We now have 1000 Afterworders.
If course I know this isn’t a thousand actual people – many have left, some sadly never to return. But I remember it being a big deal when we got up to 666 members – presumably on account of all the Maiden fans on here – but that now seems like a dot on the horizon.
Who are all these people?
Stand and unfold yourself!
Mob! Hut!!
Here, sir!
You raaaang?
Do we each have an assigned number in that 1000, like the England Test players ?
I am a free man!!
So who were the two that came before you…?
Fwightful oik…
Some of the low number Afterworders are worth a bit you know.
I saw a slightly foxed Bricameron on Discogs the other day that they were asking silly money for.
I went to a shop called We Buy Afterworders… and there’s also a SoundCloud recording of someone playing all the Podcasts simultaneously.
I’ve got blisters on my fingers from all this typing.
Sah!
Whatever happened to Cherub Chops, Clint Oyster, Mr Lovegrove, Progressive Potato Pants and Badger King?
They formed an ill-advised fusion supergroup and have been exiled to Siberia for crimes against sound.
Moose, are you hoping for ten hampers by the time this thread ends?
Of course. Corsair and sprouts here I come.
….Whaddaya mean, you would prefer Strangeways?
You’ve caught him red-handed, Fitter.
If that rascal Moose thinks I’m going to comment on his post so that he can load up on delicious Corsair Chicky Bits, he’s got another thing com……
Ooops!
Yum yum yum.
They say AI is going to take over the world, when it thinks the content of a Corsair Chicken tin will actually look like chicken. I think we’re safe for now.
Better?
“Parkin’s been”
Corsair and Corsiar. It just gets better
CChicken, too. It wasn’t spelled like that in the Kays catalogue.
Free-range cotton?
Present!
I’m still here – too soon to release me into the real world
I tried that – care in the community doesn’t work.
The community just doesn’t care that much.
I’ve been mainly lurking for what seems forever. I remember when it was all cliques around here.
Perhaps an Aldi festive pie rather than Corsair would be appropriate for this time of year. Check it out, you know you want one.
I remember you (-ooooooo)… Mainly because I suspect you of being well known screen thesp Bryan Dick.
Oh well, I may have to add you to the list of people that I have disappointed over the years.
No you don’t. I can now freely snigger childishly at the other one’s surname without offending you.
Ad sum
Que?
Afterword statistics? Excellent!
A quick look reveals indeed 1000 active members (though that includes several iterations of RobC, as well as James Blast, so might need adjustment for uncertainty).
Generally speaking, about 50 members less per year, apart from 3 years ago (what happened then?) when nearly 100 made their last post.
Comfortingly, there seem to be about 300 members active within the last month, just over half I recognise as posters/commenters.
The Afterword is what it is and we sometimes think it’s a miracle that ANYONE finds it as it has no outside reference or links (e.g. in the way that the old Word Blog had Hepworth and Ellen and the magazine as a link to it.)
We suppose it just relies on word of mouth and serendipity so spreading the word (no pun intended) from all members would be great.
If you google “excellent in Twin Peaks” it’s the top result.
Dunbar’s Number would suggest that however much you promote the site, unless the blog splits into separate sub-fora, if won’t grow much more than it is at present – 150 active, 150 lurkers.
Meanwhile, here’s a backronym:
A
Forum
To
Enjoy
Reading,
Writing
Or
Reviewing
Discs
I’m more interested in Dunbar’s snare, especially on Warm Leatherette.
which is the exact reason it was changed from Blog to Forum
If only my name was Bryan Dick as Moose hoped.
Was that peak list period?
Covid?
I don’t think there’s a formal process for resigning from the Afterword Massive. Though it may be that the Mods have an archive of flouncing DMs, which explain this phenomenon.
Sadly no Flounce Archive (TMFTL)
Actually, you CAN’T leave. We’ve only once been asked to delete anyone’s complete profile and posts and we refused. Once you come in, you’re in for good.
“They had a choice.”
That is some heavy shit. What a commitment it is being an Afterworder. We’re effectively all tattoo artists here.
Post-Drupal crash, I presume? Not much if anything left of those treasured early AW years, sadly.
Not even a forlorn drinks globe
But how could anyone feel like a complete and utter self righteous flouncer if you won’t delete their personal data? I’d feel utterly defeated. And exposed. That’s me in the corner.
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave…seems appropriate…
GNU* James Blast, Carolina, Phillip Pirrip and Stimpy.
*As Terry Pratchett fans say.
….Curtis From Ohio, another good friend we’ve lost along the way.
The wonderful Judy Dyble was one of us and once graced a thread of mine with her presence:
“Yes M’lady”
Still here and new years intention is to post more often… that and lose weight, get fitter and try and stop shouting at politicians on tv. I will probably fail the lot
Why? What did I do?
Hopefully, Get Fitter isn’t like Get Carter.
“You’re a big man and you’re out of shape” – harsh words from Mad Lizzie
Still here and new years intention is to post more often… that and lose weight, get fitter and try and stop shouting at politicians on tv. I will probably fail the lot
Good start on posting more often, that’s twice in one minute 😉
Lol
Will be skinny as a rake by Christmas.
I’ve been led to believe there will indeed Bejesus by Christmas
I’m still around, but as an occasional contributor.
I had a long period when I didn’t visit at all, a couple of years back.
Here sir. The dog ate my homework, sir.
Still here. I’d post more but I’ve really not got anything interesting to say.
It wasn’t you that ate Black Celebration’s homework then?
Neither have I, does it stop me?
I only have dull things to say, but it doesn’t stop me – I’m on here all the bloody time (mainly during office hours).
I won’t lie, I’ve learnt a lot from your postings
Many’s the time I’ve trawled through a @fentonsteve thread and thought, “Well that’s taught me a lesson”
You wouldn’t be the first.
Cripes, I think I’ve done ten years.
Not so active recently, but I vividly remember some cracking spats involving Faux Geordie, Ianess, Bob, Niscum etc. “Whatever happened to … all the Shakespearoes?”
Hannah, Mini Breakfast, so many vanished. Or are they appearing under different/multiple handles? Arguing with themselves? And how would we know?
Still lovin it!
Which Bob? Disappointment? Numbers?
Mini doesn’t post here much now, but is on twitter/X and Bluesky.
I’d love to know who here is on BlueSky and/or Threads. I really want to get rid of Twitter since the Musk took over but it’s hard to replace the people I follow on the other platforms until they gain more traction
I’m on Mastodon, twitter and Bluesky, though have largely given up on the first two. I think I have some spare invite codes for Bluesky.
me too. Having waited about 5 months to get an invite from BlueSky they then sent 3 through.
BlueSky: decaf Twitter without the inconvenience of content. Sold!
Up !
I missed a lot of the spats, although I was here – I had the fear…
Less fear these days, but I still avoid the spats…
They’re never a good look, except on George Raft.
One might risk a snap-brim fedora.
Faux Geordie – there was someone guaranteed to misinterpret a posting.
I had a long dialogue with him as he wilfully (to my mind) misunderstood the content of something I posted and continued to do so with each reply.
Still there Mr FG, lurking and simmering?
Not for eight years now, according to the AW ‘role’ call.
The last time I looked, Forks was in the Facebook group that KFD set up .
Faux was in many ways a pioneer of the kind of polarised debate that we’re all used to now on social media. That inability to tolerate opinions other than his own, and to project towards those who already agreed with him rather than attempt to resolve differences and reach consensus was extraordinary back then but quite normal now
He was more popular with the “I’m very left wing, or so I assume, because I’ve heard that means virtuous” crowd.
I really liked ianess. By being right of centre on a forum with this one’s leanings, he helped me over time see a lot of the inconsistencies and lack of rigour in my standard internet liberalism. I’m still left of centre in the only way which matters – economics – but he was one of the first to make me realise that there’s nothing left wing about identity politics and most of the cultural progressivism online is a matter of club membership, not principle. Yes, he took great pleasure in very rudely puncturing pomposity – mine, as often as not – but I mainly really appreciated it.
In interpersonal dealings, the rudeness was nowhere to be seen. I never made it north of the border to his restaurant, but always wanted to. Ian was kindness and courtesy itself where it counted.
The last I heard of him was when I persuaded him to have a go at listening to Spiritualized.
Ladies and Gentlemen he is Floating in McSpace.
Ianess is the poster I miss most on here, in terms of our long term absentees.
He was consistently thoughtful, fabulously indifferent to the party line and gave excellent book recommendations. You didn’t have to agree with him (and he certainly didn’t need you to), but he would always bring something interesting to the conversation and invariably counterbalance any groupthink that might be creeping in. I think you sum him up very well above.
Hope he’s doing well, wherever he is.
Went to his restaurant, asked if he was in and was told he’s over there. Had a nice meal but couldn’t pluck up the courage to say “Hi, I’m …”.
That does not sound like you, Lodestone! Shy and hesitant? Surely not!!
Nobody likes having their food spat it ..
As I just posted in my comment below, there is an ianess who contributes most days on the Spectator website. You never know,it could be the same one.
Speaking for myself, I was quite happy sorting out the inconsistencies in my standard internet liberalism for myself, and I didn’t need my pomposity punctured – I’ve got a wife for that. By all accounts he’s one of nature’s gents, but I’m afraid I found him intensely irritating.
He was more popular with the “I’m not really right wing, honest I’m not” crowd.
Ian hobbled up to my chutney factory here in Siam just a few days ago. We spoke warmly of old times on the Afterword (as you can imagine) and of the sad state it’s in now. He, Archie Valparaiso, mojo and I occasionally peer through our fingers at “the auld place”, and I know the love you show Ian here will bring a tear to his one good eye.
Chutney factory? Lawdy mama!
I have this curious sense of déjà vu.
Chutney is for life, not just for Christmas.
Isn’t Chutney some relation of Britney’s?
I think I once bought some chutney spears at the deli counter in Waitrose.
“Chutney Factory” – Patti Smith first draft.
Fort um,s (Sugah), now do pickled Brussels sprouts. If that ain’t chutney fare, you can call me Mary.
So to sum up, you were disabused of the notion that your half baked politics – that you’d wrongly presumed were left wing- by an obnoxious online right wing c*nt?
That’s so unusual these days….
Enchanting, as always 😘
*enters thread with a mighty blast of Mellotron, like Watcher Of The Skies*.
*re-enters thread tootling sarcastically on a kazoo, like The North Will Rise Again*
Here, Sir!
An old-timer. Purveyor of inane whimsy. George Clooney lookalike. (If you close your eyes. And if he was an overweight twat.)
I’m still here, though I tend to restrict my posts to ATMs (thanks for all the (mainly) helpful replies). I don’t like to offer my opinions, as I don’t like being laughed at (and talked about behind my back).
I think you can probably tell that I don’t like being laughed at either.
🤚
Still around, soz
^ surely a contender for the HALL OF FAME
Not enough!
I don’t get much out of talking about my hobbies anymore, for whatever reason, and I’ve never been a collector or list maker (or, god help us, poster of YouTube videos: how is anyone watching them? Don’t you have jobs?) who needs a virtual garden shed to tinker in. I’ve no idea why, but talking about music just isn’t something I do anymore. Being a music guy was a central pillar of my sense of self when I was younger. Not anymore.
Occasionally there’ll be a Ishooz thread over here that piques my interest but nobody ever changed their mind because someone disagreed with them on the internet so I’m not even that prone to those at this point.
I’m fond of the place, though. Names that have been familiar since my early 30s have a certain nostalgic pull which means I’ll probably never sack it off entirely.
That’s all well and good, but I was thinking more about my own benefit than yours 😉
Sack it off… Not while I’m on duty, though it’s very civil of you to enquire.
Not even a nostalgic pull?
Still here. Still feeling slightly on the edge of things. Still love it. Posted about Del Amitri in my first contribution in 2008 Still posting Del Amitri now. Sorry. I wish Lenny Law would contribute again we still nod occasionally on Twitter and I’m happy to say he hasn’t changed…
You’re one of my faves, Dave. The authentic soul of the place. Keep on keeping on.
Hear hear.
….til the fight is won
Ah yes, Lenny Law, from memory he was known as, “The masturbating dentist.” If I were one of his patients and he told me to rinse I would do so.
He was the one who introduced the dread name of Ben Dover to the blog.
He’s less vocal about masturbation on Twitter, though some of his comments on Gillian Anderson beg questions which are probably better not asked.
An ad keeps coming up* on YT which features Gillian Anderson advertising Dream mattresses. They know what they’re doing.
*behave
Established ’09, I think. Decommissioned with a dishonourable discharge. Mostly here for the golf
I’m giving you a B- for insisting on staying out of all the rows these days. Whither the blog’s favourite and most accomplished provocateur?
…..and the answer’s always BINGO
*blushes*
Trying to be kind these days, except to Gary of course
I have it on good authority that you have to be cruel to be kind. We’ve tried everything else, and it’s the only method that reliably works and that human beings are uniformly good at.
…in the right measure…
Up here… in the north of england (For all Icicle Workers). Katzenjammer bore and lurkee
Seems like a good time to mention my favourite post from days gone by. It may seem a trifle but it made me laugh and I have always remembered it and plan to adapt it as my own if I ever get the chance.
In a thread about the size of peoples record collections someone said “I have twenty-seven Ed Kuepper cds but in an emergency I could probably get by with about four.” Which got the response, “I’m sorry but I can’t imagine what type of emergency would require possession of an Ed Kuepper CD.”
A forced resignation, 2008-10 apart, roughly, damn her eyes, here since around 2003. First post was responding to favourite upbeat song requests with the Albion Band. Plus ca change, as I said to the Big Issue fella in town.
This was the song, btw
2003!! I was going to ask who has been here the longest, and I was starting to think it might be me, as I joined pretty much right near the start when Fraser was talking on the podcast about the blog, and around the time there was the first ever Mingle in London somewhere (‘Everyone cheered when Captain Underpants announced his entrance….’).
But 2003! Was the blog even around then? I thought it was more around 2006 or something.
Deffo, I think. We had just moved into a new surgery building, I had a new wife and I topped the list of most frequent posts/responses, which annoyed said wife enormously. But @vulpes-vulpes was long before me!
To this day I still enjoy a warm hand on my entrance
Oh that was you? Ha ha, all the name changes on here confuse me sometimes. I’m Spartacus.
I’m Love See No Colour
(Flamin’ ‘eck Moose, that’s a bit obscure)
All together now.
👆hence the pants
That was the second Mingle.
The first was in Islington, close to The Word Office in a pub in that awful shopping Mall that lies between Liverpool Road and Upper Street.
There was me, Lunaman, Hannah, Azeem, Twang and I think one other (sorry if whoever it was still visits).
Mark Ellen, 60s Mike Johnson, Andrew Harrison and Fraser’s predecessor joined us for a bit. Maybe one other from the magazine as well.
Oh heavens, that reminds me, there was a music venue in that awful shopping mall. I saw The Fat Lady Sings in there but missed the support because I spent most of my time walking up and down outside thinking “surely I have the wrong address”.
If it is impossible to actually delete registration, are you here twice, retro2?
Forced resignation? What’s the story here, and does anyone have the film rights?
The film wrongs are in a locked cabinet in the kitchen. retropath1 was a faulty early prototype dirigible, with dodgy wiring and a leak in the gusset.
Long time lurker here in sunny South Wales. I just logged in for the first time in 8 years, my name was on page 48. I do look in most days, but feel that there are far more knowledgeable and wittier folk on here than I’ll ever be. I will make a resolution to post more and join in though.
As for someone asking about ianess above, there is a regular poster called ianess on the Spectator website.
Quite a few on twitter
Backwards 7 , Archie, bisto, dog faced boy too i think but he blocked me
Archie’s doing fine. I chat with him over on Twitter semi regularly. Another proper fave.
Jo DB and Doods, same. Jo is literally right about everything, one of the wisest and funniest and best people I know.
Still check in every day, comment now and then (but not when the all of the posts are too Britcentric for my taste).
One of very few (two?) women left it seems. Or are you all hiding behind gender neutral pseudonyms? (um…like me, though I outed myself already on the Word blog)
I have lovely* big breasts, does that count?
*citation needed
Isn’t that true of most men post 40?
How long have we been here on the Afterword? I have no idea, but it’s good to still be around.
Indeed.
Related to that thought: I have no idea how long I’ve been here – it was early on, but I know I lurked for ages, took me a while to be bold enough to post…
Bang em in Bingham….16 games and 2 goals for Stockport County in 1972…. I love all of ya
So nice the beginning it has been part of my daily life although th post slightly less these days as life became more hectic. I suspect this may change when I retire in April. Met some good mates on here.
Miss the feistiness of MyAmericanmate who often seemed like he could argue with his own shadow but at other times could be quite garrulous.
I’d always assumed your moniker was an explanation of why everyone in Bingham is so uncommonly cheerful – if a little tired.
I’d always assumed it was a football reference, but part of me hoped it was what Mr. Bingham in Pride and Prejudice’s nickname might be.
In other news, I consistently misread the poster here ‘sitheref’ as telling the ref to sit here, rather than telling us what the poster did.
So is this thread about naming the people here that we like most? What fun! A bit like playing Twister only without the physicality and the rules of Twister. Should we also name the ones we don’t like? And can we name ourselves in either category (asking for a friend)?
The purpose of this thread, as we can see above, is to establish that all the good people have left.
“good” is a subjective term
I don’t really like myself. If that helps?
Does, yeah. Ta.
Maybe we should have some meta polls/charts. Top twenty posts of the year, a reissues chart covering where someone starts a thread only to have it pointed out we had the same one in 2018. Stuff like that.
A special award for serial thread killers. The fact that I would undoubtedly win such an award is a complete coincidence, of course.
*strokes white cat*
You could start and then kill it in an Afterword eats itself sort of way.
Sort of Ouroborosically
‘someone starts a thread only to have it pointed out we had the same one in 2018.’ This is true. I very nearly committed that sin just now, but fortunately discovered that @Mike_H had covered it back in 2021. Mind you someone else had probably also done it before or since. Round and round the circles of hell we go…
Hoping for , expecting, entirely new topics is unrealistic. Especially if we want newer members to contribute. “Sorry we did that in 2014”.
Sorry I’m late, sir – I got attacked by the school leopard.
Wee laddie for a palfrey…. HIT!
I’m still around kinda. My life fell off a cliff some years ago. During the descent I seem to have managed to pretty much alienate everyone. I’d rather that wasn’t the case but it is what it is and I completely own it.
I quit all social media except for this place and I try to comment on here only very rarely. I guess that’s about it.
Very pithy are those occasional contributions Pencil.
Stay with us Mr P. We love you (and not in the sarcastic Rolling Stones sense either)
You are a fantastic contributor, Pencil. Funny, warm, informative.
I hope you are enjoying the Bersarin Quartett today. I am, thanks to you.
Unsurprisingly I’ve enjoyed the hell out of the latest Bersarin Quartett but of the day’s releases I think I’ve dug Owl Song from Ambrose Akinmusire even more. Top notch jazz.
I know it’s not exactly social media, but I do get a little glow when I see a “[Pencil’s real name] liked your activity” on Goodreads. Keep on keeping on!
In the business of alienating people you’re a rank amateur, @pencilsqueezer.
Thank you all. You’re all very kind.
Hola, compadre!
Been here more or less since the beginning although it took me about 5 years to pluck up the nerve to say anything – a very imposing clique who all knew Heppo personally and had drinks with Marko every Friday in the Dog & Duck where you sat next to Elvis Costello or Chrissie Hynde. I’ve been Wrong ever since.
I feel proud to be one of the originals as well. Although like you I also took years to actually contribute anything (apart from the odd comment or two). Us old timers can sit back and watch these flash-in-the-pan flavour-of-the-month-ers come and go.
@Arthur-Cowslip
Surely no one can be the longest standing member … settle Moose.
Heaps of us piled in when the Word blog started and quite a few are still here.
Note to Mods you can call it a forum but its always gonna be “the blog”.
Do you know, I hadn’t even realised it had changed from a Blog to a Forum. I always thought it was hilarious, calling it a Blog, and quite sweet: I can imagine Hepworth and Ellen didn’t know what a Blog is, and Fraser trying to explain to them, and to get them to change their minds, but them not quite getting it.
It was the first online place I joined, apart from FB. I reckon Hepworth and Ellen were quite forward thinking, what with the podcasts too. Of course, a lot of this might have been down to Fraser but if so, they listened to him.
Fraser was not the original Blog master.
I don’t recall the name of the guy who was, but he went to The Guardian and Fraser entered to become Lord Of That Domain.
Still here most days. I find less to comment on now, especially boxed sets of reissues and studio leftovers but I enjoy seeing familiar names, knowing you’re all doing sort of ok.
I’m still around. Here from the early days too. Suggested the first mingle I do believe! It seems like a long time ago. When I first came across The Word ‘chatroom’ it was a nice place to go after the local closed and sent everyone home. Now the pubs have closed it is the ‘local’. Cheers all and long may it continue.
Indeed you did.
I think I was the only one to confirm online that I would join you.
I recall meeting you and we wondered would we be alone. Thankfully, as I noted above we were soon joined by Twang, Hannah and Azeem and then Word staff.
I’ve been here forever too, it seems. I probably spend half an hour, twice every day on here. Mostly I just lurk. I don’t really have the time to post, so, back to lurking.
Back to the house of pain!
….and stop that jumping around!
I used to be sven and now this is me under my real name. Not like those woosies who are afraid to post as themselves. I was at the original old place. Not sure what year. I started a bit before Patrick Crowther. I remember he got told off for writing Lol! all the time. Lol! I am baffled by the notion of an Afterworder. One who eschews the more modern trends, like smartphones, sitting with a laptop, raging at a world that’s gone to hell in a handcart (I remember Helena). Wrestling with all kinds of music-based technology. Technology disregarded by the rest of the world. I fit in here but then again I don’t. The story of my life. Who other than a friendless, unemployed, singleton has time to commit to this community in the way many do? The best things are often the funny stuff. The daft puns, your sex life as a film (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon). Such daft gems. It’s funny how cock sure some can be about politics, music, anything, even when their pontifications prove wrong: I tread a more tentative path and find that can pay off. Egos must egoise. CDs and LPs, isn’t that what the fighting’s all about. Men must compete. Always. I once got a nailed it comment from Heppo. It now sits framed on the wall, along with a comment that made it to the letters page. This is not true.
This is not here.
Patrick Crowther was conspicuously absent after the flounder of the good ship Word, never quite making the ferry journey here. Still a fb presence in niche photography special interest groups, now seemingly resident in Italy, having saved up sufficient Italian words to facilitate that move.
….”niche photography special interest groups”… I’ve never, er, come across him…
I recall Patrick Crowther for accessing Bob’s Theme Time Radio Hour programs (then only available on Sirius Radio or some such thing – unavailable in Australia) He plonked them somewhere were you could download them. Then I used to burn them to CD and listen in the car.
Fun tech times boys and girls!
✓
Still here. Follow a few from the old place on Twitter/X as well (can’t be bothered to move to BlueSky although it gets more tempting every day)…
Come on here to chuck a couple of dull observations and crap jokes on where necessary, as is my wont, but probably lurk more than I used to. Nice to see it still going with the same enthusiasm and verve it always had.
I’ve hung on to Twitter, just, so far but if Musk lets Alex Jones back on, that will be the final straw.
DM me if you fancy an invite code
Oh, come now – she’s no Lauren Laverne, but she’s not that bad! 🤔😉
If I wanted to read bizarre and extreme opinions from fat white men with beards I’d go to the Hoffman forums.
Cheers Ainsley, I might do that.
Many have speculated that the name “Sewer Robot” must be the hiding-in-plain-sight style piece of wordplay of one called Sir Robert who, for assorted legal reasons, has a need to keep the fact that he is alive unknown to various interested parties.
All I can tell you is that I do have a daughter named Ghislaine and I am extremely proud of the way she has chosen to conduct her life..
Constantly posting “Answer that bloody phone!” and suggesting that we sue Private Eye was a dead giveaway
Been around for over 10 years, lurking mainly, posting occasionally, staying out of arguments.
(My mission now is to goad Boneshaker into an argument).
What do you think of Jeremy Corbyn? I met him at a Stewart Lee gig once and he told me he prefers Michael McIntyre and also likes Taylor Swift, but doesn’t like Roger Waters. He thinks pop music was better in his day though and most music today all sounds the same, even on ‘vinlys’ (his word).
(That ought to cover all the bases)
I agree. 😉
Hey, Mooooose! (Or anyone else with the knowledge)
Where does one find these stats? How do you know there’s now a thousand registrants?
Updates – it’s in a teeny tiny box top left above the various scabrous and disgusting remarks that have recently appeared on the forum, usually by me. I’m viewing this on a laptop, fk knows where you find it on a phone…
And if you go Updates – > Afterword Bloggers it tells you who’s about and who ain’t.
Thank ‘ee! I’m much obliged to you. I thank you fifty times. Bless you!
Steady.
Well intervened. I was about to offer him my smoking bishop.
Well I’d hope you’d keep your stinking bishop to yourself.
Those carol singers who said “bring us out some mouldy cheese and some of your Christmas loaf” were most ill-advised.
Those double hampers will come in handy for Christmas. Shame the tinned chicken was out of date last March.
Nahhhh – good for another 5 years at least. Packaging withstands deep sea storage, nuclear leakage and sonic attack….
Impressed? I am. One or two comments on this thread are by people other by me.
So you say………..
Get back in the box!
I always had trouble with Age of Chance vs Art of Noise. Both did records called “who’s afraid…” as well.
Do you also confuse them with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor?
I do, George, I do.
Well I’m still here since I think about 2008 – certainly Word mag days.
I probably check the site every couple of days but recently I’ve got a bit more involved, somehow had ideas for a few posts recently.
One of the Down Under mob.
Somebody once did a world map once showing where we all were/are. Might be helpful to those of us in different time zones (and I don’t mean 1971)
That would be me. I’ll look it up when I return to my home office laptop. Currently getting decadent in a spa in Cologne, where the saunas are compulsorily textile-free. I am debating with myself whether to indulge.
Are they the same as the compulsorily textile-free saunas down the Kaiserstrasse in Frankfurt?
If you mean Kaiserstrasse in Frankfurt like people refer to Reeperbahn in Hamburg, then no. Cologne has Pascha, so doesn’t really need anywhere else.
If you’re in the Spar can you get me some cheese footballs and a Fanta cherryade?
Good hygiene in German spas, so I saw no cheese footballs.
Surprised, what with all those sweaty Frankfurters.
Muller yoghurt is everywhere though.
Fetch a cloth Granville
Hmm was that done using registration info or people posting “Hi its me here in Turkmenistan” ?.
There was some kind of Google Maps thing with pins on it. We identified where we are/were. The thread was probably called something totally zany like “Who’s in here?”
Yeah I remember that!
Here we go, here we go, here we go
Here we go, here we go, here we go-oh.
Here we go, here we go, here we go.
Heeeeere we go, here we go:
Oh thanks. Surprised I didn’t remember that in more detail – it was only, er, eight and a half years ago.
The planet probably still had a future then, right kids??✊
Well done @Salwarpe!
Very interesting to take a look at it in 2023.
Even if half the AWers flagged have jumped ship.
Fair point. Jim Morrison hasn’t posted in ages.
Try to run, try to hide
Flounce on through to the other side
Interesting…I was going to move myself from Brisbane to Murbah, but Google did it for me.
Long time lurker, occasional poster. Have met – in true life – both Fenton Steve and Phil ‘Mark’ Bryer, and once put a gig on featuring Disappointment Bob’s Choir. I was introduced on stage at Cornbury in 2006 by Mark Ellen (see profile pic) as one of the band of Rock Dads. Went to a book signing by David “I’m right and you’re wrong” Hepworth some years later and he didn’t remember a thing about it. They booked The Love Trousers the year after, which probably goes some way to explain it.
And appeared on the same bill as (one of) Twang’s (many) band(s). Which I think was my last outdoor but-not-a-DJ gig.
Ha! Now we are into our second thousand!
Show yourself, number 1001!
Don’t be shy …
Hope they can clean the carpet
Arf!
Here Sir.
Somehow I am still here, but lurk a lot more than I once did. Reading this thread has brought back lots of memories, some happy, some still terrifying and just a few that I will never forget – and believe me I have tried! (Fray Bentos meat pie anybody?)
To quote one of our more esteemed retailers of days gone by “You’ve all done very well!”
Not only am I still here, with the occasional contribution, but look what I found the other day: the Afterword Tube Map! Anyone remember what station they are/were?
Ha! I’m Gospel Oak.
It was at a mutual friend’s party in a flat close by that station that I first met Mrs Beezer.
That wasn’t her name at the time, of course.
I’m not there! I must have missed that meeting.
I was and still am East Finchley as it’s the nearest station to Muswell Hill and I was there on Monday.
I’m at Queensway…I think…
Am I on part 2 or was that my Beeching years?
Got covid for the first time and was just cheering myself up by reading one of my favourite threads on the Internet:
https://web.archive.org/web/20111107140856/http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk:80/content/the-meaning-cliff
Remembered theAfterword and lo and behold even had my login and password saved. So many familiar names in this thread. And suspect most of them will be thinking who the fox hat when they read mine.
I remember James EB. No idea why, perhaps you gave us a really good pease porridge recipe once.
Incredibly this thread wasn’t even my first hamper of 2023, and I had six months off or sumpn. I clearly have the magic touch bwahahaha
As I dont think we have any Tasmanians , Antarcticans or Chileans when I move in a couple of months, I expect to be the southernmost member of the blog.
There used to be at least one person from Wellington, NZ. I posted once from Invercargill in the South Island and then Neil Dyson (I think?) posted from Antarctica.
I wonder if the Scandinavian posters have a most northerly post to boast about? Svalbard perhaps?
Hola, amigos!
The old place was the first internet community that I joined, back in the days of stimpy.
I made it to 3 of the London Mingles – Hannah! Backwards 7! – organised the Glasgow ones, met up with @Stevet in Brum (our wives were far more trepidatious than he and I were about going to a pub to meet a “bloke off the internet”), met @Salwarpe when he visited Glasgow, and met up with @Pencilsqueezer when work took me to his part of the world.
I am still in real world contact with a few of the old gang, including @Mike_H who often comes to see The Primevals when we get to London.
I still visit, to start the ball rolling on Blogger Takeover, and chip in the occasional thought.
1003 now….. paint it black, you devils!
My advice…. Stop The Boats! we’re full!
Maybe the mods could redirect them to theafterword.rw
Robbie Williams has his own domain? The megalomaniac monster!
Present and Correct.