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Quote: Originally posted by Plook  | Hello Tulse, I am in American so I know nothing about cricket other than baseball may have been its red headed step child.
Hope you enjoy it here, you must be a keeper to make it past Bonny's gauntlet...
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Cheers Plook. Those interlopers amongst the new members the other day were something else.
I've been lurking a little bit and see that this forum has been around nearly twenty years. That is very impressive. Has Frank Zappa always been the
main theme here?
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Yes, many are refugee's from the Zappa Forum that was taken down in 2022.
Bonny was a member there also and invited many to join here which was very generous of her.
I hope you enjoy!
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Yeah this forum was founded in 2005 by a young Zappa fan, when he wanted to end it a year later I decided to take it over to save the community that
had formed, so we had a place to talk about Project/Object or the latest ZFT crackdown away from prying eyes. It's been quieter than the Zappa forum
most times (unless they had issues or another crash), but it has always been active, and Zappa-centered.
The forum software is XMB, which has been replaced by PHPBB a long time ago. As this site basically does what it should do, we haven't given it any
technical update since like 2010 or so. It would be nice to add some sort of better implemented CAPTCHA so we can open the sign-up again.
Pride and joy on here is the Interviews and Articles section, which among others hosts a lot of translated FZ interviews:
http://packardgoose.ploeg.ws/interactive/forums/Files/forumdisplay....
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| Quote: Originally posted by Tulse Tulse | | ... It is a big move to return to England. What part of the country are you heading for?
I left England twenty years ago but visit a couple of times per year. |
Greater London is just way too
expensive, so we're looking at roughly fifty miles north of central London. One area that's looking possible is northern Essex.
It's also possible, further down the track, that we might move to France.
Where were you before and to where have you moved?
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BF is with me for the weekend to celebrate carnaval and to help out. He's a sweetheart.
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Unboxed the mancave stuff yesterday and setup the HIFI today and of course the first LP played on the Mantra was Chunga Revenge 
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Chunga is ready to spin...
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Nice one, Bonny.
Eddie, that’s some serious shit.
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Thanks Guys, I do my best 
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Henry
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| Quote: Originally posted by BBP | Yeah this forum was founded in 2005 by a young Zappa fan, when he wanted to end it a year later I decided to take it over to save the community that
had formed, so we had a place to talk about Project/Object or the latest ZFT crackdown away from prying eyes. It's been quieter than the Zappa forum
most times (unless they had issues or another crash), but it has always been active, and Zappa-centered.
The forum software is XMB, which has been replaced by PHPBB a long time ago. As this site basically does what it should do, we haven't given it any
technical update since like 2010 or so. It would be nice to add some sort of better implemented CAPTCHA so we can open the sign-up again.
Pride and joy on here is the Interviews and Articles section, which among others hosts a lot of translated FZ interviews:
http://packardgoose.ploeg.ws/interactive/forums/Files/forumdisplay....
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A satellite forum can be very useful, especially when the main one goes flakey. It is good that you kept it going all this time. That does indeed look
like a good set of interviews and articles. I'll investigate them in due course. Strangely that subforum doesn't show up for me but I've bookmarked
your link so it is a keeper.
I've been listening to Zappa for forty years but I'm not an aficionado. I've got a very wide interest in music so tend to be spread very thin, even
amongst the very best. Still it does mean that I get to hear some classic albums for the first time rather late in life.
My next FZ purchase is planned to be Hot Rats. I presume that the Bernie Grundman mastered LP will be the best bet. Is that the general consensus
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| Quote: Originally posted by polydigm | | Quote: Originally posted by Tulse Tulse | | ... It is a big move to return to England. What part of the country are you heading for?
I left England twenty years ago but visit a couple of times per year. |
Greater London is just way too
expensive, so we're looking at roughly fifty miles north of central London. One area that's looking possible is northern Essex.
It's also possible, further down the track, that we might move to France.
Where were you before and to where have you moved? |
I'm from southern England, west of London, but work took me too close to Sh!t City and I was stuck there for 12 years before I could escape. I went
from the hottest most polluted part of the UK by LHR to the coldest in NE Scotland. I'm still there for most of the year.
I had a tiny rundown farm in France for a few years in Champagne. The summers were hot and dry every year which was great in such a green area.
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Eddie RUKidding
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Any version of Hot Rats will be good
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@Henry: Northern Scotland? What’s the weather like up there right now?
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Probably it is foul. Winter lasts from October until April. It isn't my problem though as I've been in the Canaries since the start of December.
Unfortunately I can't stay much longer because since Brexit we are limited to 90 days every six months.
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Nice! A working holiday, or are you putting your feet up?
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It is very nice. I'm retired but I hike and I'm pretty exhausted much of the time. It does give me time for plenty of music and film.
Will you work when you get to blighty?
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We’ll both be retired, but I’m hoping to get a band together and do some gigs.
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Eddie RUKidding
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My old Asus PC finally died just got another Lenovo laptop and had to reset my password- lost the lost. Maybe I can get he old Azuz all in one PC to
fire again to retrieve stuff lol
PS I'm really struggling with the new laptop screen maybe I need glasses 
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Eddie go to settings, then screen options, and set it to old man...
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:swear Done thanks, also increased brightness can sort of see what i'm doing
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