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Thread: How did you come to be on The Ship?
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Amos:
No, Erin's banning of 'Cardiff' came earlier, when we had a powerful bunch of Cardiff people on the boards having conversations almost unintelligible to anyone else. IIRC--eta it was Cardiff, and not Swansea wasn't it? Wood would know.
I thought it was Aberystwyth. I don't remember Cardiff being banned, I missed it if it was.
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lilBuddha
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Originally posted by pjl:
Noticing everybody on here was sane, rational and logical, I signed up.
And yet you still have remained after all those people left.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Originally posted by Ariel:
I thought it was Aberystwyth. I don't remember Cardiff being banned, I missed it if it was.
Aberystwyth is my recollection too. Which is also why I am on The Ship. We were going to be there for a few days and I thought I was check on the web to see if there were any links to the churches that I'd been to when I was a student there. I found an MW report on one and the rest is history.
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Sioni Sais
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I thought it was Aberystwyth, for no reason other than it has eight consecutive vowels (in Inglish; three of them are vowels in Welsh). Erin took against that.
It wouldn't be Newport. There are people who live in Newport unaware that the city (yes, it's a city now) has a university. With a building, prone to losing parts of its roof in high winds, in the city centre.
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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Posted
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Originally posted by Ariel:
quote:
Originally posted by Amos:
No, Erin's banning of 'Cardiff' came earlier, when we had a powerful bunch of Cardiff people on the boards having conversations almost unintelligible to anyone else. IIRC--eta it was Cardiff, and not Swansea wasn't it? Wood would know.
I thought it was Aberystwyth. I don't remember Cardiff being banned, I missed it if it was.
I remember people speaking of Aberystwyth being banned. But I got here at the tail end of that, brought to the Ship by radio reports of the virtual reality show The Ark.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Originally posted by pjl:
Noticing everybody on here was sane, rational and logical, I signed up.
When did it finally hit you you'd been had? ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Amos-- the Cardiff thing is history gold.
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Jengie jon
Semper Reformanda
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Way, way back many centuries ago...
Well not quite but some time either in 1999 or 2000 a friend put a link up on his congregation's website to ship-of-fools and I thought it sounded interesting so followed it. I expect given the history that that was around 1999/2000
I spent a while browsing the webpages and then came across the Small Fires column and as it was a time when I was exploring Alt.worship I read it. Then there was a discussion on Fowlers stages of Faith and Alt.W on the Small fires discussion board and I decided to contribute. I have been around ever since.
My friend, did sign up eventually around the time of the first Church of Fools experiments. No I am not going to out him. He at present does not appear to be around on the boards.
Jengie
eta the link that first brought me here still exists as I have just checked!
[ 06. December 2012, 19:34: Message edited by: Jengie Jon ]
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Curious
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# 93
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I worked with the Cap'n many years ago when the Ship was paper...... ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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BessLane
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# 15176
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I was dabbling in poetry at the time, and was posting and reading semi-regularly on a poetry website. A poster I quite respected on that site mentioned SOF in some context or other and I immediately checked it out. I think one of the first threads I looked at was one in Heaven about beer and I knew I was home. FWIW, I'm not sure the poetry poster, who is also a shippie, ever knew they had made such a contribution to my life...so I'll say thanks now.
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QLib
Bad Example
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I think I saw it mentioned in The Grauniad and popped along for a look. I remember the Wels(c)h debate - maybe it reared its ugly head twice. I still miss the Fiddlebacks.
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Mullygrub
Up and over
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Posted
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Originally posted by Tubbs:
quote:
Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
Buggered if I can remember; it was that long ago. About 1998 IIRC.
Ditto. I can’t remember either, but it was around the same time.
We have a Twilight Zone in our history, it would seem ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
quote:
Originally posted by pjl:
I was actually looking for some information on a ship I once sailed on which was quarantined off the coast of Costa Rica.
I saw a draft medical report later which stated that most of the crew acted insane and demented.
Thinking that the Ship of Fools was a reference to that event I opened the page and lurked for a while.
Noticing everybody on here was sane, rational and logical, I signed up.
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
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In the fall of 1999 Simon was visiting America, and he spoke at my church. At that time I didn't have a computer, but when I visited my daughter I was fascinated by all the interesting discussions there were on the internet.
I got my first computer in November, '99 and immediately started reading the ship. I joined in January, 2000.
I remember the Welsh university thread. IIRC, Erin titled the thread, "Hell is not Aberystwyth". There had been many posts by people who detested Aberystwyth.
Karl, IIRC you called yourself Faramir in those days.
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves
I remember when 9/11 happened, I first called my then-husband and went form that straight to the boards. I spent the day checking the NYC DOT cameras and refreshing the message boards.
I was on the ship all day, listening to the radio at the same time. I was so glad the ship was there. I didn't want to be alone. I was glad to be in a situation where I could be quiet or speak up just as I felt like at the moment.
Moo
[ 06. December 2012, 21:40: Message edited by: Moo ]
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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# 76
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I did. It was an age when very few people went by anything like their real names on t'intertoobs.
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Mullygrub
Up and over
# 9113
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I'm relieved you're not still Faramir, Karl. I'd probably need to fall in love with you if you were.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Originally posted by Moo:
I was on the ship all day, listening to the radio at the same time. I was so glad the ship was there. I didn't want to be alone. I was glad to be in a situation where I could be quiet or speak up just as I felt like at the moment.
Moo
(Now I'm gonna cry and stuff.)
I think that was the first moment in which I realized that this was a community I wanted to be a part of-- above and beyond the outpouring of grief and horror and anger and support, the information that kept coming across the boards-- for the next few days-- was sharp and informed and as thorough as it could be under the circumstances. It really seemed like the best place to be to find out what the hell was going on. It was amazing.
And a couple of those threads are still down there in Limbo, for anyone to check out if they want.
[ 06. December 2012, 21:56: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
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Amos
Shipmate
# 44
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Happy to be corrected re. the Welch university town.
There were a lot of people on board Ship from universities in Wales in those days though.
I remember and miss Todd's contributions in what would have been Purgatory before the boards were divided. I'm still in touch with the Fiddlebacks and several other people who have become RL friends.
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Kaplan Corday
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# 16119
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Through the caption competition (where I post under a different name), which seems to have really died this time.
Why?
Admittedly I am extremely IT ignorant, but I would have thought that it was a very simple matter to put up a new photo every week or fortnight.
What's happening?
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Mullygrub
Up and over
# 9113
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Now, now, KC. The Questions Or Comments That Might Derail Other Threads thread is over here ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Graven Image
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# 8755
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I had just gotten my first computer when the church news letter had a one line suggestion that people might enjoy the ship. So I checked it out. It was my first bookmarked site. In fact I had to figure out how to work bookmark and what it was.
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Kaplan Corday
Shipmate
# 16119
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Originally posted by Mullygrub:
Now, now, KC. The Questions Or Comments That Might Derail Other Threads thread is over here
On this issue I need the Questions Or Comments Pertinent To The Future Of Civilization As We Know It thread.
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Carex
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# 9643
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I think it was on some technology website that I found a link to the Nativity Play, though that really doesn't make a lot of sense in retrospect. After the play ended I wandered over and found the other boards, and have been reading them ever since.
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Niteowl
Hopeless Insomniac
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I was a reader of The Wittenburg Door starting in the 70's up until it's online death and during one of my "wish someone would resurrect it" fits I started Googling Christian satire sites, found the main page of the Ship, then started lurking on the boards. Intelligent debate and witty conversation is extremely rare so I registered and stayed.
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Sioni Sais
Shipmate
# 5713
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quote:
Originally posted by Kaplan Corday:
Through the caption competition (where I post under a different name), which seems to have really died this time.
Why?
Admittedly I am extremely IT ignorant, but I would have thought that it was a very simple matter to put up a new photo every week or fortnight.
What's happening?
I doubt it is an IT issue, most probably a RL contention issue (see "Why is everyone so busy?" in Purgatory).
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Dormouse
Glis glis – Ship's rodent
# 5954
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My non-believing MrD - who is not a Shippie (as far as I am aware!!! ) - directed me here. I think he read about it in the Grauniad and thought it sounded like my cup of tea. It was. It is. I don't post enormously, but I browse at least once a day.
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mrs whibley
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# 4798
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Memory's a bit hazy, but I think I first came across SoF magazine in print, probably at Greenbelt in the early 1990s. I know this wasn't its heyday, but think there was a one-off or something. Years later mr whibley and I were reminiscing about the magazine, possibly triggered by some news article about Mystery Worship, and I looked it up on the internet to see if it was still going. It took me a while to find the boards, and they weren't free - and anyway we had expensive dial-up so internet time was limited, so I went away for another year or two before I signed up.
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angelfish
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# 8884
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I don't remember how I found the Ship but must have got here by accident, via a Google search. It was Christmas Eve in the office, amd there was very little to do. I think I had been lurking for a while, but I decided to join and start my posting career in Hell with a challenge about swearing on the boards. I was immediately lampooned for painting a target on my ass (sic) threatened with Erin's crocadillian jaws and accused of being a troll, all of which I entirely expected, but I am pleased to note that the use of language has become more tempered on the boards since... Or maybe I have merely become desensitised to it.
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Gracious rebel
Rainbow warrior
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quote:
Originally posted by mrs whibley:
Memory's a bit hazy, but I think I first came across SoF magazine in print, probably at Greenbelt in the early 1990s.
I too first encountered the Ship in print form, at Greenbelt, but longer ago than you - as I only ever went to Greenbelt once and that was in 1982. I still have 3 copies of the Ship of Fools magazine from that era.
When I got online at home about 2000, I think I looked up the Ship, to see if it was still around. Read the boards a little on and off for a couple of years (I was a newsgroup junkie at the time) then joined 10 years ago, in order to comment on a post about Thought for the Day on Radio 4. (Can anyone else recall what their first post was about?)
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roybart
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# 17357
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Memory's a bit hazy.
Same with me, but that isn't much of an excuse since I discovered Ship of Fools only a few months ago. (I THINK it was via a reference elsewhere to Mystery Worshipper. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) )
After reading much of the "magazine" content, I stumbled on the "Community" link. My first thread -- I don't remember the topic -- included several long posts by a member who sounded uncannily like an 13th century Dominican inquisitor, though one quite familiar with early 21st century sarcasm and irony. His major antagonist that that moment sounded like a Village Atheist/Idiot Savant from one of the more esoteric Monty Python sketches.
This Odd-Couple back-and-forth went on, and on, and on. It was so unlikely, so bizarre, and so strangely appealing, that I moved on to other topics, even those about which I previously had very little interest.
I still don't understand why all of this is so addictive. ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
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Piglet
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# 11803
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I think it may have started quite a while ago when a friend of ours (who is now the Bishop of Cork) was featured in "Born Twice".
Then one of the girls in the choir told us that we'd been Mystery Worshipped (not, as it happened, at a choral service) and the report appeared in the local paper. My Better Half joined, and told me it was rather fun and I ought to join, so I did. The rest, as they say, is hysterics.
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lilBuddha
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# 14333
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Originally posted by roybart:
I still don't understand why all of this is so addictive.
Four years in and I am still about that.
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Hallellou, hallellou
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Photo Geek
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# 9757
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In about 1998 I followed a link from Anglicans online. I looked around and finding very few pious twits and many interesting conversations I stayed.
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Jack the Lass
Ship's airhead
# 3415
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I was on "Christian Connection" (yes the dating site) at the start of 2002. That summer CC and SoF (and some other site - reJesus perhaps?) were doing a joint seminar at Greenbelt about Christians online, so I saw SoF being mentioned a lot, although I didn't check it out then. Then I saw this guy's profile I liked, he included the SoF forums as one of his favourite websites. I'm now really embarrassed to say that that was the oh-so-shallow reason that got me checking out the site (I never did work out who he was. Probably just as well given that I am now married to another shipmate!). I started off with the caption competition, then after a few weeks stumbled across the forum. I lurked for about a month, then eventually joined, in October '02. I go through phases of avid reading and phases of it doing my head in a bit, but I still check in pretty much daily, after all this time.
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Haydee
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# 14734
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I was Googling 'smite' to explain it to a Dutch friend... and came up with the Ship's Biblical Curse generator. The rest is history ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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Pyx_e
Quixotic Tilter
# 57
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My egg cracked and I fell out on a keyboard, in my mewling and thrashing I typed the ships URL, ah fate.
Fly Safe, Pyx_e
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Jengie jon
Semper Reformanda
# 273
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quote:
Originally posted by Gracious rebel:
(Can anyone else recall what their first post was about?)
Yes something on Fowlers stages of Faith and Alt.Worship in Small Fires.
Alright I cheated as I have re read it more recently than that.
IIRC Shroedingers Cat also contributed to that talk but I would not like to be quoted on that.
Jengie
[ 08. December 2012, 19:44: Message edited by: Jengie Jon ]
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LeRoc
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I was Googling for something vaguely religious, and ended up here. I think my first post was about a Crappy Chorus.
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Rosa Winkel
Saint Anger round my neck
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I was wondering what do with after my voluntary serivce in Dachau when I applied for a job at a church in London, whose website included a link to this site.
I didn't get the job (in retrospect, extremely thankfully) but stayed here.
I was born in the Welsh university town, by the way, and it's north of Aberystwyth.
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
# 473
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quote:
Originally posted by Pyx_e:
My egg cracked and I fell out on a keyboard, in my mewling and thrashing I typed the ships URL, ah fate.
Fly Safe, Pyx_e
Mork, is that you?
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