> >....and wow. the forum has (sniff) grown up, hasn't it? not that i should talk, i'm all new and stuff, but some of the people i've come to see as staples of the forum weren't there at all (issachar? darien? (well, i think darien was there, but not much))....
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> To be precise, 130 people had posted to the Forum before I stuck in my initial $0.02 worth, in post #131. Since we're now up to 3500 posts, I tend to forget about that brief stretch of non-participance (or whatever) on my part. I haven't checked to see when Darien came on board, but it hardly matters, since he's pretty much omnipresent in the Forum by now. :-)

Omnipresent and working on omnipotent :-}. To be honest, I think I may have deceived people slightly, since I posted a reply to Sam's original message a couple of months ago. My actual first post was #173 (Re: World Domination), in response to... well, Iss. :-}

> >... i'm not sure what the point of this post is. rinkworks rocks. i think that might be it. maybe not. oh well....
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> That's a good enough point for me. :-) RinkWorks absolutely rocks. Feel free to call little old me a "staple" anytime you like, too.

RinkWorks certainly does rock. I adore being a staple, even if the mention does lead to things like -

> Iss "yeah, we've got that" achar

- that. How entirely silly of you, Iss! :-}

Dar "Dar "Dar "Darien" ien" ien" ien