20 Years of Badgers
I made this!
Posting on b3ta first as this is where it all started. hope you enjoy it.
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weebl Mashed farts, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 2:31,
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Thangoo Mr Weebl
- I came here for this, about 20 years ago, pulled up a kitten, and I've not left since (except for a couple of quiet flounces)
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Invisible Wizard - 10th Level Nerf-herder, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 7:18,
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too many first level posts
I want my reply to be more relevant. Wonderful link, have a clicky...
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sun 3 Sep 2023, 3:32,
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I haven't been first level in years
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Invisible Wizard - 10th Level Nerf-herder, Sun 3 Sep 2023, 9:14,
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Awesome - I thank you sir!
I feel like a nostagia trip by looking up my favourite Weebl and Bob episode featuring "Pissy Werld".
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 7:29,
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:) Fantastic.
Two Decades ago I pushed this out to our small IT company PCs as a startup file. Got a bollocking.
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fuck! now the whole world knows about b3ta!
woo! and congrats to all
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Woodkovsky ☹️➝🚻➝🚽➝😣➝💩➝🧻➝😁, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 9:13,
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Thank you for 20 years of badgers
Looking forward to the movie
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 9:19,
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Yay! Congratulations!
My IT teacher hated it back in the day, so we turned up early and got it going (unsynchronized) on every PC in the room before he arrived. He was less than impressed and went around the room yanking the power cables.
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Cae1, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 10:33,
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WYHP
happiness and then we all turn to dust
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TopUpTheTea you ain't seen me, right?, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 10:37,
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Well done, Weebl. I was watching the original just the other day.
It still wins the 'tinternets.
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Halibut If you think education is expensive, try crack., Sat 2 Sep 2023, 10:38,
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YAY!
I scared away a scammer by telling them about my love of Badger Racing and then sending them the gif.
Excellent!
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chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 10:40,
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Bloody hell…
First time I’ve logged in to b3ta in ages and it’s to say thank you for the badgers old and new
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I've had a similar problem all weekend. I'm only logged in on my desktop it seems.
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weebl Mashed farts, Mon 4 Sep 2023, 11:25,
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Went To France!
Is still what I read whenever I see WTF. Hope everyone is well!
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Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Mon 4 Sep 2023, 8:22,
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me too
I still mutter "home of the baguette" under my breath every time France gets mentioned
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new_matt, Mon 4 Sep 2023, 10:39,
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Woohoo
I’m not sure what makes me feel older, this being 20yrs ago or all the people on social media going “OMG, I was, like, 2 when this came out”
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chthonic, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 10:51,
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"My Mum used to love watching your stuff."
I've stopped going to conventions.
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weebl Mashed farts, Mon 4 Sep 2023, 11:27,
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Ah the memories.... I can remember when this was all fields
and the local corner shop was just that, local.
happy 20 badgers or whatever
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TBL I posted this on, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 10:56,
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Bloody hell, you've aged well!
*wipes away tear of nostalgia*
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Jadeviper was still alive on, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 11:02,
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Helps when you never leave the house. Sunlight is evil.
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weebl Mashed farts, Mon 4 Sep 2023, 11:27,
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Yay !
Happy badger day old boy .
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amoebaboy chose for death by unga bunga on, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 11:09,
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Woo Yay and a touch of hoopla!
20 years! Blimey 🤣
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thebear is thebear, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 11:13,
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Yaaaaaay!
Edit: Blimey - big internet hugs to all you fellow oldies here :D
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eclectech is older but no wiser, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 11:23,
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woo yay hoopla indeed
what's even more amazing is that I still remembered my password
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teflon, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 11:28,
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THANKS!
Longing on for the first time in a million years to thank you for your service.
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Just when I thought I was Out
You go and drag me back in again.......
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I still remember where I was when this was first posted.
Browsing b3ta at a shitty office job in Liverpool, which I was shortly to be sacked from for spending too long on the internet.
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charliedontsurf, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 11:34,
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Did someone remember their password?
Cheers from Australia. Still recovering from all those possum attacks. I'd quite like to hear a full version of "MosesOnDope.exe".
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I had to really dig in my mind to work out what was referring to and...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D2JEkcdLNw
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rob, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 13:59,
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Jesus
That brings back memories.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sun 3 Sep 2023, 3:39,
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If you search for it
You get an article about whether Jesus was on drugs, with a picture of him next to guess what? A mushroom!
Deffo not a coincidence.
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 18:56,
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It's been a while
Haven't logged in for a while but this news has sent my brain into a nostalgia meltdown.
Well done for creating something that is still loved 20 years later, and helped sow the seeds of the glorious culture that is silliness on the internet.
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durbster durbster.co.uk, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 11:36,
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De-aging Better Than Dial of Destiny
I wish I could de-age myself back to 20 years ago when I first saw this and created this ancient b3ta account.
What was I doing on the day of the OG release of Badger? Who knows? I was in my 20s, I could do anything! I could have been waking up on some strangers kitchen floor after a crazy night of adventures and high jinx meeting a world of weird and colourful characters. Now I have to have a special mattress on my bed because of my back.
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ReReformed, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 11:45,
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Thankyou
Thankyou sir. To this day whenever I spot badger roadkill, the chant of badger badger badger comes unbidden from my mouth, usually to the consternation and concern of those around me.
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pregnantfridge, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 11:50,
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Happy badgerday!
Have some badgers on a trampoline in celebration!
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 11:56,
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Congrats Mr Weebl!
Having been a b3tan for only 3 months prior to the badgers making their debut I remember like it was yesterday! Happy Badgercandles!
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Jimmer still not dead at, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 11:57,
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Awesome!
But I can feel different aches for every one of those years. /old
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matsimpsk, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 12:08,
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Repost
Please post original content, this must be at least 20 years old...
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bovine I'm so old, even my old is old, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 12:17,
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Do we have to?
Can we lurk again?
(So much time wasted!)
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Smiley_Neil filling the interweb with crap, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 20:51,
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Lorks!
I remember when all this were fields!
Congratomalations Weebs!
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Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Sat 2 Sep 2023, 12:25,
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Time to bust this bad boy out for the first time in years
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kinks rock over London, rock on Chicago, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 12:28,
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if anyone needs reminding of the lyrics
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rob, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 12:50,
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I always like a visual representation of things
But isn't it only 5 mushrooms per verse?
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Sun 3 Sep 2023, 10:55,
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Thank you for entertaining us
A double thank you for "Kenya", entertaining me and various children over the years.
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Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 13:08,
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Agreed
Although it did result in me feeling pretty stupid when I learned that tigers are actually Asian.
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Coo-eeee
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Sir Aunty Grampa Dave the Hat - enjoying a post-meridian muncheon - Ta! Cannaoogim!?, Sun 3 Sep 2023, 6:49,
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Awesome! Congrats Weebl!
My fave Badgers memory is getting on a bus to Huddersfield in 2003 during peak Badgermania, after visiting some film festival thing with a few other b3tans. One of us quietly started singing badgerbadgerbadgerbadger as you do, the rest of us joined in, naturally, but then some random kids at the back of the bus started singing along. It snowballed from there, in about 30 seconds nearly everyone on board was yelling BADGERBADGERBADGERBADGEMUSHROOOOMMUSHROOOM at the top of their voices. The bus driver assumed, not unreasonably, that his passengers had all gone completely mad and were about to riot, and promptly floored it, belting past every stop all the way back into town, I think he even may have run some red lights. He reached the bus station, screeched to a halt and demanded that we all get off immediately. Got us to the pub about ten minutes quicker than expected, which was nice.
Also: 20 years bloody hell. *crumbles into dust*
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Hiii tomsk! That was actually the day or day after it came out.
There was a screening of Domo Darko up there so I hadn't actually seen the Badgers yet, only experienced other ppl recreating/singing it. I made a b3tan 'cover' version from the footage when I got home.
files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/002/369/037/946/237/original/1619be0e96aee278.mp4
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Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Sun 3 Sep 2023, 19:32,
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Twenty years. Twenty pissing years.
This place is wholly responsible for my marriage. You bastards.
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Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Sat 2 Sep 2023, 13:31,
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And mine
And two kids and a recently deceased deaf cat.. I got a lot more sleep 20 years ago, even with the late nights b3taing..
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Lora, Sun 3 Sep 2023, 8:30,
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Has anyone pointed out...
That it's a toadstool?
Just sayin'
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ousgg is not seeking approval, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 13:35,
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20 bloody years
watched this as a grotesque early teen and briefly became convinced my future was in internet flash animations. It wasn't, but fond memories either way.
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Ah, so many wasted years.
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ivesb Highly specialised Clinical Physiologist crapbag, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 13:45,
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*50p*
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Sir Aunty Grampa Dave the Hat - enjoying a post-meridian muncheon - Ta! Cannaoogim!?, Sun 3 Sep 2023, 6:41,
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ooooh it's a snake!!!!
My 4 year old loves this, can we get a 4k remaster?
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I haven't been able to login in ages
and somehow it's worked!
Finding badger back in the day, it was at the time where you would meet friends and they would tell you a url, that you'd have to remember when you got home. Worth it.
I was a forumite as well as on b3ta and loved it. Cheers for all the entertainment - comedy and unreal tunes.
Fond memory of sending Magical Trevor to a friend, who told me a few days later that his computer froze and wouldn't stop playing it. He didn't take it well, I loved it even more for that.
Also you're looking great! Hubba hubba? Is that what people say these days?
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many congrats on internet immortality :)
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spiny - things are looking up, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 14:32,
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/delurks Bloomin eck 20 years!!
I remember being on nightshift operating the switchboard for calls to various Oil Rigs and being bored rigid as there hadn't been any calls for hours. So I decided to have a look and see what was new on B3ta and lo and behold..something new by Weebl. About 4 hours and hundreds of loops later, I finally had to stop it as someone finally called the switchboard (by that time the animation and audio had de-synced very badly - Good ole Flash)
/relurks
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Woo and indeed Yay!
I subjected my kids to a couple of hours of Weebl's Stuff yesterday not knowing it was a Badgerversary! They appreciated it. And maybe they understand better why I am the way I am :D
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warmfuzzies Isn't here, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 16:19,
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Thank You
For the Badgers.
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kHiTe Post-Punk Retro Child: Indier and Gother than Thou, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 16:46,
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Bloody hell, 10 years away and it's all the same names still posting here! Hello all.
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chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 16:49,
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some of us are not allowed on "social" media anymore
so we came back here as its the only place that will take us.
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TBL I posted this on, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 17:01,
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This whole thread
Is giving me flashbacks 🫨
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bloid ....dloibbloiddloibbloid...., Sat 2 Sep 2023, 17:08,
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would have been better
with cats
Many happy returns of the meme though!
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 17:35,
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When I first cm here lol there was was fields
Of badgers
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mikemystery blames the parents, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 17:49,
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Bloody hell,
this thread is a veritable who's who of B3ta royalty. Thanks for the memories Weebl, and for making me get back in to my old Hotmail account so I could log in...
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loonybean giving as good as he gets since, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 17:49,
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Brilliant :) Just logged in for the first time in years to say Happy Badgerday!
My 6 year old regularly goes around the house singing this and Big Bob Bee!
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JayBeeEmm, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 19:45,
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Can hummus for hours!
Cheers for making the Cheers flash btw. Still touches the heart!
(and check my link above replying to Tomsk) ;)
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Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Mon 4 Sep 2023, 8:18,
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Yay!
Many familiar names popping up on this thread.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sat 2 Sep 2023, 20:08,
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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssssssssssssssss
I was inspired to resurrect my old account just to give two internet thumbs up.
We sing this to annoy our 7yr old, he just looks at us like we're a couple of eedjits.
Turns out my now wife used to frequent the forums back in't day too. :D
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20 happy flaming candles up your badgers' bums
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 21:14,
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Brilliant stuff!
I think the witty riposte you were looking for was "Your mum's just a bunch of shapes and colours!"
This takes me back, your stuff was how I got introduced to b3ta in the first place by my boyfriend at the time. I remember when all this was Mr Stabby and Leibach Kittens as far as the eye could see...
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Hampster Squared has stuff at www.tilla.co.uk, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 22:01,
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Well done - you have won the internets
I remember my (Danish) friend joyfully singing it as Batchum Batchum Batchum… Which has messed with my musical OCD to this day. Time to let it go. See you for the 40 year anniversary (if you haven’t sold it as an NFT by then).
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pallimut Ancient Lurker, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 22:06,
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Thanks you
Thanks for making me dig in that dusty corner of my brain, such fun!
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Its enough to bring a tear to the eye.
Incredible work. I can’t believe it’s been twenty years, makes me yearn for the days when the internet was just silly people making nonsense.
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JimmerUK Everyone's Favourite Jim, Sat 2 Sep 2023, 22:51,
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This very post
A hearty congrats for 20 years of badgering. My children were brought up on this - that's called "good parenting".
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Awesome
I echo the thanks of al the rest here....
But....
"Thanks to Brian May"
What's all that about? Is there a story there????
P.S. Add a link to your original to this new one. If you search, you come up with some pirate who's ripped you off for several million views
p.p.s. Me like pie
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Boot I want to know what you meant, Sun 3 Sep 2023, 0:34,
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It's a bit of a long story but he did a version with me aaaaaaages ago to try and stop the badger cull.
I got to play around with the Flash Gordon master tapes!
I asked if he'd be up for playing something for this version and he agreed but I couldn't get my shit together in time.
Lovely man. Still helpping out the badgers.
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weebl Mashed farts, Mon 4 Sep 2023, 11:38,
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Still brill
Edit: Hey! Where's my snail?
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Sir Aunty Grampa Dave the Hat - enjoying a post-meridian muncheon - Ta! Cannaoogim!?, Sun 3 Sep 2023, 6:42,
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Crivens!
Spliffingly good! 20 years though? I only logged in for a pint of milk.
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I always preferred Weebl and Bob personally…
but it must feel bloody amazing to make something that is seen and recognised (and inevitably copied) around the world - congratulations!
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Lora, Sun 3 Sep 2023, 8:48,
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time to delurk
and say woo yay hoopla!
a very long time ago my chum attila the bun did a gif of badgers sailing on a ship waving the lyrics in semaphore, IIRC, it was a very long time ago indeed.
now back to some important lurking...
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Yoo Way and indeed Hoolpa
Strangely, I showed some (youngling) work colleague the BBB animation on Thursday, and realised it was almost exactly 20 years old.
Congrats Mr Weebl.
Long may your horse piss lemonade.
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Tepid_Halibut felt like a cold, empty shell of a human...until, Sun 3 Sep 2023, 11:54,
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the woos and the yays need dusting off, but...
woo!
yay!
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VicJameson : fucking internet virgins since, Sun 3 Sep 2023, 15:51,
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Christ alive.
Also surprising how many others of you are still alive. Thought you’d all have died of internet poisoning by now.
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Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Sun 3 Sep 2023, 17:25,
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The thing with this was always that
when you closed the window it still kept on looping. When you went to sleep and woke up the next day it still kept on looping. When flash was fully uninstalled from your computer it still kept on looping. I'm starting to think it's me.
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Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Sun 3 Sep 2023, 19:35,
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Excellent!
When come back bring pie!
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2Pints , at the third stroke, it will be, Sun 3 Sep 2023, 23:11,
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Thanks for the ear worm.
Seriously though, thanks for this. Didn't realize it had been 2 decades. Especially when I find myself mumbling the tune at work even now, when I come upon certain items that remind me of the song.
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id10ts WTF happened, Mon 4 Sep 2023, 0:00,
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RIS?
I don't get it?
Just Kidding. How comes we are still both alive?
(I may very well not be ;) )
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Yamon Benny Harvey. RIP., Mon 4 Sep 2023, 4:15,
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there's some names on here
surprised most of them weren't arrested years ago
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new_matt, Mon 4 Sep 2023, 10:40,
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It's been so long, some of them could have done time for murder and be back out again...
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 4 Sep 2023, 11:45,
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This was the dawning of the internet's Golden Era
We love you weebl
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Fishcat Difficult difficult lemon difficult., Mon 4 Sep 2023, 10:55,
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All you heard at work was badger, badger, badger...
Oh the early days of b3ta, at my work hardly anyone knew the website, but everyone was singing the badger song.
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it was 20 years ago today, sgt weebl taught the badgers to splay
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 4 Sep 2023, 22:54,
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I bought your plushies!
Years ago. Still have 'em. Makes me feel clever about something.
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Prestidigitus will set this 'ere black puddin on you, Tue 5 Sep 2023, 4:30,
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AI badgers will write their own songs
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 5 Sep 2023, 23:17,
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may all your badgers be badgers
and may all your snakes be snakes
fuck the mushrooms though
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neuro 's cheese game is strong., Wed 6 Sep 2023, 5:15,
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What a load of shite.
Congratumalations. Well done.
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Captn Hood-Butter is not dead yet., Thu 7 Sep 2023, 15:47,
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20 Years
Makes me feel old.
Also good to see so many familiar names popping up.
I wonder if Mr Stabby will have a similar celebration? I loved that one!
Thanks for all the good stuff and the pie, Weebl!
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Spherix, Sat 9 Sep 2023, 15:27,
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Aaah
The mammories...
Christ.. "a member for 20 years, 5 months and 7 days "
Time flies when you exist.
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Rob_B, Mon 11 Sep 2023, 20:05,
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