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[Ken, Moderator]

Homecoming. Prodigal sons. You can't... maybe can... go home again. Look homeward, angel. And so on.

Enjoy the day (days? weeks? months?).

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Yippeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

I want to play with html so I will do it here rather than muck up any other threads!
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[Ruth]

Wright here.

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[image error] Remove all spaces except the one after img

[Ken, Moderator]

Oh, my. Goodreads must have received a big shipment of bandwidth...

[Ruth]

Oh no, New, it's not uploaded to live here at gr, it's merely linked from another site.

[[deleted user]]

Ruth-- what a wonderful view!

[Ruth]

We've been here less than a year, Sarah, but I don't think I'll ever tire of it.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

It's gorgeous!
I must be stupid...I can't make it work :-( I am getting me to a nunnery (see profile pic).

[[deleted user]]

Debbie, I had the hardest time getting the spacing right for including a link in a post-- Symbol helped me out. Not being able to do html does not make one stupid-- just requires more practice and patience for folks (!) like us :)

Nice wimple! Did you enjoy the cast party?

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Yeah it was OK...got home about 1am. Too much Abba music though!!!

[Ken, Moderator]

Hell hath no torture like Abba music, world without end, amen (and women). Nun of that, sister!

[Tyler]

Why did you change you picture, Debbie?

Also, did someone mention Abba, the greatest musicians ever? Why, one can never hear enough of their music.

[[deleted user]]

Tell me ABBA-out it! I've got the urge to dance right now ... perhaps a little Fernando or Dancing Queen?

That didn't turn out as well as I hoped ...

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

I changed my pic Relyt, so that you could all have a good giggle at my unusual habit!! Don't worry...I'll be back to my unholy old self soon!

[Ken, Moderator]

Relyt, just as I hope you'll forgive my weaknesses (Cheez-Its, mincemeat pie, and Hemingway novels), I'll forgive a few of yours. Consider ABBA four of your allowed five passes, then.

"Waterloo, couldn't stand listenin' if I wanted to..."

In the words of the prophet: If I want one gift from Sweden, it'll be a masseuse named Ingrid, not a palindromic musical accident named ABBA...

[[deleted user]]

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Tyler]

NE --

Just listen ...

... so how could I ever refuse/
I feel like I win when I lose!

Waterloo! ...

Pure poetry, set to music. And English isn't even their first language.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Changing pic back now....resulted in a rash of friends requests, including one from a "Blessed Virgin Mary" obsessive and a 12 year old born-again christian who loves horses. I ignored the former and let the latter down gently.......

[Ken, Moderator]

Relyt, are you sure that ABBA feels that way when they're "loose"? (Ugly picture comes to mind -- I mean I know those Swedes walk around nude a lot, but really.)

Debbie, I have used the old question strategy to solve the friending trouble here at Goodreads. You can find the feature on your profile page, I believe. In it, you play the Sphinx who poses a question, and if the erstwhile born-again friendster cannot answer it, he or she cannot even send a request.

What I REALLY like is, even if they answer the question, you can still refuse them if you haven't a clue who they are. I say yes to any and all who I know and have interacted with on these boards, but other than that, call me Dr. No.

So what's a good question for you?

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

I am one step ahead of you....have put it in place......you are the answer!!

[Ken, Moderator]

Wha--? I am never the answer. I've always been the question (namely, what the hell am I doing here*?)



* "here" could be anywhere, but usually denotes Earth

[Tyler]

Relyt, are you sure that ABBA feels that way when they're "loose"?

Error corrected, but you're the one who put the idea in my head.

Everyone: I've gotten friend requests from that same girl (I think), and from a Nigerian lady who think I'm really, really, hot, but who doesn't read. You can flag requests like that and report them.

[[deleted user]]

I thought that was quite the compliment NE :)

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

To get the right answer they actually need to have at least lurked in this group! And know what a co-moderator is! I had thought of asking something much harder but who has time to read 50 million posts to find an answer!!? You must be popular relyt! I don't usually get friends requests from people who aren't members of this group....and those Nigerians get around! I had several of them with European names and very similar photos contact me through MySpace declaring that I had 'a kind face' and could I just launder 30 million dollars for them through my bank account, for which they would need full details of course, and I would get to keep 10%....oh, and have the opportunity to make honest men of them too if I so desired!!!!!

[Ken, Moderator]

The answer to my question is buried in these threads somewhere, meaning I will remain one of the most friendless posters in all of Goodreadom.

I guess that means I'll never be among the coveted TOP PROFILES because, I suspect, the TOP PROFILES go to the people who send out the most friend-quests. Think about it. What's the first thing you do when you receive such a request -- you click their profile to see who the heck this suitor is, scratch your head, shrug your shoulders, then delete. But the person gets a "hit" and a chance to be a TOP PROFILE.

Please make this friend-less poster a TOP PROFILE by clicking his profile repeatedly this week. If I make the list, I will be complete and whole (but not holy) as a person. It (sob) has been on my bucket list for 10 days or so.

Which reminds me, should we have a language-related bucket list on the FUN & GAMES area? I suppose no one HAS language related bucket list items (like, "I'd like to speak Czech before I die...").

[[deleted user]]

I do-- I actually want to be able to speak Spanish fluently. And I like the bucket list idea :) I'm off to do it-- in a timely manner this time :)

Oh-- I say "pooh-pooh" to the whloe TOP PROFILE thing. What? Are we in high school here? They need to play on myspace if they want to be "popular." (gets off soapbox and moves on to create new thread)

[Ken, Moderator]

Then I wonder how they choose the "Top Reviewers." Number of "liked it" clicks from non-friends on your reviews, maybe?

Anyway, it's all in keeping. I was not one of the "Senior Superlatives" in the high school yearbook, either. Below the radar is my middle name...

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

The whole "popularity" thing sucks! It smacks of shallowness - pretty = popular. I am loved, have friends, and new acquaintances seem to like me....but I don't court "popularity". In NZ (at least among those who did not grow up with the cheaper side of American culture shoved into our faces via B-grade TV and film) things like loyalty, trust and core values are far more important.

[Ken, Moderator]

In NE things like loyalty, trust and core values are far more important, too. Of course it takes New Englanders around 5 years to warm to you... but be patient!

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Suspicious lot huh? Whereas a Kiwi will open his heart to you and then wait to be kicked in the teeth! If it doesn't happen you can be friends!

[Ken, Moderator]

Sounds like a much better system. Good for the dentists' businesses, too.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Happy birthday to me.....(tuneful humming etc)
Fifty not out....halfway to my century!

[Catamorandi]

Happy birthday to you!

[[deleted user]]

Happy birthday Dear Debbbbbbiiiieeeee!

[Gail]

Happy birthday to you!

[Ken, Moderator]

... And many mo-o-o-o-o-o-re!

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

I love you guys!!!!!!!!

[Ken, Moderator]

Aw, shucks.

[[deleted user]]

We love you too Debs!

[Inky]

(Pops in head, curious about the singing)

Many happy returns Debbie! I hope that cake was present in your immediate past or will be in the near future:)

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Figured it was better on my head rather than on my hips Inky!!! Thanks for the good wishes.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Guess what I got ! Along with the Chanel No 5 and the pencil sketch she made of me asleep at 3 yrs, my mother gave me the collected poems of Robert Frost. Feels like a gift from all of you too!

[Ken, Moderator]

Hey, does Mum read along here at L&G? Is that where she got the idea?

News item from this week: one recent night a bunch of young miscreants invaded Robert Frost's vacant house in New Hampshire and partied like it's 1995 (again). They were caught and their punishment is to attend a 6-week course on Frost's poetry.

Two parties diverged in a yellow wood, and all that!

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Hahahahahahaha! I wouldn't have got that 2 months ago! No, my mum is completely computer illiterate (although an author and artist)....I told her about it and she was so pathetically grateful that one of her children was finally showing an interest in the airier-fairier side of life that she bought it for me! I am thrilled.

Hey!! Brainwave!! Lets invade someone's (famous poet/author's house) for one of our parties! How about......Tolkein (although I believe he is hobbit-forming!).

[[deleted user]]

HEHEHEHEHEHE!!!!!

Good one Debbie! Ooooh-- it took a a while to get my breath back after that one :)

[Ken, Moderator]

Twain's house in Hartford, Connecticut, is cool. Pool table on the upper deck, yet.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Yeah...let's do it! What do we need to take with us? Whitewash?

[[deleted user]]

And we could be like Tom Sawyer painting the fence . . . :)

[Ken, Moderator]

Tom Sawyer NOT painting the fence, you mean. A true pro, Tom...