Okay, here's what I remember. Those of you who were there, feel free to correct me or fill in the blanks.
There once was a poster called ... I wanted to say Andrew. Was that it? Anyway, after posting for a while it became evident that Andrew was Andrea Rivette. Like she
wanted people to know but still pretend she was being anonymous. And honestly, I had to google her anyway.
So it was clear this dame was one hot mess. She may have set the standard for Broadway actor crazy. She hadn't been performing for some reason, whether it was illness or injury. I want to say she was living in some place like Colorado.
So, anyone with half a brain knew who she was. And she was kind of annoying. And kind of an idiot. And yeah, that sounds mean, but it was like she didn't have a sense of irony, let alone a sense of reality.
So at one point someone posted jokingly (that someone may have been me, but I honestly do not remember) that Andrea Rivette was dead. So "Andrew" posts this thread called - and I believe I am quoting this exactly - "Andrea Rivette...NOT DEAD!!!!!!!"
And in that thread she may have outed herself right then or maybe it was later but at any rate, the cat was out of the bag, even though the bag was plastic and the cat was really just that cat poster that says "Hang in there, baby."
THEN - and this was when they were doing those Celebrity of the Day (furthermore known as COTD) threads, which was kind of fun at first, where one person would get picked and all day the thread would be about them. I think it would be anarchy now, but it was fun for a while - Andrewa, as she came to be known (that, I remember, was coined by Namo) was named COTD.
For some reason, someone posted a thread on the main board saying something like a commercial for the COTD thread because it was Andrewa's day. And mind you, the COTD threads had that day's COTD in the title.
So
someone (again, it may have been me, but I'm pleading the fifth) gently asked what the point was of having a thread pointing you to THAT thread.
And sh*t went crazy. Like Andrewa went bananas, acted disproportionately persecuted and had a meltdown for the ages. I'm fuzzy on the details, though.
But that's it in a nutshell, my darlings, and a fine example of just one of the many people with Equity cards who should have
monitored internet access. Because they a little cray cray.
Updated On: 7/28/10 at 11:23 PM