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Just remember, watch out for certain goats and racoons...and rather large wild cats posing as Finance Instructors in the midwest.

Don't you ever wish you were with someone? Trust me, the reality is better than the dream....

Either way it presents a real dilemma...I'd want to verify the size before getting him a 3XL gift...and then I might not want to get the gift...

Could it be argued that Admiral Wilcox is besmirching the honour of His Majesty's Navy by purposely choosing to make such poor tactical decisions, knowing full well that they were due to a grudge that should have been given up long ago? Something has to give in the story...retiring the admiral might not work, but--what's to say that he chooses to come aboard Belvidera with the captain of his own ship and the other captains? Could those captains do such an act as disposing of the admiral? Then rewrite their logs to refelct that the admiral chose to be on Belvidera and 'ordered' Granger to pursue and engage Floreal alone, resulting in a cannonball to the admiral's head or midsection throwing his body overboard before the other ship came to aid? (Poor unlucky Wilcox, what a way to go...)

Sounds like Stefan & JP!

Ah, a healthy build...

How about something along the line of T-shirts that say, Read XXXXXXX by YYYYYYYYYYY only at http://www.gayauthors.org Where XXXXXXX is a story title, and YYYYYYYYYYY is the Author's ID? (Just print them without underlining the site address, though) And let the purchaser customize with story title, and author name? How much is Chase willing to spend to be with one of us? I want a matched set, how much for XXXXX and YYYYY?

Also begs the question of whether or not the captain of the admiral's ship might get together with other captains to levy that charge of fitness to command against the adimral. The captain did follow the admiral's orders, which resulted in HIS ship getting rammed, given all other circumstances. Our Capt. Granger, along with others, could levy a second charge based on the admiral's 'tactical' decision to send Granger's ship alone against Floreal, knowing full well of it's superior firepower against Belvidera, this one would not only be fitness to command, but carrying personal grudges into battle situations causing the intentional loss or intentional endangerment of life under your command. While it is not mutinous if there are charges levelled, the most they can do is confine him to quarters and drop him at the next port after filing formal charges with the ranking officer there. But, and I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong--there are enough of you to step up--it would take at least three other admirals to oversee the trial of the admiral. It'll be interesting to see what Mark comes up with now.

You're a smart boy! James, you sound like you've had all kinds of fun!!!

More like, "It blows!"

I'm from CA too, but the difference is how long it takes to cook them. Instant Grits cook up just like Cream of Wheat instant...regular takes about 20 minutes or so.

Do the closing ceremonies count?

Or more than one tooth.

Cold: Most anything with fruit and honey in it. Hot: Oatmeal with cinnamon, raisins, butter and brown sugar, or raisins and peanut butter, or; Instant Grits with butter and sugar, white or brown, or; Cream of Wheat with butter and sugar, sometimes with cocoa powder, too--the butter and sugar helps with this, and makes what is normally a breakfast cereal a late night dessert.

James, I don't think any of them caught your definition of "Redneck Hell"...shame on you, you're all reading but not paying attention! It's not a place you'd FIND 'em! It's a place where they'd be tortuously uncomfortable! NO College Football, NO BASSPRO shops, NO NASCAR to drive to in 2 hours or less, and where people will USE BIG WORDS AND PAY $5 for a cup of coffee--HELLO!!!!!!! Anybody home?!?!?

Did you find the remains of the bullet inside the house, if so, what kind?

He's just been too busy capturing those luscious lips...

And that is also why a lot of ISPs will watch a chat-room, but will never do anything to moderate them--they just don't have the time or resources, often one person is monitoring several chat rooms simply to keep an eye on any possible criminal activity, which wouldn't surprise me in today's world, and then when they do step in and do something it's like using a flamethrower where a flyswatter would be adequate to the task. Having received a warning here in the past, and I'm sure several of you have, I think they handle things fairly well and with a certain level of discretion and diplomacy that isn't really found anywhere else anymore. BTW, for those of you who were reading at the time, they've used or discarded those suggestions and are having a great time and enjoying themselves now. That Myr, James, Krista and all the other moderators take a hand, now and then, in keeping an eye on chat shows more responsibility than most places even try for anymore--that problems still occur is due to human nature, and that is something we have to self-correct for. If newbies are causing the problems, then the answer might be a higher message count before they can enter chat, 5 seems a little low and is easily attainable, and they might need to have their postings 'vetted' for content. For example, if they're teens, examine their posts looking for advice in the teen advice section to see if they're 'coherent' messages, rather than 'full of drama' or 'all over the place'. I realize this sounds like more work, but you can look up 'topics' from each new user's page and go from there, or tie it to a number of posts AND reaching a certain level of 'reputation points'...and established users should be encouraged to view those posts and (+) or (-) appropriately, and fairly. I don't really know if this would solve the problems, but it would keep people from joining chat with 5 messages to various forums and then just jumping in with, as someone said it, "all their teen angst and drama." Just a thought... (Ain't technology grand?)

Nor, more importantly, warranted, Eric. I take his post as somewhat tongue-in-cheek, although he's got a lot of cheek for making the suggestion considering how serious this must be to shut Chat down for days. Look, everyone, everytime I popped in to Chat, everyone was sitting in the Chat Lobby, none of the categorized rooms was being used--these categories can be age protected so that those of us who are adults discussing highly erotic fiction (read 'close enough to be called porn by prudes') will not be accused of compromising the 'tender' intelligence of minors. Likewise, those who are 'under' legal age in their jurisdictions can have the lobby, and/or other rooms for 'underage seeking advice' which adults can visit, or 'underage chat room' which only moderators can visit/monitor, for obvious purposes. Let's face it, if they're intelligent enough to use a computer to search for a place like this, they're going to find out stuff whether or not we tell them. Yes, cliques develop. Yes, that can be problematic. Should we have to put up with a clique getting down on anyone? No, it's not reasonable, and it's uncalled for. Can we handle ourselves as trustable and able to deal with minors who are searching for the answers their (and our) lifestyles are demanding they find? I should hope so. Come on, people, buck up and get it together! These kids come here looking for help! What are you doing, pretending you're still in Middle School?!? If you haven't got it together then don't give them advice, but don't try to scare them away, either--that's not what this place is for. I think a certain amount of teasing among Chat users is expected, but some may not be aware of how others tease--it's hard to put inflection into the printed word, especially in an electronic medium like our Chat. I am not bad at it, but it's an imperfect skill, and unless someone knows you personally, is difficult to interpret in an online medium; those who come here and are still closeted and seeking answers may be very put off by even the slightest of teasing--consider how much some of us got while we were in school. A guideline on this: Mine started when I was 5, I had no idea what "Gay", "Homosexual" or "Puberty" meant, no idea of what sex was, and was being teased mercilessly because of my name--don't forget, kids can be more cruel than adults--it wasn't until High School that I researched the name's origins: It means Lion Heart, which really helped me resolve that issue, too bad it took 12 years and was too late to really change anything. We have a chance, here, to help others understand what we're all about--don't blow it!

You do, of course, notice that he used the word 'implausible', rather than 'improbable'; which means that a complex family such as JP's hierarchy is quite possible in today's world. As further nudging to that effect, do you remember the Tom Hanks movie "You've Got Mail"? He played the grandson of a bookstore chain founder, the grandfather had remarried and had a son by a wife 50 years his junior, so Hanks' character, roughly portrayed as a 28 year old, had an uncle of 5-7 years old.

Oh, Mark, you're being much too hard on (now that was not intended ) yourself...I did not mean to imply that there wasn't eroticism in your stories, only that it was the right amount. Hoskins, you can bend over and wax my floors, anytime...

The other thing a soap opera needs is a fan base made up, primarily of middle aged housewives, who like organ music to accent the scenes... There's no organ music for any of Mark's work, it's all contemporary to the time period of the story chapters...no housewives, no organ music, just a nice, gay, reader base...it's Gay Erotic (Well, maybe not too much erotica) Literature--not a soap opera. Thank God for that...soap operas bore to tears...

I'll PM it back to you later.

Neph', I'll be sending a response to your daughter's survey, albeit from a US perspective...hopefully she'll be able to gain something from it.