Happy Birthday to J!Board
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Re: Happy Birthday to J!Board
Happy birthday! And a continued thanks to everyone who keeps this place running.
It's hard to believe that the amount of time that this board has existed is greater than the amount of time that I was on the old Sony board. Time flies.
It's hard to believe that the amount of time that this board has existed is greater than the amount of time that I was on the old Sony board. Time flies.
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Re: Happy Birthday to J!Board
Well done and thanks to everyone involved with making this a fun community.
In case any of you don't know you can hover over your name (or anyone else's) and get your number. 75 people ahead of me.
In case any of you don't know you can hover over your name (or anyone else's) and get your number. 75 people ahead of me.
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Re: Happy Birthday to J!Board
Happy birthday I'm glad I joined this community, as in the year since I joined my trivia skills have improved so much. Thank you to everyone who runs Jboard.
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Also, the "new old games in the J-Archive" thread started in April 2012, and it's still going strong today thanks to the archivists who have so many episodes that have been put in there since then.
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I'm not sure of the significance of that number. I checked the list of members sorted by date joined and you're front page news - 22 on the roster (21 if you take out what may be a.test id). Looking at those pages reminds me of old friends we've lost touch with and at least one we've just plain lost.MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 11:38 am Well done and thanks to everyone involved with making this a fun community.
In case any of you don't know you can hover over your name (or anyone else's) and get your number. 75 people ahead of me.
At any rate, you beat me by a day and a half. I'm near the top of page 4 (77). I stumbled across the Board by Google search after the demise of the penultimate Sony board. I was a little lucky then and feel a bit blessed now.
My thanks to the Archivists as they help fill in big holes in my J! knowledge. I was working swing shift when the show debuted and didn't become a regular viewer for about a decade. And, Mark, seeing those contestant photos can be a hoot.
My thanks as well to those who work so hard to keep the ship righted and those who make this a true community.
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Here are the first ten members and their user ID numbers: agefen (2), alietr (54), Robert K S (55), Archivists (56), Rex Kramer (57), happybooker (58), debramc (59), gamawire (60), JCui (61), TomKBaltimoreBoy (62). The first two accounts belong to our esteemed overlord. You can draw your own conclusions about the meaning of the user ID numbers.
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Wow, I feel like a newbie - I only joined 2 weeks later.Robert K S wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 4:57 pmHere are the first ten members and their user ID numbers: agefen (2), alietr (54), Robert K S (55), Archivists (56), Rex Kramer (57), happybooker (58), debramc (59), gamawire (60), JCui (61), TomKBaltimoreBoy (62). The first two accounts belong to our esteemed overlord. You can draw your own conclusions about the meaning of the user ID numbers.
Congrats jboard! And thanks everyone who made it a fun place to hang out for 9 years!
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I suppose there's no way to list the earliest members who weren't on the old Sony board. I know I showed up here about a month and a half after it started. I must have been among the first newbies since mid-summer is an odd time to seek out a Jeopardy! discussion group. Looking into this I see that I came here after a 10 August 2011 discussion I started on alt.fan.cecil-adams regarding a quibble I had over a Jeopardy! clue. I'm not sure if I'd caught it on a rerun or while browsing the archive for some reason. But a boardie over there named Jim Ellwanger suggested this place. Jim, are you out there? Anyone here know and remember that name?Robert K S wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 4:57 pmHere are the first ten members and their user ID numbers: agefen (2), alietr (54), Robert K S (55), Archivists (56), Rex Kramer (57), happybooker (58), debramc (59), gamawire (60), JCui (61), TomKBaltimoreBoy (62). The first two accounts belong to our esteemed overlord. You can draw your own conclusions about the meaning of the user ID numbers.
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Yes and yes.opusthepenguin wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 5:32 pm ...
But a boardie over there named Jim Ellwanger suggested this place. Jim, are you out there? Anyone here know and remember that name?
Your clues are choo and mod.
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Cool! I hope it's ok that I outed you, Jim, at least among the cognoscenti and those who can solve simple puzzles courtesy of Mark Barrett. I can understand if you didn't want to be known as the guy who let the penguin in. Seriously, PM me and Mark if you'd prefer not to have your other (real?) name splattered all over this board. We can delete our posts. Or just delete them yourself. We won't take offense. Well, I won't anyway. Mark's kind of a hothead.MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 5:37 pmYes and yes.opusthepenguin wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 5:32 pm ...
But a boardie over there named Jim Ellwanger suggested this place. Jim, are you out there? Anyone here know and remember that name?
Your clues are choo and mod.
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Never heard of him.opusthepenguin wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 5:32 pmLooking into this I see that I came here after a 10 August 2011 discussion I started on alt.fan.cecil-adams regarding a quibble I had over a Jeopardy! clue. I'm not sure if I'd caught it on a rerun or while browsing the archive for some reason. But a boardie over there named Jim Ellwanger suggested this place. Jim, are you out there? Anyone here know and remember that name?
I was still on alt.fan.cecil-adams in 2011? I'd been on Usenet less and less over the years, and at some point, there was a Mac OS update that caused my newsreader software to stop working, so I took it as a sign.
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It's still going on, I think. I haven't checked in for over a year. Nick Spalding died. Peter Boulding died. Paul Madarasz and Blinky the Shark too, but maybe that was far enough back that you were around for it.trainman wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 10:40 pmNever heard of him.opusthepenguin wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 5:32 pmLooking into this I see that I came here after a 10 August 2011 discussion I started on alt.fan.cecil-adams regarding a quibble I had over a Jeopardy! clue. I'm not sure if I'd caught it on a rerun or while browsing the archive for some reason. But a boardie over there named Jim Ellwanger suggested this place. Jim, are you out there? Anyone here know and remember that name?
I was still on alt.fan.cecil-adams in 2011? I'd been on Usenet less and less over the years, and at some point, there was a Mac OS update that caused my newsreader software to stop working, so I took it as a sign.
Something in this conversation jogged my memory and I checked my old PMs. Sure enough, way back in 2012 you said something in a game thread about being a former closed-captioner and I PMed you because I remembered that our closed-captioner on AFCA had also been into trains. You confirmed privately that you were in fact the guy we're denying all knowledge of.
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Re: Happy Birthday to J!Board
I am a lowly #132. I was on the old board when it went kablooie. Some of us kind of hung out on the WWTBAM board for a short time until this place started up.
Thanks to whoever it is that keeps this place running along with the archive. Hopefully we will have new new games to enter and discuss soon.
Thanks to whoever it is that keeps this place running along with the archive. Hopefully we will have new new games to enter and discuss soon.
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Meanwhile, Boron Elgar pinged me on LearnedLeague after I signed up there (as "EllwangerJ," since it requires basing your username on your real name).opusthepenguin wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 11:09 pm It's still going on, I think. I haven't checked in for over a year. Nick Spalding died. Peter Boulding died. Paul Madarasz and Blinky the Shark too, but maybe that was far enough back that you were around for it.
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For the benefit of those listening in, that's the mother of this former boardie.trainman wrote: ↑Fri Jul 17, 2020 1:24 amMeanwhile, Boron Elgar pinged me on LearnedLeague after I signed up there (as "EllwangerJ," since it requires basing your username on your real name).opusthepenguin wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 11:09 pm It's still going on, I think. I haven't checked in for over a year. Nick Spalding died. Peter Boulding died. Paul Madarasz and Blinky the Shark too, but maybe that was far enough back that you were around for it.