From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=713">stardust205</a><BR>
Date: 1 April 2002<P>

Thanks Briana it was nice to hear some feedback, I'll try that, always room for improvment ;)...No I'm not the same Hayley sorry to say, I'm surprised to hear there's another one!! 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 1 April 2002<P>

The "Beasts" intention right along is to bust up the blender so if you let it happen it will have won. <BR>
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bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=644">wordley</a><BR>
Date: 1 April 2002<P>

Shit TJ.. do you have to go??  Perhaps there is a way out, but it would require the cooperation of everyone who is a true blenderite plus the agreement of KIRK. Everyone re-registers with one COMPULSORY detail that can be checked, known to KIRK only, and used at every visit to the site, i.e. becomes the password as well. Perhaps this way, if someone becomes obnoxious and is removed from the site, they cant creep back in using another "name" I know this takes away some of the spontaneity and it also puts a lot of responsibility onto KIRK, but surely the preservation of poetry is what's at stake here (not the demented ramblings of some wornout he/she who can only get off on upsetting others) the beautiful feelings we all share, the togetherness of it all. Hey, I forgot that message myself recently, let someone push me out, but it's not what they did, it was MY reaction that was wrong, I see that now!! So come on, lets do something as ONE!! KIRK?.. its up to you  
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=5">jackryhme</a><BR>
Date: 1 April 2002<P>

nah i think i would have to disagree with you wordley,<BR>
kirk can all ready at his will make sure one can not get back in...  all he wishes is that if the person does get booted he takes that as a warning to act decent... you know human? this is a beautiful free site with very few restrictions, it allows poetry of all genders here with the only stipulation that it in some form deal with the love between two people ...romance.  to restrict it further defeats the purpose here of allowing all to enjoy. now because of this we get on occasion people that think because they cant love they are better than all others ... and to prove this they take the easy road of doing their best to hurt others instead of the far more daunting task of adding support.... see to hurt is a fools errand, any idiot can hurt another... but how many idiots can inspire friendship and love?<BR>
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teej im awfull sorry and you will be missed k?  <BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=109">Stephen</a><BR>
Date: 1 April 2002<P>

TJ...This crap on the board just Started to bore you? eh. Heh, geez people, just let things go and be merry and write more. (as new poetic submissions, not here!)<BR>
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;-)<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1">Kirk, Blender-Keeper</a><BR>
Date: 1 April 2002<P>

Gee, what a present for my birthday (March 31)--all the idiots come out to play in their myriad personaes.<BR>
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LoneRanger, you have thrown down the gauntlet.  I am going to start locking accounts today. Just now I've thought of an extra scheme: someone who wants an account unlocked can e-mail me personally, and we can talk about why they were locked out, and what expectations will be for the future. (BIG HINT: creating a whole raft of obnxious personalities is NOT acceptable as a method of shouting down another whole raft of obnoxious personalities.) <BR>
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By having a formal procedure for reversing an account lockout, I will now feel more free to lock people out.  (Hopefully it won't get to the point where I think it will be useful to write a one click script to do the locking out for me.)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1">Kirk, Blender-Keeper</a><BR>
Date: 1 April 2002<P>

These accounts have been locked:<BR>
Feena Mint<BR>
LoneRanger<BR>
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These accounts should consider themselves on severe warning:<BR>
One Nut Jim<BR>
Ophelia<BR>
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This account should consider itself very lightly warned:<BR>
wordley<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1">Kirk, Blender-Keeper</a><BR>
Date: 1 April 2002<P>

PS, no foolin'
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=628">Ophelia</a><BR>
Date: 1 April 2002<P>

Dear Kirk,<BR>
<BR>
Would you please go ahead and LOCK/close my account?  Thanks, hon!  No offense to you, but I'm taking my bizziness elsewhere.  It has been a nice run, though.<BR>
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And Rhutt, I frankly thought I'd done some of my best writing here "in character" on the Board.  If'n it'd been a snake, it'd bitchya onya boo-TAY.  Or, should I say, butz (plural - the one ya sit on, the one between ya ears lol).  Anyways, I gotta scoot.<BR>
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Rhetoric-schmetoric...see if'n LaurieLoo can tell ya MY side of the story in vivid detail (eesh...eerie feeling of WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOLFE just swept over me)...at any rate, she was a far better LaurieLoo with ME than she eva was witch U!  CHECK MATE!<BR>
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                 (wild applause, lights dim)<BR>
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Best personal regards,<BR>
<BR>
Ophelia Butz(enkreider  LOL)<BR>
a.k.a. Feena Mint (but I already told you that! lol)<BR>
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(Ophelia exits stage left)<BR>
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                    MASS INSANITY ENSUES<BR>
                         AMONGST THE<BR>
                         APRIL FOOLS!<BR>
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                              ;)<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=483">One Nut Jim</a><BR>
Date: 1 April 2002<P>

yo, my brotha kirk-a-roni...<BR>
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that sounds like a plan<BR>
hows about signing me up for a little of that<BR>
self-depricating<BR>
self-deportation offa the ship of fools?<BR>
(i.e. close that bugger down!)<BR>
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as my old pal bones once said, "damnit jim, you're a has been - not a poet"<BR>
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and i guess he was right<BR>
the thot of yo-love is like a bad case of freakin star trek re-runs and the madness it instills in trekkies still,<BR>
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love,<BR>
jim - nut = 1<BR>
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1 is a lonely number<BR>
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word
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=328">Rhetoric</a><BR>
Date: 1 April 2002<P>

Dearest One Nut, <BR>
I left you a message...get back with me.<BR>
<BR>
Jennifer Kayrouz
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=657">Duke</a><BR>
Date: 1 April 2002<P>

Jon,<BR>
<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.04.01.09.50.7872">I would rather</a> <BR>
Another "Hallmark" moment???? 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=483">One Nut Jim</a><BR>
Date: 1 April 2002<P>

HER ability to tell it accurately would be MOST telling...but I frankly don't give a...<BR>
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The INVITE was merely an April Fools Prank just wanting to happen...otherwise, not interested.  Sorry.<BR>
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Over and out,<BR>
Un nuit j'etaime (or wurds to that effect)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1">Kirk, Blender-Keeper</a><BR>
Date: 1 April 2002<P>

I may have spoken a little harshly re: wordley. Even though I said "very lightly"...I don't want the board to become a place where even a bit of risque wordfoolery is verbotten. 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=483">One Nut Jim</a><BR>
Date: 1 April 2002<P>

Kirk, don't forget...please close my account.  Thank you.<BR>
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1NJ
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 1 April 2002<P>

THREE CHEERS FOR KIRK!!! Oh yeah, Happy Birthday too! I think you scared everyone so much they forgot to say it..ha ha ha. YOU DID GOOD, hope your day is wonderful besides all this beastly behavior!!! Thanks Kirk! Oh yeah, how old are you? <BR>
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bk<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 1 April 2002<P>

Lydia: <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.04.01.16.02.19808">Out for Noodles</a> For anyone who likes foreign flicks this one is excellent. The music is super and it’s a bit sad but the cinema is fantastic as well. Have to like sub-titles..ha <BR>
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Kylie: [[2002.04.01.16.26.7420 this one is well written. Hope it’s just pretend???Yes?<BR>
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Oft felt: <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.04.01.16.04.21184">warm april day...</a> Burrrrrrr, I’m freezing..ha ha!<BR>
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dragonfleyes: <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.04.01.11.01.31427">thinking random</a> Glad to see your name on the page again<BR>
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SCQueen: Kirk took them away before I could comment. Yes, glad to see you writing again as well<BR>
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Kev: Same with you Darlin, I love your writing always, just been a hard rock around here of late.<BR>
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Jon: <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.04.01.09.50.7872">I would rather</a> Jon Darlin, if that one doesn’t get you hugs and kisses (at the very least ha) then I’m a monkeys aunt ha ha ha. <BR>
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Good start for the new month you all!!<BR>
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bk<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 1 April 2002<P>

Oh Yeah, the movie is called "In The Mood For Love." Must be out for rental now huh Lydia?? I know I saw it a good while back with my son.<BR>
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bk 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=109">Stephen</a><BR>
Date: 1 April 2002<P>

Wow Kirk, your B-Day was on Easter? So was mine. Kewl, never thought i'd see another March 31ster out there.<BR>
First for everything, I suppose.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1">Kirk, Blender-Keeper</a><BR>
Date: 1 April 2002<P>

Ok, one-nut and ophelia, even though it seems a bit odd to ask for an account to be closed (wassamatta, can't handle the temptation? and I don't like not giving people a bit of a chance for redemption)<BR>
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Anyway, Stephen, yup, March 31 is my birthday, (BK: I turned 28. ) last day of the first quarter. Just like I got married on the last day of the second quarter.<BR>
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People should check out my website <a href="http://kisrael.com">http://kisrael.com</a> , I scanned in my birth announcement my Aunt recently sent me from my grandmother's things.  (Look for the April 1 link if its already passed off the front page).
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1">Kirk, Blender-Keeper</a><BR>
Date: 1 April 2002<P>

Also, I guess I really dislike disabling "main" personality accounts...not that you might not have a few, but I'd much rather see a personality become a friendly member of the community than be shut out completely.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=8">Ali</a><BR>
Date: 1 April 2002<P>

Happy Belated Birthday Kirk!! *smile* <BR>
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Love and birthday candles, Ali
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