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You have entered room "Town Square - Best Lil' Chathouse 1" . . .
That's what the glowing neon sign said when you entered. There was the fireplace, the hottub and pool with a slide, the bar, the Couch of Confusion, and of course The Loft. The door was known to hit more than one snert in a well-deserving derrire on their way out. Above it all hangs a huge chandelier - if you wipe off its dust, you can just make out the carved names of newly-ordained full-fledged hosties. My hostie mentor HostSilver's initials are up there, as well as a certain HostShadw's. The snerts who have inherited this chatroom will never know it the way we did. There's no shrine there to all the Regs, but there ought to be.
Here's something of a Reg tribute from my many mis-spent days as a reg and host in AOL's BLCH1 -- way, way back when regs and hosts could out-number the snerts (I could explain in vivid details how decisions made by AOL in all it's infinite wisdom led to the break up of this online community, but who wants to digress? <wg>).
To the right is a rough list of regs who frequented BLCH1 from 1997 until our online family had pretty much disappeared by 2000. Please do not shoot me if your screename has been omitted - this is yet a work in progress! BLCH 1's regs were the exception, not the rule (The BLCH Main had regs, but then, they weren't us <g>). You could click through a hundred rooms and not find the same kind of chemistry we had.
I don't know what'll be accomplished by posting all this old junk LoL But if any old reg should stumble upon this, it was made for you.
Best Lil Chathouse One History
I'll get around to adding this stuff when I get around to adding this stuff <g>
The "Old Class" including Firebir316, Smiley0006, SR REGANT, TeeBabe 1, Yap2much, Creestol, Quinnalt, Poopsy73 were among the Regs of BLCH1 from before 1997. There were many more I knew by name alone.
MornZephyr can be credited for being the founding matriarch of our motley crew (March 1997 onward - Zeph, James, Amy, then Dante', Kat in July(?), and I came aboard that September). She went out of her way welcoming newbies (for weeks she flooded me with my first chatwavs, proggies and chainletters) and making them part of the Family. In case you never had a chance to met her, she was easy to spot as she typed everything in Gaelic. Without getting into too much detail, Zeph made it clear we as a "family" had something like a code of conduct, and a certain number of us older Regs were picked to be heads of this family (I can remember a number of pretty intense meetings we had on the matter) and to look after the younger "sisters" and "brothers" - seeing to it they didn't get preyed upon by the low-lifes online. We were pretty effective at driving away snerts without hostie assistance. Whether you agreed with the family idea or not, Zeph should be credited for the start of getting "us" together. After a year in and out of BLCH1, Zeph left our room for good.
We had arranged (well, mostly Kat did <g>) the first official family reunion for BLCH1 back in 1998 in Omaha, attended by Kat, Linda and Rick and their daughter Jamie, and your's truely (we hit the local casino and talked about everybody else who didn't attend <g>). Regardless, we did pretty good meeting each other in IRL meetings on our own.
1998 was probably our peak year for Regs. Many buddylists hit their max limit of 99 and we still couldn't get everyone on. Most of your playnames to the right were familiar to all in that year.
1998 was also the year we took a hit with our hosts as we lost virtually all our volunteers (which equalled a full week of hosted chats sometimes 2-3 shifts deep) due to big changes within aol. Host PCCL KitKat was the last Reg to regularly host BLCH1.
About 1999 Barb arranged our most successful BLCH 1 Get-Together of Regs up in Michigan. The campout was attended by Deb, her hubby and her son Ty, Diana, Will and his three boys, Robin and her kids, Scott and Jen and thier son Robbie, and Barb's family.
By 2000, attrition took its heavy toll -- there was little point sticking it out in a now snert-dominated chatroom. Aol would permanently remove the BLCH rooms from the list of its hosted chatrooms. Linda and Kat tried hosting in the SAGE area for a bit. E-mail and IM's have kept us in-touch since, as well as Kat's Cinema Chat on Friday nights.
Where The Holy-Heck Are We Now?
Seems like everybody would always be asking me where someone else was and the latest news... so here's my run down for you enquiring minds out there. As of Feb 2005:
* This month Carrie, Malina, Jill, Scott, Ken, Linda, Deb have all been visiting the chatroom ... yeah! The Gazette has made an iffy reappearance ... boo! We've heard from Rick, Eddie, Kevin, TJ, Becky and Pat ... yeah!* Barb, Kat and Todd are routinely on aol, though chats in the BLCH1 are a thing of the past. Today we gather at aol - Cinema Chat. After a stint as a SAGE host, Kat has been hosting (as Host EMV Pinhead) in there on Friday nights 6-8pm CT. Scott drops by too. Val and Court used to (before they left). We even twisted Linda's arm into making a visit! Sometimes Marge (Barb's handler) or Meagan (Barb's poptart girl) will visit.
And, since this is Cinema Chat, we of course spend the two hours talking about playing on Neopets.com. (see our lookups at: Kat's, Barb's, Meagan's, Scott's, Todd's) You'd better pay a visit before aol eliminates hosted rooms all together.
* Linda is also online 24/7. has turned from the dark side and no longer is working for aol. After Sage hosting she'd moved on to other online challenges (you may not know it, but you've probably already seen some of her work featured on the AOL Welcome Screen).
You can contact her through the addy given on her brand new witty web blog at: http://www.groovynoodles.com/blog/. A hardcore blogger, and free of aol's restrictions, Linda's looking for paybacks!
* Rick is floating around (though not on aol), waiting for his opportunity to amuse. I'd tell you more but most of what Linda tells me isn't flattering =)
* Scott has been very busy conquering the world, but somehow he's retained his attachment to aol.
* Di, Courtney and TJ are proud moms now. Though they've gotten on with family life, might still like to get a friendly hello from a old friend by email.
* Malina can still be contacted through aol.
* Shann formerly said goodbye to aol in 2002.
* Carrie and Ken came back to aol in 2004 after leaving in 2002 =D Carrie is on all day long, she's probably still trying to find somebody who will take Ken off her hands... hehe
* Di has just left aol in March 2004 but can still be contacted through email.
* Val and Courtney returned in 2003, but left again by late 2004.
* Larry is still seen on aol once in a blue moon.
* Pat (Fog) was seen a time or two in Kat's chat in 2004.
* Kalyn was still in BLCH main in 2003.
* Some have even gotten married who met on here, and most have moved on. Most of the rest of the old screennames are gone from the member profiles.
* Not a reg can be found in BLCH One. BLCH Main has a couple from time to time, but this room has faded too. From what I understand (I haven't confirmed this), all chatrooms that make up People Connection are no longer hosted, making this prime Snert territory.
* HostShadw hung up the thwapper in June 2000. The DRAGONZfyr name has been retired since early 2003.
Hmmm... I wonder who that leaves in charge of this site now? ;)~
the players :
Way2Freeky • Linda :P
Adam0313 • Adam
AGstar • Amy
Alanwold • Alan
ASHLEY • Ashley
Atlasy • Becky
Aquagrl1977 • Terry
BabyElfie • Sandra
BeechBuhm •
Blodthrst „ Mike
BOTONCITA • Jen
Bowler5584 •
Boysragdol • Deb
Bry1791/Wraith1969 • Pat
Calvin1997 • Matt
CapnOrbit •
Cougar2482 • Dave
CrzyMind • Sandra
Creestol • Cree
Dancekick • Carrie
Dane • Dane
DEfissel • De
Diana99313 • Diana
DIVSTER1 • Div
Dizzknee1 • Deb
Dj BOOTLeg • shannon
DRAGONZfyr / DragonzFyre • Todd
DRagain • Dante'
Dri kiss „ Debby
EAGLE2012 • Tammy
FARMAWAY • TJ
Firebir314 • Laura
FLAKESTONE • Shann
FlirtnAngl • Kelly
Fluffffffy • Vicky
Fog • Pat
Frodo3737 • Will
Froggy14 •
Gatorchsr • Alex
Gator3663 • Ken
GDowler699 • Gary
Gollum3793 • Will
Graywolf93 „ Will
Grnidbabie • Debby
Grnidbeast • Luke
HaysDaze • Irvin
HnyGrlAngl •
Honesty • David
HostAbbey
HostBuddha
HostDE
HostDizz
HostFog
HostFreeky
HostHoony
HostJas
HostKitKat
Host Laina
HostNeeki
HostPoopsy / HostPoopsi
Host Punkn
HostQuin
HostSilver
HostShadw
HostSmiley
HostTee
HostYap
Hound311 • Corey
Ib1CrzyGal • Kelly
IlFiZHoNII • FiZHoN
IMDEGO • Kalyn
IMDLEGEND • Kyle
Imgatorzgirl • Carrie
IMPATRICK2
• Patrick
IMTREE • Theresa
Iamwaco32 • Tina
ITSPOOPSIE • Michelle
JCT • Jim/Jessica
JasGibson1 • Jas
JezzyJess • Jess
JokeManiac „ David
Jrw85ga • Jennifer
Julesme • Juls
KalynDamit • Kalyn
KCbouncer1 • Kevin
KCPiscs312
• Courtney
KLOVESBOOP • Kim
KRAZEK0001 / KrazeKat02 • Kat
LadyEmrld - Em
LadyLytng „ Di
Lexi •
LilBiddi • Kel
Ljuls24 • Juls
Lord Fuzz • Matt
Lum2222 • Larry
LuvFairyy • Sandra
LuvMyLuvs • Jill
LytngStorm • Di
Lytngstrik • Di
Marsh109 • Tony
McD823 • Colin
Medic3520 • Patrick
MicSha1342 • Mic
Mike314 • Mike
MJW 12345 • Malina
MornZephyr • Zeph
MythLesa • Lisa
MyWildOne • Ann
NathanSH • Nathan
Nike • Julia
NIKKI99340 • Nikki
Notouch • Tina
Notsodumb1 • Robin
Ossineke • Ossi
Pariss1 •
PeeweeB79 • Chris
PlayBl5 • Bill
Poopsy73 • Michelle
Quinnalt • Quin
RAMPRAT01 • Tony
Rebel 588 • Jody
Rebelgrluc2 • Jody
S1ANDS2 • Greg
Schadow00 „ Michelle?
ScottGa71 • Scott
Scottregul • Scott
ShiWolfGrl • Di
SHMU 89 • Shannon
Smiley0006 • Smiley
SkanknGln • Glen
Smileskjg • Kelly
Snertgrlie „ Jodi
Snippy • Hope
Straz32 •
SunnyCinds/ SunnyOne83 • Cindy
TanaDaBomb • Rick
Tarkus357 • Eddie
TeeBabe 1 •
Tiggyangei • Courtney
TinkPinks • Sherry
TisMeLis • Lisa
TN Taurus1 •
Toddzombi • Todd
ToysRuskd • Jimmy
Trelaina • Tre
Tweetychk22 • Val
Val475 • Val
Vandam • Apicea or Brandon
VOGUE125 • Amy
WcKeDnTriX • the JOHN
WckyChk
• Haley
WildChild69 • Sandra
WldOrchid7 •
WilyECoyte • Larry
X Sprawl X • John
Yap2much • Doug
Ziyall
/ Ziyal111
• Barb
poor Barb, always last :)
... and Still More being added all the time
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