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Why I'm not gone/still here

Dave the Gnome 11 Apr 16 - 02:50 AM
Steve Shaw 10 Apr 16 - 07:58 PM
gnu 10 Apr 16 - 07:25 PM
Paul Burke 10 Apr 16 - 04:58 PM
Sandra in Sydney 09 Apr 16 - 08:11 PM
Dave the Gnome 09 Apr 16 - 05:13 PM
Joe Offer 09 Apr 16 - 04:06 PM
keberoxu 09 Apr 16 - 12:23 PM
Donuel 09 Apr 16 - 11:43 AM
punkfolkrocker 09 Apr 16 - 11:26 AM
keberoxu 09 Apr 16 - 11:10 AM
Dave the Gnome 09 Apr 16 - 05:12 AM
Jack Campin 09 Apr 16 - 05:08 AM
Sandra in Sydney 09 Apr 16 - 03:53 AM
michaelr 08 Apr 16 - 11:18 PM
Joe_F 08 Apr 16 - 09:18 PM
Stim 08 Apr 16 - 12:47 PM
Dave the Gnome 08 Apr 16 - 06:30 AM
skarpi 08 Apr 16 - 04:53 AM
Bee-dubya-ell 07 Apr 16 - 10:10 PM
gnu 07 Apr 16 - 04:40 PM
Backwoodsman 07 Apr 16 - 04:05 PM
Senoufou 07 Apr 16 - 03:29 PM
Senoufou 07 Apr 16 - 03:28 PM
MikeL2 07 Apr 16 - 11:47 AM
Backwoodsman 07 Apr 16 - 11:32 AM
Steve Shaw 07 Apr 16 - 09:48 AM
Stu 07 Apr 16 - 09:45 AM
punkfolkrocker 07 Apr 16 - 09:30 AM
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Backwoodsman 07 Apr 16 - 07:56 AM
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Subject: RE: Why I'm not gone/still here
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Apr 16 - 02:50 AM

He ain't been on since the 19th of March but that does not mean much. May be just having a break?


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Subject: RE: Why I'm not gone/still here
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Apr 16 - 07:58 PM

Mr Happy, barred? Some mistake, surely. If he's been barred then at least a dozen or more of us should have been barred before him. Elucidate, someone up there!


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Subject: RE: Why I'm not gone/still here
From: gnu
Date: 10 Apr 16 - 07:25 PM

Mr. Happy was barred? Really? Why?


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Subject: RE: Why I'm not gone/still here
From: Paul Burke
Date: 10 Apr 16 - 04:58 PM

This thread was started some years ago by the estimable Mr Happy. And I know that he was barred from Mudshit by an idiot "moderator" some weeks ago. Don't it always seem to go, you don't know what you've got 'till it's gone.. hey I quoted a reel foke song.


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Subject: RE: Why I'm not gone/still here
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 09 Apr 16 - 08:11 PM

thanks Joe, & thanks to Dave fr posting Utah's song which reminded me I really need to sort my CDs so I can find great stuff like Utah's music.

sandra


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Subject: RE: Why I'm not gone/still here
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 09 Apr 16 - 05:13 PM

All used up

:D


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Subject: RE: Why I'm not gone/still here
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Apr 16 - 04:06 PM

Looks like two threads were combined. I'm trying to figure out why. The "BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!" thread was started in 2013. I thought the "Used Up Old Man" thread was started yesterday, but I can't see an original message for that thread. So, I dunno.
-Joe-


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Subject: RE: Why I'm not gone/still here
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Apr 16 - 12:23 PM

Thank you, moderators! Much much better now.


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Subject: RE: Used up old man
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Apr 16 - 11:43 AM

Beyond decoration I discovered there are some simple but powerful concepts one should obey for maximum benefits.

Sound plate: the flater the louder, plate tuning to 3 distinct notes is best.
the density of a sound plate is important (micro holes are better than solidity.) Low density vibrates best when balanced with a pliant varnish.. The back plate is to project sound back and not resonate. Ribs that grow thinner at the bottom of a fiddle or cello will project very well. Bottom + toward tail pin.

High frequency soundposts that go plink are key. As with the density of water sound travels farther. Having a star of david patterm in a higher density inside the sound pate distributes sound in a most efficient way. This can be achieved my leaving as little as2 tenths of a millimeter of material raised above the rest of the 2 plates. The center of the snowflake pattern should be approximately where the sound post will be. The addition of an ultra light low density sound post of a noisy poly foam material will enhance most fiddles when placed to the left of the end of the fingerboard between the top and bottom plates. (upper left quadrant toward the bottom right.(don't know why it works, it just does)

So those are some principles that seemed to work.
Some happened in due course in Cremona when wood was washed of its lichten by being transported downstream leaving empty holes where sap used to be.

In short, think of the instrument as a speaker and thin the contacts at the ribs and see the instrument like a reed that thins at the bottom.

A Strad or a Villiume is subtlety like a reed or a horn with a overall thicker top than the bottom overall. The ever so slight quality of this structure is all that is needed. Overdoing it, is no good.


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Subject: RE: Used up old man
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 09 Apr 16 - 11:26 AM

Yeah... has a mudelf been drinking on duty.. or is there some tech problem that needs investigating


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Subject: Why I'm not gone/still here
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Apr 16 - 11:10 AM

Moderators, excuse me, but what the heck happened to the thread title? What was wrong with the original title?


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Subject: RE: Used up old man
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 09 Apr 16 - 05:12 AM

I wonder which one of us the used up old man of the new thread title is referring to! And if he is still here? :-)


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Subject: RE: Used up old man
From: Jack Campin
Date: 09 Apr 16 - 05:08 AM

I advocated advancing traditional instruments with new materials, technology and ideas in a TED talk kind of way on Maestronet.com. While everything old is new again, new stuff is attacked. Showing these instruments was considered spam so I have not showed them since.

Give us a link? Maestronet seems to be as old, big and complex as Mudcat (I'd never heard of it before) and there's no way I'll find your post with only that to go on.


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Subject: RE: Used up old man
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 09 Apr 16 - 03:53 AM

weird - I opened this thread wondering what it was about & saw the old title & posts from Senoufou who turns out to be our old friend Eliza.

dunno what's going on with the thread but so good to see you Senoufou who was once & still is eliza!

sandra


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Subject: RE: Used up old man
From: michaelr
Date: 08 Apr 16 - 11:18 PM

WTF is going on here? Has Mudcat been hacked? The "EU referendum" thread shows up completely blank. And this one has weirdly changed titles.


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Subject: RE: Used up old man
From: Joe_F
Date: 08 Apr 16 - 09:18 PM

Which is the real title of this thread -- the one in the list, or the one on the entries?

"Used up", my ****! I'm no bloody use at all.


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: Stim
Date: 08 Apr 16 - 12:47 PM

Little Hawk--I hope you will keep us posted on Shane. I know he will not register, because he does not register much of anything, except for mild surprise when one of his "unrestricted, moronic, indulgent self-expressions of a totally unproductive sort.." blows up in his face. His catch-phrase,"I didn't see that comin'" is familiar to emergency response teams throughout Southwestern Ontario.


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 08 Apr 16 - 06:30 AM

I went years ago. So I am told...

Skarpi! Good to see you :-)


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: skarpi
Date: 08 Apr 16 - 04:53 AM

From the North Atlantic , I have watch the side ..for a long time , I med a lot of good people , that I can call my friends
learned many songs and story´s , traveled with amazing friends to many country´s and still playing and singing , like this weekend

I wish I could just do what I love to do most of all , sing and play music , but I live on a Banana Island in the North Atlantic , where the bananas run the Government and are ruin Iceland ...( Panama Paper s) ..so I was going to leave but it´s impossible to go ...don´t post as much I did but I always look once a day ...so love you all as always .... love and peace from the Banana Island ..Skarpi Iceland


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 10:10 PM

I'm here because I'm not there. I tried to go there once, but when I got to there it became a different here, and what used to be here became a different there. So, I decided to give up and stay here. It's less confusing.


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: gnu
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 04:40 PM

Thanks for that... keberoxu - PM Date: 06 Apr 16 - 12:13 PM

I am still here because I have made many friends over those 40,189 posts. The stories, the banter, the friendships that will last a lifetime. I came searching a recording of Garryowen as a Guest and I had answers galore in hours. One was so detailed I was smitten and I will never leave.

Over a decade and a half or so, I have experienced so much here. I learned of music, poetry and prose in a manner I would never have thought existed when I simply requested help with finding an Irish Trad song recording. I learned of the internUt itself, it's benefits and it's follies. I stepped way over the line a number of times dealing with trolls in my 'up in your Kent County Fuckin Face' manner and was treated with respect and compassion (read sympathy) by the Mudelves and Max. Over the years, they taught me to keep the Wildebeest calm... although, you know. >;-)

Mudchat helped me through some rough times after a surgery recovery in post-op went terribly wrong. Thanks guys... especially Rumanci... I will never forget how much you helped me in my recovery just by chatting with me after you finished those long late night work shifts.

I got some great stuff in the Mudcat Auction when I bid stupid amounts of money to make sure Max got his cut... I got a Bodhran for Dani once! That was very satisfying. The mandolin I got was fine and, when I had to give it up, I found a GREAT home for it. I got lot's of CDs and books too (autographed and I always asked for a "separate" CD or book to be sent and the auction to be kept going... that was back when I had cash before the operation that took my livelihood from me). I connected with so many people... Kendall! I watched his TV show years before and to become friends with him through Mudcat has been a joy! There are so many memories. Another that touches my heart is when I reached out after losing my ability to play and sing for a song that I wrote... LEJ went to bat and knocked it out of the park. It's a big hit here in NB.ca among those that oppose the practices used in our forests. Gee... I am starting to tear up.

I haven't the time to name all the names of the Mudcatters that have helped me grow as a person and continue to school me in matters beyond music... far beyond music.

Leave? Never.

Mudcat is commumity. This is Mudcat... Thanks LEJ.


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 04:05 PM

LOL! 😎

I went on my PC and googled 'Emoticons'. It came up with several sources, so I just picked one at random, downloaded and installed it, and Robert's your mother's brother!

Not clever, just lucky I guess! 🤗


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: Senoufou
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 03:29 PM

And backwoodsman, stop showing off!


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: Senoufou
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 03:28 PM

Ah punkfolkrocker, my list has 'extensions' on it, but in a faint print. When you click on it nothing happens. I reckon that facility isn't available for my little laptop.

Probably quite a good thing, as knowing me I'd be gaily scattering little squashy smiley faces all over the place like a silly teenager, not to mention OMG, LOL and ROFLMAO etc.

But thank you for your very kind instructions, it was nice of you to take the time!
:)


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: MikeL2
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 11:47 AM

Hi

Like the others above I don't get off on the unpleasantness that happens all to often.

I come because thankfully there are a lot ( but sadly diminishing ) number of sensible creative people who both make me smile and provide interesting information on many topics.

As others do I just ignore the unpleasantness which a handful of members create.

Mudcat is both a haven and friendship circle for me and long may it be so. ( They know who they are......or maybe they don't ???

Cheers

MikeL2


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 11:32 AM

😃😍😉 Wooooooooo-Hoo!!


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 09:48 AM

I've had Windows 10 for precisely four days. I bought a new laptop three years ago, thinking my old Vista one was at death's door. The new one had Windows 8 on it. It was so horrendous that the laptop has spent three years in its case. I plucked up the courage to get it out again the other day. To my amazement it fired up, and even the battery's fine. I had to first upgrade to 8.1, then to 10, all for free, and all's well except that I'm at the bottom of the learning curve. And guess what: the old Vista one's still going strong!


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: Stu
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 09:45 AM

I always think that were I to meet most Catters for a pint we'd have a great time. Over the 17-odd years I've been here I have learnt to play the bouzouki, started the guitar (but not for Irish trad - no way hose!) and learnt lots from people with far more knowledge of our traditions than I'll ever have.

I enjoy the rough and tumble below the line, but I keep a close eye on the music as this is where the real learning happens. I'm not going anywhere after all this time; I'm not sure anywhere else would have me anyway.


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 09:30 AM

Ok.. I'm using Chrome browser, and downloaded this extension "Emoji Input by EmojiStuff.com"

In chrome..

select "Settings" in top right corner.
Then "More Tools"
then "Extensions"
At bottom of page select "Get more Extensions"

In the search box paste"Emoji Input by EmojiStuff.com"

that should give you a choice of that extension and a couple of others...

I've only used Emoji Input by EmojiStuff.com.
It's not perfect and sometimes a bit erratic in use.

Can't vouch for the alternatives - if better or not...??? 😕


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: Senoufou
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 08:25 AM

I'm on a small white laptop thing called (I think) a Chrome. My husband is much more knowledgeable than I, so I'll ask him about emoticons when he gets home from work.


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 07:56 AM

Strangely, I've found that some of the people who appear combative and aggressive on here, are actually very nice in The Real World! I know a few members in real life, and I like them all.

Those emoticons seem to be something specific to my iPad (which I mostly use for surfing t'interweb), they are part of the pop-up 'keyboard' on the iPad and, presumably, they're available on a Mac too - I can't find a way to do them on my Windows 10 PC! Maybe someone else will know?


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: Senoufou
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 03:19 AM

Yes, Backwoodsman, I confess I am! The thing is, one gets quite fond of the regular posters on here. They're total strangers, I know, and could be ghastly in real life, but as presented on Mudcat, most are really friendly, interesting and funny.

I do like your fat squashy little additions (are they called emoticons?) I've no idea how one adds those. (hangs head in shame at internet ignorance)


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 02:46 AM

You're enjoying this, aren't you Eliza? 😄


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: Senoufou
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 02:37 AM

Yoohoo Sandra from Sydney and Little Hawk! (waves enthusiastically)


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 12:13 AM

Shane's life is not about merit, Amos. Merit simply doesn't enter into the picture. As Shane has often said himself, when he and his buddies prostrated themselves before famous heavy metal stars on tour and chanted in unison: "We're not worthy! We're not worthy!"

Rather, Shane's life is about unrestricted, moronic, indulgent self-expression of a totally unproductive sort...and he's proud of it, eh? He is fulfilling "the dream".


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 11:34 PM

This is a touching and interesting topic.

now for something completely different and true;

George Mason University has named a law school after Justice Scalia in order to receive a 30 million dollar endowment.

They named it , American Scalia School Of Law, aka ASSOL.
Formation of a renaming committee is being discussed.


I was invited to post on Mudcat by (name withheld upon threat of dismemberment) . I advocated advancing traditional instruments with new materials, technology and ideas in a TED talk kind of way on Maestronet.com. While everything old is new again, new stuff is attacked. Showing these instruments was considered spam so I have not showed them since.


On the internet I am 6 inches shorter, 65 pounds heavier, illiterate, abrupt, a bigot for the left and a fraud compared to real life where I listen lovingly and make people smile.


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: Amos
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 10:50 PM

We steadfast and honorable citizens of Catlandia wish to make it known that Shane's omission from these hallowed ranks is no loss to anyone, as he was a noisome figment of no substantive merit.


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 10:35 PM

Shane McBride (Blind DRunk in Blind River) wants it to be known that he is not still here because: "Becoz I can't flippin' post as a flippin' GUEST no more!"


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: Bugsy
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 09:29 PM

Because, I spend nearly all my Mudcat time in the Music section and Very little time Below the line.

I value my sanity.

Cheers

Bugsy


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: Senoufou
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 01:07 PM

Hello Charmion! :)


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 12:41 PM

When I'm pottering about in the house on my own...

Typing the occasional post on mudcat has got to be a bit of a better option than talking to a budgie..
and a lot less mess to keep clean and maintain... 😜


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 12:13 PM

I meant the post in which Rapparee responds to a post from Joe Offer.


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: Senoufou
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 11:42 AM

Smoky, Minty and Murphy are waving their paws at Cleo and singing a Siamese folk song in chorus for her.
They're not 'too grand' at all. They're little sods and wee on things, scratch up the carpets and howl in the night for attention.


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 08:14 AM

I told my cat Cleo, & she miaows a welcome also. She's a black·&·white 'tuxedo' cat, but hopes your Siameses not too grand to accept a loving greeting from her.

❤☺〠☺~M~☺〠❤


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: Senoufou
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 08:02 AM

Yes, Michael. My three Siamese cats are quite proud I'm a Cat too.

I couldn't keep my old name of Eliza, as it seems there's a folk singer here who has had that username for a long time.

Love all those pink hearts and kisses!


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 07:57 AM

Welcome -- so now you are a real Cat at last!

x❤x≈M≈x❤x


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: Charmion
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 07:55 AM

Hi, Eliza! So glad to see you all signed up and everything.


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: Senoufou
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 07:47 AM

Yooohooo!! I'm Eliza under a different name (waves to everyone)
I'm a member now.


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 03:02 AM

Compulsive & Addictive ——

Bugger·it!

≈M≈


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Subject: RE: BS: Why I'm not gone/still here!
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 02:52 AM

Eliza's still here, Sandra. Posting several timesrecently in BS.


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