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Happy 1st Anniversary, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost!
« on: March 29, 2007, 11:36:13 pm »
On March 30th, 2006, BetterMost's fastest-growing forum, Chez Tremblay, was begun. 


 :-*    :-*     :-*


Adios trolls!  Hello looove!


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Re: HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY, CHEZ TREMBLAY! Born March 30th, 2006
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2007, 11:59:23 pm »
 :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D

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Re: HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY, CHEZ TREMBLAY! Born March 30th, 2006
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2007, 12:34:13 am »


HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

CHEZ TREMBLAY at BETTERMOST!




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Re: HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY, CHEZ TREMBLAY! Born March 30th, 2006
« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2007, 01:22:40 am »
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CT !!!


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Re: Happy 1st Birthday, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost! Born March 30th, 2006
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2007, 03:42:53 am »
A whole year!!!!
 ;D

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Re: Happy 1st Birthday, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost! Born March 30th, 2006
« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2007, 03:53:32 am »
To think this time last year, I was only a few days away from being a Bettermostian!  :D


Here's to everyone who's contributed in making CT what it is today!!





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Re: Happy 1st Birthday, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost! Born March 30th, 2006
« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2007, 04:03:25 am »
A whole year!!!!
 ;D

Thank you Phillip- I think this would be the perfect opportunity for us all to dig out our wallets and donate again to the site.



Ya know what kelda, that's exactly what I had in mind! - except, my main move's anniversary's in less than a week - on the day the DVD a BbM was release (and Heath's b-day) - that's when I made my main move & I plan on celebratin in just that very way!

In the meantime, taday Chez Tremblay's anniversary, so

Happy B-day C T and many returns
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Re: Happy 1st Birthday, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost! Born March 30th, 2006
« Reply #7 on: March 30, 2007, 04:10:26 am »
Ya know what kelda, that's exactly what I had in mind! - except, my main move's anniversary's in less than a week - on the day the DVD a BbM was release (and Heath's b-day) - that's when I made my main move & I plan on celebratin in just that very way!

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Quelle bonne idée. :) 
My BM anniversary is on April 2nd .. Would be a great way to celebrate it!


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Re: Happy 1st Birthday, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost! Born March 30th, 2006
« Reply #8 on: March 30, 2007, 04:54:48 am »
Happy Birthday to all my fellow Tremblayans. Anyone remember "the moonie" thread? (I started that one.) Cowboy etiquette? What a year it has been...

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Re: Happy 1st Birthday, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost! Born March 30th, 2006
« Reply #9 on: March 30, 2007, 06:18:52 am »
CHEERS!!!



Here's to another year buddy!

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Re: Happy 1st Birthday, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost! Born March 30th, 2006
« Reply #10 on: March 30, 2007, 08:44:50 am »
Happy Birthday, Tremblayans
Thanks for the welcome
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Re: Happy 1st Birthday, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost! Born March 30th, 2006
« Reply #11 on: March 30, 2007, 09:00:24 am »
Sorry, Paul. More beans to come. Ennis and Jack celebrate with two cans of BetterMost beans (what else?)

Happy Anniversary Tremblayans  :)




Leslie: I've never heard of the moonie thread, but I remember the cowboy etiquette  :laugh:

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Re: Happy 1st Birthday, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost! Born March 30th, 2006
« Reply #12 on: March 30, 2007, 09:33:22 am »
What a year it's been!  Full of fun, heartache and love.  I'm still not over the great caring that went into inviting us here (thanks Phillip!), the strong emotions we all felt when we finally exited our old embattled home and arrived safe and bedraggled in spirit here.  So glad to still be here and glad you are, too!

Yes, I will finally donate, once a check I just got clears.

A big :-* to everyone!!!  We are home.

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Re: Happy 1st Birthday, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost! Born March 30th, 2006
« Reply #13 on: March 30, 2007, 09:49:23 am »
I don't know why y'all stuck it out so long over on PT, nearly the whole month a March when it was getting weirder and weirder. I joined BetterMost March 8 and divided my time but it sure felt great when we all came in from the cold and received Phillip and John's shelter from the storm. Remember how we crashed the little intimate party they were having with our loud and chatty behavior, our 24/7 swooning, our exhortations of Heath! Heath! Jake! Jake! like a big flock of Canadian geese descending en masse on a quiet pond way out in the middle of nowhere. Everybody has always been very accommodating and joining in till the paint brands were all wore off and we ceased to Tremblay and even forgot how those wily coyote trolls could cause such a fuss! So it's a very good thing to pause and celebrate and dust off the ol treasure cache, turn towards Wyoming and recite a solemn yee-haw three times!
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Re: Happy 1st Birthday, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost! Born March 30th, 2006
« Reply #14 on: March 30, 2007, 09:55:07 am »
Lee said it so well!!


bottoms up !  - oops!

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Re: Happy 1st Birthday, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost! Born March 30th, 2006
« Reply #15 on: March 30, 2007, 09:59:43 am »
Quick, folks! What's the longest running thread on this page?? I can't wait for your guesses! It's


Brokeback Through the Looking Glass (The Malaysian Subtitles Thread)

by our own Sheyne of Australia, one of the original Tremblayans!! Sheyne used to be known as hungry_hungry_hippos (a reference to Donnie Darko).

Yea, Sheyne!! You have achieved Internet immortality!! Now, can you guess the second longest running thread on this page? No fair peeking!

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Re: Happy 1st Birthday, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost! Born March 30th, 2006
« Reply #16 on: March 30, 2007, 10:00:29 am »
Personal note:
It's my birthday here too.
I made my first post on March 30 2006
my time anyway.


It's been an incredible year
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Re: Happy 1st Birthday, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost! Born March 30th, 2006
« Reply #17 on: March 30, 2007, 10:03:09 am »

Leslie: I've never heard of the moonie thread, but I remember the cowboy etiquette  :laugh:

The moonie thread was one I started (on IMDb). I figured out all the dates of the full moons and other celestial sightings in the spring and summer of 1963. There were lots of good responses and discussion. I managed to save a fragment of it in the troll wars but it is on another computer which I don't turn on daily, so I don't have it immediately at my fingertips.

cowboy etiquette, John's first post:

Doffed hats should be worn on the knee away from the fire.
Sauteed elk should be served well salted. Who knew?


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Re: Happy 1st Birthday, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost! Born March 30th, 2006
« Reply #18 on: March 30, 2007, 10:07:32 am »
I went into the archives and found this, my very very first post here at Bettermost:

Glad you saved this--the original messages have gone off our original board.

I am hoping this site works...we really need a new home. I don't feel safe at IMDb anymore. A post of Courtney's got deleted a little while ago.


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Re: Happy 1st Birthday, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost! Born March 30th, 2006
« Reply #19 on: March 30, 2007, 10:58:01 am »
No day like March 30, 2006 will ever be forgotten by me.  I remember it incredibly well, watching a site explode with activity that afternoon as the CT ship arrived.  For those who were the earliest, you'll remember CT started as one of those "child boards" with the tiny print and it was attached to another forum here.  But within the first hour or so, it broke out into its own forum.  Of course, the biggest challenge we had was just getting CT folks to step foot out of their own forum and explore the rest of the site!  CT was a California freeway compared to the backroads on the rest of the site!

I also remember very well the extreme concern that the trolls would follow CT folks over here, but after a joint effort by all the great people on this site, we stomped any attempts literally minutes after they arrived.  And I'll never forget the pleasure I had in tracking down one troll right down to his dorm room, and filed a complaint with the college in Binghamton.  That sent a message.

I was a CT member on IMDb, but not the most prolific poster because I was trying to build BetterMost at the time.  But I'll never forget the CT refuge from the wild rapids that was the IMDb Brokeback Mountain Forum.  It was almost impossible to keep up with anything in there.

One bittersweet thing I am now noticing is some nostalgia for the older days (yeah, a year ago is the older days) when everything was all-Brokeback, all the time.  A lot of the passion from the obsession has now become acceptance and me wondering if it's okay that I am not as obsessed with the film as I was last year at this time.  It's amazing how the passion seems to be coming and going in waves right now.

Year two will be, for me, an exploration of new things that have radiated out from Brokeback which I didn't have time to contemplate too much last year, but now can use this year to keep the passion alive.  I find I want to know more and more about the mountain west, what life is like there, seeing it, breathing it, touching it, interacting with people living it.  I know what Jack and Ennis did, but now I have this hunger to fill in the blanks about the things the film and story never covered.

Another year, another journey!
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Re: Happy 1st Anniversary, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost!
« Reply #20 on: March 30, 2007, 02:06:55 pm »
Bon anniversaire, Chez Tremblay! So glad all you wonderful, gifted, and resourceful people made this my safe online berth, for all things Brokeback, and so much more.

I raise my imaginary whiskey bottle to you all! :)

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Re: Happy 1st Anniversary, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost!
« Reply #21 on: March 30, 2007, 02:36:27 pm »
Happy Birthday all my friends! Today, for the first time in many many days, I have CT open on my desk at work feeling much of the same excitement I felt a year ago when we moved to our new home. This year will certainly go down in history for me as one of the most important of my life. I found the movie that is, and will always be, the cinematic high point for me; two characters, Ennis delMar and Jack Twist, that live in me and are on my mind every day; realizing that I may not be the shy, withdrawn person I've always imaged myself to be-maybe I can get an amen from you Brokies that now know me  ;D; suffered some incredible sadness and loss here but more than mitigated by the happiness that you bring me.

I don't know that I will ever recapture the excitement of of those early days but the mellow happiness that remains is good enough for me.

You bring me joy

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Re: Happy 1st Anniversary, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost!
« Reply #22 on: March 30, 2007, 04:22:02 pm »
I guess Bettermost has become the proverbial long term partner for us all - the intial lust period we all experience goes but the love has grown to just part of our lives - our normal routine goes on but if our partner was snatched from us we would find it extremely hard to cope and our hearts would be broken.


(was that just a little cheesy!?  ;D It's true though - my metaphor for the day!!!)
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Re: Happy 1st Anniversary, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost!
« Reply #23 on: March 30, 2007, 08:19:28 pm »
-maybe I can get an amen from you Brokies that now know me  ;D;

Amen, girlfriend!

Shy? Withdrawn?
I don't think so...

Love you, RouxB

Cheers for a great year,

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Re: Happy 1st Anniversary, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost!
« Reply #24 on: March 30, 2007, 08:27:56 pm »
Paul, if I were in Boston I'd be smooching you up something fierce!

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Re: Happy 1st Anniversary, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost!
« Reply #25 on: March 30, 2007, 08:34:12 pm »
I seriously  miss you, girl.  Are you coming to Denver?  Do I have to come up to Alberta to slap see you?
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Re: Happy 1st Anniversary, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost!
« Reply #26 on: March 30, 2007, 09:37:08 pm »

Happy Anniversary Tremblayans!

I was never a poster on PT at IMBd but I did lurk there from time to time so happy day to one and all and best wishes for continued success with your Bettermost home

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Re: Happy 1st Anniversary, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost!
« Reply #27 on: March 30, 2007, 11:00:03 pm »
One of many years!

We are the brokiest of all Brokies! We are the sheep of this Mountain! Amen!.. I mean YEEHAW!

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Re: Happy 1st Anniversary, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost!
« Reply #28 on: March 31, 2007, 02:08:25 am »
Paul, darlin', Denver and Alberta may be too much for my pocket and if I have to choose it's gotta be the pilgrimage. But you know me-haaarrrddd to miss an opportunity to love on some Brokies...

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Re: Happy 1st Anniversary, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost!
« Reply #29 on: March 31, 2007, 12:34:42 pm »
Aw, c'mon, Ruby. Just work a little overtime, you can spend it catching up on the board many important tasks that have mysteriously fallen behind on!! We would love to see you here in Denver AND in Alberta, c'mon let's make it a habit! This is gonna be one terrific summer with opportunities that may never come again!!
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Re: Happy 1st Anniversary, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost!
« Reply #30 on: March 31, 2007, 05:20:08 pm »
You goin to Calgary Lee?
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Re: Happy 1st Anniversary, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost!
« Reply #31 on: March 31, 2007, 05:29:55 pm »
Aw, c'mon, Ruby. We would love to see you here in Denver AND in Alberta, c'mon let's make it a habit! This is gonna be one terrific summer with opportunities that may never come again!!

I second that. Get your scrawny fine ass out here!!  Doncha want to see me tearin' Angel Went Up In Flames up on my fiddle??

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Re: Happy 1st Anniversary, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost!
« Reply #32 on: March 31, 2007, 05:30:09 pm »
Hail, yes, I'm goin a Calgary. You got a problem with that??  ;D

The Social Events co-moderator can't be falling down on the job, especially when it's in the Rocky Mountains, Canadian branch!!

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« Reply #33 on: March 31, 2007, 05:32:06 pm »
I second that. Get your scrawny fine ass out here!!  Doncha want to see me tearin' Angel Went Up In Flames up on my fiddle??

That is gonna be some high-class entertainment, and some high-altitude f**king fine entertainment too!!
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Re: Happy 1st Anniversary, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost!
« Reply #34 on: April 01, 2007, 12:14:43 am »
Doncha want to see me tearin' Angel Went Up In Flames up on my fiddle??

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Re: Happy 1st Anniversary, CHEZ TREMBLAY @ BetterMost!
« Reply #35 on: April 01, 2007, 03:59:41 am »
hell, send a link maybe I'll go.....
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