[johnfowles]

Originally Posted by vlmagee

I even got to meet Andy when I was visiting Denver, also in 1999; he drove in from Fort Collins (I think it was) just to meet me (after checking with Jenney that I wasn't an axe murderer or other such undesirable).

OK I have for a long time seriously wondered how the expression "axe murderer" came into existance in the first place.
As soon as I found the chatroom in 1999 I was introduced to the notion that anybody there could in fact not be a genuine Lighthead but at the worst could be an axe murderer, which needed no further explanation as the implications were obvious
but why this extremely gruesome choice for a mythically bad person??
why not a simple murderer, a serial rapist or a con man/woman etc
the best I could come up with by googling was that the title of an early (1993) Mike Myers film was
"So I Married an axe murderer"

Which does not really answer my question because the film maker must have already known of the expression else he would not have thought of it. So quite why this particular expression then became associated with possible undesirables that one could meet in cyberspace is to me a mystery.
Was there a famous case that I missed where somebody met up with somebody he/she had met online and was then murdered with an axe???
Any ideas anybody???
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Anyway regarding Massey 1999
I had intended returning with two pertinent Newsgroup posting links (remember this corfid the site only started in September 1999 just before Massey that November) see Florian's announcement to an unsuspecting world at:-
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.m...e24483fcb705c3
the first link I have now refound and is to Doug's own splendid account of his first meeting with Jenney at the APPT signing at Sam The Record Man's at:-

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.m...756ef016790e9e


I had repeated that link in another NG posting in 2004 when I recommended reading it by saying:-
"That is IMHO one of this Newsgroup's highlights from the past and well worth a refreshing read or a first read by anyone here who has never seen it before
the building excitement is a palpable experience"
and I will now PM Diane (sundown 17) to see if she feels inclined to post the link to her epic Newsgroup posting aboot her own 1999 experiences
whilst trying to find Doug's recount I found another 1998 Newsgroup thread "GL News from DownUnder" that is sure to be of interest to Australian fans at:-
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.m...411682cab34b35