...or you can be more specific if you like

Sam

I found the forums from a link from another Golden Girl site...and haven't looked back!

Fank you, Paul

**I'll give you that fiver later, okay**



Sam

You better Sam!

*I'd have put a GG quote about money here but couldn't think of one*

I found this forum because I knew Sam.

Wow, what a story!

Yes I knew Sam too

I found it on a search engine...and am LOVING it ever since!

Carly

My friend Jaffa told me about it thanks for telling me about it Catherine... But apologies to all for talking about the other 80's series more oooopps sorry...

Margaret

Your welcome Margaret.

I found out by "word of mouth" I suppose cos I was at the Yahoo! Group that you ran, Sam. I was only there about 4-5 months before we all moved to our beautiful forum home.

Catherine
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I found this either through a search engine or a link from another website, but this is the only forem/site i keep coming back to. Good work Sam!

To be honest, I cannot remember how I came across Sam's website and this forum.

I think I must have found it through a search engine.

Regards, James.

I googled for the MTV Movie Awards sketch and this is how I got here

For me, it was one of two things: EITHER I did a search on google, OR I found a link from Katie's site. I'm inclined to think the latter, only cause I was a memeber there for AGES before I became a member here (before the new forum). However, I think I found the site through a search engine way before I joined the forums, and I linked two and two when I saw you on Katie's site...I'm confused!

Ché

You won't believe some of the words I come across in my site stats which a visitor has used to find my site. Just a few days ago I noticed "girls ti*s" being one of the words so come on, own up, who found the site by accident? I often wonder what disappointment someone feels when they search for "sexy girls/ladies" and they're brought to a site about four old biddies Anti-climax, perhaps?!

Sam

Oh wow, Sam! I know! Whenever I would search "The Golden Girls" on Kazaa, all this really bad, porn-o stuff would come up. Stuff like, "SEE OUR NEWEST GIRL GET A FACE (go into really bad porn-o stuff >here<)" I was appalled at the stuff that came up...

Carly

LOL, I know! I remember the first time I searched for 'the golden girls' it took me to a website that was most definitely not about four funny older ladies living in Miami, ROTFL! I did a classic Dorothy when I stumbled across it - "Whooooaaaaahhhhh!" <--- from the Blanche's Boudoir scene when she sees Mr September

Sam

People amaze me at the stuff they come up with...names, I mean!

Carly

Thanks for reminding me Sam!

I have been racking my brain for the last 6 days trying to remember how I found your site and this forum.

Regards, James.

P.S. Just kidding!

Hee hee I might have guessed that's how you found us

Sam

Well I sure didn't find the site by looking for porn

but the problem is that I can't remember how I found it. I remember sometime in April I was looking up the golden girls a lot once I started watching it on Lifetime. I think I found Katie's site first so maybe that is how I found this one. But needless to say...this is the BEST GG site out there!

Yeah yeah


Awww, many thanks, Ingmar I've been slacking these past few weeks on the site as I've had a lot on, but an update will come soon with images from TV Tales: The Golden Girls and maybe a new section or two when I get some time.

Sam

Yay! I can't wait for the update, Sam! I'll definitely be looking forward to it...but for now, I'm going to go whoop all my friends' butts in pool!

Carly

lol kool little emoticon thing there. what ever happened to the Betty Boulevard site?

yeh i searched for Bea on a search engine one day when i was at school, and it gave me a site with pics n stuff of her, so i went in it and it was a nude celebrity site! i was so shocked, so i immediatly shut down my computer and hoped that i wouldnt get caught. the day after that mum comes up to me saying that im in trouble for looking at porn on the net! but she tricked me - it was just a letter from scool about a teacher reccomendation - thank god!

I found it looking to buy the dvd set!

Heres a Betty White message forem but at the mo the only 'regulars' are me and RatPackFanatic12 ! Check it out though

Yeeeea Cheryl! Whoop whoop! Paaartay!

Carly

I think I've been with Sam, Katie, and Rob for about 3-4 years now. ALL the way back when it was Yahoo! Clubs... I've made the shuffle every time, and we've finally settled here.

But I remember finding Sam's site about 3-4 years ago when I did the search for "The Golden Girls" websites. Then, I emailed Sam trying to correct that it was actually 5161 Richmond Street. God, was I a bitch!

Modest, are we?

Carly

I found it through a search engine earlier in the year, probably on yahoo or google.

That will be cool Sam!

Your site just keeps on getting better and better!

Regards, James.

Thanks, James! I feel so bad that I haven't done an update in weeks because it's so not like me. Right now I've got another project on that is basically consuming my time so by the time I do have a gap in my schedule I just feel too tired/unmotivated to work on the site. I don't know when I'm going to get those new sections on the site up and running - but paid work rules right now I will definitely add a bit of festivity to the site come early December though

Sam

Don't feel bad, Sam, because I'm in exactly the same boat. I've hardly done anything with my site in the past 5 or 6 months (except for the redesign, but I mean in terms of adding new content). When I was in the shower this evening, I was thinking about it. I'm actually thinking of putting a little notice on my homepage that new content (i.e. photo galleries, a DVD page and some other things) will be added in December/January--over my winter break. That way, people would at least know that I haven't abandoned the site (and being that I updated at least once a week for 2 1/2 years, people probably are starting to think that I've abandoned it, LOL!).

I think this is just an especially hectic and busy time of year for everyone. Like you, Sam, when I do finally get some time where I could work on it, I just feel unmotivated and want to do something lazy instead.

Cheers, Katie! The last time I added new content (wallpapers) was about a month ago. I was on a roll and I thought I'd achieve a whole lot more that weekend but it all took a back seat. I took some screenshots from TV Tales a few weeks back and I'd planned on setting up a gallery for that but I'm still in the planning stages, lol!


LOL! Thankfully I don't have a 'last updated' date on the site so for all people know I could be updating it everyday (uh-huh, likely story) but I myself feel like I'm abandoning the site. But, once we get into December then I know I'll HAVE to make some kind of update to give it a festive feel, which in turn will hopefully give me the incentive to get on with adding new content.


Yeah, sure does seem to be a very busy time for a lot of people right now. By the time we get around to weekends which will be the best time to do my own site stuff, I just lounge around and keep putting it off for another day

Sam

Sam and Katie, I would not feel too bad about not updating @ccess The Golden Girls and The Rue Crew in a while.

I enjoy visiting both of your websites due to the amount of content you already have on them, but I will look forward to seeing your updates of the sites in the near future.

Like Katie said, November and December are busy months for people with Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up.

Regards, James.

Well, tonight I decided to do some work on the site and make it festive.

I wanted to use a "scene" from the GG episode 'Twas The Nightmare Before Christmas' as the main image on the homepage. I took a screenshot at the highest resolution but when you shrink it down it's still as pixelated as hell. But, determined to use a festive episode shot, I messed around in Macromedia Fireworks and made it look like something of a mosaic...as if it was meant to look arty farty, lol!

Naturally that image had no chance of being as clear as the regular ones I use, as those were excellent high quality images I got from a promo site, but this'll do for Christmas as it's very warm looking I did have some snow falling on the site, courtesy of some javascript, but it was making things load quite slowly so I've taken that off now.

www.thegoldengirls.biz

Sam

Sam, the site looks great! It makes me want Christmas to come even faster. I especially like the little message in the picture. It makes it feel more personal/festive :santa:

Carly

Sam, you have done a fantastic job making @ccess The Golden Girls festive!

The mosaic screenshot from Twas The Nightmare Before Christmas is very effective, especially with the Christmas greeting.

I also like the screenshot sections for Twas The Nightmare Before Christmas and Have Yourself A Very Little Christmas - both of The Golden Girls Christmas episodes.

Regards, James.

Thanks Carly and James! I'm glad the "mosaic" image doesn't look too bad/out of place I'm going to try and add more shots to the Christmas episode galleries soon.

James, have you seen either of the Christmas episodes yet, on LivingTV? They are both good, with 'Have Yourself A Very Little Christmas' being the more serious one but still funny. I just love 'Twas The Nightmare Before Christmas', especially the 'Blanche's Boudoir Calendar' scene

Dorothy: Whooooooaaaaaaahhhhhh!
Blanche: September?
Dorothy: Yep
Sophia: I'm surprised you were able to walk in October!

Sam

Sam, I have seen both Christmas episodes of The Golden Girls on LivingTV and totally agree with everything you have said about them, especially about how good the 'Blanche's Boudoir Calendar' scene is!

I have always preferred 'Twas The Nightmare Before Christmas' over 'Have Yourself A Very Little Christmas'. Although 'Have Yourself A Very Little Christmas' is funny, it follows the seriousness of Season 4 and Season 5 of The Golden Girls.

Regards, James.

Sam, I love the mosaic picture on your homepage! It doesn't look like a low-res picture at all--it just looks like you intended to be that way (artsy fartsy, lol). It's really nice!

My favorite part of "The Nightmare Before Christmas" HAS to be when Blanche comes running through the living room, yelling "Catch me, catch me, catch me!" while the mall Santa is chasing her. ROTFLMAO!

I also love it when the girls are sitting in the Diner and Blanche is telling stories of her Christmas escapades, and Dorothy yells, "I COULD GET HERPES FROM LISTENING TO THIS STORY!" Haha!!

I love your site Sam and the new Christmas decorations are great! I have always loved Twas The Nightmare Before Christmas and that pic is cool. Well done!

Catherine
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Hey, Sam!

Your website looks awesome! I really like that photo you have on the front page, as well! It's great, and really festive.

It does look really good, Sam. I have a program on my computer called MGI Photosuite 8.06 (which strangely is older than MGI Photosuite 3 and 4 - I have v4 but I don't like it) that lets you put about 25 different special effects onto a picture, including mosaic and one that looks really effective with pixelated pictures, called Gaussian Blur. I don't know if your image software has anything like that, but I thought I'd just give it a mention!

The first half of 'Have Yourself a Very Little Christmas' is very funny, particularly when they draw names out of the bowl to see who they're buying a present for, nobody wants Roses present so Sophia and Dorothy do a high-five when they find out they're buying for each other !

I like the front page Sam, the mosaic effect looks really good. Good job!

Yeah, the Gaussian Blur is a good effect, Rob, and I think I used a bit of that to soften the image a little. I think I used all of my graphics packages (Macromedia Fireworks, Paint Shop Pro, Adobe PhotoShop and a quirky one called Professor Franklin's Photo Effects which came free with my older printer yet is remarkably impressive for it being a freebie) to try and create the right effect

Sam

Wow, the site looks really Christmassy, Sam! And the mosaic gives that Christmassy feel, too; I don't know if it's that a mosaic looks a leetle like snowflakes making a pic, or that when you're loaded on egg-nog, everything looks like a mosaic, but I really get a Christmassy feeling when I see that pic! And the "artsy fartsy" doesn't look "made" at all! Really nice!

LOL, like Katie said, my fave part of 'Nightmare Before Christmas' is Blanche and the horny Santa :naughtyxmas:

Ché :santa:

I did a google search for a site with a forum and this is the one that came up first.

Thanks a lot, Ché The 'scene' of the girls on the sofa with their pressies was too 'Christmassy' NOT to use, so I knew I had to get around the picture being all horribly pixelated and the mosaic effect fitted right on in there

Sam

I found a very interesting spanish site this morning (I speak spanish too). It mentioned Sam's website clickie

Let me translate the link to Sam's website for you : This webpage is the first one in the UK dedicated to "las chicas de oro" (GG in Spanish). It's also the worlwide most complete GG ressource. This page not only includes it's own newsletter : "the Golden Gazette" but also goodies like screenshots and wallpapers.

Did you first access Sam's forums thanks to this website? That's the question I'd like to ask our members from Spain. If the answer is no can you please tell us which one you visited? Thanks soooo much!

The spanish website is a good one you may be interesting in checking it out if you see anything you want me to translate just ask.