cassie_91 wrote: Wed Jun 14, 2023 3:35 pm Are you guys just making jokes cuz u r making him sound kind of weird.

ChainGangGuy wrote: Wed Jun 14, 2023 7:40 am Oh, but you did. We all did. I think it may have been the polls. He simply tried to access the pulse of the JC community and inquire our opinions on a wide variety of topics, everything from the problems of society to chili cooking procedures, and he was always eager to fine-tune and optimize his polling methodology. And yet time and time again we completely failed him. How often did we greedily click that "Other (Explain Below!)" option, only to leave our man hanging?

It was us who poled him. Again and again. Until finally, at long last, we let him shuffle and stagger out from behind the dumpster in the unlit alley with his pants around his ankles and tears streaming down his face.

Shame on us.

bryanb wrote: Wed Jun 14, 2023 12:08 am

Mama Blue wrote: Tue Jun 13, 2023 10:03 pm Damn. It really is ALL my fault.

No way. None of us have clean hands here. Other than cassie who actually has remarkably clean hands. The rest of us all had moments where we thought to ourselves, "I could put my time and energy into doing something to entertain pinback and make him want to stick around for another quarter century...or I could do something else. Yeah, let's do something else!" Now we must reap the bitter harvest our choices have sown.

To be perfectly honest, I'm not completely sure pinback is really gone. He usually goes on vacation around the time of his birthday and doesn't post for a while. So what's happening now is kind of what happens every year except the silence started earlier this year. Jolt Country has had its fair share of pranks and hoaxes over the years...hopefully this will turn out to be one of them. Today we must grieve, but tomorrow we may laugh.

Mama Blue wrote: Mon Jun 12, 2023 9:34 pm
Uh, why did he leave?
I hope I had no part in that.

cassie_91 wrote: Tue Jun 13, 2023 4:42 pm Are any ofyou in contact with him other ways? anyone ask? That is weird though im new here so I probly dont know all the history

Mama Blue wrote: Tue Jun 13, 2023 10:03 pm Damn. It really is ALL my fault.

bryanb wrote: Mon Jun 12, 2023 11:02 pm

Mama Blue wrote: Mon Jun 12, 2023 9:34 pm Uh, why did he leave?
I hope I had no part in that.

Don't blame yourself. If you bear even the slightest measure of responsibility for this unfortunate outcome, it's only because you haven't kept the General Mathematics thread very active recently. That was one of the very few things that continued to bring pinback joy towards the end.

cassie_91 wrote: Tue Jun 13, 2023 4:42 pm Are any ofyou in contact with him other ways? anyone ask? That is weird though im new here so I probly dont know all the history

cassie_91 wrote: Tue Jun 13, 2023 6:10 am how long had he been here? Seems weird to just up and leave afer a long time..