A lot of time and effort goes in to choosing an IRC channel topic that suits the group. Here are some examples of fine work from the past.

• #BUGS: BSD Unix and other tech talk.
• #BUGS: BSD User Group Singleton
• #BUGS: BSD User Group Sydney (in lieu of inspiration)
• #BUGS: BSD Using German Speakers
• #BUGS: Baileys User Group Singleton
• #BUGS: Bring Unusually Good Stout
• #BUGS: Bringing Unusual Garden Specimens
• 8th Jan... waiting... still waiting...
• B.U.G,S: Belrose Understands Guys like, uS
• B.U.G.S: BSD Unix Gives Security
• B.U.G.S: BSD Unix, GNU Stallman.
• B.U.G.S: BSD Uses GNU Software
• B.U.G.S: Beer Usage Guarantees Stumblage
• B.U.G.S: Belrose Understands Guys like uS
• B.U.G.S: Bring Us Good Sojourn
• B.U.G.S: Bulldogs unsatisfactory, game sucked
• BSD Unixian Goes Skiing
• BSD User’s Group Sydney
• BSD Usergroup Gathering Soon - Edwin’s Place, 16th Sept.
• BSD Users Get Serious.
• BSD Users Grieve Steve
• BSD Users Group Sydney
• BSD usergroup gathering soon - Sam
• BU(u)GS: Berkeley Unix (u) Group, Sydney
• BUGA: BSD User’s Group Almost
• BUGA: BSD Users’ Group Almost
• BUGS BSD Users Group Sydney/Sweden (UTF-8 in use)
• BUGS™: BSD® UNIX® - “Going Strong since 1978”™
• BUGS: “Barely Useful Group of Sods”
• BUGS: 8th Jan... waiting...
• BUGS: All the BSD you need!
• BUGS: B. S. D. - Oi!
• BUGS: BSD - Ultimate, Great, Super!
• BUGS: BSD Lovers within 10,000km of Sydney
• BUGS: BSD Tip #01 “Need more time at the FreeBSD boot menu but can’t find the Space Key? Pressing Backspace will restart the countdown timer.”
• BUGS: BSD UNIX Going Strong
• BUGS: BSD UNIX, Great Stuff
• BUGS: BSD Unix - Gorgeously Sexy
• BUGS: BSD Unix Garment Suggestions
• BUGS: BSD Unix Gets Serious
• BUGS: BSD Unix Going Strong
• BUGS: BSD Unix Grows Steadily
• BUGS: BSD User Group Sydney
• BUGS: BSD User Group Sydney (and other places)
• BUGS: BSD User Group Sydney-ish
• BUGS: BSD User’s Group Sometimes
• BUGS: BSD User’s Group Sydney
• BUGS: BSD Usergroup Gathering Soon - Edwin’s Place, 16th Sept.
• BUGS: BSD Users Get Spam
• BUGS: BSD Users Greet Solstice
• BUGS: BSD Users Group Scandinavia
• BUGS: BSD Users Group Sydney
• BUGS: BSD Users Group Sydney (and environs)
• BUGS: BSD Users Group Sydney (and hangers-on)
• BUGS: BSD Users Group Sydney (etc)
• BUGS: BSD Users Group Sydney - Happy Australia Day!
• BUGS: BSD Users’ Global Soirée (we use UTF-8 here)
• BUGS: BSD Users’ Group Somewhere
• BUGS: BSD Users’ Group Stops
• BUGS: BSD Users’ Group Sydney
• BUGS: BSD Users, Gently Sardonic
• BUGS: BSD, not Ubuntu, Gentoo or SuSE.
• BUGS: Babies Under Garlic Sauce
• BUGS: Backspace Usage Generates Space
• BUGS: Backward-delete-word Usage Generates Space
• BUGS: Bad Unix Gun Slingers
• BUGS: Bad Users Get Sighup’d
• BUGS: Bad Users Get Spanked
• BUGS: Bad, Ugly, Good; Scrambled
• BUGS: Baking Unixhag & Groogle’s Sourdough
• BUGS: Baking Using Groogle’s Sourdough
• BUGS: Baking Using Groogle’s System
• BUGS: Bald Unless Got Shampoo
• BUGS: Bald Users Get Shampooed
• BUGS: Bang! Universe Generated. Simple.
• BUGS: Banks Under Gross Stress
• BUGS: Banning Underage Groping Sessions
• BUGS: Barbecue Under Groogle’s Supervision
• BUGS: Barely Useful Group of Sods
• BUGS: Bashing Up God-Awful Service-Providers
• BUGS: Basic UFS Gets Synchronicity
• BUGS: Bathurst Upsets GMH Supporters
• BUGS: Be Unique Go Sachs [sam has a madass: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lawrance/3243888134/]
• BUGS: Bearded Ugliness Gone Somehow
• BUGS: Bearded, Until Groogle Shaves.
• BUGS: Because Ungainliness Graduates Serenade
• BUGS: Because University Graduates Serenade
• BUGS: Because Users Get Silence
• BUGS: Because Users Get Space (to think)
• BUGS: Because everyone has to live somewhere.
• BUGS: Beef Users Gas Society
• BUGS: Beelzebub Uses GNU Software
• BUGS: Been, Used, Gone, Stuffed.
• BUGS: Beer Unites GNU Software
• BUGS: Beer-drinkers Usually Get SNAFU’d
• BUGS: Begone Unwanted Gregorian Solstice!
• BUGS: Begone Users of Gates’ Software!
• BUGS: Being Unemployed Greatly Sucks
• BUGS: Being Unlucky Generates Superstition
• BUGS: Being Unusually Geeky Sometimes
• BUGS: Belatedly Unpredictably Gone Surfing
• BUGS: Bending Under Great Stress
• BUGS: Bending Usage, Grasping Synonyms
• BUGS: Berkeley University Graduates Serenade
• BUGS: Berkeley University Graduates Succeed
• BUGS: Berkeley Unix (u) Group, Sydney
• BUGS: Berkeley Unix Group, Sydney
• BUGS: Best Use Gut Strings
• BUGS: Best, Ultimate, Great, Super!
• BUGS: Between Undulations Giddy Sensations
• BUGS: Bewildered Universe Grapples Strings
• BUGS: Beyond Urban Gathers - Singleton
• BUGS: Big Upset Generating Splits
• BUGS: Big User Group Scramble
• BUGS: BigPong Under Groggy’s Superiority
• BUGS: Biggest Users Gathered Since....
• BUGS: Bikesheds Using Green Shades
• BUGS: Birds Utter, Goats Stomp
• BUGS: Birthdays Unwelcome, General Sympathy
• BUGS: Bitter Uncles Giving Succour
• BUGS: Blogs Use Gratuitous Space
• BUGS: BlokeMan Using Giant Slapper
• BUGS: BlokeMan Using Giant Stick
• BUGS: Bloody Uncooperative Gaoled SSH
• BUGS: Bloody Unruly Goat Shepherds
• BUGS: Bloody Unruly Group of Sailors
• BUGS: Bloody Useless GNU Stupidities
• BUGS: Bloody Useless Groogle’s Satellite
• BUGS: Blues Ultimately Grants Slowhand
• BUGS: Boffins Using Geeky Software
• BUGS: Boggling Under Glaring Stares.
• BUGS: Bogus Uber Geeks on Steriods
• BUGS: Boot Using General Strategies
• BUGS: Booze Underground Gambling Strippers
• BUGS: Boozers Use Glenno’s Stash
• BUGS: Bored Upon Going Slowly
• BUGS: Boring Unless Gavin Stripteases
• BUGS: Boring User Group Sydney-ish
• BUGS: Bovines Undergo Graphic Sodomisation
• BUGS: Boys Undo Group Silliness
• BUGS: Brevicoryne Uroplata Geococcus Solenopsis
• BUGS: Bring Us Good Sojourn
• BUGS: Bringing Über German Speaking
• BUGS: Bringing U Groogle via Satellite
• BUGS: Bringing U Groogle via Satellite (soon)
• BUGS: Bringing Users Golden Silence
• BUGS: Bringing Utopia to Geek’s Screens
• BUGS: Brisbane Upsets Gay Southeners
• BUGS: Brisbane Usurps Gay Southerners
• BUGS: Building Unambiguously Great Software
• BUGS: Building Up to a Great Solstice
• BUGS: Building Usurper Goes Squatting
• BUGS: Bulletin: Unixhag Guru Sighted!
• BUGS: Bunky USB Greatly Sucks
• BUGS: Burdened Using Ghost Script
• BUGS: Busted Under Ground Seismologists
• BUGS: Bye Unixhag - Get Shifted
• BUGS: Criminal Minds put to Better Use.
• BUGS: Don’t get mad, get BOINC!
• BUGS: For a tip on FreeBSD, try ‘fortune freebsd-tips’
• BUGS: For when you need space to think.
• BUGS: FreeBSD-7.0 out soon!
• BUGS: G is not Gentoo.
• BUGS: Happy Sweet 16 to FreeBSD
• BUGS: Hardcore nerds.
• BUGS: SYDNEY
• BUGS: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
• BUGS: Merry Christmas!
• BUGS: Next meeting 18th April @sam’s
• BUGS: Next meeting today @peter’s
• BUGS: Next meeting tomorrow @peter’s
• BUGS: Next meeting: 16-Sep-2007 at Edwin’s
• BUGS: Online Family Planning
• BUGS: Railing against style(9)!
• BUGS: The Carn(ival)age is Over?
• BUGS: The Cone of Silence
• BUGS: The hotter the better.
• BUGS: Tip 0: For the tip-of-the-moment, run “fortune freebsd-tips”
• BUGS: U is not Ubuntu.
• BUGS: U.N.C.L.E.
• BUGS: WELCOME HOME DEJAI!
• BUGS: Water Supply Troubleshooting R Us!
• BUGS: We Debug Anything!
• BUGS: We came, we saw, we BSD’d.
• BUGS: We don’t need no stinkin’ topic!
• BUGS: We’re all affiliated!
• BUGS: We’ve got the power!
• BUGS: Welcome to the Carnage!!
• BUGS: What is a “handy”? Answer given this morning.
• BUGS: What will YOU do with your extra second?
• BUGS: When air guitar is just too much
• BUGS: You’re not a channel operator
• BUGS: Z has the power!
• BUGS: all the newest news!
• BUGS: because unixhag greps supplicant
• BUGS: boring: unixhag, gro0gle, sourdough
• BUGS: john has the power!
• BUGS: use au.oz.org instead
• B[Uu]*GS: Berkeley Unix Users U... Group, Sydney
• B[Uu]*GS: Berkeley Unix Users Unanimously Using Ubiquitous Unix Unabashedly Usefully ... Group, Sydney
• B[Uu]*GS: Berkeley Unix Users Using Unix Usability... Group, Sydney
• B[Uu]*GS: Berkeley Unix Users Using Users Usability... Group, Sydney
• B[Uu]*GS: Berkeley Unix Using Users Usability... Group, Sydney
• Barely Useful Group of Sods
• Bogus Uber Geeks on Steriods
• Bringing U Golden Showers
• Callum is an operator!
• Insert $1.20 for topic
• Wanted: one topic, any condition
• Wanted: topic.
• [BUGS] ‘R Us!
• [BUGS] BSD Unix Group Sample
• [BUGS] BSD Unix Group Share
• [BUGS] BSD Unix Group Shitney
• [BUGS] BSD Unix Group Strangers