Aaah, thanks everyone! Now I know how Ira does his lightbulb.

I always felt so left out with my schleppy little smiley face. : )

((k))

Geesh, I always thought DH was for "dear heart". SWIK (shows what I know!)

I know GTG means an in-person meeting, but what does the phrase stand for?

GTG = GetToGether ((&))

Molte thanks for you all posting these tidbits as I'm a newbee myself!

Another question: How do I pull up another poster's trip report that I looked at once, Selected All and pasted it to Word Doc. I then printed it out (after modifying the margins and deleting advertisements in right column) but never Saved it. I've tried typing in Italy Trip Report as that's what she named it (TRA6 BTW is the author) and it's dated July 25, 2005, 2:31pm. I can't find it anywhere! I know that if I had posted my own question to her I could find it under my Screen Name; help please :)

staceyloren--

As Katerbug says, you can also post "ttt" on someone else's post, to save it for your own planning.

Katerbug--If the report you're looking for had an unusual place name in it, you might enter that in "Search." If you still have no luck, you might try again in a month (or two)...the archives aren't terribly up-to-date.

<<I've tried typing in Italy Trip Report as that's what she named it (TRA6 BTW is the author) and it's dated July 25, 2005, 2:31pm. I can't find it anywhere!>>

If you know a screen name exactly, you can alwas search on that person's (screen) name like this - - (it's the same as clicking on your own name) - -

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p?screen_name=

like this:

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...Tra6&fid=2

And thus, here is the trip report...

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34652684

Best wishes,

Rex

Of course, Rex! Looking up a post under someone's screen name makes the most sense--I wasn't thinking.

Rex, Smalti: I tried typing in the name of the poster under search and still nothing came up-then I posted my questions to you all. I don't have much patience so I'm sure I messed up the search somehow! Thanks Rex for pulling up the thread and thx smalti for suggesting I use the ttt posting to bring it up TOP! I am just now understanding the ttt! ((d))

You have to be addicted to this forum, K, to know that almost every week all summer... there has been a thread explaining that due to technical problems, which Fodors cannot or will not fix in a timely manner, the "search" function WILL NOT retrieve ANY thread that started after May 3, 2005 - - no matter WHAT you type into the "search box".