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Fearless Leader 12-14-2007 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind
Fearless Leader is right about all-time great threads.....he is referring specifically to two threads from 2004 on the now aborted DRF Forum that I only wish I could post here ( one started off being about Value Plus I think ) that were more outrageous than you can believe. The key combatants were a " bloodstock agent " named Dan Frattinger who had been instrumental in the purchase of Last Minute Detail, who spent 15 seconds on the Triple Crown, and ended his career running for a nickel at Penn National. Last Minute Detail's owner, a guy named Jerry Little who I subsequently met and is a nice man, also joined in the fray....as well as one of actual Triple Crown aspirant Master David's owners ( who, coincidently, ended his career running for a tag at Delta Downs ). Those threads deserve a spot in the Smithsonian.

Was anyone here on that board ( aside from Morty )?

The best participant in those debates was hands down the WIFE of Master David's owner.

blackthroatedwind 12-14-2007 11:36 AM

I forgot.....he couldn't figure out if he was a man or a woman. That was hysterical.

I actually know why but don't want to get into it. Those were funny times. I honestly wish those threads still existed. Maybe I can get them....but I doubt it.

Fearless Leader 12-14-2007 11:38 AM

You had to feel bad for Dan the hopeless bloodstock agent. On second thought, no you didn't. But it sure was funny.

blackthroatedwind 12-14-2007 11:40 AM

I found one post I saved.......



DFRATTINGER Feb-14 9:41 pm
To: MAJORITYWHIP (196 of 200)

13996.196 in reply to 13996.189

I bid farewell to all my close, close friends on this great forum...It is time that I move on in my life. Remember , 3/14/04 will show us how good LMD really is. Hope you all tune into ESPN for the great event.

I am going to be the big man here and bow out gracfully, although I am sure MD's real owners would love to hear about Majoritywhips claim of ownership, and that he is emailing people disgusting emails, sexually explicit emails, and I don't think MD's owners want to be affiliated with that, either do I. If Majoritywhip really works for the owners, they would probably fire him after hearing and reading a lot of his emails and posts. I have tried to make friends with the guy, but he isnt interested. He can do no wrong.

Fearless Leader 12-14-2007 11:42 AM

And it went on and on like that......for months.....it was great.

blackthroatedwind 12-14-2007 11:43 AM

Yes, thankfully he didn't " move on. "

Fearless Leader 12-14-2007 11:45 AM

He should be contacted and invited to join the forum.

ArlJim78 12-14-2007 11:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Cardus
Thanks, Jim. I knew that I recalled someone referring to that incident.

It's humorous to me.

well if you found that humorous...

once on this forum i got into it with him on something and he got enraged (no surprise). So he sends me a PM threatening to contact my employer and letting them know that I spend a lot of time during the day on internet message boards. so I play along and ask how he knows my employer. well he said he has friends on this forum who would give him my IP address and that he would use that to track down the company I work for.
i don't remember how I responded.

hi_im_god 12-14-2007 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by ArlJim78
that was on espn, before this site came up. there were some raucous threads over there near the end.

it wasn't a pm. it was a post for all to see.

he knew some "jersey guys" who were on their way to texas where the offender lived.

that was during the great troll war at espn when some of the really seasoned folks at the basketball and football boards visited horse racing.

the board bully just had a meltdown. it was fantastic.

hi_im_god 12-14-2007 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Cardus
I thought that I had read someone mentioning that he wrote to someone in a PM that he was going to send a guy "to break your legs." Do I have this right? It might have occurred on the precursor to this site or here just after I joined (Sept. 2006).

meant to quote this one on the above post.

miraja2 12-14-2007 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by ArlJim78
that was on espn, before this site came up. there were some raucous threads over there near the end.

Some of my favorites from that place are still some of the greatest ever.
By the way, I have some computer software that says Congaree is going to win the 2008 Kentucky Derby......perhaps because his jock is going to inject him with meth......during the race!!

slotdirt 12-14-2007 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by miraja2
Some of my favorites from that place are still some of the greatest ever.
By the way, I have some computer software that says Congaree is going to win the 2008 Kentucky Derby......perhaps because his jock is going to inject him with meth......during the race!!

No "great threads of all time" thread can really be considered complete without mentioning he who shall not be named.

ArlJim78 12-14-2007 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Cardus
This is hilarious. Thanks.

"The great troll war" sounds like something I'll read about years from now when the book on great chat room battles is written.

it should be written. During a short period in April and May we had The Study Group Scandal, The Barbaro Breakdown Aftermath, and then The Troll War. It was too much and the place collapsed. Many refugees took shelter here.

Sightseek 12-14-2007 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Fearless Leader
My favorite threads were the ones that prompted me to sign up in the first place. All the ones that led to the departure of a "certain" poster. He seemed to know everything, and it was funny to read people ripping him on it. It reminded me of the Thoroughbred Times forum, which was the funniest reading EVER, in the halcyon days of 2003-2005.

As as aside, my all time favorite internet threads involved the horse LAST MINUTE DETAIL, his connections, and the run up to that years Classics. NOTHING will ever be funnier than that.

Bonus points for anyone that can name the horse that "Majority Whip" owned that was scheduled to face Last Minute Detail in the "Great Match Race" at Saratoga that same summer.

Good ole TT's forum!!! Who were you on that forum?

whodey17 12-14-2007 02:30 PM

I wonder what has happened to some of the posters in those aforementioned threads.

Dunbar 12-14-2007 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Cardus
The "Study Group Scandal"?

If I remember correctly, there were some college students who posed as seriously interested posters, but made outrageous statements just to get the regulars riled up. They then claimed it was part of a class project or something.

--Dunbar

NoChanceToDance 12-14-2007 05:48 PM

I used to post on TT, but I think I managed to miss most of this. I was only there for the last year or so of that forum.

I used to have stupid slanging matches with BB, usually when I was full of some awful acoholic beverage. Those were the days, eh?


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