I think that Efnet and IRCnet, among others, prove that nick/chanserv is not an indispensible requirement, as long as you have reasonable alternatives (eggdrop bots, etc.) Indeed some folk I know even object to eggies on a channel and will avoid them like the proverbial plague!

So that's what's in the forbidden room! Scrabble! I want to laugh[…] This was once the game of old women, old men, in the summers or in retirement villas, to be played when there was nothing good on television. Or of adolescents, once, long long ago. […] Now of course it's something different[…] It's as if he's offered me drugs.

Sweetest nut hath sourest rind.

‘She must of grabbed some pills. There's half a dozen kinds up there – even demerol.’