Any old Virtual Irish Pub members about?

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   JV ~ 18 months ago

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   Well I guess you coulod say I was an old member of the VIP!
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   jake ~ 18 months ago

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   I once went to a place in Ireland which was virtually a pub, but actually just someone's garage. Do I qualify?
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      JV ~ 18 months ago

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      Clearly not
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   thiborf ~ 18 months ago

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   JV > well it goes without saying you are a member of the old V.I.P :-)
   just wondering if there was anyone from back then around like Milly,Paisley,sandy...
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   danielle ~ 18 months ago

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   I used to hang out there back in 97-99, met one or two people off there :) liking the new site jv
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   daley ~ 18 months ago

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   i was there around that time also!! :)
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   pauen ~ 18 months ago

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   I hung out there for a while ... pub drinker
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   Velvet ~ 17 months ago

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   I have chatted on and off in VIP for years "velvet" is my handle there... and I must admit I was an abchatter the arch enemy of the VIP'ers... LOL so please forgive my blasphemy....
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   thiborf ~ 17 months ago

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   *LOL* we all have our cross to bear!! you are forgiven!!
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   Velvet ~ 17 months ago

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   why thank you thiborf... LOL... I feel so much better now!
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    lochdara ~ 17 months ago

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    Being hanging around here since '95...even paid for the privilage.. apart from 3 years offline i am here quite a bit...
    old user cybermac.. new user mac...
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       thiborf ~ 17 months ago

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       i remember the name Cybermac...*S*
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    miski345 ~ 17 months ago

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    VelvetSkye> were you under the same name in abchat?
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    Velvet ~ 17 months ago

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    Miski345... I used the name Velvet - Velvet Morning .... did we chat at abcrap?
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    Loves Bloc Party ~ 17 months ago

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    the virtual irish pub is dead all the time. i wish i could have signed up during its heyday.
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    redhairedmaire ~ 17 months ago

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    Used to pop into the vip every now and then.
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    Dr. Fallon ~ 16 months ago

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    I was. But I prefer actual Irish pubs...
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    Kestrel ~ 16 months ago

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    I qas there from about 95/96 on... the heyday of "blue suits" and gatherings. Same name. :o) Of course I used to create false rooms and lurk from Sherwood Forest and such... but SHHHHH... don't tell Justin. *innocent cough*
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    wokky ~ 16 months ago

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    an oldie VIP'er here, under various handles (wokky, PWEI Nation, lepetitmort) going back to 96-97. Occasionally catch up with some regs here and there . . . .
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    wokky ~ 16 months ago

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    ewwww - just noticed which photo i'm using here, what a tragic aloha shirt!
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    georgie ~ 16 months ago

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    I'm a recent addition (2 years racked up) from VIP! So happy to see the oldies but goodies coming round this site! Would any of you like to see a group gathering place for VIPers added to Woyano? *raises her hand*
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       PANTERA ~ 16 months ago

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       The Vip was cool, I liked to hang out on the roof.
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    georgie ~ 16 months ago

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    wokky, um... I like bright shirts...
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       wokky ~ 15 months ago

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       bright and pizza like even :-)
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    danielle ~ 16 months ago

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    they were good days at the VIP years ago, when chatting was less popular but that meant good quality, people just wanted to chat, no alterior motives.
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    georgie ~ 16 months ago

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    Japstyle, I agree things can get sketchy in chat rooms these days. Are there any quality places for people to chat nowadays?
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    Velvet ~ 16 months ago

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    Georgie... As I have found with many chat rooms there are all good for a while then the troublemakers come in and people just tend to leave due to it...
    
    VIP became all about how many creds on had, then the hacking started and it went downhill from there.
    
    As I have found with many chat rooms there are all good for a while then the troublemakers come in and people just tend to leave due to it.
    
    
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    georgie ~ 16 months ago

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    So these problems did not just start happening in the last year, chat rooms have always had party poopers. I much prefer this environment, it's an intellectual conversation where I can learn about people and still have fun. Would other old-VIPers agree?
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    Mark ~ 16 months ago

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    i have never even hread of the vip lol
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    Kestrel ~ 16 months ago

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    *smacks Mark*
    *snort*
    
    The good old says of the VIP were before credits even come up. :o)
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    lost74 ~ 16 months ago

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    Was an old VIP'er, Lost was the name there, spent many long sleepless nights babbling about anything and everything. It was a blast. Organized a gathering to Canton/Cleveland, NFL HOF and the R&R HOF, we had a blast, I think we had something like twenty people show.
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    Mark ~ 16 months ago

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    you can find the vip at www.zingbear.com if anyone is looking for it
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    Tequila Rose ~ 16 months ago

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    I think my ass is bronzed in a barstool in the Main Bar.. since 95
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       wokky ~ 15 months ago

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       Requila Tose!!! How ya been?
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    sirdigalot ~ 16 months ago

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    i remember the vip, met my wife there, still together, still talk to a few from there too...
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    armitage_shanks ~ 16 months ago

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    Yep..an ole VIPer here too..too many stories and too many secrets...good times..and long may it continue.
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       Mark ~ 16 months ago

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       shanks...i heard a rumour your headin in may to the piss up? ...the more the merrier lol
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          thiborf ~ 16 months ago

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          Hey guys..great to see the old school is still around!
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    elvenmistress ~ 16 months ago

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    I remember VIP, I used to be a member too.
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    kerythmacfie ~ 16 months ago

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    Old member, still hanging around when I can find it..
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    sirdigalot ~ 16 months ago

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    i do miss the days before the credits and such, it would be so nice to have that same place back all private like blue suits an all, i remember signing on every opportunity i got, it used to cost a good couple a hundred pounds a month in phone bills to do it *L* just in case people for got i was also AFKA - Lexx hehehe i think i have a few pics of old vippers on a cd somewhere... :D
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    lost74 ~ 16 months ago

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    This was me.....a few years after VIP, but looked much the same:
    
    
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    stardancer ~ 16 months ago

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    *peeks in from behind the far back door, then rushes in, scampering and waving to all those from the OLD VIP days....unfortunately as she runs in, she falls most ungraciously upon her bottom* Hullloooooooaaaaa!!!!! *stands up most ceremoniously and extends her hand to those she remembers and those she must have had a wee bit too much ale to recall* "Greetings all!!!! Tis I, the ~Star Dancer~~ How fare ye all????
    
    *looking around and smiling, she leaves a wee bit of stardust pon the table, and leaves in a shower of adamant and emeralds and is gone* POOF!
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    stardancer ~ 16 months ago

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    *peeks in from behind the far back door, then rushes in, scampering and waving to all those from the OLD VIP days....unfortunately as she runs in, she falls most ungraciously upon her bottom* Hullloooooooaaaaa!!!!! *stands up most ceremoniously and extends her hand to those she remembers and those she must have had a wee bit too much ale to recall* "Greetings all!!!! Tis I, the ~Star Dancer~~ How fare ye all????
    
    *looking around and smiling, she leaves a wee bit of stardust pon the table, and leaves in a shower of adamant and emeralds and is gone* POOF!
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    stardancer ~ 16 months ago

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    *looks around frantically and realizes she is double posting and thinks mayhaps she has had a wee bit too much ahem...er....coffee, yup thats the ticket, coffee for the day.
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    JV ~ 16 months ago

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    Would you like me to clear the double post?
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    stardancer ~ 16 months ago

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    *bows and smiles....knowing that JV has always had the "magic touch" If you would be so kind sir....no one needs to hear the repeated blathering of a tipsy stardancer...
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    dreamz ~ 16 months ago

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    Wow! look at all the comments here hehe .. sure would be great to see some of you in the VIP :D
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    3war ~ 16 months ago

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    Count me in with the old VIP'ers, although never used to get much further than the Front Door on most occasions, still pop in there once in a blue moon, used to go by the name Mr.B
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    mrssnowy ~ 16 months ago

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    Helloooo Thibor :) old vip'r here tooo :)
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    wokky ~ 15 months ago

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    Yargh - just went into VIP - was empty?!?!?!
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    damon ~ 15 months ago

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    I was Father Jack from 1995 to this very day. Wouldn't blame hackers too much for it's demise JV should accept a lot of responsibility for it's downfall, just seemed to loose interest.
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       JV ~ 15 months ago

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       Hear hear. Down with JV!
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    arooka ~ 15 months ago

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    The VIP was a good place to go, until the changes and the demands for money, and soon after the lack of people, and than the death. It was a wild up and down, and I saw it all. Of course at that time, I was truely the most popular person at the bar, and so everyone probably has spoken to me at least once.
    I am suprised you met a wife at the virtual irish pub though, sounds wierd. Internet love = marriage? How long did it last before the upgrade?
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       thiborf ~ 15 months ago

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       i talked to her first in the Vip then met here in person about a year later..*S*
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    Moosetracks ~ 15 months ago

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    I also used to be a VIP member. There were not too many people around when I was on, so I gave it up. I did manage to meet some cool people though, and had some laughs. I would just as soon go to a real pub on the Emerald Isle though. I guess I left it before it really went down hill. Lucky me
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    milly ~ 15 months ago

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    Hiya Thibor / Katie!What a blast from the past! I recently accessed my Milly email account (today) and seen the email from JV about this site. Curiosity got the better of me and here I am logged in - Great to hear the good news of your marriage!I am co-habiting or as us catholics might say "living in sin" - we have our house a year, and have been together over the last 5 years!
    
    Great to hear its all going well.. I had high hopes for you two!! 8-)
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       thiborf ~ 15 months ago

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       Hey Ya...wow long time no hear. Delighted to hear all is going good with you..*S*
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    mcbrowser ~ 14 months ago

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    I joined VIP in 1998 to while away the hours when I was doing a long shift at work. ;-)
    
    Some of the people I chatted to on there kept talking about Abs Chat so I moved onto there instead. I met two people from there in person and yes, they were as mad as they were online. ;-)
    
    I recognise JV from many moons ago. Greetings again.
    
    If anyone recognises me, give me a shout.
    
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    Still Waters ~ 14 months ago

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    Yup, there are still a few of us around. I stared going there around 95 I think and hung around for four or five years. I had a few icons, but most might remember my two dogs, Baron and Sparkey.
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    cajungirl ~ 14 months ago

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    wow, good to see so many names I remember!
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    nikkic ~ 13 months ago

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    Old vipper here - from the days of blue suits, paid memberships, and great craic! Met Milly (waves) and Sandy a coupla times ! *remembers a wild night at a carnival in Kent with Tigger and his bro* Was known as aingeal croi and Coley - great to see you all around!
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    Tequila Rose ~ 13 months ago

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    Hello all that posted that i didn't get a chance to say hello too again! :) We're a tenacious lot aren't we!
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    sunshineinoz ~ 13 months ago

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    Hey hey!! Nuther old vipper here - from 96 onwards...the days of food fights and mythical chat and singalongs and Monty Python fests....*swoons* never got into abcrap - Im such a purist....met many over the years!! Long live theVIP!
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    danielle ~ 13 months ago

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    ah tigger i remember him, great guy. hes in oz now i believe. i remember the phone bills, although i managed to get round them a bit with different isps with free timeslots :)
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