https://www.redhotpawn.com/forum/general.1/page-1450
This seems to be the first of 1450 Pages of General Forum threads, 18 threads per page.
But GF doesn't really become the same forum we know it now it as now until two pages later:
https://www.redhotpawn.com/forum/general.1/page-1448
Also:
First Debate Forum page:
https://www.redhotpawn.com/forum/debates.18/page-490
First Spirituality Page:
https://www.redhotpawn.com/forum/spirituality.23/page-421
@mwmiller saidThanks for the link.
Here you go. Take a walk down memory lane.
https://web.archive.org/web/20010514021527/http://redhotpawn.com/
Back in the day, Russ was Ruzz and Chris was Chrismo
The forum was quite different. Actually everything was quite different.
Can you tell us Who started "spanky"?
It became a popular saying and is still used to this day.
-VR
@Very-Rusty
I don't remember when that expression started being used here at RHP.
I do know that "Spanky" was one of the characters on an old TV show called "The Little Rascals", which probably has nothing to do with it's current usage here.
<edit> After doing a search, I found that you "Very Rusty" used that expression in 2010. You were the author of this post:
"08 Apr '10 15:021 edit
Take it to the Chess Forum Spanky! 😛
Better yet, Send Feedback, & good luck!"
I did not find any earlier use of the 'Spanky' expression, so maybe it was you.
@mwmiller saidThat is a shame you don't know and you were #16 on the site, one of the few originals left. I was thinking one of the original members might know.
@Very-Rusty
I don't remember when that expression started being used here at RHP.
I do know that "Spanky" was one of the characters on an old TV show called "The Little Rascals", which probably has nothing to do with it's current usage here.
-VR
@mwmiller saidI may have said it but don't think I would have started it as it is an English word I wouldn't be familiar with. I think someone from England or the UK, must have been the first. I would love to take the credit for being the first one but if you note Suzie Q said she heard the word when she came on the site which was in 2003...around 3 years before I was on the site.
@Very-Rusty
You may have done it. Read my edited earlier post.
EDIT: See Who started "spanky"? Thread 2nd post down I believe.
-VR
@very-rusty saidThere were many smart-alecks in the RHP in those days... over time the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
I may have said it but don't think I would have started it as it is an English word I wouldn't be familiar with. I think someone from England or the UK, must have been the first. I would love to take the credit for being the first one but if you note Suzie Q said she heard the word when she came on the site which was in 2003...around 3 years before I was on the site.
EDIT: See Who started "spanky"? Thread 2nd post down I believe.
-VR
The origin of "Spanky" could really have been any of them.
@suzianne saidToo bad you didn't have the answer on who it was that started it as it would be interesting to know. We still had a lot of smart-alecks in 2006, I also recall the word "Spanky" being used a lot. It didn't sound like it was meant in a nice way to me.
There were many smart-alecks in the RHP in those days... over time the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
The origin of "Spanky" could really have been any of them.
-VR
@drewnogal saidhttps://publicseminar.org/2016/11/the-politics-of-nostalgia/
It’s called nostalgia.
“By the beginning of the 20th century, nostalgia was regarded as a psychiatric disorder. Symptoms included anxiety, sadness, and insomnia.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/why-do-we-need-nostalgia#Nostalgia-and-homesickness-as-disorders
“Nostalgia,” a term from the Greek that is comprised of “algos” (pain, grief) and “nostos” (homecoming), in its earliest uses referred to a medical condition: to “severe homesickness considered a disease.”