# Thought I would touch base and say hello **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 31, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930 "2011-07-31T15:49:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/101 "2011-08-01T19:15:43Z")
Why, hello stranger. I trust you and your monocle are well? Nice to [del]see you again[/del] [del]hear your voice[/del] read your type. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/102 "2011-08-01T19:46:05Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Oh, dear, now I am going to feel compelled to be constantly scintillating, or everyone is going to look at me like Mae West in \*Sextette \*and go, “\*this \*is what everyone used to be excited over?” > \ No need to be anything but what you are - we’re just glad you have returned. (wait… that makes it sound like I don’t think you are scintillating. Never mind.) ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/103 "2011-08-01T19:58:28Z")
Scintillating was being lucky enough to join **Eve** and a handful of other Dopers for lunch at the Algonquin, followed by a traipse through the newly refurbed MOMA. _THAT_ was a very very special day for me. You’ve been missed. Your wit and articulation are to this day much respected. Coincidence that you return on the 30th Anniversary of the debut of Music Television? I think not !!! 😃 Tacky as this normally is online, fair to say I send you a :hug: and a smile. Please be more of a presence again. Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/104 "2011-08-01T21:49:51Z")
Wonderful to hear from you, **Eve**! You’ve been missed. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/105 "2011-08-01T21:57:50Z")
I too thought this was probably a zombie thread, and I’m glad to see I was wrong. Glad to see you **Eve** , and I hope things are going well for you, well enough to stop by now and again when you have a free moment. It’s nice to see so many of the long-time posters in a single thread, and very few people could get such a unanimously warm welcome from this cantankerous bunch. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/106 "2011-08-01T22:06:15Z")
Good to hear from you. **Charlie Chaplin** pwns **Buster Keaton**. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/107 "2011-08-01T22:07:21Z")
Great to hear from you again, and don’t be a stranger. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/108 "2011-08-01T22:10:12Z")
> [@](#): > **Eve!! {smooch!}** :)🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/109 "2011-08-01T22:14:54Z")
Nice to hear from you! ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/110 "2011-08-01T22:32:04Z")
Oh good Lord! It’s Eve! Absolutely MARVELOUS to see you, dahling! ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/111 "2011-08-01T22:50:29Z")
Don’t be a stranger! _“If you can paint, I can walk!”_ ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/112 "2011-08-01T23:06:23Z")
Naturally, this happens just after I had discarded my list of questions about silent film stars. Give me time, I’m sure I’ll think of something. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/113 "2011-08-01T23:27:07Z")
**She’s ALIVE!!!111!!!** YAY! ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/114 "2011-08-01T23:41:36Z")
> [@waterj2](#): > > Naturally, this happens just after I had discarded my list of questions about silent film stars. Give me time, I’m sure I’ll think of something. Oh, allow me. Is it true what they say about William K. Everson ? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Composer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@The\_Composer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Composer)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/115 "2011-08-02T01:17:59Z")
**Eve** , I don’t think I actually conversed with you, either, but reading your posts always brought joy to my day. Glad you popped in! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/116 "2011-08-02T02:28:23Z")
> [@](#): > > Is it true what they say about William K. Everson ? It’s true what they say about Dixie, but what have they been saying about Bill? (I think I will go wet my tootsies in Cafe Society while I am here . . .) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/117 "2011-08-02T02:29:52Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > **Eve!! > {smooch!}** Seconded. I feel like either[this German Shepard](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SDneOhwwpM)or [this Louis Armstrong](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAuitCr-omA)(as opposed to the other Louis Armstrongs in that scene). ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/118 "2011-08-02T03:17:27Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Why, hello stranger. I trust you and your monocle are well? Nice to [del]see you again[/del] [del]hear your voice[/del] read your type. I seem to recall that \*\*Eve \*\*uses a lorgnette. 😉 Nice to see ya 'round these parts again, **Eve**! ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/119 "2011-08-02T04:39:23Z")
Howdy! ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930/120 "2011-08-02T05:12:37Z")
**Eve**! 'bout time you peered down your lorgnette at all of us again. Welcome back! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-touch-base-and-say-hello/590930.md?page=7)