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Apr 9, 2021 - 12:30 PM
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Howard L
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But in general, I love the early 2000s on FSM. Someone started a thread about something – a score, a film – and we would discuss the film or music. Nothing, or very little, about desiring new releases or expansions, or any other technical nuts and bolts. This was pure aesthetics.
Indeed. The time had finally arrived to explore and figure out this whole film music/film/music/score/soundtrack thing. A natural evolution was spawned once the origin of the species was established, resulting in the embarrassment of riches available today. And what a foundation to build upon, especially when you think of what it was like in the decades prior. If you were around for all or some of them, that is. 
An excellent contribution that fits in nicely with the tenor of this thread. Cheers, Thor.
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Mar 4, 2022 - 5:11 AM
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Howard L
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So there I was the other day at the DMV renewing registrations for a couple company vehicles when I faux-innocently inquired of the service representative,
"Doctor, while you're here could I possibly renew my driver's license that expires in a few months?"
"Sure. Looks like all you need is a vision test."
Aced the test. Driving glasses not even needed (much to my delight); put 'em right back in the case in a moment of triumph.
"Next, go over there to have your picture taken."
Now it's not like I have a face that melts lenses. Above-Average looking guy. If you consider average the Wolf Man. But I hadn't combed my hair--thankfully at my age it's still a full coif, and (even more to my delight) still dark too  --but I figured 's no sweat, even for a bloke like me who's very Shadow Of A Doubtish when it comes to having his picture taken.
Click! zip-zip and $54 later  I'm handed my new driver's license, good for another 8 years.
It looked like a mugshot.
I compared the smiling, well-kempt lad in the one from 8 years ago to the current.
It was no comparison. It was death to Moby Dick.
I know what you must be saying to yourselves,
If that's the way he feels about it why doesn't he just end it all?
Oh, no, not me, I'm not ready for that final disappointment.
Because I know just as well as I'm sitting here typing to you
That when that final moment comes and I'm
Typing my last post, I'll be saying to myself...
... Oh get off it H. Not me! I'm not nearly ready for that final disappointment, Peggy. And what the hey, I ain't ready to get all pissy and moany As Time Goes By either and none of that "Too OLD For The FSM Board" baloney. Gee, folks, who cares what I look like today vs. what I looked like 8 years ago or what I looked like when I posted here for the very first time, 24 years ago this month. Because, and to reiterate...
...ah'm...just...getting...warmed...up. Cheers!   
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Cheers to you, as always, Senator.
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May 17, 2022 - 12:48 AM
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Thor
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It's mine today/yesterday. I'd been reading and visiting the FSM site for quite a while before I registered, but I don't remember exactly how long that was. But now, it's 21 years registered at the FSM Message Board. That means, if I'd been born the day I registered, I'd now be of drinking age! It doesn't seem that long... 
Any other recent anniversaries?
Well, today is Norway's national day, and also my paternal grandfather's birthday, who would have turned 100 today (he passed away in 1974, 3 years before I was born). But I'm guessing that's not the kind of anniversary you had in mind. I can't remember exactly when my first post was on FSM, but I THINK it was March-1998. So 25th anniversary next year. Crazy to think about; it feels more like 10 years ago at the most.
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I can't remember exactly when my first post was on FSM, but I THINK it was March-1998. So 25th anniversary next year.
Just about the same here... March 1998... sounds about right. Some time in spring 1998, though I cannot exactly say when. Some of us have been longer here at the board than some people who post here have been on Earth. :-)
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This can’t be right....
I don’t remember how to find out the exact date I first joined....but an old post of mine said 2005.
So - 22 years.
Where does time go?
22? Wouldn't that be 17?
Jeez - it’s been a long day.
I have just handed in my resignation at the Mathematical Institute for Mathematical Geniuses (Time Elapsed Division)
You could have demanded a recount instead.
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... I'm 99% certain that the FSM site first launched the messageboard in December-97
It might have been earlier, Thor. Maybe not, but I think I was on it from week one, at least reading, and I thought it took a few months (maybe quite a few) for Latham to show up. I remember his being quite an aberration. He's already present in archive.org's first capture, on Jan 9th, 1998. Maybe there was a summer launch?
That's my memory vs. 24 years, of course.
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