[NSC] "Apologies if Fixtures" : The origins of NSC argot

[marlowe]

Apologies if fixtures, but I'm curious to know how this phrase originated.

I googled it out of curiosity using "inverted commas" and it appears that it's a phrase unique to NSC and one which is freely and regularly used with a shared and tacit understanding of what it means.

What is the earliest example of it's use, who first coined it and when they did how did anyone else know what they were talking about, and why was it then adopted with such enthusiasm as part of everyday NSC parlance?

What other words or phrases are unique to NSC apart from that and "SINGED" and is it obligatory for "SINGED" to be written in capital letters?

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Presumably it refers to that perennial repetitive thread ‘when are the fixtures due out?’ That has become shortened to ‘fixtures’ whenever any thread on any subject has already been started elsewhere.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

"We're loose"


Twunt was one of my favourites, but that is no longer commonly seen on the board.

 

[strings]

Presumably it refers to that perennial repetitive thread ‘when are the fixtures due out?’ That has become shortened to ‘fixtures’ whenever any thread on any subject has already been started elsewhere.

This, it was one of a number of threads that was repeated relentlessly alongside people asking whether anybody had the GOSBTS ringtone (from memory)...

 

[KZNSeagull]

Binfest

 

[BNthree]

"We're loose"

I'd love to know the origin of were loose.

 

[Gazwag]

Apologies if fixtures, but I'm curious to know how this phrase originated.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fixture

3rd one down

 

[Gazwag]

I'd love to know the origin of were loose.

I suspect it started on a Sussex cricket match thread

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

I'd love to know the origin of were loose.

Illiteracy

 

[The Wizard]

Who killed the f**king Zutons? I’m not buying it on principle.

 

[Palacefinder General]

I always liked CJTC, although not an NSC original, likewise: ‘What gives?’ first posted on here by an at the time youthful and fairly handsome Cheeky Monkey I believe, along with ‘tediocre.’

 

[jabba]

Binfest

I've never seen this outside of an NSC context.

Binfest
An argument on an internet mesageboard that soon spirals out of control with everyone getting involved, and in the end no-one really knows what the argument was about !!!
Bin is short for BINNER which describes somebody who is a complete MOWTCHOPS. Ergo, a binfest is a festival of binners normally arguing the toss over something that matters not in the real world.
by An NSC'er May 29, 2008

 

[WATFORD zero]

Slice
SEGW
Turkeygate
Jamie'd

I'll think of some more

 

[Dick Swiveller]

I'd love to know the origin of were loose.

It was a frequent spelling mistake by a poster with learning difficulties.

 

[Stat Brother]

I've got family who are season ticket holders!

 

[schmunk]

I've got family who are season ticket holders!

What are their feelings about this thread...?

 

[pasty]

I always liked CJTC, although not an NSC original, likewise: ‘What gives?’ first posted on here by an at the time youthful and fairly handsome Cheeky Monkey I believe, along with ‘tediocre.’

I'm disappointed now. I love the term CJTC and have used it often, but always imagined it was an NSC original

 

[Weststander]

Calling Dr.No.

 

[Weststander]

Slice
SEGW
Turkeygate
Jamie'd

I'll think of some more

Fog-Gate

 

[Dr. No]

Calling Dr.No.

No.