Anita,

This is only a note to express my gratitude for the wonderful energy that you've put into this forum.

Whenever I see a post of yours, even before I read it, I know that I'm probably going to learn something, smile, laugh, get all teary-eyed, or all of the above. And even when I disagree with you, your honesty and forthrightness has easily earned my respect.

Just realize that you've enriched this little piece of my life I've spent here more than you know.

With love,

Eve

-- eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), May 13, 2000

Answers

Anita -

I've been thinking these same thoughts. I'd like to include my thank you for being "you" and sharing so much of yourself with all of us.

Eve -

You also put forth a wonderful energy. My thanks go out to you too, for sharing so much.

-- Debra (: ) @ : ).com), May 13, 2000.

Reminds me of the Frank Burns (M*A*S*H) line: "It's nice to be nice to the nice."

And truth be told, it is! I echo the above statements Anita, confident my masculinity will not be somehow weakened by this unbridled display of affection.

(I post this whilst re-seasoning MY cast iron cookware. I feel the testosterone leaking out in buckets.)

-- Bingo1 (howe9@shentel.net), May 13, 2000.

We DO have fun, and we learn something from each other as well. When we stop having fun, we'll go back to cleaning the toilets and um.....seasoning our cast iron.

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), May 13, 2000.

Thanks Debra, for the kind words. You know -- from what I've seen of yours lately, it looks like you'd fit the bill too!

-- eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), May 13, 2000.

Anita's cool. Smart enough to not ignore high stake possibilites and not dumb enough to ignore her training and common sense.

-- Carlos (riffraff@cybertime.net), May 13, 2000.

Anita has ALWAYS been cool. Even when she disagrees with you, she does it so politely that, if you're not reading carefully, you might miss it. :)

-- Stephen M. Poole, CET (smpoole7@bellsouth.net), May 13, 2000.

Anita is a wierd specimen. She's interesting to listen to. When she's right, she's dead right. When she's wrong, she's dead wrong. But she's so nice about it all and unemotional, I feel sorry for her when she's wrong.

I've watched the adulation go to her head over time, and she's going out on a limb more and more. She's becoming pathetic at times.

-- Come (b@ck.to.earth.anita), May 13, 2000.

One of the things I've tried to learn from Anita is her LOGIC. I admit I'm not the best student, but I'm working on it. I have never seen a more logical, level-headed, sensible person. Full of herself? Not in this lifetime.

I'll tip a cold one to ya tonight my friend.

-- Patricia (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), May 13, 2000.

"come back to earth", you are the pathetic one.

Anita, this lurker agrees. You are one cool mama.

-- (Get back in your@cage.LadyLoony), May 13, 2000.

Come,

"pathetic"? Tell me.

-- Carlos (riffraff@cybertime.net), May 13, 2000.

Anita,

I'm one of your fans, too!

Come b@ak, you're misguided.

-- Observer (lots@to.observe), May 14, 2000.