This morning. I had read a little of the bumped "Sally Ride" thread before I read the WP article. After I read the WP article, I did a search using words from the sentence quoted in the article -- scientists, pioneers, respective and fields. Somehow, I was not surprised to see it turn up the post from prunetaco.

In all honesty and seriousness, this really makes me rebuke the internet and never want to come back again. Honestly and seriously.

Other than to check my professional email account.

I seriously had no idea of the connection when I bumped the thread (about midnight my time last night). I promise.

Wow, going back and checking out the posts made by "prunetaco" at the time, he had conversations with many people here - even complimenting some of you! V. creepy.

Ugh, the fact that he posted on this forum is both disgusting and interesting at the same time. I guess it makes sense that he would lurk around here, considering his freakish obsession. I went back at read some of his old posts and his writing style just screams sociopathic freak. Of course, I guess it's easy to say that now considering we know what he turned out to be! But I think even back in 2006 the other posters could see he was a weirdo.

The thread where he posted the post in question is short (and locked) and quite a read, especially when he starts talking about the skeletons in his closet. :eek:

i just noticed that he was never banned. still listed as a registered member.
while last activity is listed as 09-23-2006 09:46 PM , have wonder if he was truly lurking here afterwords. or did he just get busy with something else.
and this is a kick:
Biography:
I like Budweiser, sleeping late, parties and good-looking women
Location: Southern US Interests: NASCAR, trucks, NFL, hunting and fishing Occupation: laborer

He seems to be quite an Earp fan, too, based on a post in that thread.

Now that settles it!

Where's my steel wool?

I've since deleted them, but he and I exchanged PMs when he was posting -- no surprise, they were all about Kappa.

...I usually save PMs just in case I need them for later use and then delete em from my inbox to make room, but I think the ones from prunetacos are all gone. I'm pretty sure I wasn't the only one he PMed. It was a very, very strong obsession with Kappa. :eek:

I saw it shortly after you bumped it...and I didn't think anything of it. Come back a few hours later, BOOM creepy anthrax man is revealed on GC!!

We really do attract some weird ones..,

Pass some over here, too. Ewwww. We've had some strange ones around here before, but this takes the proverbial cake. Ewwww.

If pregnancy hasn't made me nauseous/queesy enough, this thread just did me in.

Gross.

I wonder how many people will start visiting GC now that the site's been named in various news articles and websites?

Damn, this is some crazy shit.