struggle throughout her life. Despite that, she had a good heart, which is hard to encounter in Hollywood. At a time when gay people were oppressed beyond belief, they identified with her struggles and she theirs.

by Anonymousreply 265May 8, 2025 3:40 PM

I actually think many of our rightwing trolls over the years have been the same person just creating new screen names, and evolving as American crypto-fascism has itself evolved.

by Anonymousreply 266May 8, 2025 3:45 PM

I don't believe that some of the trolls listed are actually gone, they just dropped their authenticated names.

by Anonymousreply 267May 8, 2025 3:50 PM

What happened to our beloved ILT?

by Anonymousreply 268May 8, 2025 3:56 PM

[quote] We've had some real mental cases here over the years

Ha! Ha! Ha! I'll say.

by Anonymousreply 269May 8, 2025 3:56 PM

WHET RWOAC?

by Anonymousreply 270May 8, 2025 4:09 PM

[quote] What happened to our beloved ILT?

That’s the one. In additional to ELEOP, I think he also posted as “Uncle Aurum.”

He had as much insight as the average libertarian, eg none.

by Anonymousreply 271May 8, 2025 4:28 PM

DIE IN A GREASE FIRE!

by Anonymousreply 272May 8, 2025 6:15 PM

TAKE THE GAS PIPE!

by Anonymousreply 273May 8, 2025 6:32 PM

Editor!

by Anonymousreply 274May 8, 2025 6:40 PM

Pardon me miss, but with all due respect, I have problems of my own.

by Anonymousreply 275May 8, 2025 6:42 PM

Bunnika. Not that long ago, either.

And even more recently, the pissmop who wants us all to be nice to Kevin. On the DL, mind you.

by Anonymousreply 276May 8, 2025 6:49 PM

Oooh remember the guy with great Hollywood intel? He was a costume designer. Then we had a fellow with the name something like Kiliam, Kilah...

by Anonymousreply 277May 8, 2025 6:50 PM

Kevin or Keven, R276?

by Anonymousreply 278May 8, 2025 6:51 PM

SHILLY MCFRAUCUNT!

by Anonymousreply 279May 8, 2025 6:53 PM

Kevin

by Anonymousreply 280May 8, 2025 6:53 PM

Keram Malicki-Sanchez KNOWS

by Anonymousreply 281May 8, 2025 6:58 PM

No mentions of the writer with the initial K, or this thread will disappear in 3.....2......

by Anonymousreply 282May 8, 2025 6:59 PM

Lulu

Fa

Tequila Mockingbird

by Anonymousreply 283May 8, 2025 7:00 PM

Susie Lee had some great gossip but some DL detectives looked up the Kazmar guy and he had no children. She claimed she was his daughter.

by Anonymousreply 284May 8, 2025 7:01 PM

Too bad DL detectives didn't spell his name correctly.

by Anonymousreply 285May 8, 2025 7:32 PM

r285 I was just too lazy to look it up. I figured I didn't spell it right, but whatever.

by Anonymousreply 286May 8, 2025 7:41 PM

YES r281!!! Thank you!

by Anonymousreply 287May 8, 2025 8:11 PM

I always took Susie Lee for a fraud.

by Anonymousreply 288May 8, 2025 8:25 PM

I don’t recall Susie Lee ever claiming to be Kurt Kaszner’s daughter, R288.

by Anonymousreply 289May 8, 2025 8:30 PM

I think I’ve been here aincw circa 2000. Heard about DL at a party. Back when we were sure M posted here…the internet was younger then. No Reddit etc.

by Anonymousreply 290May 8, 2025 8:31 PM

I found this place sometime during the first year. For me, it was a replacement for other Gay forums. (GLCF on AOL and HSX-100/400 on Compuserve), though once DL switched to a single message board, the culture is quite different.

by Anonymousreply 291May 8, 2025 8:35 PM

It’s a trap!

by Anonymousreply 292May 8, 2025 8:41 PM

Julianne Moore, seriously.

by Anonymousreply 293May 8, 2025 8:51 PM

I first heard about DL from something on Queerty or maybe Towleroad. Some political gossip, DC crap. I figured it was just smug gays trading Beltway rumors and arguing over who was secretly gay in Congress.

Tried checking it during the day, most of the threads were locked unless you were a member. Commenting? Not a chance. It felt like a cranky little clubhouse for bitter queens.

One night around 2AM, after wasting time in some AOL gay chat room, being that it was *off hours* I gave DL another try. This time I got in, it was sharp, mean, strangely smart. I was hooked.

Eventually they dropped the lockdown hours thing. I kept lurking but couldn’t comment without paying, so I finally joined. That was the late ’90s, or very early 2000s. I’m 60 now. I’ve been here longer than most of these trolls have had pubes.

Datalounge is a hot mess. Cranky, chaotic, but damn, I wouldn’t trade it for anything. I love it, and I’m on here practically every damn day.

by Anonymousreply 294May 8, 2025 9:07 PM

Those first days were shocking.

Flames & Freaks lit up when Webby was off on weekends - we’d get the kiddy porn troll, the “I want to be an abused 13 year-old” troll and the “that’s disgusting” troll rolling through. This was when I could keep twelve threads open in different tabs and reload all at once.

It was a clusterfuck, but there was always a fire to be put out somewhere on the board.

Grumpy was a Maury Povich show of “Why does my willfully ignorant racism not make me a good netizen, Brown Person?” After Flames and Freaks was terminated.

by Anonymousreply 295May 8, 2025 9:47 PM

Rosie talked about DL on her blog.

Gossip columnist/author Jeannette Walls used to post here, until she was run off for taking dirt from her and not attributing it to DL.

Marc Shaiman used to post here under his name.

by Anonymousreply 296May 8, 2025 9:52 PM

R295, indeed. It’s all much tamer and Johnny/one note now

by Anonymousreply 297May 8, 2025 10:39 PM

Susie Lee was Susan Kohner. She was the dark haired daughter in Imitation of Life (1959). She’d be 89 now, apparently still alive.

by Anonymousreply 298May 8, 2025 10:44 PM

What was the deal with Grumpy/Umpy? Wasn't he some kind of shut-in who lived in the South? From what I remember he was quite young.

by Anonymousreply 299May 8, 2025 10:48 PM

{quote] Marc Shaiman used to post here under his name.

As did the recently departed "Dick" Chamberlain.

by Anonymousreply 300May 8, 2025 10:52 PM

Sandra Lee and her Kwanza cak.

by Anonymousreply 301May 8, 2025 11:05 PM

This board has made many bizarre holiday traditions in my hovel.

by Anonymousreply 302May 8, 2025 11:10 PM

I loved the annual Michfest thread, laugh out loud funny stuff. Rules, regulations, passive aggressiveness and of course nutloaf.

by Anonymousreply 303May 8, 2025 11:14 PM

When I first stumbled onto DL, I found it very odd. The lingo, the weird obituary fascinations, the deep-cut references, pron, WHET. It was clearly something, but I didn’t know what. I kept coming back, but mostly just squinted at my screen thinking… what *is* this?

It took a few weeks of lurking to even start decoding the DL patois, and a solid two years before I finally posted. My first few -oh dears- felt like a public dunce cap, delivered by DL’s mean girl contingent. It stung. But the grammartarans weren’t wrong.

Somewhere along the way, I stopped flinching and started writing cleaner, thinking quicker. Not that anyone cares, but DL kind of sneak-taught me how to argue without embarrassing myself. Mostly.

by Anonymousreply 304May 8, 2025 11:15 PM

[quote] I loved the annual Michfest thread, laugh out loud funny stuff. Rules, regulations, passive aggressiveness and of course nutloaf.

R303 has clearly stated her boundaries.

by Anonymousreply 305May 8, 2025 11:21 PM

[quote] grammartarans

by Anonymousreply 306May 8, 2025 11:23 PM

Just to pat myself on the back….

It was after VISTA was unleashed upon users and I had some wonderfully polite person asking how to restore a perriferal. I remembered from 9 years back what to do.

A few posts later he thanked me for advice that restored everything. Then, he asked me how to change a setting. I’d invested multiple minutes typing out a reasonably easy-to-follow list for restoring the PC. At the time, I had been MacOS for five years. Pulling this hint from years of work didn’t take too long, but I was bored of the conversation; I cut him off and sent him to any other resource because I lost interest. He proclaimed me a bad buy on Datalounge. You finally knew I was a petty twerp and I live with it.

by Anonymousreply 307May 8, 2025 11:28 PM

We know John Wesley Shipp visited here when a Google Alert brought up his name.....then he got a taste of the nastier side of DL and ran, never to return.

by Anonymousreply 308May 8, 2025 11:42 PM

R306 *grammartarans* - fuck, -oh dear- deserved. Thank you for your restraint.

by Anonymousreply 309May 8, 2025 11:42 PM

R305 is Telling Us Now so she does NOT have to Tell Us Then!

by Anonymousreply 310May 8, 2025 11:42 PM

DL is one of the very few remaining old school internet forums, which is a major part of its charm. Before everything went to hell people used to be able to have a proper conversation online. Yes, there's Reddit, but too many subreddits are dominated by upvote-obsessed nitwits, and the overall site culture can be pretty off-putting to anyone over the age of 30. There's no point in trying to connect with people on the site formerly known as Twitter as users there are overwhelmingly interested in hearing themselves talk or trolling/engagement farming. Social media in general doesn't seem to encourage in-depth discussion.

by Anonymousreply 311May 8, 2025 11:43 PM

[quote] Rules, regulations, passive aggressiveness and of course nutloaf.

Sounds like a great slogan for the revived Michfest, if that ever happens, which it should.

by Anonymousreply 312May 8, 2025 11:48 PM

The pictures DLers posted of the food tents at Michfest were enough to make you puke. You could catch shigella just from looking at them.

by Anonymousreply 313May 8, 2025 11:51 PM

Lulu, I haven’t heard that name in a long time.

Was she the S&M escort who once had Christian Bale as a client, and said that he was into being ordered to scrub toilets and other household cleaning?

by Anonymousreply 314May 9, 2025 12:03 AM

Lulu was a funny older queen from San Francisco.

Magdalene was the dominatrix.

And I am glad to see you’re still here, r314. Always loved the name.

by Anonymousreply 315May 9, 2025 12:18 AM

She was great, i met her in person once. And her gorgeous boyfriend

by Anonymousreply 316May 9, 2025 12:55 AM

The Magdalene.

by Anonymousreply 317May 9, 2025 12:59 AM

I remember an unfortunate looking couple who were getting married, and someone linked their webpage with their gift registry (I believe they were asking for tires, among other items).

Everyone here were being their usual cunty selves, just tearing them apart-until the bride to be posted, and she was lovely. It stopped everyone here dead in their tracks. I believe some of the posters bought her wedding gifts.

by Anonymousreply 318May 9, 2025 1:10 AM

I recall the million moms infiltrated by Dlers

by Anonymousreply 319May 9, 2025 1:17 AM

R318, Canadian Joy. Yes, she shamed us all. What a good sport and lovely woman she was.

by Anonymousreply 320May 9, 2025 2:19 AM

No, r318, not everyone derided the bride; far from everyone.

Excessive pointless bitchery: the silent killer.

by Anonymousreply 321May 9, 2025 2:26 AM

Wasn't there also (sometime in the last 10ish years) another couple getting married where we somehow landed on their guest book?

I just remember a post where someone from the wedding party said something like....'WHEN WILL THE TEARS STOP??!?!?!??" That was a frequent post for months after that.

by Anonymousreply 322May 9, 2025 4:01 AM

Then there was Kellie? the gal who pretened that she was Nick Carter's (or somebody like that) girlfriend, who would send herself flowers and write posts (from him) It was fun until someone doxxed her.

And we had that crazy black gal who claimed to have been Seth McFarlane's girlfriend. She claimed to have written several books, had a very sketchy imdb page, and severely filtered photos of herself.

by Anonymousreply 323May 9, 2025 4:17 AM

And wasn't there a Libby claiming to be Russell Crowe's girlfriend? I can't remember if that was the name, or I'm mixing her up with someone else. But anyway she really committed to the act. I think we all went on a journey with her pregnancy and then giving birth to his love child. Bitch was crazy but it was kind of fun.

by Anonymousreply 324May 9, 2025 4:26 AM

Have we gotten this far without a “My pussy stinks!”

by Anonymousreply 325May 9, 2025 12:14 PM

Yes Libby r324. SS Terri;) referred to Libby's baby as Little Figment.

by Anonymousreply 326May 9, 2025 12:31 PM

In 2025, Cheryl's pussy STILL stinks.

by Anonymousreply 327May 9, 2025 12:38 PM

My God! I remember Libby! That woman was nuts!

by Anonymousreply 328May 9, 2025 12:54 PM

Hey hey sup DL? I just turned 18, got all signed up to vote.. and a restraining order against my toxic narc mom!

by Anonymousreply 329May 9, 2025 12:59 PM

Remember the grudge poster who kept at it and at it over here about the IHSG board (Is He/She Gay) for a long long LONG time after it went bust? I'd never even seen IHSG but I must have seen 100 various posts here in the very early 00s, all snarling that "DarkSpawn and Bonisoli stole IHSG from RumourBoy" and that those two were all sorts of foul epithets.

by Anonymousreply 330May 9, 2025 1:10 PM

OP I think you need to start a thread about the stories you have from when you "worked in the business." I am dying for some decent insider gossip.

by Anonymousreply 331May 9, 2025 1:17 PM

Anyone know what Mark is cooking up for dinner? Was there ever a DL Cookbook made available

by Anonymousreply 332May 9, 2025 1:27 PM

Remember Qwip? Lol.

by Anonymousreply 333May 9, 2025 1:50 PM

it's still there

by Anonymousreply 334May 9, 2025 1:51 PM

No mention yet of Mrs Patrick Campbell, AKA Erna? I always thought she was funny but god did she piss off a lot of posters.

by Anonymousreply 335May 9, 2025 1:51 PM

Erna was a disgusting homophobe, misogynist and racist with a scat fixation.

by Anonymousreply 336May 9, 2025 2:02 PM

R335, omg that creature. She'd glide into this place and put up a tedious thread in character, like "Today we went to the health club. We worked our arms, shoulders, and breasts. There were too many fish using the thigh machines." And like moths to a flame, posters would pounce.

by Anonymousreply 337May 9, 2025 2:03 PM

Erna was/is vile.

But she did leave us "Verificatia of sizemeat."

by Anonymousreply 338May 9, 2025 2:04 PM

And Miss Boozette

by Anonymousreply 339May 9, 2025 2:05 PM

R331 Yes, the insurance business is facscinating.

by Anonymousreply 340May 9, 2025 2:05 PM

Did you always have to pay for a membership here?

by Anonymousreply 341May 9, 2025 2:10 PM

MPC also left us with "Stinkfish so foul!"

by Anonymousreply 342May 9, 2025 2:13 PM

No, R341?

by Anonymousreply 343May 9, 2025 2:14 PM

A poster here slept with Jani Lane and then Jani died.

by Anonymousreply 344May 9, 2025 2:17 PM

R342 was that where "Lesbianism most foul" came from?

by Anonymousreply 345May 9, 2025 2:20 PM

Sizemologist

by Anonymousreply 346May 9, 2025 2:21 PM

[quote]No mention yet of Mrs Patrick Campbell, AKA Erna? I always thought she was funny but god did she piss off a lot of posters.

Didn't that foul creature also use "Catherine of Sienna" from time to time?

I remember being darkly amused when, the morning we were all up watching William and Kate get married (I had a final that day, so I was using it to take my mind off organic chemistry), the Archbishop mentioned that it was Catherine of Sienna's feast day and we all got a chuckle out of it.

And the person who said that Galactus was the only person who had a penis big enough for MPC.

by Anonymousreply 347May 9, 2025 2:35 PM

yes, indeed

by Anonymousreply 348May 9, 2025 2:37 PM

I miss the days when you could kill a thread if you posted at exactly the right time of day. I think it had something to do with DL synching with its servers. Worked like a charm. We killed a lot of JABBA threads that way.

by Anonymousreply 349May 9, 2025 2:40 PM

Here's an insanely long list of the Datalounge OGs I can recall... everyone from the most odious of trolls to the sweetest of sweethearts.

David Ehrenstein, SS Terri, Susie Lee, Mr. Hollywood (seriously good gossip), blue agave (even better gossip offered as a blind-items guessing game), Charlie (still here!), VoiceoftheNight (just posted, hi!), WehoBoi, CrazyMint, Joan's Grandkid (the actual grandson of Joan Bennett), ShinjukuBaby, Butchy, Michael K, Kipper, Brandon (the exhausting one), Lulu, Pope Buck I, RWOAC (Rebel Without A Clue), Josh (author & minor gay celeb Josh Kilmer Purcell), Magdalene, Master LCz, Jonbodhi, Krackbaybie, Dustin DeWind (now Dustin, still here!), Wundy/Wundy Girl (sweetest camp character in here ever), Mrs Patrick Campbell/Catherine of Siena/Erna, Lynn, OutInTexas, Ellen, skinwoman, Kirker, AngryYoungBrit, Princess Latifah, Dead and Blatant, Helena Handbasket, White Belt Man, Pornchick, Della (still here!), lez couple Dallas and Ft Worth, Mizez Slocombe, Fa (one of the cuntiest trolls ever), The Prophetess Juanita “Jazz Hands” Bynum, SHOBE, LatinaGirl, AIKC, KC Guy, JohnEric also from KC, PhillySnoop, Price Leatherbarrow (RIP), Cackle Cackle (RIP), Butterbean, Chung Ho, Tequila Mockingbird, Lady Prudence Fairfax, Dame Celestia Crackhead, Cheekster, Robert Murrae, Judy "Pills" Garland (possibly RIP), pussylips ("I SCREAM WITH ANGRY POWER!"), Nan Michiganwomyn, Peg (something of a troll), SWF On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown, tinabina, Bengali In Platforms, swiss chick, Arroz Con Pollo, Lee Anne Devette, Grumpy/Rumpy/Umpy, the original Cheryl (a DL collective persona).... and best for last: Bonnie Mace.

by Anonymousreply 350May 9, 2025 2:50 PM

Kirker. I forgot about him, he was a trust fund brat who lived off his wealthy father and just kind of flitted around NYC trying to be fabulous.

by Anonymousreply 351May 9, 2025 2:52 PM

Did you miss the vintage furniture store in Austin, and it's going out of business sale, R351?

by Anonymousreply 352May 9, 2025 2:54 PM

I remember that now r352. IIRC, he moved back to Austin and opened an overpriced furniture store (with Daddy's money, of course) in the middle of a recession. It went out of business in no time at all. He was such a pretentious twat.

by Anonymousreply 353May 9, 2025 2:58 PM

Kirker popped up last year, he’s still here. He felt compelled to respond to every bitchy remark made about him, and it made the cunthive here just dig in deeper with the attacks. Someone posted that he had to leave a party in Austin after clogging a toilet, and that stuck with him for years.

The webmaster eventually showed up on a thread and told Kirker to stop replying to this bullshit because he was giving it life.

I loved Lee Ann Devette- now THAT was a cunt.

by Anonymousreply 354May 9, 2025 3:01 PM

Someone posted a story about Kirker stinking up the bathroom or clogging a toilet at a party. As usual, Kirker took the bait and was all, "what party? Where? Who are you? Do I know you?" The thread was quickly shut down but the legend lived on.

Another one I remember was David Ehrenstein posting to SS Terri, something like "to Terri, you are a lying sack of shit. And I say this with love" That one had me curious. They'd been alternating between sparring to tag-teaming other trolls, and it was intimated they had met up. Alas, it too was shut down before there were any answers.

by Anonymousreply 355May 9, 2025 3:20 PM

Damn Torta, that's like the DL Hall of Fame!

by Anonymousreply 356May 9, 2025 3:20 PM

I remember almost everyone on Torta's list, at least vaguely, but not Joan Bennett's grandkid. Wish he was still here. I've been watching Dark Shadows episodes and wondering why most of them can't seem to get through a line without a stumble or two. Were they all drinking steadily? The kids seem to do better, so I assume the liquor cart was closed to them, which is encouraging.

by Anonymousreply 357May 9, 2025 3:39 PM

SS Terri and the "Spacey Cadets"

They insisted that Kevin Spacey was straight!

And then there were the Wentworth Miller fangirls who insisted that he was just a shy virgin

by Anonymousreply 358May 9, 2025 3:41 PM

Ginny from Accounting.

by Anonymousreply 359May 9, 2025 4:05 PM

Billing!

by Anonymousreply 360May 9, 2025 4:07 PM

Was Kirker the lipstick and Prada queen or was that someone else?

by Anonymousreply 361May 9, 2025 4:22 PM

The Marcia Cross lesbian rumors got me here.

Wasn't that a case of her reps DENYING she was gay?

Dumbest move. Once there was an official denial, then it became fair game for everyone to speculate as to whether it was true or not.

by Anonymousreply 362May 9, 2025 4:25 PM

The lipstick/Prada queen was from Dallas-I think that was first posted in the “I am in love with my father in law” thread. Kirker was from Austin.

by Anonymousreply 363May 9, 2025 4:38 PM

The OG Cheryl was in the same category as R358. She was a send-up of that type, she'd post gushingly about how Tom Cruise was a red-blooded heterosexual Real Masculine Man Who Loves Women and that we were all a delusional pack of mentally ill homosexuals who know nothing.

Then the "My pussy stinks!" trolling of Cheryl erupted and took over completely.

by Anonymousreply 364May 9, 2025 5:03 PM

It was Iola/Eola who seemed to follow Cheryl from thread to thread, posting "Cheryl is a cunt" regardless of what she had said.

I was once admonished by Cheryl for suggesting Lance Bass was gay and repeating gossip - this was before he officially came out.

"You better watch your step or I'll tell the editor!"

by Anonymousreply 365May 9, 2025 5:11 PM

Torta r350, LOTS of memories there

by Anonymousreply 366May 9, 2025 5:16 PM

I forgot about Iola/Eola, you tell it accurately R365. Ha ha. Fond memories.

by Anonymousreply 367May 9, 2025 5:17 PM

You’d run the board, Torta, if ever a Jeopardy contestant & there was a Datalounge category. Your knowledge of DL history is most impressive.

by Anonymousreply 368May 9, 2025 5:36 PM

damn, now all the old memories are popping back in. I miss "Thanks for the history lesson, Isis, but don't you have a bear to catch!" What the hell was that?

by Anonymousreply 369May 9, 2025 5:45 PM

And Now From 2006: Sumerian Farmwives

[bold]Lets pretend we're Sumerian farmwives growing chickpeas in 3500 BC!!![/bold]

by: Anonymous 130 posts 03/11/06 @16:01

[italic]Oh, fuck! One of those troublesome tribes of the Israelites just killed all our children and cut open our pregnant women because their nasty god told them to!

Husband, this is getting ridiculous. We've gotta move.[/italic]

by: Tequila Mockingbird reply 1 03/11/06 @16:10

[italic]Honey, please go raid the next village. I need to sacrifice a newborn to Baal next full moon.[/italic]

by: Anonymous reply 2 03/11/06 @16:13

[italic]Unca, that burlap wrap you've swathed yourself in is just tres, tres divine. I'd sacrifice one of my children to Dagon to have it, especially for the next harvest![/italic]

by: Noonka reply 3 03/11/06 @16:19

[italic]Those chickpeas sure are growing![/italic]

by: Anonymous reply 4 03/11/06 @16:22

[italic]Goomgam, are things okay between you and the hubby? I notice your left hand is hacked off.[/italic]

by Anonymousreply 370May 9, 2025 5:55 PM

Oh My Gosh! I remember those comments!!

by Anonymousreply 371May 9, 2025 6:03 PM

And 2006? It can’t be that long ago

by Anonymousreply 372May 9, 2025 6:04 PM

Torta's list reminds me of Miss Helen Bedd (who, as another thread just mentioned, is attempting a comeback in the legitimate theater.)

And Joan's Grandkid also reminded me of a character only seen on certain soap threads: Beverly Penberthy's Gay Nephew. (Who apparently was exactly what the label described.)

by Anonymousreply 373May 9, 2025 6:55 PM

I was here for the original Sows At the Trough thread.

by Anonymousreply 374May 9, 2025 6:58 PM

Sorry, here's the Sows At the Trough thread from 2006

Offsite Link
by Anonymousreply 375May 9, 2025 6:59 PM

Nice, R375! Sows was an exemplary OP. Few people can write one that succinct yet descriptive.

by Anonymousreply 376May 9, 2025 7:03 PM

[quote]The Prophetess Juanita “Jazz Hands” Bynum

That was a minor persona of Mrs. Betty Bowers. Sort of how Wayland Flowers had other puppets, but the only one anyone knew was Madame.

by Anonymousreply 377May 9, 2025 7:17 PM

There used to be nothing better than live posting during awards shows and national events here. It still happens, but it's not the same. As someone said above, social media replaced it.

Some of my favorite threads are ones where an OP posts some outrage he thinks will get co-signed and supported by the entire DL community, but DL turns on him, usually by post three, and then starts the pile-on.

by Anonymousreply 378May 9, 2025 8:06 PM

Absolutely, R378. Back in the 00s used to be the place for Oscar night, if you wanted copious dishing and repartee. It was so much livelier than sitting on a sofa watching it with friends. The "Crash steals it from Brokeback" moment was the biggest collective DL-wide meltdown I'd ever witnessed.

by Anonymousreply 379May 9, 2025 8:13 PM

[quote] There used to be nothing better than live posting during awards shows and national events here.

I was thinking the same thing. The replies came so fast and furious it would go to another page and it was a challenge to keep up.

by Anonymousreply 380May 9, 2025 8:22 PM

It was such a routine, wasn’t it… sitting on the sofa watching the ceremony, laptop on lap open to DL, and glass of wine on the end table barely sipped because DL was so torrential and irresistible.

by Anonymousreply 381May 9, 2025 8:50 PM

I still do that

by Anonymousreply 382May 9, 2025 8:57 PM

[quote]The "Crash steals it from Brokeback" moment was the biggest collective DL-wide meltdown I'd ever witnessed.

Thank God livestreaming wasn't a thing back then.

It would have been the Diana scream times 1000.

by Anonymousreply 383May 9, 2025 9:02 PM

Indeed, i can hear the howls now

by Anonymousreply 384May 9, 2025 9:12 PM

I have never seen threads on here fill up as quickly as they did during the Crash/Brokeback Oscar meltdown. There were THOUSANDS of replies , you couldn’t keep up with reading them because post after post came online.

by Anonymousreply 385May 9, 2025 10:05 PM

I came here I think in late 1998 or so and started posting (as "Tommy") the following year.

My gosh Torta / R350 - you mentioned some names I've completely forgotten about, but here are a few that you missed:

MikeyX (from the Philly area), Char Treuse (who could be pretty funny - and who could also cut a bitch), Matt H (who I think was a theater buff), and PSB. There was also a funny straight guy - Billy Shears something or other - who had a gay brother who died a few years earlier. And there was also some guy who initially started posting as randyafid and then later changed it to something else, although I've forgotten what - but either way, he seemed like a sweet guy.

And of the ones you mentioned, "ellen" (one of my favorites) was always lower case "e" and "cheekster" (who once asked me to send her a tape of an Anne Murray song - back in the days when we optionally used email addresses) always posted as "the cheekster." And OutInTexas should be singled out for being the King of Cheesecake since he prided himself on making so many varieties of cheesecake.

My alll-time favorite poster was Idle Mind, who I believed was also from KC and may have known JohnEric.

My favorite of the earlier threads included the one about the weird neighbors down the street, the one where we made up our own plots to ABC Movies of the Week, Let's Roll Cinnamon Roll, Celebrity Scents, and the one about creating a storyline for Brokeback Mountain if it were directed by another filmmaker - and last but not least, the bitch fight that erupted on the thread about Spielberg's A.I. in which the staunch defenders of the film battled those who despised it. It was like the Hatfields & the McCoys.

by Anonymousreply 386May 10, 2025 12:25 AM

Great additions, Tommy/TomServo R386! I remember all of them especially Idle Mind and Char Treuse.

by Anonymousreply 387May 10, 2025 12:37 AM

[quote]the one where we made up our own plots to ABC Movies of the Week

Christ, I'd love to read that.

by Anonymousreply 388May 10, 2025 12:38 AM

Have we forgotten the classic Helen Lawson thread? Ah, how we laughed. Ah, how we cried.

It was really funny during its initial run, but there are a few oldtimers who just won't let the joke die.

by Anonymousreply 389May 10, 2025 12:39 AM

r389 I mentioned the original Helen Lawson thread earlier. It was one of the funniest things I've ever read. Brilliant. I wish I'd saved it.

by Anonymousreply 390May 10, 2025 12:41 AM

R261, PoisonedDragon is gone? When did that happen? I know it wasn't that long ago. I enjoyed sparring with him, but I thought he was an adult care-giver, so I always held back. He infuriated me by suggesting that the late Pierre wasn't actually dead.

by Anonymousreply 391May 10, 2025 1:13 AM

That’s bonkers. I made a donation in his memory and got a lovely thank you card from his sister. He’s very much deceased and had a lovely obituary.

by Anonymousreply 392May 10, 2025 1:17 AM

R392, ElderLez, Thanks, I also made a donation in his memory, but PD was still smarting over an exchange he had with 'Xavier' (one of Pierre's alter-egos). PoisonedDragon is a very smart poster, but obsessive. I'm surprised I missed it if he ran into Muriel's wall.

by Anonymousreply 393May 10, 2025 1:22 AM

One day the "brokened cheeseburger" girl's mother must have Googled her daughter's name and arrived at DL, no doubt expecting warm frau glurge over the incident.

She FLIPPED OUT.

by Anonymousreply 394May 10, 2025 1:25 AM

I like Poisoned Dragon, and hope he isn't gone for good. I don't know who Pierre is, or was, but I will admit that PD could get obsessive and even a little crazy about people he believed were being sock puppets. Was that what this was?

Anyway, I still like him overall and hope he's not gone.

by Anonymousreply 395May 10, 2025 1:31 AM

R395, Pierre was the Christmas Moose, the Evening Punctuationist and Monday Morning Moos poster anmong others.

by Anonymousreply 396May 10, 2025 1:33 AM

[quote]PoisonedDragon is a very smart poster

He seemed to me like a Leopold and Loeb type. It wouldn't be surprising to learn that he had committed a thrill kill in real life. HIs writings indicated the total absence of a moral foundation.

by Anonymousreply 397May 10, 2025 1:36 AM

R396, Pierre was all those personalities, and more. He was so sweet to me when I posted about a drunken hospitalization, and i never forgot his kindness. I planted a tree in Iceland (or Greenland) in his honor. PoisonedDragon has a brother on the Autism Spectrum (IIRC), and he's a caregiver, so there's that. His recipes are quite good. I hope he's okay.

by Anonymousreply 398May 10, 2025 1:43 AM

CrazyMint actually turned me on

by Anonymousreply 399May 10, 2025 1:55 AM

My god, Torta/r350 -- How did you spontaneously come up with all those names?! I recognize or remember most of them, but no way I could have relied on my memory to come up with a list like that!

by Anonymousreply 400May 10, 2025 2:10 AM

This thread makes me sad as I see how much better other people's memories are. I know people my age are not as forgetful and missing memories as much as I am. I need to take one of those pre-dementia tests.

by Anonymousreply 401May 10, 2025 2:14 AM

I was just going to suggest that, r401.

by Anonymousreply 402May 10, 2025 2:15 AM

What did Pierre die from?

by Anonymousreply 403May 10, 2025 2:26 AM

R401, if it’s any consolation, I remembered all those posters but why did I just walk into the kitchen? And where are those reading glasses I had ten minutes ago?

It really is a shame all those old DL threads are simply gone. I would have saved so many. Helen Lawson, African Baby Catalogue, crabwalk lesbian, Freaks At The Gym… so many!

by Anonymousreply 404May 10, 2025 2:30 AM

R403, I don't think we know for sure, but the evidence would suggest COVID. It took several days to confirm he was dead (from his Facebook page, which his sister updated).

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by Anonymousreply 405May 10, 2025 2:32 AM

Freaks You Work With was another gem of a thread.

by Anonymousreply 406May 10, 2025 2:47 AM

Is he okay? Is he alright?

by Anonymousreply 407May 10, 2025 3:16 AM

I've made 2 friends on DL, one whose piece of art I have, Brian Nash, and one who lived 2 blocks away from me, Kieran Turner. They both died from cancer (Brian in 21, Kieran last December) and were really good, kind, witty, and talented people. I made friends with Kieran because of Brian. So this place isn't as toxic as Redditors would lead you to believe.

by Anonymousreply 408May 10, 2025 3:41 AM

My WW finger is getting sore!

by Anonymousreply 409May 10, 2025 3:58 AM

Whenever we go down memory lane, I always post this-Daniel Bexton’s blog showing the timeline of Justin’s stalking of Bexton. Justin is given the pseudonym Bill.

This is exactly why Muriel will never allow people to publicly publish their email addresses here.

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by Anonymousreply 410May 10, 2025 5:06 AM

What is the reason a certain female’s name, noted above, cannot be mentioned?

by Anonymousreply 411May 10, 2025 7:06 AM

R410, yikes, glad my instincts at the time steered me away from those individuals… and from getting involved in any offsite back-chatter in general.

by Anonymousreply 412May 10, 2025 10:05 AM

I met one of them, they seemed harmless at the time. . .

by Anonymousreply 413May 10, 2025 10:37 AM

Shinjuku Baby was hot-he posted his picture once.

Arroz Con Pollo was obnoxious, someone here called him a “strident moron” here, and that term is very useful these days.

I remember when Slocombe created the Wikipedia page and he got attacked on here and on Wikipedia for it. Someone went into the editing section of the Wikipedia page, and under all of Slocombe’s benign edits, replied with “Eat shit and die you nasty cunt.” He went anonymous shortly thereafter.

by Anonymousreply 414May 10, 2025 4:31 PM

r414 that is hilarious!

by Anonymousreply 415May 10, 2025 4:43 PM

I found a link on the internet around 2008 called

“Judy at Carnegie Hall - Let’s Discuss its Greatness” Clicked on it and I found DL.

Was hooked after “Let’s Be Beth Jarrett”

by Anonymousreply 416May 10, 2025 5:05 PM

[quote] Was hooked after “Let’s Be Beth Jarrett”

Buck would never….

by Anonymousreply 417May 10, 2025 5:07 PM

Holy fucking fuck, the EDB stuff at R410 is mindblowing.

(A few years before I arrived, so it's all new to me.)

by Anonymousreply 418May 10, 2025 5:38 PM

R394 your post reminded me of two instances where we were discussing certain people and relatives or friends of theirs started posting.

The first was Cristy from Intervention. Her sister started posting and the only thing she cared about was that nobody but she makes money off of Cristy (reply 18) at the link. She also introduced two new words to the DL lexicon: gesters and blashply. The thread is still live.

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by Anonymousreply 419May 10, 2025 5:42 PM

[quote] Buck would never….

Buck would have never gotten the quote wrong!

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by Anonymousreply 420May 10, 2025 5:42 PM

R394 the other one I recall was when that methed up waste of oxygen pornie named Bo fucking Dean got shot and paralyzed and died. The "girlfriend" found the thread and screamed her righteous indignation about how we were maligning her sainted brothers memory . . . until his GoFundMe started filling up with cash. That thread's also live.

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by Anonymousreply 421May 10, 2025 5:46 PM

I remember Bee and Bear.

by Anonymousreply 422May 10, 2025 5:53 PM

My claim to fame is as the original poster of the Griselda Medina threads. She was an admin in my partner’s office. Those were the days when I would post all the time to see how many replies I could get. My partner never posted, but was equally invested in my DL “success”.

We were thrilled at how much traction the Griselda Medina threads generated and equally petrified someone would alert Griselda and we would be found out. She spun off in so many crazy directions (her “drawer of horror”) and even made it onto a visual Candyland-style map of the DL someone created. If anyone has that “placemat”, it would stimulate lots and lots of memories we may have forgotten.

This was pre-9/11. I think I’ve been on here since the late 90s for sure.

by Anonymousreply 423May 10, 2025 6:16 PM

Dataloungeland!

by Anonymousreply 424May 10, 2025 6:29 PM

I'm always mystified by how people meet other people on DL. How is that even done, when there are no DMs?

by Anonymousreply 425May 10, 2025 6:37 PM

[quote] Dataloungeland!

Star Jones Food Fest

Kevin Spacey’s Heterosexual Backpacking Adventure

The Weird Little Girl Next Door’s Weird Little Playhouse

Stewart Swerdlow’s Conspiracy Chateau

That’s just off the top of my head.

by Anonymousreply 426May 10, 2025 6:46 PM

I'm sure some OG's are still here.....

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by Anonymousreply 427May 10, 2025 6:47 PM

[quote] Star Jones Food Fest*

*Featuring the Olive Garden.

If memory serves.

by Anonymousreply 428May 10, 2025 6:52 PM

Speaking of “Crash Steals It From Brokeback,” was DL responsible for placing the ad in Variety calling out the Academy’s homophobia? Did that start here or was it just linked here? I remember I donated. Still have the ad.

by Anonymousreply 429May 10, 2025 6:55 PM

That, R425, & how the posting history of anonymous posters is tracked.

by Anonymousreply 430May 10, 2025 7:02 PM

Years ago, there was a Datalounge MySpace page (and later, a Facebook page). People connected through there.

Also, DL knockoff QWHip had an option that allowed you to publicly share your email address.

by Anonymousreply 431May 10, 2025 7:06 PM

I mean, don’t forget ManVoxx.

by Anonymousreply 432May 10, 2025 7:11 PM

I remember a thread about Olive Garden that turned into a class war. Some posters were horrified that other posters would ever deign to eat there.

by Anonymousreply 433May 10, 2025 7:15 PM

QWhip seems like a fever dream now. If I'm not mistaken, didn't it come about because of the 2007 primaries? They all thought DL was pro-Obama, and their Hillary love was being silenced and policed here.

by Anonymousreply 434May 10, 2025 7:22 PM

Every time I’ve seen a mention of QWhip, it’s associated with doxxing and so many other instances of over-sharing repercussions on the net.

“On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” was great training for keeping personal information guarded when Facebook replaced Myspace and Friendster.

by Anonymousreply 435May 10, 2025 7:27 PM

R434, I recall DL posts about QWhip getting frothy around 2005-2006. Maybe 2004. It sounded like a pit of hissing vipers over there.

by Anonymousreply 436May 10, 2025 7:37 PM

It wasn't a pit of vipers, just a much smaller community. I posted for a time at both places. The EDB/Justin drama spilled over onto Qwhip and it was revealed how...unstable Justin was.

by Anonymousreply 437May 10, 2025 8:06 PM

I used to lurk on DL a long time ago, because it was very funny, at times. Now it really isn't.

by Anonymousreply 438May 10, 2025 8:15 PM

QWHip was created because the cult of authenticated posters had gotten out of hand-there was a lot of asskissing here with people like Josh.

But all of those authenticated posters could not resist people talking about them, so they all ended up on QWHip.

My favorite thing on QWHip was when Justin and Judy “Pills” Garland briefly entered into an alliance and started helping each other trash the objects of their respective affection (EDB and Kirker). That quickly ended and they began to fight.

Judy and Justin spoke on the phone. Justin left Judy a voicemail about DL and QWHip, and Judy posted it on QWHip so everyone could hear Justin’s queeny voice.

Justin, through DL’s My Space page, became email friends with a lot of posters on here, and apparently the emails were a lot of trash talking of each other.

Somehow (maybe it was the same person), EDB got Justin’s email password, and he was going to use the blog I posted at r410 to unveil these messages, using pseudonyms (Bill is Justin; Ricky Stratton is Kirker: Arnie Becker is Josh sycophant R11fromanotherthread).

After a day of this, Josh (who was promoting his book at the time) swooped in and offered to make a large donation in Daniel Bexton’s name if he would stop).

This was all so insane, like a soap opera on public access television.

by Anonymousreply 439May 10, 2025 8:16 PM

r439's story is why I've always been anonymous on the internet. There are some real nutcases out there.

by Anonymousreply 440May 10, 2025 8:29 PM

I just remembered a thread about (I think) hit shows from the 1800s. I specifically remember "Dancing with the Czars."

Also wasn't there a thread on Nancy Reagan's diary? I believe that was the one that had nutty posts about cat fights among First Ladies at Gerald Ford's funeral.

And I wish I had a dollar for each time the name Miyoshi Umeki was invoked. She was the "DL: The Early Years" version of Vivian Vance.

by Anonymousreply 441May 10, 2025 8:36 PM

I remember on the Ronald Reagan funeral thread that someone wrote that Nancy threw her fur coat at Condi Rice and told her to hang it up. That always made me laugh.

by Anonymousreply 442May 10, 2025 8:42 PM

r439, thanks, I totally forgot about that

by Anonymousreply 443May 10, 2025 10:41 PM

I've always loved how Dataloungers can take any topic under the sun and find a way to insert Lucille Ball into the discussion.

by Anonymousreply 444May 10, 2025 10:43 PM

R444, we have sufficient.

by Anonymousreply 445May 10, 2025 11:24 PM

There are Datalounge subreddits but they're filled with the posters who've been banned from here, it's the new Zetaboards.

by Anonymousreply 446May 10, 2025 11:31 PM

R446 I noticed that recently while perusing the DL sub.

by Anonymousreply 447May 10, 2025 11:34 PM

R439, i recall some point long ago, JBG posting audio of himself waxing chaotic and randomly about garland herself and many other things. He sounded VERY VERY drunk

by Anonymousreply 448May 10, 2025 11:44 PM

Are there others besides r/datalounge?

This ladies are bitter.

by Anonymousreply 449May 10, 2025 11:44 PM

[quote]My favorite thing on QWHip was when Justin and Judy “Pills” Garland briefly entered into an alliance and started helping each other trash the objects of their respective affection (EDB and Kirker). That quickly ended and they began to fight.

It was like the Superfriends versus the Legend of Doom cartoon from the 70s.

by Anonymousreply 450May 10, 2025 11:57 PM

VOTN - r/theDataLounge

Neither seems to get much traffic.

by Anonymousreply 451May 10, 2025 11:58 PM

Judy Pills was always drunk r449. Remember the night Kirker told her she was cute, but not his type?

Kirker went to bed….Judy did not, and posted dozens of threads about his despair. It was something else. Kirker went on Datalounge in the morning, unaware that his comment had caused Judy to implode.

by Anonymousreply 452May 11, 2025 12:01 AM

Kirker was the best. He was always involved in some new plotline, there was Ghetto Tara, the furniture store, Judy, all things UVA. I wonder what he's been up to since his DL days.

by Anonymousreply 453May 11, 2025 12:09 AM

R451 Looks like that one was primarily the work of one person, who has since deleted their reddit user account.

by Anonymousreply 454May 11, 2025 12:18 AM

NOBODY misses Miss Helen Bedd. Some of us figured out that he'd shut up if you posted his picture. Worked every time.

by Anonymousreply 455May 11, 2025 12:40 AM

Miss Helen Bedd was a nasty cunt.

by Anonymousreply 456May 11, 2025 12:45 AM

The Kerry McNally feet troll was unrelenting until someone posed as McNally's lawyer and threatened to sue DL into oblivion to find out who the troll was. I don't think we ever heard from him after that.

by Anonymousreply 457May 11, 2025 12:53 AM

The Danielle Egnew/Elizabeth Mitchell stuff

by Anonymousreply 458May 11, 2025 12:57 AM

The Elizabeth Edwards Tore Off Shirt, Collapsed Over Affair thread was a mystery because nobody could access it yet it grew and grew. I wasn't the only one who couldn't get in it for the longest time.

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by Anonymousreply 459May 11, 2025 1:04 AM

That queen was nuts r457. His obsession with that obscure Shop NBC host came from McNally lying on a mattress he was hawking, in his socks. He would not stop going on and on about this nondescript middle aged white guy.

by Anonymousreply 460May 11, 2025 1:26 AM

r456, awful in fact

by Anonymousreply 461May 11, 2025 3:06 AM

In 2013 we had posters using zombie threads to chat - weirdest conversations I’ve ever seen. They were young and discussing classmates.

by Anonymousreply 462May 11, 2025 5:45 PM

One of my favorite threads was about the gal who would be willing to ferry you to Michfest, but you had to pay in ass, grass, or cash. Was she the one who also wrote, « Squirrels. Death »?

by Anonymousreply 463May 11, 2025 8:04 PM

I have been on BiggerCity for almost thirty years. It’s a really well constructed site for chubs and chasers. They were the group that the overly religious blamed for Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans because their annual Convergence was scheduled there at that exact time. BiggerCity has an excellent Forums section and you can actually see who is posting what because you have access to their profiles. I met many of my current social media friends there. They are smart and funny. One of the forum questions years ago was who was posting on DataLounge. Seems as though quite a few were. So I started also. By the way, I know that some of you are chubby. Howdy do.

by Anonymousreply 464May 11, 2025 8:24 PM

Posting since 2002. The Shobe threads were the best gossip

by Anonymousreply 465May 11, 2025 8:29 PM

R464 I've been on that site before, it was always 20,000,000 bears/big guys and 3 chasers LOL

by Anonymousreply 466May 11, 2025 8:59 PM

I stumbled on here when I googled a major league pitcher I was lusting after and to my surprise DL had a thread about a high school buddy he used to let blow him and was trying to blackmail him. It turned me even more on to him that he was such a hot tall strapping young buck that just wanted to get sucked. A jock just needs to cum sometimes. Since then I learned DL always finds the hots.

by Anonymousreply 467May 11, 2025 9:29 PM

R466 I’m a chaser so I loved the site! And Convergences, too.

by Anonymousreply 468May 11, 2025 9:30 PM

r467 your post reminded of me of thread from a couple of decades ago about the opening of MLB Spring training.

The OP wrote:

Just sayin' Hi

Spring training sucks.

by Anonymousreply 469May 11, 2025 9:34 PM

r467 what was the name of the player?

by Anonymousreply 470May 11, 2025 9:53 PM

I know that Muriel is going to nuke my VIP account and possibly the whole thread the second after I post it but we have an authenticated photo of a proto-datalounger.

Sorry Muriel, but you've been terrible for 30 years.

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by Anonymousreply 471May 11, 2025 10:09 PM

R471 That’s one of my buddies from BiggerCity!

by Anonymousreply 472May 11, 2025 10:11 PM

R470, Carl Pavono. And he's hot to death to this day.

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by Anonymousreply 473May 11, 2025 10:17 PM

Another picture of a Datalounger.

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by Anonymousreply 474May 11, 2025 10:25 PM

Wow he is hot! I would definitely be on my knees to service him whenever he wanted.

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by Anonymousreply 475May 11, 2025 10:26 PM

[463] That was Denise! "Squirrels, death" was part of a diatribe one of those Miches posted on the festival's bulletin board.

I know I have been coming to the DL since 2005. The W&W was in a lefthand sidebar (I made it exactly twice). Blythe Danner's alleged harbinger of regret, "I'm carrying this one to term" stayed on top of W&W a good long while (deservedly).

by Anonymousreply 476May 11, 2025 10:51 PM

[quote] Blythe Danner's alleged harbinger of regret, "I'm carrying this one to term" stayed on top of W&W a good long while (deservedly).

OMG that was ME! I swear. The thread was titled something like "Your Biggest Regret" and I posted as "Blythe Danner in 1972." I'm glad I made you laugh r476.

by Anonymousreply 477May 11, 2025 11:31 PM

R468 How YOU doin'? 😈

by Anonymousreply 478May 12, 2025 12:02 AM

R477 I am not R476 but I love you too! I laughed about that until I was sore.

by Anonymousreply 479May 12, 2025 12:03 AM

Thank you for the kind words r479. Nice to know that my comment as "Blythe" deciding not to abort Gwyneth could make you laugh too.

by Anonymousreply 480May 12, 2025 12:08 AM

I've been here since about 2001, but possibly earlier.

I used to post as Lorna Hansen Forbes, but I rarely use my other registered name.

by Anonymousreply 481May 12, 2025 12:12 AM

[quote] That was Denise! "Squirrels, death" was part of a diatribe one of those Miches posted on the festival's bulletin board

I’m telling you NOW so I don’t have to tell you THEN.

Denise was a pot-smoking lesbian from Cape Girardeau, MO who had a fantasy about a shuttle service picking up Fest attendees called the Rainbow Express. She eventually downsized to a minivan and picked up a solo passenger a younger wommon that she inexpertly tried to seduce between taking tokes from her bowl.

Rose was the squirrel-phobe, with a list of health problems that were excessive even by MichFest standards. I think she lived in Indiana, and had a daughter we all basically decided was a 21st century Rhoda Penmark.

by Anonymousreply 482May 12, 2025 12:27 AM

MAY'AM? was the big thing when I first arrived.

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by Anonymousreply 483May 12, 2025 12:30 AM

Bonnie Franklin has been a DL Legend since I first got here 2 1/2 decades ago.

by Anonymousreply 484May 12, 2025 12:59 AM

I discovered DL in 2006 and on that very same night posted my first thread: "Help! I accidentally sent a video of myself masturbating to everyone in my phonebook!" It was an instant blockbuster with hundreds of replies.

From then on, I became a prolific EST poster with such credits as "Denny (Danny) and his suitcase in NYC," "Once Around the Garden," "Azmodeus the Crabwalking Lesbian." Plus many, many others.

I admitted to my deceptions in 2010 or so and was viciously banned moments later!

Too scared to post elaborate scenarios after that, I mostly lurked around the board in subsequent years. I did start the majority of the Michfest threads through 2015, but for the most part those were just copying and pasting posts from the actual Michfest forum.

by Anonymousreply 485May 12, 2025 1:01 AM

R484 “Dammit, Julie!”

by Anonymousreply 486May 12, 2025 1:08 AM

[quote]I did start the majority of the Michfest threads through 2015

I have stated my boundaries! DO NOT MAKE ME STATE THEM AGAIN!!

Do not do it!

Do NOT do it!

by Anonymousreply 487May 12, 2025 1:10 AM

I bow to you, R485.

by Anonymousreply 488May 12, 2025 1:16 AM

R485, a bow from me as well — your best threads were legendary! I’d half forgotten that surreal moment when you fessed up and got zapped.

by Anonymousreply 489May 12, 2025 1:17 AM

I don't suppose any of you fine ladies or gentlemen saved a folder of images from Denny Scott Photography.

That shit was so funny I would laugh until I hurt.

by Anonymousreply 490May 12, 2025 1:18 AM

I’ve been lurking around here since I was in... high school.

Back in the “IHSG” era, when Datalounge was just a forum buried deep inside a much bigger board. Somehow, through all the snark and shade, many of you ended up raising my dumb, gay teenage self. Your bitchy advice? Weirdly helpful. Strangely accurate. Life-saving, even.

Datalounge’s been this bizarre, constant background presence in my life. You were there on the 9/11 threads when I was scared out of my mind. You pushed me toward entertainment and yes, I actually made it. You nudged me toward NYC and yep, did that too. You were here through my closeted drama and my chaotic, out-in-the-world gay dating years.

Now I'm old as hell, and I still like to check in. It's nice to see some of you still here from back in the day.

by Anonymousreply 491May 12, 2025 1:19 AM

And then there was a Teacake.

I actually apologize about all those monikers I made last year. I was going through a lot and it seems like I always got out on timeout by Ff obsessed cunts right in the middle of heated debates usually on political threads but sometimes even Hollywood. I had a lot of free time on my hand which I don’t want to get into or remind of the details but that was so frustrating. To blocked out because of touchy feelings or people who don’t truly like freedom of speech. I never troll and I usually don’t disrespect people.

by Anonymousreply 492May 12, 2025 1:20 AM

*eyeroll*

by Anonymousreply 493May 12, 2025 1:35 AM

R485, i recall the masturbation thread like it was yesterday.

by Anonymousreply 494May 12, 2025 1:44 AM

Aw R491. We raised a gayby in here!

by Anonymousreply 495May 12, 2025 1:50 AM

[quote] Now I'm old as hell, and I still like to check in.

wait, you were in high school? And now you think you're old as hell?

Please fetch my caftan, earrings, and smelling salts. I feel one of my spells coming on.

by Anonymousreply 496May 12, 2025 1:59 AM

Speaking of Julie, I now rarely ever hear from our former friend.

I always enjoyed the Friday Afternoon Drinky-poo Troll posts. He was gone too soon.

by Anonymousreply 497May 12, 2025 2:04 AM

Was Greg one of the OGs under a new name. God knows that man gave us some great recipes.

by Anonymousreply 498May 12, 2025 2:17 AM

Teacake = Gerg

by Anonymousreply 499May 12, 2025 2:24 AM

r497, I miss the friday everything

by Anonymousreply 500May 12, 2025 2:37 AM

R499. Totally.

by Anonymousreply 501May 12, 2025 2:37 AM

I genuflect to r485. Your threads were really truly hilarious.

Was Bai Ling smoking on my roof real? I seem to recall that it evolved into a rather sweet thread about the birds on his roof, with videos on YT.

by Anonymousreply 502May 12, 2025 2:21 PM

In addition to many threads already mentioned, I loved the one titled something like "My neighbor is a gargoyle" and the OP supplied a picture or two, I think, later on. Also loved the threads featuring Mike the persnickety micromanger of group vacations to Palm Springs or Puerto Vallarta. Fucking laughed my ass off at work and got told I shouldn't be using my work computer for personal internet enjoyment! The New York Social Diary threads were always a hoot. Too lazy to do searches to link those threads, and I'm also at work so, you know.

I adore all you bitches, even the ones I've had bitter disagreements with.

by Anonymousreply 503May 12, 2025 6:06 PM

The New York Social Diary threads were hysterical. DLers posted pictures from the website with their own captions. So many of the people were total freakshows. Those threads always had me howling.

by Anonymousreply 504May 12, 2025 6:32 PM

Muffie Potter Asshat was my favorite NYSD figure.

by Anonymousreply 505May 12, 2025 6:53 PM

It was the Thanksgiving visitor who had to eat her vegetarian or vegan dinner out on the porch by herself who really moved me.

by Anonymousreply 506May 12, 2025 7:00 PM

Damn r506, everything but the vegetarian hounds snapping at her ass and stealing her tofurkey.

by Anonymousreply 507May 12, 2025 7:07 PM

R504, that’s where I learned about tractor cozies.

by Anonymousreply 508May 12, 2025 7:12 PM

R508 = Iola Boylen

by Anonymousreply 509May 12, 2025 7:14 PM

R504 WHET those?

by Anonymousreply 510May 12, 2025 8:27 PM

Dominion Wackiness Troll, anyone?

by Anonymousreply 511May 12, 2025 9:58 PM

Yes, VOTN, and there was the guy who was the Lisa Whelchel troll, he posted about her blog

by Anonymousreply 512May 12, 2025 10:00 PM

I miss the Dominion wackiness troll.

by Anonymousreply 513May 12, 2025 10:08 PM

[quote] the guy who was the Lisa Whelchel troll

You take the good

You take the bad

You taken both and douse them in Tabasco sauce.

by Anonymousreply 514May 13, 2025 3:24 AM

I was so uncultured I didn't even know what an antimacassar was until I came here.

by Anonymousreply 515May 13, 2025 3:36 AM

*kisses doll*

by Anonymousreply 516May 13, 2025 3:42 AM

I miss the NYSD and Michfest threads.

by Anonymousreply 517May 13, 2025 10:30 AM

Since 2020. Pandemic Baby.

by Anonymousreply 518May 13, 2025 11:10 AM

LOL. Goddess bless Janice the Vegan.

by Anonymousreply 519May 13, 2025 11:12 AM

Nan Michiganwomyn's endless rules, regulations and boundaries are missed.

by Anonymousreply 520May 13, 2025 12:02 PM

Nan was at her best when waxing about the lesbionic pleasures of MichFest and the like.

I still recall a phrase from one of her posts: “.. and the moontime glistened on her furry yoni.”

by Anonymousreply 521May 13, 2025 2:07 PM

Nan Michiganwomyn was top-tier collaborative fiction. DL at its best.

by Anonymousreply 522May 13, 2025 3:05 PM

Peggys testimonial while flinging bags of grain for American Cancer Centers was the best commercial thread for me.

by Anonymousreply 523May 13, 2025 3:42 PM

DdJ was that weird straight woman who had a crush on RWOAC and CrazyMint. I remember she was getting trolled on a thread by some bitch who kept posting “My name is DdJ and I’m here to WARSH YOUR VAGINA.”

by Anonymousreply 524May 13, 2025 3:46 PM

I think he's still on here and posting anonymously, but Your Millennial Friend was a privileged NYer who would condescend to everybody.

by Anonymousreply 525May 13, 2025 4:25 PM

We can bemoan the Days of Olde, but still someone will come along and coin a phrase like "titless ginger" and it's like a warm, familiar comforter around here.

by Anonymousreply 526May 13, 2025 6:19 PM

R526 “Titless ginger.” Thought I wandered into the Hacks thread by mistake and you were referencing Ava.

by Anonymousreply 527May 13, 2025 7:36 PM

R442 didn’t know Nancy Reagan suffered from dementia and couldn’t recognize the third most powerful person in her country. Did the poor old lady get into trouble with it?

by Anonymousreply 528May 15, 2025 12:40 AM

I'm casket dancing as fast as I can!

by Anonymousreply 529May 15, 2025 12:46 AM

Bitch

by Anonymousreply 530May 15, 2025 1:27 AM
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