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(I wish the weird code for links that this board uses was documented someplace.)

>2286 Every writer has certain lines he regrets ever writing.
>This is one of mine. It was meant as a mild barb at certain readers
>who lamented the multi-part nature of Knights as a terrible
>tease and gave the impression of wanting me to just tell them what was
>going to happen instead of making a proper story out of it, and wound
>up being the forum catchphrase that wouldn't die. Four years later
>it's still in some users' sigblocks, to say nothing of the
>T-shirts.

It's not uncommon in online fandoms for the fans to adopt a name for themselves, and use it as a mark of honor even if it's a very unflattering one. Megatokyo fans took the name "forum monkies" from a guest strip. Dan Shive, under pressure from his fans asking to come up with a name for them, blurted out "Okay, you're bunnies". The name stuck.

>2286: At least the weasel on the T-shirt's an
>anime weasel. As I recall, the original one was a really badly done
>photo of one. But yes, the patience level of the Forum around the time
>this was released was awful. ALC

Be honest: can you *blame* them?