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"I know all about your checkered past..."
This entry is a lesson in how to humiliate an adversary - 1988 style.
These days, paid troll farms might be too sophisticated to make comebacks like this effective. But it was dynamite in 1988.
Let's go back to when I was in high school - perhaps late during freshman year. Because I was surrounded by spoiled idiots all day, it was a guarantee that I'd catch them saying or doing something incredibly stupid at least once every 30 seconds.
They might start a typical conversation by asking something like, "Remember last year when you got a 68 on a history test?"
I might reply, "Remember last week when you got caught in the restroom with a Sears catalog?"
Pretty quickly, however, I realized that more had to be done to combat these little twerps. Bardeux to the rescue!
After Bardeux's now-lost hit was released, I used a line from the song as a new comeback: "I know all about your checkered past."
Anyone who I used that line on was huuuuuuuuuumiliated! They got a look on their face like Dan Quayle did after Lloyd Bentsen told him, "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy." The person stumbled backwards like a buffoon. Then they looked like they were about to cry!
Actually, I didn't know all about their checkered past. I just acted like I did, because present behavior seems to be a good indicator of past behavior. But the way they reacted to the Bardeux line shows my assumptions were correct.
This line usually didn't work over stupid stuff. After I began using this line, somebody tried using it to make some point that is now forgotten. It just bounced off like water off a duck's back.
We've played this game 1,000 times before.
