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The Virtual Best Lil' Chathouse 1

You have entered room "Town Square - Best Lil' Chathouse 1"
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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 the derrière 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 detail how AOL in all it's infinite wisdom broke up 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! 
           
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" <snicker> including Firebir316, Smiley0006, SR REGANT, TeeBabe1, Yap2much, Creestol, Quinnalt, Poopsy73 were among the Regs of BLCH1 way before 1997. There were many more I only knew by name.

Zeph can be credited for being the matriarch of our motley crew. She went out of her way finding newbies and add them to the Family. In case you never had a chance to met her, she "spoke" with a certain Irish accent;) 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 the family (I can remember a number of pretty intense meetings we had too) and to look after our younger sisters and brothers including seeing to it they didn't get involved with the low-lifes online. We were also pretty effective at driving away snerts without hostie assistance.

We had arranged (well, really Kat did the arranging <g>) one "official" family reunion for BLCH1 back in 1998. To say our bunch was rotten with reunions is to put it nicely! The Main BLCH had us beat by far as their roomies had at least one successfully attended get-together. The best our's managed was 4 regs and a family. Regardless, we did pretty good meeting each other in IRL meetings on our own. 1998 and 1999 were our peak years for Regs, many buddylists hit their max limit of 99 and we still couldn't get everyone on. 1998 was also the year we took a hit with our hosts as we lost virtually all volunteers and a full week of hosted chats (sometimes 2-3 deep) due to big changes within aol. HostKitKat was the last to regularly host BLCH1.

Where The Holy-Heck Are We Now?
Seems like regs would always ask me about the latest news (maybe being online morning-night had something to do with that)... so here's my run down for you enquiring minds out there. As of 2003:
          
Barb and Kat are on aol though chats in the BLCH1 are a thing of the past. Kat still hosts, now in Cinema Chat on Friday nights 6-8pm CT. Linda is also still active. The last time I talked with her (early 2003), Linda was still a Sage Host.

Di, Courtney and TJ are proud moms now. Mali and Di might still be contacted by email.

Shann and Carrie formerly said goodbye to aol in 2002. Patrick is online from time to time. Some got married who met here, or in the "normal" irl way. Most everyone elses' screename is gone from the member profiles.

Not a reg can be found in either BLCH Main or BLCH One anymore. HostShadw hung up the thwapper in June 2000. DRAGONZfyr (myself) has been on/off aol since the birth of the lil Booger in July 2000 (duty calls). My old scaley-name has been out of use since early 2003. But I still check email under a newer aol screenname: "ShadwWithoutTheO".

Adam0313 • Adam 
AGstar • Amy 
Atlasy • Becky 
BeechBuhm • 
BOTONCITA • Jen 
Bowler5584 • 
Boysragdol • Deb 
Calvin1997 • Matt 
CapnOrbit • 
Creestol • Cree 
Dancekick • Carrie 
DEfissel • 
DIVSTER1 • Div 
Dizzknee1 • 
DragonzFyr • Todd 
DRagain • Dante' 
EAGLE2012 • Tammy 
FARMAWAY • TJ 
Firebir314 • Laura 
FLAKESTONE • Shann 
FlirtnAngl • Kelly 
Fog • Brian 
Froggy14 • 
Gator3663 • Ken 
GDowler699 • Gary 
Gollum3793 • Will 
Grnidbabie • Debby 
Grnidbeast • Luke 
HnyGrlAngl • HostAbbey 
HostBuddha 
HostDE 
HostDizz 
HostFog 
HostFreeky 
HostHoony 
HostJas 
HostKitKat 
HostNeeki 
HostPoopsy 
HostQuin 
HostSilver 
HostShadw 
HostSmiley 
HostTee 
HostYap 
Ib1CrzyGal • Kelly 
IMDLEGEND • Kyle 
Imgatorzgirl • Carrie 
IMTREE • Tree 
ITSPOOPSIE • Michelle JasGibson1 • 
Jas JezzyJess • Jess Julesme • Juls 
KalynDamit • Kalyn KCbouncer1 • Kevin KCPiscs312 
• KLOVESBOOP • KRAZEK0001 • Kat 
LilBiddi • Kel Ljuls24 • Juls Lord Fuzz • Matt 
Lum2222 • Larry LuvFairyy • Sandra LuvMyLuvs LytngStorm • Di Lytngstrik • Di Marsh109 
• Tony McD823 • Colin 
Medic3520 • Patrick Mike314 • Mike MornZephyr • Zeph MythLesa 
• Lisa NIKKI99340 • Nikki Notsodumb1 • Tina 
Ossineke • Ossi PeeweeB79 • Chris 
PlayBl5 • Bill Poopsy73 • Michelle 
Quinnalt • Quin RAMPRAT01 • Tony? Rebel 588 
• Jody Rebelgrluc2 • Jody 
ScottGa • ShiWolfGrl • Di SHMU 89 • Shannon Smiley006 
• SkanknGln • Smileskjg • Kelly Straz32 • SunnyCinds • Cindy TanaDaBomb • Rick 
Tarkus357 • Eddie TeeBabe 1 • Toddzombi • Todd Trelaina • Tre VOGUE125 • Amy Way2Freeky 
• Linda WildChild69 • Sandra WldOrchid7 • WilyECoyte • Larry X Sprawl X • John 
Yap2much • Ziyall • Barb Ziyal111 • Barb