Uh, Firbal, Ak,
If you look at the dates on Balo's comments, you will see that the thread is nearly two years old.
It was a joke!

A troll. The original poster owned up to it (I forget who he was).
A good time was had by all.
But it was obviously a good troll, since even now, people are still spitting hooks from their mouths.
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> Balo!
We now return you to our regularly scheduled program