Back on the scene (2000/08/13)

Back on the scene

Posted by Mark L. on 2000/08/13 12:42

Well, its taken me 15 years (is this a record?) but I'm back on the IFIS
scene. Some of you old-timers may remember me from 82-85 - the days of
strange constitutions, unusual committee members (the drinks machine in
Athlone Common Room for example) and contributions from our very own
Circling Poet. I have some of these things as IFIS memorabilia to share with
you all some time.

Mind you, we didn't have meetings down the pub in those days, there was no
B5 and as Publicity Officer I had to do my best with hand-drawn pictures and
what passed for email on the VAX. Youngsters nowadays don't know they're
born... .

Mark "Older Race" Lawrence

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Posted by Andy W. on 2000/08/13 12:44

Mind you, we didn't have meetings down the pub in those days, there was no
B5 and as Publicity Officer I had to do my best with hand-drawn pictures

and

what passed for email on the VAX. Youngsters nowadays don't know they're
born... .

No B5, no X-Files, no Buffy. What on earth did you find to talk about? ;-)

Andy

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Posted by Ron W. on 2000/08/13 12:51

No B5, no X-Files, no Buffy. What on earth did you find to talk about? ;-)

Probably the same as we do now. Only different.

=$-)

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Posted by Mark L. on 2000/08/14 20:32

No B5, no X-Files, no Buffy. What on earth did you find to talk about? ;-)

Buffy counts? Since when? And shouldn't that be OFF earth?

Anyway, what we talked about mainly was books - this was in the Hitchhikers
heyday and it showed - but we had our Trekkies (as they then liked to be
called - doesn't that date me again) and Whovians too.

Mark Lawrence

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Posted by Andy W. on 2000/08/14 20:45

Buffy counts? Since when?

Does it have to?

Andy

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Posted by Izzy Eden on 2000/08/18 15:23

What all students talk about of course......

No B5, no X-Files, no Buffy. What on earth did you find to talk about? ;-)

Andy

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Posted by Philip Ayres on 2000/08/18 16:51

No B5, no X-Files, no Buffy. What on earth did you find to talk about?

;-)

What all students talk about of course......

In the words of the late, great Mr Ian Dury:

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll !

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Posted by Ron W. on 2000/08/13 12:49

Youngsters nowadays don't know they're
born... .

You know, that's one saying I could never understand; of course we know
we're born, we learnt all about that sort of thing in school. Besides which,
if we hadn't been born, we wouldn't be here to read e-mails like this. Ergo,
we have, at some point in our past, been born.

Does that make sense?

Ron,

One of the "Youngsters" of IFIS

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Posted by Philip Ayres on 2000/08/13 12:56

Youngsters nowadays don't know they're
born... .

You know, that's one saying I could never understand; of course we know
we're born, we learnt all about that sort of thing in school. Besides

which,

if we hadn't been born, we wouldn't be here to read e-mails like this.

Ergo,

we have, at some point in our past, been born.

Does that make sense?

No. And it's technically wrong because you were proceeding from the false
assumption that you were born. Now say you were either decanted from a
cloning vat/spaati cylinder or just popped into existence ......

82 - 85.... The good Doctor went from 5th to 6th incarnations. The long
awaited Tripods adaptation showed up. 2 good Trek films.

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Posted by Dominic T. on 2000/08/21 11:08

Well, its taken me 15 years (is this a record?) but I'm back
on the IFIS scene.

It's certainly a record for length-of-time-absent-before-a-return.

Mind you, we didn't have meetings down the pub in those days,

We've got a few folk from '86 still hanging around who can remember IFIS in
its pre-pub incarnation where the theoric was spent on books, tea, and
biscuits. Patric "Magus" Toms and Jenny Gould are the only people I can
think of who pre-date that and are still around.

Dominic

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Posted by Mark L. on 2000/08/21 19:41

Ah, yes, I remember them well. I was there when The Magus was given his
title. I can't remember exactly why - he was already Treasurer. I think he
just liked the title. And if he is STILL known as that he must be pretty
fond of it.

Mark

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Subject: RE: Back on the scene

Well, its taken me 15 years (is this a record?) but I'm back
on the IFIS scene.

It's certainly a record for length-of-time-absent-before-a-return.

Mind you, we didn't have meetings down the pub in those days,

We've got a few folk from '86 still hanging around who can
remember IFIS in
its pre-pub incarnation where the theoric was spent on books, tea, and
biscuits. Patric "Magus" Toms and Jenny Gould are the only people I can
think of who pre-date that and are still around.

Dominic

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Posted by Philip Ayres on 2000/08/21 22:31

Ah, yes, I remember them well. I was there when The Magus was given his
title. I can't remember exactly why - he was already Treasurer. I think he
just liked the title. And if he is STILL known as that he must be pretty
fond of it.

Mark

I believe so.....

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Posted by Simon Richardson on 2000/09/02 17:04

In article <LPBBKLKONCFDEHLFEGOGIEBCCAAA.mark@>, "Mark Lawrence" <mark@> wrote:

Ah, yes, I remember them well. I was there when The Magus was given his
title. I can't remember exactly why - he was already Treasurer. I think he
just liked the title. And if he is STILL known as that he must be pretty
fond of it.

I can also forward a message to Jenny Bray if you remember her.

There might have been a Tim Barnes around then, too.

Simon

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Posted by Mark L. on 2000/09/04 21:55

I'd wondered what became of her. Say hi to her for me. Tim Barnes was
around (I still have a membership list - how sad is that?), but I don't
remember him. Your era too?

Mark

I can also forward a message to Jenny Bray if you remember her.

There might have been a Tim Barnes around then, too.

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Simon

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Posted by Simon Richardson on 2000/09/05 07:00

In article <LPBBKLKONCFDEHLFEGOGMEBMCAAA.mark@>, "Mark Lawrence" <mark@> wrote:

I can also forward a message to Jenny Bray if you remember her.

There might have been a Tim Barnes around then, too.

I'd wondered what became of her. Say hi to her for me. Tim Barnes was
around (I still have a membership list - how sad is that?), but I don't
remember him. Your era too?

Not exactly. I graduated in 1995 - but I was what is laughingly called
"a mature student". I went to sixth-form with her - and she introduced me
to Jenny Gould, in 1985, and following some initial straightening-out we
have been together ever since. Which brought me to Egham in the first
place.

It was only much later, when there was a lull in the telecoms market that I
decided to escape the 1992 mini-recession by getting a degree. So I applied
to RHUL, and they offered me accommodation in-hall.

So ... right age, wrong class.

Simon

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