>Alright who is this "shakes the clown" character...FYI bad name dude!?!! Hi, Kristin. Nice to have you here. shakes doesn't need me to defend him, but I'll help prevent you from getting laughed at by other posters for your comment.
"shakes the clown" (remember the Bobcat Goldthwait movie of the same name? No? Well, read this summary) was a reality TV contestant who joined this board "undercover" before his show aired, to help plug it. Then he stayed.
The show was Fox's Love Cruise, which was produced by Bunim-Murray Productions (Real World, Road Rules) in 2000, right after the first Survivor aired, and shakes turned out to be Michael, aka "The Chessmaster," who masterminded the ChiTown alliance and engineered everyone getting booted off the boat, including two former alliance members who tried to double-cross him. Here's his bio from the show, which aired in Sept. and Oct. 2001.
Unfortunately, the debut episode of Love Cruise was scheduled to air on 9/11/01 -- and it never recovered from all of the schedule changes resulting from the terrorist attack. Michael, however, was the show's focal point.
>PS Shakes----I forgot that the last time I saw you on
>TV you were totally interesting.
Yeah, he was. TV Guide said that he was the most interesting character to have appeared on reality TV since Richard Hatch.
So now you know.