I’ve always been a fan of Anthracite - and I recently saw that s/he is so so close to the magical 3000 posting mark and hey, I wanted to say WOO HOO! 
So tell me a story about coal…
I’m also a fan. Although, perhaps with a lot more fluff and a lot less substance in her posts, and a bit of determination, she could overtake handy! 
[sub]And Anthracite is very much a SHE, btw[/sub]
Congratulations to my darling Anthracite!
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Brilliant, insightful, caring, and a VERY fine writer…we are lucky to have her in our community!
Cheri
3000 and no waste, fighting the good fight, ignorance is doomed.
I had my first board-crush on Anthracite before I was even a member. The threads she posted to I always read first.
Congrats!
Happy 3000th, Una and I hope that fierra gives you the present you want. 
Keith
“Anthracite” reminds me of a rare, perhaps precious earth mineral or stone. Being that, let me take out my handy tool, a Webster’s dictionary & see what it say: a hard natural coal of high luster differing from bituminous coal in containing little volatile matter and in burning very cleanly — called also hard coals.
Interesting.
Congratulations to our board’s diamond in the rough!
Congrats, Anthracite!
I also really enjoy reading her posts, as they are always very well written. Also, she’s just a really cool person.
Thank you very much, seth. However, you may not have noticed that my Fierra was also at 1000 posts. So I started another thread here
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=69195
So we could share our 4000 posts together. I do deeply appreciate this thread, and really love the nice things everyone has posted here. Thank you very, very much.
Una
Congratulations, Anthracite!