Definitely not him. He had a swiss tony avatar but I can’t remember his username.
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My first bake off was in Bristol. I’m really struggling to remember Chris’s wam handle. Nice bloke, he had a Manly stingray amp and some Meadowlark speakers. Sounded good. Krystal Kables fella turned up with a tray of Cornish Pasties that were amazing. He also had a box of bollocks mains cables and I remember being gobsmacked when sodders handed over £80 for one 
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Was that the postman chap?
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Yes!
Really nice guy but buggered if I can remember his name. Was my postie for a while. He moved out of Bristol and we lost touch.
If that was the bake off where people got excited over an iPod I was there too.
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Ah yes.
Named himself after a badly designed CD player 
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How could I forget!
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Frank/Effem?
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That’s him
Disappeared off the forums after a court case if I remember correctly
Yarp
Think he was on AOS back along and writing reviews for a an online magazine.
…which was part of the problem as I think he was also on disability payments that were sort of conditional on him not being able to work.
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That was in the early days, I’ve honed my destruction techniques since then 
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I can’t remember when I joined, I know it was pretty much at the birth though, I vaguely remember the HFC forum, and then it not being there and then somehow finding the Wam.
I was on zerogain and the Audio Asylum too at the time.
Many various owners and then I finally spat my dummy out at Peter and told them to delete my account…
I’m Rotary on there now.
Met a lot of great friends and learnt alot, I’m greatful for it’s existence!
January 2008 for me, thoroughly enjoyed the banter and the gentlemanly manner in which trolls were shown the door and the error of their ways. Come the troubles and thankfully the abattoir was born.
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Ah, yes, The Mains Lead of Shame 
- hard to think I knew even less then, than I do now…
I took it apart one day - it was - aptly - made of ‘Shark’-branded coaxial cable - good for about 12V, very much NOT good for 240V. The IEC was a really fragile, brittle Chinese thing with faked branding on it, which was also unfit-for-purpose. I repurposed the 13A UK plug and threw the rest of it away…
Lesson learned(ish)…
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Been given a trophy I can’t even pawn…WTF! One of my favorite bake offs was @stu s The Christmas mince pie eating contest. Turns out claggy pastry when masticated at great volume and speed can damage the roof of your mouth and throat lining…
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I vaguely recall him getting into legal bother over just that, and the cable biz stopped.
Thank fuck.