What a nice codge you have. It would be a pity if it were to… I dunno…
be inspected with a magnifying glass!
Do, bonvenon! There. Now your welcome is bilingual. Or in stereo, depending on your equipment configuration.
I mean, what can we say about someone whose username means “place of friends”?
BTW, when I am replying to one post, it gives me a blank text field, but if I push the ‘speech bubble’ symbol at the top left above the text field, it inserts the post I’m quoting, and I can mangle it to my heart’s content.
Hey don’t call the old codg…err I mean the Perfect Master names!
I’m trying to get @Cecil_Adams to chime in and acknowledge me (yeah, me…you know Unc, me! beckdawrek, the person who loves you most😊)
So, No name calling!!
Please.
Oh, I don’t think my missus would care for that, not one little bit, but I can certainly ask her when she wakes up. I’ll get back to you. 
Well, that made me laugh.
Thx
Gah! I knew it was something stupid I was missing! Bonan dankon!
The username is because yesterday I was reading about Neutral Moresnet. It was Prussian/Dutch piece of statelessness that lasted for over a century. Some people were trying to make it the first official Esperanto state… then WWI happened. It’s now owned by Belgium, although the Netherlands have not yet officially ceded control to Belgium. The craziness of it all really speaks to me.
Beck, it’s Cecil. He’s looking after more important things.
He’s speaking French, in Russian. If he were to send a letter without postage, it would still get there without “postage due” at the other end. Cuba imports cigars from him. He once sailed around the world, and discovered a shortcut. He can drive a new car off the lot, and it increases in value. He’s won the lifetime achievement award, twice; and is up for another one.
With all that he has on his plate, maybe he’s just a little too busy to check in here everyday?
So George Santos is Cecil?
Too early, haven’t had my coffee. Please excuse me.
If you ever find out the answer to this question, can you let us know.
I don’t think i ever formally introduced myself.
Welcome, welcome! We may have to re-open the Initiation Complex after all!
If we can find it, that is. After we hastily boarded up the door, put up a sign saying ‘Beware of the Leopard’, and ran—er, I mean, closed it in a solemn ceremony—we kind of lost track of it.
I kind of like the fact that this isn’t a typical social media site*.
I love almost everyone here, but I’m glad you don’t know much about me.
Sure, you could piece together clues like When my wife’s out of town, I buy a box of Lucky Charms.
(“Aha!”, you say, “I know that guy!”) (Nope, he eats his with skim milk, which isn’t decadent enough for Bachelor Week)
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*Someone asked me why I’m not on any social media. I said I’m already wasting too much time on an "anti-social media site".
One of my first impressions upon returning was that it had maintained the dorky, geeky, counter-culture (ish) message board community, but now it was wrapped in a some of the good bits of SM (the much improved UI, for instance). So yeah, I think I know what you mean.
With an overlay now of Grumpy Old Men and Women that we just didn’t have much of 20+ years ago. Which grumpiness is also distinct from the more “mainstream” SM sites.
Overall, two thumbs up for @digs’ formulation.
I refuse to give in to the grumpiness.
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