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The Something Awful Forums > Main > Post Your Favorite: Carefully Curated > PYF early-internet weirdos
 
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HelloIAmYourHeart
Dec 29, 2008
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DrBouvenstein posted:

Not sure how popular she actually was, but there was a website/blog ran by a young woman who kept saying she wanted to amputate both her hands and replace them with #18 stainless steel hooks, or something to that effect.


Carole the DBE amputee and her "Beautiful twin Dorrance #5 stainless steel hooks!"

http://web.archive.org/web/20010330191553/http://www.geocities.com/FashionAvenue/6914/CONTENTS.html

Here's a reddit thread with a lot more info.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nonmurdermysteries/comments/cc2iy5/carole_wants_to_become_a_real_dbe_amputee_can/

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HelloIAmYourHeart
Dec 29, 2008
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DreadUnknown posted:

I remember Gaijinsmash being pretty decent.

This is exactly who I thought of, too. I wonder what that dude's up to now. I found a blog entry from 2016 that said he's still in Japan but not as a teacher.

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HelloIAmYourHeart
Dec 29, 2008
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Pastry of the Year posted:

The first thing I thought of when you mentioned early internet and benign pranks is a site called cockeyed.com. I don't know if they pulled off the stunt you described, but it sounds like something they would do, and a trip to web.archive.org might solve the mystery.


I loved Cockeyed! "How Much Is Inside?" was my favorite I think, but the elaborate costumes Rob Cockerham made. I looked him up a while ago and he's still updating the site, which is wonderful.

AND he is the fake sculpture guy!

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HelloIAmYourHeart
Dec 29, 2008
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DrBouvenstein posted:

Bumping this because I remember a differernt prank guy, who I think eventually founded/was part of SparkNotes? The site might have been...SparkFun?

He did weird pranks/projects like seeing how much weight two people could gain in a month (I think he was trying to see if they could gain 1 pound/day?) and the "Stinky Meat Project" where he literally just put meat in public places, like in a potted plant in the mall, or his neighbor's yard.

But he also got weird/creepy, because if it is the same guy I'm thinking of, he "pranked" his sister by putting a webcam in her living room ceiling light. Not cool.

That's Christian Rudder. The weight gain thing is The Fat Project http://web.archive.org/web/20010602082024/http://www.thespark.com/science/fat/index.html

He's also responsible for one of my favorite albums, Bishop Allen's Charm School

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