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Sadly our poor GoGobananas was banned. He flammed and spammed. We all know he was a great member and moderator. The admins
have made it final that he will not get another chance. We will always remember him.
Former President Jimmy Carter told GQ magazine for a January article that he saw a UFO in 1969 in southwest Georgia as
he was preparing to speak at a Lions Club meeting. He recalled that it was a bright light that got "closer and closer to us,"
but then "changed color to blue," then to red, then back to white, and then "receded into the distance." However, he said,
"I've never believed it came from Mars." (In September, Paul Hellyer, a former Canadian minister of defense, asked Parliament
to hold hearings on extraterrestrials. UFOs, he said, "are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head," and he fears
the U.S. military might get Earth involved in an intergalactic war.) [GQ, January 2006] [Canadian Press, 9-11-05]
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More
People With Too Much Money
(1) An October Agence France-Presse report noted the 2005 launching of the Paris gourmet bakery
Mon Bon Chien ("my good dog"), featuring carob-flavored dog biscuits and foie gras dog cookies, and worldwide introduction
of more than 400 new products for dogs, including stress-relief sprays, nail polish and hair coloring. (2) Gynecologists interviewed
by The Wall Street Journal in December said business was booming for the $1,800 to $5,000 hymenoplasty (the re-creation of
the hymen), for men who want to deflower their non-virgin women (surgery obviously good for one night only). [Agence France-Presse,
10-11-05, 10-17-05] [Wall Street Journal, 12-15-05]
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Family
Values
In December, according to police in Jersey City, N.J., Roselean Walker, 36, sat at one screen in a movie cineplex
with her boyfriend while her 11-year-old son watched the longer Harry Potter film at another screen, but after her movie ended,
she tired of waiting for the son and went home with the boyfriend to New York City. When police called her the next morning
to come pick up the boy, she demanded that they drive him home. After officers ordered her immediately to the station, she
showed up in a bad mood, threatening a lawsuit for the inconvenience, and wound up being charged with assaulting an officer
(in addition to endangering a child's welfare). [Jersey Journal, 12-9-05]
According to the Nov. 10 Evening News of
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., a father was under investigation by police after War Memorial Hospital reported an assault on the
man's 11-year-old son. Police said it appeared that the two were playing a video game, that the son had beaten his dad by
using a secret upgrade that made his character more powerful, and that the dad, in anger, had spanked the kid, put soap in
his mouth and slapped him several times in the head. (The father said only that he had punished the boy for lying.) [Evening
News, 11-10-05]
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The Continuing
Crisis
In June, a plaintiff's lawyer in the massive class-action litigation against asbestos manufacturers, under
pressure from federal judge Janis Graham Jack of Houston, acknowledged that more than half of previous asbestos claims in
one case appear to be fraudulent. The lawyer claims his clients contracted silicosis from asbestos exposure, but most of those
same clients also claimed asbestosis from asbestos exposure, when experts say the two illnesses rarely exist simultaneously.
Judge Jack found that one plaintiff's doctor, Ray Harron (who had given up his practice in order to interpret X-rays full-time,
at $125 each), had detected asbestosis (but no silicosis) in all 1,807 X-rays he saw, and then, only a few years later, detected
silicosis (but no asbestosis) in the same 1,807 X-rays. [Wall Street Journal, 8-31-05; New York Times, 11-29-05]
Animals
Gone Wild: A billy goat reportedly attacked Zimbabwe's strong-arm President Robert Mugabe during a gas-station stop en route
to the mountain resort of Nyanga in December, injuring Mugabe's scrotum and large bowel. And Fremont, Calif., police officer
Paul Rush, who was escorting a teenager home from a traffic stop in January, reported to a hospital emergency room afterward
because five chihuahuas had attacked him at the front door of the teen's home, biting his ankles. [ZimDaily.com, 12-21-05]
[San Jose Mercury News, 12-30-05]
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Fine
Points of the Law
Stephanie Conley gave an agent for West Virginia National insurance company a $174 check on Aug.
15 (in 2001) for automobile coverage, received the "issued" policy on Aug. 30 ("effective" Aug. 15), and on Aug. 31 was involved
in a collision resulting from her negligence. However, by then her $174 check had bounced, and the company considered the
policy null and void. In December 2005, the West Virginia Supreme Court ruled that Conley was nonetheless covered on Aug.
31 because the company had not given her 10 days' cancellation notice. [Herald-Dispatch (Huntington, W.Va.), 12-10-05]
In
December, the Bush administration's Department of Justice filed a "friend of the court" brief at the U.S. Supreme Court, supporting
Anna Nicole Smith in her battle with the son of her late husband, J. Howard Marshall II, over his estate. Smith and the administration
believe that a federal bankruptcy court (which backed Smith) should control the case and not a Texas state court (which had
sided with Marshall's son). [Los Angeles Daily News-AP, 12-26-05]
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Awesome!
With an Oakland Tribune reporter and 20 people looking on in November in a parking lot in Fremont, Calif., Tu Jin-Sheng,
50, "grandmaster" in one of the Chinese arts of Qigong, pulled a rental truck several yards using only a piece of fabric tied
to the base of his genitals. Jin-Sheng is supposedly a leader of the branch of Qigong known as "Iron Crotch," whose 60,000
adherents worldwide believe that strengthening the genitals increases energy. To warm up for the pull, Jin-Sheng had an assistant
kick him hard between the legs. [Oakland Tribune, 11-23-05]
BBC News reported in September that Sandra Luchian, 15,
from Moldova, managed to hand-copy the 607-page "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," filling five notebooks, after borrowing
it from a friend in the U.K. (since it was not available anywhere in Moldova and she couldn't afford to have it shipped to
her). She said it took her about a month. [BBC Newsround, 9-23-05]
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Least
Competent Criminals
Not Cut Out for a Life of Crime: (1) The robber of a Fastrip store in Joplin, Mo., ignoring a "Use
Other Door" sign pointing to an unlocked front door, spent valuable getaway time trying unsuccessfully to bash in the companion
(but locked) front door with a chair, then finally bashed in a small window along a side wall and crawled out to escape (December).
(2) Landon McQuilkin, 21, arrested in November in Jacksonville, Fla., after he allegedly abducted a man and said he would
kill him, relented to his victim's "last request" to visit his girlfriend before he died; with McQuilkin waiting in the car
outside her house, the victim went in, locked the door and called police. [Joplin Globe, 12-12-05] [Florida Times-Union, 12-9-05]
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Recurring Themes
On
the surface, it appeared that Michael Sargent, an unhappy, 29-year veteran postal worker in Anchorage, Alaska, had managed
to work out his anger fairly passively by, according to prosecutors, merely accepting bulk mailings into the postal system
without bothering to charge the mailers (cheating the Postal Service out of at least $106,000 in revenue and perhaps as much
as $436,000). However, a search of Sargent's home turned up a federal gun-dealer permit in his name, along with 66 firearms,
including silencers and a machine gun. Said the prosecutor, "He is a disgruntled public employee. Access to weapons is of
concern." [Anchorage Daily News, 12-10-05]
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Undignified
Deaths
Two men, aged 50 and 36, who had taken a taxicab home so they wouldn't be driving drunk, were killed when the cab
was hit by a 21-year-old drunken driver (Albuquerque, November). And a 21-year-old Mormon man, riding in a truck at about
35 mph with his brothers, who were offending him by cussing, demanded that they stop or he would jump out; one of the brothers,
perhaps jokingly, said, Go ahead, and the man did and was killed when his head hit the pavement (South Jordan, Utah, November).
[Albuquerque Journal, 11-25-05] [KSL-TV (Salt Lake City), 11-12-05]
Hello, I am nintendo_dude as you might know and I have been here since the beginning of the forums. So here's a history
of the forums from August 31st 2004 to the present day:
August 31st 2004 - February 2005: The best days of the forums.
The forums were really fun back then. As February 2005 ends most of the members around this period start leaving. Pity because
they were all my best friends. Few members from this time remain.
March 2005: The arrival of Moderators. Makes the
forums cleaner but a lot more boring. All we needed was a Super Mod or two. But Aeshma arrived this month so this month was
actually a good thing too.
April 2005 - Present day: most of the remaining members from the beginning have gone by
this time. Most topics are so damn boring. Teams and Clans becomes popular and turns into a spam farm.
And here's a
history of the site's most well known members:
TeamSuperCheats (March 16 2003 - present day): Created the site and
is a brilliant Admin.
Sanzano (August 23rd 2003 - present day): The other Admin, is also brilliant.
Aeshma (March
27 2005 - present day): Although became a staff member when his account was still young Rich never turned back. Brilliant
Super Mod.
Cross Stinger (January 10 2004 - present day): May be a little inactive but also a brilliant Super Mod and
submitter. Amazing on Pokémon knowledge.
nintendo_dude (April 18 2003 - February 16 2004 (first account), June 13 2003
- February 16 2004 (second account), February 17 2004 - present day): The hard boiled Super Mod. Broke the record for most
submissions in a month and top poster on the site on two occassions. Although he's rubbish at pretty much everything here.
One of the reasons is because he's quite aggressive (note him being the hard boiled Super Mod, no I do not have any boils),
but he does have amazing knowledge on Final Fantasy VII.
Darkboader_77 (February 21 2004 - present day): Likes dark
stuff. Great Super Mod. Just feels too down on himself. Might secretly be a merman.
Spideraman99 (August 30 2004 -
present day): Great Super Mod and has great knowledge on all the old-school pokémon games too.
ILoveMissyElliott (July
12 2005 - present day): This he-she person is a great Super Mod but he likes crap music. Has the highest post count on the
site.
Koolkid24: (November 10 - present day): Great Super Mod, but has a low post count.
Bad Wolf (Sometime
in August 2005 - December 2005 (had a first acocunt called Cez too): Only will go down in SC history for being an *******
and doing illegal stuff on the site.
Raikou (September 9 2004 - February 16 2005): The best at Role Play and one of
my best friends on the site ever. We will all miss her.
I forget everyone else, or maybe you're not worth mentioning.
Probably the second option. lol.
here are a few some-what recent mods:
Graphicdisigner (general gaming discussion), Rooku (the supercheats times),
mask-o-sheik (general gaming discussion)
Hello Folks! It's yours truly, The Legend Killer, RKO-123. Well, just days ago, I opened what has said to be one
of the most exciting threads to ever hit the site, The Legend Killer Tournament, in the Forums Games forums. And we got all
sorts of competitiors and fan favorites in the mix as well. All there to earn the right to face the Legend Killer, me, in
his final challenge here on Supercheats. We have:
Dr. Advice - A Fan
favorite also known as The Master of Advice takes a wack at it. He plans on going to his gaming limits to finally face the
Legend Killer in his finally match up on Supercheats. Can The Doctor summon up the power of his peeps to make it to the finals?
Gogobananas : The Big Time Gamer makes a go for it. For months, he's said to be the
one to end the Legacy of The Legend Killer. Will he be able to take out every obstacle single handedly.
Annabel : The Justice Fighter of Supercheats trys to make a name for himself in the tournament. Rivallies
have raged on bewteen the Legend Killer and The Justice Fighter before. Will his persistance help bring him to the top this
time?
Retroguy : Oh My! It's The Pride! That's right, Retroguy goes
for a shot at the Legend Killer. One of the most active and most knowledgeable gamers on the site has said to have the biggest
chance at winning. Will Pride be the uprise or downfall of this competitor?
Annefranman52
: Feel The Hype! As AFM brings the power to the tournament to show us all how it's done. He has the knowledge, But the
real question is, Does he have what it takes?
Tune into the tournament to see who will win and go on to face
me in the final match. It SHOWTIME FOLKS!!!!
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