Hi folks
I scolded Scunner on another thread ("CBF Influences") for not sticking to the brief (how foolish was that on CBF?). But the comments I was - in jest - complaining about were absolutely correct in their analysis of the historical development of this forum (did you notice a certain style of magisterial gravity overcoming me there?). The way this forum has dealt with its disruptive members, distinguishing between The Impish (Crabbit tried to get me thrown off once for this), The Truculent (insert your own favourite name here) The Nasty (there were plenty), and The Evil (fortunately a lowly populated category) has had a very positive effect on the development of the forum. So remembering these is fine.
Newer members may be mystified by the Garry Carr and Degalian references. So hee is a brief history as I remember it. GC ran another forum focused on Fethiye. He welcomed the arrival of CBF. After sometime time attacks on CBF began to posted by GC. The longtime member Rimms noticed that these arrived on Friday or Saturday nights and suggested they were "whisky-fingered". In these attacks GC would claim that CBF members had infiltrated his forum for the purpose of undermining it (Stoop as I recall was blamed in particular by GC. Forgive me, Stoop, if you were not the person he blamed. I didn't believe you would do this in the first place). This was, of course, all weekend silliness (elsewhere I have referred to the period as "The Degalian Wars"). But what it did was to unite the then relatively few members who here at the time into a forum under attack by outside forces. And, as any political leader who has read Machiavelli, or has any clue about running a country, will tell you, focusing your people's attention not on disputes within themselves but against the outsider builds community solidarity. So, yes, Scunner was quite right (no, really Scunner) to say that Garry Carr had a vital in building CBF - pillock though he was and is.
