who? been posting longest.

[powerskipper]

Not have the most posts but , whos been doing it longest /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

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Julie

 

[hlb]

Ee eyup lass. TCM Byron, a few others and me have been here donkeys years. I think Kim said the forum started in 97. But we were here long before that!!../forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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Haydn

 

[powerskipper]

ok but how were you then, was it a chat room type thing then and how did you find it?

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Julie

 

[Chris_d]

Well I've been "lurking" with occasional posts since 1997, that was when young hlb was known as hayden and tcm was matts, I really must find something better to do during my lunch breaks.

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[hlb]

It was very similar to now. But cos there were very few of us, we got to know each orther quite well.

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Haydn

 

[tcm]

twisterken longer than me, i think

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[cliffdale]

OK, Whats going on here? we both registered on the 16/05/2001 @ 12:58pm. I expect a few more clicks and hey presto, nearly all of us registered on this day. Hmmmm, I think not.

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[jfm]

There's a reg date in each person's profile. But all dates were reset 16/5/01 when the forum software was upgraded. All post history before that date, including the Exploding Toilet, was lost. Kim has still not been forgiven for that. So anyone registered before 16/5/01 shows up as registered on that date, whereas everyone after that date has a correct registration date. Except tcm who changed his name because of tax.

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[petem]

Me since 99 I think. I can remember hlb and Matt from those early days but not many others. 16/5/2001 was when the forum was migrated to a new package.

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[cliffdale]

Exploding toilet!! Ill beat that!

We used to take a group of 30 school children on a sailing camp. Sleep in tents by night and sail by day. A friend if mine had a westerly 31. This friend of mine happened to leave his heads seacocks in the off position. Said school child used his toilet, loo paper 'an all.

Too embarrassed to say it wouldn't flush, this person scraped out the toilet and poked the contents down an inspection hatch in to the bilges.

A few days later, I went onboard Kens boat and my God!! the stench made me heave.

Poor Ken hadn't been on board for a few days.

Anyway, the contents of toilet were pushed to a place no one could get to.

The only option for Ken was to stick a hose pipe down the inspection hatch and hope he could flush it out into the main bilges.

I never went on Kens boat again!

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[hlb]

Yes. As jfm says, many of us were here long before that. But there was some kerfuffal and the old forum closed down. All knowledge and even the saga of the Exploding Toilet got lost, forever at that time and a new forum was started. In the begining alsorts of new tecknolagey wos started, on was a dirty word checker. I got in serious trouble for writing the word Scunthorpe. Then cos we could wright in different colours, we discovered White writing. So that got banned..<font color=yellow> so now we just have yellow writing, which is not half as much fun</font color=yellow>.../forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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[BrendanS]

no one ever did find our white writing raid on scuttlebutt that night tho! /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

all the messages are still there somewhere

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[Ships_Cat]

Did you have to sqeeze lemon juice over the screen to read the white writing - like in the best spy stories?

John

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[BrendanS]

Yep, something like that.

Either pull cursor over empty white spaces to highlight, or change default colour settings

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[Medskipper]

Several years before 2001 when the system was all changed! I was a bit indignant when I was listed as a new person on the system in 2001!

Barry


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[andy_wilson]

Various forums....

Bill Cooper and Vyv Cox (and me) since sometime in the latter part of the 1990's. Bills been a bit absent for a while but Vyv has turned up recently.

Marilyn Manson disappeared to the dark side with a few others in '91.

Violetta.

Eric Abott (that was me really) bumped around the forums, and the coast for that matter.

Oh yes and there was a geezer who, whatever the thread, got the subject round to the time he was caught in a class 8 hurricane (or something) in the Solent, or Poole Harbour, or somewhere. Tristran J Blogsworth or something, an estate agent from Poole. Probably hasn't got time for counting his money now.

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[jfm]

'91? You mean 2001, right?

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[andy_wilson]

Yeah, right. nm

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[EME]

Aaarggh yes . When I was but a lad and 'scrumping' and firecrackers creating 'exploding heads' were de rigeur. I remeber the 'white raids'. Indeed some suggest that I was party to them.

Then again probably about the same time as I was buying my first boat -

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MEMORIES - The saddo version



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[EME]

Having duly considered the facts. the honor ( or otherwise) has to lie with Hadyn ... then again he also has many other records like longest sentence, longest sentence without any correct spelling, longest sentence without punctuation, longest sentence for selling duff bits of cloth as flags etc.....

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