That came out of the Rules listed by Letitcia Basketballdridge. Someone posted how you should properly reply to people trolling and it gave a bunch of scenarios and the proper response to each. I loved that post.
suzy-q gets the nod for planting the first seed.
She made some comment about how her office mates had a comment at the ready, for when someone made a clearly over the top comment, something like, "Well, that certainly is an interesting perspective."
Back in those days (I place it somewhere around 1996), anyone could post under any name they wanted, so I built on that comment, added a slew of others, invented "Leticia Basketballdridge" (you youngsters may want to google up Leticia Baldridge for context) and threw it out there. I kept everyone in the dark about who was actually posting under the Leticia handle, until someone else waded in and started making competing posts.
We were locked into what was passing for a death spiral of smack talk with some real doozies back then. Unimaginable as it might seem, Fresno State was felt to be on an unstoppable, ascendant trajectory, by its fan(s) (Hands up! Who remembers Buff?).
Anyway, Leticia posted the original list, it was added to and it morphed a number of times. It was too many crashed computers ago, and the original posts are long gone into the ether.
Still, the more recent itteration of the ettiquitte guide managed to be posted two years back....for the sake of the mojo....
