I logged in for first time just now, to say thanks for kind e-mails, and to start reading
PMs. But also to mention that www.takeourword.com gives an error message suggesting they
are having serious problem. Hope site doesn't go belly up. I sure gonna miss it if it is gone.
However, Julian Burnside's site has been expanded, and looks even better than it used to be.
But you have to pay $4.95 per annum. Looks worth it, but I can't go there until I get use of
my daughter's credit card.
Burnside URL:http://www.vocabula.com/VRJULY02BurnsideALD.htm

Glad to see you back here, Dr Bill! This board should keep you busy for a while.

Good to see you back, you grumpy old fart. I need someone to abuse.

Hope things have sorted themselves out for you on the family front. It all seems a hell of a shame to us.

Just tell me where to send the money. I'd pay ten times that for a year of fun for you, my friend.

Bill's back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So glad you're back, Dr. Bill!

Hardly anything shocking has been said since you left!

Love,
Theresa

Ditto, to what Ted said, Darling Bill. In fact, I just came from there:
http://www.julianburnside.com/
and it let me go where I wanted; nothing telling me I had to subscribe, and no error messages. But you dear man, if there's an area you want to get into that I didn't check, you just let me know and I'll either send the site or you the money. No problem. I love you.

EDIT--Oops, too hasty yet again. Wrong site, Jackie! It's done, now, though. Thanks, Faldage, my friend.

http://www.vocabula.com/index.asp

Scroll down a bit more than halfway look for Give TVR as a Gift on the left.

Now, Dr. Bill, don't go disappearing on us again, we wouldn't know what to do without you! Good to see you back despite the home-front "stuff"...take a whack at some of these posts that are just beckoning for the levity and/or leavening of your curmudgeonly touch!

Don't do dat no more! (go away, I mean!)

DAMMIT! Count me in as another willing donor to the Dr. Bill Amusement Fund ~ looks like y'all beat me to it.

Glad to see you back, wwh. Quick, say something salacious!

I need someone to abuse

Rather than yourself, you mean, Cap?


Hi Bill! Stick around!

Rather than yourself, you mean, Cap?

'Ere, you a peeping tom cat fish, shona?

tom cat fish

Now that would be a scent and a half.

Allow me to join the chorus of welcome backs, Dr. Bill! This place hasn't been the same without you, so please stick around

Thank you all. I'll be around. The board is doing so well, I can take it easy until I
get feeling ambitious again. Incidentally thanks to Jackie, I now have The Vocabula Review.
I even posted a word from it - scoptophil, adj. able to live in total darkness.

scoptophil, adj. able to live in total darkness.
Live, as opposed to exist?

scoptophil - able to live in total darkness[?]

but scoptophilia (or scopophilia) = voyeurism
(the spelling ‘scoptophilia’ dates from a mistake made by Freud's first translators.)

hurrah, Bill's back!



If you can't see the bright side, polish the dull side.

Its already been said by everyone else, but its good to have you back Dr Bill, and as you have often said “we need all the talent we can get”. The board can't afford to lose yours, particularly as we need your focus on words to help keep us all in line! So here's hoping you’ll “be around” and “feeling ambitious” every day.

Cheers, dxb.

a mistake made by Freud's first translators

That would, of course, have been a Freudian slip.

Faldage was kind enough to PM me that I had put an extra "p" in front of first "o".
I went back to TVR, and the word given there was "scotophil", which I got right
once in Words from Medicine, but later goofed. I am not an admirere of Freud,
and didn't get word from him, so can't blame him for my error.

Thursday PM Good news! www.takeourword.com works today! It is a wonderful
site, and all AWADers will find it well worthwhile going there every week.