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JazzO ... Yes, that's the idea. The date in header and a location and a dash before the message allowing The Great Anu to cut and paste as he wishes without loosing track of the year and place. That is : Happy Birthday AWAD 15 March 2001New Zealand- This Kiwi etc. etc. etc. or Israel - From this ancient land etc. etc. etc. Each persons post should exemplify their personality over the past year. People have been misrepresenting themselves?  Wouldn't everyone's posting at same time give the Machine a migraine? Especially if people who never or rarely post take the opportunity to express congratulations? wow
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Wouldn't everyone's posting at same time give the Machine a migraine?
I mean 9:00 (or whatever time) for each time zone. That would mean that every time zone posts about an hour appart.
And by explifying one's personality I mean don't use some run-of-the-mill "Happy Birthday". Customize it to you personality in your other posts. (But I guess everyone would do that anyway.)
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Ahhh, got it. Will do my best to hit the mark.
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I agree with Faldage. We can't impose too much structure here. We catch as catch can, and - perish the thought - there might be a contributor or two who will be unable to post at all on the Ides. I will probably be at work at 9 am in my particular time zone on the momentous day. And the time stamps are already on the posts, anyway (albeit in U.S. Central Time). So yeah, dateline (city) is cool, but our board names will also come up automatically, as the time stamps do, and those of us who wish to have our real names known show them in our profiles.
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And the time stamps are already on the posts, anyway (albeit in U.S. Central Time).Oh, AnnaS, all the times show up as Eastern Standard on my computer! I think the Machine compensates for times. ???? --------------------------------------------------- dateline (city) is cool, but our board names will also come up automatically, as the time stamps do, and those of us who wish to have our real names known show them in our profiles.Absolutely! And The Great Anu knows all our real identities anyway.   wow
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Yep- I agree with Jazz's plan as modified by AnnaS - It is a good idea to have a plan - else how can you change your plan? But it is also good to have it really simple so that anyone who doesn't or cannot follow it to the letter won't feel bad about being different. So - 9 am in your own time if possible, (but later is much better than never) - write as you would in any other post (as we assuredly would anyway!) - add your real name if you feel like it, but this ain't mandatory. Yeahhhh! let's go for it!
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Every year at this time I stop and remember my father, one of the great racounteurs (and wits) of all time, at least so far as I am concerned. He was the one who named me Theophilus because I was the awfulest looking baby he ever saw.
Every year on the ides of March he would call me up and say, "eschew Communism." To which I would reply, "gesundheit."
Now, pray tell, why would the old feller say this to me?
He would have been 99 on the 28th ;>)
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Please! Don't squeeze the chairman!
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Every year on the ides of March he would call me up and say, "eschew Communism." To which I would reply, "gesundheit."
Now, pray tell, why would the old feller say this to me?
You just didn't catch the whole question :
"Have you been or es chew a Communist?"
(*running* for cover)
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Every year on the ides of March he would call me up and say, "eschew Communism." To which I would reply, "gesundheit."
Why your pater should have chosen the ides of March for his annual warning (if warning it were, indeed!) is not immediatewly apparent. But, given his age, he would have remebered that the Russian Revolution took place in March 1917. The first session of the Moscow soldiers Soviet (the word is Russian for "committee") took place on March 1st and the Czar abdicated in favour of Grand Duke Mikhail on March 2nd. (Grand Duke Mikhail adbicated on March 3rd. Wise man!)
So far as I know, nothing of great importance happened on 13th March, although the 14th was the Address of the Soviet "to the people of the whole world" declaring for peace.
Vladimir Illyich Ulanov (Lenin) didn't arrive until April 3rd, and the Bolshevik Revolution didn't happen until October (or November - depends which calendar you're using!)
Incidently, I once saw a hilarious cartoon of a member of the German High Command bringing Lenin a trained seal.
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