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31 Jan 2008, 11:04 pm

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well, there was mrs. jones, my latin teacher. older than dirt - we all swore she must have known caesar personally. 4'9" of terror, with her wire-rimmed glasses, white hair pulled back into a bun at the back of her head, and that wooden, metal-tipped pointer. had a raised platform in the middle of the room where she had her desk. turning in a paper was like climbing up into the stratosphere, with the gods.


isn't it interesting that a woman can come right out and FLAUNT a need for height compensation?

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01 Feb 2008, 4:22 am

Geeze Merle you been away forever and what do you do? First post back and you kill the thread. Sorry can't let that happen.

Good to have you back home.


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01 Feb 2008, 5:56 am

sinsboldly wrote:
Nan wrote:
well, there was mrs. jones, my latin teacher. older than dirt - we all swore she must have known caesar personally. 4'9" of terror, with her wire-rimmed glasses, white hair pulled back into a bun at the back of her head, and that wooden, metal-tipped pointer. had a raised platform in the middle of the room where she had her desk. turning in a paper was like climbing up into the stratosphere, with the gods.


isn't it interesting that a woman can come right out and FLAUNT a need for height compensation?

Merle

I'm not sure it is exclusively gender based. Just think of how common it is for a Doberman to be scared of spiders and how frequently one sees rhinocerotes festooned with Pekinese and Chihuahua.


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01 Feb 2008, 11:03 am

OOHHHH, it's quiet in the ex-cafe again.

Think I'll have some apple pear Tulsi tea and enjoy the calm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70IHIrvAO_w[/youtube]


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01 Feb 2008, 11:18 am

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Geeze Merle you been away forever and what do you do? First post back and you kill the thread. Sorry can't let that happen.

Good to have you back home.


neiner, neiner, neiner. . . :P :P :P

good to be back


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01 Feb 2008, 3:50 pm

geeze, today isn't my day, EITHER!


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01 Feb 2008, 4:57 pm

Just lurking as usual.... be back later.


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01 Feb 2008, 5:38 pm

WOW, Richie!! 5,000 posts. I'll never be able to catch up to that. And CONGRATS!!

Lurking seems to be the "in" thing lately. Think I'll join you. :)



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01 Feb 2008, 5:44 pm

:tired: Lurking...


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01 Feb 2008, 5:59 pm

I'm never very good at lurking. I never seem to be capable of keeping my mouth shu


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01 Feb 2008, 6:03 pm

blessedmom wrote:
WOW, Richie!! 5,000 posts. I'll never be able to catch up to that. And CONGRATS!!

Lurking seems to be the "in" thing lately. Think I'll join you. :)

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I'm never very good at lurking. I never seem to be capable of keeping my mouth shu

You claimed at one time you lurked for several months before making your first post.

By the way a few more posts and you will be on page 0ne of the member list as you are now listed as #51 in total posts.


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01 Feb 2008, 7:14 pm

Sorry Richie... I forgot to say congratulations on being halfway to five digits.


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01 Feb 2008, 7:33 pm

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I'm never very good at lurking. I never seem to be capable of keeping my mouth shu

You claimed at one time you lurked for several months before making your first post.

By the way a few more posts and you will be on page 0ne of the member list as you are now listed as #51 in total posts.

Not just "several" months... eight.

Join date June 18th, 2006. First post Feb 7th, 2007, 2nd&3rd Feb 18th, fourteen on the 19th, and so on.

So, I'm just coming up to the anniversary of my first post, and, realistically, my post average has been 10 per day for the year.


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01 Feb 2008, 7:45 pm

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I'm never very good at lurking. I never seem to be capable of keeping my mouth shu


:lol:

Understatement of the year!

You're definantly a good talker!

A refreshing change from my husband who averages 2 words/day.

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01 Feb 2008, 8:04 pm

And... just in case anyone else thinks it sounds good... I have this new Greasemonkey script.

When people quote people quoting people quoting people... it just shows the outermost quote. The nested ones are all "folded" away. Each "whoever wrote:" gets followed by a "..." that you can click on to collapse/expand the quotes.

E.g. the post above, where I quoted Richie quoting me... Richie's quote was visible, but I had a "..." to click on for the option to fold it away. My inner quote defaulted to folded up, with the "..." there so I could unfold it.

Anyway, I think I like it. Of course, you'll need to be using Firefox (or Seamonkey) to have it. Then you add the Greasemonkey extension, and you have access to the 14,409 scripts currently available.

This script was "phpBB2.x Collapse Quotes" http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/9582, but I had to slightly doctor its match string (to "*modules.php*file=viewtopic*") to get it to work on here.


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01 Feb 2008, 8:14 pm

Smelena wrote:
A refreshing change from my husband who averages 2 words/day.

Which puts me in mind of the Encyclopedia Britannica article, written by Robert Heinlein, about physicist Paul Dirac:
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His students have coined a new unit of measure, the dirac, which is one word per light-year.


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