Date: Sun, 7 Oct 90 14:50:58 -0600
From: mooree@tramp (MOORE ERIC S)
To: junk@typhoon.ucar.EDU

                  A Brief Synopsis of How It All Started


25 January 1990 (7:56:03 pm)

	I succeeded in stirring up the proverbial anthill when I made
	fun of Chris Platt's spelling skills.  I asked, "If an infinite
	number of Chris Platts worked on an infinite number of wordpro-
	cessors for an infinite amount of time, what are the chances that
	one of them would create a sentence without any spelling errors?"

25 January 1990 (8:04:26 pm)

	Mike Zecca became the first person to respond to my question re-
	garding Chris's spelling skills.  It was at this time that Mike
	coined the phrase:  -=- Bo knows Croutons -=-.

25 January 1990 (9:16:05 pm)

	Chris Hassell decided to jump onto the proverbial bandwagon by
	insisting I was not a crouton.  His argument was based upon the
	fact that it would be nearly impossible for a crouton to log onto
	a computer and impersonate me.  He went on to assert that he was
	a Bacos Bit.

25 January 1990 (9:26:15 pm)

	Chris Hassel answered my question with some ridiculous nonesense
	about "bohemian dolphins who floss with bubble-gum flavored licorice."

25 January 1990 (9:38:22 pm)

	I posted my infamous edition of -=- Croutons in Quotes -=-.  I
	chose several famous quotes from history, cinema, and television
	and substitued some of the nouns with the word "crouton(s)."

26 January 1990 (12:32:14 pm)

	Chris Platt asserted the weightiness of his nickname, insisting I
	was out of line to be using it for myself.

26 January 1990 (2:41:49 pm)

	Ken Stern (still "stern" back then) made the quip that he was "on
	a diet" and didn't "carry all that much weight around."

26 January 1990 (4:33:57 pm)

	Karim Farah  insisted his name (Highlander) carried the most weight.

26 January 1990 (4:36:01 pm)

	Chris Hassell made a mockery of my quotes, redubbing them:  "Salad
	Fettishes... the History of Shame!!!!"  He particularly disliked
	"Quaker Croutons.  It's the right thing to do and a tasy way to do
	it."  He responded, "Do what?  Maybe Wilford Brimly [sic] ought to
	stop being some sort of pervert with his food and get a tan."

29 January 1990 (3:28:32 pm)

	Atkinson scolded us physicists for referring to weight instead of
	mass.

30 January 1990 (6:43:24 pm)

	Connie Flieder officially became -=- The Crouton Lady -=-.

30 January 1990 (11:44:09 pm)

	Mike Zecca first posted his crouton parody on Monty Python's
	"Finland."  It would come back to haunt us again.

4 February 1990 (2:17:02 am)

	History was made when Mike Zecca announced the creation of
	"Star Trek:  The Crouton Generation."  It was all downhill
	from there.

4 February 1990 (5:49:44 pm)

	Wayne Gretzky officially became a member of the Crouton cast.
	The personalities of Jon Giltner and Barbara Davis were also
	fleshed out a bit.