I posted this now as a pick-me-up because her kid is going in for surgery, but I’ve been intending to post this for about a week (I just held off on posting 'till now), in part because, dammit, she’s due an appreciation thread, I’m starting the wring appreciation thread.
I think wring is one of the classiest Dopers around. She’s friendly, caring, funny, helpful and articulate (even if she is wrong on the Gun issue ). I really appreciate the fact that even when we disagree she’s able to try to understand and discuss the other person’s position, rather than resorting to ‘rabid dog’ tactics. She’s also possibly the only person I’ve ever met who can beat me at puns EVERY! SINGLE! time we compete.
I know it’s traditional to dig up a half dozen examples of the poster’s coolness, but with wring, just do a search on her name and look at just about any thread she’s involved in!
wring already knows what I think of her, but I’ll let you all in on the secret: she really, really does care. She will go that extra step without prompting. She’s done it for me more than once.
And she is absolutely right in just about everything. Just about.
I also didn’t know about her son’s surgery. I hope it’s not too serious and all is well.
Wring debates well and never flames in GD. And she has excellent instincts about possible problems and always emails me about them so I can take care of it right away.
wring writes what I want to say–what Dangerosa said, she is always wright and never wrong. While I’m wrestling with words and wracking my brain, she’s already wreaking havoc with wry wit on the muddy-minded. To wrap it up, wring wrocks!
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Ooops,you’d better answer that homophone, wring, I’m sure it’s for you (and the proper answer of course is “what hath wring wrought?”)
I noticed a while back that I almost never posted in threads where wring had posted, or responded to wring’s posts in threads where I was active. I thought this looked like I was ignoring her, so I sent her an email letting her know that the reason is that she so often wrote what I wanted to say, and better than I could’ve said it, that there wasn’t any point to me just posting to write “me too”. She’s that good.
'Course, I’m biased. She owns me 2-3 days per week.
I always breathe a huge sigh of relief when she enters a GD thread I’m part of, on my side. I know that she’ll pull together strands and arguments in a coherant and enlightened way. This board is much richer for having her.
Hurray for wring! She is a class act, she looks good in a tiara, and she showed me a great thai restaurant here in Lansing. (Newbies to Bangkok House: order the mild first. The hot stuff is served by a paramedic on an asbestos tray).
[sub]Think that’s enough to get her to buy me a beer this Friday night?[/sub]
I am honored, truly. People I respect say nice things about me??? in public??? AND not just folks that have the wisdom and foresight to agree with me? ( ) Wow.
Thanks for all the well wishes about my son. His surgery went better than expected (sinus surgery - he’d spent all year on antibiotics/steroids/inhalers/you name it and still had a racking cough). Doctor thought it looked great and he should be feeling pretty normal (or as close to normal for any relative of mine) w/in a day or two. His face isn’t even swollen, but with the assortment of drugs for the surgery, he’s pretty high. He’ll probably sleep until tomorrow :). I stopped in to email the relatives, check a few things and home to crash. I’m not sure if it’s the emotions of having ‘my baby’ have surgery or sitting with my exhusband for 6 hours, but I’m exhausted. (have to give the guy credit - he’s doing the right thing by Ben this time around)
anyhow.
Seriously, thanks to Fenris for thinking of me. Milo: umm, thanks for the offer, but only if you’ll wear that dandy buck skin jacket I’ve heard so much about ( ) seriously, to you, UncleBeer and december it means a lot that even when we disagree, we can still respect each other. SpiderWoman thanks so much, means a lot coming from one of the board’s most noted ‘nice folk’! Persephone, UncleBeer, ralfcoder, BunnyGirl back atchya, and see ya this weekend!
**Biggirl, kabbes, Sua, Gaudere, Dangerosa, elelle, Humble Servant ** for those generally on the right side of the debate ( ), your support and comments are prized, indeed. Zenster, beagledave - thanks, from me and the ‘little guy’ -who’s a bit over 6’1", weighs about 170 pounds, and started out in life, bd, a ‘mere’ 10 pounds, 12 ouches ( :eek: ), and was well worth the extra diaper costs!
). I really appreciate the fact that even when we disagree she’s able to try to understand and discuss the other person’s position, rather than resorting to ‘rabid dog’ tactics. She’s also possibly the only person I’ve ever met who can beat me at puns EVERY! SINGLE! time we compete.
