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Roll Call: Who's met Anna?

  
  

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mondo a-go-go
16:09 / 15.08.05
Okay, so, this thread kind of span out of the IRL. Meatspace. You thread, mostly this post and the challenge that ensued.

So, I sat down at various points over the weekend, and added names to this list when I remembered them. A goodly few of these people only ever lurked, and are very likely not even members anymore, but I still either met them through this place, or introduced them to it, so on the list they go...

I've been a member of this board since it started in 1999, but around the start of 2002, I dropped off for about 18 months or so, and some people have changed their names several times since then, so there's every possibility I may have forgotten someone or other. If you're reading this and feeling neglected because I did, then feel free to add yourself. There are a few people I've met in real life (some in Southampton, some in Stoke Newington, for starters) whose Barbelith names I don't know, so they're definitely missing.

And, in order to save this from being just a list-thread, 'cos we know how much Haus hates those, feel free to add your stories of the time you met me, and I may get around to adding my own. (Oh, this could be a great exercise in nostalgia.... or terribly ill-advised. Time will show which...)


circa 1999-2001:

1. Robot Zero Go
2. Gypsy Lantern
3. ghadis
4. Cherry Bomb
5. Steve Block
6. sleazenation
7. Rollo
8. Tom Coates
9. Rizla
10. Bizunth
11. just some guy
12. Eckert
13. Prof Paisley
14. Grant Morrison
15. Pepsi Max
16. Naked Flame
17. Goodness Gracious Meme
18. angel
19. Flyboy
20. Tyrone Shoelaces
21. Haus
22. Nick
23. Our Lady
24. angel
25. tumbleweed
26. Bill
27. Alistair Oddcult
28. Alasdair
29. Whisky Priestess
30. Cop Killer
31. DJ Oi
32. picosecond
33. Josh
34. Hadalis
35. Kali
36. Shaun
37. mojokitten
38. ulysses2000
39. Ray Fawkes
40. Cameron Stewart
41. Levon
42. Perfect Tommy
43. EgoistX
44. Chip
45. Kopi
46. Darrian
47. grant
48. matsya
49. deb
50. Enamon
51. betty woo
52. moriarty
53. Baz Auckland
54. morpheus
55. True Art


circa 2001-2002

56. Kit-Cat
57. Deva
58. Stoatie
59. invisible_al
60. Rothkoid
61. Jack the Bodiless
62. pinstripe fictionsuit
63. shortfatdyke
64. Ellis
65. Emma
66. Marshall
67. Kirstan
68. Cass
69. Ganesh
70. Magnolia Fan
71. Lilly Nowhere
72. Tango-Mango
73. miss spooky
74. Xoc
75. Seth
76. Mordant Carnival
77. Lurid Archive
78. Nina
79. Illmatic
80. Ierne
81. charon
82. Kayfabe
83. Ariadne
84. Loomis
85. uncle retrospective
86. alas
87. pachamama
88. the guy at my birthday who got very very pissed
89. methylsalicylate
90. Dee Vapr
91. autopilot disengaged
92. pin
93. blackbeltjones
94. videodrome
95. Dragonthief
96. ohskylab


circa 2003-2005

97. Ria
98. George V
99. craig mcgill
100. changes monthly Brigade
101. Mono
102. Tabitha Tickletooth
103. Geckos
104. Yoda
105. Wheaty Goodness
106. Dan Fish
107. Fridgemagnet
108. Squirmelia
109. psi_lock
110. olulabelle
111. Paleface
112. Ex
113. mixmage
114. Vincennes
115. seldom killer
116. The Fourth
117. Bard
118. Canty
119. Money $hot


Um, I think I still win, don't I? Not sure what I win, though, other than a long list of peoples' names! :]
 
 
Quantum
16:27 / 15.08.05
Make me 120, we met three years ago. And several times since then in London, Brighton and Southampton. You don't love me do you?
 
 
Jub
16:27 / 15.08.05
Hiya Anna,

You might not have met me, but I remember seeing you. I'd seen pictures of you in Stoatie in Greenland (or somewhere fairly recently) so I knew what you looked like. Then last Stoke Newington festival, I was sat there with my mates when you and Stoatie (and another boy) walked passed. I was really stoned at the time and the idea of talking to anyone I'd only seen pictures on the internet seemed a little bit too much. Hopefully, if this happens again I won't be too stoned and I'll come and say hi!
 
 
Tryphena Absent
16:30 / 15.08.05
Were there two angels?
 
 
mondo a-go-go
16:35 / 15.08.05
Only when I was very drunk and seeing double...

Quantum, I'm really sorry but I don't remember you at all. Isn't that terrible? I feel really bad now.

Jub, it was Iceland not Greenland! And next time say hello!
 
 
Tryphena Absent
16:36 / 15.08.05
Well she's number 18 and 24...
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
16:43 / 15.08.05
Looking at that list, I've only met, like, 58 or so (and that's including myself)...
 
 
Quantum
17:00 / 15.08.05
Wait, no, I could be wrong, screen names are my weakness... I am still struggling with the Anna to Nina change...no in fact I haven't ever met you. I take it all back, and hope to see you when you next visit Brighton.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
17:08 / 15.08.05
Honestly Quantum, I'd never forget you.
 
 
grant
17:15 / 15.08.05
Anna -- were you at that NLP thing run by marmalade cooper/quizkid adrian? You were! Barbelith orange shirts!

That day still seems strangely dreamlike to me -- if you have to have a Barbelith meet, then why not in a classroom tucked away in an old mansion, with a bit of wandering around the gardens *noticing things*?

I still feel guilty about leaving before being able to chat to Haus properly -- I was already late to meet up with the family back in town, and his resemblance to one of my uncles alarmed me.

Oh, and what's the most recent screen name of the the other guy who was in New York? I remember his meat name better than handles (he shifted through a few), which is odd.
 
 
Lilly Nowhere Late
17:34 / 15.08.05
Anna I read something in your original post as "a-list". So does that make us all A-listers if we've met you.
I could never say who I've met because I can't ever sort out the names. THE NAMES. Perhaps 'lither's should just have numbers. According to Anna's list of course.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
18:05 / 15.08.05
I'm next to Seth on the list.

*girlie swoon*
 
 
Brigade du jour
18:19 / 15.08.05
Awww ... you remembered me!

Love from Number 100.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
18:49 / 15.08.05
I remember his meat name better than handles

I remember his meat handles.
 
 
The Strobe
19:52 / 15.08.05
Bah. I'm pretty sure I met you in 2001-2002.
 
 
Benny the Ball
20:07 / 15.08.05
I've never met Anna, but she does cut a fine mix cd (does this make me c-list?)
 
 
Mourne Kransky
22:33 / 15.08.05
Number 18 is pretending to be Number 24. Or else angel's stalking you, Anna.
 
 
Sekhmet
23:13 / 15.08.05
I've never met Anna, but I'd like to. Is there a wannabe list?

In fact, I've never met anyone from here. How sad.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
01:04 / 16.08.05
Well, at least we're next to each other here, us 71-72 people. If only the 73 was still a Routemaster. But would I want to be a bendy bus at all?

I don't recall being A-listed before. Yay!
 
 
doozy floop
08:01 / 16.08.05
I'd seen pictures of you in Stoatie in Greenland (or somewhere fairly recently) so I knew what you looked like. Then last Stoke Newington festival, I was sat there with my mates when you and Stoatie (and another boy) walked passed.

I keep waiting for this to happen to me. (I mean, for me to be just sat there in Stokey and see Someone I Recognise from the pics thread walk past.) I'm quite moist with anticipation, really, although I have yet to decide what to do when it actually happens.
 
 
doglikesparky
08:38 / 16.08.05
In fact, I've never met anyone from here. How sad.

Nor me. It's not sad though, it makes us special. Perhaps we should start our own club.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
09:07 / 16.08.05
I mean, for me to be just sat there in Stokey and see Someone I Recognise from the pics thread walk past

If you sit around long enough in Stokey, the whole world walks past. You walk down the street in Stokey and it takes twise as long as anywhere else because of all the familiar folks who stop for a chat.

How many of them are from Barbelith I'm not sure of - I ran through the list and know I've met (or as Xoc indicated elsewhere, smiled slightly at from the next bench at the pub) quite a bunch of Anna's Barb-A-'lithlist at various drinking dens, Masonic temples, festivals, marches and Bob-a-thons and even on our old roof terrace. But as Lilly N noted, faces and suits just don't always click together in my mind either. Factor in the almost inevitable booze and everything becomes a blur, again.

So my rough guess is about one and a half times as many as I actually remember Stoatie introducing me to. Which is perhaps 20 or so.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
09:09 / 16.08.05
I have yet to decide what to do when it actually happens

Generally, I think the etiquette is that you buy them a pint.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
09:15 / 16.08.05
Of BRAINS!

(oops, sorry, slipped back to the Undead Lateshift there)
 
 
doozy floop
09:44 / 16.08.05
Generally, I think the etiquette is that you buy them a pint.

Noted. I consider myself prepared.
 
 
Bard: One-Man Humaton Hoedown
10:05 / 16.08.05
Sekhmet posted:
In fact, I've never met anyone from here. How sad.

Where are you located? One of us poor, disincfranchised North Americans in our remote little enclaves of 'lithiness?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
10:09 / 16.08.05
Alternatively, have sex with them. Either way, really.
 
 
doozy floop
11:23 / 16.08.05
Alternatively, have sex with them.

Unexpected bonus to joining Barbelith - I had no idea such things were permitted/encouraged. I have raised my anticipation levels significantly in the light of that information...
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
11:27 / 16.08.05
Oh, absolutely. One of the few advantages to being a brain suspended in a glass jar is that I don't have to partake in the increasingly horrible Barbelith daisy chains. Greenlighting and redshirting are pretty much de rigeur.

The other advantage is that my screams are almost entirely inaudible.
 
 
Mysterious Transfer Student
11:52 / 16.08.05
Sick and wrong though it may be, I felt an absurd sense of honour at finding my n00b name on Anna's List. (Which has no relationship to Craig's List, which as we know consists of but a single entry, under A.)

Living in Wales I had thought of myself as far removed from the Barb-epicentre, but Sekhmet's post clearly obliges a change of perspective.
 
 
Sekhmet
12:24 / 16.08.05
One of us poor, disincfranchised North Americans in our remote little enclaves of 'lithiness?

Yes, like that.

Maybe I should move to California.
 
 
Bard: One-Man Humaton Hoedown
12:32 / 16.08.05
Sekmhet:

I seem to recall you being in Seattle. I wrong on that?
 
 
Punji Steak
12:57 / 16.08.05
I've met you Anna, at Stoatie's birthday do in Angel...
 
 
Sekhmet
13:47 / 16.08.05
Bard: Austin, Texas.

Which is sort of like Seattle, but smaller and hotter and... well, not much like Seattle, actually.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:58 / 16.08.05
heh! I opened this thread purely to say "I think you've met punji steak as well... he was doing the animal impressions on my birthday" but it appears he's beaten me to it.

Still got the bit about the animal impressions in, though.
 
  

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