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Havachatwithhexy... 23-Nov-2005 At 12:27:03 PM oweng

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On 23/11/2005 The HEX wrote:
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>The great Alan ' dogs vomit ' Barich ... hez always been an inspiration
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>Dad ? ... more like a demented lil bro, runnin' amok on red cordial !
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Dont suppose you know who it was Hex? I read through the storm of letters last night. Gold I tells ya.

For those not familiar, in about 94/95 Alan Barich from 'Team Rocko' wrote a letter to Rock Magazine suggesting that routes should be chipped so that you get climbs with jugs right where you want them, and that routes should be retro-bolted so there were no run-outs greater than 2 metres. Apparently this was common practice in Europe, and we should be doing it here in Australia. 'Team Rocko's' PE teacher at school thought this was a good idea. Alan was going to borrow dads drill and get to it.

This started a very entertaining letter slanging match that lasted over a year and got quite personal!

After reading enough trolling posts on Internet sites, its pretty obvious with hindsight that the letters were a (very succesful) satirical troll.