Rave: We love all the out-of-town power people and tree removers who have come to help us after Isabel.
Rant: But we hate the way some of them are driving. Cutting people off, not using turn signals, zooming through redlights, etc. Yes, I know that is standard practice in Philly, Boston, and NYC but these people were from the south.

Not just Rush, but Courtney Love was arrested & hospitilized while being under the influence of narcotics. Elle McPhearson is in rehab. Halle Berry's now ex husband is a sex addict. For being famous and having so much $$ their lives don't seem to be going so well!

Oh no, Not that babe Elle?

Damn I love CA, but the residents aren't really going to be that stupid, are they?

Ticked me off when I didn't find this post last week until it was 00:20 Saturday morning. Really whacks me way to heck when I see posts here that make broad statements about whole groups of people based on the actions of a few and other posts where people seem to know what other people are thinking or should be thinking.

Was that you going only 60 mph at rush hour this morning on the Capital Beltway? In the left lane. What were you thinking? There are no tourist sites on the beltway, so you shouldn't have been there at that time. You almost got us both killed by being so 'careful'. jeezmaneez

Just to clarify, Herr Gropenfrauer's poll numbers that were quoted today predate yesterday's disclosures.

I was thinking about my trip to Belize in July (cayo area) and wondering how I could get a group together to go back when I went into Fodors and discovered this thread. You guys are way too political.

I have just a small rant..perhaps a rantlet?
It irritates me to no end when a some passive/aggressive person posts something bitchy or nasty then ends it with LOL..sort of like Smiling while spitting on you.
Anyone else hate that?
Rave:
Summer might be gone but it has been a gorgeous week of fall here!

I will slip in a little rant while it is still Friday! I hate it when people treat this place like a chat room. You know they're not going anywhere, haven't been anywhere, but they like to talk...doesn't matter about what as long as it's chitchat. This is a travel forum, for goodness sakes, not a coffee klatch!

Rave: for those who invite us into their conversations...about travel, and enrich us for it.

Well, I for one, feel at home here and view most Fodorites as friends. So in a way, it is a large chat room of friends who have Travel in common.
Where it kind of goes off track is when some use these forums to attack other posters for personal reasons.
Was the "Where are you traveling" my post ? Wasn't that about Travel?
I know I did ask Who was Going Where When, I thought it was a fun thread seeing where the rest of the Fodors World was off to.
Of course, we all have the right to not post on a thread if it bothers us, it is the sneak attacks that irk me..
OK, that is my Saturday rant

But didn't the "where are you traveling" thread turn into a personal attack when someone accused other posters of lying? It's just that some people complain of things they themselves are guilty of (not meaning you Scarlett). And that's my rant! Don't mean anything by it.

Rave: the internet! I have not yet lost my sense of amazement that we can talk to each other, virtually simultaneously, across the planet, and for free, no less!

Last night I sent an email to an old friend with whom I have lost contact. She has been living in India for 20 years. I came across her married name and address scribbled on an ancient scrap of paper, googled her, did a little digging, and damn if I didn't find her!!

RAVE: Mike Meyer's Stuart Mackenzie character from "So I Married an Axe Murderer" is one the classic unsung movie characters of all-time. I'm still waiting for a movie just about that character. "If it's not Scottish it's cr*p."

Yes, Arnold is going to win. He doesn't have a clue about what he has done in the past and doesn't have a clue about how to run Cowefonia. Give this loser a chance at running the state for a few weeks than give him the ol' Recall.

Oh, yes, rants galore. How interesting.

dln - my, my, that chat room thing - yes, how awful.

And yes, ending with an LOL, how terrible - and can you believe some even add green faces to theirs? Oh, you're so right. Green signifies what .... oh.

And the chits chats when you know those chatterers don't travel beyond their keyboards. Oh so grim.

And, nataliemm, the claims about lying - gasp, but surely you weren't thinking hypocrisy! I know you didn't mean anything by that.

It's all about travel here, always. How could anyone suggest otherwise. I can hardly wait for this week's update on RnRs.

By my clock, it's Friday.

Rant: To the guy on the Continental airlines flight from Newark to San Fran last night, LOOK AT YOUR TICKET NEXT TIME. Instead of screaming at my wife to "get out of your seat" and threatening violence on the flight crew, maybe you should be smart enough to realize that when you change flights on a connection, YOUR SEAT CHANGES!

I had a big lunch today and "feel fat."

;-)

Uh oh. Perhaps you should divulge your crime on the "How'd we get so fat?" post.

California on Aahnold..and the future political implications..his advisory board as published in the SF Chronicle this am is more alarming than the fact of The Terminator as governor.

The Viagra ads that continue to plague our e mail since SBC took over despite all attempts on our part to have them"deflated"!

The on-going hunt for Weapons of Mass Destruction.

The fact that there are still homeless people in the US, folks with no health care insurance and children who go to bed hungry!

PamSF,
Viagra ads that keep "popping up".

RANT: All sorts of poop hitting the fan today and right before I'm leaving for a week.
"And your last minute call is now my emergency becauuussse..."?

RAVE: It's 5:00 somewhere.