Ano: who is this?

SwankiVY2: Er, do you often do that?

SwankiVY2: IM people and ask who they are?

Ano: uh, no, but you appeared on my buddy list

Ano: and i know i didn't do it

SwankiVY2: Are you sure?

Ano: oh, so no rewsponse?

Ano: response

Ano: fucking automated things

SwankiVY2: What?

Ano: why are you on my buddy list?

SwankiVY2: Why would I know?

SwankiVY2: I didn't put me on your buddy list.

Ano: so then what's your story, i imagine yoou don't know anyone

Ano: you

SwankiVY2: don't know anyone . . . anyone who what?

Ano: where are you from?

SwankiVY2: I'm from Florida

Ano: this is frustrating

SwankiVY2: So I ended up on your buddy list and you don't know why. Have you by any chance been to my website?

SwankiVY2: Lots of people ask me this question, by the way.

Ano: not at all

SwankiVY2: They see my site, they decide they want to talk to me, and then they put me on their list and don't remember who I am when I show up.

Ano: gillie the URL

SwankiVY2: Well, I have the page of IMs with jerks that's the popular one.

Ano: nope, haven't added anyone recently

SwankiVY2: it might not have been recently, who knows.

Ano: i think i may have seen it, but i never added you, i know i didn't

SwankiVY2: heh, well I didn't add myself.

SwankiVY2: So unless someone else has access to your list. . . .

Ano: its not hard to crack AIM, you're prolly just waiting for some good cybersex stuff or something to throw on the site

SwankiVY2: Huh?

Ano: gimmie the URL, lemme see if its the one i saw

SwankiVY2: So are you accusing me of doing something to your list so that you would IM me and screw with you?

Ano: no

SwankiVY2: heh.

SwankiVY2: I freaking hope not.

SwankiVY2: then what's this about "you're prolly just waiting for some good cybersex stuff"?

Ano: i dunno, i get fucked with a lot because people want to see what i know about computers, so they test me

Ano: they bullshit so i don't trust anyone

SwankiVY2: Well, my "side" of the story is, I signed on and you IMed me and asked who I was.

SwankiVY2: Soooo . . . it seems a bit odd to me as well.

SwankiVY2: But actually this does happen to me a lot.

Ano: well i suppose if you have a website with your sn on it it would happen a lot

SwankiVY2: It's not just because I have my screenname on it

SwankiVY2: It's because my IMs page got a lot of attention because it was posted on a couple well-circulated pages

Ano: fark?

SwankiVY2: For about two months I couldn't sign on without at least eight or nine people IMing me, it's odd.

SwankiVY2: I don't know what fark is

Ano: you have really good grammar

SwankiVY2: I try.

Ano: i think i may have seen it on there

SwankiVY2: I'm an editor, so it kind of comes naturally.

SwankiVY2: You might've.

Ano: ui'm half drunk

Ano: i'm

Ano: I'm

Ano: your site didn't load, it said IE6 was unablre to process it

Ano: damn, i wanted to see what this was all about

SwankiVY2: Well, the site's not down, so if you're unable to get it up, chances are AOL just farted.

SwankiVY2: You can try it again if you want.

Ano: i just did, i went to the dir and looked around for it

Ano: yeah, i was here, but i know i didn't add you cuz i

Ano: 'd feel like an idiot being one of these guys

Ano: but i suppose i'll be one

SwankiVY2: Well, then don't ever IM me for cybersex.

Ano: oh, ok,

Ano: why do you get those IMs?

SwankiVY2: Well, first off I've been just recording them if I get them since 1997.

SwankiVY2: Secondly, I used to stay up really late (before I was a day worker--I used to be a college student and I stayed up late then)

SwankiVY2: and the bars in my city would get out, and guys would go home drunk and horny, and look for some chick to cyber before they fell asleep in a puddle of their own drool

SwankiVY2: I'd come up, because I'd show up online, female, and (gulp) single.

Ano: haha, i used to live in florida, its nothing like this place, we either get too drunk to type or actually go home with a girl instead of that

SwankiVY2: Well, there are plenty of people (obviously) who get their kicks on the 'Net instead.

Ano: man, i'm a nerd and i don't even understand that

Ano: i'm more interested in the grammar, it kinda pisses me off

SwankiVY2: What pisses you off?

Ano: the capitalization, the questionmark

SwankiVY2: It pisses you off that I write with good grammar?

Ano: just the whole editor thing, sorry

SwankiVY2: I don't think I've heard many more absurd things.

Ano: thank you

SwankiVY2: Once I heard a woman tell me in a bookstore that she didn't like books with pages and pages of writing.

SwankiVY2: This is about on par with that.

Ano: haha

SwankiVY2: "I don't LIKE it when sentences are constructed the way they're supposed to be."

Ano: was that ended with a preposition?

SwankiVY2: Does it matter?

Ano: no, to me it doesn't

Ano: blah, i was wondering why anyone with HTML skills would run AOL, but i see you've used fronPage

Ano: FrontPage

SwankiVY2: No I haven't.

SwankiVY2: I've never even seen FrontPage in use on a computer.

Ano: why would you run aol then?

SwankiVY2: And I've been running AOL since 1997 because I was a chat room host and I got it for free. What does my website have to do with what ISP I use?

SwankiVY2: Do you honestly think that no one in the entire population of AOL could possibly be proficient in HTML? Come on.

Ano: no, its just the majority, i suppose you're the minority

SwankiVY2: In soooo many ways.

SwankiVY2: What made you think I used FrontPage anyway?

Ano: how so?

SwankiVY2: Don't wanna go into it.

Ano: i looked at the code

SwankiVY2: And what about the code looks like Front Page?

Ano: i saw the page, i suppose you're an oddball

Ano: the style of the code, that's all

SwankiVY2: Well, every little numeral and sign and letter in there was typed in by hand in NotePad, so I hope there's no sign of FrontPage on it or I'll be annoyed.

Ano: well, you're good in that case, congratulations

SwankiVY2: Er, thanks.

SwankiVY2: Are you talking about the IMs page?

Ano: no, it was the main

SwankiVY2: hmm.

SwankiVY2: Yeah, that one's a tad complex

Ano: yeah, well, it's decent coding, but i hAte code, so anything that compares to mine is enough, yours is good

SwankiVY2: hah.

SwankiVY2: I like to make code

SwankiVY2: but I don't write anything else, just Web pages.

Ano: really?

SwankiVY2: Well, any other code anyway.

Ano: by hand

Ano: k, what languages?

SwankiVY2: Huh?

SwankiVY2: I said, I don't write any other codes.

SwankiVY2: Just HTML.

Ano: eeeek!

Ano: that's not annoying as all hell?

SwankiVY2: what would be annoying about it?

Ano: repetitive

SwankiVY2: ::shrug:: umm

SwankiVY2: I don't know how to do it any other way.

SwankiVY2: HTML is kind of a second language, it's pretty easy unless I'm making an imagemap or something

Ano: i dunno, HTML by hand got old, a lot of other people have went to quicker ways in order to demonstrate their graphic ability

Ano: it's more about style now

SwankiVY2: Well, I don't have any desire to "demonstrate my graphic ability."

SwankiVY2: I know HTML because I like to have a website.

SwankiVY2: I'm not trying to impress anyone.

[He just quit talking. Can you tell he hit a sore spot--that bit about people with HTML skills being somehow incompatible with AOL? Jeeeez.]