So I'm not well known in the Lounge, but here's my 1000th Post:

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I LOVE DU!!

Thanks to all for a great community!!:grouphug: :loveya: :grouphug:

Props to Frylock for hipping me to this site.

Shout out to all those I met at the Sept. 24 March Against the War here in DC.

And much admiration to the Skinner, Earl G, and Elad.

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I lurk here quite a bit. I have learned it moves very fast and people seem to know each other so well. I like the camaraderie. :-)

dude, that's like spending your law school graduation celebrating at mcdonalds.

:p jk welcome to the lounge. all are welcome to this big cocktail party!

congratulations, now get yourself some cocktail. in more ways than one :D

but it is way too late to think of something smart, and I didn't want to get castigated for saying to the GDers, "hey, everyone, it's my 1000th post."

Did you see the way people pounced on the GD:Chat suggestion that Skinner had up a week or too ago? I did not want to be a victim of that venom. :scared:

So I came to the Lounge.

I think I will have a cocktail...

i do believe calipeggy is free for the taking :D

It's not like it takes a lot of effort. :-)

We might have met in DC.

I was in the DU Liberty and Justice for all shirt, and I went to the meetup at RFD's after the march.

Here's a photo: http://pictures.hatproductions.com/friends/20051210Santarchy/Pages/IMG_6001.html

Love your smilies by the way.

On edit: Trying to fix the link.

I volunteered to be part of security for the march, it was a very long day. I felt the need for a shower and change of clothes before being around other DUers.

BTW your link isn't working.

http://pictures.hatproductions.com/friends/20051001When/Pages/IMG_0403.html

These are from a friend's site, and I am just copying the links. :shrug: I'm not techno-savvy enough to have my own site.

My friend is a sound engineer and developing his photography skills on the side. He takes his camera EVERYWHERE.

...but, we're glad you did....;-) :party: :smoke: :headbang: :woohoo:

And thanks for the warm welcome!! :hi: :pals: :hi:

I didn't start posting in the Lounge until I had more than 1000 posts over more than a year, but once I did, I found it a great and quirky corner of the DU community!

Congrats to you and please come back to the Lounge - if you ever need help figuring out the silly jokes here, feel free to ask...

:pals:

:hi:

I do have a question:

What does it mean when people put " . . . " in the Subject line?

I have been dying to figure that out for a few months. :shrug:

On edit: The html code is smarter than I am.

a graphic or comment, but can't for the life of me think of an interesting subject line... don't know what it means for others.

Congratulations on 1,000 :)

For you, it is kind of the opposite of "nt," where you do want the rest of us to "see below."

:hi:

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This is one for which I think there is no rule, even an unwritten one. I use it when I'm posting something, often a silly graphic or one-liner to someone I am having a humorous back-and-forth with on a thread, that is better off without a subject line. In other words, the image or quick retort speaks for itself, but I don't want to put it in the subject line and ruin the surprise!

That was a good question!

:D

It is so much moe clear now! :-) :think:

Yawn...stretch. I'm beat - I'm going to bed now. Now that you are here, do you think you could moderate the Lounge for a few hours? It's easy, I promise, no one really pushes the envelope around here...

;)


Good night, everyone!

:loveya:

It is not my night to push the envelope!

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:loveya:

I'm sure I'll do a great job. :rofl:

Whatever I can do to help, really. :rofl:

:shrug:

that would be dangerous!

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And, well, if I wake up tomorrow and the Lounge is still here, well, how bad could it be?

Would Earl G spank us? Please??

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See, that was a perfect example of a good time to use "...." in the subject line. When no words will adequately express your reaction to a post.

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KitchenWitch knows I :loveya: her - if she can reign in her fellow envelope pushers tonight, I :loveya: her even more!

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This is such a big place anymore it's hard to keep track of all the members and the other forums.

Great to see you here. :)

Obviously, I can't call you the first part of your screen name as a nickname or that would be an insult.

I find that it can hard to keep track of folks on DU except on the very tiny forums (like the DC forum, which is lucky to get one new post a week). Just when I think I am getting to know folks, I don't post for a week or several and when I come back, either the people are all different or they have forgotten me. I guess that is the great thing about having so many Democrats (now if we can just win an eff'ing election . . . ).

Thanks for the welcome! :pals: :cheers:

There's a lot of traffic on this site but I think the Lounge especially has a sense of community to it. I like to think of it as similar to the bar on the show Cheers. Yes, we've got a few elections to go to begin to straighten out this mess.

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I have stayed up way past my bedtime.

1000 posts is like a natural high!

But here's me in 10 minutes: :boring:

sack time for me.

Nightey night.

...this sort of event. Congrats on 1000 OrwellwasRight :toast:

I thought folks here might appreciate it! Thanks!
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:hi:

And now it is time for me to hit the hay.

Literally. I live in a barn.

Ok, not really. :yoiks: But I am running off to bed now.

G'night.

:woohoo:

I'm a vegertarian too, just made it through my first year, and Christmas Turkey will be hard to miss (again).

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:hi:

:toast: And welcome to the Lounge! :hi:

Thanks. :hi:

well known here either, but it sure is a nice place. Congrats on your 1000th post!!

I'll be congratulating you soon!

And many happy returns.

Or are is that before your time?

Thanks! :hi:

And I recall ABC, though I wasn't familiar with much of their music. Was focusing more on Joy Division and PiL at about the time Lexicon of Love came out.

I always was behind the curve.

I lived in DC from 83 to 92 and get sentimental about those days now and then.

Recently moved there after two years on Cap Hill. As I hear the story, both neighborhoods are much improved over where they were in the 90s.

I really enjoy the central location of the Heights: walk to Mr. P and Adams-Morgan; 1 metro stop to U Street!

1983. I lived at 3449 Holmead Place, NW.

I wonder if the neighborhood Giant has finally been upgraded.

Used to ride the 14th Street bus downtown past this massive open-air heroin market, hundreds of men milling about at the corner of 14th & U. It was like the floor of the stock exchange. I liked Columbia Heights even back in the rough, pre-Metro days, though I did get dragged into Malcolm X part and pretty brutally mugged by a few kids once. I loved walking down 16th Street to my bakery job at 5 in the morning during the winter, past the Moonie church, past all the embassies, White House and the dome of the Jefferson Memorial glowing in the distance.

Then I lived in south Shaw for about 8 years, on Ridge Street, between 4th and 5th and M and N, in a little civil war era shack. Ate a lot at AV Ristorante Italiano, and loved killing time on weekends at the Smithsonian, going to the Hirschorn or to the great free movies at the National Gallery of Art.

Wrapped up my tour of duty in an apartment building a few blocks south of Chevy Chase Circle.

I want to come back for a week-long eating tour some time next year. There are so many restaurants that I miss.

I think you live in a great place.

the Giant has definitely been upgraded and they are in process of building a new center anchored by Target. Either way, I'm not a neighborhod snob, I like that it is still considered a marginal neighborhood. When neighborhoods get too "fixed up," they become all corporate and lose their personalities.

Some of my favorite restaurants in town include Finemondo, Sento Sesto, Marx Cafe, and Coppi Organic Pizza on U street.

i just went to Stetson's on U Street for the first time last night. It is a pretty cool bar.

Here's to 10,000 more!! :bounce: :toast:

Thanks, Vash. :toast:

I'm a little hung over now...what the hell :toast:

the proverbial horse, not the heroin.

Thanks! :toast:

:toast: :bounce: :hi:

:hi:

:thumbsup:

And don't forget, as we were recently told by Tom DeLay on the House floor:

"Jesus said blessed are the peacemakers. What he meant was blessed aare the soldiers, for they MAKE peace. He did not mean blessed are the peaceful."

To sum up:
1) War is peace.
2) Tom DeLay has a direct line to Jesus.