Subtitled: The November 21, 2012 Train Wreck Thread
Happy pre-US-Thanksgiving Day everybody!
I hope most of you take the day off tomorrow to watch some football and eat some turkey and (if in Canada) play hooky from work.
Our dear forum friend bondon (the artist formerly known as bzerondon) has just passed into the special 9950+ post realm.
Sure... there will be a 10K thread for the guy... but I thought it would be a nice holiday treat to have a ROAST of the bondon!
Some of you may have noticed that bondon's new avatar is that of Sylverster Stallone in the "Special.ist". I find this appealing for several reasons.
i) This website doesn't even allow us to write the full word spe******t. See, you can't see it. You have to write special.ist to get it past the filter... and yet that is his 9950-10,000 title! Love, love, love it!
b) We all know of bondon's great specialty in goalie forecasting. He is indeed the special.ist.
3rd) I have a feeling that bondon doesn't look a damn thing like Sly... but for now, I shall imagine that he does.
For my roast, I've decided to take the Wikipedia entry for the movie "The Special.ist" and modify it as I please to fit bondon's place in the Dobber Hockey community.
My replacement words are blue
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In
2011, fantasy-hockey experts working for the
DobberHockey, Captain
bondon and Colonel
ericdaoust, are on a mission to blow up
fellow DH members' fantasy goalie statistics. But when a new
thread appears, a
slanderous message is inside.
Bondon insists they abort the mission but
ericdaoust intends to see it through and allows the explosion to happen. Angered by the
thread's direction,
bondon beats
ericdaoust up savagely and their partnership ends.
Years later, in
Toronto,
bondon is now available for hire as a
{ahem - special.ist}. Desperate people contact him via the Internet and he only takes the cases that interest him.
bondon specializes in "shaping" his
forum posts, building and planting bombs that blow up
fantasy hockey teams, leaving
THE innocent bystander unharmed
in his assumption that Alex Pietrangelo is the best defensemen in the universe.
Bondon answers ads placed by
dyzfunctioned and speaks to
him often to decide if he should take a
very, very, very special job or not. During the talks he becomes intrigued by
his story coupled with the fact that he sees how attractive
he is while following
him.
He is the only child of
past fantasy hockey fanatics who were killed by
MT319 and his men. Against his better judgment and pushed by
Dyz' insistence that
he will infiltrate the
forum with or without him,
bondon is persuaded to do a
very, very, very special job for
him. Even though he has agreed,
Dyz ingratiates
himself into MT319's world as
Magnum PI.
ericdaoust now works for
hfboards, MT319' father and head of their
non-sensical trainwreck one-liner organization. Once the
lockout begins, they contact the
Dobber to place
ericdaoust in their
writer group.
Dyz tolerates
MT319 and plays along as his girlfriend so
he can learn about
player-skill-sets one by one. It is revealed after
the avatar war that
Dyz has actually been forced into a partnership with
ericdaoust, whose goal was to coax
bondon out of hiding. After the
very, very, very special job went wrong,
ericdaoust lost his job
writing about actual fantasy hockey.
When the trap for
MT319 is set,
Dyz is in the room. When
MT319 is killed, it appears that
Dyz was killed as well. When
ericdaoust goes to
bondon to pay his respects, he is left alive only so he can find
bondon and bring him to
Tequila Monster before MT319 is buried. Both
bondon and
ericdaoust believe that
Dyz is dead, yet
bondon still responds to the bulletin board messages. Once he responds to one, he finds is the one set up by
ericdaoust and the
train-wreck squad. When
bondon realizes it, he taunts
ericdaoust.
When he goes to the funeral of
Magnum PI,
bondon finds that
Dyz is alive.
He went to the funeral to see if
bondon would attend. They go to an
off-line website where they have intense
{ahem, discussions}. In the shower, he reveals that he wanted to look at
MT319's face while he died. They finish having
{ahem, discussions} and
Dyz leaves. Meanwhile,
ericdaoust has gone to the
forums and learns that the person
editting all the trainwreck threads is not
Dyz.
Dyz runs into
ericdaoust in the
forum lobby and makes an excuse as to why he did not tell him that
he was Magnum PI. A henchman,
named Angus, is ordered to take
Dyz to "
The Lounge" and on the way he asks to visit the
Prospects Forum. Once there,
he uses a
PDA to warn
bondon.
bondon rigs the
Lounge to explode into
trainwreck threads, and when
ericdaoust's henchmen enter the room, it detonates, breaking the entire
lounge off into the
baseball forum.
In a final showdown,
bondon and dyz are cornered in his own booby-trapped
goalie prediction thread.
ericdaoust pursues them, but is done in by his own hubris when he steps on a bom
m-bastic. After the entire
Dobber website goes up due to the chain of exploding
trainwreck threads, it appears that all inside have
given up on this ridiculous lockout.
The next day
Tequila Monster reads about the incident at
DobberHockey. He then opens the mail brought to him and finds a
stunning McDonald's hologram and McRib sandwich. It contains a picture of
Sidney Crosby and then explodes. After hearing the blast and knowing all responsible for her
lockout are dead,
bondon asks how
Dyz feels. To which
Dyz responds,
"Have you heard this song yet?"
Gobble, gobble.
Train wreck... hooooooooo....