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Jul 8Liked by Aoife Barry

Your story about being in a Mighty Boosh forum reminded me of how I was a regular on a JJ72 forum back in their heyday. We had planned meetups in Dublin and London around their shows. There were also various other festival meetups. The forum sadly died around the same time the band broke up. There's many a sordid tale around all the happenings in that group. If you ever find me twisted, I might reveal the ones I can remember.

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Loved this Aoife and oh man I was also a huge Boosh fangirl back in the day. Went to the live shows, the book signing, quoted Rich Fulcher riffs from the DVD commentary with pals, learned all the little rhyme songs, (I never liked that they named it, and felt like it lost something when they made crimping a plot point rather than a funny thing that happens and is never addressed) the whole shebang! What a time. I even met my now-husband because of Boosh!

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OMG Karyn I absolutely LOVE that you met him because of Boosh! That is amazing. I bet we were both in the crowd at so many events :) I wish the series hadn't gone a bit downhill but at least it was great while we had it

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Oh I’d say we definitely were! I had an Old Gregg quote on my profile back when online dating happened on sites rather than apps and Aengus was the only person who got the reference lol!

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