Where are they now? (Past Ferners)
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@jegga said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
He had some epic rants . NTA has been phoning it on for a while , we are overdue a decent rant from him .
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I'm now a lightweight who barely drinks at all.
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Mods keep deleting my epicness for reasons I'm yet to discover.
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@NTA said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
@jegga said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
He had some epic rants . NTA has been phoning it on for a while , we are overdue a decent rant from him .
- I'm now a lightweight who barely drinks at all.
** 2) Mods keep deleting my epicness for reasons I'm yet to discover.**
By popular demand apparently. 😁
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@ACT-Crusader - Weka was one of the Thames Valley Mafia along with @Fonzie and Bart, but we co-opted them in as Bay fans
. @aucklandwarlord was also on the terraces at Eden Park on a certain day that we might have mentioned once or twice. @King-Goober-XL was another regular Bay fan around that time.In 2004 @bayimports finally got to (mostly) bury the memories - and end of game footage of him - from the stands at Eden Park in 1996...
Unlike Steve Braunias with his ongoing 'Secret Diary' series, @JP & I eventually figured out that there's only so many Day in the Life satires that you can write before you start repeating the same gags in a different guise. Think we did either five or six of them in the end - they were all a huge amount of fun to write - with plenty of stifled laughs at work as iterative e-mail versions were sent back and forth. The one for Phooey included a couple of local knowledge lines about the Hong Kong rugby scene from @BartMan - it was the first one we did and the content flowed quickly!
Mountie @brain-man made a few Bay related posts from London in the mid 2000's but was sadly lost to a car accident on the Kaimai ranges in 2009. For those in Hamilton there's a memorial bench dedicated to him outside College Hall on the Waikato Uni campus: https://www.wu.ac.nz/fmd/memorial_trees_plaques.shtml - Brains was a good keen Varsity man and an absolutely top bloke.
"Varsity W.U.R.F.C. Eat, Laugh, Drink, Play, Nude. In loving memory of Varsity Legend Matt 'Brains' Goodlet" -
Remember tighthead from the early days? I arrived just as he was in the last days of his posting.
There was a Maori IT guy who was into metal and prog (King Crimson). I remember when Thomopedia went on a massive, and stupid, rant about how catholic he was because that guy quoted Will Ferrell's "by the knights of colombus!" line rather than "knights of colombanus", yet Thomo didn't realise it was a correctly quoted line from an American film (where they are the knights of colombus).
We all have our bad days ...
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PdP was a good guy, but his line about the 2011 world cup that NZ couldn't win because we didn't have the tight forwards, especially locks, was LOL-worthy.
Whitelock and Thorn were greats, and better than any French locks of the professional era.
Then I did have my massive trolls about Ben Smith that proved to be ... ah ... somewhat wrong.
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@jegga said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
@Mokey said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
@Virgil said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
@Mokey said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
IIRC I found the Fern via PR circa 2002. Bartman made me a mod I think 2003? All I know is that I was about 24, sexy AF and drunk on power.
Ah, the good old days.
and now you're??.....
Much older. Bisexual. Getting paid to write historical kinky sex books and watch a lot of porn. So pretty much living my best life, although if the US and UK would calm the fuck down, so people would chill and read more books, that would be excellent.
Best. Comeback . Ever.
You’re welcome
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was it Willie the Weka that did an awesome peice about a night out with some AB greats (IIRC was even better than @jegga breakfast story, which is saying something)
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@taniwharugby said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
was it Willie the Weka that did an awesome peice about a night out with some AB greats (IIRC was even better than @jegga breakfast story, which is saying something)
Was that the one where Frank Bunce told him to tell people he was Bull Allen? That was pure gold.
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@JC ha yeah mentioned right back at the start...
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@taniwharugby OK, as you were. Nothing to see here.
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@mariner4life said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
Yea and what happened to @aucklandwarlord story of the week?
Might be wrong but I think I remember him saying he left the Police force and moved to the States? Agree I miss his epic stories.
