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What boardsies would you bring back?

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I liked it when Terry was in charge here.

I don't know what happened to Biggles, but I'd bring him back to find out who his celebrity friend was. (it was Willie O'Dea)

Never understood the Face Kicker thing but seems like a popular guy.

I'd bring back KikiLaRue for sure, but I heard someone on the Luas earlier said she's coming to the boards beers.

Let's not b1tch about people who aren't here to defend themselves, which would be unfair -- who do you miss around here from yore or from yesteryear?

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Duffy the Vampire Slayer

I loved how Permabear accused gaelscoils of being exclusive and elitist, but argued that businesses were right not to hire working-class people because they wouldn't know much about wine or golf.

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farmchoice wrote: »

i think everyone but the completely gullible knew but it was more craic to say nothing and of course the less he was challenged the further he went.
by the end his 20 year old girlfriend was a a mother( of 4 or 6?) was home schooling their children whilst studying for a degree whilst operating as a very successful hedge fund manager.

in fairness, it wasn't just the young ones he was after. The guy had a major hard-on for Thatcher.

On the other hand, we're bitches.

Purple Mountain

farmchoice wrote: »

Dial Hard wrote: »

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I could never understand how people couldn't see through him, and some even still can't. The man was the worst kind of Walter Mitty - one with just enough brains to be dangerous.

i think everyone but the completely gullible knew but it was more craic to say nothing and of course the less he was challenged the further he went.
by the end his 20 year old girlfriend was a a mother( of 4 or 6?) was home schooling their children whilst studying for a degree whilst operating as a very successful hedge fund manager.

At the time of closing the account, there was another bun in the oven!

farmchoice

Dial Hard wrote: »

<snip> He catfished a friend of a friend in an online relationship for almost two years.

I could never understand how people couldn't see through him, and some even still can't. The man was the worst kind of Walter Mitty - one with just enough brains to be dangerous.

i think everyone but the completely gullible knew but it was more craic to say nothing and of course the less he was challenged the further he went.
by the end his 20 year old girlfriend was a a mother( of 4 or 6?) was home schooling their children whilst studying for a degree whilst operating as a very successful hedge fund manager.

Dial Hard

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

I loved reading Permabear's drivel.

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I could never understand how people couldn't see through him, and some even still can't. The man was the worst kind of Walter Mitty - one with just enough brains to be dangerous.

retro:electro

The funniest was the blow by blow description of his upcoming nuptials. Topped off with himself and the young one choosing to sing Fairytale of New York to each other in front of a plethora of ultra high net wealthy hedge fund investors.

But in all seriousness, you couldn’t pull him up on anything because he would accuse you of all sorts. Despite the fact it was he who was providing all of these minute details that nobody even asked for.

Arghus

VeryOwl wrote: »

Was it ever proven he was making it all up? I mostly lurked in politics in my previous guise, and I didn't really agree with him but I took his "life" at face value. Maybe I'm not cynical enough!

Scofflaw was a fantastic poster.

Don't know if there was ever a smoking gun as such, but I think the "facts" started to get a bit harder and harder to believe. Like, for example, there was some thread here about age gaps in relationships and he basically took it over and started posting and posting and posting about his life - and supposedly, according to what he was saying anyway, his wife/girlfriend was in hospital because one of their children was seriously ill at that time, while he was here posting all through the night and morning.

Think about that. Child seriously ill in hospital, but yet plenty of time for posting on an Irish message board? It didn't add up, it was obvious BS.

And, like a lot of people have said, if you actually chatted to him about something you yourself knew a bit about, then it became obvious soon enough that he was just a very good spoofer.

I spoke earlier in the thread about how he was banging on one evening about the greatness of Finnegans Wake - he claimed to have read it repeatedly and was constantly re-reading it nightly. Now, I've put myself through the torture of reading Finnegans Wake and I'm highly skeptical about anyone claiming to read it for pleasure, multiple times - it's fcking impossible. So I had to prod him a bit to see what he had to say about the book. And he didn't have anything original to say - just obviously ripped off opinions he'd pilfered from elsewhere on the net. It looked good if you didn't know a whole pile about the subject at hand, but if you did then you just knew it was all nonsense.

He was a bit of cult hero towards the end, because I think most were wise to him, but, genuinely, looking back, I do feel sorry for the guy. To create such an elaborate fantasy life on an online forum... Just mind boggiling really.

begbysback

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Did some people also take issue with Mike65? I remember there was a feedback thread once where Mike was making some run of the mill contributions, and a few people were like "Typical Mike", "Shut up. Mike" (maybe not those exact words) -- Mods too. Thought that was a bit strange, he seemed entirely inoffensive

Well he posts a lot in the soccer forum so that would explain the name calling, and I’d agree completely inoffensive.

VeryOwl

Muahahaha wrote: »

Funny thing about Permabear was how so many people got sucked in by his fantasies, he had a cult following there towards the end. I just couldnt square a wealthy hedge fund owner spending most of his days posting on boards, it didnt add up.

Was it ever proven he was making it all up? I mostly lurked in politics in my previous guise, and I didn't really agree with him but I took his "life" at face value. Maybe I'm not cynical enough!

Scofflaw was a fantastic poster.

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begbysback wrote: »

Mike just changed his name, I believe he was getting some grief for the numbers of posts he had so changed, didn’t know Gordon was gone, many a good laugh in jail with G

Did some people also take issue with Mike65? I remember there was a feedback thread once where Mike was making some run of the mill contributions, and a few people were like "Typical Mike", "Shut up. Mike" (maybe not those exact words) -- Mods too. Thought that was a bit strange, he seemed entirely inoffensive

begbysback

Probably still here as I haven’t been on the boxing forum in quite some time, but BigEars was mod there and I don’t think he ever banned anyone in his life, whenever there was a heated dispute he used to post a truly detailed and insightful post about boxing, then everybody got focused again and the heat died down - brilliant

begbysback

Dan Dare wrote: »

As has been mentioned in several posts, Dudess. Also I always enjoyed reading Mike65.

Mike just changed his name, I believe he was getting some grief for the numbers of posts he had so changed, didn’t know Gordon was gone, many a good laugh in jail with G

TomSweeney

Wasn't there another user - facekicker ?
And what about that lad Scanlas ? who reregisters 1000 times a day, I think they blocked the banlist cos of him

Rubberlegs

Hugo Stiglitz
tomwaterford
Winterlong
Menas
Missbubbles78, or something similar
Slasher McGurk
Mike Oxlong and all of his other incarnations

There are lots more I'm sure. Also, I'm not the brightest at spotting re regs.

TomSweeney

Pighead, he used to post in the 3rd person, could be very funny.

Neyite

It's really nice reading this thread and remembering the usernames that were around back when I first discovered boards.

Muahahaha

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I will break my self-enforced Don't Speak Ill of The Closed Accounts Rule this one time. And I didn't even break that for Permabear.

His username preceded him.

haha I loved Dr.Bollocko, so unhinged and his mod warnings always gave me a laugh

Arghus wrote: »

I think the only time my spidey sense would start tingling was if someone started going on about their nubile young early twenties wife and their idyllic life of raising half a dozen young children together, while earning big bucks being a shithot financial genius down in a version of The American Deep South that'd be too corny for even the Grand Ole Oprey.

Funny thing about Permabear was how so many people got sucked in by his fantasies, he had a cult following there towards the end. I just couldnt square a wealthy hedge fund owner spending most of his days posting on boards, it didnt add up.

Still miss Gran Hermano (RIP), Runtothehills was gas for the mad conspiracy posts. Miss Whoopsie and Gordon too.

retro:electro

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

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Sephiroth_dude

That wan anna080

Earthhorse

Raconteuse wrote: »

I'm not someone who immediately concludes "Walter Mitty" when someone posts about having a life that's way more exciting than mine. Whether we like it or not, they do exist.

But it was the having an investment banking job and four children, yet time to post in depth on Boards that made me doubt things eventually. Even when that busy you could still post here regularly, but only short posts here and there, not long missives with hyperlinks and citations.

I've never been as busy as that yet I've gone months at a time without posting here due to being too busy (hence a number of accounts).

Nevermind all that. People with ivy league backgrounds don't tend to spend their days in circular arguments about the same old issues on boards.

I know it's not impossible but it's just so unlikely to be. Hard to get people to listen though.

retro:electro

January was another great poster. Really informative around the time of the abortion ref.

Trigger Happy

Fat Christie was great.

jammiedodgers

The nostalgia in this thread.

Starbelgrade and mikom were 2 of the funniest posters on this site.
I don't think anybody has mentioned bubbles have they? :pac:

The Princess Bride

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Hugo Stiglitz

Just coming on to post this, an absolute gentleman!

Dan Dare

As has been mentioned in several posts, Dudess. Also I always enjoyed reading Mike65.

Raconteuse

I'm not someone who immediately concludes "Walter Mitty" when someone posts about having a life that's way more exciting than mine. Whether we like it or not, they do exist.

But it was the having an investment banking job and four children, yet time to post in depth on Boards that made me doubt things eventually. Even when that busy you could still post here regularly, but only short posts here and there, not long missives with hyperlinks and citations.

I've never been as busy as that yet I've gone months at a time without posting here due to being too busy (hence a number of accounts).

Penn

Micky Dolenz
whoopsadaisydoodles
LizT (though I see she posted above. Hi Liz!)

Had the pleasure of meeting the three of them at a beers and as sound in real life as they were on Boards.

Purple Mountain

JupiterKid wrote: »

Permabear had me fooled for quite a while - I did find his marital and family situation very far-fetched but was prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt - but then I noticed how many of his posts seemed to contradict others of his in other threads and smelled a rat.

Why he felt the need to create a fantasy life online would have the psychologists busy for months.

I just always assumed he was legit.
Liked to brag about his sex life though.

Thelonious Monk

Lotus Flower wrote: »

I liked Ginandtonicsky, she always gave brilliant advice in personal and relationship issues. She was usually on the money with her posts

Is she gone already? It's rather obvious who she is once she starts posting under various names over the years.

optogirl

jishouse ... who definitely wasn't the guy from Fair city but was just a REALLY BIG FAN of the guy from Fair City