Ode to Ole Blue
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Topic: Ode to Ole Blue
Posted By: mbro
Subject: Ode to Ole Blue
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 3:12pm
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This thread is dedicated to us forumers that have been around since old blue. Post one of your favorite memories.
My first: 
Bilton ------------- 
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
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Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 3:14pm
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_TT_ he helped me out with my carbine... that and i remember vividly pat's titanium spork |
Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 3:15pm
The spork -------------
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
Posted By: Funky
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 3:15pm
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God bless Shorty, TT and Matt.
Carbine 4 Life. 
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"Don't you hate pants?" |
Posted By: Hades
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 3:18pm
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F.A.B.
And Damien's STDs. |
Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 3:20pm
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Slayer R.I.P. ------------- 
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Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 3:22pm
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ah the good ol times... when enos went from standard, to gold, to plat, back to standard then to mod. and when hwy wasn't a mod... just a regular forumer just like us. come to think of it... i've been on here for a long time... me for mod! |
Posted By: Snipa69
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 3:23pm
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Pump Scout, and "The Forum Mayor" Johnny Hopper ------------- http://imageshack.us - [IMG - http://img456.imageshack.us/img456/857/sig9ac6cs1mj.jpg - |
Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 3:24pm
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Cyndy Lou
FAB My first sig -------------
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 3:24pm
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I have been here longer. -------------
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procarbinefreak wrote:Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 3:29pm
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Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
Posted By: PlentifulBalls
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 3:36pm
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I have more awesome than all 3 of you. Me for president of north america! ------------- 
sporx wrote: well...ya i prolly will be a virgin till i'm at least 30. |
Posted By: Cedric
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 4:03pm
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Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 4:05pm
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Posted By: Koolit32
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 4:05pm
| I'm longer than all of you. |
Posted By: *Stealth*
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 4:16pm
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And i'm sexier then every one here.
Back on topic... Dredly F.A.S. Ahhhh good times good times. |
Posted By: Funky
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 4:18pm
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The Dredcocker and his GZ Timmy... those were the days -------------
"Don't you hate pants?" |
Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 4:21pm
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Dredly getting to 1000 posts then getting them taken away.
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Posted By: Hairball!!!
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 4:24pm
| rip patrick |
Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 4:25pm
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Oh yeah, RIP Patrick.
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Posted By: Jim Paint
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 4:26pm
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Yea... I remember when I first joined back in 02. I didnt really ever go into T&O though. ------------- 
saepe fidelis |
Posted By: Trogdor2
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 4:26pm
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Didn't the spork used to have a marbalizer in it, or was that "Fastest Spork Slinger in the West"?
------------- Something unknown is doing we don't know what. That is what our knowledge amounts to. - Sir Arthur Eddington |
Posted By: Hairball!!!
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 4:27pm
It did, and it was fastest in the East. |
Posted By: *Stealth*
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 4:30pm
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OMHW...
DeathSnakeHiss.. Paint knives how much does the hell hound cost Big al' Superchroniums Sniper rounds ahhhhh Hway and the bunny scandel... |
Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 4:33pm
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Man, making a paint knife is the best idea ever.
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Posted By: *Stealth*
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 4:35pm
Followed closely by Paintball Bayonettes. |
Posted By: Rambino
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 4:35pm
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I miss JohnnyHopper. Funniest man on the forum, bar none. ------------- [IMG]http://i38.tinypic.com/aag8s8.jpg"> |
Posted By: rednekk98
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 4:39pm
| Definatly JohnnyHopper, however, a lot of are citing things that are definatly post-old blue. I just lurked back then, but a good amount of this stuff was the first year or so of the new format(counting various updates to the current format)and some, like FAB is much more recent. |
Posted By: paintbusta
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 4:54pm
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so many memories ------------- 
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Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 4:56pm
Johnny Hopper was just plain hilarious and he had a sweet gun. His 98 was just plain crazy. -------------
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
Posted By: Panda Man
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 5:00pm
or paint arrows. ------------- 
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Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 5:02pm
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Oh man, thought of one.
God's place in paintball. The LONGEST. Thread. Ever. -------------
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
Posted By: youm0nt
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 9:53pm
harry potter (kiola)
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Posted By: PlentifulBalls
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 9:58pm
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flash...the original harry potter. he was all suicidal and stuff. Good times. Kiola's rainmaker was sweet. -------------
sporx wrote: well...ya i prolly will be a virgin till i'm at least 30. |
Posted By: Apu
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 9:58pm
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Masterjabbas thread.
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Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 10:01pm
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Folder504 and all his brass eagle guns. Even though not many of them work today.
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Posted By: Gatyr
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 10:07pm
Yes. HE truly was. Speaking of funny, I remember when dave wasnt very funny. I think. And this may not be old blue, but photoshop tennis was fun to gander at. ------------- 
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Posted By: Cedric
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 10:07pm
YES! -------------
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Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 10:21pm
I also remember as soon as we switched from old blue to the first red forum, how we first needed the gold star to enter the reg's forum. It was a heck of a time for the mods to get the gold stars handed out, and Stevarooni started the post "The Land of Misfit Toys" for those without their gold star at the beginning. |
Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 10:23pm
You guys are opening a real can of worms here. Its a little known fact
that I keep incredibly old backups, so heres some old OLD images from
the forum. The infamous CLAW spokescat  Vote for us!  The infamous Hway Fluffy Bunny Gate picture. I swear we had no idea!  Pat for Plat! Hooray!  My second shot to be fired in the legendary Hway vs Enos photoshop tennis match  It speaks for itself  My "Uber A5" picture that launched a legendary argument on the A5 Owners Group forum when someone thought it was a serious pic and flamed me for being a newb. ------------- 
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Posted By: hwayhzrd
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 10:26pm
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Oh, man, the memories of days gone by.
I actually have the Deathsnakehiss cardboard mask! It was presented to me at TWC IV. So many people that are gone, like FA Jedi, Joe Snuffy ... "Mem'ries, Like the corners of my mind Misty water-colored memories Of the way we were Scattered pictures, Of the smiles we left behind Smiles we gave to one another For the way we were Can it be that it was all so simple then? Or has time re-written every line? If we had the chance to do it all again Tell me, would we? could we? Mem'ries, may be beautiful and yet What's too painful to remember We simply choose to forget So it's the laughter We will remember Whenever we remember... The way we were... " |
Posted By: jesus freak
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 10:26pm
| forum sleepover? |
Posted By: Koolit32
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 10:30pm
i'm pretty sure that was a couple of weeks ago |
Posted By: bravecoward
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 10:32pm
| July 04? |
Posted By: Hades
Date Posted: 19 January 2006 at 1:23am
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Glad, Hway mentioned Snuffy. I will remention him.
Also, I dont remember if the Persephone persona was old blue or a little later. |
Posted By: Panda Man
Date Posted: 19 January 2006 at 1:38am
That was fun and all, but.... meh? The first thing I can remember about this forum was when Dreadly got guested, sad day.... I also remember when YWSM got his second star right before the star system broke, and KRL15 I'd like to see that guy log in and say somthing, He would probably scare alot of these "children" away. -------------
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Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 19 January 2006 at 2:01am
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Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
Posted By: stratoaxe
Date Posted: 19 January 2006 at 2:12am
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Wow, I'm a total newb. ------------- 
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Posted By: impulse!
Date Posted: 19 January 2006 at 2:31am
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Anyone remember sir stunnalot? I just remember him and his dual e-mags. Or when we were switching from old blue everything was whining about smilies " Please don't have smilies on the next forum!" Etc.
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Posted By: Masterjabba
Date Posted: 22 January 2006 at 4:32pm
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A few of my favorite guys
JohnnyHopper F/A Jedi ShortyBP TimmyB Decoded (It looked really crazy on old blue) OMHW (all) 
^^^some of my old sigs...lets see how long I can direct link them. ------------- M A S T E R J A B B A 99% Lurker .5% Post whore .1% Coherent posts .4% Useful information *Values are subject to change |
Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 22 January 2006 at 4:47pm
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not long enough -------------
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
Posted By: Hairball!!!
Date Posted: 22 January 2006 at 4:49pm
| I still have the video of JHopper's FuzzyBunny Tickler 2000 |
Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 22 January 2006 at 4:59pm
those were the "old times"? that was one of the more recent times i've dropped in..... that nun owned... and the spork. wow, that was a long time ago.... dont miss the forum errors though, those things were a bit annoying |
Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 22 January 2006 at 5:11pm
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Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
Posted By: Gewwy
Date Posted: 22 January 2006 at 5:45pm
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That one guy that typed in pink and got made fun of all the time. Then he tweaked out and eventually hung himself at the YMCA. ------------- E-Tek Ego |
Posted By: newport
Date Posted: 22 January 2006 at 5:57pm
Word. I remember every reminiscent thing that people have posted and damn does it feel good. JohnnyHopper was so great. ------------- 
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Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 22 January 2006 at 6:01pm
hellsorracle?... um... he joined the marines and came back just a bit ago... |
Posted By: Zesty
Date Posted: 22 January 2006 at 8:46pm
I'm as original as it gets without being pathetic!  ------------- "People who see the future earlier than others are always feared and misunderstood." - Jose Canseco |
Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 22 January 2006 at 8:49pm
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Bilton > * -------------
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Posted By: ShortyBP
Date Posted: 22 January 2006 at 10:11pm
Definitely agree with the lack of true-blue memories. While all the presented picture-histories are GREAT to look at once more (the Hway BunnyGate pic always gets a laugh)... none of them really come out at me as from "Old Blue". Mainly because "Old Blue" didn't allow for picture signatures (or ANY signatures, really - at least not that I recall). Ranking didn't exist. And that was all Pre-Y2K. By the end of Y2K we had moved to "Old Red". I remember when Pepprdog asked me to be a Mod. Just the two of us with the occaissional help from Nobody (yes, him). To "guest" someone we had to manually scroll thru several hundred pages of random-order usernames in order to change someone's password (in my case to: ShortyWuzHere). Man, that sucked. Old Blue was back in the days of 00Turok... Nebelmann's Man of Fog [fiction] stories... and true-life stories of smoke-grenades going off in pickup truck beds at fast-food drive-thru window. And I came on-board late... a year or two before the first guys. And even after I registered, my post count was up to 10 after a year and half. Spent all my time lurking. I remember the excitement preceding the FIRST Tippmann World Challenge... and how everyone was eager to meet one another. And how bummed I was that I wasn't able to attend it, and then was not able to attend the second one... because of college & lack of funds. I remember voting on the Tippmann Forum patch design. The design I voted for, which included two crossed 68Carbines, didn't win. Still have the lyrics to "American Carbine" on a file somewhere. Man... we're up to TWC VIII already? Eight years. It's been what? Five? Six years since Old Blue disappeared? Back in the day... I remember when the forum only had a couple hundred registered user names. It has over 33,000 today. Absolutely incredible. Definitely NOT the same place it once was. I'd be a liar if I said I preferred it now, compared to what it used to be. Everything has changed... the forum has changed, the people have changed, the SPORT has changed. Some good, some bad. But overall, I like to think that this forum has remained successful. Not conducive to the original crowd anymore... but if it had remained that way, it probably would have faded out. Needed change to keep up with the changes all around. Good times. Ever changing and expanding, while it may not be "ideal" for everyone (too strict for some, too lenient for others), it remains a successful forum. Much thanks to the current Mods for keeping it running, and to Tippmann for keeping it up. And also to all you regular joes out there, minus some folks of course. 
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Posted By: TheSpookyKids87
Date Posted: 23 January 2006 at 8:20am
I wasn't here for Old Blue, only "Old Red" 
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Posted By: cadet_sergeant
Date Posted: 23 January 2006 at 10:16am
| i know old blue was before my time, but would someone like to create a timeline of what forum came in what year maybe even what season? |