MikeAI couldn't find many with balls/brains (or maybe stupidity) to debate with him on various issues so if I recalled correctly Mike and Billy started ynottoppond for fun (just look at the name) and to have a place to express some issues with no BS and nothing owed to sponsors who might be "questionable" (much like the current Oprano)
A lot of Ynottoppond was Billy, Mike, Don of Onique and a few others (maybe Dravek) and Billy and I spent a lot of time talking about the sewer/drainage systems of NO and even more time about food
From there Serge was in the position to move from a regular poster at Netpond (he may have had some ideas that might not have been well received by the new owners of Netpond, I wasn't the fly on the wall so I can't say truthfully)
Serge then paired with Mike and ...... Oprano was born and history was made
The name Oprano was choose partially because how easily it rolled off the tongue, obviously there were other reasons
How did I get here .... from being a ynottoppond regular and friendships with Mike, Billy and Serge and wanting to be a little fish in the big pond
Little fish in big ponds feed better than big fish in little ponds
Now you know how I got here and some of my take on the Oprano story
Aren't you sorry you asked?
