Lifetime achievement award for the betfarians that have been on here for the longest

Can I have one for the longest female betfairian? 

Saw someone post yesterday with 1 Jan 00 joined date. Can't remember who or which forum though.

Thta was some sort of glitch i think someone explained before, there were a few with that join date.

The forum began in June 2000 , there were 1 or 2 who still posted with that date a few years back

Possibly as many as 90% of the members who were here in 2011 have gone , so 2000 join dates must be thin on the ground

Foinavon has a joining date from 00, not sure what month though

I've been on here since 2001, under a few noms de guerre.

17 Mar 04
a mere sapling.

Will be sixteen years tomorrow.

Thin and Crispy has the same joining date as me.
There are a few others and some still posting under a later registered name.

13 years WTF!!

tt

when did bf kick off

Betfair started in June 2000. There was an earlier exchange called Flutter which wasn't as successful and was later taken over by Betfair.

.

Good work Stow.

cannyman joined 1/7/02.

Slippy says I was the first one to converse with him, or it could be the other way round.

i've just posted so i can see my join date ...tia :D

Vintage Port, Stilton, Game Pie in Christmas Hamper at the very least.

Looking forward to the Betfair strippergram tomorrow morning.

I'm way behind the oldest on here but 13 and a half years not bad...........

Johnny Walker (if he is still on here) is the oldest. He must have joined pretty much the same day the forum started. Unfortunately I missed the first few months - would be great to see a screenshot of the forum with one thread

I think Stretch was an early forumite.

I'm sure there was a Forum on Flutter.

I remember a big Big Brother discussion vividly

Yes, I remember the big white rabbit on Flutter

Ian Davies I think was behind Flutter, he used to post on here but not seen him around lately. Gamble was also on the Flutter boards.

Possibly as many as 90% of the members who were here in 2011 have gone
____________________

gone where ?  surely you wouldn't close the account ?  maybe they no longer post as much

Checking wiki, the 1st series of Big Brother (Nasty Nick, etc) was the summer of 2000
and it captivated the nation. I remember massive fierce debates about it, on the Flutter Forum
(or it may have been this one)

Ricky Lake was also fluttering about, and was one of the guys chosen to try out Betfair.

Maybe he will be tempted to post to confirm. Come on Ricky lad

There are places I remember all my life
Though some have changed
Some forever, not for better
Some have gone and some remain

All these places have their moments
Of gambles and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I loved them all

How lovely

Never have posted much but am still plugging away after a good few years

On Flutter, the system even allowed you to try and goad people into accepting your bets. You could offer up some odds on a bet, and enter some remark along the lines of 'There's no way Arsenal/Man Utd/Chelsea etc can win this game' to try and bait backers.

I seem to recall offering over the odds on Lleyton Hewitt to win Wimbledon in 2001 and various easily-upset (presumably) Aussies taking them (and getting mullered). A good thing Flutter disappeared before Wimbledon 2002.

Can't remember the early days but I do remember fish night when the forum went into meltdown. 10 threads a minute were started on fish related subjects, I started one or 2 myself but it was the serial posters, and there were a few of them, that got banned. Lasted for about 3 hours, carnage in the morning.

Also remember picking a local radio station every week and phoning in trying to get the presenter to say Bet Fair or Chit Chat. I think George Galloway fell for one prank.

Oct 9, 2016 -- 7:03PM, annie. wrote:

Can I have one for the longest female betfairian? 

No, all the years you've been on here and made friends, but you always shy away of a meeting. Not even a photo or any evidence that you are female. We've had a few on here who have met forumites and also been more open about themselves in general and we know that they are indeed of the female persuasion, but not you, we are talking of girls like Zelda, Poker Q, Miss Jones, Runawaytrain, Galloping Carrot, the one who worked at Paignton Zoo but whose name I've forgotten, plus others.

Sorry about that, mate

MD is suss as well

I've been on here since the Flutter days.  Still think it was a better name than Betfair! 

Slippy has been around for ever as well, good man he is.

*mind the gap*

I think slippyblue joined forum in 2002.

Crags.

Do you know if Punterz still posts under a different username on any of the boards?  He was comical, always threatening folks.

Can't say I do, Pokermonster, sounds like it could be a lot of people who've used multiple names.

Is it you?

God, no, he definitely wasn't me, sir.  Punterz came across as a horrible person, it just seemed amazing that he never seemed to get banned from the forum.

He used to pay folks to play poker under his account name to rack up the bonuses.

My memory is a little hazy on whether it was the same member, but there was a famous incident where a photograph of another forumite's front doorstep was posted up in a thinly veiled threat.

Was he threating to steal the milk from it?

And on that poor joke, I bid you goodnight, sir.

I have a vague recollection that the victim's username was Jazzy Jon, but I might be mistaken.  Perhaps somebody else could confirm or deny?

Good night, sir.

would have been on in the flutter days.
but was travelling in 2000.

joined when i got back

Do you remember the time that you could change your forum name? It maybe lasted for 4-7 days.

Do you recall the time that someone got the forum name something like F**KING C**ING B**TARD? He got fair use out of it until he logged out

Didn't somebody change their name to something referring to the Liverpool comeback in the 2005 CL final (I can't remember what it was exactly) - it looked odd because their joining date was a couple of years before it had happened.

only 14 years for me

Almost neck and neck there Platini (4 days)

I was a member of Flutter in the 90's and got transferred over to betfair. Didn't post for ages cos I though it was full of idiots, in the end I realised I was an idiot myself so joined in.

It took me a while to join up.For Cheltenham,obviously.

a guy on flutter used to argue with everybody, his name was Tofty. cheers.

I had 7/1 about a 9/2 winner as my first bet on here,it has been downhill since.

I got bored of the bollocks talked in Chit Chat by 2004.

A more political breed of middle aged Pub Bore seems to dominate these days.

"Fings ain't what they used to be"

I know what you mean, T&C, they are more boring than SDK was

Used to be some good stories by some old bookie from the midlands can't remember his name though might have been cubine or something like that?

march o5 here

You're thinking of Cubone, DD.

Thanks Pokermonster, loved his stories

Don Butler - ex- course bookie ... well, he used to 'bet the aways' in the years before Betting Shops.

Punters at a race meeting could have a bet at another 'Away' meeting with such bookies - at 'under the odds, of course.

He posted as - lukehart - before he was cubone.

Started a website (www.cubone.co.uk) with many of his stories - but it ran out of bandwidth

Now, some of the stories are on Facebook - if you are a Facebooker - or Facebookist - or whatever.

https://www.facebook.com/Cubone-The-Gambling-Historian-111513965560221/

Don is now 80 - with only one working eye.

His son was married to Jodie Kidd - for a short while.

....but was later pardonned.

Hall green layer
however biggest bookie at york rd was in the grandstand having a shandy

Looking at this thread, it looks like it's a Draw for the longest reigning poster between Foinavon and Thin and Cripsy, both joined 11th October 2000, damn I was still kicking a football around the school playground, hadn't even started my GSCE's

June 2007. Initially the Western Australian government banned bf, and the ban was only removed after a court case. Which probably makes me the longest West Australian here.

g'day

I'm pretty sure it was December 2000 that I joined when the forum was a rolling one with all the sports on one board. On a busy Saturday a thread would vanish into the abyss very rapidly.

2001 for me I think so 16 years or so

oh, Jan 2002, not 2001.

And only 80 posts in 15 years - a man of few words.