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Actually that’s quite funny :biggrin:
If you are referring to Nick Carter<br> and the crooner Dennis Waterman<br> he couldn’t solve a jigsaw puzzle.<br> Burr was different material<br> but was never better than when <br> portraying the brown-eyed cow <br> Perry Mason.
The man in black has the funniest looking face of any forumite I have ever met!
What a beard! It makes Jimmy Hills chin look small.
HAHAHA!
Your archaeological excavations deep into the sturdy stone-built palaeolithic remains of TRF, smothered now by a concrete-cancered tower block, have unearthed some interesting finds Plzen
However, ancient basements tend to contain only shards of rudely-thrown earthenware; a few decorated and glazed, admittedly
The valuable gold, sometimes intricately bejewelled, tends to be found hidden under the floorboards upstairs. So may I suggest you forsake pickaxe and trowel for jemmy and metal detector. Your discoveries are awaited with interest
The small wannabe First Class-only PP gleamed whilst taxiing but never actually took to the skies; but I see it’s still extant in a new guise, if still moribund
Davies’ nib was osmiridium and the ink best blue-black quink, but the verbose, knowledgeable and always well-crafted wordsmithery was both too overbearing and too overwhelming for me. It was with relief, tinged with a mild regret when he announced his very long goodbye; but his departure sparked a registration and thence catalysed a reaction that has precipitated 3465
Droning posts: for better or worse 
Old-timer Rory, veteran of 6344
posts, recently described TRF as "this once-great forum"…hmm…in 2006 the Virtual Racing Planet was a world of the average in which a lone giant was king: 2011 – in a world of midgets the dwarf is kingWhat alternatives are out there?
Has all that can be written about racing been written?
It is inevitable that the recycled and rehashed is of little interest to those who knew the newsqueeze the sweet juicy fruit till the pips tweet
Drone, I’m not sure that I have much to say upstairs, to be honest.Shall continue to dig down here for the time being.Maybe it’s not wise in general to live in the past but in regard to TRF, I think it is.
I was a fan of ID’s writings.He had time and energy for a lot of sections of the forum, not just the Horse Racing one.This place is poorer for his passing, IMO.
Mr Pilsen , totally agree with you , TRF WAS a proper forum then , and had real quality posters , unlike the vast majority of cornflake posters now , (Drone is real quality imo )
Life on this planet is mundane now , and we are much at a loss for posters like the feisty baron of Basingstoke
Sadly Daylight passed away , so out of respect I will not comment on the events that lead to his bannage , but I wish we had that quality stuff again
Keep digging son
Ricky
"Firstly, thanks to Daylight
who has said it is OK to post this message.
Here it is, and many points are made.
Fair points or unfair,
hitting the nail on the head
or bitter and twisted ?"I am in the middle of fish
but fair point to Razeen
the initial anonymous poster
for starting this threadA high energy thread and
of all the then contibutors
only Cormack and myself
are still here which
says a lot for wastage.I do believe that
Matron is first favourite
to be the only
poster still standing
in ten years time.Well Mr Pilsen
Diane wore hir suite
on the paradise and
the betting forum.
bring ousted from the latter.
I forget which TV
entertainment prog series it was from,
but he sported; sideburns and a small
short cropped pointed beard
– possibly a dickie davis moustache
to balance it all up.The gift of a turkey at Xmas
would get Jim back in here
– he was a sucker for the birdsIn trawling through miles of yardage for Oh So Sharp’s missing thread, I came across this gem, an old and very contentious tbread, but rare indeed, as in evidence are four of the five fire starters who had so much impact on this site – missing only; Pinza a distant star and not even a twinkle, back then, in his imagination’s vivid eye, and just the mere bite impressions of Razeen’s teeth who boldly opened the thread.
Daylight(DL) writes four months before his sad death from a heart attack around Derby time that year (2006), whilst only in his thirties.
Razeen’s words and name has been airbrushed from history,and two months after he wrote here.
Whether the site was worth 500 or the 10,000 whuch was Daylight’s then valuation is and was a matter of opinion. What was a great pity,to my mind,was that some middle ground wasn’t found, or failing tbat, that Daylight did not tender it up openly to a wider audience, and maybe lowered his expectations,and thereby, shifted the heavy burden of it. He got in extra hands at his workplace and felt that would give him enough extra time to manage TRF. Well nothing is so sad as that which might have been
In the end David Cormack was the choice, and gifted the site by LRM – Debs, wife – with no fee but certain sections retained as a reminder of her husband.
This year will be the thirteenth year of David’s tenure and guardianship – and no easy ride, and he has learned along the way.
People can take their own views on all the players, but it is clear to me, that Daylight seemed content to have found a way to retain the site, and resolve the then issues, including the banning of Peaty Sandy and tie them up, and put them behind him.
I raised it up tentatively, as one weighs things up, and hopefully got it right, but it was with Kirk’s mantra ‘Those who boldly go’ echoing faintly in my ears that I launched it headlong into the deep end of opinion, to follow in Razeen’s initial splash marks.
The thread created huge interest at the time and is part of the rich tapestry that is TRF.
JimJTS is down to 910 posts
I can remember him being in or close to ten thousand when I joined TRF
He was arguing on a thread, I think Rangers in Europe or such like (maybe forum clock)
and someone pointed out his large amount of posts
to which he replied that all of them were quality and not just quantity
Going by this thread I’d suggest neither was closer to the mark…
Gaelic Warrior Gold Cup Winner 2026
If, I remember correctly not all of the old threads could be transferred over into “WordPress” and some had to be “culled”.
Cormack will be able to give the definitive answer.
I think we are all well aware that there were losses in the move Matron and the technology failing reason behind them is of little interest.
There may well be some mysteries, or rather secrets, buried behind the old words, which would, if revealed, raise a few interested brows but doubt they will unlock.
I thought Jim a very good read indeed. He was crafty too, but often had his mind set with very strong, colourful, opinions within, that never budged.
“I think we are all well aware that there were losses in the move Matron and the technology failing reason behind them is of little interest.”
I will leave you to your obsessive hobby then.
Possibly a little harsh on my part
as Jim was okay
those two things always stuck in my mind thoughGaelic Warrior Gold Cup Winner 2026
Please don’t go, watch the news first Matron, and then you decide. See how it is weaponized by obsessive enquiry coulkwed with intrigue; Corbyn and his inner circle prized open,Arron Banks, Mr Goldfinger, and the Russian state bank all enjoying tea together. This fly ridden lounge is just a drop in that ocean of curious investigaion.
That was meant to read ‘coupled’ with. I try to aspire to Drone’s well versed binle of literary perfection, but always fall yards short, and find myself literally basking in the shadow of his giant wisdom teeth – just sucking my imperfectly formed incisors.
Matron, let me try some gentle emotional pressure to sway you back onside – and admit my previous language was strong coffee induced and far too blunt. Please allow me this softly charged sea change…
It’s so beautiful,
It’s so beautiful
It’s so beautiful, its true
I saw this thread in a far off place
And didn’t know what to do
I knew it could upset a few
Jim just bring the tissues
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