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thank you for your rich and thoughtful (historical) contribution to this thread!

Warmest greetings AEnigma!
Hehehe you sussed me so soon! I am well known amongst my friends for my rambling. I would like to think it comes with old age but it is an affliction I have had for many years. When my now grown up daughter was very young and used to get tired of my chattering to friends in the supermarket, she would load my hand held shopping basket with the largest cans of pet food she could find. My favourite line is “why use one word when one hundred will do”. I admit it . . . I talk far too much.

Senility may have also developed a certain slowness in my brain because I’m not sure I understand the last sentence of your first paragraph, although it is heartening to see you still have a plethora of exclamation marks.

About Femme, I am quite sure you a right, she won’t give a damn – I wasn’t trying to impress her or get her to give a damn. With regard to the people trying to get rid of Femme . . . they are mindless and I don’t THINK I referred to them or made any comment agreeing with them. I KNOW I didn’t and I wouldn’t agree with such action, not that Femme would care about my view of course

You are welcome to my time and trouble, it’s the least I can do. I’m not in a position to donate cash to the A.E.N.I.G.M.A. charitable organisation (All England Noisy Individuals and Granny Mauling Association) so I give my time to you instead. It proves my commitment to the cause is genuine he he he. I put in the reference to my being a Granny (it’s true, I am a granny, you can tell by the way I ramble) to try and get some sympathy .

I don’t think you will know me. I joined the site but was very naive and used my real name, which produced lots of unwanted pm s from young men, so I changed it about 2 weeks later. If you are suspicious about who I am, no need to be, what you see is what you get . . . yes I know you can’t see me, it’s just a figure of speech as you know.

On the subject of names, nice one. . . AEnigma.

And before you say it yourself, I'm sure you did choose your name purposefully.

Lots of love
x

Hahahah, you are really funny now. How am I in a position of a looser? :-S
I didn't dig anything to show that you and enigma used to argue (as opposed to agree on everything ), I quoted it because it's relevant and I agree with it!
It also shows that you used to have some unbiased opinions...

Quoting AEnigma !!! (sorry III)
“OMG! Your are writing me long personal letters now canim?”

Don’t promote me dear. I know you said you thought you knew me from somewhere but that’s ridiculous. I am assuming OMG refers to God because of your previous exclamations :
"God!" and " Thank God . . ."

Are you sure there’s nothing you want to tell us?

I have no wish to pm you because I want to liiiiiiiiiive , I tell you I WANT TO LIIIIIIIIIVE .

Quoting AEnigmaIII
“You are quite happy doing it because you know we wont get angry”

AEnigma . . . I told you why I was doing it. It was an experiment to show you we can all do what you and you ‘gang’ do.
Quoting AEnigma III
“ but you are merely doing the same thing - but in different camps.”
Ah . . . the penny drops at last. Yes, I told you I was doing it just for the sake of it, to show how easy it is to do the same thing. As for camps . . . I’m not in any camp . . . I just wanted to have a discussion about discussion.

Hey we all make mistakes, we all contradict ourselves, we all change our views and we all “meet ourselves coming backwards” at times in our quest to try and win an argument. We all want to be right, we all want to be the ones to speak the most profound words and yes, deep down, we all seek acceptance in some way (ok forget Femme

One thing we all need to remember though . . . here we are . . . a bunch of females (I am making an assumption here) “arguing “ amongst ourselves. Some guys out there are going to be rubbing their hands with glee. We are doing a pretty good job on ourselves and they don’t need to lift one little oppressive finger. Maybe we should read again those first few words by Femme at the beginning of this thread. I think we shot ourselves in the feet girls.

AEnigma, I’m sorry it looks like I’m having a go at you only, but I have tried to make reference to your wider group too. You just happened to be there and, well, you’re thick skinned enough to take it and think nothing of it aren’t you?

Just to show you I am sincere, I will not answer you again. You can use your cream bun gun as much as you like . . . but please, take the flapjack out first, it leaves nasty red marks.

Ooops, another long letter. I can talk the hind legs off a donkey. Just one request:

WILL YOU PLEEEEAAAAASE EXPLAIN TO ME HOW TO QUOTE PEOPLE WHEN THE WORD QUOTE IS NOT AVAILABLE?

Please have pity on this rambling granny and let her in on this secret.