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I am often on all by myself in the mornings, because Newfoundland is a half-hour ahead of the eastern part of North America, and about 12 hours out of sync with the antipodeans. So if I'm online in the morning here, they're almost asleep, and anyone in North America is probably not at work yet.
Does anyone besdies me ever start posts only to realize you were going to say something silly or pointless, and then stop composing them?
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Oh sure, I check who is online, too. Usually, it's when I'm just about caught up on the posting, and I want to see if any posts are forthcoming. Of course, there was that one time on April 1, when for a while only I was on and then somebody was resurrecting old posts and I went looking for a witness. [rolling eyes emoticon] And I always spend more time than I should on here. You guys are irresistible. Does anyone besdies me ever start posts only to realize you were going to say something silly or pointless, and then stop composing them?Yup. Usually, though, I don't stop! 
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Does anyone besides me ever start posts ... something silly or pointless...then stop ?Yup. Usually, though, I don't stop!  Me too!
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is it just me, or...
how do you think max made it to pooh-bah status so fastAnd so it begins. The Pooh-Bahs will now turn on each other in a mutually self-destuctive orgy of incrimination and recrimination, for the entertainment of all. Bring your knitting, ladies, and be sure to get the seats closest to the guillotine. On a somewhat related note, I must confess that my April Fool's stunt did boost me by the equivalent, at my normal posting average, of a fortnight or so, so the mean Minnesotan's query is not entirely baseless. To paraphrase Will, "he that filches from me my good name steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;[slinking off guiltily e]
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Yes, I use it. I just saw Max at "online.pl". I thought that online happened to other people.
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wow....
I'm all by my lonesome-- that's why !
Yes, it is so eerily lonesome when you see you are the only one online. I do not much like the feeling.
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Wed May 23 22:46:39 2001 And I'm the only one here. 
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At this time of night, it's often just Max'n me. For obvious reasons. None of the Oz contingent seems to post much after work hours, although occasionally one of the more insomniac USns is on - or has forgotten to log out. Which I have also been known to do. I often check online immediately I log on, just to see who's home! Hi, Max and Wideyed! And yes, on a number of occasions - in fact I've run out of fingers and toes - I've started a reply and then canned it.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Oh, mercy, what a revealing thread this is! Yes, I know a couple of people who have "gone invisible"--one of whom will very frequently send to me within minutes of my logging on! It's never bothered me that people will see what I'm doing. (By the way, what does "online.pl" signify, anyway? Is that Online Place? Showflat, I figure is someone looking at threads in flat mode.) It used to concern me that people would think I spend too much time here (gee, can't imagine why), so I used to be very conscientious about shutting it off when I left the computer. But now, prolly 'cause you people are so great, I don't really worry about it. For ex., I have just come back here after spending nearly an hour downstairs, and simply returned to the thread I left off at.
C.K., you reminded me of a question I've had: should I be "logging out" (off)? I always just close the window.
And yes--I have started and abandoned many stupid posts (but not all, obviously!). So: tsuwm, now you know it could have been a lot worse even than it was.
Sometimes I'll go to the Main Index when I'm ready to leave, and if I see a New icon (hi Aunt mav) I'll go to Who's Online to see if I can tell who made it. That's the only spying I do. Though sometimes if I'm feeling lonely
I'll check, and am rather despondent if there's only me!
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I plead guilty to all of the charges discussed above. I've never found anyone else "online.pl", though. I had thought that it only showed what you were doing yourself (and wondered slightly at the uselessness of such information! but I am very used to useless info coming from computers, so took it as normal!) As to stopping a post on realising it is drivel - well, I have done so, but not half as often as I should, I fear And I have no problems about being the only one logged on. I suppose because e-mail is a normal means of conversation for me - I even use it to talk to the girl whose desk is just the other side of the room from me: for good reasons, mind you! So sending posts when I know it will be a while before anyone responds doesn't worry me.
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