Ghostdog Explained, A Super Dump, and A Nod to the Mods

"Goggles Pizzano" (gogglespizzano)
05/10/2015 at 06:48 • Filed to: Ghostdog, Blip

First and foremost I want to thank all the Mods for taking care of the community. You gave your time, you banned the riffraff, and you le d by example. You helped sustain and nurture this colorful online culture. I’ve had an amazing 10 years here and I can’t thank you enough.

Secondly, I’d like to specifically thank you for not banning me. For those of you who weren’t around in early 2015, every Sunday for 10 weeks a photo dump would appear on Oppo with an unclickable username. For those of you who missed the random replies in other posts, I was that Ghostdog.

One of the rules of Kinja is don’t try to break Kinja and I could see how you may think I hacked it. This wasn’t the case. It all started innocently enough with a post about the Dodge Dart titled Dodge, Just Don’t . People replied and I replied to them. Nothing was out of the ordinary. If memory serves it was up for quite a while when I decided to edit the post to add an image or fix a typo. This is where things went sideways.

My avatar disappeared and was replaced by a silhouette of a grey head . My user name had become greyed out and read something generic. It was only in this post and my profile was unaffected. WTF.

I immediately emailed Ernie and explained in detail what had happened. A day later I received a reply with some questions and another day later he said he couldn’t figure it out. This is where the story could have easily ended but instead took a sharp left turn. The last word in his reply was, “Congratulations!”. How could I not do something with that? I had the ability to change the screen name and avatar, and so Ghostdog was born.

I changed the screen name to Ghostdog, updated the avatar to Don Knots and titled it simply, “Blip”. Every week I’d edit the post and repost. With a week to prepare for each I tried to put in some real effort. As a shoutout to Raphael I created the flying Mitsubishi gif.

Below are all 10 dumps. I’m hopeful they’ll all load. At the bottom is the video from which I got the dog hood ornament lead image.

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Dump 2

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Dump 7

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DISCUSSION (16)

pip bip - choose Corrour > Goggles Pizzano
05/10/2015 at 06:57

Kinja'd!!!

Venturi!

pip bip - choose Corrour > Goggles Pizzano
05/10/2015 at 06:57

Kinja'd!!!

NSFW!

pip bip - choose Corrour > Goggles Pizzano
05/10/2015 at 06:58

Kinja'd!!!

that don’t look right!

Nibby > Goggles Pizzano
05/10/2015 at 07:58

Kinja'd!!!

unf

vdub_nut: scooter snob > Goggles Pizzano
05/10/2015 at 09:07

Kinja'd!!!

I BELIEEEVVVE I CAN FLYYYYYYYYY

I GOT SHOT BY THE FFFBBBIIIIII

Thomas Donohue > Goggles Pizzano
11/13/2020 at 15:00

Assuming this is Circuit De La Sarth? What corner?

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Goggles Pizzano
11/13/2020 at 15:01

Kinja'd!!!

How does that happen?

Also, do you have a screenshot of what it looked like?

Goggles Pizzano > Thomas Donohue
11/13/2020 at 15:14

Sorry, you’ll need to be more specific, or include a pic. :-)x

Goggles Pizzano > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
11/13/2020 at 15:15

“Also, do you have a screenshot of what it looked like?”

What do you mean?

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Goggles Pizzano
11/13/2020 at 15:28

My avatar disappeared and was replaced by a silhouette of a grey head . My user name had become greyed out and read something generic.

How could I not do something with that? I had the ability to change the screen name and avatar, and so Ghostdog was born.

I changed the screen name to Ghostdog, updated the avatar to Don Knots and titled it simply, “Blip”. Every week I’d edit the post and repost.

Of what the post looked like with a grayed out username?

Goggles Pizzano > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
11/13/2020 at 15:32

I think I just sent Ernie a link. The av ata r was like the blue one you see today before you sign in, but in those days they were grey. Username was u nclickable.

Thomas Donohue > Goggles Pizzano
11/13/2020 at 15:33

Damn Kinja.....right til the very end!!!!!

(it still won’t add.....)

Kinja'd!!!

Goggles Pizzano > Thomas Donohue
11/13/2020 at 15:42

Learned why you had trouble with the pic..Huge p ng. Photo was taken at La Source hairpin, Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, 1982.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Goggles Pizzano
11/13/2020 at 16:14

That is very odd. Does that broken post still exist somewhere?

Goggles Pizzano > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
11/13/2020 at 16:22

The IT depar tment shut ‘ er down and it reverted to a regular post. I’ve edit ed and reposted. This is it, you’re in it.

Taylor Martin > Goggles Pizzano
11/14/2020 at 07:03

Lots of fantastic C O N T E N T but I gotta say, those rally 2CVs are something else. T he LEAN on those bad boys is unreal.