Gather round, children, and hear my tale of the Xanga Wars of 2005. It was a war that pitted friend against friend and brother against brother and it may not still be fully resolved. It was a war of mischief and genius and attack and counterattack and deception and perception.

It all started out when the Gardner brothers figured out certain passwords to a certain HuskyPooch and Chrissiesplace site, and then one of them, Benjamin, deciding to have a little fun, made some inane changes to prove that although losing his hair, he did retain a sense of humor. This, of course, met with many laughs and groans and HuskyPooch counter-hacked. And then, as brothers will sometimes do, they also shared their passwords with certain of their good friends who they felt could be trusted, and verily gave these friends permission to add or detract from said HuskyPooch site.

Except that their friends, wishing to be funny, as well, also made inane and humorous changes to a certain HuskyPooch's site, unbeknownst to him.  One particular friend, the-one-whose-name-is-Greek-for-electron, decided to get frisky, and she made some changes to HuskyPooch's site that were major--or so it was rumored.  HuskyPooch, thinking it was Benjamin again, promptly used his password to hack his site.  And so they battled back and forth until it was revealed that she-whose-middle-name-is-Tenee had been partially responsible, as was Sarah Swinney, with whom the Force resides.

And then she-who-will-miss-church-to-attend-Star-Wars-musicals decided to play fast and loose with Brother Daniel's site, and with a bit of coaching from the owner of the HuskyPooch site, she discovered his password and gently tweaked Daniel's site, thus worrying and yet amusing him.

After being patient and longsuffering and putting up with many games and much fun at their expense, the Gardner brothers decided to have some fun of their own.  So brother Benjamin and brother David, independently of each other, hacked Texanamber's password (it was "sanantonio") on the Wednesday evening preceeding Texanamber's challenge to David and Benjamin and Daniel to hack her password, early Thursday morning.  Indeed, unbeknownst to her, and chortling maliciously to themselves, they had already gone into her site on Wednesday evening and sniffed around and strategized and were planning on having a little bit of fun while she was gone to San Antonio to visit her grandmother.  Except that, in a show of very poor sportsmanship, and upon challenging the Gardner Brothers to discover her password, Miss Hendricks promptly changed her password on Thursday evening.

This grieved the Gardner Brothers very much, and did raise their ire exceedingly.  However, putting their heads together and professing their mutual affection one for the other, they decided to have their revenge, regardless.  And so, at Brother Daniel's and Brother Benjamin's direction, Brother David created parody sites for Texanamber and Jedildy and Roses_Music.  Except that Roses_Music was ultimately cleared of wrongdoing, and so they didn't bother her.

And then they proceeded to post indiscriminately under the guise of these parody sites.  And they mimicked syntax and word order and figures of speech to perfection, and, although irritating the heck out of Sarah Swinney, they did fool one of her friends into posting to the parody site.  And then they proceeded to hit pay dirt and got three of Amber's friends to post to HER parody site.  And then, because they do value their friendship with their friends, and because they had proved their point that although at the mercy of their friends, they are hardly defenseless, and that they are, verily, generally as intelligent as they are good looking (with the exception of Brother Benjamin who is bald and stupid, yet occasionally likable), and having cleared the Gardner name and honor, they hereby admit their mischief and declare that she-who-would-squish-her-brother's-head and the adopted-Gardner-who-is-Hendricks, have been "punked", to use the vernacular, by what has been a marvelous and splendid excercise of brotherly orchestration and planning and implementation of mischief.

So there. The marvelous graphic above, created by Brother Daniel, says it all.