Counting history

[heiditandy]

--- In HPFGU-Feedback at yahoogroups.com, Eileen wrote:

> The first TBAY post was made by Tabouli. Elkins was the second 
poster
> on the Bay. And I hold the honoured position of third. Cindy 
actually
> didn't venture into the Bay for a bit, though she obviously 
cottoned
> onto the style quite quickly, and is a character in some of the 
early
> TBAY posts, using her non-TBAY posts as dialogue with TBAY!Elkins.
> 

Eileen, how are *you* counting? Because obviously, we all agree that 
the TBAY-style predated the incorporation of the prefix by at least 
two months, possibly more. And when I was looking back towards the 
start of TBAY-style posting, I was looking to posts from Cindy and 
Tabouli in mid-January, 2002 which included "role-play"-style 
narratives, like ": Person X engages in behaviour Z and Person Q 
reacts to same!" 

I know Cindy's History of HPfGU says that it was Spring 2002, but I 
don't think that's a 100% accurate date at all. as it's easy to find 
the phrase "Theory Bay" in February, and some posting-style 
precursors in a read-through of that January's posts.