Norm, The information that you are seeking is in your Personal Message folder at this site. Winston, Is that like the south-east end of a north-west bound camel? Gary

Gary, If you are a paid community member--an Adlander--you can 'quiet' a person's forum announcements by going to your friends list and clicking on the bullhorn icon. Leave their forums first if they post new threads to the same forum, but most of them don't, they just delete their one forum and post a new one. Regular members have to block the 'friends" to block their posts. But what good is a friend who drives you crazy? -------- I'm drawing a blank on most of our colorful expressions except 'knee-high to a grasshopper'. Will have to go some to catch up with you guys! Cheri

Thanks Cheri, ================= "But what good is a friend who drives you crazy?" ================= The term "friend" here is a complete misnomer. I could name 3 "friends" who seem to think that "friendship" is stuffing my Personal Messages and my email with one stupid offer after another. I only go to PM's once a fortnight now. I read the tag lines and if I see certain words I just delete them without even opening them. Some of those words are actually the names of the recidivists themselves. ================= "I'm drawing a blank on most of our colorful expressions except 'knee-high to a grasshopper'. Will have to go some to catch up with you guys!" ================= Often used over in Oz is: "As the crow flies." Do you guys have crows or ravens? My Grandfather always used: "God! Strike me a ray!" He also said: "Starve the bardis." I never quite caught onto what that actually meant. A bardi is a grub in the Aussie outback. Apparently, though I have no first hand knowledge of this, you can eat them. I guess if you were stranded and got hungry enough you might just, just, just... nuh. I'd reach for the last Mars Bar I think -LOL! Gary

Gary, Oh, I know. My husband has some very terse comments when I say 'friend' referring to a member of this community. When I'm talking to him about it, though, I'm referring to you, Linda, or one of just a handful of others with whom I believe I've made a real connection. You're right about the general term. We say 'as the crow flies' too. We have crows, as far as I know. I think there are ravens in the eastern part of the country though..."Quoth the raven, Nevermore" (Poe--Boston). And in the south we have a huge audacious black bird called a grackle. It makes a very threatening sound and is bold as can be. Quite unnerving, first time I encountered one. As for eating grubs, I'd have to be very hungry and no vegetation in sight. That reminded me, though. I think it was in Reader's Digest that I read a cute little story about a guy who was in Africa on the day that we in the US celebrate as Thanksgiving day. (We usually have a feast involving roast turkey, pumpkin and other kinds of pie and all sorts of side dishes.) This guy was eyeing a feast of grubs and had a sad expression on his face. One of the other guests, a man from a different village, said to him, 'I know how you feel. The grubs in my village are better, too!" What a hoot! (lol) Cheri

Hi Cheri, Maybe we should suggest levels of friendships here - like stranger, aquaintance, friend, buddy or something. I'll let you in on a secret Cheri. I have completely stopped adding people to my "friend" list. I did it out of sheer frustration - to limit the annoyance that these people cause me. Once they go on your friend list they hound you to hell. Remember, the two people who I mentioned had the same initials who relentlessly promote their whacko stuff to me (and, no doubt, others)? Well, I call them the recidivist twins. Not more than five minutes ago one of the twins sent me yet another crazy email. I figure that these people are using Adland like an autoresponder and the "friends" like a prospecting list. It's maddening. It just wastes my time and theirs. Gary