How I learned about Bressler.org

[Pistol Pete]

A couple of days after the attacks, I was sent a pic from the Osama Page O'Hate. I checked out the pictures and then began drifting into the other areas of the site. Well, I got got hooked.

How did the rest of you get here?

[Kimmy]

Sort of the same way, Pete... I was searching for Bin Laden parody and Bressler.org came up. I checked out the rest of the site. I got hooked reading the board and emailed JB to tell him I was going to hang around for awhile.

[Dave]

My pal Laurie told me about it.

[Pistol Pete]

For anyone who wants to know, I'm Rick.

[Kimmy]

Nice to meet you, Rick ;)

[Pistol Pete]

Thanks. You too, Kimmy :) We all seem to have a few things in common, here. For one, we're NUTS...:hehe:

[groovehouse]

It was some kind of weird web love triangle thing. There were three pages that I surfed that were all linked to one another at one time. When one fell out of favor I stopped surfing all three. I have since recently re-discovered bressler and have begun to contribute. I've also made the shortcut one of my LINKS in the IE toolbar, so it's a "regular" site now!

[wrecker05]

I honestly can't remember how I found this site. I do vaguely remember viewing a thread in the politics forum (not sure how old it was)from an unregistered guest blasting America. JB in this thread decided that all who post should be registered members. I honestly can't remember the thread.

I didn't join at first, but a day or so later I registered. 20011017:)

[Rguess21]

Jilly :confused:

[shotglass]

I don't remember, maybe I was searching for anti-Osamamama stuff.

Or Olsen twins porn. ;)

[STIBROKER]

SAME HERE pete .......my cousin sent me the osama page...

[Deamon]

I dunno how I found it, I was screwing around in the poli. forums alot though and that kept me interested.

[Laurie]

I was searchin' for Bin Laden trash.

[Barb101]

Mine's pretty sorted...An X boyfriend from Sacramento turned me on to Bressler's right after the attacks (See comments on link page for my site, he left a couple of pissyman comments in there posing as my son) I sure can pick em man! heh I saw the photoshops and decided to make a few then sent in a buncha stuff to the page 0' hate. I was totally hooked. The rest is history...:rolleyes:

[JDub]

I was also caught in this web of lunacy by an internet search gone bad. I believe I was looking for some political stuff, and somehow I ended up here. Anyhoo, I lurked the forums for a long time (6 months or more), and then I took the last forum quiz. Then that gasbag Cuda started talking trash, and I registered and have been wasting far too much time here ever since. Glad to be part of yet another dysfunctional family.:D

[cuda]

Well it all started after a long night of hard drinking and heavy drugs... I had just got out of prison, I was celebrating life. Next thing you know, I woke up drooling on my keyboard with clown makeup on, wearing a leather thong and all these farm animals hanging out in my apartment. I still can't figure out how that cow got up the stairs and through my front door. Anyway, I somehow ended up on Bressler.org and have been hooked since.
:hehe: :rolleyes:


Actually I also somehow got involved with the Osama Page O Hate after Sept.11. I was strictly Photoshop until I decided to start posting in other forums, which led to padding, which led to annoying JB.... and the rest is as we say history. whatever...

[JBMoney]

I found bressler.org while doing a web search for 'survivor girls nude'. Weird how that happens.

Seriously though, I'm pleased you all ended up here and that you find it worthy of your valuable time.

A teensy bit off subject, but I'll take this opportunity to answer one of Pete's emails. I hope you don't mind, but since we're reflecting back, I figure I could kill two or more birds with one stone.

Will you please tell me how your site got put together. Not the nitty-gritty of it, just who did it and a little of the basics....

Bressler.org has actually been around since 1997 or 1998. Originally, it was intended as an easy way to keep in touch with my friends in Southern California (Robb, Rickmode, Jimness, the Hansbergers, Favetti, etc.) when I moved to Sacramento. I can't stand telephones (a semi-phobia developed in 1992). Of course, once I finished it they avoided it like the plague.

At first it was a plain old static HTML site, with a Forum. It wasn't updated daily. The guiding principle was, and for the most part still is, a place to store random files that I found interesting and wanted to share... and to never sell out (turn to advertising to pay for the site). I'd rather have a little 'friendly' site than a popular one that requires banner ads and pop-ups.

Original content has obviously never been a high priority on the main site, although we've had our moments. It used to have more sound files and at one time even had a HUGE collection of animated GIFs. I got over the animated GIF thing, about 50% of the sounds are still here. As of now, counting The Forum, I believe the site is probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 900+MB of miscellaneous 'stuff'.

The Forum was moving along really good by 1999 and was almost exclusively Movie & Entertainment talk, except for the brief "X-Styles" period that Princess B shepherded. We had a core group that pretty much talked about movies and that was it (Eddioboy, Lucie, Cladmartin, C3POlaf, Jimness, a couple others).

In 2000, I started playing Asheron's Call virtually 24x7 (along with Mando). That was pretty much the death of the 'old group' as I ignored the Site and the Forum for nine months, not just because of the game, but because the Site had reached a critical mass of garbage and keeping up the way I wanted to with strictly static HTML was increasingly impossible.

In late 2000, I finally committed to rebuilding the whole Main Site and spent 3-4 months building a complete custom back-end management system for the site, based on ASP and SQL database server. Additionally, I made it in such a way that it's simple enough for just about anyone to publish items to the main site (which was the plan, but never materialized).

Not to brag, because it's actually kind of sad in a way, but the Bressler.org site is sitting on top of a custom site management system that would probably cost you in excess of $30,000 to have made. The graphics and page layout still suck, but the rest of it... nice.

After the redesign, main site traffic slowly picked back up. The Forum, however, didn't really get going again until after the Page O' Hate. The Page O' Hate was THE ORIGINAL page of OBL Photoshops, which has been often immitated and often straight out stolen from. It was linked from FARK on September 20th or 22nd, and for a while became their third most popular link ever, even passing the topless pictures of Anna.

I think the Main Site remains a regular stop for a lot of those folks because, unlike other sites that eventually did the same thing, Bressler.org had a few more things to do & see. Also, unlike many other sites, the POH wasn't just a gig to pull in visitors. The entire site reflected support for the war on terrorism and still does.

Anyhow, there are three major events in Bressler.org history that a good number of people can probably point to as why they got here:

"80 Things I Hate About Phantom Menace" (1999) - A very controversial list of 'things that sucked' in Star Wars Ep1. Brought in a lot of angry fan boys, and got us linked from a lot of Star Wars sites.

"Imagine There's No Ignorance... " (March 2001) - This article, by 'Frack Duclos' was actually read, in it's entirety, by Rush Limbaugh on his radio program. One of my favorite sound clips:
http://bressler.org/bits/limbaugh.mp3

"The Osama Bin Laden Page O' Hate" (September 2001) - The mother load. For about four months, Bressler.org became mostly about maintaining the Page O' Hate. Hundreds of emails every day, site was often unreachable due to the amount of traffic.

Of all the things at Bressler.org, The Forum has always been my favorite part and I'm glad to see it doing so well.

The comments sections on the Main Site is really an extension of that, although they haven't been all that successfull. In the long run (and I've already made some feeble attempts at this) I plan to integrate the Main Site with The Forum. I think this'll increase participation in the front page updates (we'll see).

The next version of VBulletin (the application that runs the Forum) is due out by the end of the year. The word is that it'll include a content management system, in which case, I'll probably make another go at integrating the two operations (Forum and Main Site), and hopefully getting everything onto one server instead of two.

[groovehouse]

wow, there's a main page? :confused:

[Pistol Pete]

Thanks for the "inside story" and such a great place to experience the inner sanctum of other folks, JB. And thanks to everyone for answering one of those questions that pops up in a person's head occasionally..."How the hell did I get here?" :alien:

[Eddioboy]

Well now, sit right down on my knee and let uncle Ed tell you the story of how I came to be here at Bressler.org. Why, I believe it was way back in the winter 1998 or so, this last century. Times were tough for old Ed. We had to eat shoes for dinner, and the world looked like it was going to end.

But I found time to look around for things pertaining to the upcoming Star Wars movie, anyway! That was, oh, around the time before episode 1 came out.

To make a long story short, Bressler.org had a thriving discussion on the forums about Star Wars. Well, I guess you could say I got hooked, and the rest became history.

Remember to tell your sons and daughters this story, so they can tell theirs, and so on. Well, I reckon I'll take a rest from storytelling now; my trick elbow is botherin' me somethin' fierce. Must be rain!

[GrantMan]

Originally posted by Pistol Pete
A couple of days after the attacks, I was sent a pic from the Osama Page O'Hate. I checked out the pictures and then began drifting into the other areas of the site. Well, I got got hooked.

How did the rest of you get here?

Oh wow. Another Okie. I had no idea we were neighbors. [okie speak]Where abouts in Tulsa you at?[/okie speak]

Maybe I should pay attention more often to what it says under people's avatars. I should have known you were an Okie with that screen name.

You do know that Texas is gonna win in a couple of weeks don't you? :Poke:

[JDub]

Originally posted by GrantMan

You do know that Texas is gonna win in a couple of weeks don't you? :Poke:

Amen to that, brother.:D

[STIBROKER]

I HEAR YA BROTHA.....

[RodJSM]

I live here. Well, work here. Whatever.

Really, I work next to JB$ so he gives me these looks that make me feel guilty if I don't keep up with what's going on here. That's not really necessary though, 'cause I love hanging out here and would do it more but that would mean I'd get even less done of value and that's already dangerously approaching zero.

[GrantMan]

Oh no... What have I done now... :rolleyes: I was just poking him, nothing more.

[cuda]

*POOF!*

oops.... 'scuse me. :OOPS:

http://216.40.241.68/games/diablo/MAGE5.GIF

*POOF!*

[GrantMan]

Originally posted by cuda
*POOF!*

oops.... 'scuse me. :OOPS:

*POOF!*

WTF? :shrug:

[Pistol Pete]

Grantman, I'm at about 4th & Sheridan.

Where's Texas? Isn't that in Canada somewhere? :laugh:

[JDub]

Originally posted by Pistol Pete
Grantman, I'm at about 4th & Sheridan.

Where's Texas? Isn't that in Canada somewhere? :laugh:

Actually, at one time (as I'm sure you know) we were closer to Canada than you Okies were. Thing is, we sold the parts of Texas that we didn't want, as the attached map indicates. Ten million was alot of money in 1850!;):rolleyes:

[Pistol Pete]

Man! It just keeps gettin deeper and deeper :p I better put on my high-waders.

[Wham Valdez]

I used to check out a lot of photoshop websites, but never had any PS skills or was too cheap to buy webhosting to join any of them.
Places like
www.fark.com
www.worth1000.com
www.somethingawful.com

So one day I did a google search and found Bressler, laughed a bit, started doing pshops, still suck at it because I'd rather go outside.
I play around a bit on the forums, but I'm too busy at work to pay attention to every little thing. I like the people though so I'm hanging around!

[Rguess21]

Originally posted by JDub


Amen to that, brother.:D

The Eyes of Texas are upon you, all........ :OOPS: , furgot, neva kuld karrie atun

[Freida]

I used to work with JB$. The first year of my employment, he ignored me entirely. I would throw out a "morning" only to be ignored. On a good day JB$ would reply with a snorting/grunting sound that I interpreted as, "Morning Sunshine. How are you this find day?"

I left for three months, and when I came back, JB$ threw a little love my way. I ate it up. Just the prospect of being good enough for the Chief Information Technology Officer made me want to earn his respect. So to suck up to him, I started browsing, and eventually posting articles on, bressler.org.

I haven't worked in the same office as JB$ for about a year and half now. I never hear from him, and I'm not even sure he would acknowledge me if he passed me on the street. But we'll always have bressler.org. :worthy: :smooch:

[Pistol Pete]

That's so.....touching:cry:

[robb]

I'd just come here because it was the only way to get ahold of Favetti. I could sometimes get John to answer the phone.

Where's Favetti? We can't seem to find him anymore.

I think it was this thread that got him kicked off the board by his girlfriend:

Where's Tony? (http://bushwhacked.net/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=939&highlight=tonys)

Rick started that when Tony was out here for my wedding in June '01.

I think bressler has a hidden forum somewhere he uses for communication with his wife.

[GrantMan]

Originally posted by Pistol Pete
Grantman, I'm at about 4th & Sheridan.

Where's Texas? Isn't that in Canada somewhere? :laugh:

I know where that's at. I used to know some people that lived over there.


I'm way across town from you out by the Creeek Turnpike extension. I'm over near New Orleans and Aspen in Broken Arrow, or 101st & 145th using Tulsa street numbers. When I moved to Broken Arrow a little over a year ago I had the hardest time getting used to the backasswards street system of their's. The thing that really threw me off is that they have a Utica, Yale, Lewis, etc. except they run East to West. I'm kind of used to it now, I don't think my wife will ever get used to it.

[Thunder]

I dont really remember how I came here, but it was either while looking for survivor information, or from an Osama hate post from another forum I belong to. I seen the bressler survivor game 2 years ago and signed up to play. During this time I would surf the political posts on this forum to see what other issues were being talking about. One things for sure about the folks at bressler. Your definetly NOT boring! LOL I recently decided to finaly sign up. Soooo.... here I am. :D
Thunder

[cuda]

Originally posted by Thunder2
I recently decided to finaly sign up. Soooo.... here I am. :D
Thunder

Well it's about time.... http://216.40.241.68/contrib/edoom/Lurking.gif

[JBMoney]

Originally posted by Freida
I'm not even sure he would acknowledge me if he passed me on the street. But we'll always have bressler.org. :worthy: :smooch:

You could not miss Frieda walking down the street. I'd acknowledge her, but then I'd probably look away before she noticed. ;)

[Thunder]

[QUOTE]Well it's about time....


Hey, what can I say. I had to find out what kind of insanity I was up against. :hehe:

[shotglass]

Originally posted by Thunder

Hey, what can I say. I had to find out what kind of insanity I was up against. :hehe:

Bad news, Thunder. You're no longer 'up against' this insanity. Now, you're PART of this insanity. Welcome aboard.

I still can't remember how I first wound up here, probably the Osamamama Page O' Hate being discussed on the iwon message boards.

I do remember looking at the pics there, and wondering how people made pictures like that. I was then introduced to Photoshop by a friend, and thought it was pretty fun. Then Zigi (wonder how the Zigster is these days...) wins the Championship because he did animations, and I wanted to learn that....

Bressler.org is educational! :D

[cuda]

Originally posted by shotglass

Bressler.org is educational! :D


Less Filling!!!!

[GrantMan]

Originally posted by cuda



Less Filling!!!!

Tastes Great!


No, wait...:hehe:

[cuda]

Less Filling!! :nolike:

[RodJSM]

http://bressler.org/bits/bressler_ani.gif

[Mando]

As JB$ first mentioned, I fist met him as “Caligula” playing Asheron’s Call. He was my mentors, mentor and I drove them both crazy (kept on getting killed, needing help, and just being a general pest). JB$ offered to set up a thread for our alliance. That is where I first posted as Uncor some time in ‘99. I lost my password for Uncor in a drunken haze and had to post as my second main character “Mando”. Well, JB$ stopped playing to work on his site more and the alliance kinda broke up along with the thread. I would check the Main page quit frequently (I thought it was funny as all get out and still can’t figure out how JB$ found some of that stuff), made a few posts in the regular form and would check in time to time but to be quite honest, the form was kinda pathetic till all you whacko’s started posting after September 11th. Hmmmm, now I think I have met the lunatic fringe.

[Eagle3]

I found the site when searching for bin laden photoshops. Started out as just a photoshopper, but now seem to be pretty much infected with the whole forum. ;)

[Guhor]

I found it october of last year... I think I was looking for some anti-osama stuff. I've been hooked ever since.

[cuda]

Originally posted by Guhor
I found it october of last year... I think I was looking for some anti-osama stuff. I've been hooked ever since.


I just gave you a rating of five.... vote cuda. ;) *slithers back to Fight Club*

[Wham Valdez]

Cuda = Chump

[Eddy's Geist]

I used to work with the fabulous Mrs. Buffy Bressler and at work (which I seemed to do so little of) I used to email bizzare stories or Intel flavored anecdotes out to many of the people in our departments. One was a story about how I was laughing at my grandmother's funeral and Buffster said that I should go to her husband's web site and post the story. I used to only post on the main page and then I registered for the forums sometime after 9-11? I guess I've been here awhile. Bressler.org is pretty much the only web page that I come to on a regular basis. I've met some very cool people here!

[Freak]

Today after being at work 15 minutes, I was bored and typed "photoshop challenge" or something like that in google. Bressler.org was one of the top hits, so I literally spent the rest of my day lurking the photoshop forum...I registered, put up a pic for the suicide thread, and here I am!

[Freak]

Since there are some newer members on here, I thought I'd bump this up.

[JasmineDreamz]

I was sent a link to the Osama Page O Hate and told to check them out.......I was hooked.

[cuda]

Originally posted by JasmineDreamz
I was sent a link to the Osama Page O Hate and told to check them out.......I was hooked.

I think you were surfing for porn.:sure:

[JasmineDreamz]

Hey, who told? ;)

[Kimmy]

Lots of newer members.. time to bump this ;)

[Eddy's Geist]

'Frack Duclos' !!!

Damn, I miss Frank. JB, where is Duclos now?

Ok, here's how I found my way to Bressler.org

Once, long ago in a galaxy far far away... I used to work for Intel and instead of working I would write crazy stories that I'd email out to the other worker drones in my quest to disrupt the normal flow of work. I figured if I got everyone else fooling around then it would be less apparent that I was doing absolutely nothing through out the day while getting paid the big bucks to sit on my ass.

Well... I worked on the same floor as a certain Mrs. Bressler who told me about her husband's web site and said that I should go and post some of my insanity upon it. I think my first post was in late 2000 or early 2001 and it was a story about how funny my grandmother's funeral was.

[uncle john]

A couple of days after the attacks, I was sent a pic from the Osama Page O'Hate. I checked out the pictures and then began drifting into the other areas of the site. Well, I got got hooked.

How did the rest of you get here?
one of my lunatic friends suggested I check out the forum :nuts: His name was Pistol Pete :laugh: :beer: :beer:

[JBMoney]

one of my lunatic friends suggested I check out the forum :nuts: His name was Pistol Pete :laugh: :beer: :beer:

*docks uncle john's reputation... a couple times*

[Texan]

Well, since I'm not a new member, let's see if any of you remember how I learned about this site. I'll give you 3 guesses. ;) :)

[JBMoney]

Typed 'Breastshere.org' too fast?

[JBMoney]

You were looking for Olsen Twins porn?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%22Olsen+Twins+Porn%22

[JBMoney]

You were looking for Lindsey Lohan's Breasts?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=%22Lindsey+Lohan%27s+Breasts%22&btnG=Search

[uncle john]

*docks uncle john's reputation... a couple times*
oh the shame the horror I am duly chastised a thousand pardons jb :scary:

[Texan]

Oh so close, JB, but not right.

[Pistol Pete]

Oh so close, JB, but not right.

Stibroker found you at the 7-11 and brought you home.

[Texan]

Stibroker found you at the 7-11 and brought you home.

Shhhhhh! That is supposed to be a secret. :worry:

[jhans]

JB$ and I first met at California Polytechnic University, Pomona sometime in 1988. There were like eight of us that met in front of Building #5 to discuss reforming the College Republican Club. Until that point in my life I had never had a peer that was so damn intense. For the next several years we politicized and partied. Several years later JB$ told me that he was going to start a site but I never heard anything after that (mainly because he is phone challenged). Then Robb told me that JB$’s site had been up and running for some time. So I posted congratulations in the Guest Book and I’ve been here off and on ever sense. BTW, does the Guest Book still exist?

[JBMoney]

2/23/99 (may have actually been before this, as I moved everything from a different system)

John, I thought that you were just a political hack that spent your time licking politicians' boots. I had no idea that your computer skills extended any further than playing an exhilarating game of mine sweeper (at tax payer's expense). This web page is an outstanding example of what the mentally deranged can accomplish if they are just given the chance.

http://bressler.org/guestbook.asp?offset=300

To which I'd reply that I'm at least as productive as JHansberger is during his average workday, seen below:

http://bressler.org/blackbook/chiberger3.jpg

[jhans]

My mom really enjoyed that picture when she looked at your site.

[Eddy's Geist]

And to think she was worried that your time in college was ill spent!

[jhans]

I don't remember taking that picture but I know who must of took it because I recognize her bedroom. I think she must have been a Bressler spy. Now everytime one of my old friends looks up my name on the internet they all say how they saw a picture of me riding that damn pink horse. Thanks John, I appreciate all you've done for my reputation. :thumbsup:

[JBMoney]

I don't remember taking that picture but I know who must of took it because I recognize her bedroom. I think she must have been a Bressler spy. Now everytime one of my old friends looks up my name on the internet they all say how they saw a picture of me riding that damn pink horse. Thanks John, I appreciate all you've done for my reputation. :thumbsup:


Haha... at least you're not a school admin like your sister-in-law. Look at her Christmas pic (http://bressler.org/blackbook/doria1.jpg).

[jhans]

Haha... at least you're not a school admin like your sister-in-law.

Damn, she just got her doctorate and switched jobs. No more school admin. That blackmail was there all along and I never noticed it.

BTW I've got an idea to help update your black book. Why don't you drop my pink horse pic and I'll attach a pic of my kids to replace it. That way your black book will be up to date in that both Aria and Avery will be in it and you can get rid of at least one of those old outdated pics. Deal?

[JBMoney]

I might add that one when I redo it, but the horse stays. :D

[Texan]

Damn, she just got her doctorate and switched jobs. No more school admin. That blackmail was there all along and I never noticed it.

BTW I've got an idea to help update your black book. Why don't you drop my pink horse pic and I'll attach a pic of my kids to replace it. That way your black book will be up to date in that both Aria and Avery will be in it and you can get rid of at least one of those old outdated pics. Deal?

From the looks of the pic, I assume Avery is a male?
I ask because I have a niece named Avery. Her sister's name is Logan.
My name is Mykal. Is there a pattern here?

Oh, BTW.....the pink horsey pic should stay. It's too damn cute! :smooch: :thumbsup: :D

[jhans]

Texan, I guess the pattern would be complete if my name was Jill. ;)

P.S. JB$ you already try and humiliate me enough by continually taking pictures of my $10 bill on your world travels so why do you need that pink pony pic? I'll give you another $10 bill signed by me if you take that picture off permanently.

[Carl Spackler]

I was blackmailed into coming here. I'm still "working it off".

[Carl Spackler]

From the looks of the pic, I assume Avery is a male?
I ask because I have a niece named Avery. Her sister's name is Logan.
My name is Mykal. Is there a pattern here?


http://bushwhacked.net/bits/wtf2.jpg

Try klonopin. It worked for me, for a little while at least.

[Sideout]

I was blackmailed into coming here. I'm still "working it off".

Well...at least you've still got that "total consciousness on your deathbed" thing going for you :what:

[jhans]

Try klonopin. It worked for me, for a little while at least.

Carl I have no idea what you are saying. But I was just curious if it had anything to do with my kids?

[DMS]

I came here looking for OBL pictures after 9-11. I did a few of them, then I got hooked on the PS Anonymous thread, I started with some horrible photoshops when I look back, I am so ashamed, something with dancing Osama dwarfs and also a shitting dog. I post ma-fri from 9-5, I have this site open all day. My amount of posts depend on the amount of work I have.

[Spotter]

I was invited by a friend from another board. I looked around and found that most people that post here are assholes. I am an asshole. Perfect match. :Peck:

[Pistol Pete]

I was invited by a friend from another board. I looked around and found that most people that post here are assholes. :Peck:

That's "Herren und Damen Assholes" to you, punk. :p

[JBMoney]

most people that post here are assholes.

MOST?!? *looks around* WTF snuck through in disguise?

[Freak]

I knew it! I'm surrounded by assholes!

[Spotter]

That's "Herren und Damen Assholes" to you, punk. :p
Especially the ones from Okrahomo :Poke:

[Texan]

MOST?!? *looks around* WTF snuck through in disguise?


Me. :worry: