Post by yenilira on Apr 19, 2011 1:14:57 GMT 1
Now that the end is (almost) nigh for that wum-fest called 606 – 25th of May when the plug is finally pulled? – I thought this was as good a time as any to put up an article in relation to them.
There have been an endless stream of ‘Wind Up Merchants’ or WUMs on our 606 board over the years, so here is a selection of my favourites? and those others who have been so obnoxious (that’s me being diplomatic, as always), sometimes they made me feel like I wanted to have had them strangled at birth…….. (me being even more diplomatic….).
One of the more recent ones, ‘JDandfries’ – what can one say about him, other than no matter what you told him, however much he was corrected, or that his facts were sometimes well off the mark, his refusal to accept what was said to him, and his lack of knowledge of the ins and outs of and at Bloomfield Road, however much you answered him, he always came back for more twisting everything everybody said – he just would not go away.
One of the earlier WUMs that I encountered was ‘Marco Macho’ who I believe first appeared on the ‘Pool board when Notts Forest were playing at Bloomfield Rd. in the days of the CCC.
Who can forget his “…I’m flying in from Lebanon…/…tickets for the match…” saga, which, to my mind, was quite well construed and provided a bit of light relief.
He also bothered the Barnsley board and I believe, a couple of others in the CCC with similar 'trips'.
Of course, we had to have a ‘foreign Scottish WUM’ on the board - ‘Montrose/Egypt/North Ender’ and variations, who apparently arrived in the UK without a passport. He was caught out a few times, especially with the ‘story of his life’ where he tripped himself up so much it was unbelievable.
"Im a proud Scotsman now but i lived in Preston fro Jan 08 - Sept 08. I supported Preston then
Before then i lived in wgypt where i was born"
(EMP on 29.12.2009).
At one stage, I was even accused of ‘stalking him’ as I ‘followed’ him up to The Links in the Scottish 3rd Division – I lived near that wee Burgh in the early sixties.
He also got a couple of our colleagues, and one or two from down the M55, modded and/or thrown off the 606 board.
Apart from his sojourn from Egypt to Preston via Scotland, he was most insistant that Alan Shearer was taking over from Irvine in January 2010, being ‘in the know’ due to his ‘connections’ with Derek Shaw….. his Irvine/Shearer saga ran for almost two weeks.
And a quote from a PNE fan (‘PNE1986’) on their board in January last year –
“EMP i do wish you would realise that no one barr the blackpool fans WANT you on this board”
* Ouch! *
And, after the signing of Darren Fergie -
“By the way, your friend EMP predicted that Alan Shearer would be unveiled as the new North End manager .....
Where is he then? Or should I ask - where are they both?” came from me on the M55-end board...
‘Montrose’ came in subsequent guises thereafter:- Billy Patel (who had an ‘extended family’ in Pr****n), then a very young ‘millionaire?’ called ‘New York’ who professed to live in the States.
There was another, or was it ‘Montrose’ in the beginning, whose vocabulary and sentence-structure was reminiscent of a Punjabi hill-farmer. (“I am made laughings at what you say….”)
I can just visualise his head bobbing from side to side as he said that…
Another I believe who was a Forest fan - ‘Psycho’s Salute’ - on the boards around 2009. Didn’t see much of him on our board. Very dead-pan, but wicked, if I remember correctly.
Then there was ‘Mawene’ who disappeared but came back in August 2009 as ‘Mrfootballfanno1’ and frequented the board of them at the Inland Revenue End of the M55.
And how could one ever forget the Leicester City WUMs, especially during the run-up to, and during, the DJ transfer saga.
One complete pain in the derriere, to say the least.
A WUM I met up with ‘on my travels’ was ‘Frazer’ from Dundee United, who spent most of his time on the Aberdeen board – a bit like what JD&fried is to us.
‘Papa Shango’ seems to have disappeared nowadays – any idea where he is, and where did he come from?
With us having Charlie Adam brought one of their WUMs down from the Glasgow area – ‘Mabawbust’ - c. 2010 – even the Bluenoses detested him at times.
One we didn’t see much on the ‘Pool board, more of an ‘international’ WUM – ‘Furmanov’ who proported to be a ‘Russian Jew’ who supported ‘Tottingham’ amongst others.
His ‘members page’ was a right old mixture.
Then there was the ‘one star bandit’ who, irrespective of whatever the topic of an article, gave it one star. I think he had a few ‘followers’, as one OP on the ‘Pool 606 got eight/nine one-stars on one article last year.
Could he/she be classed as a ‘WUM’?
There were three posters from the other end of the M55 - ‘Dudelegensteve’, (‘Dead Leg’ was it we called him?) ‘Migoldfishisdead’ (whose attempts at explaining how his wee fish died were pathetic), and ‘PP PNE PP’ or whatever, whose name was abbreviated to ‘Px6’ by all and sundry, - who appeared, and still do, on the Blackpool threads on a number of occasions.
I remember one tussle I had with the latter in that he stated that he had a friend who was afflicted by stammering, and he couldn’t explain why he had chosen his name. (Plank).
My reply post to him then: “Considering what you've just said re a friend, it's a bit ironic, no? that you've chosen a username that highlights the disability. = Px6 Twerp.”
Didn’t hear much from him for a while after that.
They weren’t WUMs as such, but their posts and comments had me saying to them (amongst other things) - “Give it a rest, will you, you are mind- numbingly boring with your facticious, asinine comments."
I’ve kept a couple of posts from then about the latter:
Comment by Mooney_is_God _ (Lifelong MOC) (U6786359)
posted 4 Days Ago i.e. 11 Dec 2009.
“Well done p6. Just managing to have a reasonable debate on here and you manage to lower the tone.”
AND
“'ppp' says lot of very stupid things....I have been at his moronic gibberish for years. Why have PNE FC supporters not told him what a liability he is to them with his comments.
Or do you laugh with us about and at him?”
(2nd December 2009 – not sure which club poster’s from.)
Unwittingly hilarious? could be an apt description for those three from down the road – or just plain bloody odious?
Not forgetting DIM £0 – and his Club Accounts for £1………
Don’t forget, I have only been a poster on 606 since April 2009, and on this board since November last year, so I could be termed a ‘late-comer’ in that respect…….
Or, a ‘New Tangerine’ as one of our colleagues pulled me up for just after we got promoted to the Prem in May last year………
So there may be a few I will have inevitably missed…….?
YL.
#bewaretheeverwatchfulmoderatingcamelsmiley#
There have been an endless stream of ‘Wind Up Merchants’ or WUMs on our 606 board over the years, so here is a selection of my favourites? and those others who have been so obnoxious (that’s me being diplomatic, as always), sometimes they made me feel like I wanted to have had them strangled at birth…….. (me being even more diplomatic….).
One of the more recent ones, ‘JDandfries’ – what can one say about him, other than no matter what you told him, however much he was corrected, or that his facts were sometimes well off the mark, his refusal to accept what was said to him, and his lack of knowledge of the ins and outs of and at Bloomfield Road, however much you answered him, he always came back for more twisting everything everybody said – he just would not go away.
One of the earlier WUMs that I encountered was ‘Marco Macho’ who I believe first appeared on the ‘Pool board when Notts Forest were playing at Bloomfield Rd. in the days of the CCC.
Who can forget his “…I’m flying in from Lebanon…/…tickets for the match…” saga, which, to my mind, was quite well construed and provided a bit of light relief.
He also bothered the Barnsley board and I believe, a couple of others in the CCC with similar 'trips'.
Of course, we had to have a ‘foreign Scottish WUM’ on the board - ‘Montrose/Egypt/North Ender’ and variations, who apparently arrived in the UK without a passport. He was caught out a few times, especially with the ‘story of his life’ where he tripped himself up so much it was unbelievable.
"Im a proud Scotsman now but i lived in Preston fro Jan 08 - Sept 08. I supported Preston then
Before then i lived in wgypt where i was born"
(EMP on 29.12.2009).
At one stage, I was even accused of ‘stalking him’ as I ‘followed’ him up to The Links in the Scottish 3rd Division – I lived near that wee Burgh in the early sixties.
He also got a couple of our colleagues, and one or two from down the M55, modded and/or thrown off the 606 board.
Apart from his sojourn from Egypt to Preston via Scotland, he was most insistant that Alan Shearer was taking over from Irvine in January 2010, being ‘in the know’ due to his ‘connections’ with Derek Shaw….. his Irvine/Shearer saga ran for almost two weeks.
And a quote from a PNE fan (‘PNE1986’) on their board in January last year –
“EMP i do wish you would realise that no one barr the blackpool fans WANT you on this board”
* Ouch! *
And, after the signing of Darren Fergie -
“By the way, your friend EMP predicted that Alan Shearer would be unveiled as the new North End manager .....
Where is he then? Or should I ask - where are they both?” came from me on the M55-end board...
‘Montrose’ came in subsequent guises thereafter:- Billy Patel (who had an ‘extended family’ in Pr****n), then a very young ‘millionaire?’ called ‘New York’ who professed to live in the States.
There was another, or was it ‘Montrose’ in the beginning, whose vocabulary and sentence-structure was reminiscent of a Punjabi hill-farmer. (“I am made laughings at what you say….”)
I can just visualise his head bobbing from side to side as he said that…
Another I believe who was a Forest fan - ‘Psycho’s Salute’ - on the boards around 2009. Didn’t see much of him on our board. Very dead-pan, but wicked, if I remember correctly.
Then there was ‘Mawene’ who disappeared but came back in August 2009 as ‘Mrfootballfanno1’ and frequented the board of them at the Inland Revenue End of the M55.
And how could one ever forget the Leicester City WUMs, especially during the run-up to, and during, the DJ transfer saga.
One complete pain in the derriere, to say the least.
A WUM I met up with ‘on my travels’ was ‘Frazer’ from Dundee United, who spent most of his time on the Aberdeen board – a bit like what JD&fried is to us.
‘Papa Shango’ seems to have disappeared nowadays – any idea where he is, and where did he come from?
With us having Charlie Adam brought one of their WUMs down from the Glasgow area – ‘Mabawbust’ - c. 2010 – even the Bluenoses detested him at times.
One we didn’t see much on the ‘Pool board, more of an ‘international’ WUM – ‘Furmanov’ who proported to be a ‘Russian Jew’ who supported ‘Tottingham’ amongst others.
His ‘members page’ was a right old mixture.
Then there was the ‘one star bandit’ who, irrespective of whatever the topic of an article, gave it one star. I think he had a few ‘followers’, as one OP on the ‘Pool 606 got eight/nine one-stars on one article last year.
Could he/she be classed as a ‘WUM’?
There were three posters from the other end of the M55 - ‘Dudelegensteve’, (‘Dead Leg’ was it we called him?) ‘Migoldfishisdead’ (whose attempts at explaining how his wee fish died were pathetic), and ‘PP PNE PP’ or whatever, whose name was abbreviated to ‘Px6’ by all and sundry, - who appeared, and still do, on the Blackpool threads on a number of occasions.
I remember one tussle I had with the latter in that he stated that he had a friend who was afflicted by stammering, and he couldn’t explain why he had chosen his name. (Plank).
My reply post to him then: “Considering what you've just said re a friend, it's a bit ironic, no? that you've chosen a username that highlights the disability. = Px6 Twerp.”
Didn’t hear much from him for a while after that.
They weren’t WUMs as such, but their posts and comments had me saying to them (amongst other things) - “Give it a rest, will you, you are mind- numbingly boring with your facticious, asinine comments."
I’ve kept a couple of posts from then about the latter:
Comment by Mooney_is_God _ (Lifelong MOC) (U6786359)
posted 4 Days Ago i.e. 11 Dec 2009.
“Well done p6. Just managing to have a reasonable debate on here and you manage to lower the tone.”
AND
“'ppp' says lot of very stupid things....I have been at his moronic gibberish for years. Why have PNE FC supporters not told him what a liability he is to them with his comments.
Or do you laugh with us about and at him?”
(2nd December 2009 – not sure which club poster’s from.)
Unwittingly hilarious? could be an apt description for those three from down the road – or just plain bloody odious?
Not forgetting DIM £0 – and his Club Accounts for £1………
Don’t forget, I have only been a poster on 606 since April 2009, and on this board since November last year, so I could be termed a ‘late-comer’ in that respect…….
Or, a ‘New Tangerine’ as one of our colleagues pulled me up for just after we got promoted to the Prem in May last year………
So there may be a few I will have inevitably missed…….?
YL.
#bewaretheeverwatchfulmoderatingcamelsmiley#