Actually I joined here because somehow it was somehow related to "Lawnsite" and I originally
started helping folks with their lawn mowers, I was big on another site that has since sunk into
the internet swamp, but in it's hayday, this site was huge. It was run with an iron fist, but that is
why it flourished.
I stayed there for many years after Lambert was cast out of the "garden", he first tried starting
his own forum, but came here after I told him how nice it was here, then Arboristsite exploded
with activity when he moved here, and he brought droves here, he really deserves some
serious recognition.
Before that time, I was chastised for even typing the word beer in the same thread about chainsaws.
But when John showed up, he posted pics and videos, which most of us saw hicks still have trouble doing, but he also had a gene that stirred poop constantly, and his pics and movies,
and his habit of posing naked, and starting fights, caught up.
But those days were great, fun as hell.
Darin launched a program, called "Parachat", that was an early IM chatroom, but you could post
using anyusername that you could think of.
Darin even joined in the fun, at least we think it was him....
I came up one night with the username "Montanasky" which was an obvious attempt to pretend
to be Walt Galer, and somehow the chat degenerated into a lewd disscussion about Llama
husbandry. So the next day or so, I changed my signature to include raising Llamas.
Within a day or two, I got a p.m. from Walt with questions about Llamas, and so the Llama
thing stuck up until a couple of years ago, when I took the Llama crap off.
The other downside was the start of the username switching, impersonating, etc...
But other than that one instance, I ever have put up anything here, except under the username "Fish"...