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Date: 12/4/2007 3:45:47 PM
Author:StevL
Lawmax,
This old man is trying to run you downslow down and let me catch up with ya!
Date: 12/7/2007 10:19:09 AM
Author: StevL
Now I have to go stand for another 10 hours... don''t you love the holidays!
Date: 12/7/2007 8:37:04 PM
Author: lawmax
I swear I was thinking about YOU today! I get more and more psychic and tuned in the ''older'' I get. I was remembering that you called me some very interesting adjectives that were firsts.
Date: 12/7/2007 9:20:26 PM
Author: lawmax
Ummmm....did they have SATs when you were in high school?
Date: 12/8/2007 11:34:38 AM
Author: StevL
Law,
So you remember your SC days... Me Too! I think they wrote all those beach music songs about you Seems like I remember some good times in CA too. Maybe we shouldn''t meet like that; but my wife was there too!
I do now have your email address, your phone number, and I''m working on your street address It was so good to speak with you on the phone. Take care and I''m going to check in here more often. Not about jewelry I have enough of that, but to see what you guys are posting about fun stuff.
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Deb,
See, once again you brought us all back together after years of being lost in our own spaces. We all need something to bind us and you are that woman!
I don''t believe for one moment you have aged a bit. And for your mind I wouldn''t challenge that for nothing; you are one very smart person!
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It is great to know that some of the first diamond forum people are still here. The very same people that asked all the important questions before many of the people today had their first job. In many ways we all went through this together....... and we still get along
Hugs to both of you and send photos.
Date: 12/8/2007 11:34:38 AM
Author: StevL
Deb,
See, once again you brought us all back together after years of being lost in our own spaces. We all need something to bind us and you are that woman!
I don''t believe for one moment you have aged a bit. And for your mind I wouldn''t challenge that for nothing; you are one very smart person!
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It is great to know that some of the first diamond forum people are still here. The very same people that asked all the important questions before many of the people today had their first job. In many ways we all went through this together....... and we still get along
Hugs to both of you and send photos.
Date: 12/8/2007 5:14:52 PM
Author: AGBF
Date: 12/7/2007 9:20:26 PM
Author: lawmax
Ummmm....did they have SATs when you were in high school?
Lawmax, You are trying to bait me. (That halo never fit you. It was better when you left it to me.) The sad truth is that you are almost right. Actually there were SATs when I was in high school, but when I needed the scores to get licensed as a school social worker (I had previously been ''only'' a clinical social worker) the educational testing service charged me extra to get them off microfilm!!! I was trying to prove that I didn''t need to take a test most teachers must take to prove that they are proficient in English. As I recall, a teacher had to test out of a course or take a course....unless s/he had gotten over 700 on the verbal SAT or the English AT or something. Whatever it was, I made them go down into the dark caves and search the microfilm. The archaeologists were at it for months, but they finally found the evidence. It was carefully preserved so that it did not disintegrate and a letter was sent to my school. Or the State. Or whomever.
Deb, glad to set the record straight
Date: 12/9/2007 7:25:29 PM
Author: StevL
Wow, and being from SC we think a 700 TOTAL on the SAT is very good You girls rock!
Date: 12/10/2007 8:52:06 PM
Author: StevL
Don''t start with me, you know we would have won the war if... oh never mind. I''ll dig some photos up from a few years ago, you won''t know the difference
Date: 12/10/2007 11:53:48 PM
Author: JohnQuixote
I spied this thread and had to chime in for an old-timers high five. Cheers, all.
I''ve moved to this side of the counter but still have arrows in the old quiver.
Live long and... there you have it.
(- Cupid)
Date: 12/8/2007 11:34:38 AM
Author: StevL
We all need something to bind us and you are that woman!
Date: 12/8/2007 6:41:48 PM
Author: lawmax
He said we need someone to bind us and you are that woman. Now THAT sparked memories of some of YOUR first posts. My, I was such an innocent child before I met all of you....
There''s no place like home, there''s no place like home, there''s no place like home. Sure...leave it up to Steve and me to stir up some trouble! OK, I''ll ixnay...I remember nothing!!!!Date: 12/11/2007 10:38:40 AM
Author: AGBF
Date: 12/8/2007 11:34:38 AM
Author: StevL
We all need something to bind us and you are that woman!
Date: 12/8/2007 6:41:48 PM
Author: lawmax
He said we need someone to bind us and you are that woman. Now THAT sparked memories of some of YOUR first posts. My, I was such an innocent child before I met all of you....
Lawmax, you and Steve were talking about playing fair, i.e. not using old photos, etcetera. Good old Cupid is now a professional and has to watch his tongue...and no one here knows that I was ever anything but a nice old lady. So ixnay on the ondagebay (not that that was really my thing).
Your friend,
Deb
or do I mean
Deb
?
It has been very confusing to have you come home, Lawmax. The combination of you, Steve, and Cupid all being here at once is taking a toll on me .
Thanks, Mara. I always told Leonid that I felt like I was passing the torch over to you. Good work!Date: 12/11/2007 10:46:07 AM
Author: Mara
lawmax good to see you around these parts again and love the picture!!!
steve you too. er...minus the picture. your avatar looks the same.
How soon we forget! Please don''t strip me of my last vestige of innocence m''dear!Date: 12/11/2007 7:03:23 AM
Author: lawmax
Oh my gosh....I forgot you were Cupid! LOL I remember the gist of the drama now!!!
I''m glad you''re happy on that side of the counter. I always rather liked balancing right there in the middle and bringing all sides together the best I could.....ahhhhh...egos....
Yeah Steve. After the initial shock - like jumping into water you know is cold... but ''tis coooooold!Date: 12/11/2007 12:10:32 PM
Author: StevL
This is too cool. Many of the oldtimers are still here, but you guys haven''t aged a bit! So John, how is it being on that side of the counter? I bet much different than you once thought.
Or: PS averages over 1000 posts a day now. I imagine back in the old days - when it was basically Mara and ten others - PS was still averaging about 1000 posts a day. Do the math.Date: 12/11/2007 4:55:19 PM
Author: Mara
Steve says:
'how in the heck did you end up with over 25,000 post?'
would you believe me if i said...I DON'T KNOW???? i like to hear myself type i guess.
Date: 12/11/2007 6:21:06 PM
Author: JohnQuixote
Date: 12/11/2007 7:03:23 AM
Author: lawmax
Oh my gosh....I forgot you were Cupid! LOL I remember the gist of the drama now!!!
I'm glad you're happy on that side of the counter. I always rather liked balancing right there in the middle and bringing all sides together the best I could.....ahhhhh...egos....
How soon we forget! Please don't strip me of my last vestige of innocence m'dear!
And re: This side of the counter and egos... (leaning nonchalantly on that vestige) 'Why Lawmax - I do declare - whatever do you mean?'
Date: 12/11/2007 12:10:32 PM
Author: StevL
This is too cool. Many of the oldtimers are still here, but you guys haven't aged a bit! So John, how is it being on that side of the counter? I bet much different than you once thought.
Yeah Steve. After the initial shock - like jumping into water you know is cold... but 'tis coooooold!- things warmed up and have been great. My primary group of local friends has stayed the same (no gemophiles) and I've kept a toe in the teaching waters. The nice thing is that I've been fortunate enough to find rock solid, good people to pass time with in both careers, so no lack of inspiration.
Ah yes. Galahadian Cupid... Before the nervous tic. Before the shaking of the hands. Before the baldness. Ok, I exaggerate. And, yeah, headlights is so right! But I can't deny that the dramatis personae of that interesting time & place (picture yourself and AGBF in the roles of enchanting muses) were engaging enough to make a fond, positive impression. Years later when I came aboard in the trade it was cool to get to know the pros in person - and suffer a few rites of passage - especially people like Paul, Garry & Serg from different corners of the earth who I never fathomed I'd meet. As regards you, Deb, and a few more refugees who've either faded or lurk, I'll always consider you my erstwhile allies and inspirers (conspirers?)Date: 12/11/2007 6:28:35 PM
Author: lawmax
Cupid, Cupid, dear sweet Cupid....I remember watching your last days of innocence....it was like watching a deer in the headlights. hehehehe Sigh....we consumers have most certainly taken our power back, eh?
Ah....the ego...well, I've typed this paragraph a few times now and have to keep deleting! LOL And I do declare, kind sir, that you know better than most EXACTLY what I mean! And you came on the scene later than I did----it was quite a show for a long time there and was positively contagious! I hang my head.........