Who is the oldest forumite?

[StellaGirl]

So who was the first person to register on the forum when it first started up and is that person still posting today?


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[powerskipper]

mite give you an idea here.
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Julie

 

[jamesjermain]

I didn't put up the first-ever post but I think I did the second. It was a reply to the first post which was a question about the suitability of a particular boat, as far as I remember. Anyone got any better ideas?

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[AndrewB]

I first posted here in September 1997 but I think this forum first started about two months before. People still around who I remember as responding to my post were Mirelle (then known as ACB), Bedouin, Ian Wright, and I think CCScott49.

It was such an improvement on alt.sailing. But don't get us old fogies started or it'll be "Do you remember when ...?"

 

[ChrisE]

Yours truly has been on and off since 1997, still with the same user name and boat. Getting really old, I seem to think that there were a few who used to post on the compuserve sailing forum in the early 1990s but me memory isn't all it used to be, you know. Pass me another one of those boiled sweets, would you dearie?

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[BrendanS]

Byron (and out more recent forumite Headmistress) were posting on the Compuserve sailing forum back then

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[jimi]

Bollox, I am, was posting on the tin cans and string behind the bike shed in 1961.

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[LadyInBed]

Check for yourself - click on the name to bring up the profile
Bottom line - date registered
Yours was 23/06/2003 16:41
Mine was 02/09/2001 18:41


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[hlb]

Not so. If you read Julie's attatchement, every one before 2001 joind on the same day.....just pay attention at the back!!/forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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Haydn

 

[ChrisE]

Lookie here Mozart, you might be the oldest forumist but you've been dead for a while and in the mean time some 'orrid little Scottish person has been masquerading as you. Enough to make a composer decompose.

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[ccscott49]

It wasnt me, thats for sure, I was still sucking tit when half this lot started!

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[jimi]

Och gerrit richt ya wippersnapper .. ah'm Mozart's daddy!

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[ChrisE]

So you've been dead even longer, I thought there was a funny smell around here.

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[Gunfleet]

phoney

You are a johnny come lately. I posted via semaphor in 1805. It was a question on the STIX of a three masted battleship. An American geezer chipped in with advice that we could do away with most of the crew and all of the ballast and just stick a 50 hp Honda on the back. We lashed him to a raft and set him adrift, babbling. But I have a mate who posted from Marathon in 490BC. He wanted to know how many galley slaves could safely be chained to the oars of an AWB. His message has yet to show up on the board, either because the messenger hasn't got here yet or because one of Kim's ancestors binned it.

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[jimi]

Re: phoney

That's nuffink ... I Leopold, am really Jimi the Blue a pictish dude (later corrupted to Druid) from Stonehenge. I constructed my first post on a stone tablet around 4004BC , this was later nicked and posted by that impostor Moses.

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[ChrisE]

Ark question

How can I fit 2 types of every animal in a wooden boat? Does the forum think that 15 cubits is enough head room for the giraffes or should I be looking for something bigger? I've heard that a Arkarias have lots of room but aren't well well built but I don't have enough gold for an Arkjad.

As dictated to a dove from a mountain top with clouds coming in from the west.

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[Gunfleet]

Re: Ark question

That will be the new Beneteau 'Tardis' model - 33 ft overall but room for a menagerie below. But don't you think you should be aiming for a bilge keeler, in case you dry out on top of any mountains?

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[Clive_Rigden]

Re: phoney

And I'm Jethro. Pharaoh's daughter found my son-in-law (imposter indeed!) on e-bay after I'd sent her a post on a bulrush.

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[ChrisE]

Re: Ark question

Not such about the Arketeau, I've early models are quite good but later ones have problems with rudders coming adrift.

Had considered bilge keeler but have heard that their not much good to windward. Considering a broad beam with with lifting keel. Elephants will be used to pull it up.

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[jimi]

Re: Ark question

Listen laddie when I was sorting oot ra first fluid erm I mean flood ... absolutely ages afore the later documented yin .. ah had feckin mammoths and TRex's tae contend wif ... they wrecked a couple o' pilot cutters afore I found the ideal boat .. a Hunter 410. Tynasauros Rex wiz partic taken with the backstayless rig whilst the mamoths lounged in comfort in the capacious forepeak as the woolly giraffes cooked in the linear galley.

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