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EDIT: Some joker seems to think it's rather fun to keep resurrecting this now-very-old-and-no-longer-applicable thread. Never mind - the last three or four paragraphs are as applicable as ever! - love to y'all, Mary (updated March 10, 2003)Well, I'm sorry to have to say it, but I'm going to be spending a LOT less time here in future....I will miss y'all. Thing is, I am finally getting a life! or so it seems. Have been found by a very nice man (something my mother always told me I wanted: "What you want, darling, is for a nice man to find you" - as opposed to t'other way around, I s'pose! certainly I've had pretty bad luck trying to find one for myself, so nice to have it happen the way ol' Mum predicted was best!). He is taking up a lot of my time.  Then I'm swotting French for an exam for a govt. job - take the test Wednesday, don't know what the next step will be or even if they will invite me to take it - an interview, I imagine? so I should be studying right now! don't know for sure if there'll be a French component to this exam but fear the worst ("the worst" because I haven't used French since Grade 12, more years ago than I care to remember!). And I'm leaving on mes vacances soon, aussi, so won't be parked in front of a screen then either....And then it will be the fall, when all kinds of other busynesses kick in. But hey, maybe if I get that govt. job, I'll have time and opportunity to pop in here! that'd be sweet.... Meanwhile, I hope I will be popping in occasionally, but realistically I think I'll be disappearing for awhile. It makes me a bit sad....I was realising that meeting people on the Internet like this is very like travelling: You meet some wonderful people (and, let's face it, some you wouldn't even eat a bag lunch with!). You form new friendships; you stay in touch. Gradually some of these wonderful people drift out of your immediate life - you don't hear from them anywhere near as often, nor do they hear from you anywhere near as often. And you miss that wonderfulness in your life. But.... You take comfort in knowing that such wonderful people are Out There in the world, being wonderful, and that other people are receiving the first-hand benefits of their wonderfulness. I so love knowing that all of you are Out There - so much goodness spread around the globe! - and I hope to find y'all here and posting happily, whenever I can pop in. Love to all Mary Let us go in peace to love and serve the board.
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Okay, and now I'm leaving for another reason: I just checked my email and found this from the webmaster at AWAD:
Someone from the ip address '152.163.188.7' requested a temporary password for the Username 'modestgoddess' for the website 'AWADtalk'. This is a temporary password that can be used if you have forgotten your original password. If you did not request this, please ignore this message. The temporary password for this Username is...
Who the hell would do something like that? try to get in under my handle? Right, I'm definitely outtie. There's a wolf among the sheep.
Let us go in peace to love and serve the board.
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Mary, you've been a ray of sunshine Return whenever and you'll be more than welcome. Despite missing you like mad, we'll still be here! Enjoy yourself, and good luck in whatever you find yourself doing. [big hug-e] Teletubby Fisk
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All the best, Mary.
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152.163.188.7 resolves to "cache-ra07.proxy.aol.com".
AOL is probably one of the most (over)used ISPs ever, but possibly not on this Board, eh?
Worth emailing Anu if this is getting constant. He could tie it up with regular users signing on if need be.
Meanwhile, I'd recommend everybody make a point of incorporating a number somewhere in their passwords. This makes working them out considerably more difficult.
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Well, ModGod, ... Mary. I hope you won't condemn us all because of a single 'wolf'. I fear you are not the only person who has received such a mail. I suspect the same one it has always been is still lurking in the undergrowth, and as such, isn't really a member of our board.
On a lighter note, let me congratulate you on your being found! I have only recently learned that the astounding thing about maternity is that it has an insight and intellect that is very obscured, very subtle, and is largely untapped by most of us - men and women alike. Mothers truly are the ultimate oracle. Your mother was clearly no exception, and you are an esprit fort.
All the best.
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MG - I've never contacted you directly, but I do enjoy your posts a great deal. You are one of the "wonderful people" but now you'll just be Out There more than In Here. C'mon back whenever the spirit moves you and your real life allows! nancyk
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Good luck Mary! Come back, or just pop in, whenever the timing seems right - it's been a pleasure sharing some of your company.
and don't worry too much about the 'wolf' - I've had three such messages in the last ten days... whoever it is seems more like a not very bright puppy!
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Good luck, Mary, both with the exam/interview, the lucky person who "found" you and with life generally.
Do continue to pop in when you have the time - we'll miss you.
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Hello, MG and Mary, too:
Once things settle down (and they always do), just pop back in one you've gotten adjusted to the new tempo.
Wish you great luck with your interview and on your exam!
Hit-the-book regards,
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Ha! I'll beleive it when i see it.. No smart woman is going to give up a great circle of friends for some iffy man..
You'll find time for both Us and him.. and there are cyber cafe's in aussie.. (you might want to look up an aussie member or two.) Now that you have found us, you find that we have wormed our way into your heart, and you won't be able to leave us.
maybe for a day or two or even a week.. and we'll let you go for a short while, but i know you'll be back!
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>and there are cyber cafe's in aussie.. (you might want to look up an aussie member or two.)
A nice pun on modgod's use of the French aussi also, oftroy. You had me going back to her post to see where she said she was going to Australia, which of course she did not do.
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Best of luck, gal, though I regret coming here only as you are leaving.
Interesting confluence of items here.
1. The lady is leaving for a man.
2. oftroy recommends "cyber cafes", using cyber as a separate word. (See dictionary.com for its meaning when used as a separate word rather than as a prefix.)
3. oftroy also suggests she "look up a member",
4. the french word we play on is pronounced "oh! see!"
5. repeated notes of "popping out"
6. one reaches this page by hitting "show all".
What would Freud say?
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Good luck, Mary, on all counts. Come back when you can.
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good luck. i'll keep my fingers crossed. and thank you for the demented dictionary :))
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You may be gone but you'll not be forgotten. Come back soon A bientot!
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Greatly exaggerated?
dusting the cobwebs off the initiating post and noting the date
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Yeah. How did this reappear suddenly? MG went off in July and she came back again I'm happy to say.
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I noticed the 6-month lacuna and merely wondered why we didn't get an equivalent explication. :)
maybe that's why it was brought back up...
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MG still here...! 'Twasn't me resurrected this thread. I contemplate deleting it, to save confusion in the future, should anyone decide it might be fun to bring it to the top again....
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I contemplate deleting it
You might try. I think all you'll be able to do is leave a little spot where each of your own posts was unless there are any that have not been responded to. Those you you can disappear completely, as though they never existed. All it would do would be cause more confusion, since all the rest of the posts would still be here, with some of the context missing. To disappear the entire thread would take the combined and carefully orchestrated effort of everyone who has contributed, not to mention an excursion into the dread threaded mode to determine who had to delete what when. And even then, someone could do the same resurrection to any other thread.
Don't anyone feel bad about being fooled; it's happened to most everyone of us at one time or another.
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Don't anyone feel bad about being fooled; it's happened to most everyone of us at one time or another.
Huh?
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Huh?
Maybe you've never seen a resurrected old thread and thought it was brand new, Rube, but then maybe you're not most everyone.
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You misunderstood. I didn't know in what context you meant 'being fooled'. Now I see what you mean.
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Modestgoddest, This is great! I missed telling you "bye" when you popped out, so "good-bye". And now I can tell you "Hi" 'cause you popped back in. "Hi!" Ain't life neat.
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