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Mullygrub
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Being the time of year for feasting and merrymaking and nostalgia-induced indigestion and what-not, I have recently found myself pondering how it is that I came to be aboard this fine vessel.

I believe I joined SoF via the Mystery Worshiper bizeroonie many moons ago, when I was but a young GLE reading some church magazine or other. I was strangely intrigued by what I read in the MW article, and investigated.

And I've been heading downhill ever since [Big Grin]

Anyway, how did you find us?

Did a friend point you in the direction, saying, "So, I think you're much better suited to this kind of Christian community, dear backsliding friend of mine"?

Did you happen to wander aimlessly aboard after googletronning "Christian" "Humour" "Satire" "Bunny with an axe"?

Was your minister at the time, by some miracle of the Lord, already a Shippie, and recognised your lack and want, pastorally directing you hither?

What's your tale? I'm interested to hear it.

And some inspired musical Shippie might even put our tales to music, or our Ship's bard (whosoever that may be at present) might compose a lilting limmerick for our edification, if we're very good.

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no prophet's flag is set so...

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Someone posted something I thought was a little odd and I wanted to comment. Also, my ISP had dumped newsgroups / Usenet. Needed an out, a place to argue inanely about things I half know with words I half understand with people I don't know. It makes me feel moderately lovely to be partly right some of the time, because I am mostly wrong most other places in my life. I also like boats.

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I'd been reading MW reports for a while (not sure how I first found those). I then decided to sign up to be a MWer and thought I should check out these bulletin board things in case they had any tips for how to write good reports. Still waiting, btw!

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How did I come to the Ship? Three simple words that tend to come up just about this time of year: Gadgets For God. I forget what I was searching for (possibly the Funebri Coffin Calendar), but I ended up linked to the annual Kitschmas list in Gadgets For God--and became hooked on the site. I lurked for a year or so and then came on board.

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quote:
Originally posted by Mullygrub:
Was your minister at the time, by some miracle of the Lord, already a Shippie, and recognised your lack and want, pastorally directing you hither?

Well, not quite. I came across a recording of a talk Freddy gave in which he commented that one of his favorite activities was participating in ship discussions. I knew immediately that I had to join and I have not been disappointed. I've learned a lot of value to me about how other people see things and about how and when to express my own ideas (the latter in no small measure because of a couple of posts that I came to regret later). I hope I can continue to learn as much in the future (preferably without the need for regret [Biased] ).

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It was Gadgets for God. Can't remember where I first saw the link but I found an awful guitar somewhere with scripture verses and stuff written all over it, and had to join the ship to post it on G4G.

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A looooong time ago (see my registration date), when I was naive enough to believe in spam and urban myths etc., I signed up for a newsletter which gave the low-down on new, interesting websites. They mentioned the mystery worshipper, which I thought was such a cool idea that I signed up straight away.
I have to confess to not reading more than two or three mystery worshipper reports, but I was very taken by the bulletin boards, and my post count does not in any way represent accurately my reading activity.

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Mullygrub
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Jonah the Whale:...and my post count does not in any way represent accurately my reading activity.
Careful now, JtW... We don't want any "my post-count is bigger than your post-count" [Biased]

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monkeylizard

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Mousethief has that title anyway. Nobody else comes close. [Smile]

I'm like Jonah. I received a link to one of the Ship's main page features. I can't recall exactly which one at the moment(G4G, MW, Small Fire, Loose Cannons, whatever). I know it wasn't Rev. Gerald Ambulance (who needs to provide some new material, by the way). That would have been way back in 1999 or 2000, predating the free boards. As a poor recent graduate, I didn't join up until after the rebuild making the boards free.

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I was bullied into joining by a certain Canadian friend of mine and have not regretted it since and we are still friends.

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I heard a radio program that mentioned something about the Church of Fools, and decided to check it out. And subsequently landed here. And (mostly) lurked for a long time. Then I started posting more.

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I don't remember how I came across it, but they had me with the GIN thread. I was captivated by this bunch of witty, intelligent and insightful people who were talking about things I cared about (erm, beyond GIN), often at a level well over my head.

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Kelly Alves

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I followed a link from another satire site. I think it might have been Landover baptist, and the link in question read "These people are definitely troublemakers" or something like that.

I liked the articles and was drawn into the caption contest a couple of times, and one day I saw a link to "community" somewhere on the front page.

There was an argument going in Hell at the time about the use of the word "welsh" as a slur, and the level of intelligence expressed-- even in Hell-- impressed me. So I kept reading. I lurked for a long time, maybe a year.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.
And then at some point I signed up, screwed up my cookies, pissed off David by emailing him for help, further pissed him off by mistaking him for Chastmastr (I basically wrote him a fan note aimed at Chast.) and my first post was a gushy, fawning note aimed at "that kind, courteous person named Erin who helped me with my password. What a sweetheart!"

And I think it was Laura who was right behind that post with, "Isn't it nice when they are new and innocent?" [Big Grin]

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Sioni Sais
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It was an accident of net searching that found the site for me. Things are vague after this time, but I think I entered a term like Christian humour and, believe it or not, the Ship was an early hit. Certainly it was the best of those hits, in 2003 or whatever.

I signed up during the 2004 incarnation oF Tits'n'Testicles. That occasional board has not been repeated.

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Mullygrub
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Kelly: I liked the articles and was drawn into the caption contest a couple of times, and one day I saw a link to "community" somewhere on the front page.
Oh yes! Me too, now that you remind me! It was definitely the Caption Comp that ensnared me! I must have wandered onto the website via the MW article I mentioned in my OP, thence to the boards... ah, memories...

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Sioni: I signed up during the 2004 incarnation oF Tits'n'Testicles. That occasional board has not been repeated.
Before my time, but somehow I *know* I've missed something special [Big Grin]

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My priest got me hooked on G4G and Signs and Blunders. I never even looked at the boards for a couple of years.

Then along came the Laugh Judgement and I had to sign up because they'd missed my favorite faith-based joke.

Those are still some of my most often used jokes. Golden stuff.

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Gadgets for God link. Wandered around and found the boards, dove right in fairly straight away. Hopefully I'll get the hang of it fairly soon.

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I was at Mass one Sunday and our priest mentioned the Mystery Worshipper and asked us what we thought the report on our church would be.

I'm waiting, but it's not turned up yet.

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Amos

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It was 1998, and I was preparing to move cross-pond. I thought it would be good to know what the church was like.

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Chapelhead

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quote:
Originally posted by Amos:
It was 1998, and I was preparing to move cross-pond. I thought it would be good to know what the church was like.

And you still came!

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Boogie

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Through St Pixels, which was a similar board, but with online services - nightly, if I remember correctly.

St Ps was born out of the Ship, but they veered far too con-evo for me.

My avatar here is my old St Pixels 'face' (you could make your own from a selection of features - which was great fun, I even bought yellow beads to match for meets!)

St Pixels is now a facebook app. They still have services and 'coffee mornings' IIRC.

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Spike

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Way back in the autumn of 2000 I was browsing the Affirming Catholicism website. On their links page, I found a link to this place. I clicked on it and I've been here ever since.

[ 06. December 2012, 08:06: Message edited by: Spike ]

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Buggered if I can remember; it was that long ago. About 1998 IIRC.

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Cara
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As I think I said said in my intro on the Newbies thread, I found the Ship through a rather unusual route. I was searching the web for info on the Catholic Apostolic Church, because an older (now long-dead) relative was a member of it, and my mother and I had become curious about what it all meant. And here I found (in Limbo, I'm so glad you can still find even Limbo-consigned threads via searching) this amazing in-depth discussion all about the Catholic Apostolic Church with comments from people who had the most fascinating and arcane bits of knowledge not only about the CAC but clearly about lots of other things as well, plus wit and wisdom.

Who are these people, I wondered? I want in!

And I'm in, was welcomed, and I love it! Thank you, Shipmates. I am so glad I found the Ship.

BUT. I am spending far too much time here!!! I call myself a writer, but really, does writing limericks in Circus and ponderous "thoughts" in Purg really count??!! I might have to lock myself away from Ship access for certain parts of the day...and I dare not enter the poll about how many times a day one visits the Ship!

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Uncle Pete

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quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
I was bullied into joining by a certain Canadian friend of mine and have not regretted it since and we are still friends.

Someone, somewhere, recommended the site to me (odd, because, AFAIK they never joined here themselves). I took a look, killed myself laughing at Crappy Choruses, and thought Wodders would enjoy it too. We joined two days and a few numbers apart. He, I note, is still whinging about his twisted arm.

All that said, he has double my number of posts.

We're friends? [Paranoid]

[Big Grin]

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Bob Two-Owls
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I was being bullied at work because of my beliefs by my newly-converted Christian employer and I came here looking for ammunition to throw back at him when he started (you know the kind of stuff about glasses, polycotton and burning oxen). When I found some interesting stuff, some funny stuff and some really downright infuriating stuff I decided to stay. I think I only de-lurked after the end of my contract, when I stopped feeling under fire.
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I think I was just wandering around the web and happened to come across the Ship.

Mind you, it probably isn't surprising that I should find the Ship as the internet was much smaller in those days - you could drive from one side to the other in about 20 minutes. Then they started all the building work on the outskirts and now it's just one big sprawl. It's not like the old days - you knew your neighbours and you could leave your home page unlocked if you went out. People looked out for each other then. Now it's all trendy blogs and pavement comment pages. Sometimes I feel like a stranger in my own cyberweb.

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My brother was already a member and suggested I have a look. I looked, I liked, the rest is history.

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Mullygrub
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Is your bro still posting, Marvin?

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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Must have been the MW reports. I still assess all our services at St. Loony & The Jam Doughnut on those terms and sometimes I say to Mr. S as we waddle home 'Glad the Mystery Worshipper wasn't there today!'

But I lurked for - honestly - years before I was forced to post 'You can't hang a man with a wooden leg'. Can't even remember why. And I lurked for so long because I just knew I would spend far too long on here. [Killing me] I was right.

Mrs. S, rich in self-knowledge

(eta - drat I missed my 250th post!)

[ 06. December 2012, 11:32: Message edited by: The Intrepid Mrs S ]

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I think I cam via MW too - the church I was working at got Mystery Worshipped. I came on to check the report out, read dozens more reports, saw the forums, and I've not done a day's work since. [Big Grin]

That's how I found the boards, but I joined because of Pyx_e. I thought any community that has people like that as a part of it, I want in.

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Gadgets for God, through a small ad in Private Eye. In those days, the boards weren't free, except for one, if I remember correctly, which seemed to deal almost exclusively with the minutiae of Anglican vestments. I lurked for a while, finding it altogether less entertaining than the G4G, being bemused and not particularly interested by most of what I saw, but there were some threads and flashes of humour which kept me just interested enough to hang around.

When the boards went free in 2001 the atmosphere lightened immediately, and I joined up and loved it. There was an energy and freshness about it, and a creativity and sparkle that you tend to find at the start of new projects. That has pretty much settled down now; time passes, people change, develop, maybe move on. We may have lost that initial impetus of creativity and sparkle but there does seem to be more of a sense of community.

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Kelly:
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There was an argument going in Hell at the time about the use of the word "welsh" as a slur
I remember that thread! Haven't thought about it for years, but it all comes flooding back now.

Anyway, my way, like so many others, was Gadgets for God. What I can't remember is how I found that. [Confused]

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I'd heard about MW reports and decided to do one from Cairo Quakers.

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Marvin the Martian

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quote:
Originally posted by Mullygrub:
Is your bro still posting, Marvin?

Not really, no.

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There was an argument going in Hell at the time about the use of the word "welsh" as a slur
I think that might have been Welsh with a C. I vaguely remember someone using the word and getting immediately jumped on by half a dozen others. Though that might have ben a different thread.
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Recommend from the wife c2002

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Sioni Sais
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quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
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There was an argument going in Hell at the time about the use of the word "welsh" as a slur
I think that might have been Welsh with a C. I vaguely remember someone using the word and getting immediately jumped on by half a dozen others. Though that might have ben a different thread.
Was that at about the time Erin banned the name of a certain Welsh university town?

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quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
I followed a link from another satire site. I think it might have been Landover baptist, and the link in question read "These people are definitely troublemakers" or something like that.

Very similar to how I found the Ship! I was reading 'The American Organist', and the president at the time, Fred Swann, ranted about a Mystery Worship that was just so unfair, wah, wah, wah, about some church or other. That of course piqued my interest (there are other people like me?) and I checked it out. Like others, I found the boards, lurked for a while, and have been here for over eleven years now.

Oh, and I see one of my co-hosts is about to have post number 18,000! Congrats, Ariel!

[Errant comma. There are probably others. Good thing I can edit here as much as I want.]

[ 06. December 2012, 12:18: Message edited by: jedijudy ]

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Originally posted by Ariel:
In those days, the boards weren't free, except for one, if I remember correctly, which seemed to deal almost exclusively with the minutiae of Anglican vestments.

That would have been the Mystery Worshipper board. Small Fire and E-Pistles were free too.

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Adeodatus
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So I started reading this thread, thought 'Hmm ... what is my Ship story?' - and only then did I notice I've been here more that 9 years! [Eek!]

Back in summer 2003 there was a spat - or it may have been a kerfuffle - I'm not sure it could have been called a furore - at Manchester Cathedral about a certain American bishop being invited to the Lesbian & Gay Christian Movement's annual meeting. Or rather, not being invited. Or something like that.

Anyway, I saw that someone involved had mentioned online somewhere that there was a discussion about it running on Ship of Fools. So I came, I saw, I posted, I stayed. In fact I'm pretty sure that first post was on a Hell thread, which doesn't often bode well, but did for me.

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quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
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There was an argument going in Hell at the time about the use of the word "welsh" as a slur
I think that might have been Welsh with a C. I vaguely remember someone using the word and getting immediately jumped on by half a dozen others. Though that might have ben a different thread.
Was that at about the time Erin banned the name of a certain Welsh university town?
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.

[ 06. December 2012, 12:52: Message edited by: Amos ]

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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. And, other than the time they charged for membership, I’ve never left. (Which is scary [Eek!] ).

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Either on or shortly before my date of joining, I was reading the wikipedia article on "Liberal Christianity", and under their "external links" they had a link to something the wikipedian had called a "liberal Christian website". Which turned out to be the Ship.

Checked it out, liked what I saw, joined up.

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Somehow I came across a reference to the 'bearded bishops' discussion. I'm not a Christian but I do have a beard and we barbarians have to stick together. Of course, now the job's gone to a skin-chin I may have to leave.

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A friend mentioned the ship on another discussion board.
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I followed a link (from a newspaper report) to a report about gold fillings, and another one a few months later to the Mystery Worshipper feature (or was it the other way around??). I guess in those days I was very new to the internet as a whole, still finding my feet, and so was on the Ship as an 'occasional lurker'. But I didn't become a member or post anything until the boards were all free. Being a lurker for a while is a good thing as it gives you the chance to get acquainted with what you are joining before launching in at full pelt - a pity some apprentices don't heed that recommendation today!

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Googled "Christian discussion boards".

The result held my attention because I had noted it advertised previously in my diocesan magazine.

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It was around '98 I'd guess--before the big board revamp (the first big board revamp). I was searching the web for articles about why you frequently would see cassette tape strewn along the side of freeways, which took me to the old Urban Myths board.

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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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