What does your conference list look like?

Mine: farm sports web spirit yapp apps fitness music dpo cultures dsm newtest media internet tv movies politics books politics environment food austin community sex radio poetry restaurants projects porch travel computer windows techbusiness art deeper austentest parent home capcity homepage austenarchive middlemarch drool unix hoa hammer education nh cars minds bronte medieval vc spirit apps farrawae motorcycle garden philosophy babes song cfp news genx justice science peacemaker modjane

apps web media internet tv politics books environment food austin sex restaurants projects porch travel computer windows techbusiness art parent capcity homepage unix education minds medieval vc spirit garden health science poetry music cultures community movies cfp song farrawae farm home news genx babes drool radio fitness nh justice philosophy modjane yapp screwed dpo dsm peacemaker

scratch peacemaker, I guess it's a private club...

You can email the hosts for admission. Not too active yet though.

I'll telnet in later...

Wow, you guys have alot!!! Mine, the ones I can think of off-hand: music poetry art philosophy restaurants travel food screwed movies babes porch news science genx

And the ones I forgot: tv sex cultures

what? you mean the ones we list on our very own list?

Yep, thems it.

ok, i got it! music web tv movies books food community poetry restaurants porch travel art home homepage drool medieval spirit garden philosophy babes news genx screwed

cultures tv books movies porch philosophy food health home genx restaurants art parent babes screwed Didn't even realize there was a music one! I'll have to surf on over one of these days and see if anyone else enjoys listening to Bobby Goldsboro :-)

Bobby who?? It's strange - people over there seem to listen to quite different sorts of things than people over here.

Ha ha, Riette! I was being facetious. Bobby Goldsboro was a teen idol in the early 70's, along the lines of Donny Osmond, or the Partridge family. They used to include his singles on the back of Post cereal boxes; we'd cut them out and play them them on our turntable (we called it a record player back then). Can anyone remember any of his songs? I seem to remember one about the sun.

whoa, you'd cut the single out of the cereal box and play it? ok, i don't get it. please explain.

you are young, Wolf...

Why didn't we have such cool things when I was young????

what do you mean, "when"?????

Not that young anymore - will be a quarter of a century the end of the year......... �shiver�

Oh, yesterday Sonja and I were complaining over this on the phone, and about wrinkles and the likes. I was saying how I get these nasty bags under the eyes when I don't sleep - which I never used to. And she said: 'You think THAT's bad? I have so many wrinkles around my eyes that, after I've cried, I have to wipe my ar$e!' I was in stitches!

well, not too young, there wer. riette, you are much wiser than your age, deary. i wouldn't have guessed you to be 25. oh, when's your b-day?

Oh, I don't look 25 either, I can tell you!!! More like 45! 9. December. Yours? I think you must be between 28 and 30.

More like 15.

�rotflmao�!!! Not at all, Terry!!! Don't let a photo lie to you about my appearance, because then you'll laugh your butt off when you see the video. I am BIG TIME ugly, not because I'm modest, or have a bad self image, but because I am. I've NEVER met a person who thought I looked younger than I am . . . . that's because I don't. Absolutely not! I spent the first 18 years of my life in a blazing desert sun, and so I have those typical ugly freckles that white African people always have. And the wrinkles. And bags under my eyes, because I sleep so little. Baah! Europeans, I find, all look VERY young though. My husband looks at least 15 years younger than he is. �sigh� If I were vain, than would pi$$ me off.

I'm just going by the only picture I've seen of you, and you look mighty young in it.

yeah, that's what i thought. *ahem* 8 June, am 30. but my big rear end makes me look like aunt bea (frumpy). and i AM downright ugly cuz i've got, like, big ears, nose, chin, forehead, you name it. (got small bones though-so my weight looks twice as bad!!)

oh, and riette, i didn't find you ugly at all!!

where is this picture of riette?

ummm, terry?

I don't remember, I guess it needs a repost, help me out Riette or .

The topic with my name that some INNOCENT created in Babes. The face looks fairly in place when I'm not talking - but boy, when that mouth opens, it's NIGHT time! I'm one of those people whose right and left side of the face are so far from being a mirror image of each other, it's almost embarrassing - you know, when I open my mouth to talk, you'd think I'd suffered a stroke at some point! Not nice.

oh, i am *soooooo* in love.

????? �shriek� Terry, you UN-INNOCENT!!

riette, you have a nice face. mine is doesn't match either side but i think it adds character (at least that's what i keep telling myself). and NO, i'm NOT posting it anytime soon.....

Oh, don't worry about that - I know what you look like anyway, since we're twins. I think our faces are the last thing in the world we should give a damn about. I've never thought of people as ugly or pretty just from looking at their faces, so I assume that that is true of them too. I wouldn't want to be beautiful, because I don't know how that would affect one's personality - and mine is awful enough as it is!!!! Many beautiful people are so over aware of the way they look that it makes them butt u ly. Being beautiful is just so temporary - I mean, in 50 years' time Pamela is going to be as unpretty as myself, I HOPE!!! - that one can't really afford to make a big issue out of it.

I'd love to see pics of people you see as attractive Ree-head. Kinds reminds me of that Twilight Zone where they remove the bandages off this woman who has just had facial surgery and they look so afraid and disgusted but the camera pans in and she is beautiful, simply gorgeous, by human standards. When the camera pans out and the doctors and nurses remove their masks, you see that 'normal' for them is lizardlike features... Anyway Ree-head, I think the picture reveals a very pretty you.

yes indeed. you are a natural beauty, riette.

That's kind, Stacey. And ha-ha!!! My best friend, Gillian, is someone I find truly beautiful. I was quite surprised and very angry when my husband met her for the first time, and said to me afterwards: 'She's nice, but God she's ugly.' She might be - I don't know. We've been best friends for four years now, and still find new things to admire about her all the time. She has every good quality one can possibly imagine in another person - but in a degree of UTTERness. Utterly intelligent, kind, sensible, yet crazy, great to be with, creative, emotional, passionate, open, honest, sweet, a good listener AND advisor, easy to talk to, easy to be silent with - oh, I could go on and on. And because of all these qualities, I find her green an brown eyes just beautiful with all the things going on in there, I find her nose beautiful when she laughs and it sort of crinkles up like that, and I find her smile gorgeous, I love to look at her quick hands when she helps me bake my daughters' birthday cakes. If I were lesbian, she is just the kind of woman I'd fall in love with emotionally as well as physically.

How'd you manage to slip that one in, Ray?!?! I think you're a natural beauty too.

All of you make me feel like a natural woman.

*singing* (I shall not disgrace Carole King in such a fashion, I am merely humming)

phew, close call! (just kidding!!)

twas close indeed... lucky there is no REALAUDIO hooked up to my computer!

Nor mine, so why don't we sing a duet? Let's make the others squirm!

*laugh* we could be causing permanent damage...

Yes, come to think of it. Maybe not then.....

that is so sweet about your friend gillian. i think you see beauty the way it was meant to be, without other's standards...that's refreshing. i know what you mean about finding other people beautiful and not having anyone agree with you! and no matter what happens, these people will always remain beautiful to you. and they'll never know why. i can't find a reason why my husband thinks i'm pretty. i can find every reason why he shouldn't. i'm glad not to be admired for looks, you know? well, if we're twins, reehead, it must be fraternal! haha!!

ha-ha! Well, I'm glad to be your twin. I can relate to you.

So to speak!!! HA-HA!!!!

haha!!

Ok...time to post mine. Since I telnet on occasion, I have just about everything on there I was told was safe for me to read *grin* yapp 0 0 sports 0 0 apps 0 1 fitness 0 0 music 0 0 cultures 0 0 web 0 1 media 0 1 internet 0 3 tv 0 0 movies 0 0 politics 0 0 books 0 0 politics 0 0 environment 0 0 food 0 0 austin 0 0 community 0 0 sex 0 1 radio 0 0 poetry 0 0 restaurants 0 0 projects 0 0 porch 0 0 travel 0 0 computer 0 0 windows 0 0 techbusiness 0 0 art 0 0 parent 0 0 home 0 0 capcity 0 0 homepage 9 2 drool 0 0 education 0 0 medieval 0 0 vc 0 1 spirit 0 0 garden 0 0 health 0 0 science 0 1 philosophy 0 2 babes 0 0 cfp 0 0 news 0 0 justice 0 0 screwed 0 0 inner 0 0 software 0 0 collecting 0 0 seniorcomp 0 0 paraspring 0 0 today 0 0 InternationalConflicts 0 0 Geo 0 0 SpringArk 0 0 history And I have checked everything but the latest in Drool.

*sigh* there has not been much activity in here for a while. Singing and picture of missing Ree...not much else...*sigh*

Here's some more stats. These are the conferences and how much disk space they're using. 62217 drool 12205 philosophy 11383 austenarchive 10832 porch 7376 apps 5291 sports 3646 cultures 3381 media 3159 fitness 3078 screwed 2900 politics 2871 news 2817 food 2457 community 2220 capcity 2012 inner 1922 music 1659 bronte 1650 Geo 1550 sex 1509 movies 1466 poetry 1213 motorcycle 1022 babes 964 internet 938 genx 920 books 878 art 863 travel 861 spirit 801 cars 775 austin 753 tv 750 paraspring 696 restaurants 678 collecting 654 web 589 health 586 history 578 vc 531 SpringArk 475 home 388 environment 386 projects 346 yapp 309 phinished 303 deeper 298 radio 273 modjane 256 techbusiness 255 parent 253 garden 232 cfp 232 science 176 farm 170 minds 165 InternationalConflicts 160 medieval 159 today 156 computer 155 education 143 unix 139 justice 130 Orenda 116 windows 111 homepage 109 middlemarch 100 software 64 dsm 61 seniorcomp 40 dpo 35 business 34 newtest 33 hammer 24 test 24 austentest 23 farrawae 23 peacemaker 21 hoa 21 nh 18 ViridianCuria 16 eff 12 song

Makes you want to post something in song.

What's in the austenarchive directory?

I checked song...for original stuff, yes?! Not my thing, though I right now have a head full of Billy Joel's glorious stuff... Geo's doing ok for a conference not yet a year old...*grin*

austenarchive is everything from the former austen conference about Jane austen.

I wish we could do some level of Jane Austen discussion and work more closely with Pemberly.

Pemberley doesn't need us. They have a thriving community on their own. What could we offer them that they don't already have? Also, I think it would be impossible to try to break in on their territory. While I have always wished we could do more discussion of JA, I don't see that happening. They have healthy, active discussions with a large number of participants and lurkers, at best ours would be a pale shadow. Why would anyone look for somewhere else to discuss JA, when they have the RoP?

That's a great question, rephrasing a bit, what could we offer that we aren't ofering now?

That's a great question, rephrasing a bit, what could we offer that we aren't ofering now? } Better phrased: what could we offer that neither we or the RoP is offering now? I've been thinking about that for years. Still don't have any ideas.