OOPSters

Gather, children, to hear the tale of the how the mighty Oopster myth was born.

Once upon a time on a message board not so very far away, a hapless forum member accidentally posted the same message twice on one board. Rather than deleting said message, this double-posting pioneer attached a new title to the duplicate thread, an ominous warning to one and all: "Oops! Ignore this thread!"

Of course, no one heeded her plea and soon the thread began racking up views in a frenzy of activity! One brave poster took it upon herself to call to the attention of the others the irony of the situation. Soon members who had heretofore longed to comment, but dare not, began to post in kind. Soon a challenge was issued, albeit tongue-in-cheek, that 100 posts be made in the Oops thread, then 200, and so on.

And on and on it went, the Oopsters living peaceably and in harmony with their non-Oopstering brethren (sisteren?). The Oops thread became a place for people to congregate and share jokes, stories, rants, laughs and just generally bullshit around. The thread grew to massive proportions heretofore unseen on the forum -- over 150 pages! It became so large that some started to complain. Eventually the mighty Oops thread was deleted from the annals of history.

But the Oopsters were a hearty people and they banded together to start a new thread, pledging to keep the subsequent threads shorter. And they did. The Oopsters laughed and played and happily made asses of themselves for several months thusly. New friendships were forged and already strong bonds were strengthened.

Then one day a dark pall settled over the land of Oopster. The details of the following event are too painful for many to relive and will not be dissected. Suffice it to say, the Grand Poobahs of the message board made their displeasure with Oopsing known and that was the beginning of the end of the Oopsters. They tried to spread their special brand of humor and fun to other parts of the forum, but it was never quite the same. Until one special day when the Oopsters found a home of their own. Here.