Respect! and some ideas.

[Nailest]

Come on Ben, put it all together...

CJ: there's a good few JOKers who still think that.

Brooner, it's not so bad being known by a comedy nickname so much that people forget your real name
Andrew Brown? Who he?

Peter B, I think if you know the person you're posting to, you might be prepared to give them some leeway. If you don't know them, all you have is their words. Could be part of the reason you got such a hard time when you were posting all that crap.

[ic]

A heartfelt plea for better handwriting is made by the typist. The last thing that you want to have to do whilst inputting so many names is to have to spend so much time trying to decipher someone’s hastily scribbled hieroglyph.

Those students who decided to honour the event with the status of a Churchill Cup Competition round might like to honour the organisers with the same information in advance on a future similar occasion. It’s only good manners, you know.

I hadn't quite grasped until now that these things happened at the same time...

[Peter B]

Yeah, probably

[Neil M35]

I have three comments to make – I think a numbered list is appropriate
1) Discussion threads often start as interesting debate on some aspect of orienteering and end up as various ‘Burgh’ residents and friends ‘sledging’ each other and talking about what they did last night – often using words I don’t understand. Isn’t that why Banter and Discussion were set up separately? If you cleaned up Discussion you wouldn’t need a separate veterans forum and I could browse through Discussion without feeling jealous and old.
2) I like the nicknames – it makes me feel like I am young and cool even though my own username is just my name and class. I don’t know who any of you are anyway, even if you use your real names. However, what are you going to do if someone anonymous (or not anonymous) posts something extremely unpleasant or libellous on the site? Do you have a lawyer? At least if people are identifiable it makes them think about it.
3) Every time I read ‘Mrs H’ it makes me think of Stefanie Powers in Hart to Hart

[samsonite]

a few very good points there neil, (what is hart to hart?)

from now on the discussion forum will be monitored a bit more, so please, take the banter to the banter section. neil is right in saying that lots of threads start off good and then turn into 3 pages of crap. obviously a limited amount of banter within the discussion is needed, it wouldnt be nopesport without some, but please keep the large amounts of banter to the appropriate section.
neil feels jealous and old, after all. so do i a wee bit

[Neil M35]

I should be working. Anyway - Hart to Hart was a crap seventies TV show with Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers as glamorous husband and wife Jonathon and Jennifer Hart, investigating murders and nabbing nefarious criminals. They were aided in their endeavors by craggy chauffeur/odd job man Max (Ernest Borgnine) who did all the dirty work
http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~lmcvd/h ... rthome.htm

[Graeme Ackland]

neil feels jealous and old, after all. so do i a wee bit

No need to feel old. Even if I've no idea who anyone apart from Nailest is, by identifying herself as W45 Mrs.H. makes me feel young again.

M42

[Mrs H.]

Be very careful what you say next young man - I've already offered to be a [nope] veteran good will envoy! I don't need the likes of you to rub my nose in it!

[Nailest]

Graeme: I think you might know "ic". Even if you don't know you know him.

You know?

[bendover]

boo hoo

i guess i would probably know who people were if i wasnt on the other side of the world...

i like nicknames too...

so.... nailest... are you andy macleod? or am i going to get a slap?

[Nailest]

Give the man a cigar.

[D,J,J&Ms Dad]

Now who is feeling old?!!? I proposed to my now wife during an episode of Hart to Hart in 1982 !!!! If it wasn't for that - would orienteering have 4 less juniors??
Anyway - you're only as old as you feel (hope I got that quote right ) and I feel pretty young - although from this year I am senior to Mrs H (in orienteering terms).

[Mrs H.]

I'd like to thank Neil for his sensible and kind words - things do tend to deteriorate or go off at at a tangeant . I'm also very happy to put him in mind of Stephanie Powers - i do hope he won't be too disappointed if we ever meet - and bring back happy memories to D,J,J, and Ms, Dad, I nearly said earlier that i thought you might be older than me but it seemed churlish - anyway I shall be joining you next year . as I said before - in some forum or other, I have a problem with the Home POage as I see a topic which sounds interesting and click on to it to find it's some detailed account of Lord Fred's less savoury habits - there is no indication on the Home Page which forum the topic is in - I'd happily leave junior and banter alone and stick with discussion. and as Neil said , that should be a lively and basically serious exchange of views and ideas - then we Vets would not have to have a seperate little enclosure to discuss dodgy knees and embrocation!

[Ed]

ed - also sounds really good, the map draw thing. the one that is there at the moment is too fiddly though. we have discussed this already, but it has been put on the back burner at the moment due to more pressing issues and the fact that it sseems like a very complicated setup. unless you have any ideas about how this might work? let me know

I can guess how it works, but I wouldn't like to have to write my own from scratch... if you'd got the source code for one of them I could maybe have a hack at it and try to improve it, although I do have one or two other things I should be doing right now, like getting my thesis done (4 months overdue, and counting). Might be easier to just get someone to upload big race maps to the existing odraw or alternativet services and then put a link on from here, although to use the alternativet one you need to register with them.