Re: FORUM GOLD

by Zat on Thu 25 Mar 2010, 16:49

The original 'Bucky: Helicopters are circling my house' thread was not easy to find. The first references to the choppers aren't till page 12...
THREAD

by skully on Thu 25 Mar 2010, 18:53

Jebus, Zog, you got a database of these things???

How can we be leaving out the BLUMPY THREAD and the HEARSAY THREAD?

by Zat on Thu 25 Mar 2010, 20:48

About a year ago, when I was really keen on the idea of a gold section, I started reading the whole forum, and bookmarking. Got through about 40 pages and suffered crap overload,. so never finished the job. Jay pointed out a couple, and I think even his royal lardness picked a couple.

by skully on Thu 25 Mar 2010, 21:04

Hehehe, noice work.

by PeterCS on Fri 26 Mar 2010, 00:32

aye, good trawling Supreme Commander sah. aye-aye

by lardbucket on Fri 26 Mar 2010, 01:09

how about this Cassandra-like stuff from Red?

by PeterCS on Fri 26 Mar 2010, 01:12

I don't recall that. Alchemy?

by Paul Keating on Fri 26 Mar 2010, 01:47

This was back on C4 - Boxing Day Test 2006 and England relinquishing the Ashes

Tom Pagan at his best.

We're letting the Aussies get away with it a bit here...not on the cricket
field - that's all done and dusted and we're only viewing portracted rigor
mortis.

But in general- they're still Aussies. Their team are still a bunch of
downright scary and disturbing fanatical weirdos. They sing a 'patriotic'
song after every single test win, the baggy green is treated with the same
reference as a holy relic, nicknames are a deadly serious tribal rite of
pasage thing etc. etc. If they didn't have a sporting outlet for their
dangerous levels of testosterone they'd be getting on the jackboots and
invading New Zealand. FACT.

Let's look at the team- Hayden- the double Y chromosome missing link school
bully who never grew up, Langer - thinks he's actually fighting a war,
Ponting need I say more, Clarke- weird arian puppy with a diamond stud in
his ear, Symonds- pig shooting hick, belongs in a horror film, Gilchrist-
appauling hypocrite who walks for nicks but has no qualms about cheating
other batsmen of their wicket with endless spurious appeals behind the
wicket and we haven't even started on the two described as the 'Great Men'.
Totally conceited and arrogant so and so's- both overdo it with the
verbals, one probably needs castrating and the other's a redneck. 'Great
Men'? Check out Ghandi or Nelson Mandella. Your boys are the great trailer
trash.

KP aside, England are to a man regular, fairly well-balanced, as
professional sportsmen go, human beings. You can beat our team 5-0 every
series for the next 100 years but we'll always be the 'real' winners.

I'd sing a patriotic song now but I'm not incurably vulgar enough.

by JKLever on Fri 26 Mar 2010, 03:11

by Jontyh on Fri 26 Mar 2010, 03:17

Aye. I remember that. I had to check my screen to see if any of the bitterness had oozed out..

by doremi on Fri 26 Mar 2010, 07:40

Shit, this thread is great. It took hidden reserves of control I didn't know I had, not to spit out the water I was drinking on the laptop when I read the "truckle" post...

Should have made this thread earlier Zat...

by DJ_Smerk on Fri 26 Mar 2010, 07:44

I wonder if I ever blurted out some Forum Gold.

by DJ_Smerk on Fri 26 Mar 2010, 07:44

Also, which wasn't stolen from another forummer.

by Clamson on Fri 26 Mar 2010, 08:58

Before I looked, I was sceptical.

But the fact you haven't done whole threads, merely the excerpts (and comments from Dello) makes it work.

by Zat on Sat 27 Mar 2010, 12:15

Cheers Guys,

There's lots of gold in the Flaming Bails hills. It's just the time it takes to dig it up that's the problem.

When I get a few spare days I'll resume the strip mining.