Posters who have been here too long:

• ghostofa-z
• daveto
• DawnCoyote
• CamilleClaudel
• seasquirt
• JackDallas
• Tempo
• ellen'suglykittens
• Inkberrow
• Gatewood
• HeWhoMustDie (on day one)
• appolonious
• biteoftheweek
• LaurieAnnM
• gypsy
• Schadenfreude
• Michael Ryerson
• TheBell

Some of us are creeping up on ten years.

Useful posting life: one year, tops. After that, it's just repetition.

You know, on shows like Marcus Welby or Dr. Kildare (and probably on ER for all I know), every few episodes there is always a scene where the caring doctor gets his concerned look, when talking to a relative of someone who is dying. "You've got to let him go." is the standard formula.

Wait, no...we're breast cancer. Nobody wants to lose a breast, but, if it's got cancer, it will kill you if you hang on to it.

Or...cockroaches. Yeah, that's it. We're cockroaches. You can't kill us.

I have no idea what that means.

PS. Who is dumb_blonde and why does she(?) downrate every post of mine that she sees?

This stuff is supposed to "mean" something?

Anyhoo...Blondie is a refugee from Faith-Based. Been around over there quite awhile. I can understand why she'd downrate this particular post--you're suggesting that the most amusing folks here go elsewhere. With the folks you listed gone, that'd pretty much leave Artandsoul, Schrodinger, and El Cid. Not much of a "forum" there, is it (no offense to A&S and Ding)? But as to why she'd downrate all of your posts? Maybe she doesn't get sarcasm or irony? I mean she is a self-proclaimed dumb blonde.

Okay, you leave first and stay gone 5 years and then I will consider your suggestion.

Jack

It'd also leave Iso, TK, M2, and my Verministic archnemesis.

Though the point's still a good one that this place would be pretty boring with only us. Who'd I make fun of? Myself? Pshaw, as if.....

And I did...considered it, I mean. In the end I ruled against it.

Jack

In Search of a Character. The BotF is Pirandello en perpetua - the Alpha and Omega-3 of Bring Your Own Reality.

You can't leave, you're the stage manager. And Go? Go where? Anywhere? Nobody's going anywhere and nobody knows better than you.

If you want to write a requiem, write one for me; 'Requiem for a Lightweight'.

et dum lux aeternam

Bah. It's more like a production of Annie where they never replace the actors. They just pretend and act like they never grew up.

Sure, it's good camp, but it's not really good theater.

Boring? I could fill the entire board with my sparkling jewel-like posts, y'all could gaze wide-eyed at my luminescence. It would be wonderful for you. Really.

Do take a&s away, though.