EthicalHedonist

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I'll tell you why. The worst thing that ever happened to me was on Christmas. Oh, God. It was so horrible. It was Christmas Eve. I was 9 years old. Me and Mom were decorating the tree, waiting for Dad to come home from work. A couple hours went by. Dad wasn't home. So Mom called the office. No answer. Christmas Day came and went, and still nothing. So the police began a search. Four or five days went by. Neither one of us could eat or sleep. Everything was falling apart. It was snowing outside. The house was freezing, so I went to try to light up the fire. That's when I noticed the smell. The firemen came and broke through the chimney top. And me and Mom were expecting them to pull out a dead cat or a bird. And instead they pulled out my father. He was dressed in a Santa Claus suit. He'd been climbing down the chimney... his arms loaded with presents. He was gonna surprise us. He slipped and broke his neck. He died instantly. And that's how I found out there was no Santa Claus.

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Such a crazy story in a classic crazy movie.

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fortified RVs

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I’ll be pulling up shortly:

Alabama man did it better:

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Grew up in Chicago, a former Rugby team mate said he seemed pretty normal.

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From Chicago and rugby, I reckon that means this is probably his long-dormant Twitter account (blurry photo and different hairstyle, but guy on right favors him ):





Andrew, Drew, Andy…couldn’t make his mind up on what name he wanted to use, I guess

I clicked on this thread against my better judgment, but was rewarded. Thanks, OP

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I’ve always thought it’s weird for an adult to ask another adult for their signature.

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If it’s good enough for Indiana Jones…:dunno:

They confiscated his dot! That’s cold :lol:

Thought this thread was gonna go a different way.

Complete guess just based on OP’s screenshots. The short patent description says “system and method for authenticating electronic content.” So it sounds like maybe a captcha system or some other system going on behind the scenes that protects against bots posting, and the patent troll is alleging it has a patent on that technology. I haven’t been on that site in years and never joined or posted and haven’t reviewed the pleadings in the case, so just a complete guess.

EDIT: Nevermind, I defer to Hou_Lawyer’s posts. I thought he was joking when he said the suit was for “operation of a website,” but that’s the usual reaction I have for patent troll’s claims, so it makes sense that it was a serious answer.