Thread to remember our forgotten forumites

redvee

Sara Joy went from a techo geek to a school teacher, last heard of at Cheltenham Girls School and too far from home for much cycling along with her dancing and other interests it seems. CW posted in the Richmond Park pee-up thread this week after being told about it via Twitter.

greg66_tri_v2.0

Clever Pun (purveyor of sonic doom)
BassJunkieUK

itboffin

TailWindHome wrote:

Coriander
Jen J
Linsen
Biondino
itboffin

Yes itboffin is awesome wonder what's happened to him ...?

Shite i'm still here :evil:

dhope

SimonAH wrote:

walkingbootweather wrote:

Not sure if it was his hat, his beard or his sense of humour but Hatbeard used to make me smile.

Lives over on LFGSS these days.

He's good, had birthday drinks with him last month. He's achingly hip though, rides around on a fixed with little handlebars and wears a LFGSS cap instead of a helmet :P

domgears

I think GregT is the biggest loss to this thread, he is responsible for many a destroyed keyboard with his big ring posts and Ian Hislop alter ego.

Also worthy of mention are Snookes and King Donut.

walkingbootweather

dhope wrote:

SimonAH wrote:

walkingbootweather wrote:

Not sure if it was his hat, his beard or his sense of humour but Hatbeard used to make me smile.

Lives over on LFGSS these days.

He's good, had birthday drinks with him last month. He's achingly hip though, rides around on a fixed with little handlebars and wears a LFGSS cap instead of a helmet :P

Excellent. Never met him and wouldn't know him from Adam, but there are a few people here that often make 'laugh-out-loud' funny posts, and he was one of them.

Monkeypump

DonDaddyD wrote:

What pattern? :evil:

Having met all three as well as LiTs, Cafewanda (she has gone missing to and she was really cool) and Linsen and taken the time to speak to them, they are actually really cool and friendly. They all added something to the site. There names are worth mentioning, unlike monkeypump who I didn't care for and W1 when he first came onto the scene.

Christophe3567 (or something like that) - used to buy beers at the Morpeth was also another cool guy.

Love you too, buddy - hypocrisy, naivety, career indecision and all

ariba

SimonAH wrote:

walkingbootweather wrote:

Not sure if it was his hat, his beard or his sense of humour but Hatbeard used to make me smile.

Lives over on LFGSS these days.

met him this morning on the way in - a cool guy

Headhuunter

DonDaddyD wrote:

Spacebadger (great name when you realise she's a girl) has gone quiet. She coined the phrase "I've been duffed". Great phrase that, great phrase on so many levels.

Porgy was a Jedi, had to be.

Always Tyred, though he annoyed me, is another legend on here sorely missed. When he and Porgy went keyboard warrior you new your day at work was over as you joyfully clicked refersh on your browser.

GregT has gone quiet but that's because he had to quit his job at Barclays.... :twisted:

Also to name some more girlies: LondonLivvy, Totalnewbie and the delightful Pinkpedal ( :oops: )

Didn't Always Tyred get banned?

Headhuunter

TailWindHome wrote:

Coriander
Jen J
Linsen
Biondino

Coriander came back briefly a few weeks back... Actually I saw her in Sainsbury's about a month ago and we had a bit of a chinwag...

Headhuunter

rjsterry wrote:

Not heard from Roastie or Citizen Smith for ages. I think they both moved to Bath IIRC. Actually, the Bristol/Bath lot are a bit quiet as a whole.

Yeah Roastie moved to Bristol or Bath or something a couple of years ago... He announced this at the time and said that he wouldn't be posting anymore...

walkingbootweather

The most memorable poster I have found,
Has 4 cree lights and a big Airzound,
With helpful tips and advice to lend,
Like, “don’t ask here – Google is you friend…”
I’ve told you once, hear what I said,
Yon need cheap head cams on your Pinheads,
Make your self seen with F**k Off lights,
But don’t pollute the Sky at Night,
Immac a squirrel, but God forbid,
That we neglect to “think of the kids”,
Never forgotten, thanks a bundle,
The one and only ……

rjsterry

Headhuunter wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Not heard from Roastie or Citizen Smith for ages. I think they both moved to Bath IIRC. Actually, the Bristol/Bath lot are a bit quiet as a whole.

Yeah Roastie moved to Bristol or Bath or something a couple of years ago... He announced this at the time and said that he wouldn't be posting anymore...

I seem to remember he did pop in a couple of times after the move. A shame - he seemed like a top bloke, and his Ti framed commuter project was always worth hearing about.

dhope

ariba wrote:

SimonAH wrote:

walkingbootweather wrote:

Not sure if it was his hat, his beard or his sense of humour but Hatbeard used to make me smile.

Lives over on LFGSS these days.

met him this morning on the way in - a cool guy

Ah, are you another SE Londoner? I'll be back over that way in 2 months

tailwindhome

Old DDD

This new Cbeebies model is a bit disappointing TBH.

Old DDD would have never started the nonsense with Cake Stop. Even if he had he would have posted in Bottom Bracket by now and gone toe to toe until someone got banned.

I miss old DDD

davis

walkingbootweather wrote:

The most memorable poster I have found,
Has 4 cree lights and a big Airzound,
With helpful tips and advice to lend,
Like, “don’t ask here – Google is you friend…”
I’ve told you once, hear what I said,
Yon need cheap head cams on your Pinheads,
Make your self seen with F**k Off lights,
But don’t pollute the Sky at Night,
Immac a squirrel, but God forbid,
That we neglect to “think of the kids”,
Never forgotten, thanks a bundle,
The one and only ……

Headhuunter

dhope wrote:

ariba wrote:

SimonAH wrote:

walkingbootweather wrote:

Not sure if it was his hat, his beard or his sense of humour but Hatbeard used to make me smile.

Lives over on LFGSS these days.

met him this morning on the way in - a cool guy

Ah, are you another SE Londoner? I'll be back over that way in 2 months

You're giving up on Balham already and moving back SE?

dhope

Headhuunter wrote:

dhope wrote:

ariba wrote:

SimonAH wrote:

walkingbootweather wrote:

Not sure if it was his hat, his beard or his sense of humour but Hatbeard used to make me smile.

Lives over on LFGSS these days.

met him this morning on the way in - a cool guy

Ah, are you another SE Londoner? I'll be back over that way in 2 months

You're giving up on Balham already and moving back SE?

I like Balham but no more than I liked Greenwich. Seeing mates in SE more than those in SW and a friend's lease is up the same day as mine who wants to head back to Greenwich too so all the timing works out nicely to move back. Plus two of my current housemates are fecking morons :roll:

Headhuunter

dhope wrote:

Headhuunter wrote:

dhope wrote:

ariba wrote:

SimonAH wrote:

walkingbootweather wrote:

Not sure if it was his hat, his beard or his sense of humour but Hatbeard used to make me smile.

Lives over on LFGSS these days.

met him this morning on the way in - a cool guy

Ah, are you another SE Londoner? I'll be back over that way in 2 months

You're giving up on Balham already and moving back SE?

I like Balham but no more than I liked Greenwich. Seeing mates in SE more than those in SW and a friend's lease is up the same day as mine who wants to head back to Greenwich too so all the timing works out nicely to move back. Plus two of my current housemates are fecking morons :roll:

They all come crawling back...! See I told you not to go to Balham, they're all feckin' morons out there...

Ben6899

Velostrapture or whatever they were called. I recall a few whiney posts and then we've heard nothing more. It seems like such a waste after all the hard work.

daniel_b

What about DonDon?!

wgwarburton

Veronese68 wrote:

.... Some other trolls seem to have been more recently silenced. ... Buns or have I just avoided they're posts?

Troll? Me? Shurely shome mishtake!

Got busy for a while and didn't have the opportunity to contribute. I got a bit frustrated by some of the nonsense that was posted, too... There are still people on this board to whom, I have told myself, I must never reply!

Maybe they'll realise the error of their ways :-)

Cheers,
W.

veronese68

WGWarburton wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

.... Some other trolls seem to have been more recently silenced. ... Buns or have I just avoided they're posts?

Troll? Me? Shurely shome mishtake!

Got busy for a while and didn't have the opportunity to contribute. I got a bit frustrated by some of the nonsense that was posted, too... There are still people on this board to whom, I have told myself, I must never reply!

Maybe they'll realise the error of their ways :-)

Cheers,
W.

I thought about that as I bit on your earlier post. I obviously didn't register the smily.
I think I'm too old to get smilies.
I was actually glad to see you post.

MonkeyMonster

I saw biondino down the local a few months ago with doggie. LiT is busy with writing essays and articles.

rolf_f

I miss BerkBonebonce. I never could work out if he was genuinely stupid, a bit misguided or an evil genius troll. He seemed to know about bikes yet so often his posts were out of phase with rightness by exactly 180 degrees. It was bizarre. I particularly enjoyed him insisting that you couldn't run a 13-29 with a Campag short cage despite me and others pointing out that we could and did and without any big-big problems.

I miss him.....

As for the girls - they never last for long after DDD finds them......

prawny

Daniel B wrote:

What about DonDon?!

Yes!

And me, I miss me.

londonlivvy

As SimonAH pointed out, I post every now and again, but less often. I'm up the duff so have been I've been doing far less cycling (as don't have the same time / energy). And the Morpeth has been out too as beer is off the menu and there's only so many lemonades you can drink before you bore yourself.

Coriander is alive and well I can confirm (she and I are related - kinda - her bro is married to my sis).

I LOVED the hambones story and always wondered what happened as a result.

Now... tangentally... do any of you FGSS chaps know if the guy in the front pen at Etape (1, I think) on a fixie completed it? Boyf spotted him and was curious to know if he'd managed to finish the route.

SimonAH

londonlivvy wrote:

As SimonAH pointed out, I post every now and again, but less often. I'm up the duff .

Many congratulations!!

DonDaddyD

londonlivvy wrote:

I'm up the duff

Well, you've kept that quiet! Especially given all the (my) recent threads (well 7 months ago). How many months are you and when is LO ( = little one, got that from mumsnet) due?

OH and congratulations.

Don't get a bugaboo.

veronese68

Congrats on being duffed up LL. Hope it all goes swimmingly for you.