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That part seems to have worked!

Well, that would be fun to watch!

@SuperJunior, no, it won't be a battle. People in both of them will likely visit the other!

As you said elsewhere, it's only 6 months away. I am torn between the two hotels, decisions, decisions! I stayed at CC this year, but liked Inndulge from my quick look there. TB is sweet, he spends much more of his time texting with me than I deserve. You'll love him when you meet him.

I am slow to understand such things, but I suspect that @VictorPowers may share your love. Of course, I wouldn't know.

You can get a virgin ticket to go to PS? (I know what you meant, just couldn't help myself.)

@stevenkesslar, I think we are agreeing that snark loses its effect when it is offered in person.

If I can add to the discussions generated by @Good Grief. I know you have made some snarky comments and may feel they define you and will continue to do so if you attend the PS event. They won't. Neither will any of the comments made in this thread. Snark loses its edge if uttered in person, and its purveyors tend to tone things down in real life. It can even become quirky rather than offensive. TBT noted that at the Hacienda he felt it was intensely private. At the Canyon Club and, I understand at Inndulge, things were far more social around the pool. People talk about everything and nothing. There are enough people there for the forum event that it becomes very social. You won't feel out of place, or judged for your on-line persona. It will be just fine.

At the risk of launching onto a tangent, this image conveys something significant that photographers have helped to publicise. In their time in refugee camps in Pakistan, Afghans took to the game of cricket with alacrity, and took it home. In not much more than 20 years, Afghanistan has gone from zero to now being one of the 12 full test playing members of the International Cricket Council. (Test cricket is the incomprehensible-to-Americans version of the game played over five days that often ends in a draw.)

Generally speaking, high fibre levels in the lead up to an appointment, but you need to get to understand how your bowels work. What does your regular diet do for you, what effect does extra dietary fibre have, what does a supplement like Metamucil do. Only you can know how all this works out. And no set of procedures is foolproof. If you read the forum widely you will find all sorts of comments on what to do, vegetarian, supplements, things to avoid and so on.

And the previous advice about fibre stands.

Robster has clothes?

'Take the mickey' is certainly a term I'd use. I thought it was universal.

Few Australians hold company shares, some have mutual fund investments that do, but our compulsory national retirement savings scheme is primarily based on bank-run and industry funds that hold huge investments on the stock exchange. The stock market is inherently volatile so the bigger funds here (mainly the industry ones) are realising that investing directly in income producing assets like toll roads and other utilities are more stable and hence more reliable. The Ontario teachers' pension fund has been doing that for years. They are also better custodians of those sorts of assets as they are not driven by quarterly profit figures but by the long term returns.

The fires were the lead item on the ABCTV news this evening, and radio current affairs had an interview with the mayor of Santa Rosa. We've already had the first fires of the season and it's not that long since local rural fire service people returned from deployments firefighting in BC.

I suspect it's clear by now whether it's made the national news there, but it certainly has here. People here are all too familiar with the patchwork effect embers can have on properties destroyed. so the seemingly random destruction, including of a Hilton, is not surprising.

Used ironically? Nah, flawed usage, not irony!

. My understanding is that they only escort together, so flying Tyler in won't happen unless Ace is in on the deal

Look! A squirrel!

Well, you didn't accept any sort of half measure. I have looked at his ads and mused about meeting him. Kudos, bb!

Cheeky, @VictorPowers!

Would it be impolitic of me to mention the pool party this year?

Short of meeting, we have traded chats. I can't wait to meet him in real life!

I agree with you broadly, and love the pizza analogy. I haven't been to Las Vegas, but I have been one who has defended Derek based on what I've read. (In science, literature reviews where someone writes a paper based on other analyses but without their own basic research, are an accepted type of study.) The comedy of errors wherein an offer of meeting earlier ended up being a meeting at the original time through his stuff-ups is more amusing than reprehensible. But still annoying. Regardless of the rights and wrongs of how the appointment went down, his 'deal with it' response is plain dumb. As I said, I ain't been there, but there are other gentlemen who I would pick first in LV regardless of how attractive Mr Atlas may seem. No shade on any others, but I'd start with the ever so delightful and friendly @peterhung85 and newbie @JoshATX . But I wouldn't say no to Derek.

Yep, that must be it!