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Started by bacardiandlime, June 01, 2020, 02:09:56 PM

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bacardiandlime

I find myself still browsing the old fora for highlights, and thinking of the classic threads (the various MIL adventure sections that always had me in stitches). And people I still miss, like acrimone and crazybatlady.

There was one hilarious poster who left, I think to go teach in the Caribbean (?). Wish I could recall her name to look up her posts.

What were your favorites?

mamselle

I know who you mean, I'll PM you.

Thanks for starting this thread!

I agree, we had some crazygood times.

I miss John_Proctor, Octo, Anthroid, cgfunmathguy, rowan, one of the other MIL contributors, her moniker began with an "o," and a couple of geologists whose monikers I forget, and of course those who are gone now.

RIP Froggy, Pry, and InfoPri (and any others we may not know of).

And I feel like we need a clubhouse, or cabana system, or some other place to hang out virtually, since meetups won't be happening soon in person!

The quiet room threads are nice, of course, and good for jangled nerves....but when you want to party, you want to party, too.

We'll get there, I'm sure.

Thanks again for this thread!

M.
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

Reprove not a scorner, lest they hate thee: rebuke the wise, and they will love thee.

Give instruction to the wise, and they will be yet wiser: teach the just, and they will increase in learning.

Wahoo Redux

Oxford Round Table.

Caught In Office Looking at Porn

I don't miss some of the senior members who could be very condescending, but I do miss the trainwrecks.

Things are too serious for trainwrecks these days.
Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring
Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To flutter--and the Bird is on the Wing.

writingprof

#3
"Caught in Office Looking at Porn" really has everything one could want in a Fora thread.  Thank you, thank you for the flashback!

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Every single one of you has looked at porn.  everyone.  Single. Of. You. 

Gold.

bacardiandlime

The poster I was referring to was Annabelle, who was around in the pre-registration days (2005?) and has been missed longer than she ever posted!
Missing Annabelle

If anyone does know her IRL I'd be thrilled.

evil_physics_witchcraft

Has anyone heard about citrine and her nephew?

mamselle

Citrine posted here briefly, and I think they were doing well...

It runs in my mind she joined the cats thread for a bit.

M.
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

Reprove not a scorner, lest they hate thee: rebuke the wise, and they will love thee.

Give instruction to the wise, and they will be yet wiser: teach the just, and they will increase in learning.

bacardiandlime


ab_grp

Thanks for this! Some great topics from the old forum and lots of fondly remembered forumites.  I have been trying in vain to find one of my favorite posts, but I never did get very good with the search function there.  I even tried the google search workaround.  I'll keep looking in between reading back through these memorable threads.

Hegemony

Citrine and her nephew are doing well.

writingprof

Don't forget the old Fora write-up in the Los Angeles Review of Books.  A trip down memory lane all its own.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-complainers-online-with-the-chronicle-of-higher-education/

evil_physics_witchcraft


mahagonny

Quote from: Wahoo Redux on June 01, 2020, 03:12:08 PM

I don't miss some of the senior members who could be very condescending, but I do miss the trainwrecks.


I liked the guy who responded to cgfunmathguy's spirited promoting of the unpaid, required office hour for the part time adjunct, (no room provided) concept with 'faculty can work in substandard conditions but it should never be because of cosseted supervisors.' I'm sure math guy didn't get it, but it was a good moment.

hmaria1609

I enjoyed "We Speak Volumes" thread--it had terrific posting mileage.

For me as a librarian, the "Academic Libraries" section had substantive threads. Although posting traffic was lower there, it was a good place!

traductio

There aren't as many accusations of cliques on the new fora. I miss the poster whose name I don't remember (maybe Tennis something?) who spent half their time complaining about the cliques, half expounding on X-Files, about which they had a prodigious knowledge.

I might be one of the few people who misses Bread Pirate Naan, whom many found acerbic, I think. But I always appreciated her perspective (although I think half her posts were on astrology).

I also miss Système D (who was also so wise and kind) and Grasshopper (the only person I ever pissed off, although she probably wouldn't remember it).

The interesting thing I've found with the new fora is that I post more, probably because I have to be logged in to read most of the posts. Some days I come here for what Facebook used to provide -- that social aspect, I suppose -- especially on those days when I really don't care to know what my loved ones are thinking. (Sometimes they think appalling things.)

Oh, and MTG.