Scheduled maintenance today 12/20/08

{{{ps I think I am in need of some scheduled maintenance- is this the right place for it? }}}

Awh, do you need a good over haul ? Need your bolts tightened ? Oiling & greasing in all the right places ?

{{{And scrubbed and massaged by some hulking Czech woman most likely, and no doubt require a scrubbing down with a wire brush and dettox }}}

Spa hotel in Scotland.
they rub you down with greasy newspapers from last nights fried haggis, punch you in the nuts and send you on your merry way.

I don't know if that would make me merry.

you aren't Scottish.

This thread has been blessed by Eru, and restored as Scheduled Maintenance the White.

Wow. More merciful to some random thread than you are to me.

Fine. Manwe has been blessed by Eru, on the condition that Eru gets some of Varda's Erumas cookies.

Fine. Varda is telling me to lay off the eggnog right now anyway.

Manwe can be double-blessed by Eru, and also regain favorite child status, if he also shares the eggnog with Eru.

About damn time we had some scheduled maintenance back around here! Things have gone all to pot.

Was it a dream... a phasm...

Hmmmmm... I was sure I...    

Too much eggnog?  

Anyway, I am glad you are doing better

If you mean the long-ass post I made here, I got embarrassed and deleted it, but thanks. I'm honestly doing better than I expected for this time of year.

{{How long have we been here Eldo- cause however long it is thats how long its taken me notice if you click your mouse on the 'select a forum' box in the bottom right you get a quick access menu to subforums! Only found out beuase I was cleaning a bit of spilled buckie up and accidentally hit the muse button whil eit was over it.
All these years I had no idea! }}}

Well, I hope you find it useful.

Well dang. Not sure yet if scrolling is a time saver versus multiple clicking, but it may be.

Since we're less than six months away from Forumshire's 10th anniversary (10 December 2018, to be exact) it's been on my mind a bit and I went looking for something that I think some of you guys might appreciate, especially the old-timers. Behold, the birth of Forumshire:

https://web.archive.org/web/20090820003146/http://the-hobbit-movie.com:80/2008/10/08/del-toro-wants-5-part-middle-earth-movie

james says:
December 10, 2008 at 8:48 am
[…]
I think we”ve covered the key events that should link the 5 films together. Every thing hinges on getting Christopher Tolkien back to the table.
I’d like to be able to talk to you guys more Paul and Show but I think we’ve played out most of this Hobbit discussion. I’m not sure how to continue our talks without giving the whole world our E-mails. Do either of You guys like Narnia? I am posting on Narniaweb.com under the name Gandalfs Beard in the forums Do You Think the Chronicles of Narnia are Christian and the forum on Skeptics vs CSLewis. If you join (its a free site) you could meet me there. They have a private message center and perhaps we could exchange e-mails there. Also some quite lively debates between Christian Fantasy fans and Pagan Agnostics like myself.
Let me know what you think about that.
Ciao for now

ady says:
December 10, 2008 at 6:25 pm
send your emails to me at ady @ the-hobbit-movie.com and I will pass them on.

Alternatively, I am in the process of adding a forum to the site so if you want to wait………

Will also need a Mod or two if anyone is interested

The forum went up later on the 10th and on the 11th GB became the first person other than Ady to register.

Funny, I thought I found the old forum nearly a year earlier than that. I had just moved to NYC, the project I was on was going nowhere (eventually died) and I needed escapism.

You joined the Old Forum on Monday, January 25, 2010 at 10:20 PM (not sure which time zone, but it's probably either EST or GMT).

Fake edit: here's a selected list of join dates for most of the members of the old forum who made it to the new one, for the benefit of the approximately zero people other than myself who care about this stuff:

Gandalfs Beard: 11 Dec 2008
Eldorion: 25 Apr 2009
chris63: 26 May 2009
Tinuviel: 17 Jul 2009
Odo Banks: 8 Oct 2009
Ally: 22 Oct 2009
pettytyrant101: 19 Jan 2010
halfwise: 25 Jan 2010
Paul Erickson: 17 Apr 2010
Ringdrotten: 26 Jul 2010

I'm 99% sure that Kafria joined in January 2011 but I can't confirm an exact date right now. (Most of this info I already had lying around as the result of years of forum history research--Ally's was the only date I had to confirm--but unfortunately Archive.org didn't catch much from early 2011.) Note also that not everyone became active as soon as they joined; I only made a handful of posts until I suddenly started posting a ton in September 2009.

I could've sworn I lost all productivity earlier than that.  The funnier thing is that Petty had only joined about a week before me and had already permeated the vocabulary of Forumshire. I thought he'd been around forever.

I thought he'd been around forever.- Halfy

{{I tend to give that impression- I'm hard to estimate the date of- like mould }}}

What happened to my profile picture?