by Just thought I'd say hello. Maybe you will get to know me better as time goes on but I don't know how much I will post here. I will say I am a non-fundamentalist and somewhat unorthodox christian with an interest in things beyond the norm. It was somebody from Psiencequest who encouraged me to join. Nice to meet you all.
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mac- Posts : 932
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Hi, Brian - I've seen you there on Psiquest.Brian wrote:Just thought I'd say hello. Maybe you will get to know me better as time goes on but I don't know how much I will post here. I will say I am a non-fundamentalist and somewhat unorthodox christian with an interest in things beyond the norm. It was somebody from Psiencequest who encouraged me to join. Nice to meet you all.
Brian- Posts : 46
Location : Sweden
Hi mac. I'm sure I've seen you too.mac wrote:Hi, Brian - I've seen you there on Psiquest.Brian wrote:Just thought I'd say hello. Maybe you will get to know me better as time goes on but I don't know how much I will post here. I will say I am a non-fundamentalist and somewhat unorthodox christian with an interest in things beyond the norm. It was somebody from Psiencequest who encouraged me to join. Nice to meet you all.
EDIT: I think I'm thinking of somewhere else actually. Have you ever been on Skeptiko?
Candlelight.kk- .
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Well, that's weird. 
I could have sworn I already posted a welcome reply here - it seems to have disappeared into the aether! Spooooooky!!
Oh well, I'll just say again --
Hello Brian. Nice to meet you.
You say you have "an interest in things beyond the norm". What exactly is "the norm" though?
I'm guessing if that question were asked of 20 people, there would be 20 different answers.
Welcome aboard.
I could have sworn I already posted a welcome reply here - it seems to have disappeared into the aether! Spooooooky!!Oh well, I'll just say again --
Hello Brian. Nice to meet you.
You say you have "an interest in things beyond the norm". What exactly is "the norm" though?
I'm guessing if that question were asked of 20 people, there would be 20 different answers.
Welcome aboard.
Brian- Posts : 46
Location : Sweden
Thank you. That's a difficult question to answer. It's a vague term when you think about it but I mean that which is common, perhaps mundane. I don't know but I don't travel in circles in which I can discuss many of the things I am interested in so what is normal in my life could be very different to what is normal in yours. Nice to meet you Candlelight.kkCandlelight.kk wrote:Well, that's weird.
Oh well, I'll just say again --
Hello Brian. Nice to meet you.
You say you have "an interest in things beyond the norm". What exactly is "the norm" though?
I'm guessing if that question were asked of 20 people, there would be 20 different answers.
Welcome aboard.
mac- Posts : 932
Location : east midlands of England
No I've never been a member on Skeptico.Brian wrote:Hi mac. I'm sure I've seen you too.mac wrote:Hi, Brian - I've seen you there on Psiquest.Brian wrote:Just thought I'd say hello. Maybe you will get to know me better as time goes on but I don't know how much I will post here. I will say I am a non-fundamentalist and somewhat unorthodox christian with an interest in things beyond the norm. It was somebody from Psiencequest who encouraged me to join. Nice to meet you all.
EDIT: I think I'm thinking of somewhere else actually. Have you ever been on Skeptiko?
Brian- Posts : 46
Location : Sweden
Sorry. I think it's a false memory. I could have sworn I saw a mac on a similar type of forum but those are the only two I have been a member of.mac wrote:No I've never been a member on Skeptico.Brian wrote:Hi mac. I'm sure I've seen you too.mac wrote:Hi, Brian - I've seen you there on Psiquest.Brian wrote:Just thought I'd say hello. Maybe you will get to know me better as time goes on but I don't know how much I will post here. I will say I am a non-fundamentalist and somewhat unorthodox christian with an interest in things beyond the norm. It was somebody from Psiencequest who encouraged me to join. Nice to meet you all.
EDIT: I think I'm thinking of somewhere else actually. Have you ever been on Skeptiko?
Brian- Posts : 46
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Thank you MistyMisty wrote:Welcome Brian.
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mac- Posts : 932
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There's a member on Skeptico who has 'mac' as part of their username - maybe that's what you're remembering? I'm just plain, vanilla 'mac' on a number of websites although I've been impersonated on others by a certain ne'er do well.....Brian wrote:Sorry. I think it's a false memory. I could have sworn I saw a mac on a similar type of forum but those are the only two I have been a member of.mac wrote:No I've never been a member on Skeptico.Brian wrote:Hi mac. I'm sure I've seen you too.mac wrote:Hi, Brian - I've seen you there on Psiquest.Brian wrote:Just thought I'd say hello. Maybe you will get to know me better as time goes on but I don't know how much I will post here. I will say I am a non-fundamentalist and somewhat unorthodox christian with an interest in things beyond the norm. It was somebody from Psiencequest who encouraged me to join. Nice to meet you all.
EDIT: I think I'm thinking of somewhere else actually. Have you ever been on Skeptiko?
Brian- Posts : 46
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That certain ne'er do well might be who I am thinking of. If I am right then he is somebody who has recently been banned from Psiencequest although his name wasn't mac there.mac wrote:There's a member on Skeptico who has 'mac' as part of their username - maybe that's what you're remembering? I'm just plain, vanilla 'mac' on a number of websites although I've been impersonated on others by a certain ne'er do well.....Brian wrote:Sorry. I think it's a false memory. I could have sworn I saw a mac on a similar type of forum but those are the only two I have been a member of.mac wrote:No I've never been a member on Skeptico.Brian wrote:Hi mac. I'm sure I've seen you too.mac wrote:Hi, Brian - I've seen you there on Psiquest.Brian wrote:Just thought I'd say hello. Maybe you will get to know me better as time goes on but I don't know how much I will post here. I will say I am a non-fundamentalist and somewhat unorthodox christian with an interest in things beyond the norm. It was somebody from Psiencequest who encouraged me to join. Nice to meet you all.
EDIT: I think I'm thinking of somewhere else actually. Have you ever been on Skeptiko?
mac- Posts : 932
Location : east midlands of England
The ne'er do well I'm thinking of - operating under various aliases - has also been banned from a number of other websites!Brian wrote:That certain ne'er do well might be who I am thinking of. If I am right then he is somebody who has recently been banned from Psiencequest although his name wasn't mac there.mac wrote:There's a member on Skeptico who has 'mac' as part of their username - maybe that's what you're remembering? I'm just plain, vanilla 'mac' on a number of websites although I've been impersonated on others by a certain ne'er do well.....Brian wrote:Sorry. I think it's a false memory. I could have sworn I saw a mac on a similar type of forum but those are the only two I have been a member of.mac wrote:No I've never been a member on Skeptico.Brian wrote:Hi mac. I'm sure I've seen you too.mac wrote:Hi, Brian - I've seen you there on Psiquest.Brian wrote:Just thought I'd say hello. Maybe you will get to know me better as time goes on but I don't know how much I will post here. I will say I am a non-fundamentalist and somewhat unorthodox christian with an interest in things beyond the norm. It was somebody from Psiencequest who encouraged me to join. Nice to meet you all.
EDIT: I think I'm thinking of somewhere else actually. Have you ever been on Skeptiko?
Brian- Posts : 46
Location : Sweden
Sounds like himmac wrote:The ne'er do well I'm thinking of - operating under various aliases - has also been banned from a number of other websites!Brian wrote:That certain ne'er do well might be who I am thinking of. If I am right then he is somebody who has recently been banned from Psiencequest although his name wasn't mac there.mac wrote:There's a member on Skeptico who has 'mac' as part of their username - maybe that's what you're remembering? I'm just plain, vanilla 'mac' on a number of websites although I've been impersonated on others by a certain ne'er do well.....Brian wrote:Sorry. I think it's a false memory. I could have sworn I saw a mac on a similar type of forum but those are the only two I have been a member of.mac wrote:No I've never been a member on Skeptico.Brian wrote:Hi mac. I'm sure I've seen you too.mac wrote:Hi, Brian - I've seen you there on Psiquest.Brian wrote:Just thought I'd say hello. Maybe you will get to know me better as time goes on but I don't know how much I will post here. I will say I am a non-fundamentalist and somewhat unorthodox christian with an interest in things beyond the norm. It was somebody from Psiencequest who encouraged me to join. Nice to meet you all.
EDIT: I think I'm thinking of somewhere else actually. Have you ever been on Skeptiko?
mac- Posts : 932
Location : east midlands of England
Brian wrote:Sounds like himmac wrote:The ne'er do well I'm thinking of - operating under various aliases - has also been banned from a number of other websites!Brian wrote:That certain ne'er do well might be who I am thinking of. If I am right then he is somebody who has recently been banned from Psiencequest although his name wasn't mac there.mac wrote:There's a member on Skeptico who has 'mac' as part of their username - maybe that's what you're remembering? I'm just plain, vanilla 'mac' on a number of websites although I've been impersonated on others by a certain ne'er do well.....Brian wrote:Sorry. I think it's a false memory. I could have sworn I saw a mac on a similar type of forum but those are the only two I have been a member of.mac wrote:No I've never been a member on Skeptico.Brian wrote:Hi mac. I'm sure I've seen you too.mac wrote:Hi, Brian - I've seen you there on Psiquest.Brian wrote:Just thought I'd say hello. Maybe you will get to know me better as time goes on but I don't know how much I will post here. I will say I am a non-fundamentalist and somewhat unorthodox christian with an interest in things beyond the norm. It was somebody from Psiencequest who encouraged me to join. Nice to meet you all.
EDIT: I think I'm thinking of somewhere else actually. Have you ever been on Skeptiko?
Oh I knew for certain that it was.... The m.o. becomes familiar over time. He can change his website 'appearance' but not his writing style and/or his interests.
Candlelight.kk- .
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mac wrote:Brian wrote:Sounds like himmac wrote:The ne'er do well I'm thinking of - operating under various aliases - has also been banned from a number of other websites!Brian wrote:That certain ne'er do well might be who I am thinking of. If I am right then he is somebody who has recently been banned from Psiencequest although his name wasn't mac there.mac wrote:There's a member on Skeptico who has 'mac' as part of their username - maybe that's what you're remembering? I'm just plain, vanilla 'mac' on a number of websites although I've been impersonated on others by a certain ne'er do well.....Brian wrote:Sorry. I think it's a false memory. I could have sworn I saw a mac on a similar type of forum but those are the only two I have been a member of.mac wrote:No I've never been a member on Skeptico.Brian wrote:Hi mac. I'm sure I've seen you too.mac wrote:Hi, Brian - I've seen you there on Psiquest.Brian wrote:Just thought I'd say hello. Maybe you will get to know me better as time goes on but I don't know how much I will post here. I will say I am a non-fundamentalist and somewhat unorthodox christian with an interest in things beyond the norm. It was somebody from Psiencequest who encouraged me to join. Nice to meet you all.
EDIT: I think I'm thinking of somewhere else actually. Have you ever been on Skeptiko?
Oh I knew for certain that it was.... The m.o. becomes familiar over time. He can change his website 'appearance' but not his writing style and/or his interests.
lol - This quoted post is beginning to look like one of those mind illusion patterns - quite a pretty design actually.
As for that 'certain ne'er-do-well' ... he's really not as clever as he might think he is - I've got the measure of him
, and have done for a long time, and he knows it too. 
Brian- Posts : 46
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I think were running out of room so I didn't quote you Candlelight. I'm glad you're ahead of him. I had a bad time with him but it was perhaps my fault for engaging with him in debates. Still, I think it was partly because of one of my posts that he got banned from Psiencequest.
Brian- Posts : 46
Location : Sweden
It was on SpiritualismLink on the subject of said ne'er do well. I'm not a member there but I started looking for clues in the hope that I could recognize him in future and I saw your post.mac wrote:There's a member on Skeptico who has 'mac' as part of their username - maybe that's what you're remembering? I'm just plain, vanilla 'mac' on a number of websites although I've been impersonated on others by a certain ne'er do well.....Brian wrote:Sorry. I think it's a false memory. I could have sworn I saw a mac on a similar type of forum but those are the only two I have been a member of.mac wrote:No I've never been a member on Skeptico.Brian wrote:Hi mac. I'm sure I've seen you too.mac wrote:Hi, Brian - I've seen you there on Psiquest.Brian wrote:Just thought I'd say hello. Maybe you will get to know me better as time goes on but I don't know how much I will post here. I will say I am a non-fundamentalist and somewhat unorthodox christian with an interest in things beyond the norm. It was somebody from Psiencequest who encouraged me to join. Nice to meet you all.
EDIT: I think I'm thinking of somewhere else actually. Have you ever been on Skeptiko?
ariel- Posts : 95
Hi Brian. Good to see a new face here (so to speak).
Already you have probably posted more here than some who've been around for years! Well done mate! I hope you'll stick around.
I confess I don't post much myself but I do pop in regularly and read a lot. Still haven't caught up with all there is to read about here.
Already you have probably posted more here than some who've been around for years! Well done mate! I hope you'll stick around.
I confess I don't post much myself but I do pop in regularly and read a lot. Still haven't caught up with all there is to read about here.
mac- Posts : 932
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Part of our mutual friend's m.o. is that he INTENDS that he'll be recognised - perhaps in his eyes, acknowledged - for what he is and what he does. Otherwise it could be any other ne'er do well! 
I've seen him around for long enough now to have some idea how he'll behave and how he'll engineer his eventual end. Then he's free to start the process afresh. Not much of an existence in my view but it seems to suit his needs.
I've seen him around for long enough now to have some idea how he'll behave and how he'll engineer his eventual end. Then he's free to start the process afresh. Not much of an existence in my view but it seems to suit his needs.
Brian- Posts : 46
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Nice to meet you ariel. Wasn't expecting to have a good conversation with mac about a mutual friend when I joinedariel wrote:Hi Brian. Good to see a new face here (so to speak).
Already you have probably posted more here than some who've been around for years! Well done mate! I hope you'll stick around.
I confess I don't post much myself but I do pop in regularly and read a lot. Still haven't caught up with all there is to read about here.
Brian- Posts : 46
Location : Sweden
I guess you know him well enough. I allowed myself to get sucked in as always!mac wrote:Part of our mutual friend's m.o. is that he INTENDS that he'll be recognised - perhaps in his eyes, acknowledged - for what he is and what he does. Otherwise it could be any other ne'er do well!
I've seen him around for long enough now to have some idea how he'll behave and how he'll engineer his eventual end. Then he's free to start the process afresh. Not much of an existence in my view but it seems to suit his needs.
Oh well, I'll recognize him in future.
mac- Posts : 932
Location : east midlands of England
Been there, done that......Brian wrote:I guess you know him well enough. I allowed myself to get sucked in as always!mac wrote:Part of our mutual friend's m.o. is that he INTENDS that he'll be recognised - perhaps in his eyes, acknowledged - for what he is and what he does. Otherwise it could be any other ne'er do well!
I've seen him around for long enough now to have some idea how he'll behave and how he'll engineer his eventual end. Then he's free to start the process afresh. Not much of an existence in my view but it seems to suit his needs.
Candlelight.kk- .
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lol - This quoted post is beginning to look like one of those mind illusion patterns - quite a pretty design actually.
Brian wrote:I think were running out of room so I didn't quote you Candlelight.
It was becoming a bit crazy there.
I think if it had gone any further we might just have taken off !!!The default for the board was originally set at 'unlimited' quotes for each post.
I have now limited it to 6.
I guess people can just manually quote after that if they need to - or simply use the Multi-quote option.
mac- Posts : 932
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Does 'Multi-Quote' avoid the forum quote limit?Candlelight.kk wrote:lol - This quoted post is beginning to look like one of those mind illusion patterns - quite a pretty design actually.Brian wrote:I think were running out of room so I didn't quote you Candlelight.
It was becoming a bit crazy there.
The default for the board was originally set at 'unlimited' quotes for each post.
I have now limited it to 6.
I guess people can just manually quote after that if they need to - or simply use the Multi-quote option.
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mac wrote:Does 'Multi-Quote' avoid the forum quote limit?
Not necessarily, mac - it just works in a different way.
I will try to demonstrate an example (following this post) - using the migraine-inducing much-quoted post above.
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A demonstration of how different a quoted post can look, using the 'Multi-quote' feature:
(Same content - but far easier to decipher!) :
(One of the previous posts in this thread):
lol - This quoted post is beginning to look like one of those mind illusion patterns - quite a pretty design actually.
As for that 'certain ne'er-do-well' ... he's really not as clever as he might think he is - I've got the measure of him , and have done for a long time, and he knows it too.
(Same content - but far easier to decipher!) :
(One of the previous posts in this thread):
Brian wrote:Just thought I'd say hello. Maybe you will get to know me better as time goes on but I don't know how much I will post here. I will say I am a non-fundamentalist and somewhat unorthodox christian with an interest in things beyond the norm. It was somebody from Psiencequest who encouraged me to join. Nice to meet you all.
mac wrote:Hi, Brian - I've seen you there on Psiquest.
Brian wrote:Hi mac. I'm sure I've seen you too.
EDIT: I think I'm thinking of somewhere else actually. Have you ever been on Skeptiko?
mac wrote:No I've never been a member on Skeptico.
Brian wrote:Sorry. I think it's a false memory. I could have sworn I saw a mac on a similar type of forum but those are the only two I have been a member of.
mac wrote:There's a member on Skeptico who has 'mac' as part of their username - maybe that's what you're remembering? I'm just plain, vanilla 'mac' on a number of websites although I've been impersonated on others by a certain ne'er do well.....
Brian wrote:That certain ne'er do well might be who I am thinking of. If I am right then he is somebody who has recently been banned from Psiencequest although his name wasn't mac there.
mac wrote:The ne'er do well I'm thinking of - operating under various aliases - has also been banned from a number of other websites!
Brian wrote:Sounds like him
mac wrote:Oh I knew for certain that it was.... The m.o. becomes familiar over time. He can change his website 'appearance' but not his writing style and/or his interests.
lol - This quoted post is beginning to look like one of those mind illusion patterns - quite a pretty design actually.
As for that 'certain ne'er-do-well' ... he's really not as clever as he might think he is - I've got the measure of him
, and have done for a long time, and he knows it too.
mac- Posts : 932
Location : east midlands of England
Oh it's OK, kk, I was just curious how it worked as we don't have such utilities over on ALF. It's good to restrict the quote numbers because a long thread can look quite bizarre when there are numerous quotes.Candlelight.kk wrote:mac wrote:Does 'Multi-Quote' avoid the forum quote limit?
Not necessarily, mac - it just works in a different way.
will try to demonstrate an example (following this post) - using the migraine-inducing much-quoted post above.
mac- Posts : 932
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Ah I see - that's something that admin can do but not - I think - regular members on ALF. It's something I haven't found useful in either role there.Candlelight.kk wrote:A demonstration of how different a quoted post can look, using the 'Multi-quote' feature:
(Same content - but far easier to decipher!) :
(One of the previous posts in this thread):Brian wrote:Just thought I'd say hello. Maybe you will get to know me better as time goes on but I don't know how much I will post here. I will say I am a non-fundamentalist and somewhat unorthodox christian with an interest in things beyond the norm. It was somebody from Psiencequest who encouraged me to join. Nice to meet you all.mac wrote:Hi, Brian - I've seen you there on Psiquest.Brian wrote:Hi mac. I'm sure I've seen you too.
EDIT: I think I'm thinking of somewhere else actually. Have you ever been on Skeptiko?mac wrote:No I've never been a member on Skeptico.Brian wrote:Sorry. I think it's a false memory. I could have sworn I saw a mac on a similar type of forum but those are the only two I have been a member of.mac wrote:There's a member on Skeptico who has 'mac' as part of their username - maybe that's what you're remembering? I'm just plain, vanilla 'mac' on a number of websites although I've been impersonated on others by a certain ne'er do well.....Brian wrote:That certain ne'er do well might be who I am thinking of. If I am right then he is somebody who has recently been banned from Psiencequest although his name wasn't mac there.mac wrote:The ne'er do well I'm thinking of - operating under various aliases - has also been banned from a number of other websites!Brian wrote:Sounds like himmac wrote:Oh I knew for certain that it was.... The m.o. becomes familiar over time. He can change his website 'appearance' but not his writing style and/or his interests.
lol - This quoted post is beginning to look like one of those mind illusion patterns - quite a pretty design actually.
As for that 'certain ne'er-do-well' ... he's really not as clever as he might think he is - I've got the measure of him
Candlelight.kk- .
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I've also now toned down the quote background colouring a tad, making it a bit easier on the eye.
mac- Posts : 932
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That helps old farts like me - could you make the text darker, too, to improve contrast?Candlelight.kk wrote:I've also now toned down the quote background colouring a tad, making it a bit easier on the eye.
Candlelight.kk- .
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mac wrote:That helps old farts like me - could you make the text darker, too, to improve contrast?Candlelight.kk wrote:I've also now toned down the quote background colouring a tad, making it a bit easier on the eye.
The text is actually the darkest there is; black as black can be - it simply cannot go any further into The Dark Side.
ETA: The quote background could be toned down even further, thus improving contrast - if you think that might help?
mac- Posts : 932
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Thanks for that offer but it's maybe my computer set-up that needs tinkering with. I'll take a look later.Candlelight.kk wrote:mac wrote:That helps old farts like me - could you make the text darker, too, to improve contrast?Candlelight.kk wrote:I've also now toned down the quote background colouring a tad, making it a bit easier on the eye.
The text is actually the darkest there is; black as black can be - it simply cannot go any further into The Dark Side.
ETA: The quote background could be toned down even further, thus improving contrast - if you think that might help?
Misty- Posts : 441
Candlelight.kk wrote:A demonstration of how different a quoted post can look, using the 'Multi-quote' feature:
(Same content - but far easier to decipher!) :
(One of the previous posts in this thread):Brian wrote:Just thought I'd say hello. Maybe you will get to know me better as time goes on but I don't know how much I will post here. I will say I am a non-fundamentalist and somewhat unorthodox christian with an interest in things beyond the norm. It was somebody from Psiencequest who encouraged me to join. Nice to meet you all.mac wrote:Hi, Brian - I've seen you there on Psiquest.Brian wrote:Hi mac. I'm sure I've seen you too.
EDIT: I think I'm thinking of somewhere else actually. Have you ever been on Skeptiko?mac wrote:No I've never been a member on Skeptico.Brian wrote:Sorry. I think it's a false memory. I could have sworn I saw a mac on a similar type of forum but those are the only two I have been a member of.mac wrote:There's a member on Skeptico who has 'mac' as part of their username - maybe that's what you're remembering? I'm just plain, vanilla 'mac' on a number of websites although I've been impersonated on others by a certain ne'er do well.....Brian wrote:That certain ne'er do well might be who I am thinking of. If I am right then he is somebody who has recently been banned from Psiencequest although his name wasn't mac there.mac wrote:The ne'er do well I'm thinking of - operating under various aliases - has also been banned from a number of other websites!Brian wrote:Sounds like himmac wrote:Oh I knew for certain that it was.... The m.o. becomes familiar over time. He can change his website 'appearance' but not his writing style and/or his interests.
lol - This quoted post is beginning to look like one of those mind illusion patterns - quite a pretty design actually.
As for that 'certain ne'er-do-well' ... he's really not as clever as he might think he is - I've got the measure of him
Much better!
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Misty wrote:Much better!
Yes, it is.
Sorry, Brian, to have hijacked your welcome thread here with all of this - but it's the only place where this situation has occured, and in a roundabout way it's all thanks to YOU that we've now managed to sort out what was a rather frustrating situation!
Brian- Posts : 46
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You're welcome kk. Glad I was of some use.Candlelight.kk wrote:Misty wrote:Much better!
Yes, it is.
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