#54153
03/22/2002 10:55 AM
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Enthusiasm is not a bad thing, dear Milo. It's "old" hand that I object to  Congratulations anyway 
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#54154
03/22/2002 1:27 PM
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enthusiast
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I must say, I'm really impressed by the sense of community y'all have created.
Milum - enthusiasm is one of my favourite traits - without it, life can feel pretty empty. So don't fret. Besides, you'll get over it eventually!
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#54155
03/22/2002 3:41 PM
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Where else would you find recent discussions of pig orgasms and pig vaginas?
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#54156
03/22/2002 5:19 PM
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Where else would you find recent discussions of pig orgasms and pig vaginas?
That's a sad, sick post to make on a thread like this, Keiva. Especially in response to a newcomer's kind words about our AWAD community.
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#54157
03/22/2002 5:52 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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.., but in memory recovered like Dutch sailing vessels from the waste heap excavation that was both heap and excavation before the present dyke did threat to bust--
I don't mean to be rude--to interrupt rudely--here, but you can say that in English, you know.
Oh?
Ip yips about the boat they found buried in the muck when they first excavated Vesey Street to sink the piers of the World Trade Center.
(Be still, my better half!) ..did threat to bust. I discovered recently as my psychiatrist and his accountant scribbled past my sunken eyelids, that I'd wondered as a child how many names has God and because His names are numberless, I'd been counting ever since. Why ask Freud, when you can probe the Rector? A penny undreamed is a penny earned, and all that stuff.
My happiest moment here, then, was to discover that not only are His names discreet in number (though the number indiscreetly grow), but augmented by a suffix'ed suffix. Was here that this God first spoke to me, black fire on white, while the dropping Jacorandas eavesed.
And to all the rest: all the rest -- like marriage (or so they say) the best and worst of it together overbrim the cup.
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#54158
03/22/2002 11:33 PM
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Don't know how I missed this thread altogether, but I did. The best single moment on this board was meeting mfa, who caused me to start writing again. And writing ever since has never been sweeter because of his influence and friendship.
Beyond being opened up again after lying dormant (and thought to be dead) have been the many moments of jollity--the hippopotamess, getting tsuwm's dander up (playfully, always playfully--right, tsuwm?), watching Jackie shake her little tailfeathers--and knowing that she really cares about each of us, hearing stories from Bill--can't get enough often enough, playing Edward to Keiva's Emily, receiving sweets from Scotland, lifting my eyebrows when food threads sneak in, learning some of the coolest words on earth that are completely useless to most people except those such as we, being able to follow on occasion the inside jokes (and I'm such an on-the-outside-loop kind of person), sensing that one day, when I least expect it, glaciers really are going to make sense, and reading today Milum's public admission that he likes my poems--privately was a great charge, but, heh, Milum, a public admission brings tears to my eyes. and don't you go and fuss at me for this, Milum! You're my most loyal fan!
Ah, there are more fond memories, but I've got to go read some steenkin' pedagogy. That's my first use of steenkin'--and I've just been dying to use it just once!
Stales, how hard is pillow lava?
Best regards,
Wanewax
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#54159
03/23/2002 12:40 AM
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Like wwh, I would be hard pressed to define a best moment. I just checked and realised that it has been just over a year since I registered on the board and I have lost count of the new words that I have learned; the number of times I have fired up my OED to look up something, gone off on a search engine induced (inspired?) tangent never to be seen again; the bits and pieces of local flavour from locales around the globe that I have savoured.
On the down side there is at least one grievous flaw with the board as it is now structured:
1. There should be warning labels, like on cigarette packages.
Warning: This site might be cause large spans of time to vanish without a trace.
Warning: Visiting this site might result in you having to stay up until 1:30 in the morning (again) to finish that assignment you were going to finish before you decided to just to read one or two short posts.
Like Wiarton Willie, every once in a while, I poke my head up through the pile of stuff that has buried me to see what’s going on.
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#54160
03/23/2002 12:42 AM
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Tail feathers? Tail feathers?? [outraged look e] Come here, madam, and I'll SHOW you some tail feathers...  Be that as it may, I can't stand it any longer without saying this: how I LOVE you all! (not you-all--I mean every last one of you!) I just...I never knew this kind of thing could happen. I have been let into peoples' lives in incredible ways. People have cried on me (I can't think of a higher honor), and let me cry on them. We have laughed together--oh, how we have laughed! I cannot get over how clearly love comes through on an electronic screen where there is not even anything you can touch, but it does! I have FELT it, unmistakably, and oh, it is so warm... Thank you all so very much, from the bottom of my heart.
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#54161
03/23/2002 1:56 AM
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Where else would you find recent discussions of pig orgasms and pig vaginas?
That's a sad, sick post to make on a thread like this, Keiva. Especially in response to a newcomer's kind words
about our AWAD community.
Well, Mr Whitman O'Neal, I, as another sick person, enjoyed it.
This points up, I suppose, why I made a mistake in returning to AWAD Talk. I felt that I had made a connection with a few of you at times, but came to see that the belief was illusory, or, at best, transient. I have enjoyed WordWind's poetry, the erudition of TSUWM, Bingley, Max, CK, et. al, but most of all I have enjoyed Ted Remington's fantastic shaggy dog stories and puns. But enough is enough. More contrariness is more than I can handle.
Geoff Sanders, sad, sick person
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#54162
03/23/2002 2:35 AM
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Now, don't you go leaving on us again Geoff. You hear me?
I loved it too! So I must be equally ill! This is a great place and I am happy that Keiva made that comment. Those are two of the funniest threads going lately. And we all need more humor in our lives! So lighten up guys. Don't take things so seriously.
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#54163
03/23/2002 3:14 AM
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W'ON, I'd think your comment was more dicordant with the tone of this thread than was mine. Lighten up!
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#54164
03/23/2002 6:02 AM
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Another look at folks' fondest moments and memories as part of our cherished AWAD
community is always heart-warming and inspiring...expecially for the many new folks who
have recently climbed aboard.Another look at folks' fondest moments and memories as part of our cherished AWAD community is always heart-warming and inspiring...expecially for the many new folks who have recently climbed aboard.
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#54165
03/23/2002 2:21 PM
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Sorry, Geoff -- but you are not allowed to leave. Too many people enjoy you here... especially the ladies ... [makes quick grab] [handcuffing Geoff to the bedpost -e]  Ladies, have at him!  
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#54166
03/23/2002 7:13 PM
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Geoff, now let me think, what can I do to bring a smile to that handsome face...aha! whisperwhisperpsstThere! Now, let's just draw the curtain...
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#54167
03/23/2002 11:00 PM
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Sometimes I think of this place like a fun house full of doors, a door labeled library may take me down a passageway to the garden. I have learned about drippy windows and Australian culture(?) and many points in between.
I will say my favorite AWAD moment didn't happen on the board. But it was the board that got me in trouble. I had gone to the doctor at my husband's request and when I got home I checked out the board. I found a really funny quote and wrote it on a sticky pad that was handy. It happened to be one from the pharmacy (with a drug listed at the top ya know the free giveaway kind of sticky pad). My husband came home, found the note and thought it was for him. He read the note quickly, but not carefully, and couldn't believe my doctor would say such a thing to me. The quote; "My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre," he muttered to himself, "and that I am therefore excused from saving universes." DA
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#54168
03/24/2002 3:16 AM
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Hey Jackie, you hussy! I want some of that action! C'mere Geoff, lemme give you a big ole' hug, honey!
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#54169
03/24/2002 12:21 PM
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#54170
03/25/2002 10:30 AM
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Dear Geoff,
Sad and sick, huh? I can relate to days like those. But they pass, and that's the good of just putting one foot in front of the other.
There are names on this board that cause me always to read a little more closely--not that I want to exclude reading everybody with care, but, heh, we've all got limited focused reading time. Anyway, yours is one of the names that causes me to read your posts with care when I'm on a thread of interest to me. (I skip lots of threads--this one, for instance, fo a long time.)
Anyway, since you're not on the PM line, I thought I'd just go ahead and post outright here that I hope you're not serious about checking out--that it was just a sad day, and that things aren't as transient and tentative as you may have felt the other day.
Best regards,
Theresa
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#54171
03/25/2002 3:35 PM
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yours is one of the names that causes me to read your posts with care when I'm on a thread of interest to me.
Yes. What she said. Please stick around, Geoff-- I'd really hate to see you go.
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