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A while back Leechboy (on leechbabe’s behalf) posted that G’Dope, the place for Aussie Dopers to hang out when they weren’t busy on the SDMB, was going offline.
Well happily, that’s now kinda true but not totally true - because Leechbabe and her motley band are, instead, setting up shop on nads, the place where many European Dopers have been known to hang out when they aren’t too busy on the SDMB*.
It was a difficult merger** and one that required a great degree of planning and negotiation. We’d only offered because we were feeling sympathetic after a night binge drinking and watching Mel Gibson films, and they’d agreed before they’d realised that NADs was full of whinging Poms. At one particularly tricky stage, Al Gore had to personally intervene and save the day with a well-crafted slideshow.
Somehow though, it all came together, and NADs now contains a G’Dope Exiles forum for Antipodean activities.
Anyway, we just wanted to stick a post up here to catch any G’Dopers who thought that G’Dope had already died forever and who would have missed out on this news.
Can’t have them missing out on an opportunity to lord it over us next time they beat us at Cricket/Rugby/Sheep Rustling.
*Thinking about it this isn’t strictly true, as both boards had/have a lot of American posters as well. Bloody yanks get everywhere no matter how hard you scrub…
**Not really. At least not once they’d agreed to return our wallets.
You’ll be fine here mate: the bite of a rabid SDMB’er is far, far worse than the growl unfortunately, but there’s special cyber-tetanus shots you can get to help.
Don’t panic. There’ll be someone along shortly to show you around the place…not me of course: I only hang out in the dodgy forums.
In an eleventh hour development (well, maybe I exaggerate the lateness a little but tenth and a half hour at least) the impending G’Dope shutdown has been aborted. The show will go on, amicable arrangements having been made between board owner leechbabe and board founding father TheLoadedDog.
We, the denizens of G’Dope thank the departing pink overlord for her most excellent stewardship. We quake in happy anticipation of the resumption of the tyrannical reign of the returning El Presidente. Thanks be to the NADS people for the bail out in our hour of need.
Sorry for the false alarm. Next time for sure! :smack:
