March 30, 2003, 01:15
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So... what are the origins of the DL dance?
Well?
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March 30, 2003, 01:19
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It has been around since time immemorable. 
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Christianity is the belief in a cosmic Jewish zombie who can give us eternal life if we symbolically eat his flesh and blood and telepathically tell him that we accept him as our lord and master so he can remove an evil force present in all humanity because a woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from an apple tree.
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March 30, 2003, 01:23
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The banana commandeth.
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I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).
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March 30, 2003, 01:24
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Didn't GP invent it?
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March 30, 2003, 01:37
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before i left for my year and a half it didnt exsist
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March 30, 2003, 01:51
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It has been here as long as I can remeber.
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March 30, 2003, 02:14
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I don't remember it long ago
Jon Miller
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March 30, 2003, 02:20
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I thought it was Stefu?
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March 30, 2003, 02:21
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Possibly. Thought it was GP, though...
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March 30, 2003, 02:24
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King
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What are the origins of "DL"
Only other forum I post at that has problems with multiple accounts calls them "AE"s - Alter Egos!
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March 30, 2003, 02:30
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DL is a way more discriptive term then AE.
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Christianity is the belief in a cosmic Jewish zombie who can give us eternal life if we symbolically eat his flesh and blood and telepathically tell him that we accept him as our lord and master so he can remove an evil force present in all humanity because a woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from an apple tree.
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March 30, 2003, 03:40
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Why?
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March 30, 2003, 03:42
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Double Log in seems to more accurately describe what the people are doing then to call it an Alternate Ego. Most of the DLs have the same personality just a different name.
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Christianity is the belief in a cosmic Jewish zombie who can give us eternal life if we symbolically eat his flesh and blood and telepathically tell him that we accept him as our lord and master so he can remove an evil force present in all humanity because a woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from an apple tree.
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March 30, 2003, 04:22
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It was me! YES! HAHAHA! IT WAS MY INVENTION! High time someone asked about a forum convention I invented, instead of crediting me with the banana option, for example? (GP? Pish tosh!)
Basically, accusing people of being a DL is a tradition from the times immemorial, and one day I just decided to do it in a form of dance. I was, somehow, inspired by that Simpsons episode where Lisa decides to go vegetarian and at one point Homer starts to dance and sing "You don't get friends with sa-lad! You don't get friends with sa-lad!" and the rest of the family joins in. The original, real DL dance goes like this:
Do the DL dance!
You don't get friends with D-L!
You don't get friends with D-L!
You don't get friends with D-L!
You don't get friends with D-L!
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"That’s the future of the Democratic Party: providing Republicans with a number of cute (but not that bright) comfort women." - Adam Yoshida, Canada's gift to the world
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March 30, 2003, 04:26
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liar, take that ugly nose off your avatar.
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March 30, 2003, 06:37
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The only forum convention I invented was the "poll with all the options exactly the same" convention, which is now IIRC a restrictable offense. 
I know the DL dance was around before the dance smiley was added.
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March 30, 2003, 08:22
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Yeah, it was Stefu.
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March 30, 2003, 08:40
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I thought it was Werefox... she always danced on people's heads and probably danced on some D/L's before...
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March 30, 2003, 09:14
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Stefu adopted (adapted?) werefox's dance into the DL dance.
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March 30, 2003, 09:26
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I remember accusing someone of having multiple accounts years ago. Shortly after Apolyton was created if memory serves. Everyone thought I was paranoid and asked me why on Earth anyone would want to create multiple accounts.
Talking of which, whatever happened to Mentat?
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March 30, 2003, 13:18
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Stefu is a 'Poly god. He also created The Troll Song.
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(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."
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March 30, 2003, 13:28
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That's right, the troll song! However, MikeH also had his part there.
Let's see:
It's troll! Troll! It's big and heavy and brown!
It's troll! Troll! It's antics will cause you to frown!
Everyone hates the troll!
But they still answer it's call!
C'mon and answer the troll!
Everyone hates the troll!
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"Spirit merges with matter to sanctify the universe. Matter transcends to return to spirit. The interchangeability of matter and spirit means the starlit magic of the outermost life of our universe becomes the soul-light magic of the innermost life of our self." - Dennis Kucinich, candidate for the U. S. presidency
"That’s the future of the Democratic Party: providing Republicans with a number of cute (but not that bright) comfort women." - Adam Yoshida, Canada's gift to the world
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March 30, 2003, 13:45
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It was GP. If he didn't invent it, he made it popular.
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March 30, 2003, 14:58
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Stefu's right. But the DL-accusing hazing was around as far back as Feb '99 when I started posting on the Civ 2 OT...
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Stop Quoting Ben
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March 31, 2003, 01:46
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Boshko: i was never accused of being a DL.
And neither were any of the DL's that i created.
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March 31, 2003, 01:48
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right, neither was I since I had posted a bit in on-topic forums before posting on the OT (my first post was a marvelous triple-posted thread on workplace democracy IIRC ).
One of my DLs not only got questioned but got me banned
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Stop Quoting Ben
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March 31, 2003, 01:50
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my first post was about welfare or minimum wage or some **** like that. i think it was a "red trotsky" thread (i don't even remember if that's his name exactly, or if i spelled that right)
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March 31, 2003, 01:51
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Well, how long has the little dancing guys been an icon for? Certainly I was here before they were ever used... I think anyway...
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March 31, 2003, 02:32
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In my very early months here, dls were accepted, and there was a general feeling of 'boys will be boys'. Then when the two forums merged, it seemed like the Civ 2 off-topic brought a touch of class to the CTP off-topic and dls got rarer as talks of Byzantium with Prophygenitus and talks of the morality of redistribution with Red Trotskyite and co. increased. For a while I remember dls not being a big deal at all (the only dl I ever had was from before the merger) and then there have been times when there would be a spate of them.
Very unpredictable, really.
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March 31, 2003, 04:06
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The dancing guys  and the party guy  were both introduced for the last Apolyton anniversary last summer, i believe.
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