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refreshments of her choice-she deserves that too! Agree 120% with c.b., rider, and 73.********************************** Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live. Samuel Clemens

but CB i think you forgot the hotel suite and ground transportation!go easy on the Whoo Hoo's today... considering the collapse. and good gosh rider, there you go swearing up and down the posts again, might have to nominate you for sumpin' ; ) peace

I agree 100%! Diffusing us all when this space is getting hot. Using class & humor no less. The never ending whining & questions ...yet still not repling with a warranted "Shut The Hell Up"!! Thanks for everything Marye ~ PEACE I vote for Miracle her a ticket! Whoo Hoo

I would like to suggest a very special award for our very special moderator Marye. In the past few weeks she has: • Promptly processed an avalanche of new vines in the vineyard. • Handled several ludicrous blunders (not of her making) over the announcement and delivery of new releases • Followed up (and in many cases got fixed) a host of problems to do with lost orders, faulty discs etc • Dealt with the whole flood of activity related to the Obama show • Endured the usual litany of whinges and gripes (including mine) • Promptly replied to PMs and questions in the forums and passed on info and requests to TPTB. Also passed information back the other way if it is provided • Survived the server change, system crashes, the chat room crashes and other technical meltdowns • Broken up some quite nasty on line punch ups, mostly over politics and religion, and headed off many several others All that she has done with a sure touch and without ever (to my knowledge and despite what she may privately think) bad mouthing either site users or TPTB (GDP, Rhino Warner Brothers etc) and has also found time to drop in occasional pearls of wisdom and cool stories of her own. That’s the nomination. As a prize I think that TPTB should show their recognition and 1. Fly her to PA 2. Miracle her a ticket for the show (she can put her fingers in her ears for the political bits) 3. Find someone trustworthy to look after her dogs while she is away Or provide a cash alternative! So if you are reading this Bob, Phil, Bill, Mickey, Barack, Rhino, Warner Bros and GDP folks please oblige. Thank you.

2008 Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr. Albert Hofmann, discoverer of LSD Rest in Peace, Dr. Hofmann! groovin' the light fantastic at http://www.popeshady.com and http://people.tribe.net/shadygrove

I am so relieved! Heroic achievement awards to you and Martin!

while am giving praise and awards to people this morning, wanna award my daughter a "Blind Faith" award. After our first seconds of happy reunion in Poland, my daughter told me that she knew in her heart, and all along that I would find her. She told me she was "calling me with her mind and it worked". She truly believes that.********************************** Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live. Samuel Clemens

Still might be sitting here wondering where my kids are, if Martin did not come up with the idea of going through the trash. If everybody on the planet had a friend like that, people would be alot better off, I think. He has stuck to me through many (mis)adventures over the almost 20 years I have known him. Think very strongly that we were supposed to meet, and was to be. Coincidence was too great-we were born exactly 4 days apart, but on different continents. Met him professionally at first, though he knew Matthias and some other guys I knew when I first moved to Germany, as he had been part of the Mannheim role-playing scene for years. Knew him only casually for about 2 years, but came a point where I had a position to fill at work, and I wanted him. Knew he was unemployed at the time, and had more or less "disappeared" out of bad luck/bad times (he used to do that from time to time). I put out the word amongst mutual aquaintances that was looking for him, and kept the information circulating, and then about 4 months later (just about when was about to give up and hire someone else) he called me. Hired him on the phone, and we started working together, and our friendship just grew. He is a "difficult" and temperamentful guy, but we got along like peas in a pod. A few years later, when my kids were tiny, he had no where to live, so he and his cat moved in with us for about 2 years, and then when the opportunity arose, he moved into an apartment next door for another couple of years-as by this time he was definately one of the family. Kids and he loved each other as if they were really family, and was the same for me. Is a hilariously sweet video of my daughter's 2nd birthday party of her following him around chattering "Martin, Martin" at him, and then later sitting cosily on his lap with her thumb in her mouth, looking sleepy and content, with chocolate cake all over her hands and face. She has always been a very choosy young lady, and would not go to just anyone, so HER adoration of him helped cement the decision that he was the best candidate for info coming up 2 sentences later. He had no family anymore, as his parents died when he was a teenager, and I had none in Europe, so worked out perfectly for both of us. Trust him so much with the kids that we have signed legal documents giving him custody of my children, in the case that both Matthias and I should both (heaven forbid) die before the kids are adults. He also just recently stuck to our friendship, after an ultimatum from his girlfriend, who could never stand me, because I have the nerve to be his best friend and female. She could never forgive the fact that he spoke to me once about his family, and has never to her (is a taboo topic-and he only spoke about it once, late at night, when we were alone and drunk) We have both spoken to her until we are blue in the face that I am no threat to her, but never worked. We have told her a romantic relationship is as impossible between us as if would happen between true siblings, AND if it were to be different, would have been looong before he fell in love with her. We gritted our teeth and endured each other, for his sake for a while. Then just last month she gave him an ultimatum of chosing her or me, and sent me a very nasty e mal in Spain (I am sooo threatening from there, you know). She should know that does not work at all with this guy-and he spent a week working out a compromise to keep us both in his life, but she almost lost him over that, and hope she can keep the compromise of herself ignoring my existance, as he is certainly worth keeping around, and he truly loves her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But enough singing his praises this morning, I am just feeling sooo incredibly thankful to know such a guy-and wanted to share-and am sure that here is a good place for it. ********************************** Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live. Samuel Clemens

It is so wonderful that you tracked them down, and wow, what a story, I'm with iknowyourider, you have some strength......

I'm so happy for you TL :-) You sound like one strong Lady! That song is perfect Gigi. Couldn't of said it better myself. PEACE