Darlin dln, there is a post with your name in the title on the US boards!!

Oh pipsqueek, stop whining! Yada, yada, yada!

Show me a person with an edgy personality and an even edgier sense of humor and I'll look forward to a fun time. If you want a love and peace fest, go smoke a toke.

I know it threatens many but I feel sexy in high-heels and boxing gloves. Lazy, boring, ignorant people make me want to fight and fodors offers plenty of them in a fun ring.

People who take me, themselves, or anything too seriously are just plain dull. Bring 'em on!

DLN, as a fellow midwesterner, I believe we get a bad rap for being naive and "podunk", however, I'm with NY, feistiness makes life more interesting!

How many other Hoosiers are there here? I tried in the past to get interest in a Fodorites' get-together for Ohio and the "Ohio Valley", generally, but never succeeded.

After 21 years in the Columbus (OH) area, my wife and I have moved "back home" to Floyds Knobs (Indiana, just across the river from Louisville, KY).

Where do you live, dln?

Rex, we've been living in Indianapolis for the last eight years. We come down your way at least twice a year if not more--to see Madison in the spring, and Louisville in October to the St. James Court Art Fair. There's another poster named Indytravel (sp?) who lives in Brown County. I think a get-together would be fun (it's not as if we'd have nothing to talk about!)

Oh, NYFoodKnob, the position of aggressive ego/look at me is filled. Regrets!

But don't fret, we have openings for humans who actually travel beyond their keyboards. Edginess is limited to the haircut.

Audition?

Since I've been addicted to this forum for about a year and a half, I am also curious about pre-reg posters who have new names now. Am I chatting with some of the same people under new names? It's difficult to tell! I have always posted under my real name (although I did occasionally use a fake name pre-reg to say something a bit outre).

NYCFoodSnob, I am currently working on the theory that you are ThinGorjus's sister. Is it possible? I do tend to agree with Alice Roosevelt Longworth who said, "If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me." So I enjoy your caustic wit.

And pipsil, believe me, if you want nasty, maniacal vitriol spewing off the page, you shoulda seen it before registration.

Marilyn: Thank you for the Alice Roosevelt Longworth quote. One of my all-time favorites right up there with the late, great Katharine Hepburn's "I don't care what they say about me as long as is isn't true."

Re: <i>But are we expected to post in a certain way, or face ire?</i>

That reminds me...what's up with Ireland anyway? Why the name? Is everyone there angry or something?

PCHsmiles - FoodKnob? Very funny! Thank you. I love to laugh. My ego is healthy, for sure, but I'm far from aggressive unless you try to mug me. 25 years in NYC, a girl has to learn how to protect herself. I can't help that people look at me. I'm tall and I've got style. My mother always said I should have been an actress. I remind her I make more money. Oh, and btw, I travel with my Powerbook and Garren cuts my hair.

Marilyn darling, thank you so much for getting me. Caustic is a word I love as well as anything by Alice Longworth.

Oh what the h*ll, since this isn't really a travel thread...Alice also said her philosophy of life was &quot;Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch what itches.&quot; Pretty good, eh?

Food Snob of NY, you sound fab! A healthy ego, wow!!! Now, don't be alarmed, but (whisper - everybody claims nyc as home). If it's true, then you must also be tall and stylish. But to business - are you in nyc or on the periphery? Don't you fib, now!!

... and I'm pretty cute myself, although I did have to throw a pleat in my thong this summer.

PCH, I heard pleated thongs were all the rage this summer, especially in the Hamptons!

... and I was indeed THE rage of Bridgehampton, pleated thong and all, until they noticed my tassel loafers in the ice cream shop. I swear to god no socks, I swear. But my popularity decended to deer tick status and they confiscated my Martha S. tee. It had been a good thing.

PCH, all good things must come to an end, better than ending in the clink like your good thing idol.

Swalter, she's not there yet, lol. Can you believe our Justice Dept. - going after MS and her measly $45K, a case which is arguable, and turning a blind eye to all the biggies, billions and billions. This administration has its priorities in order, oh yeah.

Oh PCH, you had me with &quot;pretty cute&quot; and &quot;pleated thong&quot; but then lost me with the loafers. Men who wear loafers = men who don't like to bend down. It's the best way to turn a NYC girl off, for sure, even if there Prada. Tassles? Are you gay?

Everybody claims NYC as home? Why? This place ain't THAT great. I'm just grateful I travel.

Some might consider Sutton Place on the periphery. I consider it sanity in the cesspool.

Your last post was very funny. &quot;It had been a good thing.&quot; Love it!

PCH, a man who understands Martha's troubles, how insightful, if only my husband was so understanding that MS is merely a pawn in a political game of insecure, jealous men!

Oh, Food Snob of NY (we must find a better name for you, I feel such a dolt calling you snobby, when obviously you're stand-up). I am on the floor over you remark - I did bend over, I swear I did, tassles and all. It's not the damned tassels that present the problem, it's the pleat which makes the rear of the thong unstable. Unstable, ha, collapse city. Gay? And what if I were, doesn't mean I'm from nj. OK, which way do I get more points, gay or gay-nay? I've found in the thong one can swing any way!