Hey it’s late September – yet again I’ve forgotten to say Happy Birthday B&W until weeks after the date. Well happy birthday B&W – it’s six years old. More than that, since I’m late. Staggering, isn’t it? Still here after all this time.
Hey it’s late September – yet again I’ve forgotten to say Happy Birthday B&W until weeks after the date. Well happy birthday B&W – it’s six years old. More than that, since I’m late. Staggering, isn’t it? Still here after all this time.
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28 responses to “Now we are six”
Happy belated birthday, and a big thank-you.
If B&W is that old, then I must have been reading it since its inception. This blog – your comments, various contributors (must mention G and Don), the linked articles – has given me enormous pleasure and stimulation.
Living away from my native country in a non-English work and social environment, I need a daily dose of bracing thought in English to keep my sanity and stave off mental decay.
Why not treat B.W to a birthday broadband conection we could have a whip?
Still crazy after all these years, as the song goes. Happy birthday.
Congratulations, Ophelia: Keep fighting the good fight!
Happy birthday and thanks for the information, inspiration and good ideas. I hope B&W is here for another 6 years at least (unfortunately I don’t think your services will be rendered unnecessary any time soon!). Well done.
Happy birthday. Keep up the good work.
Thanks – for persisting without getting boring!
…and I only discovered B&W this year! Thank goodness for your archives.
Happy birthday, and many of ’em.
Lá Breithe Shona, B&W! Thank you, OB – for your dedication and constancy to this wonderful site. You are an inspiration to people out there in the blogosphere – as well as to people like me (who, prior to B&W, had not got any concept, whatsoever, of the awesome, tragic world religious issues.
B&W is an eye-opener to the world at large.
It is a looking glass – and we are glaring through it with your guidance and knowledge at the religious connivance of mankind.
May B&W continue, into its seventh year, pulling the religious rug from under its fundamentalist bigots.
Thanks all!
It’s an enduring pleasure to read and write for this site. Congratulations and keep up the good work.
More A A Milne:-
When I was one,
I’d just begun.
When I was two,
I was nearly new.
When I was three,
I was hardly me.
When I was four,
I was not much more.
When I was five,
I was just alive.
But now I’m six,
I’m as clever as clever.
So I think I’ll be six now,
forever and ever!
Happy birthday B & W! And congratulations OB.
I’ve enjoyed reading your opinions since back in the TPM forum days when you posted under the nom de plume Kassandra, among others I think. I am glad I still have the opportunity to see them here.
Happy birthday to B&W.
Thanks all, again!
Golly, TPM forum days; that goes right back to the beginning. Kassandra was the only nom de plume though. I don’t really know why I bothered having a nom de plume – just for fun, I guess.
How is Andrew by the way?
What does that mean?
TPM – those times, Andrew the man of the pluralism … I guess he’ll have to be content to live on only in my memory.
Don’t worry, the guy calling himself “Grendels Dad” isn’t going to give you too much grief over the use of a pseudonym. ;^)
Oh, that Andrew – Pragmatist you mean? Were you there too?! I didn’t know that.
Nom de plume as well, Guido Nius. I’ve made the switch here after a couple of years of internet-withdrawal to see it was good here – & impossible to access TPM (what happened?).
Yes, pragmatist, pluralist, wanker – u know where he is?
No idea where he is – we weren’t exactly friendly! Guido Nius…does that ring a bell? Not sure.
TPM itself isn’t impossible to access, but the forum is – what happened is that Jeremy closed it down in February 2002.
I’ll apply the principle of charity to my advantage ;-)
I must confess that it is Eric I most often wonder about, when reminiscing about those days. Any ideas where he landed? Perhaps called back to the Voeglin home world?
Well Jeremy found a website of some kind, not long after he closed the DB (perhaps a year or so after) on which Erich appeared to be interviewing himself – complete with modest laughter etc etc. I must say it was one of the funniest things I’d ever seen…
I have heard from Remster (he’s a Facebook friend!), he’s fine. Also June LaMoy. Also twiliter comments here every now and then. I think that’s it…
Guido Nius does ring a bell – we got into a wrangle at some point, didn’t we?!
Not that I know of, Ophelia, I do have a fond memory of writing a play on the board, but I have to admit fondness is the only aspect of that memory – but I was an angry young man then so wrangle seems not far fetched.
(Yep, it is Andrew: howdy, sir! Yeah – Voeglin, those were the days – Jeremy, whoever he is, did well in closing it)
Jeremy, whoever he is – he’s J Stangroom-admin, of course! He’s also the originator of B&W, co-author of some books with me, co-owner of TPM, etc.