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Memphis,
What if TheGhost was a non-specific gender entity? A Neunuch.
Then your missing the best part :o...
Personally, I want to read the tale and I think TG wants to post it, I just think he needs enough prodding to satisfy his ego. Not that I can really trust what he posts now since it may just be another part of his social experiment. I enjoyed the discussions TG fostered, but I feel betrayed by his deception and feel my trust in TG was misplaced.
I understand your anger Rabby. There is nothing I can do to change that. I really, truly wish there was.
Your trust in what you shared with me had nothing to do with gender, and many of the stories I shared with you had only slight modifications to make them work in the TG paradigm, but were basically still true stories.... "Names were changed to protect the innocent...", or maybe "The genders were changed to protect the innocent..." :-)
My ego has nothing to do with my actions here. Nadda.... Nil.
I am creating a new thread called "FYI - Tankgirl is a Person" that will hopefully fill in enough of the pieces that some of your anger will subside....
After reading the other thread, I must congratulate BC on his case of detective work!
Serial Killa and TG being troll buddies...
Your Holmes badge is the mail.
Last edited: Thursday, January 12, 2006 at 9:46:33 AM
I'm not angry, just hurt and disappointed.
JJ...
SK and TG being troll buddies?
BC...
TG and Lauryn being one and the same?
You guys are way, way off base.
Rabby,
(I know.... I am really sorry)
I feel that this thread has served is purpose and further discussion should be continued in the "TG is a Person" thread.
I think it is now time to unveil Stinkfingers as well.
I have traced his IP to Senator Ted Kennedy's office.
Senator, you poised questions on this forum almost the same way that you posed questions to Judge Alito.
And that gave you away to me.
This thread has been locked
The full story was discussed by the admins with a lot of initial shock, general debate and suspicion and finally acceptance. Apparently his wife figured out what he was doing and pulled the plug. The IPs between the wife's posts/e-mails and TG's former posts are the same, so there's little reason to doubt the impersonation took place.
Here's a bit of the e-mail his wife sent to an admin.
Hi All,
Apparently Tank "Girl" doesn't have that level of a
head and you may want to reconsider the priviledges
you give HER. You see...Tank Girl or Katherine doesn't
seem to be smart enough to outsmart HIS (I
know...shocker...) W-I-F-E.
Yep, sorry to dissapoint all of you but that lovely
photo that Tank Girl seems to like to post?? It's
actualy me, ****, his wife.
I've figured this all out, including his password for
his Yahoo! Mail ( I KNEW I should have gone to Law
School. I'm apparently very good at tracking down
information).
...
The only thing that's true about all of this is that
HE (get over it boys...although thank you for the
positive reaction to MY photo) has had a family
emergency and won't be back for a week. A family
member is dying and that seems to be one of the only
true things he's told ya'll (and SURPRISE...me) for a
very long time.
Ah...I'd venture to say that Tank Girl won't be coming
around much anymore -- TT or his house -- so you may
have to wait until he figures out a new game to play.
Don't worry -- I've been duped just as much as you
all. Only problem is we have 2 kids, a mortgage,
almost a 10-year marriage and much more crap to figure
out than who to play video games with...at night.
Fun for me. The fun never stops.
And another e-mail excerpt.
as I've told..., after our long conversation last night I understand now this started out as an experiment into how differently people would treat him if he listed himself as a gal (and played his ass off) as opposed to a man. His brother knew, friends knew and my father, who wanted to write an article about the illusions of identity in the cyber-world (dad's a professor).
...silly and juvenile:yes. Malicious: no.
And 56K's comments
The IP address of old TankGirl |K8| matches the IP of new Tankgirl. If TG moved on.. She left her computer and someone else autologged on from it August. Then logged in more recently from the same IP address with the new account. If it is an imposter, they are an imposter that is either at TG's house, or now has TG's old computer.... (Was the new TG account the wife?)
Who is the only person that ever "validated" TG's identity? YooDooRight... Oh, look he has an IP match with the old TG account.
...
The wife story sounds more sane than explaining this stuff away...
and
Based on the registration info, the probability is very high that whoever registered the male persona `YooDooRight` account is also the person who signed up for the new `Tankgirl` account.
So either it's a guy pretending to be a chick, or a girl pretending to be a guy...
Personally I was quite disappointed by the whole thing, especially since I considered TG my friend and we had had quite a few spirited discussions concerning theology and "her" lifestyle (which turned out to be a sham).
So I guess this is just another lesson to maintain a healthy dose of skepticism.
Last edited: Monday, January 09, 2006 at 3:26:01 PM