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The fact that I posted that 5 minutes after the topic was created suggests I refresh here a lot more than I actually do....
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Feel a bit sad about this, but it's the right thing to do. Thanks DO and Darryn for keeping it alive way past it's best before date, and thanks to everyone else who posted here over the years from the date of the Seethru "Bullies Reunited" meme, for keeping me entertained when I should be working, inspiring me to write stuff when I should be working, make stupid photoshop pics when I should be working. LOL when I should be working. It's perhaps down to TMO that I am now self-employed, and my former employer is now unemployed.
Some special moments to me were: 1. Organised infiltration of other message boards. 2. Hedgehog guestbook trolling 3. Urban dead, Queer Jew and the organised attack which kind of petered out. 4. Alphabet thread, obvs 5. "Do it for Bun" a thread started by me which got hijacked by bread related puns 6. A haiku thread from Ben, which I got my first positive response from Ben 7. The pre meet radio show hosted by fish and Jonesy 8. Getting my second avatar bestowed upon me 9. Mart's Welcome Larry pic 10. Loads of other stuff.
I guess we're all on twitter now anyhow right? and we'll always have wayback machine.
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I hate Valentine's Day. Stupid commercialised crap
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I hate the thought that TMO is past its sell-by date. It educated me in arguing and writing funny things (still working on that one), found me a husband and by extension my life now, made me laugh till I cried more times than I can remember and gave me one of the proudest moments of my life when someone called me Board Queen (briefly).
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he was also the first known case of achieving the sweet release of death by simply holding his breath. He was so determined to escape the senseless charade of human existence that he clung onto his goal even after falling unconscious. He is a hero to us all. He is survived by his 6 month old daughter, Megatron.
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I think we all knew that Mikee was going to kill himself sooner or later. It was just a bit disappointing that he didn't do it live on webcam.
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I think it would be nice if there was some kind of continuation of this place. It's a bit of a relic. Be worth a lot in a few years, to a collector. couldn't you just make the entire website available as a download?
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loads of meetings trying to work out how to keep the tmo brand relevant and fresh in the era of social networking? A whole team of people watching the hit counters, praying for the return of forum heavyweights such as dr benway and StevieX to make a return and re-ignite the passion? Rounds of VC funding on the promise that one day ben will call rick a nazi again, causing the ad revenue for dr. horrible's sing-along blog to explode? Doogie Howser himself calling DO and asking to see the fucking money from his almost decade long endorsment deal?
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people hurling 'Ask Jeeves' branded plush toys across boardrooms as consultants line up to deliver the eulogy? line charts for the last ten years dropping lower than an octopus at a limbo party? Depression, bitterness. Open hostility in Starbucks. drunken DM tweets, accusations flying. Yet always, hope. Always a chance. The dream, not dead. Not until now.
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but it's not dead! What about the come back show!? the team get together for one last job. Only they can save the day. Brought out of retirement, we see how the lives have diverged. They're old and tired. Some of them are dead. There's baggage, there's children. Failed romances. They gather and swap stories. They know that there is no going back, this is their swan song. Most of them won't survive. But dammit, they're the best we've got. The old posting memories come back.
quote: the knowledge returns
The old partnerships reform, magic that has been shut away in boxes suddenly explodes. The years peel back and we're young again. It's better than ever. One last hoorah. There's no selfishness. There are no secrets. There are admissions, there are life long bonds. There are tears of joy and sadness. Trust. Thanks. And one by one, they blaze harder than they ever did, until the fires go out, the day has been saved, and the legend has been written.
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that's true about mikee killing himself by the way, but it wasn't by holding his breath. He actually hung himself alongside Mark Speight, but it was under-reported in the mainstream press due to the implications about their relationship. However, their friendship was strictly platonic. I know this because I used to visit them at their workshop/makespace in Gillingham, where they were setting up a business making organic wooden kids toys. Mark had the contacts, Mikee brought his creative flair, and together they made some delightful toys. By the time of the fire, he was producing quite complex wooden automata.
After the fire though, their relationship became difficult. Mark Speight became withdrawn and miserable, and his fiance found comfort in Mikee's arms. They tried again with the business, this time looking to China for cheap labour, and even going so far as to spend a few weeks out there, hoping to set up China's first sustainable wood operation. On their return, Mark Speight discovered the affair between Mikee and his girlfriend. Angry and upset, he confronted Mikee, and Mikee revealed that he was aware of Mark Speight's suspicious financial gain from the earlier fire. They realised that they had brought the misery onto themselves - they couldn't blame anybody else. Mark Speight's fiance was left out in the cold, and ended up killing herself at their London flat, and the China deal fell through.
Out of money and ideas, the pair became detached. They used to spend hours and hours holed up in a bedsit in Hastings, watching Mikee's old Terrahawks VHS compilations, dreaming up increasingly bizarre and outlandish toy ideas. When Bandai finally unveiled their PlanetBlasters web-enabled action figures, they knew the jig was up. They caught a train to London, where they planned to hang themselves in the toilets in Hamleys. But they never made it. Frustrated by an agonisingly slow journey due to weekend engineering, the luckless duo met their ends behind the snack stop at paddington station.
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What did I say to you? Keep it light, I said. Take it slowly, eeeease yourself back into it gently. But no, BANG.... straight in with the death of a forumite followed up with a feverish stream of conciousness type posting, culminating in a self-fulfilling confession. No pause for breath, no space to let anyone else chip in, a sandwich comment, a pun, a fucking pun would have done it.
Even kovax managed to stay on brief. Cherry In Hove mentioned Masterchef The Professionals FFS. You could have riffed on that, maybe something about foccacia or whatever. There was no need for this m7, no need...
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