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The Prancing Skiltaire

2005-11-14T00:34:26Z

Albear: Tess and Rick moved to Washington State in April-May 2005

The '''Prancing Skiltaire''' is the given name of a private residence in [[Wikipedia:Orange County|Orange County]], [[Wikipedia:California|California]], owned by [[Mark Merlino]]. It is host to a group of [[furries]] that share their common interests in the [[furry fandom]], and also have been host to a variety of public events in the past years: annual holiday get-togethers, [[ConFurence]] and [[Califur]] staff meetings, [[filk]]ing concerts, and more recently, has taken over the previous role of monthly parties that were hosted by the wildly popular [[Rick's Cafe' Terrestrienne]], which were just located a few blocks East until [[Rick Calhoun|Rick]] and [[Tess the Red Pony|Tess Calhoun]] moved to state of [[Wikipedia:Washington|Washington]], [[Wikipedia:United States|USA]] in mid [[2005]].

[[Image:HouseAndSign.jpg|center|The Prancing Skiltaire]]

== Houseparty ==
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Guests of the monthly party are asked to provide their own food and munchies. A BBQ is available in the backyard.

== History ==

The name of the house was modelled after traditional Old English tradition: e.g.: "Red Lion Inn", "The Boar's Head", etc. which signifies a place of abode and commune to weary travelers. [[Skiltaire]] are a [[species]] created by Mark for a personally-made [[role-playing game|RPG]].

The five-bedroom house is known for its primarily furry-themed decor. Most of the walls and shelving space is decked out with original and re-created animation cels of past furry movies, Japanese and Chinese manga, original artwork by various furry artists, an extensive collection of DVDs, CDs, music, and offbeat movies, a large collection of [[plushie]]s, memorabilia, collectables, statuettes, etc.

== Tiger's Den BBS ==

'''Date of Operation:''' 1983-1996

Not to be confused with [[Tigerden Internet Services]], [[Tiger's Den BBS]] was a furry-themed [[bulletin board service]] in the mid-to-late 80's before the popularization of the internet. The servers were located in the far east wing of the house. As a result of this and Mark's professional skills as a networking engineer, the house was rigged with a more-than-adequate ethernet network, which was ahead of its time for a personal residence before the popularization of residental LANs.

== Firstlight Internet Services ==

The skiltaire also has a history with [[Firstlight Internet Services]]. Firstlight was/is a full-service ISP, once primarily based out of [[Wikipedia:Orange County|Orange County]]. [[Koyama|Neil Welchell]], its owner, was a long-time resident at the house, and consequently, partners in maintaining the communication networks provided at [[ConFurence]], along with [[Tigerden Internet Services]]. Many of the residents of the house were given complimentary webspace and email addresses, some of which are still in use today. The ISP was also host of [[The Pride Lands MUCK]], an offshoot of [[The Lion King MUCK]].

The name Firstlight was chosen for the area of TLK MUCK which hosted the Firstlight Pride, for its positioning on the far-eastern borders of the muck; it being the first light of day. The Pride was composed of many various species of animal; something which the staff of TLK MUCK objected to. The idea of, say, a [[honey badger]] being mated to a [[lion|lioness]] seemed a horribly taboo idea for many of the players and thus they were subject of regular complaints to the administration. The members of the pride decided to create their own Lion King themed MUCK, and thus [[The Pride Lands MUCK]] was born.

== Politics ==

Many rumors surround the house as to the social circumstances of its occupants. These rumors have deterred potential guests from attending past events held at the house. '''Many of these rumors are just that: rumors.''' The house is host to many furries and has been, in the past, commune for those furs either displaced from their home and given residence for rent or exchange of apprenticeship in Mark's network communication company, Lantana, Ltd. The house's occupants are friendly and open to visitors. Like any other house, it has met its trials and tribulations. If anything, the house has been a service to the furry community, and continues to do so to this day.

== External links ==
* [http://www.skiltaire.net/prancing/index.html The Prancing Skiltaire home page]
* [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PrancingSkiltaire/ Prancing Skiltaire Yahoo Group]

[[Category:Furry houses]]
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Rate My Fursuit

2005-10-16T00:09:27Z

Albear:

'''ratemyfursuit.com''' is a defunct website which existed for a very short while in early 2004 in which members of the [[furry]] community would post pictures of their [[fursuit]]s on a photo gallery like "[http://hotornot.com/ hotornot.com]", and visitors to the website would "rate" the picture. It also had a message board.

* '''Address''': http://ratemyfursuit.com/ (down, see [http://web.archive.org/web/20040618114217/http://www.ratemyfursuit.com/ archive])

Unfortunately the website was abused to the point of flame wars erupting and people voting dozens of times for their favorite fursuit pictures, thus defeating the rating system. The website was eventually taken down and for many months in its place was a message saying that it would return. Unfortunately it didn't. [[Something Awful|Something Awful]] made the website "Rate my fursuit" an "Awful link of the day" on June 15, 2004 and soon after SA [[trolls]] contributed heavily to its demise.
[[Category:Websites]]

Rate My Fursuit

2005-10-16T00:08:34Z

Albear: Added facts

'''ratemyfursuit.com''' is a defunct website which existed for a very short while in early 2004 in which members of the [[furry]] community would post pictures of their [[fursuit]]s on a photo gallery like "[http://hotornot.com/ hotornot.com]", and visitors to the website would "rate" the picture. It also had a message board.

* '''Address''': http://ratemyfursuit.com/ (down, see [http://web.archive.org/web/20040618114217/http://www.ratemyfursuit.com/ archive])

Unfortunately the website was abused to the point of flame wars erupting and people voting dozens of times for their favorite fursuit pictures, thus defeating the rating system. The website was eventually taken down and for many months in its place was a message saying that it would return. Unfortunately it didn't. [[Something Awful|Something Awful]] made the website "Ratem my fursuit" an "Awful link of the day" on June 15, 2004 and soon after SA [[trolls]] contributed heavily to its demise.
[[Category:Websites]]

Rate My Fursuit

2005-10-14T13:48:34Z

Albear:

ratemyfursuit.com is a defunct website which existed for a very short while in early 2004 in which members of the furry community would post pictures of their [[fursuits]] like "hotornot.com" and visitors to the website would "rate" the picture. It also had a message board. Unfortunatelly the website was abused to the point of flame wars erupting and people voting dozens of times for their favorite fursuit pictures. The website was eventually taken down and for many months in it's place was a message saying that it would return. Unfortunatelly it didn't. It is believed that [[SA]] heard of this webpage and their [[trolls]] contributed heavily to it's demise.

== External links ==
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20040618114217/http://www.ratemyfursuit.com/]

Rate My Fursuit

2005-10-14T13:43:35Z

Albear:

SA

2005-10-14T13:43:14Z

Albear:

Something Awful

Rate My Fursuit

2005-10-14T13:35:03Z

Albear: www.ratemyfursuit.com