TCE Archive

If you found this, you either came through on a search engine or you know what's up. I won't waste a lot of time on deep background. This is a collection of textfiles saved from my several years on The Cutting Edge, a bulletin board based in Little Rock. The files span the time in which the board went from a 2-line system to a 7-line system to a 20-line system to a 50-line Internet Provider. Shortly after the last, TCE became a no-line telnet-only system.

These files will largely be of interest to the users of that system, I wouldn't recommend others going too deep into it. I wouldn't either, but I used to be pretty anal about keeping records, and I figured this is as good a place to bury them as any. I'll accept any comments, corrections, or submissions at rick@rickwyatt.com.

NOTICE: This is a completely haphazard and random assortment of files. Many were saved on a whim or because I edited text offline. Therefore there is no particular reason why your message was or was not included. No attempt has been made at fairness or completeness. In many cases the attitudes shown are no longer true indications of the charater of the users involved. And a reminder, satire is constitutionally protected.

Recent Additions


SATIRE:
Cult BD - a parody of a post by Cyberchrist setting up a "cult" in an online game.
Declarations One and Three - takeoffs on some famous US documents
Dio - Creation according to Diogenes
Doom - takeoff on common KDRE commercials
Farewell - Farewell to Politics, a takeoff on the posting style of damned near every TCE user
Scooby - Aborted satire of Scooby Doo: The Movie
TCE: The Gathering - users represented as Magic cards
The Board - a Grisham parody by wC
The Hall - Cosmo's version of "The Wall"
Ussr - satire from wC
TCE Island One and Two - A satire of "Fantasy Island"
Isle Cast - my cast for the above
Mutual - Wild Kingdom takeoff by wC
Et Tu, Glenn - wC's famous post

STORIES
Bark - I think Junkyard Rhino wrote this freakshow of a story.
"Paronoid" - Flagg wrote this to make Junky look sane.
Bad Bob Kills All the Retards - my contribution
WC's First Job - real life is scarier than fiction
Xmas - A Christmas carol by wC

PASSION
(not surprisingly the biggest section)
10QUEST - 10 Questions. I asked 10 very hard "what would you do" questions and asked users for their answers.
Questions - more responses to the 10 questions
Blackthorne's Flame - *b lets you know what he thinks about a few people
Response - Babydoll (I think), logged on as Dagarth, responds to *b's comments
Deanna - a number of messages from ANOTHER BBS which flame TCE
Idiot - Cosmo responds to the above
Damn Tsar - we talk about Tsar Skippy giving Damn Tsar II - Skippy himself discusses the above
beer to minors at a TCE-sanctioned party
Kramer - Kramer handles getting beat at TradeWars with his usual diplomacy
Caps One and Two of Macbeth's example of Tradewars diplomacy techniques
Funerals - CoCL and Icarus talk about funerals
Marisaur - the user explains why she threatened to sue BBSes and shut them down
New Order - I get ticked at the new posting standards
Nightcrawler - I flame someone. Surprise.
Psi - what I thought about users with psychic powers
Temple - we talk religion
Lyceum - wC bids it farewell
Farewell One - from Shadowlord, when I moved to Atlanta
Farewell Two - from Sweet Jane
Farewell Three - from Wired Child
Angst I - wc's messages from AngstFest 95
Room 337B - when wC went feverish and danced with the guy with the sickle.
What it's all about - wC dissecting why people post stories on BBSes

FUNNY STUFF:
Arioch - an old-fashioned ASCII sign of chaos.
Comrade - Cosmo's prediction of how I would run a system. Check out Menagerie to see if he was right
JD&D - Jesus plays D&D
Juice - my response to Artistic Mystic asking someone to write a "juicy story"
User Scramblets - These are gonna be tougher now.
Supes - Superman's real identity!
Torin - the demigod's challenge to Cosmo
tractor - included especially for Blackthorne
wC - Memo from the Wolfpack to wC
Personal - wC places a personal ad.

/CLASSIC!:
(files from the /Classic forum not collected elsewhere)
Classic - my guide to the forum
wC's Ratings One and Two with Blue Devil's Guides to wC's Ratings One and Two
Power Ratings - the DEFINITIVE ratings from wC
Apology - Mac's apology to Cosmo
Birthday - a wC message
Bitti - two classic posts from Bitti
Blue - two classis pocsts from Blue Devil
wC - two classic posts from wC
Delima - a post from Cosmo on correctness
Falcon/TCE - Falcon's predictions
Gilligan - Cosmo's analysis
Knockout - fake press release by Blue Devil, origin of TSCSESSS
Line Editor! - posts about it
Lions - wC describes Yang's animal kingdom
Majyk - Majyk finally flames someone
McDoc - McDoc's classic story about the Forum Walkout
Phone - funny(?) message from Blue Devil
Prospector - uh...
Random - Musings from wC
Rate Card - Dio sets it off
Rhino - Junkyard Rhino's software training requests
Rorshah - wC analyzes(?) a post
TV Hell - more musings from wC
YogwC - weird stuff from Dark Shadow

SONGS & POEMS:
The Flamer - from the Net, satire of "The Boxer"
Keeper - Keeper of Fate's pissed-off poem
Like a Juvie - satire of "Like a Virgin"
Scenes from an Internet Rustin' Haunt - figure it out.
Flannel - Flannel Woman's poetry
Sweet Jane - her poetry
The Bunker - wC's parody of "Welcome to the Jungle"
CosMas - Cosmo's Jingle Bells parody
COS-mo! - a parody of "Pressure"
Dylan - Blue Devil's Dylan takeoff
We didn't start the flaming - a Blue Devil parody
Internet Killed the BBS Star - a wC parody
Macbethian Rhapsody - Cosmo's parody
The Hoaxer - Blue Devil's song about Credscam
Oh, Ricky! - a Cosmo parody
Snider Net - takeoff on the "Spiderman" song
BBS Xmas - my Xmas poem

SYSTEM FILES:
Adult App - Application for adult access
Registries - ancient dump of TCE Registry database
User App - User's application
XXX Actions - warning, explicit! List of adult actions
Blessed - Gene kills a class
/Snider - entire contents of the /Snider forum from day one.

THE GOM AFFAIR I:
(textfiles relating to a period when the user Goddess of the Moon suspended the user Macbeth for harassment in the form of killing her in an online game. The controversy rose from the fact that most users didn't even KNOW GoM had been given that power. )
One, Two, Three little capfiles of the incident
gomop.txt - GoM explains herself
Tox - Autox explains himself
Cosmo - Cosmo explains himself
Buckets of Blood Beasts - my satire of the issue
The Players - Blue Devil explains it all, with a handy-dandy Player's Guide

THE GOM AFFAIR II:
(GoM also made some comments, some in public but most in an invitation-only, women-only forum where the accused could not respond, saying she was being abused by a group of users she called "the Wolfpack". I was one of those users, and I took offense. So I saved everything.)
Harem - a capfile of some of the messages
BustGoM - A message I saved because GoM was denying she ever said it.
Suggested Reading: The Wolfpack Home Page - once I remembered this page was still up at SniderSniderSnider for some reason, I stopped logging in these textfiles.

CREDSCAM:
(files relating to a time when a system bug let users get unlimited credits - transferring did not reduce your balance.)
Audit Log - see who did what!
Cosmo's Gift - a cautionary tale I wrote about a user falsely accused of participating in CredScam.
The Hoaxer - Blue Devil's song about Credscam

MISCELLANEOUS:
BD - What Cosmo used to think about me
Flamer's Bible - copied by Diogenes
Gambit - No idea why I kept this one
Gurps - *b's Gurps world. Campaign lasted exactly one game due to player infighting
Online - a capped session. No idea why it was capped.
# - people playing with calling froms
BibleHome - an interesting text on Christianity and homosexuality.
Creation - a Creationist's Guide
TopTen - Top Ten things to remember on the Internet
Zoom - wC's "Who's Zoomin' Who" - why, I can't recall

NON-TEXT FILES:
Anthem - a MIDI song written by Cosmo
Video Killed the Radio Star - MIDI copied by Wired Child
Nirvana Zip - zip of posts in /Nirvana
PARTY - a .JPG file of Cosmo with briefs on his head. ???
QWK Zip - 2.8 MEG zip of QWK files from TCE.
SpamCoder - Dark Shadow's Spam Encoding program
SpamDeCoder - my Spam decoding program, with C source
SpamRep - most of my 666 messages posted to TCE in one session.
Darth Dio's command ship - Cosmo plays with Corel

Maintained by Rick Wyatt - rick@rickwyatt.com