"When I joined Mudcat in Sept 2004, I thought that members were supposed to write a bio. However, I've since learned that few members have written bios. I wish members would voluntarily do so, but wouldn't want it to be a requirement."

Azizi, I ditto this.
The big problem with the Cat is it's quite utterly antiquated forum software!
No personal page, which comes automatically as part of the package for most forums. People just fill 'em out, when they are just 'there'.

Quotes, links, personal bio, photy's etc. Anything you want to include or don't want to include.

I'm a thirty-something white working-class bint from the UK btw. With a very typically English 'silly' sense of humour. Humour style, is incidentally IMO a very telling culturally identifiable quality (and no-doubt racially too, but I don't pretend to know about such things in the virtually all-white South-East England.) Because it clicks into all our unspoken understandings (ot of course misunderstandings).
It's certainly been interesting observing the cameraderie between the Americans on-board. So many fascinating shared cultural references.