It's been ages since I've been able to look about the forums and already I know this exposure will bring on another round of withdrawl symptoms.

For those who like to kept up to speed, I am still in Scotland, (that's that bit of Britain at the top - Yes, under that big cloud that never moves )
I'm packing up for my personal exodus to Reading, proximal to London really. I leave at the end of the month. By October you should hopefully be getting regular bulletins from me as to my mental state in the fallout from this transition. This is part of a cunning plan I have to chronicle my decline into insanity and nervous breakdown, and then market it in book form.

It'll be the big move out y'see. On my own, hundreds of miles from anyone I know. I think the expression is "Kill or Cure"! But right now I'm still eager/excited and horrified/scared-####less in equal measure.

I hope to pop online for the odd day or two between now and then. A necessary precaution as in my absence it seems minds have been busy. UP3?!!!!
In the words of Harry Hill, "What fresh Lunacy is this?!" I am wiping the drool from my chin as I type - this sounds like it's gonna kick global ass!

A little query to TPTB here at flare....
Will I experience any access problems by posting next month from a different ISP? Or is it still OK so long as I recall my password?

And in case we have any new members since my last logon, I say this:
I have always been here.

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Oh Mr Rasberry, so sharp your juices!

[This message has been edited by Montgomery (edited September 09, 1999).]
 

As far as the ISP thing goes, best to change your email details on your Profile. You'll get a new password emailed to the new address, which you can then change yourself. We need your email for special announcements, like specifying the chosen few who'll get to see UP3 in its Beta stage. . . heh, heh. . . }B)
 

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"If you will not have me as myself, Perhaps as someone else. Perhaps as you, I'll be worth noticing. Then even a eunuch won't resist, The power of one kiss, from such as me.
I'll be that girl: and you would be right over. If I were a field, you would be in clover. If I were the sun, you would be in shadow. If I had a gun, there'd be no tomorrow."
~ Barenaked Ladies
 

Can London take the pressure?

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Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. Inside of a dog, it's to dark to read. Groucho Marx

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Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")
 

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"Why can we never meet anyone nice?"
"Why can we never meet anyone who can shoot straight?"
-Lister and the cat

 

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Phase 1: Steal Underpants
Phase 2: ?
Phase 3: Profit!

 

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"If you will not have me as myself, Perhaps as someone else. Perhaps as you, I'll be worth noticing. Then even a eunuch won't resist, The power of one kiss, from such as me.
I'll be that girl: and you would be right over. If I were a field, you would be in clover. If I were the sun, you would be in shadow. If I had a gun, there'd be no tomorrow."
~ Barenaked Ladies
 

You'll be telling me next that you:
- don't use pound notes
- fly the Union Jack
- don't get Star Trek pre-empted for Curling from Stirling, or the Housewives of Auchtermuchty's Annual Golf Championship, or for Children's TV in Gaelic
- don't rub your bloated belly proclaiming "Ahhm dead Sehhxxxy!" in a Scottish accent
- don't spend summer under a stationary Low pressure cloudbank
- don't care in the least about the "Scottish Parliament"
(Hang on, strike that last one...Noone cares about them)

Oh brave new world indeed!

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Oh Mr Rasberry, so sharp your juices!

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Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. Inside of a dog, it's to dark to read. Groucho Marx

But...who's Maggie?

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"Why can we never meet anyone nice?"
"Why can we never meet anyone who can shoot straight?"
-Lister and the cat

 

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"If you will not have me as myself, Perhaps as someone else. Perhaps as you, I'll be worth noticing. Then even a eunuch won't resist, The power of one kiss, from such as me.
I'll be that girl: and you would be right over. If I were a field, you would be in clover. If I were the sun, you would be in shadow. If I had a gun, there'd be no tomorrow."
~ Barenaked Ladies
 

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Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")
 

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"If you will not have me as myself, Perhaps as someone else. Perhaps as you, I'll be worth noticing. Then even a eunuch won't resist, The power of one kiss, from such as me.
I'll be that girl: and you would be right over. If I were a field, you would be in clover. If I were the sun, you would be in shadow. If I had a gun, there'd be no tomorrow."
~ Barenaked Ladies
 

Regarding indoor plumbing, when one Native American tribe was given new homes (years ago, I forget which tribe) the government agents laughed when the new residents immediately dug deep pits out back, built a small shack around it and relocated the "thrones" out back.

It wasn't until much later that someone asked them about it. They knew how indoor plumbing worked, but to have a device for that purpose within the same house you were expected to prepare food violated their cultural sense of propriety. After that, the toilets were built in outbuildings unconnected to the main house. I hope they at least provided a covered walkway. Even in the "hot" desert southwest, it can get unbearably cold in winter.

--Baloo

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In the race against ignorance, ignorance has a head start.
www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/8641/

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I was one of the first people to wire a head for a reservation.

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"We shall not yield to you, nor to any man." -- Freak, The Mighty.

 

"and Maggie, over lunch one day, took a crusier, with all hands, apearently, to make them give it back".

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Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. Inside of a dog, it's to dark to read. Groucho Marx