Both Unclebruce and I were regular participants on the old H20 JW discussion board. That was in the days when JWs actually chimed in to defend their faith and then got thoroughly thrashed. Even Greg Stafford posted there. H20 was THE place to be for apostates and other demonized miscreants. AlanF, JanH, Kent Steinhaug, Norm Hovland and even a number of current posters on this board were regulars.
Unclebruce supplied the innocent humor and I supplied filth, lies and sewage. Little did most know what a sick puppy he really was. We became fast friends.
The moderator of that board was rather mercurial in personality. One day he was almost apostate. The next day he was a die-hard JW defender. I regularly got my threads deleted. I had no respect for any moderator who was too cowardly to delete my threads.
Finally, many of us got sick of the inconsistency. Unclebruce started sniffing around and found this board. He joined very early in 2001. He invited me to join and I did in around March, 2001. Within a few weeks, the H20 board was a wasteland and virtually all of the high profile posters were here. We descended like a swarm of locusts and few people here wre happy with that invasion. They were used to quiet non-controversial chit-chats and we came in swinging sledgehammers.
You can blame all of that on Unclebruce. Instead of nice clean comics like "Peanuts", Unc. reads "Red Meat" which is a filthy, pornographic and disgusting portrayal of the worst human conditions: sardonic, fatalistic philosophers, milkmen who try to pick up little girls on his route, and drunken loser Dick Tracy type comic characters are just a few of the characters in Red Meat. In short, it is hilarious!
Then he disappeared for a number of years, having allegedly enrolled in college. I say "allegedly" because I know for a fact that he moves his lips when he reads and was tossed out of every school he attended.
Welcome back, Unc!. You have been missed!
Farkel