The people who sybolize what is good about the Mudcat for me are Bill D and Rita, Rick and Heather, Mick, JenEllen, Amos, MMario, Mousetheif, Gnu, LittleHawk and of course the lovely CarolC. I consider none of them Icons but I am proud to call them friends. I was proud to call Max and Joe friends too. But we appear to have had a falling out which I will mention no further on ted's fine thread.

I guess I underestimated DougR. I never cared much for his opinions, seemed to close to Bush talking points for me, but he did tend to stay on topic.