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Old October 11, 2002, 14:05   #1
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When Did You First Become Aware Of Ming?
Ok, before you or your quick-draw ferret brother lock this, just see. That's all I ask.

Ming. He can be pretty funny, huh ?
Sometimes funny , sometimes funny , but
sometimes (with good reason).

I used to hang exclusively at League.
League was pretty much an entity all it's own, as far as I could tell.
There had been things written about this person, Ming; but I pretty much chalked it up to rumor and propaganda, kind of like the Abominable Snowman and the Loch Ness Monster.

So I posted a thread at League, and someone, I'm still not sure who, but I thought it was dangime, moved it to Off-Topic.
I didn't know **** from shineola about Off-Topic. As far as I was concerned it was a forum dealing with "What's Wrong With Whores" and "Terrorists are mis-guided".
(wait a second. It is that way )

So I posted it in League again. It got moved again.
Well, I went off my nut on that one.

I went every where in the forums posting something like


Ming chasing me down all over the place.
"Don't do it again, Sloww", says Ming.
Being so easy to get a long with, I hurredly did it again.

Bam! A ticket to the dreaded Mingapulco, where paiktis would end up stealing my cornbread.


So what did you see, the first time you realized the Legend was true?
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Old October 11, 2002, 14:15   #2
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Old October 11, 2002, 14:24   #3
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Old October 11, 2002, 14:27   #4
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first time i ever heard about ming was when i had to smuggle in cornbread to slow
and tried to beg for parole
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Old October 11, 2002, 14:44   #5
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Old October 11, 2002, 14:52   #6
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I was in touch with my inner "Ming" years ago.
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Old October 11, 2002, 14:52   #7
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Ming closed my very first thread about a day or two after I first arrived.
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Old October 11, 2002, 14:53   #8
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ming has closed and deleted threads of mine, had me banned etc

but he was right on all accounts
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Old October 11, 2002, 14:56   #9
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I was in touch with my inner "Ming" years ago.
Does that mean that deep down your a bastard?
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Old October 11, 2002, 14:57   #10
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But of course, I was a moderator you know.
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Old October 11, 2002, 15:01   #11
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i never became aware of Ming
not in the banning sense anyway
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Old October 11, 2002, 15:23   #12
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i have been sent to Mingapulco so many times i know the place like the back of my hand The first time is when I made a Apolyton Sucks thread. Yes i remeber that faithful day Chris62
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Old October 11, 2002, 15:27   #13
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...well, the meteors falling to earth were a big hint.
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Old October 11, 2002, 16:08   #16
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Same as Stew / Boddington, plus the e-mail ring for just a little while.

And before that, a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away....

We used to frequent the same all-night restaurant on Howard Avenue in Chicago. That was 20+ years ago, before he was Ming or I was Adam Smith. Neither one recognized the other, but I remember this strange aura of power and omniscience emanating from the booth by the window.....
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Old October 11, 2002, 16:14   #17
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I had no knowledge of ming during my Civ3 list posting days

however, after the second list I started lurking and occasionally posting on the OT (I saw ming do actions but never intereacted with him)

I was a very serious poster and almost never posted

than a little over a year ago, I had a summer internship

I started being on my computer all the time (about half my time was spent programming) (a lot of theoretical research has a lot of programming), and so started posting more

my psots, whiel still very important and serious, were not treated as such by ming and he banned me last summer

I have been posting (and getting moderated) fairly often ever sicnce

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adam smith - that's freaky. You talked to him beforehand?

If not, how did you realize this fact?
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I heard of his "dreadful banning for no reason" on ACOL. Poly Off-topic was described there as being a totalitarian regime compared to democratic anarchist ACOL.
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Old October 11, 2002, 17:22   #20
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I don't particularly mean being banned by Ming, though that's how I first saw him.
There's a quote by KrazyHorse about "Wow. 5 minutes to be rebanned. A new record".
If I didn't know Ming already, that would still get my attention.

It could be any experience, where you first noticed the evil that is Ming.
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I have felt His presence for a while. That presence has been with me since my Apolyton inception, perhaps longer. His presence keeps me safe. He keeps me within the bounds of righteousness. He is all.
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When I got here, Ming was just a regular poster like the rest of us.

Ah...those were the days...
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He says some funny things quite frequently, but many probably are reading it like some religious artifact.
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We did not know each other at the time. It came up in a conversation after meeting on Apolyton.

His aura was not as strong then, but it was still there in a primitive form.....
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but it was still there in a primitive form.....
Glad to see nothing has changed..........

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I never used to be an Off-Topic guy, I was always on topic. Ming's been entirely helpful and welcoming in my on-topic life.

I hope to god he doesn't see any of my OT posts, though
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In 1997 (IIRC), Iowa and a few other midwestern states suffered severe drought.

I had no idea that Ming was behind this -- I thought it was explained by the usual atmospheric phenomenon, but no -- it turned out to be Ming's doing!!

But that was before I even knew a forum called Apolyton.
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Old October 11, 2002, 19:17   #28
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back before they allowed hotmail, yahoo email accounts to register with, i lurked at poly and saw the awesome power of ming. that was back in 2000 IIRC
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When did I have my first encounter with Ming?

Must have been in 1999 when I was strolling around on ACS Forums.
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I dunno, I posted for the first several months here on the Civ3 forums until I got tired of the game (about the time that Reynolds quit and Firaxis used the list as toilet paper), came over to the OTF to kill some time, eventually noticed that Ming was primarily responsible for the bannings/lockings/etc (with Markos being a secondary culprit). I don't recall it really hitting me like a ton of bricks or anything, it was more along the lines of "Oh, hey, people get banned here," something that I had never seen done on the Civ3 List threads (since people there generally weren't trolls, *******s, etc). It was at least a year or two before I realized that rah was Ming's brother.
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