Based on when they post, how they post, and how they come and go I am of the opinion that all of these mults may be related.

AFAKAPB
Exclamation Moint
HawaiiYou
whistler
The Hawk

Common themes
Over the top unique style.
Always live "out of the area" though I'm not sure we ever knew where AFAKAPB lived. However, he also was so far in the past that the template may not have been complete.
Long periods where they disappear and reappear.
Very few examples of them posting at the same amount at the same time.
Intricate stories on who they are.
No one has ever met any of them.

The Hawk is probably the hardest to include in the list because he at least puts in the effort of posting semi-regularly.

Discuss.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I'd prefer not to.

Just let them be.

Heed my words of wisdom.

This is similar to how they tried to delegitimize Trump.

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Someone has to truly have no life to do that

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What about a guy who notices it?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Whistler & Hawaii You are definitely the same person.

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Drake LaRieta has to go in this pile somewhere.

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

Every mult matters

Well said, someguy.

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

Touche...beni hanna

suspect....

vitoscotti

I don't know if they're all one guy, but The Hawk as a Jalapenos & More mult is plausible. You have a very good point that all these mults have such elaborate backstories (but then we seem to think Nardi and vitoscotti are mults and they're just generic shitheads).

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dignified rube is perhaps the best run mult on here, needs to get more credit in the mult tourney

I also almost included Cheap Charlie based on his stories of riding the rivers of Southeast Asia.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

For sure! He's in this Venn Diagram somewhere.

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I was a mult for like 4 years. I think I was a mult until Cairo left.

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

I appreciated the dual characters Puffer and Mr. Pickles. Puffer would praise Pickles like some kind of acolyte and then Pickles would have some odd, strong take on a subject. I think the person would mult on other boards and then bring everyone together in a youtube page of weirdness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Viyb_PYay-4

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And men have lost their reason.

Pretty solid work brick, i could see that being true.

I miss poofer and pickles

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--yet I can't look away."

I thought The Poofer was JimmyReardon.

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If you are playing mult hunters...Caller Bob with the whiff...

On or about 2011-2012, I made the assertion that Telegram Sam was the latest incarnation of Jalapenos and More. I based this knowledge on the overall level of funny of each poster. beni and I did not really believe JyM was TS. beni just found it hard to believe our little community had that many funny people. So we lumped them together...you know...as a joke.

beni is not in the same league as Telegram Sam.

opinions vary

Wait ... Sam runs a Japanese burger joint?

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
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Definitely seems like they both post from the 5 hours behind Chicago time 808.

i'm not sure about that but the hawk is definitely a guy in his 40's posing as a 70-year-old roughly. the biggest mistake he made was making him a bryan adams fan. dead giveaway.

Sending his Grandfather's 'Nam uniform didn't help his cause, either.

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I used to confuse/blend/admix sinicalypse and CH and maybe SomeGuy or IkeSouth? into an amalgamated edgy-for-a-sports-tawk-board poster; which retrospectively reviewing that list makes zero sense, all very different posters.

This seems to be the thread of the day. Nice work, Rick.

Id have thought there'd be a 9 pager on Kyle Korver

Mult v. someone doing a bit.....doesn't matter I guess.

I very much agree with those listed so far.

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Me too.

Let's save that for tomorrow.

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Missed that one

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