Sorry CarolC....Like one of your ? Presidents..I can tell a lie but don't like to...I am Iarf and Spot the Dog. I have never hidden the fact that I joined as Iarf in a very naughty and unpleasant manner and then realised I rather liked the cafe and the members (all of them...no exceptions) and rejoined as another id. I hoped to avoid ever posting again as Iarf but got annoyed at the "hounding" (good eh) of another poor soul and thought if people wanted to kick someone to death why not me (Iarf). While doing this they would leave Guest alone...He was sounding desparate in his apologies and some of the members of the cafe were unrelenting and unforgiving.

They forgave (relatively) Iarf and so they should forgive Guest. He may become a benefit to the cafe. He may not but that as the cabby of Emerald City said is a horse of a different colour (color).

Complex isn't it this life of ours.

I am truly Iarf and Spot the dog ( I rather hoped someone would have noticed the connection....arf arf)...

Oh...could I have just one more say before the net police come and confiscate my P.C. and remove my ID forever. This is really sometimes an unforgiving and inexplicable cafe....sometimes I call ....have a (logical) cofee and listen to such heartwarming events and tales of support and love and comfort that not infrequently I have been moved to tears , and this is not intended to be funny or sarcastic but collegues think I have hay fever in winter coz my eyes fill up.

This is then followed by vicious and unrelenting punishment of any offender who steps out of line....and would you believe the people who offer the most support and comfort are the ones who dish the heaviest fines for non compliance.....Go ahead...Kill..But look you first hard and long at what you have , like the Penguin Cafe the Mudcat Cafe is a concept not a building and ALL inside that concept are the cafe. If entrance is unrestricted then so is the concept. If you restrict the entrance then you limit the concept.

Phew...I think I understood most of that..I know what I meant to say and if my powers of argument are poor it doesent mean I am wrong.

Spot the Iarf.