Deena, please don't be embarrassed. As the one who started this whole mess, I'm the one who should be--and is--embarrassed to have made you feel unwelcome. I've got my antenna up too high. Please forgive me.

Hey David, how about them Mets? or.. um.. the Indians (since I'm in Cleveland)?

Seriously, I'm fine, I hope you're fine, all is well and don't worry about the antennae. Better up too far than your head in your.. the sand. If I thought you actually needed forgiveness, I'd forgive, but, I think you were just being careful and protective, and that's admirable.

I am refraining, madly, from putting a smiley here.

edited to say: I have to go take my afternoon nap now. My husband is starting to worry about my attention to this board and has threatened mayhem if I don't rest.

I'm not a one-eyed, diseased single mother!

Can I tag this?

Hey David, how about them Mets? or.. um.. the Indians (since I'm in Cleveland)?

Indians? INDIANS?

We may have a problem here.

(Says the loyal Twins fan.)

OK, I give up -- how do I do a fake closed HTML tag?

John, you may tag it with my blessing! And now, really, naptime...

edited to say: Where, exactly are the Twins? The only pro-sports teams I actually root for are the Seattle Seahawks because they're the closest to Oregon, where I was born and did a very cute music video 100 years ago; the Red Wings because a friend of mine threatened my life if I did not; and the KC Royals, because they won the world series the year my eldest was born. I memorized that on the off-chance that, if I were ever taken captive and had to prove I'm an american, I'd be able to say SOMETHING about sports.

A fake closed HTML tag is just the same as an open one. Do the slash yourself!

edited to say: Where, exactly are the Twins?

Minnesota. Don't worry, sports knowledge is not the measure of an American, thank god.

A fake closed HTML tag is just the same as an open one. Do the slash yourself!

DIY slash. I should have known. That's practically the Buffista motto.

DIY slash. I should have known. That's practically the Buffista motto.

Oh! I want that for my tag line!

That's called Munchausen by Internet (whether formally or informally), and it's getting common.

Had one of these at the old Bronze. Name was Penlind. She had eight children, one was dying.

We caught her before she could get money from anyone, but it caused a lot of damage within the community.

Totally sucked.

There was a story on TAL about someone like that. It had to do with Rent message boards and the cast and stuff. Very interesting, but I can't remember the name of the show now.