I thought it was generally understood that the vBulletin LHutz was BK. The original LHutz? My money is on Bob Rainey.
at one point i thought it was one of those d bastards... doctor of dunk or dadakota. I dont remember why or how i justified it , but i stand by my guess.
I haven't been around long enough.. but I voted heyp just because he was in that month-long controversy a while ago.
I held this secret for 6.5 years. Time to let it out. Here is part of an email conversation that Brian Kagy and I had on July 26th, 2001: -----Original Message----- From: Be Had [mailto:behad@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 7:56 PM To: bkagy@austin.rr.com Subject: RE: Arbitrator ....... Besides, I've kept your LHutz identity a secret for this long, I can stay quiet when need be. --- "Brian P. Kagy" <bkagy@austin.rr.com> wrote: ........As for LHutz, I have no idea what you're talking about. Well, except for the LHutz posts I've made. Which, BTW, actually IS all of them. BK -----Original Message----- From: Be Had [mailto:behad@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 8:11 PM To: bkagy@austin.rr.com Subject: RE: Arbitrator Not ALL the LHutz posts? You mean there wasn't an "original" Hutz that you took over for once he disappeared? --- "Brian P. Kagy" wrote: OK, I will admit this knowing full well you can FWD this email to anyone you want. I'm trusting you not to do so. There was never an "original" Hutz. It's always been me. The confusion stems from the fact that LHutz was first created to mock Tod the Bod. Hutz trolled around the BBS "corroborating" Todd's posts. But, (if you remember), Hutz's posts were *actually* somewhat creative. They actually took time to write-- they were downright clever. Well, that was *way* too much trouble, so he quickly devolved into the contrived idiocy you know so well. Hutz went from semi-rational but intentionally obtuse posts to weird adventures and, most notably, severe misspellings. Some people found him annoying, but a LOT really liked him. At least, they liked him at first. After a while, people seemed to get sick of him. I killed him off out of ego, to be honest, because I was sick of seeing people post how bored they were with him. Eventually, the temptation to bring him back was too much to resist, so I did so. The problem was, when I killed him off, I sorta posted a pretty nasty diatribe on Hutz's (LOL) Rosie O'Donnell-hosted website, slamming the people who'd grown tired of him. Whoops. The only way to cover this seemingly incongruous return was to pretend that we'd kicked the "original" Hutz (we told people it was the Cincy Kid) and wink-wink, allowed a "new" Hutz (one of us) to take his place. With time, I figured people would more or less forget about Hutz's origins and just focus on what a goon he was. The only thing I didn't count on was friggin' IE 5.0. When I first brought Hutz back, I was posting at work. My browser decided to insert "BrianKagy" and my password instead of LHutz's info when I made a DUKE post... ...and to my horror, when I refreshed my browser, there was a new post on the BBS Hangout, titled something like "DUKE DUKE DUKE OF RTURN?!!?!?"... ...and the post's author was "BrianKagy". Oh. My. GOD. I freaked. I deleted it as quick as I could, but not before a couple people saw it. Those people have been nice enough to hide DUKE's terrible secret. And I hope you will, too. Please don't spread the word. BK Seems that most of you know Brian (or LHutz), very well, judging by the poll results.
EDIT: A ha! So it WAS Kagy. Is he also RyanED then? Why do I ask? After 2 months of silence, RyanED chooses THIS thread as his return to the Hangout? Coincidence? I think not.
But where is Kagy, and why has he given permission to share all of the sudden? Not a surprise.....so................SPLASH!
I was going to guess BK because, unlike anyone else in the poll, he was just weird enough (in a good way) to pull something like that off. But I thought it was way too obvious. So this is sort of a let-down. But thanks Behad. I would guess that RyanEd is also Brian Kagy. If this is indeed the case, I hope RyanEd doesn't stop posting just because people figure it out. Frankly, Kagy was one of my favorite posters here and I'll take his posts any way I can get them. Come back RyanEd!!!
There was no permission. I asked a few times in a few different post over the years, but got no reply. I took Clutch's post in this thread as an endorsement that it's ok.
