I'm glad I was around for this one, I might actually comprehend some of the jokes now

i missed texags that week

damn work

There's no stopping him now!

I'm in the dark. Can someone explain?

Basically, the program was voting for Alabama.

I still have the source code. If anyone really wants to see whether or not the program was really voting for Bama.

That was a fun day. Myself and another Ag in the office had four computers voting...apparently for Bama.

I still maintain if we didn't make it public with the Planter's Poll program we would have won. I had a simple cookie clearing macro going on and was silently killing the competition... Whenever people started talking about Bama fans caught on and cheated more rampantly.

Quite possibly the greatest-worstest day in Texags history!

Man.. Why did have to bring that up again. It hurt the first time.

am i the only one who is lost? i guess its too much to expect a serious explanation?

that had to be one of bama's greatest 4th quarter comebacks.

That was one of the most hilarious days being on Texags...I remember when they announced the results on ESPN and acknowledged the outrageous number of votes. lol

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that had to be one of bama's greatest 4th quarter comebacks.

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am i the only one who is lost? i guess its too much to expect a serious explanation?

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Vaguely:

There was a Helmet Battle Poll / Contest.

Fans were to log onto ESPN and vote for their favorite Helmet between two teams (in this case A&M vs Alabama). It was a bracket system, and we were in like the quarter finals or something...

So this guy "1996 Commons Front Desk" comes on here and says he created a comptuer application that would automatically vote for A&M over, and over, and over again. People just had to download it and run it.

When Alabama got wind of our program (because our vote total skyrocketed) all hell broke loose and they created their own (I think). Their program voted so fast, they quickly overcame us by millions of votes (most other contests had around 5,000 total votes, ours was in the 4-5 million range).

They caught up so quickly everyone thought the program that "1996 Commons Front Desk" created was ruse, and he was a Bama fan that had duped all of us.

So people who had spent literally 6 hours running this voting-program got on TexAgs and nearly caused a server meltdown e-yelling at each other to STOP USING THE PROGRAM, IT'S VOTING FOR ALABAMA!

In the end, no one really knows what the 1996 CFD App actually did. He said it just counted up from 0 and didn't vote at all. Some think it did vote or A&M, but Bama just had a better program. Some say it was a trojan horse and aggies downloaded it, used it, and it voted for Bama instead of A&M.

However, since that day, The Program is Voting for Bama is how people reference being duped by someone.

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I still maintain if we didn't make it public with the Planter's Poll program we would have won. I had a simple cookie clearing macro going on and was silently killing the competition... Whenever people started talking about Bama fans caught on and cheated more rampantly.

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We did win the Planter's Poll.

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It reminds me of "SOMEONE SET US UP THE BOMB."

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It's SOMEONE SET UP US THE BOMB. You had it in the wrong order, n00b.

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I still maintain if we didn't make it public with the Planter's Poll program we would have won. I had a simple cookie clearing macro going on and was silently killing the competition... Whenever people started talking about Bama fans caught on and cheated more rampantly.

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We did win the Planter's Poll.

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Right what I meant was that when the guy who made the Planter's Poll program came out of the woodwork for the Helmet Challenge people started discussing ways to blitzkrieg votes, and then the program that "voted for bama" came out. If no one talked about it, we wouldn't have had all of those frantic discussions and we would have won with a few hundred thousand votes coming from my 5 computers.

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If no one talked about it, we wouldn't have had all of those frantic discussions and we would have won with a few hundred thousand votes coming from my 5 computers.

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But that wouldn't of been any fun. And I didn't come out of the woodwork, I was summoned.

All your base are belong to us

Was this the first "only gamers would understand this" lingo used on TexAgs?

SwampFox,

Good list, but you forgot "I heard it from the Fish Pond Maintainer" and "I don't want to get off the toilet now that we are winning (might jinx the team)"...

There is always torso girl and lunchbox lesbians, but that might be too Houston specific.



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