Rarr

Asuka

Hah, its still going ^^

How many of the originals are still here?

Does anyone remember me?

A

imp

Hello. How's scotland?

}:>

Crash

take it back. I BEG YOU ADAM TAKE IT BACK!!

nosmo

Auled Skewel.

Please, bring back fascism!

rainbow kirby

Back in the day...

It wasn't me!

Hazily, but with rose-tinted glasses.

halenger

Asuka wrote:

Hah, its still going ^^

How many of the originals are still here?

Does anyone remember me?

A

ADAM!!!!!! It's been aaaaaagges. How are you?!

Undergod

Adam? Adam from '02? Who lived in his rollerblades? Dude.

halenger

Undergod wrote:

Adam? Adam from '02? Who lived in his rollerblades? Dude.

Hah. Eh no. Lil bit before that.

strawberry

Hi Adam,

Long time no see

<I feel so old, so so old.>

Raphael

halenger wrote:

Hah. Eh no. Lil bit before that.

Just so you know Podge, he means Adam Buckeridge, who was staff in 01 and 02

It wasn't me!

Woops. So did I. I take it it's not then?

halenger

Raphael wrote:

Just so you know Podge, he means Adam Buckeridge, who was staff in 01 and 02

I had guessed. I know both of them. :P

Raphael

Ah right. That adam was cool....he was such an evil RA in 01....when really he was just an undercover nerd....

Asuka

Heh, its all good. I havent read boards for well over a year now, but i know that at least one or two of you are in lexcorp, and i still idle in that channel on quakenet.

For those of you who dont know me, I was at session 2 in 1998 and 1999, and both sessions in 2000. But you dont really need to know that, since i wont be around here much (or even at all). If you read back to the very beginning of the archives, you should find me :P

A

Raphael

Damn, just missed you

Crash

Think i'm the only one in lexcorp atm adam, and i repeat.."GO BACK IN TIME AND UNDO, UNDO!!"

Caoimhe

Asuka wrote:

Heh, its all good. I havent read boards for well over a year now, but i know that at least one or two of you are in lexcorp, and i still idle in that channel on quakenet.

For those of you who dont know me, I was at session 2 in 1998 and 1999, and both sessions in 2000. But you dont really need to know that, since i wont be around here much (or even at all). If you read back to the very beginning of the archives, you should find me :P

A

If you were both sessions in 2000 we definitely must have crossed paths at some point because so was I...
So... hard... to... remember...

Bazookatone

ADAM!
How the f**k've you been? Jesus, it's been ages! (It's Jack, by the way). You're living in Scotland now, that's cool, my best friend lives there, he's studying music. Where in Scotland are you, and what the Hell are you doing there?

There are only a few of us old ones left. The younglings are taking over. Apparently, it went downhill pretty drastically a year after I left, I'm not implying that it was due to me leaving, just a coincidence. Plus Dr. Gilheany isn't in charge anymore, Colm has taken over, though Dr. Gilheany still works in DCU.

The last of the old ones is Aonghus. He's my protegée. After you and that generation were too old to go, there was only a handful of old ones left. Me Cathal Garvey, Mike and a few others. Roscoe was gone, Marty was gone, dear god it was awful (I sound like I'm re-living some hopeless last stand, don't I?). We trained in as many as we could, but there was just too many of them, all acting so, so NORMALLY! People didn't even understand the significance of the dressing gown on a Thursday. When that happened, we realised there was no escape. Oh what a tradgedy, that I should live to see the last days of my house (Théoden, LOTR: The Two Towers).

However, all is not lost. I'm applying to be an RA this summer, and I'll re-light the spark of giddy, pointless insanity that made CTYI great!!!
All night pizza parties, water baloon fights, "Matrix" re-enactments mohawks, spikes and insane, spoon worshipping religions.

It wasn't me!

Note:
*The pizza parties still happen
*We gave an RA a mohawk at session 2 this year
*Plenty of Matrix reenactments
*Water-balloon fights on many occasions
*The amount of people trying to resurrect the spoon cult is just sad at this stage. Let. It. Die.

Aoibheann

It wasn't me! wrote:

Note:
*The pizza parties still happen
*We gave an RA a mohawk at session 2 this year
*Plenty of Matrix reenactments
*Water-balloon fights on many occasions
*The amount of people trying to resurrect the spoon cult is just sad at this stage. Let. It. Die.

he speaks the truth!

StupidLikeAFox

i second that motion

.

Asuka

Hey Jack, hows it going?

Bazookatone wrote:

Where in Scotland are you, and what the Hell are you doing there?

Dundee, studying Computer Games Technology

Plus Dr. Gilheany isn't in charge anymore, Colm has taken over, though Dr. Gilheany still works in DCU.

Thats a bit odd... but I always liked Colm, he was always a good guy.

About the whole pointless insanity thing - well, I cant say that I never agreed with it, or anything, but looking at it now, it all seems a bit... well, pointless :P A lot of it was done soley *because* it was pointless, thus negating any inferred insanity Things like the spoon business were funny for a day, and briefly funny after a couple of years simply because you realise how long its been going on for no reason. All the time in between when people just do it is just plain stupid :P

Good luck with being a RA I never bothered for a couple of reasons (living in a different country, for example :P) but I imagine it would be pretty good fun.

A

Raphael

Computer Games Technology in Dundee.....You don't by any chance know a Matthew Bett, do you?

smiles

Missed this at the time, due to similar not-reading-boards-ness.

Some of the oldies are still around, lurking.

Hope Scotland is good.

Fionnuala

TalkISCheap

:eek: My GOD how dare ye heathens ignore the Spoon Cults of 04?!
They havn't disappeared, just gone underground for a while. Like Tulips. And Fraggle Rock (oh god how i wish that wer true...) anyway, i digress.

the spoons still rule, just in a semi-muted fashion due to old age.



(god damn those sock culters... :mad: )

halenger

Leave the spoon cult in the legends. It's passed its time and its people are gone...

It wasn't me!

Thank you!

Crash

.....so many noobs. so very very many noobs....

Raphael

The spoon cult of 04 was a mockery. In the final week of 03 the last of the "old skool" CTYIers (steven, hugh, garog, macdara[who had 1 more year, but still]) brought the cult back as something to do in their final days. It was dead before, and it's dead after. Leave it rest in peace, or I shall personally melt any plastic spoon I see worn in 05. Thank you

It wasn't me!

Agreed. Oh my God I can't believe it's my last year. Oh joy, now I'm depressed. Well... more so. I think it's kind of wrong to categorise them as the last of the old skool. You can still see the influences, to a much lesser extent admittedly, but there's still an element of it. CTYI '06 will be insanely creepy if my theory is right.

nosmo

The spoon cult is SILLY. Stop it. Continuing it is like not doing the proper American Pie dance (Which I did notice happening in 2003). I was responsible for bringing it back in 2003, and I deeply regret it although it was fun at the time. From what I heard in my first year of the summer courses, it started in 1999, possibly involving Galen (spelling?), but could some even older oldies enlighten me?

And another thing about "old skool" CTYIers etc. While the CTYI of next year may disgust and scare me, it's still CTYI. CTYI is shaped by the people who go, people who do what others are doing and people who don't. the whole experience is about finding new people, new things and new habits. And frankly, while most nevermores will be irritated by the new wave of ctyiers, we're all just jealous that it'll never be the same as it was for us, we'll never have the same experience anywhere else, and we can never go back.

doonothing

ie. YOU BITTER FOOLS!! LET US HAVE OUR FUN!! :P

It wasn't me!

Yeah, Hugh kind of put my point better than I did. There is no "old skool" CTYI. There were just people who went before us and who are now gone who we miss and who made CTYI what we aim to try and continue making it. CTYI '06 is a terrifying prospect for me though, for too many reasons.

Caoimhe

nosmo wrote:

The spoon cult is SILLY. Stop it. Continuing it is like not doing the proper American Pie dance (Which I did notice happening in 2003).

That REALLY annoys me. Granted bouncing up and down randomly is fun but it is not American Pie!!! I screamed quite violently this year at the people not observing proper tradition at the discos...

It wasn't me!

Meh. I didn't really join in the disco's this year. Kept getting hit with a big chunk of Look-At-All-The-Happy-Couples syndrome. Inevitably this means the same will happen next year so, meh. I'm not a huge believer in taking part in traditions, I just hate people who ruin them.

abraham lincoln

It wasn't me! wrote:

CTYI '06 is a terrifying prospect for me though, for too many reasons.

don't look that far ahead when we've still got '05 to get through and in truth '05 has all the makings of really sucking mainly because nearly everyone of our, if you will, generation of ctyiers are now to old, the people who we've always Associated with ctyi won't be there, most of our friends cant come back and we're facing a whole new group of newbies! damn being one year younger then your peers

nosmo wrote:

And frankly, while most nevermores will be irritated by the new wave of ctyiers, we're all just jealous that it'll never be the same as it was for us, we'll never have the same experience anywhere else, and we can never go back.

yeah... that about sums up the feeling perfectly

abraham lincoln

sh!t. its just hit me that i am now officially a nevermore...
b0ll0x to that!

It wasn't me!

I may be young enough to go back in '06. The point was, everyone I'll have come to associate the place will be gone and forgotten. I think we were coming at the same point but we're misunderstanding each other. I aim to make '05 as good as is humanly possible because the hell if I'm going quietly into the good night as far as CTYI is concerned!

Undergod

further to Hugh's point, I think my sister was a tad more than surprised at how much it had changed from her days (1993-1994). Although the Thursday/bathrobes thing was active at that stage, if I recall her nostalgic verses correctly.

mentalimplosion

i can't really relate as much to this whole nevermoredom thing, because although i consider ctyi a part of me, i would never consider myself a part of ctyi. the majority of the major traditions do nothing but confuse the hell out of me and i feel that once my time's over, that's it. i'll just have to close that door for good.

It wasn't me!

Meh. I don't really think I'll ever forget it but yeah, when you leave that's pretty much it. You have your friends and memories and that's it.

Raphael

And, of course, the coveted RA job

It wasn't me!

Yeah but easier said than done man. For me:

-Right, let's see your record as a student. Hmmm... Err, yeah, we'll get back to you.

:rolleyes:

It'd still be nice though. I'll probably apply but I don't see it being the most pleasant of jobs by the time I'm old enough to do it. I might even be glad when they turn me down. Wow. There's a new one.

NeoSlicerZ

crash_000 wrote:

.....so many noobs. so very very many noobs....

Raphael wrote:

coveted RA job

ahahahahhaha, hahahahahahaha

halenger

Raphael wrote:

The spoon cult of 04 was a mockery. In the final week of 03 the last of the "old skool" CTYIers (steven, hugh, garog, macdara[who had 1 more year, but still]) brought the cult back as something to do in their final days.

"old skool"? No offence but HAHAHAHA... In my eyes they're part of the n00bs. Albeit they're much more fun and less annoying than the n00by n00bs.

The spoon cult was quite dead as the last of my generation (bar the very VERY few exceptions) left in 2000. I was never into it or involved in it but it was there during my years that was enough.

Come up with something new. Something different. Preferably not a cult cause then you're back in the same loop trying to live up to something that'll never happen or trying to resurrect something that's long long long since dead. Leave well enough alone. :eek:

Piste

Well In all fairness we did have Karlstock.....

Raphael

And in my eye's Podge, they were the old skool....

Guess it's all relative

pinkpimp

Karlstock 04!!!!
Wwkd??

edibility

halenger wrote:

Come up with something new. Something different. Preferably not a cult cause then you're back in the same loop trying to live up to something that'll never happen or trying to resurrect something that's long long long since dead. Leave well enough alone. :eek:

We tried podge. We really tried. There was the holidays, for example-mock holidays loike, but Sheila stamped them out. And many other things, which when I have had some proper sleep I'll probably remember. They just...didn't work. I think it's kinda pointless thinking about these things though, because no matter where you go everything comes back in fashion eventually. CTYI, while different, aint different enough to be excluded from that.

Oh! The una game. That was good. Great, infact.

Raphael wrote:

The spoon cult of 04 was a mockery. In the final week of 03 the last of the "old skool" CTYIers (steven, hugh, garog, macdara[who had 1 more year, but still]) brought the cult back as something to do in their final days. It was dead before, and it's dead after. Leave it rest in peace, or I shall personally melt any plastic spoon I see worn in 05. Thank you

nosmo wrote:

The spoon cult is SILLY. Stop it.

The irony.

It wasn't me!

Meh. They both make the same point. No more spoons damn it!