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Apr 28, 2020 - 4:36 PM
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Howard L
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Now come on, Thor, we've been through this before (hey I'm a poet!). The announcement of the board's creation and debut came in December, 1997 (see 2019 entries on this thread). So you, me, Nicolai and the rest are here on Gilligan's--oh come on yourself, H  --all part of this 22nd celebration. But technically, yes, we've been "here" longer. It would be 25 years for me at least, will have to pull out letter to the Grand High Exalted Mystic Maroon who was inhabiting the hallowed walls of Amherst to see just how far. What a ride, what a rollercoaster, what a...day this has been, what a rare mood I'm, why it's...oops...did it again...sorry. Carry on!
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Here's the earliest snapshot of the messageboard available on archive.org:
https://web.archive.org/web/19980114052207/http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/messageboard/index.html
Good heavens, yes, behold: that's what it looked like, I remember. And you could just post, without registering. Those were the days. The internet was smaller then. I remember there was a (then seemingly endless) thread about 1776, which covered a lot of ground, and only occasionally had anything to do with the movie. I don't think I ever posted in that very thread, but thought it quite interesting how the discussion sprawled out into many things.
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Tip of the powdered wig, as always, Senator.
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May 3, 2020 - 10:55 PM
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Howard L
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Of course that advice came a few days late, but no matter.
For the record, we (the whole world) have been in the grips of a pandemic the likes of which have not been seen since near the close of WW1. It has only been something like a couple months since widespread "social distancing," lockdowns, stay-at-home directives, etc. have been in effect.
These are dark times, to be sure, but like essential businesses and workers the FSMessageboard remains open and employed. No equivalency intended, for that would be a false equivalency both literally and morally. But the fact is there is something of an On The Beach feeling in the air, a feeling that will remain until resolution is achieved.
Whatever "resolution" turns out to be; the longing for and hope of a peaceful one a given.
"Peace." That is something not always achievable in a place like this where passions can run pretty high. Even if it's only cyberspace, them feelings is real! Anyway, technology has only gotten that much more advanced since the birth of this place some two decades+ ago. One of those advancements can crudely be characterized in layman's vernacular as a combination telephone conference/ closed-circuit TV experience on steroids. What is heard and seen on the "screen" is as many callers and viewers as the moment holds.
In the past fortnight or so FSMers on two continents if not more have made First Contact (in many if not most cases cases) utilizing this technology in the midst of the aforementioned cinematic feeling. There must be some irony in how taps on a keyboard have evolved into faces on video. Maybe irony is not the right description; maybe something of a poet is needed in there. Then again there's the antiseptic realist that says hey, it's just progress, nothing more, shaddup already!
Whatever. You want irony? All I know is that a couple nights ago I came face to face with someone with whom I have corresponded at this place over those two decades+ and it took a stinking no good pandemic/ pestilence/ Outbreak/ Contagion to make it happen and so what if I can't shake his hand or give him an elbow bump or full-scale bear hug of the male bonding kind or punch his lights out and the heck with the celebrations and the arguments and brickbats AND watermelons--this is no time for all that.
Well, maybe for celebrations. THOR, this one's for you. Raise high the roof-beams and that glass one more time. Nice to meet'cha you Norwegian Nitwit you. Love ya kid!
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May 4, 2020 - 1:33 AM
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Thor
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Well put, as always, Howard.
Friday is "Holy" for me. It's when I get to wind down after a stressful week and allow myself a fair bit of tipsiness. Whether we have a pandemy or not; in fact perhaps even MORE important during these isolated times. I tend to pop the first bottle after dinner, at 17-ish, and then keep on steadily untill about 23.00 before I stop, allowing an hour or two to normalize before I go to bed. Problem, of course, is that that these meetings are at 21:00 (or 22:00 in Stephen's case) local time, just at the tailend of my 'Friday drinking session'. But I conversed with fellow Norwegian Nils after our Friday meeting, and he reassured me that I didn't say anything stupid; I just repeated myself a few times at the end there - I guess more with a humourous effect.
While I've seen you 'live' a few times before, Howard (like in those early videos of Peter's get-together in LA), it's a whole other thing to interact. That was great. I guess this is another step in the evolution of this place, which is bound to be life-long for the most of us (or for as long Lukas alllows it to exist). Young kids tend to laugh at us when we talk about posting at old-school forums rather than social media, but with (to us, at least) DECADES of online interaction, we've gotten to know each other pretty well -- both the good and the bad -- and that's something social media can't compete with, and which makes Zoom meetings like this somewhat easier.
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Howard, what are you doing, starting a thread that's been going on for five years now?! This is getting to be like that Trouble With Templeton party thread...
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Happy anniversary howard lemmon
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And hey Nic, your latest comment is something I've been ruminating over for when Thor & I take over Stephen W's next Zoom cast. IF Thor can abstain (courteously) from overindulging his pestilential alcohol intake. I mean think for a sec: From keyboard to online video conference--we are stuck in virtual reality no matter what. Just how sure can I be that you are who you claim to be? Could be OnyaWhatever in disguise for all we know! 
