Date: 2/14/99
From: QBall79

What is it with berets and the story game? I know Remmy and Maggie wore berets in Net Worth, but is that enough to go beret crazy over? I have nothing against berets - I own one myself, though I can scarcely remember the last time I wore it. I just want to know what the deal is.

Q-Ball79

You had to ask.....

Date: 2/15/99
From: BritSlider

Just when I thought the whole beret obsession thing was starting to die down, you've gone and put it back into the forefront of people's minds! LOL!

It all started because a certain someone, I'm mentioning no names, (actually I will - it was 1013shan!) became fixated with berets, and started to put them into every post that she wrote. Then, like an infectious disease, other people started to pick it up; like spaz119 (when she wasn't going on about JOC wearing just a towel!), and so it spread to epidemic proportions.

Recently though, a kind a 'normality penicillin' has seen these random beret appearances dwindle away, although now that you've brought the subject up again I'm sure their re-emergence will occur with a new and more virulent strain than before.

We must gather our forces together to fight this evil infection, keep the bboard a 'Beret Free Zone' :)

Cheers m'dears
BritSlider
C in C of the 'Anti-Beret League'

BTW - Here's an image for you spaz119; what if JOC were to whip away that towel, only to reveal a beret hanging there, somehow suspended as if by magic :)

Britslider

Date: 2/15/99
From: spaz119

Your answer your question BS, I would die a happy, happy girl!!! (especially if it happened to be MY
sherbet beret!!!) Look, the "Jerry-towel-image" is a
beautiful thing for me. I live for it, ok? I have very little else going for me, so I cling to it , ok?
As for the berets, you gotta try one before giving it the thumbs down. Now I have to put mine on and go to work!!

Hey BS!!!

Date: 2/15/99
From: 1013shan

naming names huh!!! well well well, we shall have to see what your punishment will be..30 lashes with a wet noodle? no no you'd actually like that...

perhaps me and my girlie girls will join together to for the "Berets for All" ideology, sweeping the world like marxism...we will base our entire "world political system" (we will take over the world you know - there are 51% women to your measly 49% men on the planet - and once we give you a remote control and a television we will have effectively overcome your simple brains) ...we will then base our political system around the "berets for all campaign". Your beret SIZE will indicate your status in society. (please don't make me detail this my dear) I shall have a special place in society for you sweetie!!

I will (of course) be the ruler/dictator, Spaz119 will be my second in command - everytime I'm about to fall asleep I'll have her run around the room and flash JOC pictures at me while trying to avoid throwing herself infront of trains, Mychand will be in charge of the the propoganda - ah,- I mean news media and of course, ice cream for everyone courtesy of SlidingThrough (you cannot be neutral)

Whatta you think of that "Mr. No Beret Zone"?????


Sincerely yours
BigEars
1013shan

1013shan

Date: 2/15/99
From: Mychand

Hmmm.....Ok, as long as I get to wear the purple, I mean Amethyst(my birthstone and favorite color)beret then I'm in. Picky aren't I? I will be happy to spead the word. But....the size of your beret makes a difference? Does that mean you have a swelled head? You did say you were our leader! Ok, what kind of propaganda, er I mean news do you want me to spread? Let me know, fearless leader!

Mychand

Poor QBall79. I don't think you knew what you and Brit started. LOL

History Lesson..

Date: 2/16/99
From: BritSlider

One hundred years from now I'm sure the history books will read something like this:

And so, in the year of our Lord, 1999, the conflict known as 'The Beret War' began.

On one side were the men of the 'Anti-Beret League', determined to stop the constant references to Berets that kept appearing in posts on the Sliders bboard. With their fearless leader BritSlider and his trusty sidekick QBall79 they fought for truth, justice and the elimination of stupid headgear.

Standing against these brave freedom fighters were the evil female forces of the 'Berets for All' campaign. Their Dictator-for-life 1013shan, her - quite clearly deranged - Lieutenant spaz119, and having risen phoenix-like from the ashes the Minister For Propaganda Mychand. Their mission; to make everyone wear berets so that they would look like French onion sellers, or art students, I'm not sure which was worse.

The conflict was evenly balanced at the beginning, with small skirmishes resulting in minor casusalties on either side. But then the evil Dictator-for-life 1013shan came up with a cunning plan; they would attack while the men were all watching the Superbowl! This new strategy was devastating. On that fatefull Sunday night the evil women of the BFA crept up on the heroic ABL men, and just as the first touchdown was about to be scored, placed superglued berets on the heads of those ABL men. The effect was terrible. All the men of the ABL had immediate heart seizures and died, rather than lokk like morons with those hats on.

The only men to survive this attack were those foolish enough to think that berets actually look 'cool', and with such a small gene pool to repopulate the world, that is the reason the earth is in such a bad state as it is today.

THE END

....it's ok.....I've found my medication now.....I'm feeling much better.....I think I'll go and lie down......

Cheers m'dears
BritSlider

P.S. Good to have you back Mychand, we missed you!

So BritSlider...

Date: 2/16/99
From: spaz119

Who does that leave? Remmie and Jerry (who happens to have my sherbet beret balancing"just-so" when he opens his towel? I like this history lesson.

Welcome Back, Mychand!

Date: 2/16/99
From: QBall79

Mychand, it's good to see you again! But you know you will never succeed in spreading the doctrine of "Berets For All". BritSlider and I will emerge the victors in the end!!!

Q-Ball79

Hate to break the new to you, BritSlider

Date: 2/16/99
From: Executive

I was the first one here to mention the berets shortly after "Net Worth" first aired here in the U.S. After my review post, I started another topic about the berets -- commenting that Maggie looked like a thin, beautiful version of Monica Lewinsky and that Rembrandt resembled Samuel L. Jackson (who in recent years started wearing berets). Other than that you're right, 1013shan kept the beret thing going -- I just wanted to mention it that once (OK, this is the second time). ;-)

Just in case anybody is wondering, I don't wear berets or any other type of hat!

Hey Brit and Mychand!

Date: 2/16/99
From: StarSekr1

So glad to see you both posting again. Love your history lesson BritSlider-very original. I'm with the girls on this one. If spaz has a sherbert one and My's is amethyst, can I have the pink? Our fearless leader 1013shan should have the golden one. Keep me posted for location of first meeting. Just send out a picture of a white towel and we'll know it's time to congregate.
SS1 :-D

P.S. I do remember Exec's post about the berets.

News Flash

Date: 2/16/99
From: Mychand

BFA members beware!!!! Executive if vying for top beret! He's just trying to trick us into going to the other side. Never! Hold your ground 1013shan! We will never give you up as our leader of berets. By the way, what color IS your's anyway? The battlegrounds are drawn Brit and Q. Your secret weapon won't work. Berets march on forever......

Mychand "amethyst beret"


Brit...loved that....this is becoming way too much fun.....I must getting delirious......

can I...

Date: 2/16/99
From: Slider_Sarah

have a beret and join the BFA campaign? My first choice would be lilac, but if that's to close to Mychand's (Great to see you back on the board BTW, now I don't have to do another poll), I'd like a powder blue or bluey-green one. Please can I join <puppydog eyes in use>

Slider_Sarah
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dreamworld/7247/slidindex.html

P.S.

Date: 2/16/99
From: Slider_Sarah

I await the approval of our leader 1013Shan before I take up my beret officially.

Slider_Sarah
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dreamworld/7247/slidindex.html

Hey, Hey, Hey, Don't Forget Me

Date: 2/16/99
From: HotelTwilightZone

My beret is royal blue.

That vision of a balancing beret behind the towel is way tooooo much for me to take. Keel over now !

HotelTwilightZone

P.S. Don't forget the cardigan sweaters too!

Forget you HTZ?

Date: 2/16/99
From: spaz119

I think that's pretty impossible considering all of my towel stories I've shared with you!! Royal blue
is good. It's a nice color to see hanging in midair
don't you think?(Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr)

I want to come and play too!

Date: 2/17/99
From: Boof

Mine must be royal blue or evergreen. I would look dreadful in any other color. Hey spaz119, wouldn't you just lunge for the beret under JOC's towel. Darn tootin I would. JOC in a towel keeps me going too. He is so Darn HOT! Ok, gotta run before the drool hits the keyboard.

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