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"The complete history of UKchatforums.com"

I often think about the history of these forums, and how things used to be. That's not to say they've declined in quality over the years, but as with most things, you keep them going long enough and you'll find people complaining that things ain't what they used to be.

Anyway, I got to remembering some of the good times while bored at work today (a regular occurence) and yeah, it might be a bit sad, but some of the memories really did make me smile. UKchatforums.com must be my most visited website ever (still my homepage) and despite it just being a collection of poorly-designed .gif images and text-speak, sometimes it genuinely manages to make me laugh out loud (LOL).

So... in the spirit of one of my Shiznit lists, I want your top UKchatforums.com moments of all time, from throughout history - it can be favourite users, brilliant moments of realisation or just your favourite threads. I'll get us kicked off with a few memories that brightened up my day.

THE BELLDANDY SAGA - I've never had so much fun berating someone over the internet as I did with Belldandy. Probably still floating around somewhere under a newly mysterious (very probably Manga-related) username, Belldandy was NEVER WRONG. Even if he was, he wasn't. And if he really was, then he'd run away and not come out to play, until the next time he was wrong. It came close to bullying at a few points (I used to get his emails) but it was coming from both sides: Goaty, Light, Pandy, myself and others (all anti-war and common sense) versus the one man righteous army of Belldandy.

The Belldandy saga reached a hilarious conclusion, when on one of his many mysterious reappearances under another nick (HALO Fan), he was sussed by the lot of us and nevertheless proceeded to dispute it for several months, despite have all the curt mannerisms and blind flag-wankery that good old Bell had. It stopped being fun when we finally saw a picture of him on Special Observe, then realised our physical name calling was disturbingly prophetic.

There have been others, but none as more fun to bait as Belldandy.

MJ wrote:
> I remember when you were off to University to take the exact course I
> wished I could do at that moment. Now I'm off to University to take
> something completely different and you're in your career of choice.
> Utterly uninteresting but I felt like mentioning it.

Zing, I rule :D.

Yeah, weird to think that what we're talking about was as long as four to five years ago......

You gotta get back in time.

I'm more of a Moira Stewart type newscaster, thanks.

I wanted to see gerrid-Lewis and The News!

Want a new drug?

Easy, there, Hedfix. Something got your goat?

Anyway, I found the character J Nasj based himself on: [URL]http://ukchatforums.reserve.co.uk/display_messages.php?threadid=95807&forumid=423[/URL]

What utter gayness.

gerrid wrote:
> Chipseh wrote:
> - gerrid, what was that really random news post that won you GAD? I
> seem to remember spitting out whatever I was drinking at the time.
>
> The gerridville news! I remember that. I'll look for it.

Arg, it was in the old Long, Interesting or Amusing Stories forum before they turned it into this place, but the archives for that forum are messed up and only go back to 2003 sometime.

Well there was the whole Kazzar thing going on, which I was involved in.

Probably the reason it stuck.

OddToe wrote:
> I didn't realise Quasimodo was a french hunch-back.

I'd rather be part of someones foot as well. Just weird as it's one of the names I remember quite well.

I used to go by the name 'Babylonian'. Many moons ago.