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westholme
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 Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:39 am Post subject: The very first Traveston Forum Thread |
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Today I have started to feel more than a little nostalgic about this forum and, really, the first year of the fight from April 26 2006.
I tried to search for the very first thread on this forum and I think I may have found it.
You will recognize some of the names in that first thread and to look back and read what some of us were saying in the first days after the announcement and the first days after finding the forum is really quite poignant and stirring now.
http://travestonswamp.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=
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Darren E
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Me too Westholme. One I remember particularly well is
http://travestonswamp.info/forum/viewtopic.php?p=301#301
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westholme
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:58 am Post subject: |
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Of all the threads in all the sections..why do you remember that one particularly well?
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westholme
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Okay, while we're on the subject of one's we remember particularly well. This below thread is it for me.
I have remembered it all these years and everytime I have a 'monkey brain' time with my computer, I remember this thread and have a good laugh.
When this thread was happening I remember peeing myself with laughter, interspersed with long sessions of perplexed brow furrowing.
I hope this thread brings back some good memories for some of you and reminds you all that somehow, we were able to make each other laugh during a very traumatic time.
Enjoy!
http://travestonswamp.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=432
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Darren E
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:17 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Of all the threads in all the sections..why do you remember that one particularly well? |
Because of the praise that we had achieved so much in such a short time. Never once in the 3 years since did I lose the sense that this group (the online forum, the STMR and the whole MV community) was a force to be reckoned with.
A lot of other people recognised it too. The brave public servants who leaked us various copies of scientific reports, advance drafts of the EIS, etc. would never have taken those risks if they thought we were just a bunch of cowboys. They knew we had the will to, as you put it last night westholme, slay dragons.
Oh, and see how I did that white highlighty thing up there. See, what you do is you press the Quote button... 
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stevem
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:42 am Post subject: |
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Kinda like this one quote from the Brisbane Times.
| Quote: | | "They toasted those who had led the long, passionate battle; the band of diehards that stood up to the State Government and won. Braveheart without the swords, war paint and bare bums." |
Personally I was keeping the swords, and war paint in reserve, in the cupboard...........the bare bum however, was never a very popular option. |
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Rev Watt
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| Quote: | | And the most common cause of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? .... lack of justice. I always though it was from witnessing a shoot up or bad crash, nope, it is being screwed over. |
Very interesting.
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Rev Watt
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | The best cure? Prevention. Don't have the problem in the first place, but if it happens the cure is ...... Justice and fairness. The Government should be extremely nervous about this major lawsuit possibility, as proving that these conditions do not exist is not possible. They do. |
From Darren's link above - after the discussion about how to put the white line thingy around words - contributed by expat.
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westholme
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| Quote: | | The best cure? Prevention. Don't have the problem in the first place, but if it happens the cure is ...... Justice and fairness. The Government should be extremely nervous about this major lawsuit possibility, as proving that these conditions do not exist is not possible. They do. |
Ahhh grasshoppers. I have come a long way since the days of monkey brain. 
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