Last week, representative Blake Farenthold of Texas lamented on the radio that some "female senators from the Northeast" stood in the way of repealing the Affordable Care Act. "If it was a guy from south Texas," he said, "I might ask him to step outside and settle this Aaron Burr-style," suggesting he'd love to duel, say, Susan Collins of Maine. But who really is Blake Farenthold (besides a man who jokes about shooting his colleagues and an actual pajama boy)? Based on his early internet Usenet messages, Farenthold is a man who cares deeply about the accuracy of Die Hard 2's telecom tech, and also that Jimmy Buffet videos be full of boobs.

It's not too surprising that Farenthold was big on BBS in the internet's early days, considering his history. He received a bachelor's degree in Radio, Television, and Film in 1985, and even ran a computer consulting and web design firm before entering politics.

So it makes sense that on July 9, 1990, Farenthold wrote the following in the comp.dcom.telecom newsgroup under the title "Die Hard 2 Dies on Telecom":

He may be the Neil deGrasse Tyson of the early 1990s telecom BBS community, but honestly, inane but glaring and wholly avoidable mistakes ruining a movie is perhaps the most sympathetic position that Farenthold's early postings stake out.

A spokesperson for Farenthold's office confirmed that this is indeed the same Blake Farenthold, noting that "he has been using the internet since the 1980s." And boy, has he ever!

In that same telecom newsgroup, Farenthold—the one-time owner of Blow-me.org—also revealed his strategy for dealing with his apparent "possessive woman" problem: