From: Ali<BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

Dallasgirl~ I like that song...thanks for sharing it!<BR>
<BR>
Love and light, Ali
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From: terry<BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

Sigh~  Carry me back to Ole Virginia....I miss home now......you guys have done it.......besides  being hungry that is......SIGH<BR>
<BR>
terry
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From: kevin urenda<BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

I visited the "Old South" for the first time almost a year ago.  Yes, the people are friendly, but we breed 'em friendly here too.  People smile at strangers and often say hello.  We don't serve grits, though, with breakfast.<BR>
<BR>
And yes, Mayhaw jelly is really good stuff!
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From: Galadrial<BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

Okay...I don't get grits.<BR>
<BR>
I've tried them with butter, salt and pepper.<BR>
<BR>
Yuck.  Suggestions?
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From: scqueen<BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

Gala ~ Don't you know that 'G.R.I.T.S.' stands for 'Girls Raised In The South'? If you weren't 'born into grits' I don't think you ever grow into them. Me? I could wallow in them :-) And there are only 3 ways to eat them:<BR>
1) with butter, salt and pepper<BR>
2) with crumbled bacon in them<BR>
3)with grated cheese in them<BR>
<BR>
I rest my case. Now, tell us about scrapple!
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From: Galadrial<BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

Scrapple is not food.<BR>
It is some ghastly stuff made from cow lips and pig navels,<BR>
and is GREY in the package...<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
Ewwwwwwww.
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From: Angel<BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

Chris, Yeah!!! Food beats the hell outta the topics that have been floating around here:)<BR>
And generalizations are just that!<BR>
And I love the way New Yawkers talk;)<BR>
And that poem from 1992 from MISTI...I really liked that one alot...Alot of depth to it and freshly worded.<BR>
<BR>
Naw...you dont have to be born into grits...I didn't venture south until I was 15 and I LOVE them. But grits generally have no middle ground...you either LOVE them...Or HATE them. But I do not recommend the INSTANT kind at all. Get real grits or stick to hash browns:)I'm not too much into instant anything, 'cept cash:)<BR>
<BR>
And let's not forget Northern Griners, philly and cheeses, chilli parlors, pizzarias...YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM Lots of GREAT stuff from the NE section of our li'l world.<BR>
<BR>
And Kev, you have MAYHAW jelly there in NM?
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From: Angel<BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

Oh and Sqcueen..make that 4 ways. You can slice cold leftover grits and fry next morning:)
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From: scqueen<BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

Angel ~ I lived near Philly for 2 years and fell in love with chicken cheese steaks, all kinds of pretzels, tastykakes, etc. Never did get that scrapple concept though.
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From: Harem<BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

Well I am a Yankee.... (or at least raised in the North)<BR>
But been living in the south for many years now....<BR>
I remember when I first moved here.... Looking at a menu, and askint the waitress what is "GRITS" ? ? ?<BR>
The waitress told me how to flavor them (butter, salt, etc.)<BR>
I LOVED them.. INSTANTLY  ! ! !<BR>
and still do. ! ! !  In fact I love lots of southern dishes.... YESSSSS... and am so used to the climate down here in the south... I don't think I could ever go back...<BR>
WOW...  <BR>
<BR>
.
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From: ~ Harem ~<BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

To Kirk ~ (the blender keeper)<BR>
<BR>
Don't you think it might be nice for the writers to maintain their anonymity... by being able to write prose incognito, they might be able to write things that they would be too shy or self conscious to share.<BR>
Maybe you can only require identification for comments that are made, rather than for the poetry and prose.<BR>
It's just a suggestion.. <BR>
Although some of the nameless suggestions made here, have added some intrigue, mystery and fun to the blender board.<BR>
Don't yah think ?   <BR>
<BR>
Thanks.<BR>
    ~ Harem ~<BR>
<BR>
..<BR>

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From: Gala<BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

Harem---<BR>
<BR>
       Kirk may have his own opinion...but i think the "nameless" abuse has outweighed anonymity as an option. Just my thought.
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From: Kirk, Blender-Keeper<BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

Harem -- Right now we're not going to have a rich enough moderation structure to really support "Anonymous Coward" (the slashdot.org term) style posts.  But creating a new account will be relatively simple, and I don't foresee the need to try to set any rule like "only one blender account per e-mail address."  <BR>
<BR>
I think we need some level of accountability with comments, and to a lesser extent with works. But there will be some level of anonimity as well.  It's not going to be fullproof, but I think will be a better balance then we have now. <BR>
<BR>
Things are still going pretty well with the development.  I have the basic 'view account' screen (incl 'public e-mail' and 'chat id' fields...) though not the editing features. I expect that by the end of the weekend the Blender Board will be moved to this account system. Each "From:" line on the board will have a link to that account info screen.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1">Kirk, Blender-Keeper</a><BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

Wow... I think this thing is ready for real life beta testing. <BR>
<BR>
You can tell who the cool beta-testers are on the blender-board because their names will be links here, like mine is.<BR>
<BR>
A word of warning: there is a non-zero possibility of me having to wipe out the user database.  NO COMMENTS ON THE BOARD WILL BE LOST, though if I really screwup the links to the name links will be mangled.<BR>
<BR>
And choose your names carefully-- because if I don't have to reset the database (good chance of that, actually) this will be a permanent account.<BR>
<BR>
(And maybe this should go without saying, but don't grab any other regular's name.  Report abuses to me directly.)<BR>
<BR>
So... testers should use this URL to create their account:<BR>
<BR>
http://loveblender.com/blend/signup.html<BR>
<BR>
And this URL to post with.  Until this is tested, I won't take away the usual comment form, but eventually this account/password requiring form will be moved to the URL of the current one:<BR>
<BR>
http://loveblender.com/blend.feedback.html<BR>

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From: Angel<BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

Testing Testing 1..2..3
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From: Angel<BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

Hey Kirk, didn't work. I don't have a link.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=3">delilah</a><BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

seeing if this works...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=3">delilah</a><BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

hey kirk,<BR>
is there a way to edit acct info once it has been submitted?<BR>
for example, if i wanted to add an email contact? (or is this still in too raw of a form?)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1">Kirk, Blender-Keeper</a><BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

Editing your profile is coming soon.<BR>
<BR>
Thanks for demonstrating it's not just me who can use the system ;-)<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=2">scqueen</a><BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

Testing
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">TJ Holland</a><BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

How's everybody doing? This, too, is a test. Oh, so many tests in life. So many. And how have I failed? So many ways.(pontifications)
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From: jackryhme  [email-masked]<BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

lol test one three two and whos got the food?
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=5">jackryhme</a><BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

oops  lol well...... tested.  ok i got a D fer follow the leader k?
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=6">it dosent matter</a><BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

hmmm cool lol thanks kirk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=7">Angel</a><BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

I was already bad at directions :( I finally made it though...I think.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=7">Angel</a><BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

Kirk, my problem was that I had used the public field for my email and did not notice that I needed to fill in the private field also so I could get a confirmation. Everything is AOK now...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=8">Ali</a><BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

Testing...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=10">Galadrial</a><BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

Testing, 1,2,3
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From: Madison<BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

. . .
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=11">Scooby-Doo</a><BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

Testing 
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From: BK<BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

Whats going on did I miss something?<BR>
<BR>
bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=7">Angel</a><BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

BK~ check Kirk's message above.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

YIPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=14">terry39</a><BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

Testing 2 4 6 8<BR>
Who do we appreciate<BR>
K i r k
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From: iLLblEeD<BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

okay...i'm late on the food discussion here..but growing up in alabama..i know alllllll about hush puppies..just reading that made me crave 'em.  Sooooo i'll bring the hush puppies...yaaahhhhh<BR>
all crunchy..and bready....yummmmm<BR>

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From: iLLblEeD<BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

reminded me of something else..<BR>
biscuits and gravy..yummmm..<BR>
and fried squash..cornbread...<BR>
ohh and chocolate gravy too when i was a kid..<BR>
it was the best...<BR>

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From: BK<BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

How about Fried Green Tomatoes, and sweet potatoe pie. Then there's buttermilk biscuits with milk gravy with eggs for breakfast. Peach cobbler and homemade ice cream turned in an old fashioned churn with everyone taking turns doing the cranking...How about turkey with rich sage dressing and all the trimmings or stuffed chicken with cornbread dressing, then the real cook makes home-made chicken n dumplings and there's always chicken a'la king over rice or cornbread, god, I am making myself so hungry...I will stop now. Now the real taste test is home-made cakes made from scratch...no box mixes here. Everything from fresh cocoanut to rich Coca Cola Cake, there are no short cuts to good southern cooking, you slowly simmer and cook it till it melts in your mouth honey pies. mmmmmmmmmmmmm good..lol<BR>
<BR>
bk
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From: kevin urenda<BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

NO, Angel, you SENT me some a couple years back!!!!!!!
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From: kevin urenda<BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

testing?<BR>
<BR>
Green Chile, anyone?  Carnitas or Rellenos?  Quelites?  Calavacitas???
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=17">deevaa</a><BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

*sneaks in to grab her user name in case she ever writes poetry ever again, then disappers back into the night*
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=18">MichaelT</a><BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

Well, here's a comment. Kirk, could I get a cookie that automatically puts in my name and pass? Or make it one of those password fields, so ie remembers who I am?
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From: Madison<BR>
Date: 27 April 2001<P>

mine didn't work either
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