Nice list.

I think Pandy would be very, very surprised at how many times he's mentioned in that archive. Really. I'll tell him someday. And he'll be shocked.

Xavie/Xavia will also be surprised that she's mentioned, I'm sure.

There's no mention of Lian, and there needs to be. And Rook played a bigger role in the earlier days than what the list indicates. I would expand those two's respective parts.

More recent stuff? Definitely the jellybean stuff, although I have no idea how that started.

And also the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn group re-read, which has taken up 39 topics and still isn't yet finished. It was Olaf's idea, but the main participants have been:
*Ylvs (every chapter)
*Neemo (every chapter)
*Cyan (every chapter)
*Me (every chapter)
*JustCharlotte (many chapters)
*Queen Sanasu (many chapters)
*Ceywren (many chapters)
*Elbarad (many chapters)
*Terelia (many chapters)


How about Smarch's Anniversary party last year?

Forum 9 doesn't seem to be mentioned. I think that's a must. At least, I didn't see it while browsing the list.

That's all I can think of at the moment. I'm sure I'll think of more later.

Thanks. Maybe I should prod Peter to help me create an archive of smarch after the crash (at least something I can search locally).

Yalahii.

Oh. The "Fourness". I wasn't there, but it was muchly impresive. Four mints in one night. Gotta be a record, at least in Smarch's later years. I do recall, though, those earliest days (first couple of weeks), where, when you went to reply to someone saying hi, your reply would be, like, six pages later.

There have been a few births, deaths and marriages, does the history have a registry?

I was looking to see if the short story contest was in there?

just a thought.

Perhaps a record of each of the Smarchmoots (although I don't know if they count, since they took place off the boards)...

It might be a good idea to trawl for Smoots in the Community. I could list the ones *I've* been to, but that certainly isn't all of them.

And the ConJose moot deserves special mention, I think. :)

Please tell me your story will contain at least one token pun. Make it ironic if that makes you feel better.

I'm sorry Stuart, but I'm horrible at puns. But it being the history of smarch there must be one in there somewhere, intended or not. ;)

yalahii.

Sahi wrote:

Wow, I just looked at the document and it wasn't quite as I had it memorized. I'm actually stunned that we went through so many Mints in order to pick out all the major topics.

Not quite what I had in mind for November. So I'll have to do a LOT of research.

Yalahii.

You could always ask for assistance. I'm a fair hand at research.

Firsfron of Ronchester wrote:

More recent stuff? Definitely the jellybean stuff, although I have no idea how that started.

It started like this:  Many moons ago, I was relating the latest evil perpetrated upon me by my employer (the 'EPC'), so Ceywren threw black jellybeans at them because nobody likes the black ones (except Ceywren, of course).  The black jellybeans soon became the Black Jellybeans of Doom (tm), which inspired others to come up with different colors of jellybeans with various properties.  Then one night, Ceywren, Hiragana, Sam, Genisis and I decided we really needed a definitive list, and thus the Jellybean Factory was born.

[ April 25, 2006: Message edited by: cyan ]

Okay, here's my story (and I'm sticking too it).

'twas about a year ago, I staggered into the Mint, a Mint on steriods. Everything was large. The mood was ugly. The room had existed for over two weeks and no one was visiting.

Having just returned from a piratin' adventure, I rounded up the scurviest crew of female pirates I could find (including Cyan, Ceywren and Hiragana), and set sail for the Valley of the Pretty Pink Ponies. We ran up the skull and crossbones, roamed the waters of Smarch, in our good ship The Quiller's Mint, striking fear in the hearts of all (really good looking) Smarchers, drinking, pillaging, raiding, and generally taking what we wanted.

The Mint has never been the same. a-r-r-r.

ceywren wrote:

however, i most certainly do not like black jellybeans. black licorice? yes. black licorice flavoured candy? no.

Oh.  Then why d'you keep eating them?  *eg*