Yes we did! how are you Geoff? Excuse me if I’ve got the spelling wrong, it has been a few years.
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Edit Gregg, I’ve just checked your profile. Close though.
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If I remember correctly you are from Canada originally.
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USA Been here 38 years.
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Fuck! Wrong again, still close though.
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Good to see you back in circulation Alan - I used to be “earlofsodbury” millions of years ago and I frankly have no idea why I’m not any more. Still a cunt tho’, which is nice…
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Close, but no Woodbine
It’s good to be consistent.
I did recognise that the Earl and Mrs M were the same.
You are psychologically traceable Paul.
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My last case-worker said the same mate…
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Same place.
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The trick (which you have mastered) is not to change your avatar then people have half a chance to remember.
Welcome.
I was Tel on the Wam.
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This may be a fever dream, but I seem to recall some guy looking for advice on how to stalk a woman. He had given her a sales sample digital pen and wanted it back when he realized she wasn’t going to fuck him.
Did this actually happen?
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did you ever get the pen back?
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No I didn’t 
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The pen is mightier than the pork-sword 
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Yes! It was a name like Rdale or similar.
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Might give the Bristol stationery a miss this year.
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Look at it this way: there you are, watching the trains come and go at Waterloo, when a particularly interesting locomotive comes into view. Almost overcome with excitement, you pull your notebook out of your anorak pocket and reach for your pen, only to remember that you gave it to that fit bird you met, in the hope she would take pity on you and take off her tank top. But she never did, and now you have no means of recording the sighting of E1470 from Penzance AND you didn’t get a shag.
That shit must really hurt.
And anyway, it fell narrowly short of the legal definition of stalking. The judge said so.
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Seeing as we’re reminiscing/confessing past misdemeanours, I joined the wam in 2005 and spent far too much of my time on there until James sold up. I would have liked to attend more bake offs but as a Scotch person, distance was mostly prohibitive. I did manage to exhibit at an early Scalford and visited two or three times after that. For a while at least the forum had no better and the show was something I still feel lucky to have experienced.
I joined the first incarnation of the meat locker but life changes coincided with the Abattoir Apocalypse, I fell away and am only just now dipping a toe back into this world again. The 2024 incarnation of the early Wigwam spirit is here on AA so I will lurk, read and post here if anywhere. Good to see a few other old/new names appearing here too.
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I’ve not been on the Wam for quite a while.
I was an admin there for many years, pre- and post-sale.
It saw and supported me through some quite bad times, furnished me with some absolutely awesome memories, and I made friends there who I’ll cherish for a very long time.
I didn’t like the changes, post-sale, but it was no longer ‘my’ forum. It felt like a happy but sometimes dysfunctional co-operative which had been bought by the corporates. Hey - it happens. And I know there was a lot of thought and hand-wringing that went before the passing of the baton.
I’m sad to hear it has gone. I feel it is a shame. I was perhaps more disappointed to see the evolution of the HiFiWigwam Show at Scalford, but I played a part in it’s incipience and growth. I know nothing of the Maverick Show or forum, but maybe there are some still-warm ashes from which Wam v2 (as I might think of it) might rise.
Or maybe my rose-tinted specs need a clean.
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