This significant anniversary prompted me to look through some of my old PC backups, and lo and behold I found my original MOPO subscription request for my old email address, which was March 1998. Longer ago than I thought, although I ducked out for a while inbetween due to the demands of my job at that time. For many years I was a serial lurker, partly because I was overawed by the often "lively" discussions between David K, Bruce, Freeman and Claude, and partly because by the time I had downloaded all the emails on my painfully slow dial-up connection (remember those?) when I got home at night, the day was over. Interestingly, one of the first messages I bothered to keep (from '99) was from Philipp (Kainbacher) warning about a poster scam in Italy, so thanks Philipp!! Greg, I don't think the person you met in London was Adrian as Tom was suggesting, but far less impressively, me. I don't think you'd forget Adrian. A Viking like Tom says. I'm a mere 6 feet tall, but he easily towered over me with his distinctive flame red hair and beard. He rode a Harley, and I have a decrepit old Ford Focus. Feels strange that Adrian is no longer with us, as I used to bump into him regularly, and I bought some of my first posters from him. Anyway, it was a real pleasure to meet Greg with his merry band of musical vagabonds The Former Members in London (Bull's Head, Barnes I think). Before I got into film posters, my first love was my electric guitar, so it was fantastic to see a fellow MOPOer and certified rock god wielding his axe like it should be done. You would've thought by now I'd have learned to reply to MOPO messages properly, but I think I messed up when I tried to send thanks to Scott a couple of days ago, so I'll try again! A big Thank You to Scott for keeping the MOPO list going in such a generous and unassuming way. It may be old technology, but it's outlasted many another forum. Paul Gerrard
-----Original Message----- From: Greg Douglass <[email protected]> To: MoPo-L <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 20:06 Subject: Re: [MOPO] It's Our SILVER Anniversary! 25 Years of MoPo! I've been here since the mid-90s and noticed cycles; there were times when serious discussions about poster lore taught me much i didn't know. I've met people I consider friends: Tom Martin, Rich Halegua, Bruce Hershenson (i miss your presence and your wealth of knowledge), the cuddly curmudgeon, Claude Litton, a nice man with a razor-sharp wit (Claude: still got that ROBOT MONSTER insert you'd hinted you might sell back to me?), Kirby McDaniel,;....a wonderful fellow I met in London whose name, embarassingly, escapes me) who specialized in Bond and Hitchcock material, the wonderful Nathalie Yafet...lawzy, it goes on & on. I've been here through the epic battles, the Eugene Hughes debacle (I eventually got all my stuff back.) I've watched people come and go, lost pals to the Reaper (bye, Susan Olson)....but let us raise a glass of fine Amontillado to Scott Burns whose patience and love for the hobby remain apparent after a quarter of a century (almost coinciding with my wedding anniversary.)All together:"We accept you! One of us! We accept you! One of us!We accept you! One of us!"Greg DouglassFrom The Harmony House in Del Dios, CAUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
