UAADB History - Irrelevant questions about ourselves...
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HarryGoldfarb
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Why doesn't Rain Bard ask Hedgy to come back here? That guy is SO intelligent. He belongs here.Big Magilla wrote:Of course I remember Hedgy. He got pissed about something and stopped posting here years ago, but he has remained friends with Brian (rainBard) and they occasionally see one another at Bay Area screenings.
I remember Sister Luke... Well, let's face it, this board is great, but it has a talent for attracting its share of weird people...
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Big Magilla
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Of course I remember Hedgy. He got pissed about something and stopped posting here years ago, but he has remained friends with Brian (rainBard) and they occasionally see one another at Bay Area screenings.
Xanadu actually had an Oscar site before Oscar Guy. I think it was called Aweards Heaven, but it didn't have a discussion board. If I remember correctly he had a link to Oscar Guy's site, which brought me here.
The guy Italiano is referring to is Yamil, who came back with a similar name but got banned after a fight with Sonic Youth, if I recall. He had a lot of similarities to Akash. In fact I kind of suspected that his friend, who also posted on the old board, was, in fact, an alter ego but I don't think he was ever malicious, just deeply disturbed.
Then there was Sister Luke, who left after being castigated for starting all those polls on nuns. He was actually a banker from New Jersey.
Xanadu actually had an Oscar site before Oscar Guy. I think it was called Aweards Heaven, but it didn't have a discussion board. If I remember correctly he had a link to Oscar Guy's site, which brought me here.
The guy Italiano is referring to is Yamil, who came back with a similar name but got banned after a fight with Sonic Youth, if I recall. He had a lot of similarities to Akash. In fact I kind of suspected that his friend, who also posted on the old board, was, in fact, an alter ego but I don't think he was ever malicious, just deeply disturbed.
Then there was Sister Luke, who left after being castigated for starting all those polls on nuns. He was actually a banker from New Jersey.
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Mike Kelly
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I got my first computer in 1997 and immediately started searching for Academy Award related web pages, which led to The Oscar Guy and UAADB.
There was another poster in the early days called Hedgy. He was a wealth of info on Oscar facts and trivia and often would come up with some real tester quizzes. Remember him, Magilla?
There was another poster in the early days called Hedgy. He was a wealth of info on Oscar facts and trivia and often would come up with some real tester quizzes. Remember him, Magilla?
They will make an (Oscar-nominated) documentary about us one dayflipp525 wrote:
Yes, we really have been through the gamut on this board. I don't remember anything quite as bizarre as the The Three Faces of Akash or Sybil, the Life of a Pschyopathic with MPD, though. That is definitely one for the UAADB history books.
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OscarGuy
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We pre-date The Envelope/Gold Derby/Oscar Watch by a long shot. If there are any others out there, I'm not familiar with them.
Hell, my website, the OFTA and such have been in existence an incredibly crazy amount of time and it's really scary to think that more than half of the precursors came around AFTER the OFTA...
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Hell, my website, the OFTA and such have been in existence an incredibly crazy amount of time and it's really scary to think that more than half of the precursors came around AFTER the OFTA...
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Wesley Lovell
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." - Benjamin Franklin
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." - Benjamin Franklin
Oh lord, you just have to love that. It reminds me of the character Amanda Dolor in Nicky Silver's wonderful satirical play "The Food Chain". She tells a 24-hour hotline operator named Bea that when she came back to high school after having lost an obscene amount of weight, she told everyone that she was her own cousin and they all believed her.ITALIANO wrote:Later, he came back with a different nickname pretending to be his own best friend (a la Akash). I mean, we've have been through so much here...
Yes, we really have been through the gamut on this board. I don't remember anything quite as bizarre as the The Three Faces of Akash or Sybil, the Life of a Pschyopathic with MPD, though. That is definitely one for the UAADB history books.
OscarGuy, didn't you once claim that we're the longest running Internet message board that's still in existence? That's got to count for something.
"The mantle of spinsterhood was definitely in her shoulders. She was twenty five and looked it."
-Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
-Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
I think I came here in 1999, because I can't remember having commented on Titanic's many nominations, but I'm sure that right after those Oscars I took part in those discussions about Titanic vs LA Confidential. I know that Big Magilla was here already - actually it was his posts who made me stay here and, after a while, take actively (some would say TOO actively!) part in this board. Uri was also already a member by then. And I remember a young guy from Puerto Rico, very nice but a bit crazy, who at some point said that he'd commit suicide (a la Penelope, but without such an important reason as soaps!), and I had to call him to prevent him from doing that. Later, he came back with a different nickname pretending to be his own best friend (a la Akash). I mean, we've have been through so much here...
I chose ITALIANO as my nick not because I'm especially proud to be Italian (and nowadays I'm even less proud of course), but simply because I thought that it was better to explain from the start why my English isn't exactly Oxford-like.
I chose ITALIANO as my nick not because I'm especially proud to be Italian (and nowadays I'm even less proud of course), but simply because I thought that it was better to explain from the start why my English isn't exactly Oxford-like.
I actually don't remember when I first came to Oscarguy's board, but I was here before the new board, maybe 2001 or 2000.
"Because here’s the thing about life: There’s no accounting for what fate will deal you. Some days when you need a hand. There are other days when we’re called to lend a hand." -- President Joe Biden, 01/20/2021
I joined the board in 1998. I remember my first Oscars on UAADB was the infamous Titanic Oscars. I was mostly a lurker back then with only the occasional post. When the board migrated to the new ikonboard, I was living in Tokyo at the time and you guys were sort of a home base for me at a lonely time in my life.
The origin of my screen name is two-fold: a) my family nickname is "Flipper" and b) I was obsessed with RENT at the time and the song "Seasons of Love (525,600 Minutes)", hence the 525.
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The origin of my screen name is two-fold: a) my family nickname is "Flipper" and b) I was obsessed with RENT at the time and the song "Seasons of Love (525,600 Minutes)", hence the 525.
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"The mantle of spinsterhood was definitely in her shoulders. She was twenty five and looked it."
-Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
-Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell