Classic "3" - Typos to Sexual Assault

This was originally a top 5 list, but I had to extend it to get Jon on here. Although it could be argued this should be higher than it is, I knocked it to the end because of the fact that it's the most "inside jokeish" of all the classics. In otherwords, it takes a blow because almost all of what makes it classic happened off the page. The story is that following a streak of popularity, or for no reason what so ever, Matt declared himself Page 3's Most Beloved Writer. During this blog Jon made an acronym out of it and called Matt "MBL". In and of itself it would have been chalked up as a typo (somehow) and forgotten about. However, Sarah asked Jon in person and on AIM what he meant by "MBL". Jon couldn't believe Sarah couldn't figure it out, but wouldn't tell her either. They went back and forth for a couple days (both stubbornly leaving out any details on where the "sticking point" was) before Jon realized the "L" in MBL made no sense. Henceforth from that day Matt was to be called the MBL.

Page 3 was in its infancy and we needed content. Matt says he was going to write more but I needed it ASAP so he left it where it was. Coming in at 169 words it is still the butt of many Page 3 related jabs at Matt. However, thanks to Jon, no jab at Matt can be made without him pointing out he's the MBL.

Widely regarded as the most rambling, boring, "You had to be there story" on Page 3 I still get crap for it 'til this day. In fact it spawned this follow up blog by Matt. In my defense a woman getting so fed up waiting for her food she just steals someone else's and leaves IS interesting, but whatever. Screw you guys.

The idea was simple, short, and sweet (Albeit, longer than the gold standard for brevity Matt set earlier). Pudding Pops were back on the market and Matt wanted to let the world know. No one could guess at the impact he would make on the ladies, or at least a certain subset. Apparently when a woman gets preggers she turns into a Pudding-Pop-Eating-Machine. Some pregnant woman found Matt's article and put the link on a popular message board dealing with pregnancy. It received 650 hits over the next few weeks, generated 8 comments from "non regulars," and spawned numerous long threads in the pregger forum.

Ironically this was the only article to date that wasn't just a glorified blog. It was finally about something other than our own mundane lives. It had research and everything. Unfortunately it lacked any mention of Civil War era high school track coaches, and one reader took offense. Jason Kaltved's comment came in at a staggering 1774 words, 1114 longer than the original article. He spent an hour and a half in the middle of the night Christmas morning critiquing Matt's article. We like to think he couldn't sleep after being Santa for the night and we gave him a little outlet. He found the article by googleing 'Minnesota Sports Hall of Fame' at 2:40 AM. To this day it remains as one of the best written things on Page 3. Actually, the fact that it only took and hour and a half is pretty impressive.

Some would argue this was the day Page 3 arrived. No arguments will be listened to for this not being the top moment/event in Page 3's history. The story is as follows:

Sarah read an article or two in local papers about Waylon Meyer. He was a basketball player, at the time, in Hudson, WI being accused of sexual assault. Waylon's mother lobbied the judge to have the case put off until after the basketball season.

Sarah thought it was pretty ridiculous to put off a trial until after a high school basketball season and expressed her anger in article form. Unfortunately some of Waylon's friends found the site by googleing his name; we got flamed like there was no tomorrow. At one point his uncle showed up and left some nice comments telling the other side of the story. It was a nice finish, and really a Page 3 exclusive, no other media outlet had the behind the scenes side of the story we did. Turns out it was far from finished.

A couple months passed and public sentiment boiled over regarding the case and Waylon was suspended from the basketball team. Lo and behold within days of basketball being out of the picture the whole issue was settled.

Soon after the case was over Waylon himself showed up demanding we take the page off the internet because we had no right to use his name. Keep in mind he's 18 and his name and picture was in many a paper by this point. Also keep in mind that in the posts telling us we had no right to use his name he identified himself by name, more a few times. He used his name almost as much as he used angry exclamation points. His mom actually had the nerve to call Sarah's house, Sarah wasn't home, but Sarah's mom was briefed of the situation.

Eventually we caved and took his picture down and name out of the original article (His name was replaced with hot links to where he used his name of course) because Sarah's mom turned into a nervous wreck over the ordeal.

Over the next few weeks we got flamed by a group of people who appeared to be typing on a random letter generator, Waylon got flamed by a couple of people who seemed to want him dead. Soon after the storm blew over, but not many low rent sites like this can generate potential lawsuits. Plus, it spawned the eventual Page 3 language filter.