Hi From The Big Apple!

Touchstone · Post by **Touchstone** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:58 pm

Hi Everyone; I have just arrived and this is my first post or do you call them “threads?

I am a divorced Freelance Journalist cum Writer and I live in New York City. I work at home from a studio “apartment mostly at night.

I have a son and daughter who are both young adults and they also live in the “city that never sleeps.

I enjoy live theatre rather than movies as well as sports, wining and dining.

As will soon become very obvious, I am a fiercely proud and patriotic American who supports the brave men and women in our Armed Forces. Although I want to make as many friends as possible here on Forum Garden, I will take on anyone head on who insults the finest country in the world.

Other than that I am just an ordinary guy.

Hope to meet all of you soon!

scholle-kid · Post by **scholle-kid** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 12:02 am

From one Proud to be an American to another.

Hello and Welcome.

Post by **spot** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 12:17 am

What an exciting part of the world to write in, you're very fortunate.

Welcome to the forum, I hope you'll enjoy being here.

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 12:34 am

Come on, get off the fence, what do you really think about America? :wah:

Welcome stranger, try to be nice to everyone if you can, American or not. :rolleyes:

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 1:45 am

Welcome and don't worry- most of us feel lots of sympathy and make allowances for your being american. You never know if my ancestors had been able to afford the boat fare I might have been one myself.

Hopefully you won't have the same inferiority complex that some of your other countrymen keep exhibiting..:sneaky:

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 1:58 am

Hiya and welcome to FG. :-6

Chezzie · Post by **Chezzie** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 2:40 am

Hi Touchstone and welcome to the garden

Have fun :-6:-6:-6

mikeinie · Post by **mikeinie** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 3:38 am

Touchstone;1048582 wrote: Hi Everyone; I have just arrived and this is my first post or do you call them “threads?

I am a divorced Freelance Journalist cum Writer and I live in New York City. I work at home from a studio “apartment mostly at night.

I have a son and daughter who are both young adults and they also live in the “city that never sleeps.

I enjoy live theatre rather than movies as well as sports, wining and dining.

As will soon become very obvious, I am a fiercely proud and patriotic American who supports the brave men and women in our Armed Forces. Although I want to make as many friends as possible here on Forum Garden, I will take on anyone head on who insults the finest country in the world.

Other than that I am just an ordinary guy.

Hope to meet all of you soon!

Welcome, and good for you. I can assure you that thw world wants to love America as well the way we use to, and I am pleased to say that post the election that this is starting already.

there was a report in the new the other day that an American lady was on the public transport in France speaking, and a French woman heard her accent and went over and kissed her cheek and said that she was so happy that the world can start liking America again.

I do not think that many American's (based on comments in other posts) realize the significance of this election outcome on the world view.

Once again, the world is with you and wishing you the best of luck.

SlipStream · Post by **SlipStream** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 3:48 am

hi TS. welcome from a proud brit:-6

Hope6 · Post by **Hope6** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 3:55 am

I for one am glad to see another proud American here!

welcome to the garden!

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 5:04 am

I am a divorced Freelance Journalist cum Writer

I imagine in NYC there must be a huge demand for cum stories.

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 5:20 am

Nomad;1048706 wrote:

I imagine in NYC there must be a huge demand for cum stories.

I thought Candice Bushnell had cornered the market on those. :rolleyes:

As to Milkennie's point, I have also heard that all over Europe (even, Paris) there are stories of people actually going up to Americans, hugging them, shaking their hands, giving them a kiss, welcoming them again. Its nice that we can all get along again isn't it? Lets hope it lasts, but lets not get too lovely dovey alright?, this has limits people, boundaries.

Bloody yanks. :wah:

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 5:27 am

Galbally;1048716 wrote: I thought Candice Bushnell had cornered the market on those. :rolleyes:

As to Milkennie's point, I have also heard that all over Europe (even, Paris) there are stories of people actually going up to Americans, hugging them, shaking their hands, giving them a kiss, welcoming them again. Its nice that we can all get along again isn't it? Lets hope it lasts, but lets not get too lovely dovey alright?, this has limits people, boundaries.

Bloody yanks. :wah:

I couldnt agree more.

Hug, hug, hug, crack someone across the face, hug, hug, hug.......

pinkchick · Post by **pinkchick** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 5:55 am

Touchstone;1048582 wrote: Hi Everyone; I have just arrived and this is my first post or do you call them “threads?

I am a divorced Freelance Journalist cum Writer and I live in New York City. I work at home from a studio “apartment mostly at night.

I have a son and daughter who are both young adults and they also live in the “city that never sleeps.

I enjoy live theatre rather than movies as well as sports, wining and dining.

As will soon become very obvious, I am a fiercely proud and patriotic American who supports the brave men and women in our Armed Forces. Although I want to make as many friends as possible here on Forum Garden, I will take on anyone head on who insults the finest country in the world.

Other than that I am just an ordinary guy.

Hope to meet all of you soon!

What a wonderful city you live in

Welcome to the garden - hope you have fun :-6

Kindle · Post by **Kindle** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 6:43 am

You sound like anything but "ordinary".

W E L C O M E

QUINNSCOMMENTARY · Post by **QUINNSCOMMENTARY** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 6:44 am

Other than that I am just an ordinary guy.

Ordinary people don't cut it hear you have to be slightly nuts. :rolleyes:

Mustang · Post by **Mustang** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 6:49 am

Hello and a big warm welcome to ya.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 7:11 am

Tombstone (our leader) is probably going to e mail me any minute advising me to command you to pick a new name. He wont like the confusion that might arise from the similarities.

Im waiting for his e mail now.

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 7:46 am

QUINNSCOMMENTARY;1048797 wrote: Ordinary people don't cut it hear you have to be slightly nuts. :rolleyes:

slightly?? :p

welcome to the garden Touchstone! :-6

Post by **spot** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 7:49 am

Nomad;1048854 wrote: Tombstone (our leader) is probably going to e mail me any minute advising me to command you to pick a new name. He wont like the confusion that might arise from the similarities.One's the online equivalent of Attila the Hun and the other's the Fool from As You Like It. No two poles could be easier to distinguish.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 8:17 am

spot;1048928 wrote: One's the online equivalent of Attila the Hun and the other's the Fool from As You Like It. No two poles could be easier to distinguish.

Well sure.

For keenly astute and observant individuals like ourselves, you and I are trained in the art of uncovering the uncoverable.

We smell danger and attack it with ferocious and vociferous voracity.

We live for peril spockorama. Its in our genes, we thirst for blood.

For the average citizen detection doesnt come so easily and its our charge to prevent the lambs from being led to slaughter.

Im still waiting for an e mail from Tombstone instructing me to bear my sword and slash the invaders deceptive duplicatableness into oblivion.

Touchstone · Post by **Touchstone** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 10:10 am

Wow! Thank you all for the great welcome to your garden!

Well for starters I am NOT going to be paranoid about America, but I will be a kick ass USA supporter, come what may!

The post from the strange person Nomad? Guess he's lost me in the desert somewhere because I have no idea what he means about Tombstone and Touchstone?

Spot is right. Touchstone is one of the many "fools" who populate Shakespeare's comedies, romances, and tragedies. Touchstone has absolutely no part in the central proceedings of the play, nor does he represent any distinct worldview, outlook or ideology.

As his name connotes, the clown of As You Like It is a "Touchstone" to the other characters, for he TESTS their perspectives and their pretensions with his humor. Touchstone mixes the altruistic with the expedient.

It is also a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated.

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 10:15 am

Touchstone;1049138 wrote: Wow! Thank you all for the great welcome to your garden!

Well for starters I am NOT going to be paranoid about America, but I will be a kick ass USA supporter, come what may!

The post from the strange person Nomad? Guess he's lost me in the desert somewhere because I have no idea what he means about Tombstone and Touchstone?

Spot is right. Touchstone is one of the many "fools" who populate Shakespeare's comedies, romances, and tragedies. Touchstone has absolutely no part in the central proceedings of the play, nor does he represent any distinct worldview, outlook or ideology.

As his name connotes, the clown of As You Like It is a "Touchstone" to the other characters, for he tests their perspectives and their pretensions with his humor. Touchstone mixes the altruistic with the expedient.

It is also a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated.
I should have warned you. Never ever tell Spot he is right. Don't worry you soon will understand. Welcome New Yawker.

Imladris · Post by **Imladris** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 2:11 pm

Cruel to call Nomad strange, he's just got over the last time someone said that.

He took to his room for a month last time. We had to pass in food and drinks through a cat flap he made himself by hacking out a small hole in the wall, he stapled on a flap that he knitted out of his belly button fluff.

Poor Nomad insisted that we called him 'Lord Nomad of the small room upstairs covered in tin foil to stop the brainwaves leaking from the room'.

It was a month of sheer hell and now you've just gone and done it, you've reminded him of it again, we'll be back to square one........you're going to have to stick around now and help get him back on an even keel.

Oh, and we don't use the word 'normal' around him either, you just won't want to clear up after him if he hears you saying that............:rolleyes:

southern yankee · Post by **southern yankee** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 2:15 pm

Hi Touchstone i am Southern Yankee. welcome.

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 2:33 pm

Woooohooooooo Touchstone:-6

Welcome to the garden. It's good to see a neighbor in the garden. I lived in Joisey City only 10 minutes away from the Holland Tunnel. I love Manhattan and try to venture in whenever I can to explore the museums, Little Italy, ....Positively 4th Street, Becco's Restaurant, and the Irish Pubs.

Hope you have loads of fun in the garden.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 2:59 pm

Hi Touchstone!

el guapo · Post by **el guapo** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 3:01 pm

hi n welcome

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 3:10 pm

Welcome, Touchstone! I had to look twice at your name, becuase we have a Tombstone here. :wah:

Here's a welcome mat for you.

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Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 7:58 pm

Hi there and welcome. I hope your up for some 'bitch-slapping'.

BRITISH AND DAMN PROUD OF IT.

Post by **spot** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 8:10 pm

oscar;1050120 wrote: Hi there and welcome. I hope your up for some 'bitch-slapping'.Lord, what kind of monster have I created?

Post by **spot** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 10:50 pm

On the contrary; it was I, dear Fuzzy, who introduced oscar to the practice.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 4:59 am

Imladris;1049584 wrote: Cruel to call Nomad strange, he's just got over the last time someone said that.

He took to his room for a month last time. We had to pass in food and drinks through a cat flap he made himself by hacking out a small hole in the wall, he stapled on a flap that he knitted out of his belly button fluff.

Poor Nomad insisted that we called him 'Lord Nomad of the small room upstairs covered in tin foil to stop the brainwaves leaking from the room'.

It was a month of sheer hell and now you've just gone and done it, you've reminded him of it again, we'll be back to square one........you're going to have to stick around now and help get him back on an even keel.

Oh, and we don't use the word 'normal' around him either, you just won't want to clear up after him if he hears you saying that............:rolleyes:

What she said.

qsducks · Post by **qsducks** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 6:38 am

QUINNSCOMMENTARY;1048797 wrote: Ordinary people don't cut it hear you have to be slightly nuts. :rolleyes:

Like the rest of us:wah: Welcome to the garden.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 6:43 am

spot;1050152 wrote: Lord, what kind of monster have I created?

It's all down to you Yoda. You got me on this forum in the first place and now 'Mary Whitehouse' has turned 'hard-core'. :wah:

Touchstone · Post by **Touchstone** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 2:18 pm

Thank you again to everyone for your very kind welcome. It is much appreciated.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Sun Nov 09, 2008 6:19 pm

fuzzy butt;1052093 wrote: touchstone ? You wouldnt have been here once or twice before would you? Everytime i see one of your posts I keep thinking of that 24hours forum guy that used to come here to recruit.

Meh maybe not.

A 24 hours guy??? I could do with one of them!!

How would he recruit on a forum?

Post by **spot** » Sun Nov 09, 2008 9:19 pm

oscar;1052105 wrote: How would he recruit on a forum?

spot stirs uneasily in his sleep, he pulls a few heaps of treasure closer to him, his nostrils flare slightly and an eyelid flickers but fails to open

Touchstone · Post by **Touchstone** » Sun Nov 09, 2008 10:05 pm

fuzzy butt;1052093 wrote: touchstone ? You wouldnt have been here once or twice before would you? Everytime i see one of your posts I keep thinking of that 24hours forum guy that used to come here to recruit.

Meh maybe not.

No maam this is my first time. I don't recruit unless you are interested in joining the finest fighting unit the world has even seen, the US Marine Corps!

Post by **spot** » Sun Nov 09, 2008 10:42 pm

You're forgetting John Wayne, fuzz. He was a US Marine if I remember. Hollywood's all true, you know.

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Sun Nov 09, 2008 10:55 pm

fuzzy butt;1052093 wrote: I keep thinking of that 24hours forum guy that used to come here to recruit.

Meh maybe not.

oh baby, a 24 hour guy!:wah:

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 7:01 am

fuzzy butt;1052186 wrote: Oh yeah, and Rock Hudson and Gomer Pyle.... and elvic pelvic Presley ...........propaganda is alive and well.

See i have a real problem with this !!!!"""""" Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus Christ and the American GI. One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.""""""" give me a break there's been two whole Empires since Jesus time and you're just another one, and falling by the wayside very quickly too I might add . Maybe you should be putting Mandarin chinese lessons within that column of yours .

Don't know about my freedom but the last time an American force was sent to this country we had a serial killer on our hands ..........We've been blown up because we were confused with americans and once we were welcomed into any country including the communist ones without any problem but then America started calling us their friend (depending on whether we wanted to get stuck into THEIR war and threatening us with industrial and farming reprisals if we didn't ) and now nobody likes us .......with friends like that who needs enemies?

Remember when the Beatles were compared to Jesus?

And you guys think Im crazy ? :wah: