What's the difference between a vampire and a lawyer? One is a hated, feared bloodsucker and the other is a legend depicted in horror films. (",)

I've got a friend who likes playing around with 2 queens at once, but I'm sure his photo's look nothing like this..... (",)

Don, p!ss in the boss's coffee. Always makes me feel better. Especially when he says what good coffe I make.... (",)

Cyn, gags look ok on me, but only the leather ones ;-) You think they'd try gagging me? Pah. Try nailing jelly to the ceiling, it's easier ;-) Sheila, somehow I think we is gonna get along ;-) (Psst, Cyn, is Sheila my type?!? lol) Don, you mean some people never got my humour? Bugger.... Mr Coordinator Sir, watch out for the grease on the 7th rung though...... snigger (",)

Lol - Misha, Tedz, Thanks for the votes, but somehow I don't think the powers that be would stand me for more than a week ;-) Yeah Brian, I too remember that time or two when a few people went at around the same time (hell, still got the photo's I lifted from the thread!), but this one seems more acrimonious than then, and (unusually) this time there hasn't been a clamour to get to the hotseat. Tv, thanks for the greet ;-) I've had fun reading through your posts! I see you are one of the ones that sticks around and posts no matter what the climate - good!! It's people like you that hold the forum together when it hits that little icy patch! I don't know what threads have been deleted (if any) and therefore there's probably a couple of things I missed by not being here. S'got me interested though. I might hang around in the shadows a while ;-) (",) btw Tedz, did ye hear the aaful newz aboot Broon? Thiv awnly gone and shifted the brewin ov it ower the Tyne tiv the Fed brewers in Gatesheed!!! man, I'll so miss the smell of the hops driftin thru the toon..... that smell was the essence of Newcastle for me...

Sits in corner with Don and bottle of Red Bull & Vodka In my line of business the turnover is always pretty high on the front line, and you just get to know someone before they decide to go on to pastures new.... I'm sick of saying goodbye to friends too. Especially the cute ones ;-) Heartfelt sympathies, man. (And for you & yours, Shazz.) (",)

'Chelle, my sweet. My presence is no longer made here in so forceful a way as it used to be - I hope you see it in your heart to still be around also. You will never know how much I gained from your guidance and wisom, and I honestly never thought I'd see the day that you decided this was no longer the place to be, although having read recent goings-on I think I can understand why. With lots of love, Mike x p.s. You still look HOT, babe ;-)

'Chelle, I remember the time too. Sometimes I don't mind cat pics, this is certainly one of them. Thoughts are with you, sod the Mr. - you take a visit to the cat shelter. Arguements are temporary, your home will last a cat a lifetime. (",)

No wonder they hit the sign - it's on the wrong side of the road............... (",)

I don't get the big suprise..... You want a TV, you can go out and buy a 22" for easily less than 200. You want a 40" flatscreen TV you're looking at silly money. You wanna car? Buy a family runabout new for 7000 - or a Ferrari for 100,000+ Want a watch? They sell them on the market for 1. The jewellers can sell you a Rolex you'd have to sell that Ferrari for....... Like anything else, if you've got the money and you want the goods, no problem. To us mere mortals? Damn, that's an expensive monitor! If I win the lottery tomorrow? I'll send a picture of it in my new house with the Ferrari showing through the window ;-) (",)

Firstly, I am going to apologise unreservedly to the new Mod team for saying the forum is no fun. I chose the wrong wording and should have stated that the mix of people in the forum no longer make it a fun place for me personally. I have no doubt at all at their ability to maintain this forum as being one of the most popular and fair forums on the net. I haven't been bribed or blackmailed into saying that, it's how I honestly feel. Tedz - please, feel free to use my name. I am at a loss as to your sudden anti-Mike stance, and want you to know I'm still not anti-Tedz. I have to admit that I do find your comments upsetting on a personal level. I've spent some f***** happy times at this forum, am leaving it after MUCH thought, and find it DEEPLY insulting that you consider it to be "rubbish". As for me and those who endorse me doing nothing good for the forum, I'm more than proud to say I've come up with quite a few viable and fun ideas that, along with the ideas and actions of people of previous years, helped to get this forum where it is now. Ok, maybe I didn't bring aliens into every subject, but I introduced the idea of us all posting pictures of ourselves in threads to see what each other was like and one of our most popular things, the idea of doing something which ended up being Guppo's Travels. On quite a few occassions YOU yourself have been a supporter and co-conspirator in quite a few of my posts, so you are saying that you do no good for the forum? I honestly can't understand your scathing attacks - which bring down the tone of the post in exactly the way you accuse me of doing!!! As for being someone who can 'give but not take' you know yourself that isn't true - if it was I wouldn't have lasted the first 2 weeks in here. The 'Mikey Stirs' post WAS NOT what made me decide to leave. If you hadn't noticed, I had been absent for a few weeks prior, mainly because I didn't know if I wanted to be here. My return was to decide if that absence was to become a bit longer-lasting. (NOTE : That was also PRIOR to any changes in the Mod Team, so that DID NOT affect my decision at all.) As a final bit, I know that the Mod's will do a great job. The way some have reacted to my statement is one of the things that made me realise just how badly I had stated what I did. After all, the mods now learnt from the mods previous, so they had good teachers, just as they will go on to teach the next mods in years to come. Let's face it, my humour doesn't fit in with the people here today. I agree with Michelle, sometimes I cut close to the bone. I guess the problems set in when my humour is misinterpreted, and that's probably because the 'tone of intent' doesn't carry over in text. I'm not going to change, nor am I going to act different to how I am, so I'm quitting (maybe not while I'm ahead) before anyone takes real offense. The Oldies will know that deep down my heart actually DOES work, and I sincerely mean it when I say I'll miss being here. Take care all of you. (",)

Nope, Cyn. Last word is the NEW post. Might as well lock this one off............ (",)

GASP Sits with mouth open Tedz? sniff Is that how you really see me? sniff As the one-upping destructor? sobs "I never thought my own creation would turn against me" - Frank N Furter (",)

Great picture!! The timing for the shadow really makes it stand out! Only thing I would change is the border.. I'd reduce it on the right and below slightly, and make it more of a complimentary colour to the moth - If I put a border on a pic I usually sample a colour from the picture itself, and I think a dark brown from the moth would be nice here. Just my half shilling's worth ;-) (",)