Some of us stumbled upon the board later than others but we are all here for the same glorious reason. To drink and be merry, share stories and camaraderie.
And so as Tiny Tim says: A Merry drunk to us all, Bacchus bless us, every one!
I belive smatter harks back to the years of yore, prior to this current abomination. the years before facebook and other social networks diminished our membership and also before responsibilities and death took out the rest. there was a time before you chaps who now support/dominate the boards existed, a glorious time of many posters, all posting often and drunk while they did so. some grew up, some undrunkened up, some just straight up died......now it is a shell and its a bit sad, I know you guys think its good still but the truth is its a mere ghost of the former....thats not just nostalgia either. and I know theres plenty that will say " who the fuck is malkor?" that is what i mean. who also is dirty lou? is drunken jack flash? is roomie? is Intoxichrist? is winebox? is happydrunk and the sarge? is any of the fuckers who made this board (for good or ill) what it was when it first came into existance. its not a slight on you that keep it alive. its a dissapointment in the loss of functioning drunks who either made this place alive in the times of the first convention in vegas (sadly i missed it but drank my fill while listening to the tales that were told afterward) or have slowly melted away leaving only a skeleton of what once was in thier wake.
The BBS/Forum format is held onto much like HAM-radio operators of yore stick to that.
The old-timers swear by it as an imitate way to connect with like-minded-folk. The newcomers look at it as an inscrutable time-capsule.
We had a good thing once, and those of us who had that good thing will look back wistfully upon it. When we talk about DJF and JohnnyTequilla... Sweet Lou and the Sarge... well; someone first entering this thing we've had for so many years don't have any context. They don't know about the strip clubs, the ejections from previous CONs, all of the things that were normal to all of us who went through it.
They see a bunch of people reminiscing about tales gone-by; not the vibrant bunch of people we once were, scheming towards the future.
