25 January 1990 (7:56:03 pm) I succeeded in stirring up the proverbial anthill when I made fun of Chris Platt's spelling skills. I asked, "If an infinite number of Chris Platts worked on an infinite number of wordpro- cessors for an infinite amount of time, what are the chances that one of them would create a sentence without any spelling errors?" 25 January 1990 (8:04:26 pm) Mike Zecca became the first person to respond to my question re- garding Chris's spelling skills. It was at this time that Mike coined the phrase: -=- Bo knows Croutons -=-. 25 January 1990 (9:16:05 pm) Chris Hassell decided to jump onto the proverbial bandwagon by insisting I was not a crouton. His argument was based upon the fact that it would be nearly impossible for a crouton to log onto a computer and impersonate me. He went on to assert that he was a Bacos Bit. 25 January 1990 (9:26:15 pm) Chris Hassel answered my question with some ridiculous nonesense about "bohemian dolphins who floss with bubble-gum flavored licorice." 25 January 1990 (9:38:22 pm) I posted my infamous edition of -=- Croutons in Quotes -=-. I chose several famous quotes from history, cinema, and television and substitued some of the nouns with the word "crouton(s)." 26 January 1990 (12:32:14 pm) Chris Platt asserted the weightiness of his nickname, insisting I was out of line to be using it for myself. 26 January 1990 (2:41:49 pm) Ken Stern (still "stern" back then) made the quip that he was "on a diet" and didn't "carry all that much weight around." 26 January 1990 (4:33:57 pm) Karim Farah insisted his name (Highlander) carried the most weight. 26 January 1990 (4:36:01 pm) Chris Hassell made a mockery of my quotes, redubbing them: "Salad Fettishes... the History of Shame!!!!" He particularly disliked "Quaker Croutons. It's the right thing to do and a tasy way to do it." He responded, "Do what? Maybe Wilford Brimly [sic] ought to stop being some sort of pervert with his food and get a tan." 29 January 1990 (3:28:32 pm) Atkinson scolded us physicists for referring to weight instead of mass. 30 January 1990 (6:43:24 pm) Connie Flieder officially became -=- The Crouton Lady -=-. 30 January 1990 (11:44:09 pm) Mike Zecca first posted his crouton parody on Monty Python's "Finland." It would come back to haunt us again. 4 February 1990 (2:17:02 am) History was made when Mike Zecca announced the creation of "Star Trek: The Crouton Generation." It was all downhill from there. 4 February 1990 (5:49:44 pm) Wayne Gretzky officially became a member of the Crouton cast. The personalities of Jon Giltner and Barbara Davis were also fleshed out a bit.
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