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Not very long after I stumbled across this marvellous forum, we passed a milestone, as I saw it then, of 200 registered users. Now I see we are about to hit 2000. How should we celebrate this? Should we even deign to notice it? My earlier reference to what I saw then as a significant stage in our development produced but a deafening silence. Is this to be my fate yet again, as the harbinger of notable events? Ah well, I can but try, and don't look to me for any psrty tricks, either. My stock of Cardhu is seriously depleted. (I refer to another thread where folk are currently defining their preferences in certain malt products.)
sakezuki lusy san (find that reference in the archives if you can!)
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Re the above ...
For "pstry" read "pastry", "pasty", "party" or whatever. I don't much mind. The wine is in, the wit is out ... Mr Penfold, you have a lot to answer for! And alas, no, it wasn't.
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Altogether now, MMM (to greet Member MM)
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So long as you don't try sating it with a mouthfull of Cardhu - it would spoil both! Remind me to tell you about my trip to the Cardhu distillery, sometime: aaaaaaaaaaaah !!   
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Well done Lusy for spotting the MM. Are we allowed to celebrate now or do we have wait until MM + 1?!
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lusy, my Darling--obviously the other milestone slipped past us unawares. Thank you for trying again, Lovely One. What do you suggest, then, Sweetheart? I thought at first you were inviting us to your house for a party, but then saw that you are out of Cardhu (whatever that is). Got any ideas? We could bring our own bottles, I suppose, to wherever. I saw your post about a prize for the 2000th subscriber. Good idea! Gee--maybe they could receive a free subscription to AWAD! 
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But do we celebrate the bi-millennium when we hit 2000 or 2001? Oops. This sounds like another thread we had here!
Ted grins and ducks, but feels a WHACK to the back of his head anyway
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Well, that'll teach me to read all the way through before I post. Sorry, Jo.
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::rolling eyes:: with only about 2% of that number posting I guess we won't need a large venue...
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jo asks: Are we allowed to celebrate now or do we have wait until MM + 1?!
[sighing patiently emoticon] When the 2000th user registers we will have 2000 registered users*. If we were counting years we would have to wait for the 2000th year to be over before we could say that 2000 years had passed since...
*We have to wait for the 2000th user to finish registering before we count that lucky individual.
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Rhubarb Commando wrote: So long as you don't try sating it with a mouthfull of Cardhu
If Cardhu and its ilk aren't for sating, what're they fer?
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a large venue...Let CapK design us a marquee - there'll be no shortage of posts! 
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Let CapK design us a marquee - there'll be no shortage of posts!
In fact, if we had more than one such venue, the competition could be intense.
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Remind me to tell you about my trip to the Cardhu distillery, sometime: aaaaaaaaaaaah !!
Aaaaaah, indeed, Rhubarb C. But I'm surprised you remember much about it. My own memory is a bit hazy on this matter. Perhaps a good venue for our MM and MM+1 celebrations (well, why not both?) would be Knockando. And if you can pronounce that correctly you get free access to the Marquis.
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Darling lusy--
You needn't worry; the graduation will be painless.
I can't believe you've posted so few, you have had such a tremendous influence on me. I'm so very glad I know you.
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You needn't worry; the graduation will be painless.Thanks for the encouragement, Jackie my dear one. This is it then! My totally gratuitous 100th posting. OK, I'm ready! (Lengthy pause) What, no blinding light? No heavenly choir? No flights of angels bearing frankincense and Cardhu? Nothing? Well, I'm off then ... mumble ... grumble ... exit lusy, pursued by Gladly.  Hey, I just noticed after posting this — I'm now a member! How about that!
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I'm now a member! How about that!
Congratulations, Dearest! Salut, with your favorite drink!
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If Cardhu and its ilk aren't for sating, what're they fer?You are sooo right, Hyla ! Now you know what happens when you try trpying after a half-bottle-full
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Now you know what happens when you try trpying after a half-bottle-full
Yeah, I'm no good without at least 3/4 of a bottle in me.
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As I logged in just now, I notice the magic number of registered users is 1999! One more to go, folks... and my question is, do we find out who exactly is the 2000th person to register?
I hope everyone celebrates the event as it indeed deserves to be!
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It seems to me it's a little like a small town here, (and I've lived in my share of small towns.) We have this thread celebrating the 2000th member and another thread complaining about the food conversations. (Which to me is very small town) I think it's a really great group. And just like a small town, the better it is the more people want to live here.
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I tend to agree Ladymoon. But my beef with the sandwiches is not the topic per se - I just hate to see the same stuff over every thread, no matter what other people are trying to talk about. By and large, it's a very happy little town.
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Unfortunately, we can no longer compete in the Talent from Towns Under 2000 contest anymore.
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So in honor of the 2000th member, you're all invited to my house for a feast (with lots of non-starchy vegetables for the diabetics). Where I will feed everyone to the point they won't even want to think about food again. Thus killing two threads with one bird.
This providing you can get here because I'm currently snowed in and waiting to be hit with the next CA rolling blackout.
I'm going to give up on the spellchecker, It suggested diabolic for diabetic.
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>It suggested diabolic for diabetic
proving, once again, that enigma does have a certain cachet...
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Poster: Marianna
I notice the magic number of registered users is 1999! One more to go, folks... and my question is, do we find out who exactly is the 2000th person to register?
Marianna has a great question here folk!
Who, indeed, was the Poster 2000 Child?
Would Anu know?
Would he tell?
Let us all face towards Columbus and invoke The Great Muse.
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Let us all face towards Columbus
I'll do it, but you'll have to tell me where he's buried!
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Some say the explorer is buried at El Faro Colon in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. Others say he rests at the Seville Cathedral in Spain. Mysteries, mysteries.
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Most evidence points to Columbus still being buried in Santo Domingo Cathedral, and some people say it was his son's remains that were transferred to Havana and then back to Seville. Given the confusion, let all and sundry face towards Madrid and its central Plaza de Colón, where there is indeed a most famous statue of the great traveller, arm extended, pointing -of course- at the Americas.
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You people are TRYING to drive me crazy
One distracted moment and I am turning slowly, slowly on the wordspit!
Columbus in OHIO where the Great Muse, Anu, lives.
Mumble, mumble are these people all crazy? it's the Ohio town mumble, mumble they're doing it on purpose! mumble mumble (drooling emoticon}
With thumb in mouth i am going to go curl up under the quilt.
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I had a feeling you were talking about Columbus, Ohio, but I didn't want to interrupt the search for the bones of a great explorer. Anyway, I don't think Anu lives in our great capital city. His personal website says that he lives on the shores of Lake Erie, so I would guess that he lives in the Cleveland area.
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"It is a lovely Saturday afternoon in Columbus, Ohio, but the word master is neither golfing nor fishing, nor taking his ease. Seated at one of those desks that you put together from a kit, peering intently into the screen of his PC, Anu Garg scrolls through a backlog of e-mail while I look over his shoulder."
That's the opening graph in the Smithsonian Magazine article (December 2000, page 67) by Rudolph Chelminski.
I thought that located him at AWADwork. Silly me.
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Well, there's a bit of a discrepancy there, because Columbus is about 100 miles from Lake Erie, and that's without a freeway going directly north. So either Anu moved, he's lying, or he's got quite a commute to work every day.
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I send you the old query ...
Would ye deny print?"
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I'm not saying that I don't believe what the Smithsonian Magazine said, I'm just confused about how Anu can live 100 miles away from where he works without having a personal jet. And seeing as AWAD appears to be non-profit, I doubt he has a personal jet.
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Dear Children ~
It is all so simple. These conflicting bits of data on which you hang are further evidence that THERE IS NO ANU! Live with it. He is a fiction. Anu is a psychological projection of your need for order and decency in a universe where there is too little of either. Anu is a dream, a wish, a child's imagining.
And pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
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I perused the the article further and found the author talks about travel to Ohio where Anu has an "ordinary PC in the spare bedroom of a two-bedroom apartment in a rambling complex overlooking an artificial lake." The author says says that "after lunch Garg took me on a tour of Columbus and .... the well equipped public library ..... (and) the new science museum on the banks of the Scioto River." That doesn't sound like Anu lives too far out of town. Do these landmarks give you a way to locate him better? Father Steve : Oh, ye of little faith! wow
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P.S. I forgot (excuse please) where did you get info that The Great Anu lives 100 miles out of Columbus? Did I miss a thread about that ... ???
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"Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters." ~Isaac Bashevis Singer.
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Ah yes, I know the science museum of which the article speaks quite well. It's called Cosi (Center of Science and Industry, I think). It's mainly geared toward children, but everything is very interesting. I placed him 100 miles away from Columbus on the banks of Lake Erie because of what it says in his personal webpage: http://www.wordsmith.org/anu: "Greetings from the sunny-chilly shores of Lake Erie!" And Father Steve, if I didn't know better I'd say you were an atheist. Your opinions of Anu sound just like literary symbolism against religion.
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And Father Steve, if I didn't know better I'd say you were an atheist. Your opinions of Anu sound just like literary symbolism against religion.
Who's to say he isn't? FSteve lists his denomination as Episcopalian, and its sister-church in the UK, the Anglican Church has long been renowned for its atheist clergy. The British political satire Yes, Prime Minister included an episode where the PM had to appoint an Anglican Bishop, and received advice from his staff on the advantages of selecting one who was known not to believe in God. The Anglican religion is the dominant flavour here too, and I once read a newspaper column in which the reporter said, in an unkind generalisation perhaps, that "to be a good Anglican, one must believe nothing and tolerate everything." I personally have met many Anglicans who fit that description perfectly, including a few who are, at the least, devoutly agnostic. On the other hand it was an Anglican priest here who pointed me to a verse in Deuteronomy that alludes to God as Father and mother, so at least some still believe.
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FS may well know more about this than me because I got it second-hand, but the Anglican church (in England) not long ago fired a priest for not believing in God. This is, in my opinion and as a lifelong claimant to Anglican membership, grossly unsporting.  As Max says, the Church has never even demanded adherence to its own core beliefs and has been, obviously now in the past, famously tolerant of any hair-brained schism, reformation or devolution, and crackpot creed, belief system or lifestyle which comes along. This made it so different to any other Christian sect and most other religions in the world that it has always had my support. I like the idea of a religion which doesn't insist on total conformity to one particular -ism and its associated rituals. That leads to religious wars, mutual loathing between neighbours and inquisitions ending with little days out in the plaza for an auto-da-fe or its local fun-filled equivalent. I believe this is why FS puts up with us all!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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That leads to religious wars, mutual loathing between neighbours and inquisitions ending with little days out in the plaza for an auto-da-fe or its local fun-filled equivalent.
Even as a deeply religious person myself, I couldn't help smiling at a quote from David Ben Gurion I read for the first time the other day: "Going to war over religion is like fighting over who has the best imaginary friend."
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"It is a lovely Saturday afternoon in Columbus, Ohio, but the word ....... Anu Garg scrolls through a backlog of e-mail while I look over his shoulder."
That's the opening graph in the Smithsonian Magazine article (December 2000, page 67) by Rudolph Chelminski.
I thought that located him at AWADwork. Silly me.
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This proves nothing at all: "It is a lovely Saturday afternoon in Columbus, Ohio, and the RhubarbCommando is wearily shoveling snow to make a path from his front door - in Lancaster, UK"
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the RhubarbCommando is wearily shoveling snow
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Smithsonian Magazine article (December 2000, page 67) by Rudolph Chelminski.This proves nothing at all said Rhubarb I say again "Would you deny print?"  Will no gallant Poster leap into the breach and 'splain it to the Commando ? wow
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>Will no gallant Poster leap into the breach and 'splain it...
"Greetings from the sunny-chilly shores of Lake Erie!"
we have two quite different (i.e., contradicting) statements in evidence (albeit one is "in font", but from the sainted Anu's keyboard) -- which would you have us deny?
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If I were Anu and reading all this, I might be feeling a bit uncomfortable, as though I caught a faint echo of baying bloodhounds on my trail.
I will say (arf) that I think the most likely thing is that Jazz. is right--he moved. Anu was at school in Cleveland when he started AWAD, so the greeting was accurate then,and if he has not changed his site's original greeting, so what?
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>If I were Anu and reading all this, I might be feeling a bit uncomfortable, as though I caught a faint echo of baying bloodhounds on my trail.
The image of Anu, furiously pedalling away on his unicycle, OED under one arm, laptop under the other, with baying bloodhounds in hot pursuit, is just too much for me.
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speaking of meaningless milestones and fanfaronades, I noticed that the Q&A section now has more posts than the next two categories combined. of course, you have to discount a couple hundred sandwich posts.
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In a trench coat?
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Would you play that again?
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speaking of meaningless milestones and fanfaronades, I noticed that the Q&A section now has more posts than the next two categories combined.
As far as I can remember, Q&A has always had more posts than the next two categories combined. AWAD in Schools doesn't have many posts.
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