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Posted: #76
You want even older. 

https://web.archive.org/web/19970121220518/https://www.covers.com/csi/covers.html
 
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Does anyone remember that when someone got banned, they used a picture of a graveyard with tombstones as their avatar?
 
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Posted: #78
Quote Originally Posted by HutchEmAll:

The humor factor has gone down by a multiple of about 10, unfortunately.  There were some awfully witty people who used to post in GD.

Just look at the Archives folder.  All the really good threads there were originally posted a LONG time ago.  

Commercialization always ends up winning in the end.  

This is easily the biggest difference between then and now.   The place has always had no shortage of bad posts, especially in the specific sports betting discussion areas, but GD is now a shell of what it was.
 
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Posted: #79
Quote Originally Posted by djbrow:

There are still a lot of good people around and some of the older guys are around too, perhaps in different forms.

Some epic threads were the Taco Bell/Cop killer, Titan's Paging Big Louie.

A few years ago, pre-mod days, the pbox guys went to a knitting? site to learn the trade. We were kicked out.

 



Scrapbooking ...Even a Mod joined in on the pranks.
 
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Posted: #80
Can't curse or have a bikini in your avatar, but the sidebar had an ad to buy an Asian wife earlier.  WTF is THAT??
 
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Posted: #81
I miss Joe Public....One of the most likeable guys, with great wit too.
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Quote Originally Posted by webba:

I miss Joe Public....One of the most likeable guys, with great wit too.


What ever happened to Calvin?
 
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Posted: #83
Quote Originally Posted by Lippsman:

Did I hear back in the day.  Ok.....here ya go !!!!!

https://web.archive.org/web/20040715012509/https://covers.com/index.aspx


I remember this format. This was the year I first stumbled across covers. Good post.
 
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Posted: #84
Quote Originally Posted by SALTY:

I miss whackin it to the babe of the day


It was awesome. 
There would always be like 15 shots of an average broad from somewhere. And each picture had to be viewed separately and they took 30 seconds to load each.

LOL this is awesome..
 
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Quote Originally Posted by allbees:

 Aimlow

One of the best threads ever.  

sup bro?



One of the greatest threads on the internet in any forum 
 
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Quote Originally Posted by SALTY:

I miss whackin it to the babe of the day


It was awesome. 
There would always be like 15 shots of an average broad from somewhere. And each picture had to be viewed separately and they took 30 seconds to load each. 
Tinbu.com 
 
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Posted: #87
Was at SBR for 2 years before i found out about covers.


Gotta say I like covers way more.
 
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Posted: #88
Quote Originally Posted by jackjaffee:


This is easily the biggest difference between then and now.   The place has always had no shortage of bad posts, especially in the specific sports betting discussion areas, but GD is now a shell of what it was.

Still remember the guy who actually put together an animated video of a covers character (it was fartnsniff, sup_bro, or Nosehair) attempting to pick up a chick in a bar.  It was brilliant.

"Don't you know who I am?"  

Still remember the "What is the fattest chick you've ever boned?" thread.  

"The stench that came out of there was impossible."  Quote from some guy who attempted to go down on some cow.  

Still my favorite quote on covers.  


 
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Posted: #89
We actually stopped the babe of the day because of a couple of the pics. It was just a feed we got from somewhere else and a couple of pics showed up of girls that no way were 18+.  Also the ads were switching from gamblng to mainstream so had to appease them also.




 
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Quote Originally Posted by webba:

I miss Joe Public....One of the most likeable guys, with great wit too.

I believe he still post at another site we are not very fond of.
 
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Quote Originally Posted by konabuzz:



What ever happened to Calvin?


Just kept disappearing and reappearing till we didn't see him anymore.We actually had to make special avatars for him because of the number of post he had.

I think the last one we came up with was divorced. 
 
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Didn't we also get to 'rate' the babe of the day?

I think the rating system went from 1-10 and if I clicked '4' for any one of them, I was being generous.  An average of a high '6' would be a bombshell by 'babe of the day' standards.

I also remember they came out with videos too. 

Some of them were: "Let me go gyrate by this brick wall over here in this random parking lot." Bizarre stuff as to what they thought the viewer would like.

I swear one of them was shot by a pool at a Motel 6.



Lipps, I remember making a thread complaining about an underage scantily clad babe of the day.

She had to be all of 15. 
 
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Quote Originally Posted by Lippsman:



Just kept disappearing and reappearing till we didn't see him anymore.We actually had to make special avatars for him because of the number of post he had.

I think the last one we came up with was divorced. 


LOL.  The last time I saw him here he was showing the "Divorced" avatar.  He was a good cat.  Hope he checks in again sometime.
 
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Quote Originally Posted by scalabrine:

Didn't we also get to 'rate' the babe of the day?

I think the rating system went from 1-10 and if I clicked '4' for any one of them, I was being generous.  An average of a high '6' would be a bombshell by 'babe of the day' standards.

I also remember they came out with videos too. 

Some of them were: "Let me go gyrate by this brick wall over here in this random parking lot." Bizarre stuff as to what they thought the viewer would like.

I swear one of them was shot by a pool at a Motel 6.



Lipps, I remember making a thread complaining about an underage scantily clad babe of the day.

She had to be all of 15. 

Scal, who writes in a complaint about a gal in a swimsuit?
 
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Quote Originally Posted by SALTY:


Scal, who writes in a complaint about a gal in a swimsuit?

She was all of 15!?!

Didn't want the site to get in trouble honestly because I know they weren't monitoring it.
 
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Posted: #96
Quote Originally Posted by HutchEmAll:


Still remember the guy who actually put together an animated video of a covers character (it was fartnsniff, sup_bro, or Nosehair) attempting to pick up a chick in a bar.  It was brilliant.

"Don't you know who I am?"  

Still remember the "What is the fattest chick you've ever boned?" thread.  

"The stench that came out of there was impossible."  Quote from some guy who attempted to go down on some cow.  

Still my favorite quote on covers.  



Hahaha really glad you brought that up. Great memories on this site used to read the forums every day starting at about 16 years old but didn't register until much later
 
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Posted: #97

There certainly used to be a lot more focus on actual wagering and it was a heck of a lot funnier.  I still remember where I was the day a stumbled across the "Cop Killer/ Taco Bell" thread.  I thought I was going to hurt myself.  I'm probably lucky I didn't get fired.  It's still probably the funniest thing I've ever seen on the internet.   

Seems like the average age of the posters has dropped from about 35 to about 22 (and that factors-in Don Juan, whose like 105), and the difference is profound.  I recall fondly those carefree days when you could always count on Ziggy to "put a pinky in the pooper" of whatever skank broad had been posted that morning.   I miss that.

 
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Quote Originally Posted by Lippsman:

You want even older. 

https://web.archive.org/web/19970121220518/https://www.covers.com/csi/covers.html
I'm sure that page looked great in Netscape
 
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Posted: #99

dad back in the day was simply the best...His threads were better than any tv show around

Win or lose, every night was epic...

 
 
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Anyone remember Oldman, aka GonnaWin?
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