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Bottom of the barrel

13:04 / 24.10.03

In the Conversation it's a Flyboy thread from Feb last year about 'Hot Topic Shopper' (113 pages of threads down), in the Magick it's 'Chaos Magic through writing' with two replies by theremb, in the Headshop it's a 'Drucilla Cornell' thread by Deva (immediately above that is a RobotManReformed thread entitled 'The Rise and Fall of Homosexuality')

You get the idea, I had a trawl through the last threads of the fora and enlightening it was- did you know the Headshop has only 18 pages of threads compared to the Magick's 46?

Any mildy interesting Barbefacts from the bottom of the barrel welcome, or we could just see how long it takes for this to fall to the bottom, or we could bump threads to change what's bottom, or old Lithers could reminisce about the good old days etc etc.

13:11 / 24.10.03

What happens to the ones that are older than that? The ones that should be on page 114? Do they just fall off the edge of the Barbelith earth? (Weird vision of seas and tall ships and threads pushing other threads off the edge now.)

Tryphena Absent

13:12 / 24.10.03

I don't have time to go through them at the moment but the last page of threads in Art, Fashion and Design has got some great bits and pieces. I read through them a couple of months ago and really enjoyed it!

13:27 / 24.10.03

It's a handy way to find out who everyone is now and who they used to be, before the name change after the one before the last but one.

Beware of the Curse upon He Who Breaks The Seal on the last page of the archive though, Indiana Quantum. Dung beetles will bite your toes and your false beard will snap off. It has happened before...

13:54 / 24.10.03

I don't think they do fall off the edge. I think this is all the stuff that's been here since the board reincarnated from the Nexus. Probably some great lost stuff on the old board, but now Tom has it all copied out by hand by an oranguatan he keeps in his cupboard.

So the next time you're making crap posts .... just THINK OF THE MONKEY WILL YOU!!

Tryphena Absent

13:57 / 24.10.03

Except for conversation, sometimes the moderators of this forum go on a major delete spaz.

gotham island fae

14:27 / 24.10.03

Beware of the Curse upon He Who Breaks The Seal

Ah yes, Xoc, ol' 'bottom buster' hirself, The Candlemaker. I remember the morning ze set off to see what lies beneath the layers of code, opinion and news in The Switchboard. With crumbling ancient text in hand, that adventuresome scamp walked blithely into Barbe-blivion. It's best not to test the lip of the 'lith. The descent into nothingness where non-archived and tempestuous posts and topics go proved more than ol' 'maker could handle, it would appear. That was going on thirty years ago. No one's seen that intrepid interloper since. Though there are those who here tell of strange fiber-optic moans that travel through abandoned data-lines to this very day. If you listen real close, you'll sometimes hear the packet-switch of that long-gone fiction-suit still rattling around these parts. But don't follow those chittering dung beetle echos, for the stolen beards hide sinister smiles.

Godz, I need sleep.

14:58 / 24.10.03

Gah, isn't it depressing when you read things you wrote 2.5 years ago and they seem to have been written by someone much smarter and more articulate than wot you are like today?

I was going to start a 'Neglected Threads' topic, for people to point out threads that they thought had generated fewer responses than they should have done. An excuse to moan and/or sort out unfinished business, if you like. Can I do it here instead? Yes? Okay:

1. Almost exactly fuck-all people responded to this very important thread. Not ONE of you handed in a note from your mummy, so I can only conclude that you just couldn't be arsed. Bastards.

Erm, that's it. I thought I had hundreds of them stored up somewhere. Anyone else?

16:06 / 24.10.03

Except for conversation, sometimes the moderators of this forum go on a major delete spaz.

Erm.... yeah, well....

20:01 / 24.10.03

Reading things I posted in the Far Past makes me cringe instinctively it seems...

There's a great Queen Mother Rememberance thread here I found on page 103...

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

00:44 / 25.10.03

Except for conversation, sometimes the moderators of this forum go on a major delete spaz.

I'm a spaz and I find this all highly insulting. I mean, I've never deleted a thread in my life.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

14:09 / 25.10.03

No, we don't delete threads, we delete spazzes, and now we're coming for yoooouuuuuu!!

It's ironic, I did ask Tom "Ummm, shouldn't I be deleting this stuff?" and he lit his pipe, got down off of his rocking horse and slipped into his Wednesday Addams costume and said "no worries cobber, I'm planning on getting me old mucker Cal to whip up a bit of code to chuck all the old threads in the billabong!" with his main voice while his second voice softly sang Morrisey songs. And we nodded sagely, and then he transformed into a racing car and drove off.

All this happened about 60 pages ago...

15:00 / 25.10.03

I remember doing this months ago, and the bottom thread was by Lionheart, named Lionheart, the first post of which said Lionheart.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

23:20 / 25.10.03

Lionheart? That's all they posted?

WHY THE FLAMING BLUE HELL DIDN'T ANYONE RESPOND?

I mean, it's not like we haven't had decent conversation evolve out of less.

01:46 / 26.10.03

When did "spaz" become a fun word, to bandy about then? Have to say I have little patience with its post-modern usage.