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Happy Anniv Howie. How many centuries is this ?.
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1998 was the year I started posting here. The Internet was a different place back then, less commercial. You could just post anything here on this board without even registering, though I always posted under my name from the very beginning.
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Jun 6, 2023 - 1:19 AM
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Tall Guy
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I’m a spring chicken compared with some, but today marks the twentieth anniversary of me joining this forum. According to the records, this will be my 8,264th post, rather better (if that’s the word) than a post per day. The recent passing of Robert Guttke made me think back over the highs and lows since joining, the people we’ve lost, the friends for life that I’ve made, the music we have now that was unimaginable in the early 2000s. I don’t frequent other message boards, haven’t really got the time, and this one fulfils my online needs more than satisfactorily. So a big thank you to all the members I’ve interacted with, laughed with, met in real life, fought with, those who have put me on ignore (not that you’ll read this ), those who have helped me or who I might have helped in some way, and of course to Lukas, who makes this all possible. And now I’m leaving.
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Thanks for the kind words, TG. I haven't met you in real life, but I feel I have, so maybe I have? Happy birthday. Me myself I have been here since the beginning of time. The FSM board became my extra limb until I amputated it several months ago. I needed to breathe fresh gazelle dung in the trees. I am in my spaceship now, looking down on you all. Looking down my nose at you and yooz. Puny. Weaklings. Have you no sense of perspective? When one gazes into the centre of the universe, only then does he attain immortality, in the wink of an eye, the tiniest speck of space dust in the great immensity of nothingness. Which shall it be, Passworthy? Which shall it be?
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The Tall One has unfortunately prompted me to look at my navel again. Why the blue fluff when my T-shirts are all white? So, exploring the unknown, I find that I have been here, sitting in a skeleton shrouded with cobwebs and gazelle dung, since October 5, 2000. That makes it over ten years since I've been sat sitting here. Apparently I have "posted to" (what means this?) 2,198 threads. This, according to my REM satellite, has no ability to calculate the interspersion variable, nor does it take into account the version of myself which had a S in the middle. It's all palsy to me anyway. I do appreciate you all. This board was very much part of my babyhood. Thereafter Mrs Pistaccio put a giant green bean under my bed and I haven't felt the tears welling up listening to John Barry since that hot summer's day in Ohio back in 1976. Who needs those emotions now? Love? It never lasts. Save yourself the heartbreak. Come with me, on a voyage. On a voyage, to the bottom of the sea.
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While we're sailing in our Naval Vessel 'The Blue Fluff', I thought I would add some 'member berries. First of all...it was a rare month for boys...Happy Anniversary Mr TG, a person I have met virtually AND in the flesh, due wholly to this forum. Many here say they found this a haven for like-minded Film Score Nuggets, having found none in the real or REEL world. I was fortunate in that regard. I had a mate in my formative years who loved cinema and music and I could wax my lyrics anytime about films, music, books and all that unimportant stuff that has nothing to do with REEL or real life. Then, around 1988, barely 10 years into my Film Music Nugget-dom, I met a bunch of fellow Scouse Score Lovers* (Darren Cavanagh, Roy Donga, Dave Green, Damian Carroll) who became life-long friends, confidantes and drinking buddies. Shortly after (and due to their association with The Goldsmith Society and Music From The Movies) I would meet the likes of Paul MacLean, Lyn Williams, Paul Place, Jason Needs and many others, at various concerts and film music get-togethers. This was all before FSM forum came along. Since joining in April 2005 (having lurked for a few years) I've probably posted FAR TOO MANY TIMES than a normal person would/should, having gone under the names Kev McG, Vermithrax Pejorative, Hurdy Gurdy and some I've probably forgotten. My 20th Anniv' is still a couple years away. Even when I switched jobs, after 29 years in the same gaff, I would go on to meet Spymaster and Mark Langdon IN THE SAME BUILDING!!! on the Liverpool waterfront in my new employment. During the Covid Pandemic, I met some more FSMers, on a semi-regular basis, in the virtual world, in a little 'at the pub' type group chat and have recently got to meet some of them in the Real (REEL?) world too (Les Jepson, Big Jim T Wilson and TG, who I had met...previously on FSM). Graham W, Music Mad Mitch, Bill Carson and even Jim Phelps are Part Of My World as well. So yeah, while FSM wasn't the gap-filler most people see it as for me personally, it has certainly added many poor brave souls to my collection of 'poor brave souls'. Unfortunately, unlike TG and Graham above, V'Ger will not disclose the information to me re 'posting numbers history'. V'Ger requires me to merge with the forum to obtain the data, but I don't have enough unobtainium!! *Paul Place, editor of MFTM, once said he felt Liverpool was the centre of the Film Score Universe, as he'd never known such a concentrated mass of serious film music fans gathered in the one place, especially at that time.
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Happy Anniversary, TG!! (I hope you're joking about leaving...) I think he meant the board/ the room. I think it's about now that he takes his whippet, dimitri, for his run.
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Mine's 19 in September. **and not including lurking unannounced!
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