Metropol

well the header on tvf points to the fact the 4th birthday of tvf is upon us. 4 years - i suspect much has changed in peoples lives in that time - and yet many of the old faces still linger on.

i think it is a milestone worth marking, so how will you be celebrating 4 years of bitching, arguing, web empires that have risen and fallen, tellings off, the many nights the chatroom regulars spent talking about anything but tv, matched in equal measure by the amount of times nick harvey refused to ever go into the chatroom, and of course the time a forum member mistook his botty bot for a fruit bowl.

what are the tvforum highlights? jarongate? the time bob preedy posted a photo of himself in the ytv tx gallery just before local continuity died? max douglass (now incarnated as acrobats)spamming the forum with his dads porn, and receiving an email from greg dyke praising his piss poor website? martin posting the photo of his grubby shag?

i, for example will be wearing my ytv chevron outfit and will twirl 4 times on the hour, every hour whilst humming the liquid gold jingle.

i hear that square eyes has pledged to create a list of every calendar east presenter between 2001 and 2005 and rank them according to their hair-style.

so how will you be marking this occasion?

as a special treat for the forum's birthday, i shall be handing out some c90 cassettes cointaning a recording i made of myself reminiscing over the last four years of the forum, with guest anecdotes with prolific forum members katherine, square eyes and nick harvey! look out for it in your local asda

i shall be dressed as nick harvey for the day and shall get myself stuck in a car wash.

I will spend the day e-mailing BBC Midlands Today presenter, Nick Owen whilst listening to a recording of the world's weather with your friend and mine, Anthony Alldritt, at work and play across the nation.

It's so nice to see the world come together for the 4th birthday of TV Forum.

Who would have thought it? 500,000 Lebanese coming onto the streets and making their opinions known (I'm sure it was about this place or something else).

How will I be celebrating?

I am currently getting seven t-shirts made up, each patterned with a different News 24 flag design. On each day of the week of the birthday, I shall parade up and down Newcastle's Northumberland street wearing a different one of these tops and Union Jack boxer shorts, screaming at the top of my longues - 'Can We Be Friends?', in tribute to BBC News/Max.

Oh, I feel proud.

We need to celebrate!

All we need are 1000 Vietnamese children in rags...

Thanks Joel.

Dan
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I have today been going round telling people some of my favourite Maggie Mash announcements. The general concensus was the "BUT NOW..." and "your particular part of the region" announcements were the most popular.

I later took a minidisc recorder onto the streets and asked people their favourite TV Forum moments, but I didn't get much response.

MDR and James Martin wouldn't stop talking for 3 hours though.

Whilst dressed as Nick Harvey I came across a curious chap with a head shaped like a lightbulb and asked him his opinion on the state of regional news. The gentleman in question then proceeded to talk about Carol Malia in a way that can only be described as bizzare and obsessive. I was forced to push him into a fountain where I then without warning felt the sudden urge to scream "are you having an affair with my husband?!" but luckily I tore myself away in time to catch a bus.

Sadly my misery continued as the heating was at an uncomfortably high setting.

I can't belive I've wasted 4 years of my life on there. And a half for general TVHome visiting time pre forum.