we've already determined our incompatibility, no?

a 2 foot back scratcher can't satisfy a 3 foot back, can it?:1orglaugh

yes, yes it does.:winkwink:

lets just say, we expanded their base. :winkwink:

Never had a $250 bottle of wine before, but I hope it made you even more "entertaining"... :winkwink:

no, I really won't. I'm 12clicks so I can never be mistaken for anyone else. You're Franck because it doesn't matter if you're mistaken for someone else.

lets all hope that, eh?

hey, we could fall flat on our face just like anyone else could. Thinking we can waltz back into this biz would ensure our failure.
We will not be waltzing, we shall be break dancing.

That's ok, at some point you've got to have a cut off and not lower yourself to please the lowest common denominator.

Dude, this is going to be a 4 day bender. you've got plenty of time.

I'm not sure vooman thought so.

I'll take adware over that brower jacking toolbar installing bullshit that ran rampant mostly through mainstream about 2 years ago. I can understand the need for better ad tracking and targeted delivery but installing invasive programs and overriding browser functions...those people need to die!!! God I love my mac.

12clicks, your ambush is very entertaining! Looking forward to the rest of it...

right! its always smart to keep stuff past its valueable marketability.
I'd rather ask a dope why they are tripping on their dick than *be* the dope tripping on their dick.

ah ha! hence the warm up :)

Talent, insight, foresight, and experience are good tools to have on your side though. As for the possibility of falling flat on your face, I never took you as one not to get back up and fight.

you should see how entertaining I am in person.:winkwink:

You are killin me :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

dude, how funny is it to say "new" and "500k a day" in the same sentence?
noobs can not really grasp what it was like back then.
Glad you remember, glad we did right by you.

don't insult me, woman!
12clicks needs no charity bumps! :winkwink:

pink was the new black that year.

300 women falling for 12clicks

I enjoyed the pics of your house.

Why don't you post a pic of the door to your wine cellar? I can't get enough of that.

That was a great night in Phoenix! I remember Kourush was mixing up the 80s music (and more) and the Red Bull Vodkas had me in quite the happy dancing place. I don't so much mind if everyone else thinks I am a dork when I am enjoying myself :thumbsup

Brad

Hey, I want to say that you are one of the people truly pushing our business forward. Your efforts with shows are tremendous and I thank you for it.

Now, a bit of a story about you.:winkwink:
Back in seacaucus NJ in what, 1999? At the party JoeE (I think) threw, I remember you cornering one of my then partners on a couch. he, sitting, you standing over him. You're smoking a cig with the longest ash I've ever seen about to drop off the cig, my partner caught undernieth, just waiting for it to drop on him.
We were laughing our asses off watching from across the room.
priceless.
Thanks for all the shows over the years.

Quality Entertainment...

Sweetie, YOU were the one asking for the archives. Apparently it still has "marketability" though that's not why they keep it :)

Just like the Agent 69 cartoon - there are a lot of people who have it on their servers besides CE. When you have your own servers, and it doesn't cost anything to keep something there, YNOT? :thumbsup

I would actually pay to see you do the "electric boogaloo" :winkwink:

no. but since you're snooping where you shouldn't, do you like the design?

Ugh.. is that RRRED? :error

so do u miss me at all?

missing out on gazing upon the beauty that is "punker barbie":winkwink:

its an awful picture of her. Being a gentleman, I had to take this question out of order to defend her honor.
She's a hottie. Check out the other pic of the two of us.

it signed up a ton of webmasters in its day.:winkwink:

Good interview...

ADG Webmaster

dude, that was one hell of a night.
Here's how I remember it.
It was our first try at throwing a big shot dinner. Robert and I had somehow arrainged to pic up the tab but I really don't remember us being the organizers of the event. Anyway, its you, the botto brothers, the 4 of us, Tony morgan, and a few others at Picasso and we're going to meet with some hot shot Casino dude who wanted to buy traffic from us.
At the time, the table represented a probably what, 30% reach of the entire internet?
Anyway, he come in late, greats the maitre de by name and tells the waiter to tell the chef (whos name he alos knows) that he's here and that he wants the chef to just make us whatever he wants. he then turns to the waiter and tells him to pick whatever wines he'd like to pair with the dishes the chef serves.
Robert and I look at each other and with our eyes, say to each other,"this is going to cost us a fortune":1orglaugh
The guy proceeds to explain how we can send him traffic and he'll count it by asking the arriving surfer to use a drop down box to explain where he came from.
After about 10 minutes of polite silence by us, I think it was Sweet T who finally interupted him and said something like,"no offense, but you've got over half of the adult net sitting at this table and we have a better way of counting traffic"
it broke the ice and we went on to have a great dinner. Never did business with the casino dude but dinner was fun.

Oh, and remember when they served Bob Botto quail for the main course and he balked? He says to the waiter, "um, I can't eat this. It looks too much like pigeon. I can't eat this"

verey funny night. very great night.

Lars, we need to do dinner again. Its been too long.

dude, you look good in a party hat because you're always wearing a party shirt.
The chop is all in good fun.

hmmmm, this will take me a long time to answer.
who do I look up to?
obviously Mojo. He's like a gentleman farmer of the internet. I don't think he's ever had an enemy even when *we've* had enemies. As I've said before, he's brilliant. Other people see that and want to be around him because of it. Being his idiot sidekick has opened many door for me. :winkwink:

Another guy, is Ken Lawson. honest as the day is long. I used to say back in the day, "Ken is so honest, I'd trust him with my naked wife." and its true. hell of a guy. (of course, he never thought much of me, haha)

Ron Cadwell is another guy who has my full respect. Much like Mojo, he's brilliant. Always entertaining and interesting at our dinners, always someone I look up to. When we used to worry about processors, I ALWAYS said, as long as one of the processors is run by Ron Cadwell, this business is in good hands. Another guy I'd trust completely.

Uh, I don't think I can do a paragraph for each guy I respect in this business so let me list them.

Lars, Rich Botto, Lensman, Brad Shaw, Zimm, Kjell, John Bennett, David Vander Pole (or however that dutch bastard spells it), Steve Lightspeed, Marc De, Kevin from Top Bucks, boy there's really too many to name and I'll piss some guys off by forgetting them.:(

but I make special room for Sweet T. Tony has always always been good to us. A good friend, generous, etc. He really at times led us noobs around vegas by the hand. I',m sure it meant nothing to him but it meant everything to us. Even when we weren't doing business with him he was always great.
Thanks T.

People I look down on?
shit, again I know you hope I name names so let me think.
Well, the obvious is pimpdog. How on earth do
people do business with him. He's an immature woman hater who has no business here. Our business is dependent on woman!!!! This asshole attacks them for no reason. If you're in this business and doing business with him, you're an idiot. You can choose from so many sponsors and you choose him? its quite frankly irrisponsible.

hmmmm, who else? a good number of nameless people from the AWI board. So many thieves over there that I used to call it the "traffic cheaters board"

all the anon people on GFY of course. Very few people are truely anon, they've just burnt through thier other usernames.

then there's chat board trolls like m00d, webby, mr.soul, confucy, peaches, and several others who pretend to be in this business just so they can spew their nonsense.

That's all that matters:thumbsup

god damn it, I knew I'd forget people.
Shemp, Mike Strouse, The Hun, Dave Purehardcore (ok, so thats his old school name)

Gee Ron, I still get checks from a lot of people you mentioned looking up to. And I'm pretending to be in this business? I started in 1997 and started going to shows in 1999 and I think I met you for the first time at a show around 2001. I've probably been to more shows than you have :thumbsup I don't think I'd spend my own money to attend these events if I was "pretending" to be in the biz, lol.

I realize your issue - you have to make a decision that someone is lying between two people and it's in your best interest to choose me. I have no problem with that and I understand your reasoning. But acting like I'm not in this business and haven't been for years is beneath you. Don't lower yourself to that level.

Nice save.