Editing Tangency Timeline (section)

==Undated Memes==
;Blame Mike Gentry (or, It's all Mike Gentry's fault!) :An ancient RPGnet meme.  It began on the "old software" boards when flames and ill will towards others was high.  In a symbolic gesture, a poster named Mike Gentry stepped forward and offerred to take all responsibility for all inflammatory posts.  Instead of blowing up and attacking another poster, all someone had to do was blame Mike Gentry for whatever was wrong.  Since then, Mike Gentry has been blamed for nearly every infamous thing under the sun and then some.  Possibly this is why the meme is no longer useful.
; Cast Tangency : threads in which posters are given certain roles.  ''Cast Tangency as Fruit'' is one such example.  Seems to have gone by the wayside for now.  (David Johansen for suggestion, Lazarus for description)
::This appears to return cyclicly; the first such thread was simply called "Cast Tangency!" and was started by Magic Pink on July 19, 2002. It included a rule that you were not to read previous casting decisions before doing your own. Tangentials were cast as Hollywood people. I'll come back later to date the various waves of frequent casting.
; Hawt Chick Threads (David Johansen)
; Holy Bear's Tangency Turf : a nifty comic by Holy Bear.  Since gone away.  Now days, the meme is to ask Holy Bear when he's bringing it back.  (David Johansen for suggestion, Lazarus for description)
; Keetooms and Pie : The good stuff in life.  (David Johansen)
; Porn Monday : Monday is the day of the week for discussing all things porn.  Came about as a wish to reduce the proliferation of such talk on other days, I believe. (David Johansen for suggestion, Lazarus for description)
; Tangency Clique : This term was probably invented during the arguments for an Other Media forum.  It was coined to describe the high profile and high post count forum users who seem to exclusively post to Tangency Open or post in other sections of the forums with extreme infrequency.  These posters allegedly drive the topics of discourse in Tangency Open.  Further allegations state the Tangency Clique dogpiles and incessantly flames all those with any views that are outside of theirs, or threadcrap those who they desire to silence.  This creates arbitrary divide between the Tangency Open community and some of the other posters to the site who do not feel like part of that community.
: The regulars of Tangency Open deny the existence of this clique.  Its existence is open to debate.
:: There was a time when the concept was mocked by people forming lots of named cliques, many of which persist to this day. New ones are added sometimes.