Dear TSM Members, Admins, Mods, and others…
I am The Amazing Rando, M Nyland, whatever…poster since early last year and lurker for even longer. I was a member of the “Mission to 1000” thread and part of it’s great…oh…week or two of true fun, before it degenerated into hellspawn. But that’s not what I am hear to talk about. I am here to talk about…
Us.
TheSmartMarks.
I live in an area where I have very few wrestling fan friends…and those that I do have are quite markish and I find it hard to have a conversation with them without wanting to cause physical harm. So I turned to this forum, where I found people that I can have lengthy conversations about not only wrestling…but also music, movies, television, or whatever else is on anyone’s mind.
This place is a virtual utopia of wit, humor, knowledge, and friendship. Though everyone has their own little feuds and pet peeves, this place mostly operates like a well-oiled machine. If you visit any smaller wrestling forums out there on the net you will see a jumbled mess of bad topics and poor thought processes. Barring certain recently banned posters, this place is LIGHTYEARS ahead of anything else I’ve ever seen.
When I run around this board, chats, AIM conversations…I feel a bit of acceptance…even in the hate. Because even if I get some hate directed at me…I know I must have made some kind of impression if someone else wants to take the time out of their day to try and put me down.
I use quotes and conversations from these forums in my every day life…if I ever need to relay information about new movies, video games, whatever…I know there is probably someone here that has seen it, played it, done it…whatever…and I know that those people would be happy to share their experiences.
“This is only a messageboard”
That quote seemingly defined an arc of time in the history of these forums. I’m sorry…but this isn’t only a messageboard. This is a home for the ideas, thoughts, dreams, hopes, complaints, problems, and lives of so many different people. This is a COMMUNITY. Some days when I run around and I see a Saved By The Bell reference I wonder if Zack Malibu caught it…or if I see a SNL related post…I wonder if Barron has been yapping…or if anything exceedingly witty got tossed around and was instantly forgotten in the sands of time.
“Don’t Fuck With The Dames”
Yeah. Exactly. Don’t mess with him. If it wasn’t him and a few others…this community would have been destroyed. I honestly can not see what I would be doing if this did not exist. Stuck on Rajah and SKeith rants…not having any way to really put my opinion out there…as bad as it is…I know that here…someone will listen.
And this brings me around to the point of all this…I think…
Be proud. Be proud to be a SmartMark here. You are a part of a wonderful community and it doesn’t matter if you take it seriously or not…it means the world to some people (Dames, BPP, others I’m sure) or else they would not have devoted so much time in saving it so that we would have a place to share our warped views.
I am proud to be a poster here.
I am proud to be a SmartMark.
I am proud to say I know a lot of my friends that I never ever would have met without this messageboard. All of those that run around my AIM, MSN, or Yahoo and have to put up with my random comments, idiotic ramblings and ideas, and just have to put up with me………
………thanks.
Remember all of the good times…
…one day they may be gone.
~~The Amazing Rando~~
P.S. There is so much more I could say here......honestly. But I think that everyone has their own intrepration of the forums and of this realm that we all help keep alive. Whether you believe you contribute or not...at least you know that when you do have something intelligent to say......that there is bound to be somewhere here that will listen to it.
Once more...Be Proud. Be Yourself. This is not only a messageboard...this is TheSmartMarks.
