Farewell and Good Luck, voguevixen

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Dear People of the SDMB

Some of you may have noticed that voguevixen has been gone from the board now for quite some time. Others have also noticed that she has been gone from #straightdope chat for 46+ days now. I have been keeping in touch with her for a while now, and as of today I have final confirmation.

voguevixen is not coming back.

The reasons why she has left? I will not go into them, because it will start a flame war of biblical proportions. And get really nasty. If you really care about the dirt, ask her yourself via e-mail.

OR, if you really cared about vogue and/or liked her wit and intelligence that she brought here, and would like to say goodbye and wish her luck, please post something here. She does read the SDMB now and again, so she will see it. Alternately, one could always e-mail her too (voguevixen@hotmail.com) and see what she’s up to and how she’s doing.

I don’t reveal e-mails but can say in general that vogue has a lot of fun-sounding IRL stuff going on, and even hopes to be going back to school in the Spring to find a career for herself. She does wish, I believe, that more people would write her or drop a line (San Francisco, I’m looking in your direction…) So please, if you have something nice to say that would like to say publicly, say it here. And if you are one of “that group” that doesn’t have anything nice to say, then keep it to yourself and stay the hell out!

Una Persson

Dear Betsy (voguevixen),

I will really miss your wit, humor, and curiosity. I really liked your solar oven thread, and was very impressed by your effort and your success. Your posts interested me, and your humor made me laugh. And most of all, I really appreciate two things that you did for me.

First, you talked to me with great encouragement and compassion when I was afraid to start on this long path of complete dental reconstruction, and gave me the confidence through your kind and heartfelt words to make that first appointment, and the second, and so forth.

Second, when I told you a secret, you showed incredible warmth, understanding, poise, and friendship; and I will not forget it. You made me feel better about myself as a person, and really made a difference in my life.

I will miss seeing you here, and in chat, my friend.

Una

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Hey vogue, I miss you. I was just about to post, asking where you were. Drop me a line sometime, we’ll go drinking in SF.

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::waves:: :frowning:

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When I first joined SDMB in April, I had been unofficially reading and arguing with my computer for several months. Therefore I felt like I knew the people here, the regulars, and I realized right away that some people had already garnered my respect for their posts and their wit: WallyM7, Shayna, Ultress, Anthracite, UncleBeer, Uke, Eve, Coldfire, and many others. Voguevixen was in that cataegory - someone whom I felt I knew, even though we hadn’t talked one on one. Someone whose intelligence, caring, humor, and kindness rendered her a legend in my mind, like the others mentioned above.

So I’m very sad to hear that you won’t be posting anymore. This community, and the world in general, needs more people like you, Vix - characters with all the warmth and wit to entertain and comfort, whatever the situation calls for, and the type of true goodness that comes across even via a message board.

You will be dearly missed.

Best of luck in all that you do. :slight_smile:

Sincerely,

Sarah

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VV, you’ll be missed.
Good luck with school and real life stuff.

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Come back VV, I miss you. :frowning:

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Sorry to hear this Una.

Voguevixen if you are out there, I will miss you, you were the kind queen in the chatroom.

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Good Luck Vogue, I want to say that I miss you in chat, you were the first person who showed me how cool and addictive it could be. I wish you the best of everything, and if I get motivated I will send you an e-mail to find out what you’ve been up to. Take care

Keith

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VogueVixen, I hope that you come back someday. Have fun in the real world. You’ll be missed in the land of StraightDopia. :^(

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Whoa…I’d noticed she hadn’t been on IRC and I hadn’t seen any posts lately…

Best of luck to her, most definitely. Man.

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I’ll miss you in chat and on the boards. Hope everything turns out well for you.

Sarah

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Best wishes, good bye & good luck!

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Best of luck in whatever you do, VV.

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Vogie!!!

WHAAaaaaaaa!!
I miss ya! I thought I was just missing you in chat. :frowning:

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Real life, eh? I’ve heard of it. Au revoir, VV, we’ll miss ya. From now on, whenever someone holds the door for me, as I pull their shirt up over their head, run 'em into the corner, and deliver kidney punch after horrific kidney punch, I’ll think of you. :slight_smile:

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Kid, you’re welcome back anytime. Most of us value you and your contributions to the board and chat. I hope you can learn the only real lesson I have learned about interpersonal relationships:

Ignore obnoxious people. They aren’t worth the trouble and the heartache. But don’t cut yourself off from those who like you because of them.

My email is in my profile.

mike

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Sorry to see you go VV. I was wondering why you hadn’t been in chat. :frowning:
I’ll miss you.
Rose

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I’m really sorry to hear you’re not coming back to the boards or to chat. You were one of the people who went out of their way to make me feel welcome, and one of the reasons I kept coming back.

Good luck with your future life, and keep in touch.

Robin