A few days after its creation, a young journalist approached my desk and asked me about the origins of the Ramblings forum. After an intense stare she was smart enough to leave me to Oggy Mania, which I placed a new high score on (take THAT Michaela Lai!).
We found him playing Tetris in a backroom and said that we would give him a good reference if he could just go and find the origin of Ramblings. Later that afternoon he happily set off. 3 weeks have passed and the current odds of him returning are 87 to 1, that’s worse than the odds of finding new pencils in the supply room.
So we sent the second most expendable worker we had on offer, ‘One Eye’ Dave, the caterer, we felt his special forces training would come in handy. He went on his merry way and uncovered a rather mysterious and concerning phenomenon. It turns out that Ramblings was established on a rather cheap and cruddy piece of real-estate that Free picked up for next to nothing. Similar to the way the heel of your favourite socks wear thin from overuse, this hunk of ex-goatse webspace was a worn out spot in the fabric of space time! Thus it seems that threads just can’t hold onto the front page of the forum very well at all and start sinking/falling into the dark nether regions of the back pages of the forum.
This sadly also extends to members who spend too much time in this environment. They are unable to escape and rejoin normal society. Sucked down by the constant flow of threads they literally sink into the forum and become just one more entity forever lost for all time! This may sound rather biblical but that’s because it is! ‘One Eye’ Dave barely got out alive, it is the decision here at the AL Underground to launch a full on assault on Ramblings in hope of puncturing the time-space fabric and hurling it out into the vacuum of non-being. Thus creating peace and calm, or mayhem and complete doom… but we are cautiously optimistic.
Strange things happening in Ramblings
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Submitted by Tyrael
Later that evening during a StarCraft match with the Fruit Salad Tree, a thought occurred to me… ‘Just where did the Ramblings forum come from?’ It was decided there and then to send an expedition. It would be dangerous and there was a very high chance that they would not return, so the upper management decided there was only one option available… send the work experience boy.
