FSM "inside" jokes?

I'm missing it---what's the joke?

?????

Anyone else feel woozy? Maybe a little naucious?

8am Monday December 5th 2011 in Wisconson

After 8 am Monday?

This Never Happened................

What's going on in here?

The sad part is the original poster created the thread as a bit of a joke, but it snowballed out of control and the thread went viral and ran him off the forums in embarassment.

stikpusher

Sort of a TacNuke for bad forum behavior...

sub revolution

I hadn't even noticed that the odds and ends section is gone. Seems a little extreme to me.

sub revolution

I hadn't even noticed that the odds and ends section is gone.

Some members  posted very, very  frequently on the Odds and Ends Forum-  mostly in discussions about topics not related in any way to model building.

Those Odds and Ends forum discussions also seem to have been the primary reason some visited the FSM website. The forum's elimination  appears to have  been enough for some to cease posting on a regular basis,

Unfortunately, management had to spend an inordinate amount of time refereeing that forum on an hour by hour basis, and that no doubt contributed greatly to the decision to eliminate the Odds and Ends forum.

The discussion leading up to it got very heated. While the answer was a bit extreme, it had the intended effect. Sort of a TacNuke for bad forum behavior...

229 is an urban legend...something about the Mayan calendar and the end of time...

Glad I'm not the only one who was wondering...

I hadn't even noticed that the odds and ends section is gone. Seems a little extreme to me.

I know nothing....

Well jeez, mine shot me down on $20 for a kit the other day! lol

With the title:

'Need help convincing my wife to let me by a model worth $229'

And it began...

the 229 thread was a joke thread where the original poster got all offended and left, spawning jokes at his expense. The in-jokes between a number of forum members spawned an additional number of other in-jokes, that eventually spread throughout various threads in the forum. A few people got angered over what they deemed "nonsense" and the participants of the in-jokes defended themselves and the fight escalated from there. The arguments got so out of hand that Aaron Skinner deleted the entire Odds and Ends forum, as well as any threads pertaining to the subject. A number of members were banned in the process, but I dont know who. It has become a touchy subject since.

The chicken came from members teasing each other abut being "hen-pecked" by their wives.