Who remembers the Prohosters cat swinging scandal?
 

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I think its gotta rank like #3 of all time gfy scandals

I do. I believe it was when I first started reading this board - or close to it.

I was like wtf.

who can forget that?

I heard Tim has upgraded to small dogs.

That must of been 2 or 3 years ago. :1orglaugh

Hickman right?

Hickman the cat hurler

Ted Hickman.

http://web.archive.org/web/200301060...humbsz.com/ph/

i know i forgot all about it, but sarah_webinc brought it up earlier on another board :1orglaugh

Ted, sorry. Ted!

are prohosters still in business?

Hard to forget, did they ever set up a both that year?

lol, hysterical to see this thread... was actually thinking about Ted and his cat tossing antics earlier today for some reason. i remember how he didn't show at the convention at the last minute, a group of peeps were supposedly going to stomp his cat-tossing ass at the show..

They were bought by Carpathia hosting. Ironic because Carpathia is the name of the ship that rescued passengers from a sinking ship, Titanic.

I just took a look at their site. Their plans seem pretty decent.

Nope they sure didn't.


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anyone still have the video somewhere??????

weird... i would like to know more about this! :D

I wonder what could have brought it up in your mind ;)

To me it is one of those things that was so insane it was great to watch. I found myself once not thinking and asking a non-industry friend if he remembered the cat swining scandal before remembering that it was only such a huge story to our little community. If felt like it had been live on CNN every night for week.

http://www.chodadog.com/images/m20.jpg

Can't believe I still have this image. From when they had some downtime due to a router failure shortly after the cat tossing incident.

hey... i like your nick name... are you from south america? are you related with UFO shit? ...have you got cows that get hurt by the chupacabras? :pimp :1orglaugh

and didn't somebody put a picture of a cat crossed out (no smoking style) on their booth?

ahhh Prohosters..my 1st host and yep remember the cat thing.. seems like a long time ago now...lol

Was the original thread deleted? I could find ones about it but not the actual thread. It was 2003 btw.

yep, classic GFY, comedy gold... the scuttlebutt was that Ted made it halfway to the show and turned back at a connecting flight after reading the GFY threads, lol..

can we see the video again>

And the way he tried to defend it was... well too much.

I took a tour of teds old datacenter recently, & saw all the carpathia box's hahahaha

someones gotta still have this video...even though its 3 years old

I remember :thumbsup

LOL this is like opening an old yearbook.

remember it well.