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"Happy Birthday, a bit late..."
 
   Due to a discussion elsewhere, I did a bit of digging. And it looks like UF was first posted to the world via USENET on 11/14/1991. Meaning that, this past friday was it's 17th birthday.

So, happy birthday, UF. May you have many, many more. :)


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  RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late... Gryphonadmin Nov-17-08 1
     RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late... Gau Nov-18-08 2
         RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late... WengFook Nov-18-08 4
         RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late... The Traitor Dec-22-11 19
     RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late... Offsides Nov-18-08 5
         RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late... StaticdashPulse Nov-18-08 6
     RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late... Mephronteam Nov-18-08 7
         RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late... McFortner Nov-18-08 8
             RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late... Gryphonadmin Nov-18-08 9
                 RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late... BZArcher Nov-18-08 12
                 RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late... Lethosos Nov-18-08 13
                     RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late... Gryphonadmin Nov-18-08 14
             RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late... Star Ranger4 Nov-21-08 18
     RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late... Shay Guy Nov-19-08 15
  RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late... StaticdashPulse Nov-18-08 3
  RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late... remande Nov-18-08 10
     RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late... Gryphonadmin Nov-18-08 11
  RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late... Rickdominated Nov-19-08 16
  RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late... StClair Nov-19-08 17
  RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late... Phantom Dec-29-11 20

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Gryphonadmin
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1. "RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late..."
In response to message #0
 
   >Due to a discussion elsewhere, I did a bit of digging. And it looks
>like UF was first posted to the world via USENET on 11/14/1991.
>Meaning that, this past friday was it's 17th birthday.

OH MY GOD I'M OLD

--G.
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Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.


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Gau
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2. "RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late..."
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   Now all we need to do is find a fan who wasn't born yet when that was posted...


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WengFook
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4. "RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late..."
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   >Now all we need to do is find a fan who wasn't born yet when that was
>posted...

Check back in about... 15 years and you'll probably find one that matches that description :S
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The Traitor
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19. "RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late..."
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   Present and correct.

Gods but I'm young.

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5. "RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late..."
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   >>Due to a discussion elsewhere, I did a bit of digging. And it looks
>>like UF was first posted to the world via USENET on 11/14/1991.
>>Meaning that, this past friday was it's 17th birthday.
>
>OH MY GOD I'M OLD
>
Just think Gryph, another year and your first child will be off to college, and the cycle begins again... :)

Offsides

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6. "RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late..."
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   LAST EDITED ON Dec-21-11 AT 02:22 PM (EST)
 
Can a fanfic insert itself...into itself?


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Mephronteam
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7. "RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late..."
In response to message #1
 
   >>Due to a discussion elsewhere, I did a bit of digging. And it looks
>>like UF was first posted to the world via USENET on 11/14/1991.
>>Meaning that, this past friday was it's 17th birthday.
>
>OH MY GOD I'M OLD
>
>--G.

OH MY GOD I'M REALLY OLD

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8. "RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late..."
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   >>OH MY GOD I'M OLD
>>
>>--G.
>
>OH MY GOD I'M REALLY OLD

Let's see... 17 years ago I was stationed at Offutt AFB during the First Gulf War and was 23 and married to my first wife...

HOLY CRAP I'M OLD!


Michael C. Fortner
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Gryphonadmin
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9. "RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late..."
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   >>>OH MY GOD I'M OLD
>>>
>>>--G.
>>
>>OH MY GOD I'M REALLY OLD
>
>Let's see... 17 years ago I was stationed at Offutt AFB during the
>First Gulf War and was 23 and married to my first wife...
>
>HOLY CRAP I'M OLD!

OH MY GOD WE'RE ALL SO OLD

--G.
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Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
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BZArcher
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12. "RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late..."
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   Sounds like it's time to borrow a blonde and go shopping, Boss.

(If the mid-life crisismobile doesn't -have- to be a convertable, the new Lancer Ralliart looks pretty hot...)

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13. "RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late..."
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   >>>>OH MY GOD I'M OLD
>>>>
>>>OH MY GOD I'M REALLY OLD
>>
>>HOLY CRAP I'M OLD!
>
>OH MY GOD WE'RE ALL SO OLD
>
OH MY GODDESS THIS IS GETTING OLD

(I hope we start a thread meme! >) )

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Gryphonadmin
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14. "RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late..."
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   >>>>>OH MY GOD I'M OLD
>>>>>
>>>>OH MY GOD I'M REALLY OLD
>>>
>>>HOLY CRAP I'M OLD!
>>
>>OH MY GOD WE'RE ALL SO OLD
>>
>OH MY GODDESS THIS IS GETTING OLD

Yeah, you're right, I think we're done here.

--G.
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18. "RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late..."
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   >Let's see... 17 years ago I was stationed at Offutt AFB during the
>First Gulf War and was 23 and married to my first wife...
>
Hmm. That would make me at most a year older than you then... I served from 84 to 88ish. And I knew the second I'd heard the news about Kuwait being invaded the US was going to get it stuck in.

Of COURSE you wernt expecting it!
No One expects the FANNISH INQUISITION!
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Shay Guy
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15. "RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late..."
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   Hmm...

...you used the name "Creator of Alternate Universes?"

I was three years old. As I said on the Drunkard's Walk forums, probably old enough to know what "dirty" meant, maybe not "pair."

By the way, while I was digging through Google Groups again, I was highly amused to find claims that Gainax had gone out of business.


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3. "RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late..."
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   LAST EDITED ON Dec-21-11 AT 02:22 PM (EST)
 
Happy birthday to UF!

Happy birthday to UF!

Happy birthday to the second greatest fanfic series in the world (and that's only because I found Christie Smith Hayden's Gargoyles series a year before and have a special attachment to it)...

Happy birthday to UF!

(You kind of have to say that third line pretty fast, but I think it fits.)


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remande
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65 posts		 Nov-18-08, 04:46 PM (EST)
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10. "RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late..."
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   >Due to a discussion elsewhere, I did a bit of digging. And it looks
>like UF was first posted to the world via USENET on 11/14/1991.
>Meaning that, this past friday was it's 17th birthday.

Wow. The year doesn't get me, it's the month. I remember that it took me at least a couple of weeks in A-term before I met Gryphon. I had been looking for him, just because of the name (read The Travels of Sir John Mandeville and you'll see the connection). I don't think I knew him very well when we had a fateful conversation in the Wedge where he started talking about Kei and Yuri at WPI and I started talking about the HoloDECStation.

So the three of us wrote that in under two months?!?

No wonder I was so tired...

--rR


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Gryphonadmin
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11. "RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late..."
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   >I don't think I knew him very well when we had a fateful conversation in
>the Wedge where he started talking about Kei and Yuri at WPI and I
>started talking about the HoloDECStation.
>
>So the three of us wrote that in under two months?!?
>
>No wonder I was so tired...

Indeed. I think this is one of the key reasons why my version of the WPI story ends with "... and then I flunked out." :)

--G.
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Rickdominated
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16. "RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late..."
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   LAST EDITED ON Nov-19-08 AT 03:44 AM (EST)
 
Well, I wasn't even three yet (Close, but not quite)
But, I guess it comes with the territory
Heres hoping for another 17 years of some of the finest authoring I've ever seen


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17. "RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late..."
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   I might still have, somewhere, a copy of the fan letter I sent Gryph after UF (1) came out. Mostly I remember his response, which was to the effect of "yeah, it was fun. Maybe we'll do another one sometime."
:D


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20. "RE: Happy Birthday, a bit late..."
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   Well, and here we are as UF just passed it's 20th birthday and still going.

With 2012 around the corner, Cheers to the Writers, Editors, Fans and Friends, everyone who have made Eyrie and UF what it is!

Best wishes for Health and Happiness is the coming year and hears hoping another 20!

The Phantom

"When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."


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