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Bully-Board.com => News & Updates => Topic started by: AJ Collins on July 18, 2011, 12:11:03 AM
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Hey everyone,
You may be wondering why all activity from the last month is gone. It seems someone gained access to an administrator's account and purged all topics that had not been replied to within the past 30 days. This means that a number of the topics from Bully-Board's past were deleted. No user information appears to have been stolen. Because of this, I have restored Bully-Board to a backup created on June 4th. I have stuff in-place to take weekly backups so normally this wouldn't be much of a problem however it seems that the application hasn't been working since the 4th of June. I'm very sorry about this and am taking steps to insure that backups do not fail in the future. I'm currently looking into the possibility of merging the two databases (the backup and a copy of the forum before I restored to backup) but it may take a couple of days to know for sure if it's feasible or not. If it does happen, any post made now could be lost. I'll keep you updated on any progress. If you wish to obtain any posts you had on the forum before I restored the backup, you can view them HERE (http://bully-board.com/bb71611/index.php). Again, I'm very sorry this has happened and hope you guys stick around.
Cheers,
AJ Collins
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I'm sure everybody will stick around. Thank you so much bro! You've saved this place a multitude of times!
But does this mean that we lose everything since June 4th?
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Gained access to an admin account?
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Who would want to hack B-B?
Ah well. We'll just have to rebuild.
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I know I'm sticking around. :D
I'm just sad that someone would want to hack us.
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NO!!! Oh well. I only gained 1,000 compared to Daves 3,000...
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Who cares about posts?!
B-B is saved!
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Let's celebrate with champagne and noodles!
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Good thing AJ got here when he did! Does this explain slowness?
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Hooray!
I'll bring the party hats.
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I'll bring the noodles!
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When it said BB was under maintenance and will be restored to something, I thought it meant the old forum, and I was actually kind of excited, and now I'm like :'(
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AJ, does this mean that all the new members are gone too?
Because we got a few cool ones within the last month that I'd hate to lose.
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They aren't on the members list! :(
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Their account imformation is probably lost....If they see this, maybe they will sign up again.
Damn Hacker. Glad at least we didn't lose too much. I was fearing we would lose it all.
A big thanks to A.J. for pulling us back from the brink...Again.
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I want to kiss him right now!
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How'd they even hack an admin account?
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You'ld be surprised at what the sleezy bastards can do!
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I say damn 'em!
So there is a possibility of bringing the new stuff back?
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Don't think so, except the NES Story, which I have saved off-line in another computer.
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Even though AJ said he'd think about?
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"....but it may take a couple of days to know for sure if it's feasible or not."
It may not be possible.
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Well let's keep our fingers crossed.
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I'm heading off. Big day tomorrow. Peace.
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Big day? Tell us!
Oh wait, you're leaving. Later!
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Baseball!
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Later, T-Bone.....
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Damn sucks that this happened. But glad the site is ok.
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AJ is looking into merging the databases right now. It's not such a good idea to do any major rebuilding just yet. We need to wait this out.
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I guess I got plenty of time to wait.
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I've been looking over the forum and trying to find what exactly is missing. If we do end up rebuilding I want a reference. I've found a decent amount of them already and have them noted.
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I've noticed a lot of post gone in certain topics. But that's about it.
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We're missing a few topics and boards as well. Posts went with them.
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Damn hackers need a life.
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Many thanks AJ, you've always been there to save our asses. Hopefully we can rebuild and bring things back to normal. However, I want to find out who this hacker was and STRING THEM UP BY THE BALLS!!! *cough* Repo *cough*
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It wasn't an issue of hacking. Chrissy accidentally left herself logged in and a friend of hers thought it would be funny to purge everything and then give her milk which which made her sick.
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WHAT ? Man, poor Chrissy ! Just what she needs, on top of everything else.
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Bonus Stage here. I lost my account in the incident. It’s terrible what had to happened, but I’m glad that the B-B is back to normal.
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GOD DAMN IT! Chrissy's friend needs to be executed! It's not her fault, that really sucks what happened to her. Good to see Bonus stage back! :)
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Holy crap Chrissy's friend did this?!?!?!
and
BONUS YOU'RE ALIVE! :D
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Yes! I’m alive. Hello, boys. :D
I bet Chrissy isn’t friends with that person anymore...
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I would hope Chrissy murders that waste of flesh and it sounds like she at least gave him a good beating.
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I would hope they get a beating. The bastard deserves it.
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A number of you have messaged me about slow loading. If you have Google Chrome, a recently added feature to speed up the loading of pages seems to be causing a number of sites to have slow loading/not loading at all. Google themselves seem to acknowledge it as turning it off is mentioned as a fix for slow loading. Go to chrome://settings/advanced in your address bar and turn off "Predict network actions to improve page load performance".
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Lol I hope Chrissy kicked their ass.
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Dontcha think it would have been nice if I had actually taken a screen shot of all of the stats!? Because I was thinking about it for a while!
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It would have been great if Chrissy's "friend" wasn't such an inferior excuse for a human being. I say we have a lynching party!
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I second that!
(Too bad I couldn't quote myself from before!)
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I'm guessing Bonus' real name is Hayley? Lol
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Worried? A little.
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OK so I don't think it will be possible to merge the two databases. I am currently creating another install of SMF and setting it up with the database I backed up before the restore that way you guys can get whatever you don't have and re-post it here.
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Ah well. We all appreciate the effort, AJ.
Truly. Thank you for saving us.
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I second that!
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^Lol... Or I could have done that! But it says from today! :(
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Yes! I’m alive. Hello, boys. :D
I bet Chrissy isn’t friends with that person anymore...
Nope.
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Here's the backup. Posting should be disabled on there since it's just meant to let you get your things to post here again.
http://bully-board.com/bb71611/index.php (http://bully-board.com/bb71611/index.php)
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Thank you so much!
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Whoa, that's like the full site.
Exactly what is that?
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That sir, is Bully-Board.com!
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But everything is there! WTF!
I'm not getting this.
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It may take a while to, you know.... Get all of those posts back?
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Can we transfer them from there to here? Or is it more to realize what we lost.
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Not everything is there. What was left of the forum after Chrissy's former friend purged the forum is there.
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Oh I got it.
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:O I see that all of older threads are gone!
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Yea that's what I was missing!
Anything not posted in within the last 30 days was deleted.
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Who would want to hack B-B?
Ah well. We'll just have to rebuild.
Seriously. I mean not that this is bad forum, but it's not like hacking this place would get much attention, compared to say Gamefaqs or Google.
.. On a side-note, if Google ever got hacked.. geez.. There would be so much data that could be stolen.
Especially since they've branched to Phones, Social Networking, etc.
.. Anyway. Good to see the phone got restored to working order quite quickly.
I'd restore a thread I made, but it was kinda lame and I don't mind it not returning.
Their account imformation is probably lost....If they see this, maybe they will sign up again.
Couldn't using the old forum data, one could go through the members table and export all ones not included in the current database, Then import into the present database.
I imagine it wouldn't be overly difficult, Main thing would be getting access to the actual database.
And of course, knowledge of how to actually work the database.
If you guys want to port the lost posts/members back in, Maybe I could help? I've built a few forums from scratch and once made a program to convert between forum formats.
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Talk to AJ and see what he says.
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I have a friend that is great with this shit, but he has been known to not be trusted on a bad day...
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Probably not the best idea then!
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Yeah, really!
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That's the last thing we need to help fix the problem!
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Seriously, this should never happen again. Maybe for safety's sake only AJ should be able to perform the duties of purging shit?
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Maybe so, it was a simply mistake that could of been avoided though. I'm sure Chrissy wouldn't let it happen again. You can't demote our queen.
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For what it's worth, I wasn't hacked. I was already logged in on my computer. Some friends came over, and the one thought it would be cute to mess with this because he knew I have admin status. He asked to use the computer, I told him to make a new tab, then I told him to 'x' this out (my password isn't saved) and I had other stuff to do. Then we all went out and I had no idea this happened until I was emailed by someone later in the day about it.
When I was told that my account did it and around the time it occurred, I realized what happened. So, again, I wasn't hacked. Someone took advantage of the fact that I left myself logged in and they decided they were going to be cute.
None of my other friends know about this issue (unless he's told them) but they're all pretty pissed about the other thing he did to me, so he has quite a few haters at the moment.
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As for topics/sections that need to be restored, let me know here or PM me and I'll take care of it. I feel bad enough about this mess, so whatever I can do to fix things, just shoot me a message.
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See exactly, and with that I'm sure it want happen again.
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I'm not trying to blame it on Chrissy or penalize her for it, I just thought it may be a little more safe to have just one person in charge of editing on that scale to simply reduce any chances of it happening. Accidents happen, but why not reduce the chance for accidents?
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I restored the 'Modding Discussion' and I made the quotes section it's own board, not a child board.
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Chrissy, you shouldn't feel guilty about what happened. If anything, your former buddy needs to make an apology for the damaged he has caused not just on here, but for what he put you through.
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Yeah, don't feel bad about it, you didn't cause it. The guy is just a dick and he will probably go through life as a dick only now it will be all by himself.
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I used to have friends like that. They ALL eventually dropped out and/or were arrested. He'll get what's coming.
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I thought B-B's crash was my fault when it happened. Especially after reading the maintenance message.
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Now THAT wouldn't surprise me! :P
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Well, didn't you think it was me?
IDK, I just am really good at screwing things up!
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For about 30 seconds I though it was me! I was handing out karma when it happened!
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I reset my Safari and then . . . it happened!
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I was giving Mike karma (You're welcome, Mike!) and I got that one message, and then it said under maintenance, and for about 30 seconds I was like "Holy shit! I sure fucked!"
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Hahah!
Well it's not the first you've caused problems with it while doing that!
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Damn it Travis, stop crippling BB!!!!
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You bastard! You're causing my computer to drag it's ass!
Tbone you fucking vag-head!
I'm gonna slice your dick in half!....The long way!
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Such words of kindness, Mike!
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Honestly, that's nicer than most things he has told me! I should make a thread about it!
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Mike and his vicious words!
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I think I've restored post counts. If you think I missed you, shoot me a PM.
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Thanks a bunch, Chrissy! ♥
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Hey! I didn't know she was online! :p
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Such words of kindness, Mike!
He deserved it!
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Quotes! I need to see quotes that he deserved it!
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Thank you Chrissy! <3
Fuck you Mike! >:D
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He did! Look at what happened when I said those three! He friggin brought down the server due to his immature shit! God Damn...a whole fucking post of smilies...
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:)
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Yeah, you see that?^ He knows what he did and he thinks it's FUNNY! Throw the book at him Dave!
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Dave likes me too much! :P
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Hahaha, not after you spent all that time busting his balls!
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Dave likes me too much! :P
We know. You guys and your "hoorays"......
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Haha... He can take a (more than a few) joke(s)...
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I forgot about your hoorays....
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Haha... He can take a (more than a few) poke(s)...
We know...... :p
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Mike had a few "Whoopies"....
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With who?
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What the hell!
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I thought B-B's crash was my fault when it happened. Especially after reading the maintenance message.
He really did. It was funny.
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Poor Daveycakes.
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Does Dave have any hair left or did he pull it all out?
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He seemed rather upset. But then it wasn't his fault, and so now I think he's okay.
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I seriously celebrated like a MOFO when I saw the first words in this thread weren't, "This was all Dave's fault."
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This was all Dave's fault. (http://www.gtastunting.net/Smileys/gtas/euro.gif)
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Hey I want that smiley!
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^^
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1INH3fOI6pM/SWy6iyyspyI/AAAAAAAAAZM/Z_-dZmCyDNw/s400/o_rly_owl.jpg)
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^ That's a fail!
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Hey I want that smiley!
You can't get everything you want. Tough turds, but life sux that way.
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I'm not a spoiled rich kid!
The opposite really.
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Oh..An ANGRY rich kid. Gotcha.
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This was all Dave's fault. (http://www.gtastunting.net/Smileys/gtas/euro.gif)
Love you for that.
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I don't understand how I got this rich reputation.
:confused:
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Oh shit, he's confused again....
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But really! I ain't!
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Confused? Yes, yes you are.
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I'm not confused or rich, buddy.
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The opposite really.
Yep. Dave's a good kid.
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I don't understand how I got this rich reputation.
:confused:
Another Daveywinks MomentTM
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(http://ecdn2.hark.com/images/000/006/087/6087/original.0)
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(http://knowyourmeme.com/i/000/049/165/original/You_Just_Got_Learned.jpg?1273539192)
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(http://alisonmoyet.co.uk/forum/images/smilies/ohthedrama.gif)
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Nice little smiley signs....
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Where DOES he get those wonderful toys ?
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(http://www.grandamgt.com/forum/images/smilies/clueless.gif)
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Was that directed at Dave?
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Probably.
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(http://www.grandamgt.com/forum/images/smilies/iamwithstupid.gif)
This is...
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Ooohhh! Score one for Travis.
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Lol, that's a good sign.
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Hold your applause! (http://www.grandamgt.com/forum/images/smilies/congrats.gif) There's more coming! And me and Mike just won a (http://www.grandamgt.com/forum/images/smilies/winner.gif)!!
Now it's time to (http://www.grandamgt.com/forum/images/smilies/jackson.gif)!!!
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Hahaha, nice!
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I like the little dancing man.
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lol, yeah, he's cool.
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I haven't seen that Jackson dancer in ages!
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Cause he's....Dead ?
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Hahaha! For all we know... (http://www.grandamgt.com/forum/images/smilies/eekdroolA.gif)
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They never come back.....Elvis, Hitler, Lennon....Yeah, they're dead.
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Elvis didn't die, he just went home...
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Yeah....To HELL !!!!! :p
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Haha! You don't like Elvis??
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How would I know ? Never met him.
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^Excellent point! I don't even know what to say to that!
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Maybe you could reword it. Cause I'm pretty sure you meant his music right?
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Naw....His music was OK.
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I like a few, but can't listen to most.
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Why are we talking about Elvis?
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Idk... But if I listened to that stuff much, it would be Johnny Cash!
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I like a Johnny Cash song.
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My name is Sue. How do you do?
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I don't like either one.
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I sing Cash the best.
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Haha, it's funny because he doesn't quite "sing." More like talking to background music.
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It wouldn't be Cash if there was singing... That's what June was for!
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Davey obviously don't know Cash. Pity.
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mhm