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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on August 24, 1999 12:37 AM:

It occurred to me that there were certain. . . things. . . that were undisputably top around here. Does that make sense? Probably not, but maybe you'll understand when you read what I've got so far:

The Flare Band: They Might Be Giants

The Flare Soft Drink: Dr. Pepper

The Flare Candy: Creme Eggs

The Flare Director: Kevin Smith

The Flare Cartoon: tied between The Simpsons and South Park

The Flare Comedy Team: tied between Monty Python's Flying Circus and The Fast Show

The Flare SF TV Show: Babylon 5

The Flare Columnist: James Lilleks

You get the idea? Most of the above would be chosen by the majority if asked. Not everyone has to agree, and if you went to a vote some of them would be beaten by something else, but at first glance they'd all be the likely winners. Now, what others are there? Just remember - non-Trek things only.

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Phase 1: Steal Underpants
Phase 2: ?
Phase 3: Profit!

Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on August 24, 1999 03:09 AM:

The Flare Food Compliment: Curry

And, of course I just have to try for...

The Flare Juice: Cranberry

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Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")

[This message has been edited by Elim Garak (edited August 24, 1999).]

Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on August 24, 1999 04:25 AM:

*smacks head* CURRY!!! Damnation. . . but you get the idea. But cranberry juice? No. Nobody's even ever mentioned cranberry juice here!

Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on August 24, 1999 04:27 AM:

I think the Flare Columnist is a tie between James Lileks and that other guy Baloo posts... Scalzi? ...

also:

Flare Vicarious Topic Provider: Baloo's Cousin

Flare Topic of Obssesive Interest: Charles's Sheep

And of course..... the Flare SexKitten: Jubilee

( I have to get a plug in SOMEWHERE...)

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"Elevator to hell, going up." - What Dreams May Come

Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on August 24, 1999 04:50 AM:

Cor, that Jubes. . . always me, me, me. Wore me out, let me tell you. }B)

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Phase 1: Steal Underpants
Phase 2: ?
Phase 3: Profit!

Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on August 24, 1999 04:53 AM:

And I'll do it again, you SexGod, you.......

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�From Me all things proceed and unto Me they must return. Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold � all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals. Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you. ... Know the Mystery: for if that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find it without. For behold, I have been with you from the beginning, and I am that which is attained at the end of desire.�

Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on August 24, 1999 04:53 AM:

Uh oh... Lee has scorned the Juice!

*Runs away so he doesn't accidently get smited*

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Darlene: I read a lot of science fiction.
Herbert: Bless you, my child.
Kay: The world needs more people like you.

-Deep Space Nine, "Far Beyond the Stars."

Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on August 24, 1999 04:54 AM:

Harrumph!

http://flare.solareclipse.net/Forum3/HTML/000117.html

http://flare.solareclipse.net/Forum3/HTML/000154.html

http://flare.solareclipse.net/Forum3/HTML/000163.html

http://flare.solareclipse.net/Forum3/HTML/000167.html

http://flare.solareclipse.net/Archives/Archive-000002/HTML/19990625-3-000045.html

http://flare.solareclipse.net/Archives/Archive-000002/HTML/19990820-3-000099.html

A sampling of the power of cranberry juice, the only non-alcoholic and non-carbonated beverage mentioned this many times on this bulletin board and discussed in private by its members.

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Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")

Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on August 24, 1999 05:34 AM:

The Flare Poster Boy: Frank G.

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Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. Inside of a dog, it's to dark to read. Groucho Marx

Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on August 24, 1999 05:42 AM:

LOL..."Poster Boy." It has a double meaning.

And the Flare Cartoon ought to be Transformers, no?

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Frank's Supernifty Page

Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on August 24, 1999 05:58 AM:

I'll second that.

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Darlene: I read a lot of science fiction.
Herbert: Bless you, my child.
Kay: The world needs more people like you.

-Deep Space Nine, "Far Beyond the Stars."

Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on August 24, 1999 08:48 AM:

Flare Flame: Creation vs. Evolution

Flare Polymath: First of Two

Flare Braintwister: Jubes' "10 Questions" threads.

Flare Junkfood: Spam

Flare Nemesis: Antisocial.com

Faces on Mt. Flaremore: Charles, Frank, Lee, and The Tom

Flare Starship: Defiant

Flare Sage: Baloo

Flare Scary Person: Cargile

Flare mascot: I-chaya, Spock's sehlat

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"We shall not yield to you, nor to any man." -- Freak, The Mighty.

Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on August 24, 1999 08:54 AM:

No, our mascot is the divine Livingston, not I-Chaya!

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Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")

Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on August 24, 1999 09:57 AM:

Livingston the fish? Never! Spot is our mascot!

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Darlene: I read a lot of science fiction.
Herbert: Bless you, my child.
Kay: The world needs more people like you.

-Deep Space Nine, "Far Beyond the Stars."

Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on August 24, 1999 10:20 AM:

Fine! I'll compromise. Our mascot is Chester, the O'Briens' adopted cat!

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Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")

Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on August 24, 1999 10:23 AM:

No, your missing a few things here. Let's not get too flippant. That Sehlat has been mentioned less than cranberry juice. Which has hardly been mentioned at all, however many times you hit it on a Search. We're talking about things that have entered the 'national consciousness' - hence, while we're aware that one or two obsessives keep boring us with Transformers talk, most of us couldn't be bothered.

Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on August 24, 1999 10:36 AM:

I have a question... Who is Kevin Smith? *awaits torture for this outrageous enquiry*

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Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")

Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on August 24, 1999 10:53 AM:

Writer/director responsible for such masterworks as Clerks and Chasing Amy and, to a lesser extent, Mallrats. (Though I've never really found Mallrats to be all that bad. Not as good, certainly, but not horrible.)

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"I am just a worthless liar. I am just an imbecile. I will only complicate you. Trust in me and fall as well."
--
Tool

Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on August 24, 1999 11:20 AM:

Lee: THREE obsessives. And at least three other semi-obsessives. Transformers has been mentioned far more than Simpsons or South Park anyway.

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Frank's Supernifty Page

Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on August 24, 1999 11:59 AM:

I think that Lee's trying to compile a list of what people will remember when they think of all the symbols in different categories, all pertaining to Flare... Maybe.

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Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")

Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on August 24, 1999 12:05 PM:

Obsessive, huh? Well, too bad "Dare" was in the Transformers soundtrack. Otherwise, it could have perfect to change to "Flare," the offical Flare theme song.

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Darlene: I read a lot of science fiction.
Herbert: Bless you, my child.
Kay: The world needs more people like you.

-Deep Space Nine, "Far Beyond the Stars."

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on August 24, 1999 12:23 PM:

I'd say the Transformers are right up there w/ TMBG and curry. Each one has its little cult, while everyone else couldn't care less. :-)

And they're certainly mentioned more than that Smith guy, of whom I, too, had never heard.

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"There's someone in my head, but it's not me..."
-Pink Floyd, "Brain Damage"

Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on August 24, 1999 12:52 PM:

Doh!!
Ummm, Beer!!

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Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. Inside of a dog, it's to dark to read. Groucho Marx

Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on August 24, 1999 02:37 PM:

I know that Sol is going to smite me, but I never like Clerks.

And one more cult that has yet to be talked about here, but was on a previous Flare cult thread: The Beatles.

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This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you.
~ C. Mongomery Burns

Posted by Diane (Member # 53) on August 24, 1999 03:03 PM:

"The Flare SF TV Show: Babylon 5"???

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"I told you. You're dead. This is the afterlife. And I'm God."
--Q to Picard, "Tapestry".

Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on August 24, 1999 03:30 PM:

We need some sort of reference to the Big Bum joke and interrogations.

Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on August 24, 1999 08:59 PM:

Flare Teddy Bear: Kukalaka

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"All is full of love, all around you" - Bj�rk

Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on August 24, 1999 10:47 PM:

Jubes: That's why The Fast Show is in - it's from there. That reference alone probably puts it way ahead of Monty Python. . .

As for B5, it's probably the show that's been seen by most people here, after Trek of course.

Posted by HMS White Star (Member # 174) on August 25, 1999 01:48 AM:

And of course there is the fact that some of us actually like B5 better that Trek (well at least the newer stuff).

Here's a question, what Star Trek series would be the Flare Star Trek series? *runs away in fear*.

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HMS White Star (your local friendly agent of Chaos:-) )

Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on August 25, 1999 02:46 AM:

Oooohhh that's a toughy. I'm particularly partial to DS9...

Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on August 25, 1999 03:32 AM:

*shrug* Well, the casual visitor might conclude that it was DS9. But this is a thing which is too close to the main point of this site, and it's useless to try to arbitrarily decide it. That is why I specified non-Trek subjects.

Posted by Curry Monster (Member # 12) on August 25, 1999 03:35 AM:

Wow. Some people are becoming nearly as loopy as me. Of course there's no need to mention the 'length' of anything (say the Defiant for instance, just as a random example!) on this forum. As it can lead to extensive complications

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"Diplomacy is the art of Internationalising an issue to your advantage"

Field Marshal Military Project
http://fieldmarshal.virtualave.net

Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on August 25, 1999 06:04 AM:

We're not loopy... habitually.

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Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")

Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on August 25, 1999 07:08 AM:

HehehehEhehehHeehehe..... we're not loopy!... not at ALL.......

Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on August 25, 1999 07:16 AM:

We're not loopy
We're not loopy
We're not loopy
We're not loopy
We're not loopy
We're not loopy
We're not loopy
We're not loopy
We're not loopy
We're not loopy
We're not loopy
We're not loo...

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"Well, I guess we're an Ovaltine family."
"MORE OVALTINE PLEASE!"
-American Radio Ads... *gag*... one more reason I'm glad to be above the 49th.

Posted by Dani (Member # 57) on August 25, 1999 12:00 PM:

No, you're all wrong. Anyone that's anyone knows that Basil the ferret is Flare's OFFICIAL mascot. *LOL* Haven't seen him in a while though...

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"You're just about as useful as .JPGs to Helen Keller."

- Weird Al (It's All About The Pentiums)

Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on August 26, 1999 02:17 AM:

He hasn't posted in a long time - I hope CC didn't delete his profile. . .

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Phase 2: ?
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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on August 26, 1999 04:39 PM:

The official famous look-alike of a Forum-goer: Jeff Goldblum

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"There's someone in my head, but it's not me..."
-Pink Floyd, "Brain Damage"

Posted by Curry Monster (Member # 12) on August 27, 1999 01:20 AM:

*Grumbles at TSN*. Right, that's it. The next time you make anykind of reference to me & Jeff I'm going to excommunicate you.-No curry for you!-. *Curses the day he ever posted his photo*.

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"Diplomacy is the art of Internationalising an issue to your advantage"

Field Marshal Military Project
http://fieldmarshal.virtualave.net

Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on August 27, 1999 04:14 AM:

I dunno, Daryus..... _I_ don't see a resemblance..

Posted by Dani (Member # 57) on August 27, 1999 09:21 AM:

Basil hasn't posted on the new forums yet, but his profile still exists, Charles knows better than to delete him!

See?

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"You're just about as useful as .JPGs to Helen Keller."

- Weird Al (It's All About The Pentiums)

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on August 27, 1999 09:27 AM:

Daryus: Hey, I'm just going along w/ it. I've never even seen your picture! *L*

Would it make you feel better if I changed my suggestion to "Official Forum censors: Romulans"? *LOL*

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"There's someone in my head, but it's not me..."
-Pink Floyd, "Brain Damage"

Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on August 27, 1999 12:48 PM:

Basil the Ferret... Ooh... Naughty Basil.

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Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")

Posted by Sunspot (Member # 77) on August 27, 1999 04:14 PM:

LOL @ TSN

Wow, I remember that!!

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"Now that I have found someone
I'm feeling more alone
Than I ever have ... before"

Posted by Curry Monster (Member # 12) on August 28, 1999 12:10 AM:

Jubes, the photo you saw was several years newer than than the other photo. My looks changed a fair bit...*shrug*.

As for the Romulan internal security structure....*ponders all the horrible things he can do to TSN and Sunspot*. That infomation is Tip Top secret.

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"Diplomacy is the art of Internationalising an issue to your advantage"

Field Marshal Military Project
http://fieldmarshal.virtualave.net

Posted by Sunspot (Member # 77) on September 03, 1999 01:19 PM:

Nyah!!

*runs in fear*

25...

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"Now that I have found someone
I'm feeling more alone
Than I ever have ... before"

Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on September 03, 1999 01:33 PM:

Just testing

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"I will remember you...Will you remember me?
Don't let your love pass you by...Weep not for the memories..."
Sarah McLachlan

Posted by Saiyanman Benjita (Member # 122) on September 04, 1999 11:23 AM:

Kevin Smith rules. Be on the lookout for Dogma, the long awaited sequel. Snootchie-Bootchies!!

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Mitch: Something weird just happened to me.
Chris: Is it a dream where you are standing on top of a pyramid in sort of sun-god wardrobe, and thousands of naked women are screaming and throwing little pickles at you?
Mitch: No!
Chris: Why is it that I'm the only one who has that dream?

Posted by Montgomery (Member # 23) on September 08, 1999 03:31 AM:

All this time I thought you preferred Trek!

May I take this opportunity to nominate my good self for the following categories:
Flare's Token Scot
Flare's Resident small-animal-endangered-by-bloodthirsty-red-coated-land owners

I also lend my flag and bulk to the Transformers cult, although this whole TMBG thing is rather lost on an Old worlder like me. (Ho hum )

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Oh Mr Rasberry, so sharp your juices!

Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on September 08, 1999 05:04 AM:

Ah, it must be fall, MONTYS BACK!!!!

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Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. Inside of a dog, it's to dark to read. Groucho Marx

Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on September 09, 1999 10:17 AM:

Flare Way Of Suicide: Opening a Defiant Length Thread

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"I am Sci-Fi"
-The 359

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on September 09, 1999 12:36 PM:

I dunno, the creationism vs evolution thread has gone on far longer than any of the Defiant length treads (which i thought we'd all agreed on anyway).

And Kosh, *ahem* Monty is Scotish. You say 'the Fall', you die.

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"Why can we never meet anyone nice?"
"Why can we never meet anyone who can shoot straight?"
-Lister and the cat

Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on September 10, 1999 05:15 AM:

Aye, yer right!! I was thinking of school starting over here. Stupid American!

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Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. Inside of a dog, it's to dark to read. Groucho Marx

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on September 10, 1999 01:50 PM:

School starts over here now as well. It's just we say 'Autumn'. It was obviously changed because 57% of Americans, and 90% of American potilicians, couldn't spell it.

This has been your daily dose of bashing-America. Thankyou.

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"Why can we never meet anyone nice?"
"Why can we never meet anyone who can shoot straight?"
-Lister and the cat

Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on September 10, 1999 06:25 PM:

*rolls her eyes at Liam*

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"If you will not have me as myself, Perhaps as someone else. Perhaps as you, I'll be worth noticing. Then even a eunuch won't resist, The power of one kiss, from such as me.
I'll be that girl: and you would be right over. If I were a field, you would be in clover. If I were the sun, you would be in shadow. If I had a gun, there'd be no tomorrow."
~ Barenaked Ladies

Posted by Gaseous Anomaly (Member # 114) on September 11, 1999 03:33 AM:

Little-known fact:
83% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

And Monty, you're not alone; I don't have the foggiest who They Might Be Giants are either. (besides being a band, d'oh!)

Now if anyone else would second the Beatles or the FLC, well that WOULD be a different story.

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The unexplained phenomenon that crippled the U.S.S. Unimpeachable --
Gaseous Anomaly...
What anomalises gaseously.

Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on September 15, 1999 03:27 PM:

Ah, THAT's what they are. I've been wondering what "They Might be Giants" refered to for nearly six months now...

And I nominate Creation vs. Evolution for "Thread That Most Deserves to be Unlocked"...

Just kidding! : )

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"By all means, take the moral high ground -- all that heavenly backlighting makes you a much easier target."
- Solomon Short

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on September 15, 1999 03:48 PM:

Pah. 4/5ths of people know that the "83% of statistics are made up on the spot" is a big fib. While the other 5/8ths don't believe in numbers at all.

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"Why can we never meet anyone nice?"
"Why can we never meet anyone who can shoot straight?"
-Lister and the cat

Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on September 17, 1999 01:58 AM:

Beatles.

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Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. Inside of a dog, it's to dark to read. Groucho Marx

Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on October 31, 2002 09:49 PM:

Yes indeed, the Beatles.

*let's party like it's 1999!!* [Big Grin]

Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on October 31, 2002 10:18 PM:

Dang, reviving a thread that was dead a year before I got here.... digging deep in to the barrel...

Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on October 31, 2002 10:48 PM:

Holy shit. When I saw my old ID. . .

Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on November 01, 2002 01:21 AM:

Heh, the funny thing is, half of us in that thread are still here! [Smile]

What happened to Gaseous Anomaly though!?! Vogon... what was your old ID?

Andrew

Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on November 01, 2002 02:44 AM:

Vogon was The First One. Left under unpleasant circumstances, came back under an assumed name and didn't ID himself until Frank figured it out months later.

Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on November 01, 2002 04:18 AM:

Here's one to add to the list:

Forum tatletale: Omega.

Posted by Solommagnus de Pym (Member # 239) on November 01, 2002 04:21 AM:

People were stupid in 1999. Probably fear of "Y2K." That shit'd mess you up.

Posted by MaGiC (Member # 59) on November 01, 2002 08:19 AM:

Jees I read through thing thinking..'Oh haven't seen them in a while' and 'why the hell did Lee turn his name back' Didn't even notice the year...D'oh. I was here in 1999..I have no excuses.

Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on November 01, 2002 09:56 AM:

People are SO predictable. Whenever my old name comes up, someone asks. In reply, someone who hates me at the moment (there's always at least one) takes great pleasure in providing the gory details. This time it's Omega, who thinks I said his girlfriend is a bloke (thereby contravening those bits of the Bible that would have been in the Bible if Omega had written it). Fortunately, he has no imagination, so in this instance he's actually told it like it happened. 8)

Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on November 01, 2002 11:36 AM:

So... I did what you expected... but I didn't. Buh?

Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on November 01, 2002 12:14 PM:

Who's got the word of the double talk....

Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on November 06, 2002 04:29 AM:

quote:

Holy shit.

Pretty much what I thought when I saw the thread. I knew it had to be an old thread, but the old ones are fun to look at down the road.

Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on November 06, 2002 01:25 PM:

So what happened to Gaseous Anomaly? A person who left - or a changed name... I can't keep track of all the changed names. Where is Frank/Who is Frank now!?! I mean all these changes... Charles used to be FEMALE back in 1999! [Wink]

J/K Chuckles. [Smile]

Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on November 08, 2002 04:50 AM:

I think he's still female.

Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on November 16, 2002 01:14 PM:

I'm still around. More or less.

Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on November 16, 2002 02:18 PM:

Or less.

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on November 17, 2002 11:11 AM:

A lot less, since Tim took over from him as our resident planet.

Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on November 17, 2002 12:39 PM:

Re: Gaseous Anomaly: "I think he's still female."

LOL! OMG! HEH HEH! I didn't realise - obviously! [Smile]

There could be more females around here than we first suspected!

*walks to the corner of flare and lifts up the cushions of the Flare Couch. [Smile]