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Apr 29, 2018 - 9:51 AM
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Jim Phelps
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http://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=16680&forumID=1&archive=1  
Happy FSAnniversary!
Add to that the relative anonymity of the internet and you have a perfect situation for people really getting hurt.
I compare some of the hostility to driving on the road, silly as it may sound. But if someone drives recklessly and it could have hurt us, we are very quick to yell something out of the window or provide an obscene gesture free of charge. If someone bumped into you in person, most would not be so quick to yell or curse the individual, because one is actually face to face, and more often than not, we would be civil. However, with the internet and everyone's cool and mysterious user names, and the opportunity the forum gives us to vent and not be physically damaged. That way, for example I can call Thor a dumb viking, and not really have to worry about being impaled on his longsword. Or I could say that Batmusicfan has the worst taste in cars and not have to fear being cut down by a thrown batterrang. Or I could call CAT a mangy feline cur, and not have to look out for a flying female with claws extended. Or I could call Joe Esrey a hack student, and not wory a smidge about him dropkicking me through plated glass. You see, this forum provides a degree of protection from you violent monsters, and I for one am very thankful!
Probably the first (and last) attempt I ever made at having a sense of humor. I should do what Thor does: endlessly search for contemporary sitcoms so that I might understand laughter. I encourage other FSMers to do the same.
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Mar 21, 2019 - 9:41 AM
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Howard L
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The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again.
The past weekend I attended a pair of Spring Training games nearby (Phillies, Yankees) and in conversation with my bud who’d escaped the cold weather up in Jersey, waxed thoughtful about the baseball experience when we grew up vs. what's happened in the modern era. “Modern” as in players changing teams as often as underwear, computers dictating pitches and positioning of fielders, exploding scoreboards and advertisements [Hello, Blade Runner] between innings, etc.
But baseball has marked the time. Indeed it has. And with all due respect to Terence Mann (James Earl Jones), so has film music. It is now 21 years here at this cyberfield. An old rookie has morphed into a grizzled veteran. The mouse-bat has lost most of its punch but I’m pretty sure there’re a few pitches left in the old right-handed keyboard. I was pretty good at shagging flies and liners in m’day and I’m not ready for that compulsory crossover into the corn at centerfield.
Corn. Centerfield. Cornfield. Hmm…
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3 months old. Thats why im so childish! Ha ha.
44 ish.
I still think i lurked for a few years before that.
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I've just discovered and read/skimmed this thread, and Howard, I think you're a '97 guy. I know that my time on the old, red board pre-dated Latham Conger's by a few months at least, and he's in that January 9, 1998 snapshot which is the earliest thing we can see on Archive.org.
When I hopped aboard, you and Chris K. were already in discussions, Shaun as well; you guys were already alive and kicking (electronically speaking, of course) when I discovered the zone. Back then, I think I read every chat (because one could, back then), and chimed in little. I wore Latham down once, I think (didn't everyone?). I think I was having Chris's back, or something. I believe he quite literally killed him with kindness. After, or maybe during, one pitched battle, I believe Chris made the kind offer of sending Mr. III a pristine, new, quite valuable at the time Episode I teaser poster, making sure in post after post that LIII knew he was quite in earnest, and once the latter took it seriously, and refused the offer, he sort of withered away.
Also, given the times, this post is cool to see as one of the earliest referenceable ones:
http://web.archive.org/web/19980114065910/http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/messageboard/messages/290.html
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And we're still here, all these years later!
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Mar 21, 2019 - 1:02 PM
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Thor
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I've just discovered and read/skimmed this thread, and Howard, I think you're a '97 guy. I know that my time on the old, red board pre-dated Latham Conger's by a few months at least, and he's in that January 9, 1998 snapshot which is the earliest thing we can see on Archive.org.
When I hopped aboard, you and Chris K. were already in discussions, Shaun as well; you guys were already alive and kicking (electronically speaking, of course) when I discovered the zone.
I was also there, at that time. Remember when Latham Conger came on and caused havoc. 
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Dec. 9, 1997--LK: "Today's FSD is one of those non-columns where I announce an upgrade to the web site. This time, that's a message board. Now we have our own personal rec.music.movies--so let's get in there and populate it with crazies!"
...No, it must be the class of '98 for sure. Somewhere there's a FSD with my name on it from that hallowed year
That's a solid case, Howard!
I bow to your superior intellect.
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Have been enjoying Graham's and Thor's little back and forther. I know Thor too well--come on, 20 years--and KNEW he would bring up the 'board sequencing. But yes, it is important for accuracy. Or the anal rententiveness (retention?) factor. 
) when the black hole spewed out its radioactive bile. Which is what black holes are said to do. According to a recent obit. 
