Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Calis Beach Forum => Calis Beach Questions and Information => Topic started by: Kevin Sowten on April 13, 2013, 18:11:00 PM
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As relative newcomers to this forum Angela and I would love to know of its origins and history.
Its such an entertaining and valuable information sharing blog with a fantastic 'friendship' despite
the remoteness of its contributors. I'm sure sure that Scunner (and others) could give a synopsis. :)
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Oh no! Don't set him off again ! ;)
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Too late, I'm on it!
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Ffffffffffffffffffff,...................................ine.
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One September evening back in 2003 ....................................
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On a warm Calis evening in a bar on the front......
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Scunner,Haino,Legless,and Rimms?sat having a few Efes? 8)
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I've an idea said Scunner, I'm gonna buy the web domain Calis.Com off that barman
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And they all lived happily ever after. THE END
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But it turned out that the barman didn't actually own the domain, and after leaving scunner with an orange juice from a cartoon, he went off to consult with the family.
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Yes that was how it happened, just as they all said.
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Yes that was how it happened, just as they all said.
I was unsure if Rimms was a founder member as it was about six or so years ago when you told me the story Keith but usually if you get a group of guys there is bound to be a scouser amongst them :)
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.... but you all forgot the notorious one
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To be brief (as KKOB has a short attention span)
Having visited Turkey as a holiday destination we thought we would look into the possibility of buying a holiday home there. I searched most of the coast for estate agencies that had sites in English and most were not, and those that had English were generally awful. By chance I found one where I even got a response back. They happened to be in a place called Calis and for that reason (and that reason alone) I arranged to visit Calis to look at property.
My wife couldn't come and I travelled alone. Being an internet anorak I searched the entire world wide web for photos of this Calis place and found around 5. Looking back I'm sure at least one of them wasn't Calis at all.
Anyway, a property was purchased and through that I met Rimms who had just done the same thing and slowly but surely others in the same boat were getting in touch and emails were going back and forward and new people copied in.
Prior to all this I was fairly active on several internet discussion forums (nothing at all to do with Turkey or property) and had always thought that I would like to find a subject for a forum that hadn't been done. I thought of loads of brilliant unique ideas for a forum - only to get home and check it out and find it had already been done many times. Then in a flash of inspiration (that took a while to arrive) I recalled how I failed to find anything on the internet about that insignificant little backwater called Calis.
The initial idea was to cut out the many emails were were sending each other and copying bits of to people we knew but didn't know the person who wrote it etc - just a discussion forum so we could all pool our thoughts and discuss them. Our popularity took off and in no time we had an amazing 25 members! I remember at 75 members we just stopped attracting members and that seemed to be us :)
CBF was born 10 years ago this year, and I was member number 1 and Terry, who owns and runs the popular Turkeyvilla website was member number 2. Terry helped me set CBF up initially, before she started Turkeyvilla. The funny/strange thing about that was that Terry and I knew each other very well from previous discussion forums - in fact, when we became friends we ran a disability forum together - and neither of us had a Turkey related forum because at that time neither of us had ever been to Turkey!
There's truth in George's comment about the domain and a waiter too - just not much! Calisbeach.com was already registered and that is how I ended up with calis-beach.co.uk - I hated that pesky hyphen. By accident I learned that calisbeach.com was owned by one of the owners of Sultans Restaurant on the prom (now long gone) and I knew the guy very well and offered him a significant sum for it, several times. He rejected all offers out of hand. Then within 6 months Sultans was gone, he was gone, the domain expired and I registered it for around £18 :)
But by then calis-beach.co.uk was well established and I stuck with that as the main website address.
And yes Alan, that is the brief version, I could go on for hours about the life and times of CBF ;)
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Which cartoon was the orange juice from H, Tom & Jerry ?
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I wondered that too Alan, is this it?
(http://www.clipartguide.com/_named_clipart_images/0511-1003-2418-1744_Glass_of_Fruit_Juice_clipart_image.jpg)
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Thanks for that Scunner - you have filled 'the gap' for us newbies.
Long may CBF continue to enlighten and entertain :D :D :D
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Just been looking at those very first introductions. It seems like yesterday not ten years ago.
http://www.calis-beach.co.uk/forum/new_member_introductions/introduction_8.0.html
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It certainly doesn't seem a decade ago - much has happened between then and now :)
That was the 8th topic on CBF - this is the 50,798th topic :D
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I tried to look for the first post and came up with this one
Glad to see that typos were prevalent then
Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum » Calis Beach Forum
Hotels, Private Rentals in Calis - Questions and Information
Rimms Places to Stay
September 06, 2003, 18:36:09 PM
It feels great to post the first topic in any forum, I hardly feel worthy.
Appart from the Villa's that many who contribute to these boards own, I can recomend Club Sun City at Olu Deniz and the Hotel Ernur at Calis.
I am sure others will post there favourite places.
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The first few topics would have been test posts from memory - also we have archived quite a few over the years and the archived ones didn't come with us to the 'new' CBF you enjoy today, but are still held offline in case they are needed ;)
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As pointed out recently H, I'm still crap at spelling, you would think that in 10 years and more than 3,000 posts I would have improved a little, sadly not!
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Rimms, you're a Scouser and therefore we make allowances. ;)