A lickle bit of info on some of the regulars on alt.tv.red-dwarf. The names (except for mine...) are more-or-less in alphabetical order, sorted by nickname or first name. The list is supposed to contain stuff about currently active posters (i.e. not lurkers or people who have not posted for a long time). However, I'm not always up-to-date. Anyway, now and again, certain people will be removed from the list if I feel that they have left the group, or have not posted for some considerable time. If you are removed, and you feel you have been unjustly treated, mail me for reinstatement.
Note that text for each poster was supplied by the posters themselves. Hence, all lies are theirs!
You can look through the more recent additions if you are just looking for new people.
Furthermore, you can look through the Birthday List.
Friday
aitchbee
Andy Maddern
Ang Rosin
Annette McIntosh
Bil Simser
The Cat
Chris Garrett
Daniel Snyder
Fraser Steele
JJ Flash
Laurie Sage
Lee Weinert
Legion
V. Lynn Moore, aka Techno-Goddess
Nadine Wallis
Nick Honeywell
Raz
Rache Bartmoss
Roadwart
Ryan Macklin
.splitbung
Stuart L
Talkie Toaster
Vivianne Cheshire
Your name here...
People added - January 5, 1997
Ryan Macklin
People added - January 1, 1997
Talkie Toaster
Stuart L
Friday maintains these pages. He has a page of his own... Friday's own page.
Name - Andy Maddern / Roosta Age - 14 E-mail - [email protected] URL's - http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1415 Irc Nick - Roosta N/G status - Used to post a lot, but I havn't sent anything in ages Likes - Red Dwarf, X-files, Steeve Coogan, Mark Radcliffe and the boy Lard, Guitars, The Net, Rock Music (i.e Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Soundgarden, The Manics, Green Day, Offspring...) Dislikes - Idiot Geography teachers, Eurovision, Dance Music, Manchester United and Parents who say no. Roosta was born in South Wales on The 26th February 1982, a year later he moved to Kent where he lived for 6 years. After that he moved again to North Wales which is where he is now. He is still in School and, urm, thats it really. Roosta thinks perhaps he could write more if he were a little older :)
Cat-lover, curry-eater (occasionally), pool player (badly), Red Dwarf fan and professional scouser. A fan of the show since it was first shown on BBC2, I first posted to the group in Nov 1994, on the subject of Martini. I've lived most of my life near Bootle Golf Course, although I have never played a round there. That should answer the obvious question.
I was born in Liverpool, but not by the docks, my religion is Catholic and my occupation currently a lab technician. I wasted my time at University, I took no drugs, ran away from blokes in clubs who fed me dodgy chat-up lines, spent more money on books and booze and put on three stone. In August 1993 I came back to the 'Pool and began work in the University. Twelve months later I discovered the Usenet and a reason for coming to work every day. I have a number of sad hobbies, and amongst my personal afflictions a tendency to sing at Karaokes. I am prepared to name the T.V shows I would set the video for: Red Dwarf, Northern Exposure, X-Files, Babylon 5 and Dangermouse. I'm a bit of a leftie-liberal, and I've been described as one of the last true eccentrics. That was by my mother. I'm sarcastic, bossy and shout at people a lot, but I never mean it. On the plus side, I'm single and own a cat, I get embarrassed very easily, drink far too much, eat far to much and I'm a very loyal to my friends.
Currently I run the atvrd Post of the Month competition, if you have a nomination please e-mail me at [email protected].
I am 49.9% water and I still eat beef.
Name : Annette McIntosh (aka El Skutto, aka skutto on IRC).
D.O.B. : 24th October 1967 (yeah old and cryptofascist).
Occupation : GELF-creator (well sounds better than Medical Research
Technician, anyway).
Achievements: - Outpourings of the frustrated writer in the form of the
RDRL, PIPs, etc. (in the absence of any original literary
ideas of my own).
- Learning to tie my own shoelaces at age eight, then
realising that sandals are easier anyway (and bugger the
fashion faux pas).
Likes : Red Dwarf (fancy that), cats (especially my own), ooh...
lots of other things (gotta leave something to make
conversation about); and not least -- a hologram in uniform
(ah, Enlightenment!).
Philosophy : Never talk religion, politics or toast.
Life-goal : To stay cool and be slinky.
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Real Name - Paul Prideaux
Age - 14
Birthday - 10th september
Fave T.V. progs - RD, ST:TNG, the X-Files
Likes - Liverpool F.C., T.V., IRC, Being lazy
Dislikes - Manchester United, people with long .sigs, binary's on a.tv.r-d
Lives in - North west England
IRC nick name - CAT
The Cat was born in Cheshire and first lived in Elton. He moved to Ellesmere Port about 2 weeks later. At the age of 4 he aquired the nick name of Cat, but he doesn't know why. He became interested in Computing at the age of 6 and first used a Commodore 16. This was upgraded to a Commodore 64 about 2 years later. Using the built in BASIC The Cat started to learn to program. Then 4 years later when The Cat aquired Holly he started to learn MS Visual Basic. The Cat thought that it was good, but not good enough. He thought about learning another language other than BASIC. "Nah", thought The Cat, "Too hard". Then 3 years later on after that The Cat finaly decided to learn C++. This decision (inspired by Friday) was a good one. Now The Cat is progressing in this language. The Cat thinks "Yay! I like this language. And it isn't really *that* hard." However The Cat was lying to himself ;)
Name: Chris Garrett
EMail: [email protected]
DOB: 29.07.74
Occupation: Systems Admin @ Barnsley College, S Yorks, England
Likes: Beer, Sci-Fi, Females, PaintBall, Lau-Gar Kung-Fu, all music
from Pulp to Pink Floyd
Chris was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was exported to Windsor,
England, in 1975, and then Barnsley, South Yorks, a year later.
Although not married, Chris has 2 cats, and lives with Clare, his
Girlfriend of 5 years.
Fraser is the quiet one, dressed in black and looking confused.
I live in Liverpool with Sarah, my girlfriend of nearly 5 years, who is a fantastically talented actress, and may have a window in her diary if you're reading this, Mr. Spielberg.
Fave telly includes Red Dwarf (bloody predictable, I know), Trapdoor, Nightingales, Blake's 7, Blackadder, Star Trek, blah, blah, blah.
Hobbies include being sarcastic, cooking and juggling.
I was once described as 'quite good looking, when you get used to where his features are.' Whether that was a compliment or not is open to debate.
Name: aitchbee
IRC Name(s): aitchbee
Email Address: [email protected]
Homepage URL(s): None (yet)
Date of birth: See the Birthday List
Location: near Edinburgh, Scotland
N/G Status: Occasional poster. One of the notorious
Rimmettes.
Information: Analyst/programmer. Person of the female gender.
Likes: cats, bookshops, banana and walnut ice
cream, curries, CB's anatomy, loud music, G&T,
black clothing, rain [but not all at the same time
:-)]. Hates: people who bite their cutlery when
they eat, windy weather, haggis, misuse of
apostrophes, anything by Andrew Lloyd-Webber.
Alter Ego: JD Nivin
Occupation: Software Engineer
Abilities: Sarcasm, Irony, Flirtation, Retrieving Stuff from London
JJFlash entered the scene shortly after series 5 was released to the states. However, what he then lacked in experience, he made up in enthusiasm. After purchasing the first four series on video, he still did not have enough and had to obtain series 5 and 6 from the UK. Still not satisfied, he took a holiday to London where he promptly bought all the Red Dwarf merchandise offered by HMV and Forbidden Planet. JJFlash can currently be found on #starbug bragging about his trivial knowledge of Red Dwarf (second only to CMA) and offering candy in exchange for cast members' autographs.
Laurie Sage is not dead.
Here are two pictures of Sav. Sure., his nose is a bit wonky... Email him [[email protected]] if you have any preference as to which piccy you like best.
Me first ever memory was that of a 747's Cockpit. I was on my way from the town of my birth (Sydney) to the town I was to be brought up in (Potters Bar). I don't remember why I was there and thankfully I don't remember being at the controls.
In the mid 1980's a void was filled in "Sav's" Life with the airing of
Red Dwarf (if you haven't seen it, it's about a ship On alt.tv.red-dwarf Sav takes on a supporting role in group morale
officer, and doesn't see why people have to swear all the time. Arseholes.
The exploits of Sav can be found elsewhere on these pages and Sav refuses
to appologise for his appetite. Sav is currently thinking of something
funny to write.
Occupation: Video Producer/Director
I live in southern Maryland USA where I occasionally catch
Red Dwarf on Maryland Public Television. I have season 1-5
on tape that I watch repeatedly when I get too stressed.
When I get really stressed, I read season 6 eps out load
doing my best imitations of each character. *grin*
The species of Nadine is known to inhabit the waters of Sydney, Australia,
having first been discovered and named on the 10th October 1971. While not
originally from these parts, Nadine has spent most of her life around these
areas when not enjoying her all too seldom migrations to Britain. She is
often found feeding off a solid diet of British TV comedy including Red
Dwarf, Bottom, Blackadder, the Young Ones and The Brittas Empire to name
just a few. During the day, Nadine leaves her sheltered cave to venture
into the wilderness that forms Macquarie University. Here, she sits in on
History and Politics lectures, making illegible impressions upon her
notebooks, and daring to wonder why everyone can't just be nice to one
another for a change. Frequent outpourings of opinion regarding
international relations characterise Nadine's rhetoric when she has engaged
serious mode. Having disengaged serious mode, she idles around the union
coffee shop avoiding the rather-large-building-with-lots-of-books-in-it or
returns home to communicate incoherently with fellow smegheads,
particularly the Rimmettes :) Attracted to gothic motifs, candlelight
illuminates the nocturnal activities of Nadine, especially when watching
favourite videos such as Bram Stoker's Dracula. Early, very early, Monday
mornings will usually see a bleary-eyed Nadine chatting on #starbug, going
under the nick sardy.
Youngest known reader of alt.tv.red-dwarf, yet he manages to
contribute quite a lot. As well as all the normal type of
posts, he also runs the
'Red Dwarf Episode Poll'.
He can be found on the IRC channel #starbug, usually between
7.00 and 8.00 BST, from Monday to Friday. He goes under the
nick, 'Rimmer', which was suggest by cma, probably in jest.
The name stuck.
Despite being born on a quiet Saturday afternoon in the picturesque
railway town of Bishop Auckland, Raz soon began his reputation for
troublemaking by becoming a peculiar shade of yellow, and demanding
transportation to Newcastle and a blood change before agreeing to return to
a more sensible pinkish hue. He spent five years in the village of
Shildon, remarkable only for inspiring Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer to
create the characters 'Donald and Davy Stott', and which has only escaped
being razed to the ground because it is too insignificant to justify the
expense. After escaping Shildon, Raz escaped to Aycliffe, where he has
spent the last fifteen years looking for something nice to happen to him.
Several nice things *have* happenned, but generally only tended to last for
a couple of months. In the intervening years, Raz passed through
Comprehensive school despite three threatened expulsions, survived a two
year Computer Studies sentence at Darlington Tech (the same town and only
one street away, fact fans, from the Sixth Form College where Gladiators'
Jet spent her post-school years) with three more expulsion threats, and
currently suffers the indignity of attending Teesside University, quoted by
at least twenty people as being the worst University in England. And some
of those aren't even on the same course! Despite his most concerted
efforts, Raz has only been threatened with expulsion twice while at this
establishment, but made up for this shortfall by being one of two victims
of a libel accusation.
Raz recently entertained thoughts of suicide upon reaching his twentieth
birthday, and was kept alive only by his love for Gillian Anderson, star of
TV's popular "X-Files". Raz drinks copious amounts of coffee and has
'unfortunate' hair. His star sign is Virgo. He is single, and has never
owned a flute.
Born at an early age, Rache was three years old when he stumbled upon his first global
conspiracy. This man (Rache is the male form of Rachel, as he is sick and tired of explaining.),
called by Fu Manchu "The only worthy opponenet I have ever had," has been seen meandering the
streets of Anchorage, Alaska, preaching his gospel of Red Dwarf, anti-conspiracy propaganda, and
the clever subtext of Quentin Tarantino's films to anyone who'll listen, stopping only to check
his mail and favored newsgroups at [email protected] and joining the IRC on a borrowed account.
Age 25. Hobbies include juggling, computing (mainly graphics), driving, and generally bumming
around. I am married to Sue, and we have three daughters.
.splitbung is one of the few people on the newsgroup who does not hide
behind a pseudonym. If you don't believe me, go down to your local records
office and ask about the name. Go on, I dare you. Take a camera.
He also runs a super web site
with further information about himself and Casio calculators, and absolutely
no Red Dwarf related information whatsoever.
Derek L is, in fact, not Derek L. Derek L is Derek
L's son, Stuart. This apparently paradoxical confusion of
identities can be explained very simply: the account is Stuart's, but
his dad's name is on the cheque. To further confuse this already
substantially confusing matter, Stuart has, over the years, adopted
the pseudonyms "SLAV", "SLAVATZE", "SETH"
and "FLOPPY".
Stuart L is a strange, reclusive creature; a person of a mildly
scientific, dubiously poetic nature, he spends his days in front of
his computer, doing interesting things with various whatsits and
composing badly-played songs on his guitar - a rather cheap Encore EW350.
He was born in Manchester, but considers himself a Blackburnian born
to exile. He can speak several languages, including fluent
Lancastrian and not-so-fluent Yiddish. He is a devoted Communist and
an even more devoted Rovers supporter. He is fifteen years old but
feels like an old man. The old man in question is Spike Milligan.
Spike Milligan acts like a fifteen year old boy, so one can only
presume there is a sort of symbiotic relationship between the two.
Stuart's less frightening hobbies are: reading, writing, karate
fighting. He was disqualified from the Karate nationals in November
'95 for hospitalising an opponent, and since then he has not fought
competatively. He broke a mirror when he was five, and has not had
sex since. He does not believe in God, and, suspects that, even if
there WAS a God, he could have him in a fight.
He came to alt.tv.red-dwarf in June and has not been the same since.
Because nothing, NOTHING will ever be the same again.
He likes writing on desks, but prefers writing on windows - "I only
write on windows so that what I see beyond them makes sense..." (Stu, '95)
This is a blank space. You could be here!
Mail me about it. Don't bother
unless you're an active poster though, 'cos I'll ignore you. =)
Legion
V. Lynn Moore, aka Techno-Goddess
Hobbies: Theatre, alt.tv.red-dwarf
I have my degree in Dramatic Arts and am working on another
in Art. Some of us just don't know when to quit! ;)
I also do graphic art on my Amiga Toaster 4000 system.
Other Impertinant Info: I like trail biking, rollerblading,
and occasionally sittin in the creek having a beer.
Nadine Wallis
Spot Quiz! Which one is Nadine?
Nick Honeywell
Raz
Rache Bartmoss
Generally quoting anything and everything from the Qu'ran to the Sex Pistols, Rache tries to
bring his simple, meaningful message to everyone he encounters: "If you can't laugh at yourself,
I'm going to have to do it for you."
If encountered, toss him a can of Mountain Dew and a pack of Marlboro 100s and run in the
opposite direction.
Roadwart
Ryan Macklin
Name: Ryan Patrick Macklin
Birthdate: 22 July 1978
E-mail: [email protected]
IRC nicks: VoterCol, VColonel, SonOfChaj
Dislikes: my Who's Nobody entry so far. Lemme try it differently...
(after turning on loud music and putting on his trademark blue sunglasses)
Ahh, that's better. Hi, my name is Ryan, and I'm an atvrd poster.
[crowd: "Hi Ryan"]
Well, I guess I'm on to Step #2 now...I currently live in the United States
only a few miles away for a close friend of mine, Charles Daniels. (ha ha, my
entry is first CD!) I'm an 18 year old Uni student at California State University,
Sacramento. I'm majoring in computer science and I'm still talking about meanless crap. brb.
(Ryan changes the track playing on his stereo system)
Ok, that's better still. Ok, Ryan's this bloke who watches Red Dwarf, eats food,
and breathes. He spends none of his free time sleeping. He also maintains the
Charles Daniels and Ryan Macklin Red Dwarf Page and the
Charles Daniels Centre for Pants page, among others, which can be
reached from the CD & RPM RD site.
Ryan is also president of Associatum Unlimited, a software etc. group. Another thing, Ryan can't type worth crap. So
don't think you are funny if you are going to mock him. Ever. He's serious.
Ryan Macklin will be in the UK in July 1997!
[Disclaimer: The above was not meant to be coherent or have any meaning. Have a good planet.]
.splitbung
Stuart L
Talkie Toaster
Name: Talkie Toaster [[email protected]]
Age: (Due to my frequent travels in time, I forgot)
Birthdate: August 17
Favorite TV shows: Red Dwarf, Blackadder, Mr. Bean, Monty Python's
Flying Circus
Site: www.geocities.com/Area51/Vault/1121
IRC nick: Toaster
Vivianne Cheshire
Email: [email protected]
IRC nick: pvc (no, not the shiny plastic stuff!)
Birthday: 3 February (Aquarius)
Favourite colour: blue
Favourite films: Android, anything with Alan Alder, Silence of the
Lambs, Sleepless in Seattle, Forrest Gump, Star Trek (all), Dark Star
and other Sci Fi, Peters Friends.
Favourite TV progs: RD, ST (except Voyager), Young Ones, Bottom,
Hamish McBeth, HIGNFY, WLIIA, Men behaving Badly, Pingu, Rugrats.
Dislikes: people who jump red lights, curry, pretentious gits,
cruelty. aggression, intolerance.
Loves: Paul, Mr Spock, Capt Picard, Sci Fi, Paul, poetry, music, my
family, lying in the back garden on a warm summer night watching
shooting stars, Paul, flirting, Rocky Horror Show, lilac trees,
lavender, vanilla, Paul, second hand books, chatting, humour, Winnie the
Pooh, crying over a good film/book.
General: Known to children - Liza (19) student nurse, Kerry (17)
student, Jonathan (3) monster - either as Mumsie or Wondermother
(depending on what they want). Describes herself as Earth Goddess.
Aka 0898 because of (so she has been told) sexy voice. Divorced, now
bonded for eternity with Paul (the p in pvc). Works at local FE
College. Once had poem published. Belonged to Amateur Dramatic Group,
luvvies. Worked on volunteer phone line (where she met Paul). Has two
cats - Mork and Mindy (MC2). Loves fish n chips and lemon meringue
pie. Recently inscribed Desiderata on the inside of the toilet door.
Occasionally paranoid (am I?) and insecure. An orphan. Lives in
Rochford (near Southend). Visits Birmingham regularly.
Your name here...