From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=205">Violet</a><BR>
Date: 4 November 2001<P>

Hey Everyone! Since this is a sight related to love... I just wanted to scream out loud about how happy I am.... I just got ENGAGED to the most wonderful man on earth (Pepper ;-) and I cannot contain my happiness! <BR>
*Big Huge Grin* Thank's for listening! 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=10">Galadrial</a><BR>
Date: 4 November 2001<P>

Congratulations Vi---<BR>
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                     Much Luck, Much love...and happiness always...The blender has hosted some amazing pairings...and I wish you all the best!<BR>
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                                          Gala
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=8">Ali</a><BR>
Date: 4 November 2001<P>

violet~<BR>
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That's so awesome!!! Congrats!! *big smile* Yay!<BR>
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Love and glimmering sunshine, Ali
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=23">Kirk</a><BR>
Date: 4 November 2001<P>

B.K...wow I didn't notice you had caught the meter going to a million and a half.  Let's see, looks like we hit the first million in October of last year.  That means it took 4 1/2 years for the first million frontpage hits, and just over a year for an additional half million.  I haven't run more numbers, but based on the submissions count I think we've leveled off somewhat, which isn't an all bad thing.  <BR>
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scqueen, about that car, and more specifically that one eyed monster... did you see http://kisrael.com/viewblog.cgi?date=2001.07.20 where I talk about how much that monster looks like my own alien bill? ( http://alienbill.com ) I also point out how much alien bill looks like the monsters from "Awful Green Things from Outer Space", an older board game.  Alien bill added arms, and Monster, Inc added a mouth.<BR>
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November blender out soon.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=2">scqueen</a><BR>
Date: 4 November 2001<P>

Kirk ~ I didn't see that blog from July. But I do like your car :-) Much better than this:<BR>
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I inherited a 1976 Yellow GMC Pacer as my first car in college. I have never ever lived it down. It looked like a fishbowl and had many a nickname...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=469">Preciousprncss</a><BR>
Date: 4 November 2001<P>

BlueDenim:<BR>
Thanks for replying.... you were the only member from the bblender to even read and reply. As far as musical tastes go, I have heard of NIN, but never listened to them and I have never even heard of the other band you were talking about. I usually listen to pop, rap, sometimes country... but never hard core rock..... thanks for checking out my work.....<BR>
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To everyone else at the blender, can someone please read something I submitted and comment on it..... I am new at the blender and if you guys like me I'll stay, but if not I can go..... thanks, alc
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=74">Echolocation</a><BR>
Date: 4 November 2001<P>

Preciousprncss -- Re your comment about "if you guys don't like me I'll go."  You may not see a lot of comments until you've posted for a while, but don't be discouraged by that -- after all, it's easier to make an intelligent comment about someone's work after you've seen a lot of it!  But since you want some feedback now -- I thought <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.11.01.18.55.15661">sigh.......</a> showed a lot of emotion; I like the part at the end about "somewhere inside there must be the real me".  Is this piece autobiographical?  It reminds me of another quote from a teenage mother about her baby:  "When she was born, it felt like everything I loved about being young was being ripped out of me."<BR>
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Misti -- loved <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.11.02.10.31.29901">Beguiling By Age 12</a> -- wish I could do these stream-of-consciousness kind of things.  Mine all come out sounding like a bad imitation-Dali painting: very weird stuff with no meaning at all...<BR>
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Charade -- <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.11.02.12.41.21915">Love is Blind</a> is lovely -- reminds me of my grandparents, 82 years old but when he looks at her I can tell he still sees the young girl he married sixty years ago...<BR>
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Gala -- <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.11.02.12.41.21915">Love is Blind</a> -- amazing, the power of one single word to change everything<BR>
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Kirk, hurry up and get the November issue out so we can get to last month's submissions!  There was a poem posted last month I want to comment on and I can't remember who wrote it.  Thanks!<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=74">Echolocation</a><BR>
Date: 4 November 2001<P>

Gala - sorry - that was meant to be a comment on your <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.11.02.09.01.31588">again</a>.  Drat that copy/paste thing!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">TJ Holland</a><BR>
Date: 4 November 2001<P>

To Preciousprncss<BR>
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In response to your comment...I'm sure others have read your comments and poems besides one person. I did. Thing is, like someone said, you'll not always get comments, even though the stuff is good. Try not to see this place as a source of compliments and attention (although that may happen) think more of it as a place to release and expand. It's a bad idea to like a site, but leave it just because people may not like you or your stuff. I was just telling a friend last night, I don't understand why people look on the net for love or acceptance and why they get emotionally involved with people they've never met. I'm sure I'll get a bunch of flak for this, but man...it's weird that people become so high maitenance and they don't even know the people they're demanding from.<BR>
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Wow...I gotta go back to bed.<BR>
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-Teej<BR>
Ah well, I just woke up and am a grumpy <BR>
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To everyone else at the blender, can someone please read something I submitted and comment on it..... I am new at the blender and if you guys like me I'll stay, but if not I can go..... thanks, alc <BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">TJ Holland</a><BR>
Date: 4 November 2001<P>

man, that was weird...my message was all garbled. hmmm....what's up?
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=299">sweetness</a><BR>
Date: 4 November 2001<P>

Preciousprncess:<BR>
I did read "Sigh" and I have to tell you it sounds like ME a few years ago when my daughter was a baby....you do give up a huge part of yourself to these little people, but they enrich your life ten times over....you will know love in a capacity you have never experienced before.  For your child, for your man and ultiamtely, for yourself.  So hang in there.<BR>
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I really enjoy reading everyone's work...I've only posted a few here, but you guys inspire ME to keep creating.<BR>
Sweetness
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=10">Galadrial</a><BR>
Date: 4 November 2001<P>

Precious...<BR>
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            Fishing for compliments can backfire...being snide pretty much can finish you off.I'm just a reg here, but I think you'll find TJ was pretty much on the money. And for what's it's worth, Two things influence if i comment at all---the title of the piece---and the author's name...I don't have to know someone to be interested...but i never respond to tantrums...<BR>
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             Just my spin...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=455">frozencharlotte</a><BR>
Date: 4 November 2001<P>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1">Kirk, Blender-Keeper</a><BR>
Date: 4 November 2001<P>

November Blender is here
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=8">Ali</a><BR>
Date: 4 November 2001<P>

Congrats to all the front pagers!!!!! A most excellent front page this month...*smile*<BR>
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Love and shimmering sunlight, Ali
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=5">jackryhme</a><BR>
Date: 4 November 2001<P>

congrats to all the front pagers and kirk for his picks!!!<BR>
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and lol Lady Gala, you did make comments about me trying to leave a long while ago...  if i  remember .. 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=328">Rhetoric</a><BR>
Date: 4 November 2001<P>

Violet & Pepper ~<BR>
Wow, WOW, wow...congrats from Rhet.  I have been reading your romance for a couple months now here at the Blender and I am so glad you two Oregonians are going legit!  Many wishes of good health and happiness to you both and your families.  You snagged your Birk man, didn't you Violet?<BR>
BTW - way to go on 2 front page picks.  You are such a gem to have around with all your happiness and glee.<BR>
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scqueen, Ali, Stephen, and Starbright,<BR>
your entries today are very well written.<BR>
scqueen - sweet, yet naughty, wrapped into one lick!<BR>
Stephen - I thought D&D was big in the 80's..is it still around?<BR>
Ali - great poem...packed full of potent similies.<BR>
B.K. - I like your entry with the contest words...steamy!<BR>
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Rhetoric<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=8">Ali</a><BR>
Date: 4 November 2001<P>

Rhet~<BR>
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Thank you kindly...*smile*...Glad that you liked...=)<BR>
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Love and shimmering sunlight, Ali
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 4 November 2001<P>

Kirk; Thanks so much for the pick and for the wonderful place to write. With all it's strange happenings, this is the place I love to come (just to see what's going to happen next ha) I know, sometimes I am guilty of making it happen as well ha, but I was thinking, we are like one big family, we fight and make up and have bullies prey upon us that we vanquish in the name of LOVE.(and a lot of sarcasm) But hey, what is family for. You had best start planning Kirk, cause when we hit 2 million we are all coming to your house for the party. HA!<BR>
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Rhet Darlin; You are a delight here you know, you give us  such encouragement and I can always depend on you for a big smile one way or another and best of all your poetry makes for great reading. <BR>
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SCQueen: <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.11.04.19.48.2608">The Keeper of My Mother's Bookcase</a> is beautiful. What a lovely toast.<BR>
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To all the Front Pagers, Bravo! Keep em coming!<BR>
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bk 
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