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Rock · Joined: 25 Feb 2005

I started on this forum in 2000(Under different aliases, of course.) Guess that makes it seven years, but maybe it was 2001. Anyways, any pecularities with the characters here on this board and some you used to know before? What's your feel?

Remember 'The Great Wall of Whiner?' How about people like 'The Lemon', 'HankScorpio', 'Bulsajo' 'Corporal' and many, many more?

It's just that you get the feel certain characters here resemble the same kind of clique mentality and way of doing things, and it makes you wonder why you're still hanging on. Or am I the last one?

Heck, it wasn't long ago this was all just one board.

peppermint · Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 12:35 pm Post subject:

I posted a few times under a different name in early 02, but I'd be very surprised if I made any sort of impression then

K-in-C · Joined: 27 Mar 2003 Location: Heading somewhere

Rock,

Are you in Korean?

PM me please...

K

SuperHero · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout

I registered on the first day of the new format.

Cheonmunka · Joined: 04 Jun 2004

Me.
Posting name was 'Kyledaddy' in 2000 after my son was born. Before that was some other name.
Now my name should be 'Two Sprogs Later, Nagging Greedy Wife and Grumpy Tired Old Bastard, Me.'

jaderedux · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Lurking outside Seoul

Been posting here since the old format in 2000. Registered on the new one shortlyafter it started. Got my first job off the job board and the job I have had for 6 years off the job board.

Always posted under Jaderedux.

Jade

steroidmaximus · Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Location: GangWon-Do

Young FRANKenstein · Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 4:03 pm Post subject:

itaewonguy · Joined: 25 Mar 2003

spliff · Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

I was "dogeater" untill I got banned and I came back as Spliff... Very Happy

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

Not me. My Joined date is when I started posting here, and I've never had any other names or socks prior or since. I'd been lurking for about a month before I registered.

From the very first mention I'd heard of "Dave's ESL Cafe" and for an embarrassing number of years thereafter, I actually thought it was a real brick-&-mortar business -- an internet cafe, a PC bang -- located somewhere in Seoul (for some reason I thought it was down in the Ulchiro/Myeongdong area) and that it was run by some Korean guy who calls himself "Dave" to appear hip & Western & foreigner-friendly to his customers.

When did the "Prisoners Of Wonderland" saga first appear online? I ask because it was while reading that that I first stumbled upon a link to an earlier incarnation of this messageboard. And even then, it didn't really dawn on me that, "Ah!! Now I get it! So this messageboard is in fact the 'ESL Cafe' that all the ETs are yapping about! And, no! There really isn't some ELSer-friendly PC bang somewhere in downtown Seoul". I just didn't make the connexion.

As for that proto-Dave's board, I'd read it now & then for bored kicks, never bothered to bookmark it. Aesthetically very grim, stripped-down, primitive and thugly. And so too looked most of the members. Sheesh. What a collection of belligerent, unbalanced, ranting loudmouths, braggarts and wackjobs. Good God, I would have bet any amount against ever wanting to join that or associate with that... (he says, 5,000 posts later! Laughing

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There's something I've noticed when reading a few members' very earliest posts here. I suppose it's only natural when people hang out together for so long, but quite a few of them who are today famous for their barbed, snarky, snippy comments & cynical, jaded online personae were once surprisingly reasonable, polite and kind towards each other.

OiGirl · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: Hoke-y-gun

Was on the old board since 1996...did we have forums then? Or just job postings? Was resistant to joining the new format, but here I am ("Joined" date.)

hogwonguy1979 · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: the racoon den

Like Oigirl i've been here since 1996. 11 of years of my life posting here, man thats unbelieveable. In fact I bet in a box in storage I bet I could find a Daves ESL Cafe t-shirt he was selling to raise money for this place

BTW anybody remember AETACK????

Roch · Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Location: Seoul

I've posted here almost once every other day - except for the 4 days I spent locked up in a jail cell in Seocho-gu, Seoul City for a bogus reason in December, 2004.

R

Kyrei · Joined: 22 Jan 2003

I used to post under my real name back under the original board (all one jobs discussion) but have used this name since that stalking episode passed.