… because it proves that Internet addiction can happen to anyone!
But Charleton Heston said it was people! Are you saying Chuck lied? Besides, what would that alliteratively named hack Harry Harrison know about it? I suspect he just mispelled “Soyentl” (a food made from soy beans and everyone involved in the filming of Barbra Streisand’s Yentl).
I would respond, but I am concerned about Chuck’s proclivity for shooting anyone who counters him. 
djm
I’m thankful for the C&F because gives us all a chance to buy and sell instruments.
I really have learned a lot about Irish music here—things that I wouldn’t have found out about in books. I’ve got the books, so I know.
I like threads getting hijacked without people going bonkers. I like the weirdo fusion forum. I like being around people who know so much about so many different things. I like our strange moderators. Well, I just like everything and I am being told that we have to go, so I can’t get all philosophical about it.
Have a nice holiday everyone!
Yeah. Me too. What they said.
Roger
I’m really grateful for you folks and the bright spot you bring to an otherwise crazy 4AM-1PM shift!
You guys are great friends, and it’s rare that I go somplace so (occasionally 
) sophisticated that I can break out and talk about something completely off the wall…like real zombies singing crap-ass x-mas songs driving Minis.
Happy solstice everyone!
djm is people…
time for a soylent BBQ 
Um … not sure if I’ve just been insulted or not … 
djm
Are you a people or are you not? Are you Soylentable?
Is it tasty? Is it scrumptiously-crunchable my precious?
I think I’ll just remain soylent on this matter. 
djm
Har har har!
Oh let’s have a barbecue,
you bring the meat and
I’ll bring the Hufu!
…because of never stopping to surprise me on nearly all fields which interest me a lot…
Brigitte
To all who celebrate and all who don’t too, have a nice holiday season and “ein Guter Rutsch in ein Gesundes und Glueckliches Neues Jahr”!!!
Thank you, oh great chiffboard, for the early diagnosis of WHoa! My children will get Christmas after all!
btw - does anyone know which Lon Dubh is the louder - Blackwood or Delirin?
A very thoughtful & well-written post as usual, Scottie. 
Will O’
I routinely boggle at C&F. There had to be a day about 10 years ago when I was exploring the web, trying to sort out the handful of whistle makes and models, and said to myself, “Hm, maybe I could throw up one of those web-page thingies.” As it turns out, that was a very fine day.
Back in those days I would have declared that it would be silly to refer to someone who you know only from computer interaction as a “friend.” But now I can hardly count the people who I regard as my friends whose faces I couldn’t possibly pick out of a small crowd. It’s weird, but we’re there, and there’s no going back, folks.
Grateful for the friends, the humor, the music, the outrageous range of expertise and ideas. Speaking with my usual modesty:
The creator saw that it was good.
Dale
Dale, you made it all possible, and “I am unanimous” in thanking you for your foresight all those years ago.
And so say all of us in the schizo ward.
Me too.
djm
But Lemon Zest is people. Right?
I am thankful for:
- The wonderful stream-of-consciousness humor that happens here so often. Now I know I’m not the only one
- Finally making it over 1000 posts. Makes me feel like I’m no longer a semi-lurker
- Being honored by having Bloomfield bestow on me and my wife the inestimable priviledge of coming to our home for dinner, touching some of my whistles with his golden lips, and for declaring that my old C nickel Generation is one of the “good ones”
- and all the mushy making friends stuff that others have already said better than I can
Mike