Buffista Early Warning System was started (what *was* its official name?)

CVR.

(I can't help but try to catch up in this thread, because of all the lurkers who delurk and I wanna know them a bit, and all the sorta-reunion posts, which I definitely don't wanna miss, and last but not least, of the regular posters, whose font I miss most, I guess, because it's right there and I don't get to get to it.

So I try to read and catch up and hardly get to post, in between, and it's still so much fun!)

Nilly's post number is a multiple of 9.

Nilly's post number is a multiple of 9.

At Emmett's Krav class he'd go help the teacher's son with his math home work whenever Emmett took a break for water. I saw him explaining the add-it-up-multiples-of-nine trick at the last class.

I learned it from 3-2-1 Contact. There was a song and everything.

post number is a multiple of 9

It has some lovely math on the way, too: (2+7)*2^7

Finally caught up.

Hi, I'm Connie Neil, and I post under my real name, because I haven't put anything on the net that would get me fired. I don't think. The porn is posted under other names, anyway, and there are too many Connie Neils out there.

I think I started at TT and have trailed along ever since. I got my relatively low number when ita said "We've go the prototype Phoenix Board up! Grab your preferred user name now!"

The most amusing thing about me is that when I joined up with this merry band, slash and homoerotic subtext were a mystery to me. Then my eyes were opened, I started seeing subtext EVERYWHERE, and the next thing I knew I was writing slashy fanfic in addition to the other type. I've been trying to drag the writing muscles out of hibernation for a couple of years now.

I believe I'm the only currently posting Buffista in Utah, doing my job as an outpost of civilization in the Wild West. I'm also known for the variety and severity of my husband's medical ills. This board has been a true blessing in supporting me through various crises. I'm especially grateful for the calls and gifts I got when I was in the hospital myself.

I think you folks may be some of the most long-standing friends I have. I thank you.

BETSY!!!

That is all.

Addenda:

Cilantro: euw

Olives: Yum! So long as they're not the nasty metallic ones.

Muffaletta: I'd probably like.

Serial comma: It has its place.

Two spaces after a period at the end of the sentence: Always and forever yes, because otherwise you sometimes have problems when it looks like Dr. or Mr. etc. is the end of the sentence.

I just threadsucked and marathon-read this thread and my eyes are kinda glazing over from all the awesome. Cool lurkers delurking! And learning new things about old-timers! Wait, "old-timers" sounds bad. Veterans? The historically chatty? Ye Olde Denizens?

Anyway, I haven't posted in eons so I qualify as a semi-lurker, I think. I'm Vonnie, and I joined some time in World Crossing days -- jeez, was that like 6-7 years ago? -- after being talked into coming here by, um, I think Consuela. Or possibly Micole. Could have been Dana. Memory's fuzzy and I ain't getting any younger. I'm 39, single, an ex-pat Canadian living in Pittsburgh nowadays (*am STOKED to see there are more Pittsburghers on board* WOOT!) and I wish I watched TV professionally but sadly I am enslaved to a rewarding yet life-sucking job with crazy hours. When I have time to post, I natter on usually in Box Set or Movies.

I love cilantro, except I'd called it coriander for yonks while I was living in Canada and had a hard time switching over afterward (well, I know coriander usually refers to the whole plant / seeds and cilantro is mostly the leaves, but whatever it is called, it is the herb and spice of the Gods and y'all naysayers with the anti-cilantro centers in the brain are sadly deprived.) Olives should be only consumed in emulsified form. While I have never tasted muffaletta, I am highly dubious given its supposedly olive-tastic content. I have no opinion on cereal serial comma as my grammar is atrocious. And "Z" should be pronounced "zed", not "zee"! ZED! (Oh, wait. That was that beer commercial.)

I haven't seen Local Hero, but I certainly agree with the fabulousness of I Know Where I'm Going. But, then, I'm a big Powell/Pressburger fan.

Powell/Pressburger! I am downright evangelistic about those two! I Know Where I'm Going is as fabulous as Megan said. But so are all of their films together. My personal favourite of theirs is A Matter of Life and Death. I had such terrible schoolgirl crush on Roger Livesey back in the day. *sigh*

Hello, Vonnie!

And "Z" should be pronounced "zed", not "zee"!

There is no "d" in there. I'm just sayin'.