When/How Did You Discover Forum Games?

davetherave wrote: »

You can't just throw a statement like that out there and not tell the backstory of it. That's both oddly specific and random enough to have a back story. :pac:

Many years ago a group of about of 8 us had the first ever BGRH forum meet up. Obviously none of us knew each other, so we had no idea how we'd recognise one another. Someone jokingly suggested that we do the old film thing of wearing a carnation in your lapel. That was dismissed as being silly and that everyone should adopt the far more sensible approach of bringing a tin of Carnation condensed milk instead, which most people did. It then became a condition of coming to your first BGRH beers that you had to bring a tin of Carnation condensed milk. This culminated in the epic Night of a Thousand Corsets beers which resulted in a significant tower of condensed milk, all of which was taken home by one of the forum regulars and converted into the world's largest banoffi mountain. We even had a beers in Germany once, to which condensed milk was brought. Obviously we had standards, and should you bring a can of Carnation evaporated milk or, even worse, non-Carnation condensed milk, you were opening yourself up for at least an evening's worth of abuse. Somehow over the years the condensed milk requirement was adopted by some other forums so, while it's now pretty much defunct and most of the regulars no longer post on Boards, a little bit of BGRH lives on.