Dear boys and girls of the Chemical Brothers Forum, it has been awesome meeting some of you and bouncing posts back and forth with the rest of you, not to mention Miloco & Meerkat. ;-)

This marks my third year, generally, and my thousandth post, and I just wanted to thank all of you for making my digital run-ins some of the best I'll have on the web.

And I even have love for the trolls who have faded away into obscurity.

::loveisall::

MadPooter, a.k.a. Andy :)

you're only at 1000?! when did that happen

I've been here a year now, and dang did time fly!

I feel like it was only a couple months ago when I found out about a new Chems album coming out soon, and decided to join this forum. Now, a year later, I have a new album in my top 10 list, and know some people who actually like electronic music. Lots of laughs on here, and it's the only place i know where love really is all.

@Biff: Yeah yeah, just because I've only ramped up my postings in the last year and a half...

@TJ: I was going to give you my shirt that you wanted so badly, but the lettering came off in the back. :-(

And... god damnit... I didn't have anywhere else to put this...

Here's how I feel about everyone here:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=FQZhT1krJIc

I'm not going to post the actual YouTube video because it needs some context. It's cheesy, kinda lame, but there's this undeniably heart-wrenching goodness about it, too...

You can probably put out a book with all those posts! As for me,i dont have enough posts to put out an essay! But from one chemfan to another, congrats on your 1,000th post!

I wanna see a ten thousandth post.

hahaha - I would have over 10,000 posts if my old account from the Come With Us days wasn't fucked up. :P

I love this place and I love everyone in it more... but I have to be honest and say I'm strongly considering giving it a rest, folks. Maybe not forever but for a while and maybe popping up occasionally.

Not to rain on any love-is-all parades or make some dramatic exit (because this place is like crack and I can't really quit it) but really. I personally I think messageboards - as great as they may be - are going the way of the dinosaur and I feel that whoever created this site could very well think the same - the clues are all here now and have been since Day 3 when whoever was in charge stopped listening to our requests for the betterment of the forums. And considering this board has been my "escape", I've grown tired of observing this even more than I am tired of complaining about it... because it all seems to fall on deaf ears/blind eyes. It's not as though I want to be done with the board or that I've gotten all that I want out of this place - but at 36 years of age... you know...

So yeah, I didn't just rain on the parade, I've pissed on it and I'm sorry to Pooter. But I will happily say the Chems are and always will remain my favorites and I can't ask for anything more than to have such incredible music grace my life. And to keep in line with the loveisall thing going on - I think of all the time I spent here and I am proud in a way of what we've all done to keep it together here over the years. And I'm grateful for everything - including the wonderful friendships - that has happened as a result of being a part of a grand but close knit community.

Anyway kiddos - love is definitely all and I am still baffled as to how Biff has as few posts as he does considering he's been here as long as I have!!

Congrats Mr. Poots! Here is to your next 10 post! Because after that 10 posts, I want you outta here! :P

Seriously though, how can you only have a little over a thousand posts...

Considering, I have about 3500 posts in the same amount of time as Mr. Poots. I dont even wanna look back at all the stupid shit I posted when I first came to the forum...but then again, its the stupid shit that made this forum funner. That, and the lack of Jeanie.

Whirly, it would be hard to imagine a Chems forum with out you :(. It will go from Sausage Fest to Sausage Factory. Seriously, I can only name 3 females that post on here within the last 3 months... Whirly, Jeanie, and Kwiddle.

I totally understand needing a rest, though. Speaking with you in April, you and stash have done just about everything a Chems fan could, and then some. I cant imagine how repetitive the whole forum thing is for you. I mean how many times have you been included in a conversation about which Chems Album is the best? Which Chems track is the most epic? Which forum member is the gayest? Why did Tom cut his hair?

All I ask (and im sure everyone on the forum agrees with this) is just dont become a stranger if you do decide to go... Not that a legend of your stature could ever become a stranger to the Chemical Forum... But, at least plug in from time to time.

whirly, you cant retire. just do what I do and Biff it, you know, drop in and post one or two between checking email. that's how I keep my slender post count.

::sniffle::

Whirls... don't go!!! ::sniffle::

Ohhhhh I love you people and this friggen place (warts n'all) too much to fully retire!!

I just need to give things a rest is all. An interlude... a brief sabbatical if you will. I'm old. And tired. :lol:

You're not old! But you may be tired.

You deserve a rest, definitely.

LOLZ LMAO ROFL OWNED PWND

LoL, sympathy on the internet.