Griftipedia v0.2a
Changelog:
Fixed a citation in "RSPW FAQ" entry.
Entry:
HomeRentPro
Year:
1997-1998
Description:
HomeRentPro comes to an end.
Links:
"AOL Account abuse"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/IREKZanZO34/m/f15UvjSBqUoJ
"[RSPW] **Homerentpro website gone??**"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/3A6aw92OKac/m/XyyAZJWBQUsJ
"Ratting John Dejong's Cage Again."
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/ByR2XUvZtOE/m/O-6H2B2I_qMJ
"What is HomeRentPro"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/UPdj7HIrwRY/m/Sgwzr0vIIJQJ
"HOMERENTPRO blacklists minorities"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/nopj7UPgKxs/m/5AhOtBmlRaQJ
"Here's John Henry's HomeRentPro scam article"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/7XUfyUnt6yM/m/jayIHItKVSMJ
"NetBastard lurks"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/IMHBaMoGQYM/m/k6jElXo-L0sJ
"[SOTE THREAD] Insulting the Fans (was Re: [Workrate Cru] Tropics &
Meridians"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/jBBeMvreDDQ/m/qrgU8SOGadMJ
Quotes:
"If someone were to ask me, I might tell them that I'm definitely a former
(and future, believe it) touring musician. I'm also a successful
businessman, that owns several internet businesses. I might also tell them
that yes, I do stand IRL the same as I do here--very strongly for what I
think is right, wherever I can. I was fortunate enough to be born with
brains, looks, and talent" - John Henry
"I just decided to hire another $400,000 a year in employees, and one of
them will hopefully be taking over my job, so that I can sit on my ass and
collect a check, and just poke in to make sure everything's running
smoothly once in awhile." - NetBastard
"A business I used to own." - John Henry (answering the question "What is
HomeRentPro")
"Credit information? Oh, you mean the stack of credit card numbers that's
sitting out in my garage gathering dust? Yeah, you see, in order for
anyone to ask about that, there'd have to have been some crime committed
with those numbers. there wasn't." - John Henry
"It's dead. The other guy didn't get off his ass fast enough, and I got
sick of paying for space I wasn't using, and wasn't making money with." -
John DeJong
"No computer equipment or records were ever "seized" by anyone, except the
guy that I was in business with, and it's my understanding that he torched
all the paper records, except for the ones that I *still* have, along with
all customer correspondence, in a strongbox at my parents house, JUST IN
CASE anyone has any questions. Since those records pertained ONLY to "his"
customers (I.e. customer s of Rental Referral Pros) and not "my" customers
(those that used HRPC), even if this were true it wouldn't bear any
relationship to my business or me." - John Henry
"I couldn't discriminate against people if I *did* want to, which I most
certainly do not, and neither could my employees." - John Henry
"Actually it was 'fag jew,' and given that a) he was gay, and b) he was
jewish, those words in and of themselves mean only what you care to read
into them. Although I'll also cheerfully grant that the person in question
(my ex-business parter) cheerfully embodied every single negative
stereotype that any half-witted inbread klan member has ever heaped upon
either class of people. My ex-partner is the one that taught me what I've
tried to avoid facing for years....once in awhile, with some people
(albeit not many of them), the stereotypes are *right*. It's an ugly truth,
but a truth it is, my friend." - John 'I'm not Buffer' Henry
"Several months ago, I made a statement in which I referred to my
ex-partner as a 'fag crackhead jew.' Now, regardless of the fact that he
*was* all three of the above, the remarks were tasteless and smacked of
homophobia and anti-semitism - two ideologies which I personally abhor.
What made them so was not the inherent anti-somitic or anti-gay sentiment
in the words in and of themselves, but the fact that I was intending to be
disparaging about his sexuality and ancestry when I wrote them. I was
wrong, the remarks were indeed inappropriate and racist." - John 'I'm not
Buffer' Henry
"Collect unemployment for the time being; I'm certainly not going to lose
any sleep over it, since My former partner has to pay it, and he owes me
much, much more than that anyway. I got skills, I'll find something, or
more likely, the way my life works, something will come to me." - John
DeJong (in response to "so what do you do for a living now?")
"I still have work - SCW Ring Announcer, Wreslting Editor for The Sports
Report, and pending contributor to PWI - I'm just not making buckets of
money. I'd be willing to bet that I make more on unempliyment than 50% of
this newsgroup does at their jobs, anyway." - John DeJong
"At least I never worked at a fuckin subway." - John Henry
Entry:
RSPW FAQ
Year:
1997-2005
Description:
John wants to control and commercialize the RSPW FAQ, and move aspects of
RSPW off of Usenet.
Links:
"AOL Account abuse"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/IREKZanZO34/m/f15UvjSBqUoJ
"[META] Help stop this troll invasion......."
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/Ysr1ooTbvzQ/m/G2LZEJ12MykJ
"The RSPW Meta-OffTopic-Flame Discussion Board"
web.archive.org/web/19991004170359/http://members.tripod.com:80/netbastard/
disc.htm
"John Henry...where are you?!"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/-7oSKk_Ohrc/m/juO_IZNDuiQJ
"What I don't understand..."
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/Jwy-fmi5z9Y/m/r6M7aZ6r1TEJ
"THIS IS A WRESTLING GROUP GOD DAMMIT"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/hWvXyBz_w18/m/Bts_QvALlS4J
"LMAO @ John Henry trying to start up his 'alternate' rspw again..."
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/-dc41fgIzqk/m/8FqC9efW9XMJ
"[OT] An Open Letter to Sean Shannon"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/_aEOPSjBT4Y/m/MnKV0mWw2GQJ
"Scott Keith disses John Henry~!"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/Nli-jgScFL4/m/qcdUKu24FE0J
"[RSPW.Net] It's time to take another look"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/UEYkYLsznYo/m/L9E1MhBgQTwJ
"Yo John Henry, when do you plan on putting out the RSPW book?"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/BQkWw6nsohY/m/jaUFjvkSATMJ
"FAQ/Wrestlepedia - Followup"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/HwX65qP_uyQ/m/N48RQaN6G34J
"since everyone and their brother are running brackets..."
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/c1rLwfqc9_M/m/JjTF-QFtdlwJ
Quotes:
"Do you know how much money there is on this group?" - John Henry
"If you click on the URL in my sig, it'll take you to my homepage. Follow
the link for RSPW. Therein is a link to the RSPW FAQ (which will soon be
joined by several other FAQ's/guides to posting, such as those written by
Scott Keith)." - John Henry
"Thanks, everyone, for helping to make this idea a success, to the degree
that it has been a success. Hopefully at some point, we can convince
*everyone* to move the garbage to the OT board and off RSPW. After all,
it's not an unreasonable request." - John Henry
"response posted to http://members.tripod.com/rspwflame" - JHD, still
crazy after all these years
"reply posted to http://members.tripod.com/rspwflame" - JHD, still crazy
after all these years
"Is this the return of John Henry? (note the incessant plugging of that
stupid flameboard)"
"John will moderate the board to make sure that nobody posts anything that
he might disagree with or deem too sensitive for people to read. It's his
own little rspw where he can control what goes in and what comes out[...]
Don't forget kids, if John could control what you say and post it'd be a
perfect world. We don't want any of those evil people with independent
thoughts." - xganon
"I originally posted this message to the Mr. Shannon's Delphi forum
earlier this evening. It took less than 2 hours for him to remove not only
that, but also all responses to it - which were all positive, by the way.
Because of this, I feel that the only fair and reasonable thing I can do
is to post this message across the internet and Usenet, and allow you, the
reader, to decide for yourselves. My suggestion would be to not only stop
visiting his site, but also to formally request that the current RSPW FAQ
be renamed the
'Pro-wrestling FAQ,' and that RSPW be allowed to develop it's own FAQ that
pertains to the group." - John Henry, NetBastard
"Your little delphi board may be a refuge for the terminally weak of heart,
those that cannot be bothered to address their own shortcomings, a place
where you can dictate what is said, and when, and how, but the rest of the
internet is NOT. You may be able to work yourself into thinking that
someone cares about you by eliminating any dissenting opinion from your
dark little hole of the universe, but I assure you, Mr. Shannon, you will
NOT censor me anywhere else." - John Henry, NetBastard
"There's no spams begging people to come see my website, it's all done via
mailing list. No Spam, No Begging, No crying like a fucking baby...just
programming and an FAQ worthy of the group that exists in a completely
open way. So you take your abortion of a website and stick it up your
white trash non skill having ass. People gravitate to something that
works...not something that's going to be hijacked eventually for your own
personal gain on the backs of other hard working posters, you fucking
imbicile. Notice the rats abandoning your sinking ship? Tell you something?
Another world famous John Henry failure." - Krusty
"Let me help you out here. There is no chance in hell this year's r.s.p-w
Awards will be run by you or through ANY web site. THEY ARE USENET
AWARDS." - Christopher Robin Zimmerman
"Since I have no way of knowing for certain who is responsible for this,
I've elected to simply disband the editorial team completely until someone
steps forward. I hate to do that, but I certainly can't guess, and I'm in
no mood to play childish games with this website, the FAQ, or the
Wrestlepedia. There are others willing to help. Hopefully, the person
responsible will be a man and come forward, so that the other, innocent
party can continue to contribute, but hey, whatever. If it comes down to
it, I'll just write it myself. Granted, it'll take a great deal
longer...but I got time." - John Henry
"I think that the notion that attempting to market this work for profit is
a "bad thing" is utterly ludicrous. Unless, of course, someone involved
was directly plagiarizing and didn't tell me, there is no ethical
violation in profiting from one's own hard work. The notion that compiling
this huge body of information is something that MUST be done for free is
mind-boggling. But to me, the greatest disappointment isn't that the
potential income from such a venture has been lost - indeed, the
"potential income" was at most an afterthought." - John Henry
"I offered several times to design and host a secure web-based mechanism
for the RSPW Year-End awards, but CRZ is a whiny cunt and automatically
throws a shitfit at anything that suggests that anyone at all ever but him
will have anything to say about or do with the awards - or any website
related to RSPW, for that matter. That's why RSPW.Net is now a test bed
for LowGenius Web Design client sites." - John Henry
"I don't think that was it *at all*. Dude, I think you're being super
hyper sensitive about it. People univerally think that the newsgroup has
*inherent* "specialness" about it. Web shit, is web shit. It's not usenet.
Usenet should stay on usenet, and web shit should just stay on the web. I
think pretty much everyone has been saying this ever since the suggestions
have come up. A "Sooper Hyper Secure Web Based Whiz Bang Mechanism" is
just more web crap. People come here because...well...it's NOT the web.
Everything is open here, people can vote publicly, it's all out in the
open. I think what people mostly think is, "keep the web shit on the web,
and keep the usenet shit on usenet". Try not to be so sensitive and think
it's about CRZ...or even you for that matter." - Krusty
"I'm tired of being accused of being in this for myself, so I'm out. Maybe
after I've been gone a couple of weeks, you'll learn to appreciate a
favor." - John Henry
Entry:
The Business
Year:
1997-2010
Description:
Peaks and valleys in the wrestling biz.
Links:
"AOL Account abuse"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/IREKZanZO34/m/f15UvjSBqUoJ
"[OT] An Open Letter to Sean Shannon"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/_aEOPSjBT4Y/m/MnKV0mWw2GQJ
"Randomly dropping by"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/Q14ovijPXlc/m/SCGleS3kqgYJ
Quotes:
"Many have publicly supported me, and at least a dozen more lurkers have
e-mailed their support, including a couple of well-known wrestlers and
sheetwriters that I will not name; if they wanted their positions or
opinions made public they would post them here." - John Henry
"You talk as if you were famous[...] A whole lot of words with very little
reason to believe it." - Allan J. Benson
"John Henry is the most talked-about wreslting personality in this
newgroup that isn't a part of the big 3. Do you realize that? Do you
realize that if he ever DOES go to one of those companies in some capacity,
it will be due in large part to you and others proving that the guy can
get attention, keep attention, draw heat, and be interesting? If and when
you see DeJong on your TV screen, just before you put that bullet in your
head, remember - YOU put him there." - Robert Gibson's Glass Eye
"I think if any fed uses your RSPW behavior as a reference, they'll see a
big-time loser who can't keep a job, can't keep a family, can't ignore
complete strangers who poke sticks at him on a daily basis, and can't
behave in a civil fashion." - The Bogus Sting
"Most of the people I was in the business with thought I was a stupid mark
then, and probably still do, and they were probably right. I hear very
little from anyone. Honestly I don't want to unless it involves a lot of
money, and there's no reason it would. That whole period of my life was
depressing and lost and fucked up and I was mostly out of my damn mind,
and while it's a shame that there will certainly never be a back-slapping
reunion of the originally-designated "O-Mega Powers," (Matt & Jeff Hady,
Shane Helms, Shannon Moore, Joey "Mercury" Matthews, Christian York, Toad,
Jason "Joey Abs/Venom" Ahrndt, Otto Schwanz/Bo Dupp, Mike Maverick/Jack
Dupp, Marty "Cham Pain" Garner, Lexie Fyfe, and Yours Truly - in other
words, the group of rasslers and others that usually had IHOP or Waffle
House together after a show @ SCW or OMEGA for a while), that's just how
life goes sometimes. It did generate some interesting posts here. On the
one hand I had a good time, on the other hand I'm embarrassed by a lot of
my behavior during that period of my life and humiliated by the extent to
which, I've come to realize, most of those guys thought I was just some
stupid mark who had never done shit and never would, but was a useful
niche marketing tool for free or close to it. It's not something I
reminisce fondly about very often." - John Henry
Entry:
LowGenius Web Design
Year:
1999-2006
Description:
Chronicles of a webmaster.
Links:
"[META] I told you so"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/mU070cPQSpM/m/TZn0dKWhAnMJ
"the ALL NEW OmegaPowers Website!"
web.archive.org/web/20010201173700/http://omegapowers.tripod.com/
"[SHILL] Official Count Grog website now open...."
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/X7FGXeeSl4A/m/qmgHzRvghDkJ
"the online home of the evil and devious COUNT GROG"
web.archive.org/web/20010521160518/http://members.tripod.com/countgrog/
"The Official Marty Jannety website.. oh dear god."
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/-YeyXuzrjho/m/W8i8VUEzllgJ
"The LowGenius Websites"
web.archive.org/web/20031026173556/http://www.lowgenius.com/
"PING Krusty, Panaro"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/4GPAwpOiTr0/m/qEWJVu2wG7cJ
"John The Chief Henry.."
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/kGYFzs5zFSQ/m/1c0iYLGD1IsJ
"Lex Luger, NOW HIRING Webmaster"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/I3uM72UNWek/m/r-ZGgkaqei8J
Quotes:
"Redesigning the op site, check it out[...] and let me know whatcha think.
New graphics, new layout, etc etc. Done so far are pages for Joey Abs, CW
Anderson, Bo Dupp, Links, and Legal. I've got some new pics (well, old
pics that you haven't seen yet) to scan in, and other stuff. The rest will
get done as I get time and information to do them with." - Yeah, it's me
"It's just a small one, 5 pages, but with some great photos and stuff
regarding the man that gave me my first real break in the business,
manager extraordinaire COUNT GROG. Please, stop by and check it out." -
JHD, still crazy after all these years
"I'm in disbelief at the balls JHD has criticizing others' website design
after viewing this abortion: http://www.lowgenius.com/" - Pete Panaro
"To be perfectly clear, I had remarked on how completely horrible Marty
Jannety's site design was. Krusty responded with "lmfao, the irony of this
is staggering," and Panaro replied with calling lowgenius.com an
"abortion." So - as I am nothing if not responsive to criticism - I have
elected to remove you two from my killfile for a period of 24 hours[...]
to give you the opportunity to substantiate your criticism by telling me
*precisely* what you think sis wrong with the site design at lowgenius.com,
and what you would do to change it. " - John Henry
"Just go look up how to use color. The color is almost blinding. You have,
at my count, four different text colors on the same home page. This is not
good. The best designs, especially for online content, are simple. Simple
designs with a focus on *consistency*. Your colors and choices of text
colors scream "inconsistent". It's hard to read, your eye moves all over
the place trying to find something to latch onto. It simply overwhelms the
eyes. Pick a very small, simple, complimentary color set and stick to it.
Also, you don't have to put borders around EVERYTHING. Your design should
delineate itself. There's no need to have borders around every single
thing on the site. We know where things are. We can see them. Try to pay
attention more to details[...] Also, put some thought into navigation[...]
lose all the ridiculous copyright stuff[...] Just lose it all. It comes
across as completely self absorbed nonsense[...] Also...your "banner"
across the top screams 1998. Come on. Use some imagination coupled with a
little design sense. The "I use photoshop, can't you tell by looking at it"
look was out about five years ago." - Krusty
"You want a website designed and done right, you pay a professional at a
professional rate. I actually thought for a second about looking in to
this, until I saw the ridiculous numbers you're suggesting. $150 a month
wouldn't pay the phone bill to talk about building a decent site for
someone with your history and resources. $150 might, if you're lucky, get
you some middle school kid who was born right around the time you last got
carried to a really good match to throw together some garbage in an
embedded rich text editor at Geocities or Tripod, or if you're real lucky,
Myspace. When you decide you're ready to hire a professional and pay a
professional rate, look me up." - JHD
Entry:
NCSU
Year:
1999
Description:
John is fired from NCSU for online activities, and proposes a new venue
for off-charter chat.
Links:
"(IRC) Anyone who is a regular on #rspw"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/ALQlqPXcUmM/m/tVoQndcn9ikJ
"[META]Attn Mike Palij"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/hjVmbq94g4w/m/NjVIhyeL9LwJ
"[META] An apology...."
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/o9t5SBHC1G4/m/DvGSZk0mWmsJ
Quotes:
"I got fired from NCSU after forged e-mails in my name were sent to
various administrators, etc. Certainly my usenet posting came up as a
result of that, but it wasn't the primary consideration and in fact would
never have been mentioned *if* someone hadn't been forging e-mails to
various people at ncsu." - John 'I'm not Buffer' Henry
"You've admitted here before that you got fired because of flooding this
newsgroup while posting on company time. You weren't fired because of
forged emails - you were fired for not doing your assigned job!" - Al Bundy
"I've gone, in about 3 months, from $8.70 an hour to $15.50, and there's
no reason I'll ever make *less* than that again." - John 'I'm not Buffer'
Henry
"Anyone with a shred of class or self-respect knows that money you *earn*
is always more satisfying than something that's just handed to you" - John
'I'm not Buffer' Henry
"I'm not jobless, you idiot. What, you think I can only get one job? What
a jerk you are. I'm not limited[...] I have choices in my life as to what
I want to do and how I want to do it. When you die a transient railroad
bum on a sewer grate[...] console yourself with the fact that you put me
out of work for just long enough for me to get a job that pays nearly
twice as much, has greater chance for advancement, and is more in tune
with what I want to do." - JHD
"You do realize that I now have copies of *every* e-mail that was sent to
NCSU[...] About 300 of those were people bitching about me posting
off-topic, including your forgeries and fraud. The rest of them - over *10
times* the number of complaints - were in my defense, the vast, vast
majority from people I've never *heard* of. Not that it did any good, but
it sure was an eye-opener." - JHD
"This is about you costing me a job[...] Off topic? Off fucking topic
posts are worth costing my my home, my child, my car, my phone? Off topic
posts are worth destroying someone's life over? You disgusting fucking
pig[...] have you ever heard of the witness protection program? I suggest
you roll over on your dealer. NOW. There's a guy in Kalamazoo, Mike, [...]
and hisphone number is in the book. Call him up and ask him how his legs
feel. That's the last motherfucker that fucked over my kid[...] You'd
better hope to GOD I don't find out that this post had something to do
with my assignment ending[...] Welcome to your worst fucking nightmare,
you cunt." - John 'God' DeJong, Net.Tyrant
"John, you were fired before I even posted the info to the newsgroup." -
Mike Kelleher
"Mr. Kelleher, you will be hearing from my Florida attorney in due time.
This is a very touchy case, as there is no legal precedent for it, and so
we will proceed slowly - but surely." - John Henry DeJong
"I think it's about time we all stopped discussing this shit here. Whether
we *should* be able to or not is moot at this point [...] Yes, I would
rather do things in the open - secrecy is the beginning of tyranny - but
the simple fact is, the idiots that pollute this board have no
appreciation for fair warning, and us talking about it here just gives
them more ammo. So, here's my solution - I've got a message board that
isn't being used, at http://members.tripod.com/netbastard/disc.htm. I
propose that you use that for any meta discussion from now on, since *I*
make the fucking rules over there and the charter is whatever the hell I
say it is." - JHD
Entry:
Bumper Stickers
Year:
2002
Description:
John sells folded bumper stickers on RSPW.
Links:
"[POLL] What would you pay for a bumper sticker?"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/YPqcATbyaVA/m/-Quyqu14UDIJ
"[Bumper Sticker] Update/Info"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/18Oz6OwCSLU/m/K97YQTK-Ky0J
"Remember when John Henry tried selling bumper stickers to RSPW?"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/b4F7qKVKI7o/m/eP_uLgI-NakJ
"Attn: John Henry (sticker testimonial)"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/0lk3XzVLQvE/m/yzCIpvSYDCgJ
Quotes:
"Let's say I had this idea to create and sell bumper stickers via
lowgenius.com. Let's even pretend, for a minute, that people would be
interested in purchasing them - that the logo or phrase I put on them was
marketable. What would you pay for one? I can get blank stickers for
around a buck each, or a little less - the ink for each one, I figure,
would run on the order of $.25 each (high quality/high DPI printing), and
the shipping would (of course) run as much as 37 cents each. This puts my
break-even point somewhere around $1.50 each...and let's face it, I'm not
doing this for fun, I'm doing it to make money (and perhaps a statement).
So let's say $2? Is that too much? What if I agreed to donate a portion of
the proceeds to a worthy entity related somehow to the sentiment expressed
on the sticker? Would $3 be too much to ask?" - John Henry
"Due to overwhelmingly positive response from my "test market" (Thanks,
rasslin fans!), I have decided to go ahead with my bumper sticker idea.
I've created the stickers, which I will offer for sale @ 3.00 each. I will
also be donating $0.15 from the sale of each sticker to an appropriate
fund for further propagation of the message on the sticker. I will follow
this message up with full ordering details, etc., when I get the website
and order forms completed; ordering will be done through PayPal using your
visa, mastercard, etc." - John Henry
"LOL, John's "test market" research consisted of him talking to 8 people
on the RSPW AOL chat, most likely. I think that's how Microsoft does their
market research too. I give it 4 days before John abandons this idea." -
PetePanaro
"A peanuthead is the type of scum that hates real work and manual labor,
and fancies themself as a smart guy that can get by on their brains
instead of having to work. The problem is, the're drawn to get-rich-quick
schemes and other small-potato stuff because they don't have enough real
intelligence, not to mention education, to do anything in life. They can't
even be good con-men correctly, for them it's always the next big idea
that's going to make them rich." - John Henry Slapper
"May be the best money-making idea I've ever had" - John Henry
"You might become a hundred-aire from this latest boondoggle." - PetePanaro
"I sold a couple of hundred." - John Henry
"I got my stickers BTW, and thought I'd offer some feedback. No worries on
the jagged edges of the prototypes[...] I see Calzone's point on the
skinnyness of the 'You Suck' sticker, perhaps instead of:
YOU SUCK. GO AWAY.
you could stack them thusly:
YOU SUCK.
GO AWAY.
They could also then be mailed without folding." - Lord Gow333, minion of
the Apocalypse
Entry:
RSPW the Book
Year:
2003
Description:
John considers selling the wrestling trivia portion of the FAQ as a book.
Links:
"Yo John Henry, when do you plan on putting out the RSPW book?"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/BQkWw6nsohY/m/jaUFjvkSATMJ
"FAQ/Wrestlepedia - Followup"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/HwX65qP_uyQ/m/N48RQaN6G34J
"(META) RSPW - The book????"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/j30Hej0_EbU/m/gEgwZ-QcBCMJ
"Wait, lemme get this straight...so *I'M* jealous? Well, let's check this
out:"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/LITtvFHUfUA/m/-1-x5bw0i54J
"[FAQ] A decision has been reached"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/JXp9jXtJK7w/m/0Kah51dIrgUJ
Quotes:
"The Wrestlepedia will need some rework, which is a time-consuming pain in
the butt, but I'll do it, with the help of whoever cares to help. When
it's done, yeah, I probably *will* try to sell it as a 3-space book. Why
not? I have worked hard on it - and will work harder - and I'm certainly
not the kind of shallow, crooked asshole that would try to make money
myself *without* ensuring that everyone else involved got their share of
the pie." - John Henry
"The basic gist I got from this article was "NO NO NO NO It's not about
the money!!!! OK it is about the money." - Oooh your so cool Brewster
"I think that we may want to seriously consider finding a paper publisher
for this once we've achieved version 3.0; it's ust something to keep in
mind, but I think that the "Professional Wrestling Encyclopedia" is
something that could very well find a niche market, and best of all we
could issue a new edition every year or two with updated information. It's
just a thought, but hell, we're all working hard on this, so why not try
and benefit from it?" - Scutt Farkus (quoting John Henry DeJong's message
to the RSPW FAQ mailing list)
"As for "cashing in on other people's work," I'd hardly call what I do
"cashing in." A couple of people have stepped in to help out because they
like the site and are good folks. So my server bill is covered for a few
months. I certainly appreciate it, but I'd hardly call it "cashing in."
I'm also curious as to what "other people's work" you're talking about.
Other than a handful of FAQ entries [...] everything on that site is of my
creation, and none of it is generating any income. There's no "pay"
section of the site. There's no membership or dues. There's no popup
advertisements or banner ads. So where am I "cashing in" here, vermin? What
"other people's work" am I pimping for money? I don't see it. Just one
more illustration of how frightened you are to think that maybe someday
you'll find out that you didn't have to be a low-life fraud to get a few
bucks out of life." - John Henry
"So you have fun trying desperately to cast me as some money-grubbing
thief just looking to scam a few marks out of their bucks by hocking the
work of other people. Anyone with half a brain knows better" - John Henry
"Neither the FAQ nor the Wrestlepedia will be offered for sale as a book.
That is all." - John Henry
Entry:
RSPW the Store
Year:
2003
Description:
John pushes book and video sales using Amazon affiliate marketing.
Links:
"[RS{W.Net] Video Store, A preview of the new RSPW/PW FAQ..."
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/bUiEjjHtzKo/m/Z0nrNkGom2cJ
"[RSPW.Net] Info, New Features, Future Plans, and Begging"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/SdfKI8pl8KI/m/3HhGffagSWEJ
Quotes:
"I'm not going to buy from you just because you have to shill it to have
anyone care. Now, if I was visiting RSPW.net and saw the ad, maybe I would
consider it. But if you're going to just become another Marc Ash, then
consider your RSPW.Net address PLONKED after the next shill." -
FenderBender
"It's a "work in progress," you see, because new things are happening all
the time[...] The notion is to overcome the perception tha tthis is just
another temporary RSPW project/fad, and to let people know that work is
progressing on this[...] eventually, hopefully, people will start seeing
RSPW.Net as more than the "abandoned project" that people were claiming it
was a couple of months ago." - John Henry
"I have entered into a partnership with Amazon.Com, the world's largest
online retailer, to create the RSPW.Net Bookstore. Currently we are
offering 9 titles, including books from the Hardys, Blassie, Heenan, Piper,
and even JR's Cookbook, and we'll be adding more throughout the day and
then maintaining an up-to-date list." - John Henry
"I'm seriously thinking of picking up the Wrestlecrap book when it comes
out and the Zenk book if that ever comes out, and I'm going to make a
specifc point of NOT doing it through your site." - Ned Ryerson - BING
Entry:
RSPWCon '95 DVD
Year:
2003
Description:
John sells footage from the 1995 RSPWCon event without permission.
Links:
"[RSPW.Net] Remember that big project?"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/40bBaIvgs_U/m/jFdZU-prjg4J
"[RSPW.Net] It's time to take another look"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/UEYkYLsznYo/m/L9E1MhBgQTwJ
"[RSPW.Net] RSPWCon '95 DVD discontinued"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/Zw68FVCTX6o/m/S8cqU2PTEjIJ
"[RSPW.Net] '95 Con DVD - Available Again,lower price."
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/uA-4hkH48Bk/m/o0LHTQ3-5noJ
"new RSPW FAQ version (part 1)"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/nce5R2hE5xc/m/-sKrX9DA3oIJ
"Well, that's the end of that."
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/ra1WYvEuxFY/m/W6_-mhI_vKsJ
Quotes:
"My interest here is much more in getting this stuff into your hands than
in making money on the deal." - John Henry
"Oldtimers might find out about it and get pissed somebody is selling a
tape of them to God knows who. I'm guessing the tape was made as a momento
for the RSPWers in attendence?" - Allan J. Benson
"Please remove me from all your DVD shills. You know, Chris Palacios is
really EASY to find and it's a shame you didn't bother to even talk to the
man before you started spamming. But this seems to be a common theme." -
Christopher Robin Zimmerman
"I spent three MONTHS trying to track Chrispy down, and I didn't want to
sit on this project any longer. I figured that if nothing else, he'd raise
his head when he heard about the project, at which point he and I could
discuss what kind of percentage we can agree is fair. Certainly I want to
ensure that he gets his due; at least a buck on each DVD, maybe two, maybe
even a little more." - John Henry
"Maybe it's that I thought it would be worthwhile and interesting to make
the '95 RSPWCon tape, but I couldn't afford to do it for free so I thought
I'd ask for a fair compensation for the materials and my time in editing
it down. It genuinely never occurred to me that it would be a problem.
When it became one, I dropped it. I just thought it would be cool if
people could see it, and it would make a good reference for the video
editing work I was trying to do. That was a problem with the guy who made
the original tape, which I didn't forsee happening." - John Henry (on why
he thinks CRZ dislikes him)
"Mr. DeJong: The footage that is being advertised on
http://www.lowgenius.com/rspw/rspw95dvd.htm is being sold without the
authorization of the owner, namely me. I am requesting that this DVD no
longer be offered for sale. Should you continue to sell this footage, I
will be forced to take legal action. Sincerely, Christopher Palacios" -
Chrispy (in an e-mail reproduced by John Henry)
"Some people can be such dicks. What the fuck is on this DVD that people
are so afraid of for christ's sake? Oh well. I could fight and argue about
it, but I won't. Say goodbye to the DVD kids. Once again, the return on
investment for doing cool shit in and for RSPW is a kick in the fucking
teeth. Assholes." - John Henry
"Is it possible that, had if Chris Palacios and I been able to make
contact under better circumstances, I would have made the point that it
might be possible to do without breaking Chris' agreement that he would be
the only one allowed to make copies and distrubute it - indeed, it would
have been nothing to contact Tom Misnik or Todd Gordon and at least find
out whether you'd have to actually deal with Vince to get permission to
distribute the tape? Because far as I can tell, Chris' camera work
notwithstanding, if *anyone* would have a *legal* claim to order me not to
sell them, it would be whoever owns all of ECWs trademarks and the tape
library. Other than a few key spots - like the 'hi my name is blah blah
bla and the first thing I remember about RSPW was that thread where so and
so did the other thing' sequence that I planned to use as an introduction -
it was almost all wrestling/wrestler footage, especially the stuff from
Public Enemy. I think I left part of the bus getting stuck sequence in
there, some other bits. The point is, from a strictly *legal* stanpoint,
I'm not sure Chrispy has standing to *really* stop me from doing that
DVD." - John Henry
"I *could* be as big an asshole about this as some other folks seem to
want to be - after all, there's no copyright notice on the tape, no
indication of ownership, and given that I've completely re-edited the
footage anyway, a case could certainly be made for it being a "dervative
work."" - John Henry
Entry:
LowGenius Digital Imaging
Year: 2003
Description:
John offers a DVD burning service.
Links:
"RSPW Website"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/X9VML6z-J4M/m/xOMm1Qx8k8kJ
"(META) RSPW - The book????"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/j30Hej0_EbU/m/WxSRM6XLiE4J
Quotes:
"It's my understanding that the three of you have discussed perhaps
throwing a few bucks in the kitty to help keep the server online; best way
to do this is via the paypal donation page ("Support") at LowGenius.Com,
although I'll be adding a similar page to RSPW.Net in the near future. I
won't hold it against anyone if I don't see anything come in, but if you
can and you want to, that's the best mechanism. We're taken care of for
this month thanks to the largesse of Dr. Mike Palij; he would appreciate
that NOT being made public, since theoretically he doesn't read RSPW any
more. Mike has been a big help to me over the last six months, having
ordered stacks of stickers and DVDs from me (and indeed, he bought me the
video card and DVD burner so I could open the DVD business at
lowgenius.com) so I'd appreciate it if his wishes were respected in this
matter." - Scutt Farkus (quoting John Henry DeJong's message to the RSPW
FAQ mailing list)
"Never, EVER make an agreement with a bill collector for an e-payment,
they'll fuck you hard on it. In my case, I told them to set up a payment
for March 31st, and they put it through on the 15th...when the moneey
wasn't there. Consequently, not only did it bounce, but three *other*
transactions, all for piddling amounts of money (like, $5 in gas), also
bounced with a $30 overdraft charge for each one, causing my account to
suddenly and unexpectedly go about $200 overdrawn...and me with no income.
Consequntly, the money that I had stashed there for my hosting is also
gone...which really fucks up my whole business plan, and completely pisses
me off, but that's life. Such are the rewards for trying to "do the right
thing" and get these back bills paid down, rather than just copping out,
filing for bankruptcy, and basically fucking everybody by forcing them to
eat my outstanding debt; I guess if things don't start looking up by the
middle of April, I'll have to just file Chapter 7...and then nobody gets
paid anything, since I don't even own enough shit for the court to bother
forcing me to liquidate (apparently federal bankruptcy law puts the
threshold at $3500 in assets, which I certainly don't have). (Just finally
peeked at my bank balance after the nightmare day I had yesterday dealing
with all this crap, and I'm actually only about $130 overdrawn, which
means I only need to bring in about $150 to get that taken care of and
keep my site online. Come on, RSPW, surely you've got some comp tapes
you'd like to have on DVD? It's super cheap, only $30 to convert 2 hours
of tape to a 2-hour DVD! If just 6 people go to the site at
www.lowgenius.com/dvd and order the basic conversion for a single tape, my
ass will be covered and you'll get a high-quality DVD to call your very
own~!) PS: Don't forget I also do domain registration and web hosting for
a very reasonable fee~!" - John Henry
"I mean, let's face it John...it's all your fucking fault here. It's not
the e-billing, it's not the bank's. You were the idiot who kept putting
all your money towards your website and the hosting & technical fees
rather than buying toilet paper, food, supplies, etc." - Alex Cain
"The site is, at least potentially, a real generator of income[...] It's
become more and more obvious that I'm just not oging to get anywhere in
the current IT market, so I use the website(s) to generate a little money.
I don't want to be a bullshit artist or a scammer, so I have to come up
with my own ideas." - John Henry
"A friend generously loaned me some equipment that allowed me to expand on
my already-existing abilities and so forth, and get into this VHS to DVD
thing which, IMO, is potentially a genuine moneymaker, especially if I can
manage to parlay it into something more than "just" copying people's home
videos. That's a start, but I'm also doing photo restoration, and even
reselling domain names and web hosting at a reasonable price, converting
video to streaming internet media, and so forth." - John Henry
"Thanks to my generous friend, I have started this little business, which
is reliant on the website. I know that there are a few dozen people
reading this message who have old videotapes of cherished events lying
around - a wedding, birthday, maybe a wrestling comp tape or a collection
of their favorite Dan Severn matches - that they'd like to preserve for a
good long time. I'd like to help them out with that, for, of course, a
small fee, which compensates me for my time, materials, and expertise.
Some folks don't really understand that magnetic tape has a limited
lifespan - 7, 10, 15 years, and that sucker's gone, and there's no getting
it back. If a few of those people care to stop by my site and place an
order - or if they're a little hesitant, feel free to e-mail or phone me
with questions - then perhaps I will be able to keep the site open for
another month, or more. More importantly than that, perhaps I won't be
left with *no choice* but to file for bankruptcy and go on welfare..." -
John Henry
"Heck, maybe some day, I'll be able to give someone else like me the break
they need. I'd also love to donate some of my time to preserving historic
film, videotape, and photographs, but I have to be making some kind of
money before I can really afford to do that. That kind of potential impact,
both in my life, and in the world-at-large, seems well worth the $10 a
month for web space and $7,95 per year for domain registration that I
spend." - John Henry
Entry:
LowGenius Toolbar
Year:
2004
Description:
John asks RSPW to install software described by journalists as malware.
Links:
"Please Consider The Free LowGenius.Com IE Toolbar"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/i6kQdSF0pzE/m/bPbFQjVte4AJ
Quotes:
"I just snagged a pretty nifty bit of technology that I"m trying to
convince people to use. It's a free LowGenius.Com toolbar [...] It helps
me out by raising my traffic rating when you visit my site with the
toolbar on, for one thing. For another, if you use it to either search
amazon or jump to amazon (there's an amazon button on it) and then buy
something, I get a small cut of the purchase price, which helps me pay my
server bill. It's painless, and doesn't do anything that the Google
toolbar doesn't do in terms of tracking your web surfing." - John Henry
"You're a bigger prick than I thought." - Curtis Blofeld
"Comparing this toolbar to a trojan is like comparing a sneeze to the
final stages of AIDS. Dvorak should be ashamed of himself for writing such
melodramatic nonsense." - John Henry (in response to Hack-Man posting an
article from PC Magazine characterizing toolbars as trojans)
"Go fuck yourself. You just summed up everything I hate about the internet.
I don't use Internet Explorer, I don't need to install browser wrecking
toolbars, I don't buy shit off of Amazon, I don't want to visit your
god-damned site, and I sure as hell don't want to pay your fucking server
bill. This the most insulting piece of self-indulgent bullshit I've ever
seen." - Rockboy
Entry:
LowGenius 9-11 Tribute Store
Year:
2003-2005
Description:
John hawks wallpapers and calendars to RSPW.
Links:
"[$hill] I think y'all will dig this..."
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/6oc6EGzUN5I/m/pXtA01RMBQAJ
"I Remind You: RedPaper.Com"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/J-uEyGjm23A/m/sG328yWKI5QJ
"LowGenius 9-11 Tribute Store"
web.archive.org/web/20040106011600/http://www.cafeshops.com/lowgenius
"The 2004 Otherworld Calendar"
web.archive.org/web/20040118110254/http://www.lulu.com/content/30701
Quotes:
"I've got my first cafepress item for sale - a 12-month wall calendar of
my original 3D artwork, stunningly rendered in red, blue, AND green~!
Seriously, I've been selling these graphics on redpaper.com for 15 cents
each as 1600x1200 desktop wallpaper, and I've had a lot of good reviews.
Now I've made them into much higher quality images and put them on a
calendar. I think they'll make an excellent gift for those people that you
don't really know what else to get 'em, like bosses and mothers-in-law.
Please take a look, and enjoy. I've priced the calendar at only $2 over
markup, which is cheap IMO. Plus all of the transaction and fulfillment is
done via cafepress, so you needn't worry about sharing your credit card
number with me or any of that." - John Henry
"Thanks for stopping by, I'm glad you came! The LowGenius Online Store at
CafeShops.Com is the exclusive home on the internet for various 9-11
tribute items featuring JohnHenry's original and critically acclaimed
digital artwork, "Reflections of Terror." 10% of all profits derived from
the sale of these items will be donated to the Red Cross." - John Henry
"I appreciate your positive feedback re: the "Otherworlds" calendar.
Hopefully someone will actually *buy* one ;-)" - John Henry
"GO GET A JOB AND GET OFF WELFRE you fucking drug using idiot." - Avenger
Entry:
LowGenius Fundraiser
Year:
2005-2007, 2010
Description:
John raises funds to pay for daily expenses and capital equipment.
Links:
"We should donate to the lowgenius fundraiser"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/dcHAL1v5R48/m/kTEsKXGKADkJ
"LowGenius Tip Jar"
web.archive.org/web/20051214094303/http://www.lowgenius.com/fundraiser.asp
"John Henry Begs For Money Again"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/weXgxXlr4Cw/m/Th1kejlq2jwJ
"Randomly dropping by"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/Q14ovijPXlc/m/SCGleS3kqgYJ
"I Need Your Help"
web.archive.org/web/20100717012649/http://www.lowgenius.net/post/2010/06/16
/I-Need-Your-Help.aspx
"Wish Lists"
web.archive.org/web/20130326062949/http://www.lowgenius.net/page/Wish-Lists
.aspx
Quotes:
"As a few of you might be aware, I moved briefly last year to Winters, CA
before getting jerked around hard, thrown under a bus, and begging my way
back across the country to my home town of Kalamazoo, MI. If anyone sees
Ahmed Johnson's Beer Belly, tell him I said get in touch next time he's in
town. I'm easy to find." - John Henry
"Starting a business isn't easy, and while I've (obviously) had some
customers, it's not been enough to keep me eating [...] It has, along with
my work with The Road Less Traveled Theatre, been enough to keep me in a
position where I don't have time for a 'real job.' Unfortunately, however,
I do have the needs of a 'real life.' There is a bunch of more in-depth
information contained in the bulleted list below, but here's the gist of
it: if something you've found on one of my sites or blogs has helped you,
or if you're just a good person with a little spare cash who wants to help
me do the various things I do, you can make a contribution using your
major credit card, e-check, or PayPal account by clicking the 'Donate'
button below." - John Henry
"Due to a crisis that has come up, Ive put a call out for contributions
to help purchase the first computer on this list. If you are not
comfortable making a cash contribution, you can buy an electronic gift
card from tigerdirect.com and send it to me via e-mail (john @ lowgenius .
com), in any amount from $10-$1000." - John Henry
"What is your definition of a 'real job?' I work very hard at what I do,
oftentimes 6-7 days a week. I just don't get paid for it. [...] If you mean
'why don't you go work for someone,' in a nutshell it's like this: I am an
experienced, but non-degreed, IT professional in a technology-poor area
just outside of one of the most talent-saturated regions of the world. You
can't throw a stick in RTP without hitting a Computer Scientist, and
unfortunately since the economy went south a few years ago, getting a job
in IT in this area without a degree is basically impossible. Conversely,
because of my field expertise and work history, when I went through a
period of diligently applying for every job available that I was the least
bit qualified to do (i.e. working on assembly lines or what have you), I
was always 'overqualified.' I'm stuck in a fairly unique gray area between
not being paper-qualified to do what I'm actually qualified to do, and
being far, far over-qualified to do anything else like being a factory
worker or taking a McJob somewhere. I've actually applied to places like
McDonalds and WalMart, and they basically laughed in my face." - John Henry
(responding to "Why don't you get a real job?")
"So it's come round again: JH is stuck with no money, no income, and no
chance of getting either via any traditional method. I hate doing this,
this asking for money crap. It makes me feel like a panhandling bum trying
to scam crack money. Unfortunately, the reality is I've never at any time
in my life been able to live comfortably. The vast majority of my life
has been spent in borrowed living friends and family who open their
homes to me for short periods, or sleeping in my car or elsewhere on the
streets. I've only avoided sleeping at drop-in centers and missions by
virtue of not wanting to have the few possessions I own stolen from me.
I'm not a junkie. I'm not a bum. I'm not a scam artist. Heck, if I was
a scam artist I'd just wrap myself in a bible and flag and then making
money would be easy. Unfortunately, I have a sense of integrity and
ethics unlike the vast majority of people who make money thumping the
bible and the flag that precludes me from manipulating friends and
strangers. I want to earn your help. I believe I *am* earning your help.
By spending my time staying aware of the current events and world issues
that confront us, using the gifts I was given at birth to strip away the
media-generated bullshit that surrounds them and present you with the
objective reality as I see it and yes, that reality often has a bias I
fulfill my purpose as a human being[...] I am the embodiment of
21st-century journalism and media[...] What am I asking for? Well,
obviously the big pipe dream is for someone with a whole bunch of extra
cash to drop it on me and go Okay, JH, you go be JH and we'll sit back
and watch. I don't think that's going to happen. But what could happen
is a whole lot of people could donate a few bucks. Heck, if everyone in
the US gave me one cent I'd have almost four million dollars. Maybe you
don't have any cash to spare
but I bet you've got some friends. I bet you
know someone who'd either enjoy or hate what I've got to say either way
they'll feel strongly about it and if you tell them about me and they
come see my site or my videos or whatever, and then they tell their
friends, the whole thing snowballs, I go viral, and maybe I can actually
start bringing this wisdom and sagacity that people keep telling me I have
to a wider audience. Hell, maybe if we work together by which I mean I
do all the work and You The People help keep me alive and able to do so
with your contributions I can actually get enough people paying
attention to make a difference. Wouldn't it be cool if I got over enough
to start saying the things I say on
oh, say the Daily Show, or Morning Joe,
or even O'Reilly?" - John Henry
""You should give money to me because I'm important, I'm a genius and if
you don't, you're a hypocrite" the marketing needs work" - Crapgame13
"He talks big shit about how smart he is then says he can't get a job and
begs for money. I guess McDonalds $6/hour is too good for him. I also lol
at his "if I had $30K I'd never need to work again" comment. Is he going
to live in a shed and eat nothing but ramen noodles for the next 30
years?" - ScottH
"I like the comment, "If I had $30K, I'd be set for life." And I was
amused by how he said he wasn't one of those folks who wrap themselves in
the flag or Bible, yet he is using the same kind of ploy by saying, "If
you don't give, my web site will disappear," just like a guy who says, "If
you don't give, then my program goes off the air." I also note that he
says, "I don't use hard drugs," as if to say that he uses drugs that aren't
"hard." And where does he get the money for those "non-hard" drugs?" -
trijcomm
"I do have to say he's an above average talker, but the begging for money
at his age is truly pathetic." - Vin Broccoli
"Anyone [...] is always welcome to get in touch, add me on your favorite
social network, whatever. Especially if you're in a position of having
enough money to want to give MAJOR - like six figure - support to a
non-profit devoted to developing the Kalamazoo area as a worldwide talent
incubator for rock, pop, blues, country, and other musicians." - John Henry
"I don't know what's more pathetic, him for begging for donations so he
can go get wasted because he can't or refuses to get a real job, or you
for stalking him." - GregoryD
Entry:
Student Loans
Year:
2004, 2010-2013
Description:
John returns to school a couple of times.
Links:
"Who really is John Henry DeJong?"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/Qv-9qyJ3DHs/m/FMNucOm4ZmsJ
"(META) RSPW's required reading for this week"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/QlPbfe0W6hY/m/okv0QTO4Y5AJ
"40 Year Old Freshman"
web.archive.org/web/20110129031950/http://www.40yearoldfreshman.com/
"Life As A 40 Year Old Freshman - Latest Comments"
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Quotes:
"I got caught with no degree in an employment downturn in my sector and
lost everything[...] That's no secret. It's the predictable result of bad
choices I made when I was young. That's why I'm in school - to try and
prevent it from happening again. In short: So I don't end up being a
fifty-something homeless dumpster-diving plagiarizing pedophile who gets
off on threatening little old ladies." - John Henry (in 2004)
"Your generous contributions help keep me in school, keep my bills paid,
and keep this website online, including paying for everything it takes to
produce the content here from gas money to spare time, furniture to food.
Make no mistake: without your help, I'm just another college drop-out
sucking up entitlement money. Click the card-bar to do what you can.
Thank you!" - John Henry (in 2011)
"Part of the purpose of this site is to raise money so I can afford to go
to college. While loans and grants are more readily available now than
they were four years ago even, there still is not enough available to pay
for life. I have rent. I have to eat. My car is slowly dying. I have
to pay to keep this website and my other sites online. I need to be able
to pay to go out and do things that will actually be entertaining for you
to read about here. 4 years of I went to class today is not going to be
the next viral sensation. So yes, there is advertising here and yes there
are and will be prominent links asking visitors to pitch in and help me
stay in school and keep this site up and interesting[...] Hopefully I
attract enough traffic that I can live on contributions and ad revenue
from this site and my other online work" - John Henry
"Just make sure you tell as many people as possible and please help if you
can whether that's moral support or positive feedback and encouragement or
contributions of cash or other things I may need or want over the course
of the next 6-8 years as I pursue my doctorate, please and thank you." -
John Henry
"I'd actually thought about donating a few buck until the line that
essentially said 'I need to party to keep this blog interesting' and the
lack of a goal[...] I give it 2 semesters/quarters." - Mhoram
"Broke one day, going to college the next. But always begging for money!
Always be a failure." - Corky's Nemesis
"You knew I would "like" it - and you will make it. What ever it takes you
will do. And pay it forward." - Elizabeth Eastman Lankford
"I'm hoping I can pay it forward to a whole bunch of people before it's
all said and done." - John Henry
Entry:
Wikipedia
Year:
2015
Description:
John's user page is deleted for spamming.
Links:
"A List Of Wikipedia Sockpuppeteers"
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"User:John Henry DeJong"
web.archive.org/web/20230807115113/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:John_
Henry_DeJong
Quotes:
"A list of suspected sockpuppets of an abusive user originally
registered with Wikipedia as "Dick Witham"[...] * User:John Henry DeJong
(renamed)" - Nemesis (reproducing Wikipedia category "Suspected Wikipedia
sockpuppets of Dick Witham")
"The vandal (see: User:John_Henry_DeJong_(renamed) formerly registered
under my name has been relieved of it, and I have taken possession of this
user name and will begin editing articles soon! Thanks to all for your
generous assistance." - John Henry DeJong
"My name is John Henry DeJong, I commonly go by John Henry in public life.
I own and operate several websites which I included here in the earlier
version of my bio because they help establish my credibility in certain
subjects. Apparently some bloke in the UK thought it appropriate to label
this "advertising" and vandalize/delete my entire user page, which is a
pretty rude and obnoxious thing to do[...] I guess if anyone wants to know
who I am and how to get in touch, they'll have to google it. Enjoy your
bizarre and counter-productive power trip, and let me know if and when
Wikipedia gets back to founding principles. I'll be happy to add my
efforts when I'm not treated something that someone stepped in simply
because I include the URLs to my sites in my user bio - a bio that,
incidentally, sat here just fine from September 2005 to April 2015 before
one delusional twit decided it was "unambiguous advertising" and
unilaterally nuked it." - lowgenius
Entry:
The End?
Year:
2000, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2018, 2023
Description:
John announces his intentions to the newsgroup.
Links:
"[META] You win."
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/dKH-OfUYYuk/m/-N1xJnpSemkJ
"ANNOUNCEMENT: My Retirement From Usenet"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/qEibuOP9oIo/m/NQW5ber22ccJ
"(ping RWA-RSPokerW) WSOP and ESPN sign new seven year pact"
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"(META) RSPW's required reading for this week"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/QlPbfe0W6hY/m/okv0QTO4Y5AJ
"The John Henry show continues. That Damned Cain is Keeping JH Down!"
groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/xy8pOrog2k0/m/ILg4IoKRBAAJ
"Let's all have a pity party for John."
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Quotes:
"I realize that the sick bastards among you will write this off as a
sympathy ploy, or a work, or whatever, but I am literally in tears as I
write this, torn between taking my own life for the good of my child and
every poor soul that has been touched by the blackened disease that is my
life....and taking a few other people out before I go. Right now, yeah,
man, I'm pretty well out of my mind. But, I'm broke, I don't have the gas
money to get to DC or Griffin GA or NYC. There's nothing I can do except
sit here and know, now, that there is damn little humanity left in human
beings." - John Henry
"Now you can come and kill me, thats fine, you're a grown man and you can
do what you want, but you know what, you've shown a pattern just from me
reading some silly troll and flame posts from you, that show you to be an
off-balanced, demented person." - PeteKOF
"I have been working with my group on a deal which will likely bring me to
low-key but national prominence in the theatrical and non-profit
communities[...] this new situation that has developed involves a
high-profile relationship with some major corporations and non-profit
organizations which are doing tremendously important work to promote the
arts and education, especially among poor and minority youth, and I will
be involved with this process on a long-term, ongoing, daily basis. After
long and deep consideration, I have come to the conclusion that I can not,
in good conscience, risk having these kids exposed to the kind of sickness
that resides in the likes of Dink[...] When you're talking about deals
worth tens or even hundreds of thousands (or even millions, over a fairly
short period of time) of dollars that will benefit untold numbers of kids
who might otherwise be lost to drug abuse, illiteracy, parental neglect or
abuse, and all the other things that children in our society face each and
every
day...well, you have to step back and reassess things[...] So, almost
precisely 9 years to the day after my first Usenet post, I big you all
adieu, and my many thanks to you all for your friendship and comradierie
throughout the last decade of my life. Being insane here has helped keep
me sane in the real world over the years, and I've grown beyond that
insanity...and now I have the change to finally make a positive difference
in a way that I have not been able to since I was playing to crowds of
15,000 or more" - John Henry
"I just don't have the time or interest to play stupid here anymore, and I
haven't for a long time. I appreciate having RSPW around to sharpen my
rhetorical claws on for several years, and I especially appreciate the
friendships I've formed here over the years, but I've moved on to other
things." - John Henry
"Ugh. Clearly, leaving Usenet when I did was the right move. There
appears to be nothing but stupid, crazy, and Chad left. Unplugging. Now I
understand why my guy inside FB told me he'd "never seen anything like
this, there are THOUSANDS of these accounts, every single one of them
doing nothing but being created, reading your pages, and mass-reporting
anything that's got a snowball's chance in hell of getting you banned by
the idiots in abuse. I don't know who you pissed off, bud, but this level
of concentrated fuckery usually only shows up against prominent political
figures." Now I understand. Pity he can't give me hard data without
risking his job...but he assures me the information I need is available,
it just has to be subpoenad before they can release it. Man, fuck all this.
Thanks for the final confirmation that this species isn't worth trying to
save. Hopefully I've still got a few good years left to learn some new
music or something." - John Henry
"LEAVE ME ALONE. I've paid my atonement - for the last ten years of being
unemployable and having the idiocy of this stupid newsgroup and all that
goes with it follow me around my offline life like a dead fish in my shoe,
I've paid. Living on the streets, fucking STARVING sometimes - literally
sleeping in my van and eating canned ravioli bought with emergency food
stamps with a plastic fork and a "general delivery" mailing address,
unable to have anything decent in my life, all because I ran my stupid
mouth on a fucking rasslin' newsgroup. My debt is paid, and paid, and paid.
I am no longer part of your world, and those of you with malicious intent
need to understand something very, very clearly: *You do not want me to
become part of your world again.*" - John Henry
"I've been trying to shake the stink of this dump out of my hair for
basically two decades now." - John Henry