Is it possible to have bbs withdrawl?
 

Hi folks,
I have been lurking here for the better part of a week....wanting, waiting, hoping against hope that my bbs would come back online. Alas, I believe it is gone forever (It's been down for almost 2 weeks). I have been there for almost 3 years. It is like losing a lover! Like a grief stricken, teary-eyed woman...I wandered into The Cellar. I am finally ready to ask for some TLC. Some solace out of adversity. A place to call home. Am I in the right place?:eyebrow:

you're the one who's been lurking. how should we know? we haven't been lurking on your board. ARE you in the right place? you're certainly welcome. Especially if you don't suck as a person.

Of course you are M'dear, welcome, come right in and make your self comfortable....here, let me take your clothes. ;)

You could of had them, but the lawn guy came over and I had to put them back on again.

What she was saying 'in a nice way'....'fraid not.

xoB , you don't miss one do you? You old scallywag.

Welcome to the Cellar, afrayedknot. Lover the user handle.

Oh brother. When I first glanced at the thread title, I thought it said "bbq withdrawl." Must be time to eat!

Welcome to our humble abode. :D

Welcome. We've been expecting you.

The Cellar is BBS withdrawal.

(welcome)

Hey girlfriend, the same thing happened to me. My old forum fell apart and I joined here. It's really a great place. But you have to build new friendships all over again in a new community. The Dwellars have been really nice to me and this is now my main online community.

I've tried to go completely forumless, but I am addicted to the human contact without strings. At work, I find I have to posture and look productive and all that. Here, I don't care if anyone thinks I'm an asshole, I can just be myself.

...Rocky

Welcome to the cellar , do NOT be an AG-er !!!

but, the old place was so, so, ummm, how do we say it?

Homey ???

Dude, either one was an AG-er or not. I was not and this new member sounds like she came from some other defunct place. I think the AG scare is over.

We don't serve strings here.

Yes. Thank you.

Someone who can live on forums alone? That makes you a perfect candidate for a NASA job. A few lonely years to and from Mars - human contact without strings. No wife. No shrink. Only Cellar contacts. Sound like the simple life you desire?

Yes. :D

Does anyone think there's no adversity here. Where's the quiz?

You know, UT, maybe with SCO running around suing everyone, you might want to leave out that little piece of Cellar history.

I would love to know at what point I joined the Cellar. I made it to one GTG at RTM, and to the BBQ at UT's house. I remember the Cellar move and the issues with the call forwarding. Not counting a sporadic period during the Telnet years, I guess that means I've been here on and off for 10 years out of the past 16.

Take me to your leader.

I've never considered going cold turkey. I don't want to think about painful things on a Saturday morn.

What is AG?

Asshole Gallery

Now now capn, play nice

Another site that shut down and a bunch of the exiles swarmed into the Cellar. A couple of them didn't fit well and moved on. :cool:

That's right, for a while it was like Casablanca, but without the Nazis.


You must remember this, a kiss is just a kiss....

But you might get maced,
if it is misplaced...:mecry:

Not sure if I am the correct fit, but times takes time.

Sure you fit, we have a lot of weird people from Florida. :bolt:

Welcome. If you are sincere you'll feel you are in the right place.

People here are individuals and seem really real and genuine and I feel honored to be here.



hehehe


& Like snatching candy from the hands of fat greedy babies too.

You want my candy? OK, I understand...it tasted real good when I had it in my mouth before I dropped it in the sand. :haha:

You've just missed him. He was the guy who said that we don't serve strings, here.

Welcome. LJ...where's the quiz?

LJ's too lazy for the quiz nowdays. There goes the neighborhood.

Allright then.:rolleyes:

i think you'll like it here. im thinking of making this my main forums instead of the ones ive been calling home for the past 4 years. you cant even make a post without 20 catty girls following you around making vile remarks. i like that it isnt like that here.

I guess I miss it because of the simplicity. It had a nice rhythm, very quick to find out if there was anything interesting going on.

If not, you could just toss some insults and feel better about yourself. Kinda nice.

Afrayedknot ... Clever screen name, invested 3 years elsewhere ... you'll do.

BabbleOn5 ... also a fun name.

welcome.

Oh, now I vaguely remember the joke that UT refers to above. "A String walks into a bar and orders a drink... blah... Afrayedknot." I don't remember the details.

There are other forums here? :eek:

A string walks into a bar. The bartender says Hey! You're a string aren't you? The string says yes I suppose so. The bartender says Well we don't serve strings here, you have to leave. The string walks out dejectedly. When it gets out the door it works itself into a frenzy, rolling itself up and around. Finally it walks back into the bar. The bartender says Hey! Aren't you that same string that walked in here a few minutes ago? The string replies,

No I'm a frayed knot!

Welcome to our little corner of the net. You sound like you'll fit in nicely.

I do miss LJ's quizzes too. I just tried to look up his old posts to try to find a couple and and put the questions here, but damn, I don't have all day. He posts in the word association thread too much. Wordy bastard.

Maybe I'll try a few questions. They won't be as creative though...

1. What's the last movie you saw?
2. Blackjack or craps?
3. Wine or beer?
4. What's the best way to eat ribs, fork or fingers?
5. How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
6. Stilettos or sneaks?

OK, I know the rest of you can come up with better ones than these. I need a Pepsi.

7. Coke or Pepsi? Diet or high octane? *and do you call the previous pop or soda?

1. Supertroopers
2. BJ
3. Riesling or Red Stripe; whatever is in the fridge.
4. I don't care for them. Too much work for the payoff, coupled with, I use
to work in operating rooms. Some images are burned into my brain.
5. I just did it! 3 times real fast.
6. For personal safety-sneaks. If I only have to take two steps from the
closet to the bed-stilettos.
7. Coke. High Octane. Pop (The latter I have found to slightly annoy people)

Not the Cellarites! I have no complaints obviously :angel:

haha no but theres other forums on the www

AfrayedKnot, what I would do if I could not fail is organise world peace. Sorry to be so corny, but it has to be done ...
On a personal level, I'd get the Other Half a permanent job - not for the money but for the self-esteem (so he'd have to know it wasn't me!). We live in a place where the employment opportunities are very limited and his skills are just not a match locally at all, or so the local employers seem to think.

1. What's the last movie you saw? Brokeback Mountain
2. Blackjack or craps? BJ
3. Wine or beer? Wine
4. What's the best way to eat ribs, fork or fingers? Fingers, c'mon
5. How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Huh?
6. Stilettos or sneaks? Stilletos, not even close.

Sheesh, these newbies are gooooood. Welcome@@@!!!

Florida is the weird person capitol of the world.
I just left two boards... it was odd for a bit, mostly just breaking the habit. Though there were some people I missed. I PMd them, if they wanted to e-mail me they would have, so I don't feel that badly about it. I e-mailed them, they did not respond. So, they were not friends.

Good try. So, yeah, I lived in NY and LA and other places between.

San Francisco. It's not even close.

Lived in LA and worked in NY quite a bit... per-capita, neither has shit on Central FL.
Why do you think Jerry gets all his people from here?

Just because a guy walks a rubber rat does not make his truly crazy...

Yes, you are right, Per Capita. I can imagine you are right about TB-Orlando.

But, seriously, you have to experience SF. It is very geograhpically limited by beiing on the tip of the penisula. It is very much different than LA. It is more like half of Manhattan in space.

But, the concentration of eccentics in San Francisco is unparallelled. Grace Slick, Jerry Garcia, and Charles Schwab now have followers and anti-followers.

Anyway, let's mellow out at the park at Stanyan and Haight to smoke a peace pipe of kind bud and talk about our stock portfolios; I'm really hot on Equity Office Properites. Afterwards, we can walk down to the Ben and Jerry's at Haight and Ashbury.

Been there, but only visited. What I saw was more eccentrics, again, not real nuts. Though, I was not there for very long.

I can show you around next time. It's best to get invited to private parties on fashionable Castro Street or somewhere else Hella Good. I got to some great parties, but damn, one of my friends still teases me about how I turned down being a one-night gigilo for a prominant female VC at a SF dot-bomb party in the day. It came up so unexpectedly that I didn't react properly.

The next bubble is here. VCs are throwing money at "social networks" and "contextual advertising" in a herd mentality. Free registration at stragetic Trade Shows gets you invitations to serious "after parties". You just have to know how to work the system.

Sounds like home for sure. Will take you up on it if I'm in your neck of tha' woods again.