Six fascinating facts and some dark skeletons from Lordy.UK's closet!

I'm not convinced you're the real Chris 'Ken' Stevens you know... Your posting style seemed wrong, and you were far too accurate with your spelling and grammar.

Or it could be the real Ken, but actually taking his meds..

If we're "outing" Quake players, I used to play in Div1 in the UKCCL :) Why don't I feel dirty ?

And the information was actually accurate.

Wasn't actually, he spelt my name wrong.

But yes, he "outed" the well known fact that I was a Quake player and ran the ClaraNET Thrash. Most people already know this however, as it used to be in my Sig (even in this group). It's nice of him to finally catch up though, even if he is 7 years too late.

Ah happy days, I even won quite a bit of prize money playing that Q3 in competitions. I still play Q3 even now and can be found using the super- secret name "Lordy.UK" to make sure people don't realise it's me. How sneaky am I.

But the shame of playing Quake, how will I ever live it down :)

On these long days in hospital. I play World of Warcraft. Let's face it, anyone reading this is using Usenet which is about the geekiest thing one can do anyway...

Strange, innit?

He also missed one key point: your use of the expression "heh." Quite a critical omission that. Its influence lives on...

Heh.

D'oh. Okay okay Vectra V6. Mehehehehee.

Incorrect. It's "Webb" actually.

HTH

Incorrect. No, hang on - that's quite possibly true actually.

Oh no, you've outed me, I feel so dirty. It's a good job there isn't a wiki page or anything out there on the internet giving full details.

Oh, there is ? Bugger.

Very sad indeed, from my perspective. The great age of Quakeworld died as the internet took off and started to become flooded with morons ('lo Ken). I am a habitual hoarder though and still have a copy of it, along with demos of every QW game every played in the Thrash.

You've got me reminiscing now, I may go and watch some later.

Actually I'm quite proud of the fact that, as a young man discovering the internet, I organised and ran a nationwide competition with members not only from across this country, but from across the globe (bloody foreigners don't appear to understand the meaning of the word "national".

It was an achievement large enough to get noticed and supported by three internet providers, put it that way (bearing in mind that this was 1999 and ISPs were not 10 a penny back then). Coupled with the fact that between us we travelled around the country together hosting many LANs at each other's houses. As far as online buddies go, we were a tight knit bunch.

But, assuming you are actually the real Ken, you wouldn't really know about friends. Ah well, you know what they say - "few more years under the belt and it will become clear".

Indeed, that actually stems from the UKCML, it was one of the group's catchphrases.

Bonus points available to anyone who can tell me which QW clan I was in...

YOU ABSOLUTE BASTARD !

Yes. It's one of those expressions that has crept into my office thanks to my influence.

Along with exclaiming "fannies" when something terrible happens, like we run out of tea.

Sorry not something I can do...

Saddo geek :)

No, I couldn't find it actually either. Did find quite a few other Overlord.UK's though, one seems to be a big XBox fan (I draw the line at that).

"Ken" wrote in news:2aHDh.354888$ snipped-for-privacy@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk:

What an extraordinary non post.

Even sadder was the thrashing we got every week, 2nd div was just about our "level" ;)

Strange. Some things are easy to find on t'internet, some things, well they're not...

My Xbox is a great DVD player...

What's wrong with the xbox? My son (who's seven) has the xbox1 and a 360!!

Best thing is, you can "acquire" the games for free!

I buy my software.

Sorry I didn't finish it. Actually I can re-phrase it.

I buy my favourite software, I rent games I'm unsure, and if I ever try a pirate copy it's on somebody elses' hardware... :-)

Bugger off, I'm still not talking to you :)