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Stumbled in here drunk one day and never left.

I was looking for tickets to the Sold Out Auburn show. I did a search and
ended up here. I bought the tickets from someone that posted a note
in the section that says "Did you miss out on tickets? Check out the....."
I saw a post from a guy on there that had 2 lawn tickets for face value.
I called him up, and I was the first one to call! I got the tickets the day
before the show! I came back for about a month just reading some of the
posts, then I jumped in myself!!!

This place is COOL!

It was like a week after my first Buffett concert and was still on my concert rush and was looking for any websites about Buffett and luckily stumbbled in and found BN.....

i thought i was at a bar,and i haven't paid my tab yet so they wont let me leave

On scholarship at the BETTY FORD CLINIC

The night before the Jimmy Today Show in NYC last summer someone mentioned it. That was also the night I met JImmy and I had already told everyone I knew and needed more people to tell! I told my story here and the people were so nice I decided to stay.

That and I heard there was free beer and hot chicks!

nycparrothead wrote:The night before the Jimmy Today Show in NYC last summer someone mentioned it. That was also the night I met JImmy and I had already told everyone I knew and needed more people to tell! I told my story here and the people were so nice I decided to stay.

That and I heard there was free beer and hot chicks!

i haven't found the beer yet

Clicked on a link off of google.com

2fla wrote:I can't remember how long it's been...4 maybe 5 years since I discovered BN thru a search engine. Ah yes.....the days of the 'ole Sand Bar....I remember them well.

Same way.

Rode out on a rail from the Church of Buffett.

I'm not sure how I found this site either. It may of been through a search engine, a Parrothead web ring or a mention on the COBO. Whatever the case may be, I found my way here and after a little bit of a rocky start (and some encouragement from a certain someone), I found me a home. My first online Buffett discovery was the now defunct Lost Troubadour Society and a listserv (who's name escapes me at the moment), but it is also no longer exists.

I had just come back from a trip to Disney World in the summer of 2002. There were rumors at the time that Disney was opening a new park, and I wanted to know more about it. So, I searched online and found a forum about Disney stuff. There were people secretly taking pictures of new rides and posting on there and stuff. I thought, "what a cool idea"! Then I got to thinking, I like this forum thing. It's also good because my school firewall blocked me from chatrooms. So, I began searching for forums for my two most favorite things in the world.....Tennessee Football and Jimmy Buffett music. I found utvols.com/forums rather quickly, and then typed in "Jimmy Buffett News" on Google. This was the first site that popped up and it looked cool, so I registered under the name "ParrotHeadRob". I visited often and read some almost everyday, but didn't post for a while. I wanted to get my feel for the site and get comfortable with the people first. I only posted 61 times from June to May, and then decided to go along with everybody else and get a more "Buffettesque" name, so I changed it to Bob Roberts, referring to the Bob Roberts' Society Band from Banana Wind; and the fact that my name is Robert, named after my grandfather who was called Bob, and my obsession in many kinds of music (i'm a music major and soon to be music teacher) like "Society Bands". Since May, I've been posting away and loving every minute of it. This is really the only forum that I ever visit anymore, the only one I really like. I look forward to many more months or even years of happy posting on BN!

We got our first computer last Feb. and I followed the link from RM, and here I am. What a great place this is.

Does Feeding Frenzy Page ring a bell with anyone? I think that is what I started reading long ago. I think I was looking for tickets to a show out in Colorado or Las Vegas in 1995 or 1996. Maybe that is too early.

I followed the PH webring I was looking for shirts and such
and found this place had INFO on tix,shows etc and setlists
I lurked for a while than joined in the fun.

I had always wanted to be part of a disscussion board, and matt suggested BN. I tried it, and im hooked!

nycparrothead wrote:The night before the Jimmy Today Show in NYC last summer someone mentioned it. That was also the night I met JImmy and I had already told everyone I knew and needed more people to tell! I told my story here and the people were so nice I decided to stay.

That and I heard there was free beer and hot chicks!

Well at least you got the free beer.....

CRC Parrothead wrote:A few weeks before the Dallas 2002 show my buddy Jane said, "I started this discussion on Buffett News about the tailgating in Dallas and I've been talking to some really fun people about it." So I had to check out this Buffett News site she spoke of. Needless to say, I got hooked almost immediately! Met my first BN buddy, ETPH, in person in Dallas that year! I have made some really good friends here and I am so glad Jane told me about this place!

What CRC said. I phound the site while looking for tickets to Dallas 2002.

OK here it is.. July 2001... I was looking for reserved tickets to see Jimmy in Alpine.... I found this site after doing a google search.... I thought OK I'll just log on using my first initial last name, because I doubted I'd ever be back here again... almost three years later, I'm a regular poster and have probably the stupidest username on the site....

I was looking for 13 year old girls and crack cocaine, I was mis-informed.


Seriously, I found it off of Margaritaville. Had been reading the posts there and thought everyone sounded like "Buffett Snobs" which is entirely against the lifestyle I signed up for. Read CoBo for a while and didn't like the tone there either. Frankly I do not think every thing after 1978 sucks. I was there then and I've stayed with it, not in the past.

Started reading mid summer before Alpine. Read more and more regularly, posted a time or two as a guest. Signed up as Clinton Bill, but being computer idiot I couldn't figure out how to get back when the company changed my e-mail. Continued to read and read, finally there was a "Songs to get over a lost love..." thread. Being a field of extreme expertise, I jumped in re-registered and gave my two cents worth.

Began full force with the baseball talk in October and got hooked a couple of weeks later when I first visited the MSC. I have not yet been to the "dark side"-Virtual TG, but that is in my plans.

And I plan on being very active in meeting as many of you phruites that I can LYMI

I was looking phor a set-list from the 11-14-01 show, and CoBo didnt have an accurate one, so I ended up looking over here. Then I saw that you could post your opinion on all of Jimmys albums so I joined just so I could say that I liked Last Mango In Paris...Then I saw the concert thread, started talking during concerts and was hooked...THEN I was introduced to the MSC, and I dont think Ive ever gone a day without thinking about BN since then.

GREAT THREAD!!!!