(Amy)Looks like the main CF topic is gone again. :-o Amy, did you come in from the main Spring page? I hope so, otherwise something really strange is happening in here. If you hit the Colin Firth topic under "Celebrity Lusts" on the main Spring page it takes you to the infamous missing topic #42--the original Colin topic. Perhaps Terry hasn't had a chance to change it yet. Topic #51 is still here--I was even able to post. Oooh, pretty little variation on the look, thanks :-) Nan, maybe you should start a help topic in here. Probably others came in while the topic was gone and had something to say but didn't know how to start a new one and didn't have a place to ask. Good idea--I'll start it tonight. Though with the mysterious posting problems we're having it's unlikely some people would be able to post a question :-( I'd start it, but I don't want it to look like I'm the help guy; :-D this Yapp thing, it's too maddening. You're telling me...

Yapp might be maddening to you intelligent types who know how to program in it but to a person like me who just reads and occasionally posts, it is the best bulletin board program I've been in. Other places I go (like Pemberley), I spend more time bouncing around between menu pages and posts than actually reading (which is the main reason I don't go there often, I find it very frustrating). I love being able to read, undistracted by anything except my paying job.

THE TRIALS OF YAPP (Lorie) Yapp might be maddening to you intelligent types who know how to program in it but to a person like me who just reads and occasionally posts, it is the best bulletin board program I've been in. Actually I have no idea how Yapp works (I rely on others who do) but I guess it is probably better if you are mostly reading, not posting. Other places I go (like Pemberley), I spend more time bouncing around between menu pages and posts than actually reading (which is the main reason I don't go there often, I find it very frustrating). Since I post often I find that I miss the threads in the old pond--it was so much easier to follow a flow of conversation and it was far less typing. In order to make yourself clear here you have to make the topics bold, italicize the message to which you are responding, remember to close your tags, put the name of that poster in parentheses and then type...at RoP you just snip and type. However, I've grown used to Yapp and have even developed a weird kind of affection for the way it eats a letter (usually in the most inappropriate spots). I feel equally comfortable in both places now...but I still miss the threads ;-)

Discovered this additional topic only now :-)) I think for every disappeared Colin board we should install a new one.... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzCount Almushy! Vade retro! Away with you! Probably we could start an exclusive Darcy Drooling here - for the newbies to keep up, and the oldies to dwell ..... :-)) and let the general Colin drooling go on on topic "51". And then the horses - on "53"!

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Amy, I love the shade. I wish I knew how to do that! I haven't posted in a while, it is kind of confusing to me to answer a particular person or comment. All I know to do is go to the bottom of the page. Anyway, what has happened to ROP? Everytime I try to go there I get an error message that says it is not on my server (AOL). Now, back to my favorite topic, Colin. I can't believe I did not see ATA and now it is gone!!! Everyone said is was terrible so I guess now I will have to wait for the vide . But ALAS!! last week I got up early to watch P&P again and everytime I just love it more. There is sooo much chemistry between D & J and I think C and J. They seem so meant for each other. Does anyone know why their relationship in real life didn't work out? I read it was J who broke it off. Maybe Colin went to Livia on the rebound??? Can't wait to watch it again tomorrow night! L O V E T H A T M A N!!!

Since reading here, I think I was more verbal in my drooling during the ruruns on A&E this week. Unfortunately, my husband does not appreciate having a lusty wife screaming out things like "propose to ME, Darcy!" while she rides her exercycle in her tattered sweat pants and stained tee shirts. CF, of course, would appreciate me anyway, since the exercise would make my fine eyes shine.

And a very merry Austen evening to everyone present here! Hello, this is Cecily after QUITE a time away from good olde drool...I confess to getting lost on another thread where several magnificent photos of CF shimmered in this conference, but now I made it here... It's been a year since I first saw PP2, and I've wafted to and fro betwixt Pemberley and here, trying to keep the torch aflame...I admit that it (my crush on Darcy/Colin) nearly died this summer, BUT the wholehearted admiring love expressed by a friend who just discovered the show and this week's re-viewing of it after months away has again ignited the glow, in fact the affection and wish to see it over and over again...I've never known an actor or a story to have such a powerful effect as this ne can!...So I laugh with delight when I read what you've been writing here, and hope to return more often myself...maybe Santa will get me a computer/video-snap gizmo that I can use to capture more favorite scenes from PP2 to post here and elsewhere...

Cecily, I'm glad to hear that you've been redeemed before you completely abandoned our Colin. I, too, skip back and forth from here and RoP. I've been at the other Colin topic for a couple of days now. I hope to hear more from you. :-) Alicia

Colin Firth is definetely someone to be quite taken with, in fact after watching P&P for the fourth time this week, I too renewed my crush of CF, I though no one could take his place until after watching Jane Erye and being introduced to Ciaran Hinds

I haven't watched Jane Eyre yet, but I taped it. How was it?