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This came up a couple of years ago, and I think it'd be interesting to revisit it. I've subscribed to AWAD's E-mails for 6 or 7 years now; a friend sent me the link. I don't remember how she stumbled across it. And I met my current (and, I hope, last  ) husband on this very message board.
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My best friend sent me a gift subscription, but I didn't check out the bulletin board here until a year or two later. The bulletin board is kind of buried down below on the home page--and no special attention is given to it as being a great place for word hounds to meet and talk. That's a shame, really. However, it was a too happy day when I came across the bulletin board, and went, consequently, overboard in my posting enthusiasm, as you well know, AnnaS. 
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Ditto, more or less; and I have thanked my friend many a time! Anna--when you first laid eyes on him, did you say, "Wow--you look just like my last husband!"?
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"Wow--you look just like my last husband!"Ha! Who *did say that, anyway? Dorothy Parker?
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My Dad bought himself a Reader's Digest book on using a PC, and one of the chapters featured an explanation of mailing lists, along with examples, including AWAD.
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my sister signed me up for the daily word, and from there, I found the board... glad I did.
formerly known as etaoin...
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Alex and I were cut from the same cloth.
Unless Alex was answering the "Who did say that, anyway" question...
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re:"Wow--you look just like my last husband!"?
a woman, (i forget her name) who was head of an advertizing agency (in the 1970'/1980/--right into the 1990 and maybe still!) and was also a columnist for the old McCall's magazine (which became Rosie!, and now is gone..) met a man a few years after she was widowed (with 2 young children, and building the ad agency up to be a big one, with a national rep) and told him, "you seem very much like my second husband."-- he asked how many times she had been married, and she said "once". (he later became her second husband)
--but someone else might have said, "Wow--you look just like my last husband!"-- but it sounds an awful lot like the first quip.
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i was hired a few years ago to help with a rollout of lotus notes..
one of the users was overwhelmed with mail, and needed help organizing it.. I saw AWAD in here mail box and we got to talking about it.. and she signed me up for a free subscription. i found awad talk very soon after..
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Same here, but I got the girl.
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