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Please Introduce yourself here (January 2012 part 2)
Hi Dana and welcome. I'm sure there will be another party some time soon - we quite enjoy them here.
Welcome Dana :o) I didn't know BBC had an American channel. Learn soemthing new everyday
Welcome Dana. Be careful of distances too. A few hours drive in the US will see you drowning here as you'll run out of land.
I used to think that it wasn't worth going to a place for the day if it was an hour and a half away, that was a full weekend trip.
Welcome Dana!Interesting bit of trivia I picked up from a wonderful Brit programme.
Seems no matter where you are in the UK you're never more than 72 miles from the coast. Think it is was 72 miles they said, anyway...
Welcome Dana.Lovely to meet you.
Hi Dana..It's lovely on here.
Gingerlily (aka The Wardrobe) wrote: "Hi Dana and welcome. I'm sure there will be another party some time soon - we quite enjoy them here."Thanks! I love parties too (who doesn't?). :)
Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "Welcome Dana :o) I didn't know BBC had an American channel. Learn soemthing new everyday"
Hi Jud, I think it's just the "best" of the BBC. They run Top Gear, Graham Norton, Dr. Who, Torchwood, Being Human, Mistresses, and Gordon Ramsay's shows along with a bunch of specials. I'm sure we're missing out on plenty!
Karl - Bollocks To The Naysayers wrote: "Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "Welcome Dana :o) I didn't know BBC had an American channel. Learn soemthing new everyday"
Dana, here's something to be careful of.
Do you mean English English? The kin..."
Hi Karl,
I mean English English. Like sometimes I'll be looking for the English equivalent of something Americans might say. That kind of thing.
Hey guys we are at 1076. Are we celebrating at 1100, or are we only bothering with thousands now?Better not be though ;)
Dana wrote: "Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "Welcome Dana :o) I didn't know BBC had an American channel. Learn soemthing new everyday"
Hi Jud, I think it's just the "best" of the BBC. They run Top Gear, Graham No..."
I feel like a fake British person. Never heard of Mistresses :S
Geoff (G. Robbins) wrote: "Welcome Dana. Be careful of distances too. A few hours drive in the US will see you drowning here as you'll run out of land."Hi Geoff,
I know! I learned that back in college when I gave an English girl a ride to her aunt's home in Idaho, and after we'd been driving for seven hours, she couldn't believe that she still had another nine hours to go! She'd told me you could drive from the bottom of England to the top of Scotland in about 12 hours (if I'm remembering correctly). And that was when I realized how much larger the States were. I finally got a chance to visit England for a few days in my mid-twenties and I was still surprised how much ground we could cover in just an afternoon's drive. Someday I'm going to get back and see Ireland and Scotland too.
Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "I used to think that it wasn't worth going to a place for the day if it was an hour and a half away, that was a full weekend trip."You've cracked me up. An hour and a half is nothing here!
Patti (Still totally bananas) wrote: "Welcome Dana!Interesting bit of trivia I picked up from a wonderful Brit programme.
Seems no matter where you are in the UK you're never more than 72 miles from the coast. Think it is was 72 mil..."
Wow--only 72 miles? When I was kid growing up and reading about how Britain dominated the world and built its great empire, I always thought it must be much larger than it looked on the map!
Louise-Lesley (Elle) wrote: "Hi Dana, what a lovely name!"Thanks, Louise! I love my name now, but I hated it when I was kid growing up because there were three girls named Dana in my class and also three boys named Dana (which is odd, because it's not a common name here--I rarely meet other Danas), and all the kids used to tease us about it. (You have a boy's name, you have a girl's name.) I was upset with my parents for a while because of that.
Lorraine - To Be Handled with Care wrote: "Hi Dana and welcome !"Thanks, DeeDee, Philip, Lynne, and Lorraine! :)
Howdo everyone and everygroup. Look at me, I just invented a new greeting. People should use it whenever they are addressing more than one person at a time, it would save at least 45 seconds a day.I used to be really into Stephen King but his latest works haven't been all that great if you ask me. Shame really.
I have a satire news blog if anyone fancies a giggle - http://michaelcargill.wordpress.com/
Currently it contains Justin Bieber's diary.
I am also a new author and my first few books are free. They are available here on Goodreads or from - http://www.smashwords.com/profile/vie...
Hi Michael, welcome and howdo. I tried to look at your blog but the work netdragon won't let me. Oh well, I'll just have to wait until tonight.
Michael wrote: "Howdo everyone and everygroup. Look at me, I just invented a new greeting. People should use it whenever they are addressing more than one person at a time, it would save at least 45 seconds a da..."Hi Mike, I'm DeeDee: nice to meet you!
Welcome Michael! Be sure to start your author thread.
Thanks Lily! I actually have my blog linked to Goodreads so you should be able to view it here:http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_...
I'm not so bad now I've moved to Scotland Dana! An hour and half is acceptable as a day's journey maybe even 2 hours!
Hi Michael. I forsee a future of jokes I don't understand....
Hello Louise. Don't worry I get told that fairly often...!
Michael wrote: "Thanks Lily! I actually have my blog linked to Goodreads so you should be able to view it here:http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_..."
Lily - oh you mean me! I usually get called Ginger or GL, you do seem to like being different... I had a look at the blog. Hehehe...
I laughed at the b log too and I'm WAAAY too old to know who Justin Thingie is (but I've sort of heard of him!)
I'm not sure who he is either, Ignite. I'm suspicious he may be Canadian, though. If he is, I don't want to know. That would be just too embarrassing.
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The only thing I know about him was that he was machine gunned to death in CSI. There was great rejoicing.Welcome Michael.
I remember being shocked to death when that happened in CSI.In all fairness he played the creepy bad-teen well.
Hi Folks,I am Darren Sant. I'm an avid reader, reviewer and a writer of short fiction. It'll be nice getting to know you all.
It impressed me most that after dying in a hail of bullets his hair was still perfect. By contrast I can go out in a 1 mph breeze and I look like I've spent an hour in a wind tunnel.
Hi Darren - your name, or your blog, seems to have cropped up recently. Welcome to the group. If you scroll down the page there's a Meet the Authors forum. Get stuck in there!Geoff, wind tunnel or not you're still gorgeous!
Ignite wrote: "Hi Darren - your name, or your blog, seems to have cropped up recently. Welcome to the group. If you scroll down the page there's a Meet the Authors forum. Get stuck in there!Geoff, wind tun..."
I'm always reminded on such occasions of the BeeGees album cover that showed them looking into the wind, and the HeeBeeGeeBee's version where they showed the same shot but each of the band members were holding hair dryers.
Another Darren. This might be confusing... Welcome anyway :)
Hi I'm JulieI know this is a Kindle group but I have the chance of a Sony PRS 505 Ebook Reader and was wondering what anyone thought about this eReader.
Hi Julie, welcome to the group.I think someone did mention a kindle on this group last year some time.
Now what did they say.....
Oh yes..
Has anyone cooked a kindle shaped cake
Omg. A Kindle cake. THIS MUST BE DONE!(And & Hi Julie!)
Hi Darren and Julie !Kindle cake? Do you think you can work something out so it has a backlight?
I'm thinking I need to get a small rectangle pan and then do some yummy chocolate buttons.....
I gather all other readers are blacklisted by the tone of these responses
Julie C wrote: "I gather all other readers are blacklisted by the tone of these responses"Not at all Julie. Just some of our members poking fun (not at you though) at the fact all threads in this forum eventually seem to get on to the subject of cake ;-).
I haven't heard any of our members mention they own one of the sony readers. I have seen a similar question posted over at the Amazon forums (link here http://www.amazon.co.uk/forum/kindle/...). If you pop over there and type sony into the search customer discussions you should be able to find more responses there to your question.
You are of course most welcome to hang out here with us regardless of whether or not you have a reader. We are a nice, if somewhat crazy bunch ;-).
We use various devices although most of us have a kindle. But other ereaders are welcome ! As long as they like cake...
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I'm Dana Delamar, and I joined this group on the recommendation of my good friend, Kristine Cayne. She told me you were all a fun group! (I guess I missed out on a major party lately for the 1000th member.)
I LOVE books of all kinds, and I spend way too much money at Amazon, especially now that I have a Kindle.
I just released my first book and am currently revising the second, which has a main character who's English, so I'm sure from time to time I'll be asking some questions regarding the difference between American English and British English.
Aside from books, I love traveling and I spent too much time watching TV (I'm quite addicted to BBC America--currently watching the third season of Mistresses!).
Dana