Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday dear Shamus, happy birthday to me.
well, I'm now three years old on the site (Member Since : Sun Jan 3 12:02 2010).
And this will be my 5618th post.... Some of them were even bookkeeping related!... Oh dear, thats averaging only a little over 5 per day! I promise to try harder for the next three years.
Anyway, just wanted to say a big thankyou to all my site freinds old and new for making this such a great site to be a part of.
Hope that the site and the business that we are in is always as much fun as it is now but just becomes more profitable for all of us.
Right, now where's my cake?...
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I didn't even notice my third birthday yesterday. Member Since Sat Jan 2 16:37 2010
I have made 1189 posts - 9 of them about bookkeeping.
I wonder how many people are still around from the start of the forum. Just a quick glance and I see my nearish neighbour Kris has been around from September 2008. He may have joined earlier - that was his post in the introductions forum. Well, this forum now that I look up. I can never tell which forum I'm in as I usually enter via the "Recent Posts" door.
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Happy Birthday for yesterday Peasie. Didn't realise that our joinings were so close together.
as far as I can see the longest standing current contributor is Amanda from Apr 27 11:24 2008.
I don't know if any of the earlier contributors still read the site but just don't post anymore.
Site birth was only Mar 5 08:53 2007... Hasn't it done well.
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don't know about the never a stupid answer given though.
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Well I didn't realise I have been on here that long!!!
I don't think in the early days I posted very often, had no confidence and didn't want to give out duff information then (I know no change there then)!
I don't think I ever introduced myself either.
Well I don't quite look like my Avatar and not quite as short either, although only a few inches taller. And I'm not as young as Kris and not as old as Shaun!
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The wide eyes and pale skin of an accountant who never ventures too far from their computer screen and is never allowed out in daylight.
Have you seen the new film yet? Really good appart from the tyre levering of Sylvester McCoy (he who destroyed Dr Who and is not yet forgiven) in as another Wizard (Radagast) into a book that only actually mentioned him in passing once yet he gets a walk on role in the film.
Hope that he at least takes Tom Bombadil out (which is in the book) to make up for that mistake.
Its done much more as a childrens story than LOTR. The riddles in the dark with Gollum is done particularly well which includes the line in relation to if Bilbo loses at the game "And if we wins we eats it whole".
Andy Serkis is an absolute star in that role.
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I loved the film and thought it followed the book very closely, certainly better than LOTR did.
My only mistake with the film for me was not researching it properly, I figured that due to the size of the book in relation to LOTR then it should be done and dusted in one film, consequently all people heard at the end was me declaring quite loudly that that wasn't the end of the film. I am very disappointed that I now have to wait another year and a half to see it to its conclusion
I went to see it on Thursday.....I also thought the riddle scene with Gollum was brilliant. Almost had me feeling sorry for him. It has been a long long time since I read the book so can't really comment on whether it follows it closely but I did wonder how they were going to make three films out of a book that was a third of the size of LOTR. (Is it three films or two?)
Oh, and Happy Birthday Shaun! Im three and a half - July 19 2009
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I think that Peter Jackson is going for a mix of the Hobbit and the appendices to the LOTR (where there are some excellent short stories espechially related to the fall of the dwarves) but he's still not doing the scouring of the shire (I believe)..... So potential for a seventh film (and possibly eighth and ninth) there.
If he does it right it should tie all of the books together properly.
Just so long as he doesn't decide to keep going and move to the Sillmarillion.... Even I couldn't get through that one!
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Just so long as he doesn't decide to keep going and move to the Sillmarillion.... Even I couldn't get through that one!
Ha ha.....same here Shaun.....there have been only two books in my entire life that I haven't been able to get through from start to finish....the Silmarillion was one of them!
I think that Peter Jackson is going for a mix of the Hobbit and the appendices to the LOTR (where there are some excellent short stories espechially related to the fall of the dwarves) but he's still not doing the scouring of the shire (I believe)..... So potential for a seventh film (and possibly eighth and ninth) there.
If he does it right it should tie all of the books together properly.
Just so long as he doesn't decide to keep going and move to the Sillmarillion.... Even I couldn't get through that one!
I'm pretty sure I put that one down to. Might have another crack though, my preferences have changed over the past 20 years.
