Why do you keep coming back?

eye-hand coordination -- 55% learn new words -- 25% better than methadone -- 15% safe sex -- 5%

I asked, and I received!

Some of these could be quotable in a publicity flyer for the spring, but notice she didn't say better than sex?

it certainly has its moments!

LOL! You are too much, Stacey! I would have to say 100% socialization, comraderie, whatever. Let's just say I enjoy the intercourse...

More great quotes.

addicted....BTW, I AM BACK!! Anyone miss me??? aw, not even just a little?

I miss you a *lot*! And I'm missig Riette, since she went on her trip. I notice the main screen lists the number of logins but it says "web hits" instead. I wonder if we can change that, I wonder who wrote cool piece of Yapp code. Wer? Kaylene? Or maybe I just never noticed it before.

I did it...the variable in the instructions is defined as a "read only web variable"...so I figured it just counted web hits... and it does increment that way at least some of the time...I was the only one on at a certain time yesterday, and it did in fact count my page hits...will re-word it later...

Cool. Yeah, I'm glad you discovered it and it would be great if you could re-word it to say "logins"! ... if that in fact is what it counts. I'm really glad someone else is learning the system and getting a fresh mind on things!

oh, and hiya, Wolf!!!

sure, too late now *grin* hiya wer!

oh, well...

specifically, it is "the number of Yapp hits today from the www" added a who is logged on via telnet, also... however, I can't get any switches to work with who, and I've found out when AOL crashes and I'm telnetting in, I doesn't log me out...

never mind, those log ins go away with time...

Yeah it resets daily doesn't it?

yes, but the time is off...

I keep coming back hoping we'll grow as a community, I love it when new folks show up. Rollerblade postering service is plastering all the bulletin boards in town with Spring flyers. If you see one, give me some feedback on how to make them better, they're reprints of the Spring main page.

Rollerblade should read Motorblade. http://www.spring.net/~motorblade

I keep coming back, because I can't stay away. I love it here.

I love it that you're here.

I love it that you love it that we're here.

Hi, Ann. Are you new here? If so, since when have you been coming? Or do you just tend to go to other conferences? I don't love being away, but I love coming back without it occurring to me for a moment that anyone will have noticed, and then finding that they did. It is peculiar, but lovely.

What the hell else have I got to do?...

Hi, Ann. Are you new here? } I've been around since Pemberley moved here.

Hey, I'm logging on from the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi...

Hey, whatcha doin' there?

Hi, WER!!!! Having a good time?

get out and play in the sand WER... get some sea water up yer nose for me!

the aquarium? you on vacation? do they have a dolphin/whale display?????

Not to mention the ape display to make him feel more at home. (I can't help it if you posted that photo, Wer, so don't frown so hard at me!) So can you give us a recipe for tastier sandcakes?

Girls just wanna have fun!!

and we are oh so glad that you do!

Mec, who are you? Are you new, or do you just go to the other conferences mostly? Whatever the case, glad you're here!

Howdy MEC!

Nice to have you here so regularly again, Stacey!

oh I'm just on another spring binge... *grin* thanks Ree-head! I go back to my 'real job' tomorrow but it has been kinda fun to have such regular access to a working computer. And I can just keep a telnet link open all the time. When I'm printing, or downloading, or slacking off, I can just stop in! Wandered by the art conference yesterday (through a browser so I could see all the groovy pics!) and it looks REALLY great! I love the new wallpaper (guess it's not so new anymore but it sure was something I hadn't seen before!)

Ree Head the art goddess sure rocks, doesn't she?

yep... I just made it to the gallery in all its colorful glory!

Thanks, you two. I think the whole spring is rocking at the moment. Oh, and I heard from Mike Griggs yesterday as well. He'll be back in a fortnight or so - going on holiday, the lucky bugger!

Yep, I heard from him too, he emailed me using a friends account.

Same here. It's a disgrace how we let his Babes conference stagnate....

Shall we pump it up a bit before he gets back?

Yes, but what with? I don't know any babes! I don't really look at women like that, if you know what I mean...

Ask a man friend and then tell us what he says then.

My husband is my only close man friend, and he says he finds Claudia Schiffer ugly - but that's only because he has weird taste in women anyway. He couldn't think of any famous babes either; says he never thinks of other women as babes. Probably trying to play safe with my temper, as I'm having my period! ha-ha!!!

Playing it safe, good strategy.

ok, well the dudes seem to like shania twain, should we add her?

Add her, she looks very sexy in the picture I saw of here today in the concert section of the paper.

Terry, dear...where's her head? ;-)

Boy I messed that one up Nan, they have real intricate puzzle like coding on http://www.mercurynashville.com/mercury_nashville/artists/new_shania/shania_home.html You'll just have to go there to see it properly assembled.

There's a woman with reason to be vain!

ok, lemme see if i can add her...

Shoot her first!

Are you coming back, muffin?

as soon as it is safe...

But it IS safe! Don't you miss us too?

when my head is (relatively) safe, silly!

�kiss�

*hug* you're head is safe with us!

ah, but you all aren't safe with it...

Let us be the judges of that.

please stay with us, wer, we miss your face around here.....

Yep, stick around please.

hey kitchenmanager i would like to meet you and get to know you...so stick around or i will be upset....you don't want to miss meeting a real italian woman now do you....??

with an offer like that, how can I refuse? can you cook? and just cause I'm not talking doesn't mean I'm not watching...

?????? Good to see you back, Wer!

??????

What, ??????????

exactly!!! (I think...)

possibly!

sorta like when you don't smoke cigarettes for awhile you start shaking and eating more than ususal,,,,what's it called,,oh yeah,,,WITHDRAWALS......

have NO idea what you're talking about now...

How's it going tobacco-wise, wer?

worse than ever...are you over your summer binge yet?

How does one start smoking? I mean, did you the first time just pick up a cigarette, and it was great? How long does it take to get used to? No, I don't want to start! I've just always wondered how it's done.

it takes about three days to quit getting sick... as to the rest, ?

ha-ha!!! And what happens then? Then you're a smoker? Does it taste nice after that?

depends on the person... depends on the person... depends on what you're smoking...

I see!

so you don't smoke for the flavor, you just do it cuz of some psychosomatic need to bring on your own death in short order?

that's one of my biggest "reasons," yes

Puffing away almost daily, here...can't help it, the weather's been too good. If it gets cold or humid I can't stand it. Damn El Nino!!! #@$%&!!

ha-ha!! hilarious business!

well, i'm having food problems. yes, can you believe it? if i just look at something yummy i gain five pounds. this must be the reason cuz it ain't going away and i work out 3 times a week and drink a ton of water. oh, wait! doh! *bangs hand against forehead* it's my old age. yes. snuck up on me again.

Wolf, I have always been a firm believer that one can't do much about the way one is put together. I am just the same. Although I never put on weight (I am not small sized though, more sort of medium), excercise changes NOTHING about the way I am put together. I don't acquire more shapely legs - they always just look the way they look, and that's that. I even see it with my girls. Isa, the eldest is probably one of the most active children you'll ever see - constantly jumping and running and climbing; yet her legs already look just the same as mine! The little one sits around all day, sipping on a milk bottle and pestering me to carry her, yet she has these incredibly sporty little legs, and when they run (lazy as she is!)m Isa (with over a year's age advantage, plus ALOT fitter) has BIG trouble keeping up with the little bugger. Unfair, hey? I say, stop giving yourself a hard time. Keep fit by doing things you enjoy - whether that be working out in the gym, or going for long walks or whatever - don't suffer unneccessarily.

tis true....my kids are different too. my son is tall and lanky, really long-limbed, small boned, much too fair for a boy and my daughter is stocky, tough little girl, small boned but more athletic in build....and yes, i see my husband and me in both of them. we can pick out the feet, hands, ears, noses, etc. etc.

Apart from Isa's legs, my kids have absolutely NOTHING of me in their looks. Isa looks just like her dad, and Elza looks kind of Swedish with her white hair and blue eyes (Chris has very dark hair!). I once had tea with a Swedish guy in Namibia - about nine months before she was born!!! - and now I keep thinking: perhaps getting pregnant is easier than one thinks!!!

hahaha!

I am swearing off tea this instant. Back to espresso!

Yuksies!

i much rather take tea....tried cappucinno and, though it smelled good, tasted much differently. why is it that coffee smells better than it tastes?

That's just what I say! I just find it awfully bitter, even though I love the smell of coffee. Whereas I've not yet found a tea that doesn't taste better than it smells! My favourite is South African Rooibos.

not all coffees are bitter, in fact I prefer the less acidic types...

do tell us non-coffee drinkers the best tasting, non-bitter coffee....

kona blend--from Hawaii. What do you think, wer?

Kona was the first one that came to my mind... I need to check on some other choices tomorrow... definately stay away from Arabicas, however!

I keep coming back because I'm infatuated with the "last 50" feature. I use it all the time now. Being able to see all these lets you see what the login patterns are, like Riette logging in at night, etc. and you can quickly find what interests you the most. I had to put it on the main page. I'd like to see a last 100, a last 500 page also. That would be awesome! Or maybe a page where you could specify the number of last responses to see. Theoretically you could even call up all the responses for the last month, or year, or since the beginning of the Spring. In descending order! You're talking coffee? Kona, Arabicas... The little demitasse I had at Lil' Italy was a great capoff to a great meal. That brione . . . hey, I'll finish this in the restaurant conference in the Italian restaurant topic.

I love it when you get so excited about technology - it's terribly sweet!

it's printing in reverse now, Terry... have to get Kaylene to write the one to let you choose a number in a response box... you'd have to fix the "future" dates in order for the last month, etcetera calls to work...

That rocks! Kaylene has a routine already that can be run to fix future dates. Call me this weekend and I'll get you set up on access. Awesome!!!

ok, where can i try this kona stuff? do they sell it on the mainland? (ok, here in the bayous or anywhere close?)

You can buy it at any gourmet-style coffee place. It's VERY expensive (because those mules have to schlepp it down mountains with 20,000 foot altitude), so look for the little sample packages that only makes a couple pots.

But if you fly to Hawaii, it's cheap, cheap, cheap! While you're there would ya pick up some macadamia nuts for me?!?

You've been to Hawaii lately?!

unfortunately never.

Same here. Anybody been to Hawaii?

nope. one of my coworkers went in april. she said it was great!!

Never.

Nope, never been. Ah, to lay on the beach in Maui and live in a grass hut.

in a grass skirt?

eating grass?

eating poi (not as yummy as it sounds)

smoking grass.

ha-ha! You're starting to remind of AB FAB's Patsy!

What a compliment, sweetie, dahling!

OK....where's ree-head???? am getting worried about her....

did she have a holiday to go on?

That's what I'm thinking, she may be traveling.

When was her sister due to visit?

by george! I think he's got it!

I hope it's curable...

Actually, I believe it's degenerative.

i thought she was already there (when riette created a topic for her)....hmmmmm

give her a call if you like: (international access stuff) 041 382 1064

Sonja here: I arrived on Tuesday morning. I wanted to come on earlier, but we had alot of catching up to do. Travelling only consists of day trips this time, I'm afraid - she has too much work. She created a topic about me??? I dread to discover the contents!! I let her out of my sight for a year, and she just goes wild - I don't know!

guess that means you'll have to keep coming back to check on her when you get back to the states, huh?

See, Sonja, we already know what a *wild and crazy* gal you are!

Hi, guys. I'm back too. I almost feel like I should ask for permission to come back, though - I feel so bad about having just taken off like that and stuff. I am truly sorry.

does this mean that you need another spanking, Mistress?

Man, that's what I call a WARM welcome! I should dissappear more often!

Is this treatment not for first-timers then?

Sure, first timers get equal treatment.

Yep, so grab your ankles...

LOL! I was thinking we could do it the other way around, perhaps?

So you want special treatment? OK, in your case, you can have it.

Thank you, sir. Grab your ankles now!

(Must warn you though, Terry. The girl's got killer biceps....so be careful with that special treatment!)

Hey, that's my special treatment, and mine only! Only I do the ordering! Back off, girl!

Should've never let you on here.

Too late now, isn't it?

It's going to be ok, Ree!

Yes, it's going to be okay, Ree!

She's back! Does this mean the Bronte conference is alive again? Item 63 entered Sun, Oct 18, 1998 (17:07) by Amy Wolf (amy2) I'm baaaccckk... Hi fellow Bronte fans -- it's me, Amy, your hostess, returned after many months of being away. Truth to tell, I couldn't find this Board until Mick kindly gave me the new URL. I think part of the confusion was that I had changed my e-mail address. So please check in & let me know you're still there! I hope we can continue your excellent discussions on the Bronte's lives & works. 1 new of 1 response total. Long live the Bronte sisters!!!

Hee haw!!! LONG LIVE THE BRONTES!!!!!

Topic 63 of 63: 'I'm baaaccckk...' Resp 2 of 2: Mick Armitage (Mick1) Mon, Oct 19, 1998 (06:25) 1 lines Hi Amy, - Nice to see something stirring on this conference once again: when I re-discovered it, at its new URL, it was looking like a long-deserted ghost town! Now all we need is everybody else . . . Now, he's back. I hope Amy does a mail to the bronte ulist (list of folks who've visited the Bronte Sisters Conference with their emails, available to every host).

i'm back, sure miss this conf. *HUGS*