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[Fraidycat]

I was imagining that this could turn into one of those amazing “Hands across the ocean” moments and there would be little old me at the centre of it all.

I think i misread this chap (after hearing all the scare stories)

It seems he only wanted to make love and not war

But we burnt him at the stake


I feel so bad now, in his memory, (and also the fact some of the members here think i am a Gricer) i have adopted his favourite catch phrase as my avatar pic.

[AtW]

Seems to be just you and me OH.

That makes one of you gricer's sockie and another is the ultimate puppetmaster.

[xoggoth]

Seems to be just you and me OH.

[OwlHoot]

Aha! Sock puppeteer!

There were other reasons. ..

What other reasons?

We have this conversation every year or two when a Gricer clone shows up again and is promptly banned. People mutter dark hints of other reasons to ban him, but nobody ever explains why.

I find it hard to believe the Gricer incarnations are genuine bots which some people claim, even if his bonhomie and discursive style and content are rather stereotypical.

[DoctorStrangelove]

One notes that there's not been the needful doings of the updation of the "Banned" thread.

[NotAllThere]

The CUK mob was baying for his blood and the moderators duly obliged.

Rubbish. If you examine his other incarnations we've been extremely forbearing. As you full well know, gricer.

[NotAllThere]

Totally agree.

Aha! Sock puppeteer!

There were other reasons. Rambling at length isn't a bannable action by itself.

[xoggoth]

Gotta say I think it's a bit harsh to ban the Server Guy just for posting a couple of long rambles.

After all, it's not as if he was insulting anyone, and nobody is forced to read his posts.

Totally agree.

[Fraidycat]

Why does this the Gricer chap use the same phrases eg. 'kerching-a-ding-a-ling' and 'hands across the ocean moment' every time he re-incarnates on this forum, seems to be a dead giveaway. I guess he just cant help himself.

[jamesbrown]

Gotta say I think it's a bit harsh to ban the Server Guy just for posting a couple of long rambles.

After all, it's not as if he was insulting anyone, and nobody is forced to read his posts.

It's the dull as ditchwater gricerbot. The gricerbot has been permabanned. Permaban still stands.

[Fraidycat]

Gotta say I think it's a bit harsh to ban the Server Guy just for posting a couple of long rambles.

After all, it's not as if he was insulting anyone, and nobody is forced to read his posts.

The CUK mob was baying for his blood and the moderators duly obliged.

Apparently he has degenerated to rambling with himself in the past.

I don't know if that was the worst thing he ever did. Or if he wrote nastier stuff in the past?

[OwlHoot]

Gotta say I think it's a bit harsh to ban the Server Guy just for posting a couple of long rambles.

After all, it's not as if he was insulting anyone, and nobody is forced to read his posts.

[xoggoth]

Inneresting.

Memories of Old Bath - Contractor UK Bulletin Board

Gawd, you been doing some extensive research! Still, at least I haven't forgotten where I went to uni yet. Er, Salford wasn't it?

[xoggoth]

Hope that’s jogged a few pleasant memories for you Xoggy and maybe next time we’ll head out from Odd Down to Southdown and Twerton for a tour of the sleazier area of Old Bath

Not sure I remember any of that, I always had ghastly flats near the town centre. Apart from the campus, my best memories are of the little night club I used to sing blues in and a place heading towards Bristol where I <deleted> a girl in the back of my van.

A sleazy area? Damn, now you tell me 50 years too late!

[DoctorStrangelove]

Drivelling is better than DOOM any day!

WxogS.

With bells & whistles on.