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The tragic

demise of John Thaw...

Could have gone better, but anyhoo...

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helmetcream, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 7:08, archived)

It's !

Torsoless Royal downhill coffin dodging (with a twist of Walt Disney)

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Analogue Warthog, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 6:53, archived)

terrifying

dunno what's scarier... the uglee design or the garbage midi soundtrack at 11 on the volume clock...

jesus saves, but Best scores on the rebound

(thebird, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 6:38, archived)

Wowee! I didn't

know the bible had passages featuring ALL CAPITAL LETTER warnings about HELL and the like... The midis are frightening - Sweet Home Alabama is playing right now... *shudder*
These are the people Bill Hicks warned us about...

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helmetcream, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 6:52, archived)

i'd be more impressed

if they hadn't misspelled "you're"...

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spacefish bong!, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 7:09, archived)

BLINKENLIGHTS!!!!

Remember blinkenlights?

I was in Berlin this week and managed to see it. It was fantastic!!! Didn't see the b3ta logo come up, but I was eating dinner in the revolving restaurant in the TV tower down the road, so we only saw it every 20 minutes or so as the restaurant went round...

It was even better than I expected. Thought it might have been a bit slow, but it was very fast and smooth.

The annoying thing is that it finishes tonight and they're having a huge "bye bye blinkenlights" party for it. If only I could have stayed an extra day...

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chaotic_illuminator proud spacehopperist, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 5:56, archived)

Dogsleighing

Hooray!

(SimonP, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 5:55, archived)

I did a university project

on bobsleigh aerodynamics...
I reckon you'd get a bit of drag off that tongue - or does it retract once the athletes are on-board?

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E.S.Blofeld, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 6:05, archived)

Well, that may be the case,

but the tongue is smooth and lubricated with baby lotion and strawberry scented wax on the bottom to enable the Dogsleigh to slide down the Dogsleigh Run at immense speed. The ears provide lift in the same way as airoplane wings, thus reducing the friction on the ice and increasing the velocity of the Dogsleigh.

(SimonP, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 6:20, archived)

My my...

cunning!

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E.S.Blofeld, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 6:34, archived)

I want to work there

or do I ?

Offers about what a Cumputer looks like. The Mathamatics bit is obviously a Geordie number thing.

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Analogue Warthog, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 5:48, archived)

ha ha

here's some cumputer animation... check out her page title on the browser

cumputer art

(thebird, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 6:06, archived)

cumputer freaks

this cumputing is more popular than I thought...

foreign cumputor geezers

(thebird, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 6:07, archived)

hard ware

your cumputer needs upgrading?? look no further...

cumputer parts

(thebird, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 6:09, archived)

anyone live in IllINOIS?

hanover park,IL $30.00

CUMPUTER DESK
CUMPUTER DESK GOOD COND. (630) 289-6899

(thebird, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 6:10, archived)

My God !

It's a hidden world.

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Analogue Warthog, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 6:22, archived)

Uphill Alpine Cycle Racing

Jason Queally attempts to negotiate a
particularly challenging section of the course...

...completing the 50 metre track in 19 days, 11 hrs 6 mins and 27 secs

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E.S.Blofeld, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 5:47, archived)

Respectful woos for that one

made me laugh :)

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pabulum, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 5:58, archived)

Combined Satan-Cat-Downhill- Ski-Jump

(Squirrel Dribble, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 5:25, archived)

Excellent... That's mental!

How would anyone hope to keep tabs on the score? BTW, where di you get that evil cat? Could you post the original?

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helmetcream, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 5:39, archived)

Tabs on the score

is that a junkie cat

(adgta Here 'cos popex died, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 5:44, archived)

Not too sure where it came from, all i know is it won't go back!!

(Squirrel Dribble, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 12:18, archived)

The view

from outside my window:

No snow - luvverly and sunny!

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helmetcream, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 5:20, archived)

...negated by the

drab, depressing surroundings of Dublin's innner city...

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helmetcream, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 5:23, archived)

I thought it was Dublin fair city

where the girls are so pretty...no?

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pabulum, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 5:25, archived)

Fuck, no!

The lord mayor is thinking of changing the name to Houndhaven.

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helmetcream, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 5:27, archived)

Woof Woof

Yap!!

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pabulum, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 5:29, archived)

The only

wolf whistling youe hear is from the women... Hoooowwwwwwwl! Like Gay dog's fag hag in a funny sorta way...

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helmetcream, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 5:32, archived)

dirty dogs

my mate sent me a mail yesterday about this Irish bird he has been seeing and quote: "she has got ginger pubs". and three peroxide bars in the city centre no doubt

(thebird, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 6:02, archived)

my dad acting the goat

(thebird, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 5:13, archived)

my dad and a donkey

(thebird, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 5:12, archived)

monkey on a donkey

(redifusion, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 5:15, archived)

Motorised bearback tobogganning

A short (and rather sad) history

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pabulum, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 4:34, archived)

woo 2 u!

and good to see someone else up this morning

(redifusion, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 4:40, archived)

It all gets a bit

quiet at the weekend

especially when its early...

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rockyrobin, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 4:56, archived)

The glare from the snow outside

woke me up. I really should still be in bed sleeping off my hangover.

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pabulum, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 5:00, archived)

snow,

oh how i've missed you, we never see it in brighton =(
plus the fact i've got to work today makes me sad.....

(redifusion, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 5:05, archived)

redi brek

you gotta work... me too... bummer... and the web mail is down... ffs... more toast is required!!

(thebird, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 5:15, archived)

Another Brightonian

YAY WOO WEE WOO WAH.
That's 4 of us so far.
We should do the Paul Daniels at the Komedia thing that Scabby Dog and Vulga were on about. Print out all the competition entries and give them to him.

(Nacho, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 6:20, archived)

paul ****ing daniels

i live in hove but I am from wolverhampton originally, yeah let's go see paul daniels... i have got a lump hammer I would like him to sign cos once i put it through a wall by 'mistake' and my partner said to me "well done paul f***ing daniels". Never did find out why cos we both burst out laughing at that point. =)

(thebird, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 6:41, archived)

Woo

and Yay! Paul Daniels, here we come. I reckon we should get some t-shirts printed up before we go, with some of the "Daniels" photoshopping that's been done. I want "Come To Daniels"

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vulga is a foul mouthed cunt, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 6:48, archived)

dr dom

mail me on hotmaul then and we'll go...

(thebird, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 7:07, archived)

scratch and sniff

that's a nice pic - glasgow is it? makes me wanna wander back up there =)

(thebird, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 5:06, archived)

Yip

It's the one and only remaining shipyard in the city. Used to be called Govan Shipbuilders, where Jimmy Reid and his pals had the brilliant idea that instead of striking, you could occupy your workplace. Can't lock you out then, can they?

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pabulum, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 5:16, archived)

ace

'spect to them poor bastards... now probably geting there great riveters mitts round a mouse as new media consusltants on £50 p/h... ;) Scottish Enterprise Lanarkshire here we come

(thebird, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 5:22, archived)

Or writing for the Scottish Sun

like Jimmy Reid, the media personality.

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pabulum, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 5:27, archived)

im off home to sleep

tommorrow everything will be good and new and there will be joy to behold on b3ta.
gnight!

(scabby dog, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 21:32, archived)

Hey, Brighton Boy

We should get together down the boozer some time.
From a Seven Dials dweller!
nighty-night

(Nacho, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 21:42, archived)

seven dials -

me too - you live round he corner from me probably : 0
lets do it - speak to you tommorrow guys!
nn

(scabby dog, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 21:58, archived)

If I've got the dosh

we drink in the Fish Bowl on a Friday night.
We're in the Windlesham area of the 7 Dials.
:o)

(Nacho, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 23:10, archived)

Work

All work and no play made Jack a dull boy.
Who is this Jack because he sounds a prat.

(Injun Giver, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 5:29, archived)

Everything comes in three's

Ever wondered who ever thought that three would be a great number to have things happen in?
Remember me Scabby?

(Injun Giver, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 5:15, archived)

crap sharks

sorry i posted that huge bmap... too hungover to notice and I'm on a cable so it don't notice this end. apologies... nothing over 40k in future... please don't bar me... (like every other bloody bulletin board) ;)

(thebird, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 5:17, archived)

hey you

i remember - your the one that siad that thing that time! woot!

soory, dont remember the name Injun giver - di you give me some Injuns?

(scabby dog, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 13:28, archived)

icewars

(theultimatehaggis, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 20:34, archived)

ice wars

(kevino the czar, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 20:26, archived)

Goosey goes ski jumping

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DaWolfey, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 19:58, archived)

New Olympic Sport

My first post here.

Hey, I would like to see THAT!

(MixxMaster, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 19:49, archived)

Which bit did you photoshop?

Oh I see, you put a 'finally' after France Surrenders :)
Nice.

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Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 19:56, archived)

Sorry it's too late to try and be funny.

zzzzzzzzzzzzz

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Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 19:57, archived)

Hello?

Anyone still out there?

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rockyrobin, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 19:25, archived)

I went for a while,

but I'm back again.
I'm debating whether or not to go to bed, but I've got the feeling in the not too distant future my house is about to be swamped with a bunch of rowdy pissheads, so I might as well stay up and have another vodka.

(Nacho, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 19:28, archived)

What with me being

in halls of residence, theres rowdy pissheads here 24/7...

Though even they seem to have gone to bed now

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rockyrobin, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 19:30, archived)

why,

where are you?

(Nacho, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 19:31, archived)

Nottingham Uni

The proper one, not the old poly

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rockyrobin, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 19:32, archived)

never been there.

what you studying?
I mean what course are you registered on?
(students only actually work in the final 4 months)

(Nacho, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 19:34, archived)

I be a mechanical engineer

Its a nice place. When its not raining.
Then again, where is nice when its raining?

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rockyrobin, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 19:37, archived)

The rainforest?

Being tucked up in bed?
In a swimming pool.
Nope, that's me done. I'm much more of a dry weather sunshine type person.

(Nacho, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 19:41, archived)

I've been to the rainforest

read the collected works of Kafka in a hammock in the Amazon, on the Rio Urubu. It was the dry season though- no rain.

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crab_bloke), Fri 22 Feb 2002, 19:47, archived)

Actually

that's a lie. there were several serious downpours, but always very brief. I listened to Ice Cube and caught a really big fish.

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crab_bloke), Fri 22 Feb 2002, 19:49, archived)

Kafka?

Call me uncultured, but

HUH?

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rockyrobin, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 19:50, archived)

Kafka rocks

some of the best literature I've ever read. But then again, the dark, paranoid stuff really appeals to me, and nobody has ever been as dark or as paranoid as Kafka. Seriously- he's written some of the best things I've ever read. Beats stephen king for darkness hands down, for example.

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crab_bloke), Fri 22 Feb 2002, 20:01, archived)

Heeeyyyyy, Little Crabby!

YAY!
How was your evening. How many Guinesses did you do tonight?
By the way, I know it's not you on the button of you on the gallery page I did today. I'll change it one way or the other. That's Pazoozu Umbezi speaking.

(Nacho, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 19:50, archived)

Hiya babes

Very drunk- several pints and I suppose by now a couple of bottles of wine (been drinking since I got back). Discussing the fact that both b3ta and rathergood are about to go bankrupt in the next few weeks (possibly couple of weeks) with rob. We are about to go under. I am skint, no way I can afford to host rathergood. The dream may well be about to die. But fuck it, it'll all work out in the end. How about you?

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crab_bloke), Fri 22 Feb 2002, 19:58, archived)

Well, I'm in as bad a position as you

dosh wise. Which is why I'm sitting in on a Friday night on my own. Got the offer to go out, but I hate going to the pub and waiting for someone to realise you've had an empty glass for ages, take pity on you and supply you with more booze.
But my magical over frozen freezer supplied me with a luxury bottle of Absolut for which I am eternally greatful.
Is Rob round yours?
Hi, Rob, if you are.

(Nacho, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 20:03, archived)

Nah, rob's pissed off back to his

But seriously, both b3ta and rathergood are likely to go down in the next couple of weeks. How do we get funding? we're fucked.

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crab_bloke), Fri 22 Feb 2002, 20:07, archived)

How much does your hosting cost at the moment?

Have you tried looking for a sponsor at all?

(Nacho, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 20:09, archived)

Hosting

I don't post anything interesting as I have no artistic ability. But being a Brit stuck in the US, b3ta has kept me sane over the last few weeks. If there's anything I can do to help you out, you're more than welcome. I can't promise a big cheque in the post :( But, there may be a medium sized one for an official apology to all penguins out there. And to all llamas, as llamas are cool.

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winston_theramin, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 0:21, archived)

Hosting

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winston_theramin, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 0:21, archived)

Love the new gallery Nacho

Who is Basil, and what was she on?

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pabulum, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 20:10, archived)

She? Oh that;s great! That has amused me

Basil is my flatmate. His real name's Aaron. I've lived with him for 4 and a half years. He's my surrogate brother.

(Nacho, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 20:17, archived)

That was just me and Basil

pissing about on a school night.
We might have smoked a few though.
Maybe not. That's kind of the normal type of conversation at Snake Mountain. All animal noises and strange voices welcome.
Even got some quality wavs of my mum speaking Zulu and doing animal noises stored on my pc.

(Nacho, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 20:23, archived)

And there was me just emailing you

saying what a godsend b3ta is on a pissed Friday night.

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pabulum, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 20:05, archived)

Getting a shag

would be better though!!
That's it.
Game over.
I've gone into smut land.
Stop right there.
More vodka.
Less thinking.

(Nacho, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 20:12, archived)

Where's the boyfriend

with the mask for a face that you posted earlier? Is he not keeping you warm?

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pabulum, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 20:16, archived)

Nah, he's

out and about somewhere.
Dunno where.
I don't care - I'm in Tron Land

(Nacho, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 20:20, archived)

I know mate

it's a godsend to me too. this is my baby, although I am not the only parent, and we achieved everything we meant to achieve and far more. Unfortunately there is no money in it and we use a huge amount of bandwidth, so we will soon have the plug pulled on us. I have hundreds of thousands of loyal users, no job and no money. Go figure. Between b3ta and rathergood, which have grown as mutually dependent entities, there are literally millions of users, but no revenue, and these days no revenue means it doesn't matter shit if you're among the best there are in the world at what you do if it doesn't make money. I give up, they've fucked me. I am a victim of a virulent media recession to which I thought I was immune. Fuckers. I'm skint. Got 10p for a cup of tea?

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crab_bloke), Fri 22 Feb 2002, 20:16, archived)

If I gave you tuppence,

would you feed the birds, or
buy paper and string for your own set of wings?

(Nacho, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 20:19, archived)

There have to be other ways

to keep something like this going, without having to resort to fucking adverts plastered all over everything. As I'm sure you've discovered yourself, as soon as the sponsors move in, they call the shots. I'd subscribe to b3ta, pay a small monthly fee to keep it going. It's a rare entity, and really deserves to survive.

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pabulum, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 20:24, archived)

It's still snowing

and I just poured my last glass

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pabulum, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 20:31, archived)

That's really fucking great mate

but I fear you're in a minority. The pay for use model wold fix the situation, but we'd feel very weird about trying to implement it, and there's always the worry that the natural attrition that would kill the essence of what we've created, which is essentially an elite collecitve of the best creatives out there, doing shit because it's fun rather than because it has commercial value. I don't know- maybe that's the best way to go, but the pay for use model is so difficult to make work. There's long long discussions about the psychology of this which would probably be beter held off-list.

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crab_bloke), Fri 22 Feb 2002, 20:43, archived)

And off-pished too probably

Time for bed. G'night from snowy Glasgow

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pabulum, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 20:56, archived)

noooooo!!!!1

say it aint soo!! Ive just seen a polar bear juggle penguins - where else will i get to see such wonderfull things?? how much bandwith are you using and how much do you need!!?!?!?!?!!?!?

(scabby dog, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 20:36, archived)

Lots

and lots. This will become a proper serious issue soon enough. maybe we should just not worry about it right now.

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crab_bloke), Fri 22 Feb 2002, 21:01, archived)

well

i know i would one of those in the minority who would be interested in chipping in to help - its costing me a bit for all my domains but i dont get any traffic so bandwith is not an issue for me but i know where youre coming from - B3ta is too good to go away - why dont all interested parties get together over a drink and we can all bash some ideas about while getting drunk? so, when you all coming to Brighton for drinks then? : )

(scabby dog, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 21:09, archived)

If I buy a crab shirt

will you not let rathergood die?

(thellama73, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 21:18, archived)

I'd give you a fiver...

...however, I know you'd only spend it buying fags and booze for underaged marmots.

Perhaps trying to push merchandise more? A mug a day could keep the bailiffs away. Well, a thousand mugs at 0.001% comission. It's amazing you've managed to keep going this long without going into ads/subs.
Perhaps organising a Bitch-Aid style fundraiser? Or, last resort, a diaspora of the whole B3ta community onto seperate spaces - using free messageboards (if any still exist), cheap/free webspace, perhaps even turning B3ta into some kind of Web-Ring type thing, spreading the content over several people's Blogs, turning B3ta.com into nothing more than a redirection hub(pretty much what it serves as now though I s'pose). Hell, I wish I could just give you my webspace, but I doubt 30M would be much use to this monster.

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grinfish redux I can remember when all this were eels, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 20:53, archived)

For example:

If this didn't sell well in the net-enabled student community, what would?

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grinfish redux I can remember when all this were eels, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 21:20, archived)

Waaaagh!

It's falling over the edge!

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grinfish redux I can remember when all this were eels, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 21:24, archived)

Help

I have 50MB of hosting space if you can use it. Free to anyone as talented.

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winston_theramin, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 0:10, archived)

Jus put sleep vs. spirits in google.

thankfully, sleep wins 4:1

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rockyrobin, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 19:48, archived)

I've got...

about 10k+ megs availible for use from my site. I'm offering it if it can be used.

(Kimbo, Sat 23 Feb 2002, 4:47, archived)

Nun curling?

My first post. I think all nuns should curl. And I've been drinking.

(bdx, Fri 22 Feb 2002, 19:11, archived)

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