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<H2><font color="plum">Cloudy's Cafe</font></H2>

Come in, be welcome, be comfortable, be yourself

Welcome to Cloudy's Cafe, a place to have a cup of coffee or a good
darjeeling and the finest in conversation and camaraderie.

The proprietor asks that you follow a few simple guidelines:

<H3>this is a real conversation zone, not a role-play zone</H3>

* no flaming; if you disagree with a viewpoint expressed by any patron, please do so in a civil manner

* any topic is fair game, but keep posts to the standards that Ziroc has set for the entire forum, please (ie: foul language is not appropriate and things should be suitable for all audiences)
-a side note from Cloudy: I see this as a place for those short
conversations about a new baby or the latest soccer fiasco, not for things that are big enough to warrant their own threads, by all means give those things the space they need and post separately!

* Please, no one word or smiley posts (Ziroc has declared them 'real spam' and the proprietor doesn't want the reputuation of "good spam" to suffer!)

* do feel free to be serious or silly and enjoy the company of others while you are here. By all means POST if you have something to say, even to start another topic , we can handle multiple chats, we're a CAFE!!! But be courteous and don't disrupt a conversation just to disrupt it.

Come on in! The bar is stocked with coffees, teas, juices and waters from around the world. And purple napkins, of course!

<font color="pink">The lighting is low, the golden oak counters and tables glow with inviting warmth. Near the window, the lighting is brighter, as comfy, plush leather armchairs wait for those who'd like to read a book while relaxing to music or just lazily watch the world go by.</font>

<H1> <font color="plum"> PLEASE NOTE </font></H1>

This is a modified reminder that I've posted before in reply to someone asking "can we spam the cafe". It still holds true, so I'm going to repeat it periodically for anyone who hasn't seen it.

Read the first post of the thread, it's NOT a spam zone. If you want to discuss you grades, a problem with a teacher,the weather, your neighbor's new car etc.....etc.. (real life conversations) this is the place. I don't mind a SMALL amount of spam but when the Cafe gets to be 8 pages in one day and it's all one liner pure spam, I have to ask people not to do it because most of the members who would come to talk about their day or things that they want advice or sympathy or cheers on, will not post in that atmosphere. I want you to be comfy here, but not at the expense of other members.

So the answer is NO, I don't want to see page after page of roleplay spam or one liner spamfests that could be done on msn or aim etc. because our goal is to TALK WITH one another , not fill up a cafe in five hours. ;)

<font color=pink>Now that all the tech stuff is out of the way, good morning everyone [img]graemlins/happywave.gif[/img]

Had a fun night last night. Called my friend Jimmy and we went to the movies and saw Elf, then snuck into Texas Chainsaw Masacre. Didn't get home till like 1:15 and now i have to go to school *sniffle*

Well anyway i better get going since i gotta fill my gas up. See ya'll later [img]smile.gif[/img] </font>

wow, a new cafe already!! Well I just got back from school, and its dark already (only 5pm!) how is everyone today?

hiya ya all just saw ya made a Cloudys on my b day [img]smile.gif[/img]

[img]graemlins/happybirthday.gif[/img] Cristian, have a good one [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]

What he said :D .

Happy Birthday, Cristian!

It's raining and my boss is now out on maternity leave so the office will be getting a little busier for a while!

We got our turkey yesterday (for our Thanksgiving dinnernext week)and we actually found room for it in the freezer! Now if we can just remember to take it out to thaw in time!

Or you can fry the turkey instead; in which case thawing is not necessary! The turkey also comes out much juicier and tastes better.

Or you can fry the turkey instead; in which case thawing is not necessary! The turkey also comes out much juicier and tastes better. </font>[/QUOTE]Thats right, but you don't want to over do it because then you get a similar taste to chargrilled chicken, and that ain't what Thanksgiving turkey's about, its about GRAVY and a juicy turkey! :D

You can't beat an old fashioned roasting IMO.

Hello all, and a happy birthday to you Cristian!

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Happpy B-day Christian!

Hoo-boy! Thanksgiving! Instead of remembering to take the turkey out in time, also remember to be nice to your family and don't make a fuzz, buzz! :D
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Happy B`Day Cristian! have a good one! [img]graemlins/happybirthday.gif[/img]


So how is everyone? Nothing drastic happend to me today. :D

[img]graemlins/happybirthday.gif[/img] Christian.

At university here I don't think there will be any special Thanksgiving dinner, so I really do envy you Cloudy.

I hope my parents plan on having company over for Thanksgiving; they bought a 23 pound turkey [img]graemlins/crazyeyes.gif[/img] . I'm expecting at least a month's worth in left overs.

Aww, dplax, you can make any day a Thanksgiving if you want to! Just have some friends or family over and make dinner, doesn't matter how fancy it is, just share it and share your thanks for having food, friends, family and life! [img]smile.gif[/img]

Psst...I would email you some turkey and stuffing but it might make a big mess in your email account! LOL :D

23 Pound omg O_O thanks ya all btw [img]smile.gif[/img] heh we dont celebrate Thanksgiving here in sweden whats it about really? i only now you eat lots of turkey [img]smile.gif[/img] yumm...

Aww, dplax, you can make any day a Thanksgiving if you want to! Just have some friends or family over and make dinner, doesn't matter how fancy it is, just share it and share your thanks for having food, friends, family and life! [img]smile.gif[/img]

Psst...I would email you some turkey and stuffing but it might make a big mess in your email account! LOL :D </font>[/QUOTE]Thanks for the advice, trouble is cooking something good is quite hard for a group of 18 year olds, but I guess we can try.

BTW my email account is such a big mess already because of all of the junk mails I get that a turkey wouldn't make too much difference. It would be a welcome surprise amidst all of the stupid spam topics which I shall not list here.

I agree, dplax. Spam emails are a festering sickness across the internet. I get constant emails about getting rid of my debt or clearing my credit record. I mean good lord! I don't even have a credit record yet!! And currently people are in debt to me, not the other way around. Unfortunately enough people respond to the spam that the senders find it a profitable action.

[img]graemlins/happybirthday.gif[/img] Have a great day Cristian! [img]smile.gif[/img]

I get stuff on my kids (I don't have any) heart transplants and jobs.

<font color=pink>Sheesh, stop complaining about spam-mail and get a mail block people [img]tongue.gif[/img] . AOL has all that stuff, so i allow only email from people on my list, then I use my hotmail account for signing up for stuff, therefore all spam mail goes there, and is sorted into the junkmail bin anyway [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Plus you guys are all wrong, you have to BBQ the turkey! My mom started doing that two years ago and its way better than anything she ever did in the oven :D </font>

50 percent I get is about adult content sites or body part enlargements, the rest is made up between mortgage, debt and some random junk or oncomprehensible emails. Really I think that those who send these emails to people who do not want to get them should stop. The trouble is once they get hold of your email address there is no stopping them, since they seem to have a magical email sharing system among them, which made my current email known to about 200 people in less than an hour just because I gave my email with a comment I added on a newspaper site in Hungary.
Well there. [img]graemlins/rant.gif[/img] off you go.

I get it in my junk mail folder (using hotmail) but it is annoying since if I don't get on for 4 or 5 days then it my account will get full because of the junk mail.

<font color=pink>Doesn't hotmail auto-empty the junkmail after a few days though? [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img] </font>

Any message older than one week gets automatically deleted, but with the amount I get daily it usually fills the account up during a few days.

And anyway I usually scan it too see wetheer something non-junk gets through it. Like turkey. Hint hint, wink wink...

Hi all!

Junkmail... *sigh* I despise the fact that I have to empty my junk mail folder every day, or else I won't receive any normal emails in my inbox. I wouldn't be surprised if I would receive the "Most Hotmail Member Staff Posts Concerning Account Size" prize.

[ 11-17-2003, 03:45 PM: Message edited by: Link ]

Not that you're at all interested, but I got "what is my email personality" and "send a letter to santa" today.

So, how is everybody?

ehm, you know you can make hotmail delete your junk mail as soon as it is received. just go to options, junk mail filter and at the bottom tick the delete when received (or something like that) box.

well one of you guys could always take my place at thanksgiving...I have to go to my in-laws house, which is OK, but then we have to turn around and come back up here, and go to my grandmothers house, and have Thanksgiving with them, they just do not know that they are being last this year [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] they have been first for the last 6 years on all holidays, so this year we are going to spend time with his family

i remeber now why I do not like arkansas again, it is 70 degrees farenhiet, and there are bad storms coming this way, and it is November! it has been in the 40's and 50's all week, I hate Arkansas weather, if I suddenly disappear, it just mean that 1. I lost power, 2. the entire state was wiped from the face of the earth ( al ittle dramtic I know ;) ) or 3. I ran away :D

Well, if you run away you will resurface again and let us know how your endeavor goes, won't you?

always ;) i just feel the need to get away from this one horse state, lol

Hey Cristain


<font color = “limegreen” > Happy birthday [img]graemlins/cake.gif[/img] </font>

I saw that it was your birthday *our* yesterday but thought Reeka or someone would start an official thread. Guess I should of done [img]graemlins/heee.gif[/img]

Have a great day mate and do not forget the voice chat [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]

While were in the mood of celebration...

I just finished my last exam for school! WOHOO! After 12 years of school i have finally finished! Now i can just kick back and relax and forget physics, chemistry, geography, applicable maths.... cant get much better than this [img]graemlins/1partyguy.gif[/img]

<font color=pink>Hi everyone [img]graemlins/happywave.gif[/img]

Had a good jazz class tonight and a yum dinner with yum wine. I'll take my leave now cause Phil is due on...4 minutes ago [img]tongue.gif[/img]
*is not a control freak* ;) :D </font>

You can make hotmail delete all the junkmail messages, but then I risk deleting emails from friends whose email address I haven't added to my buddy list yet.

I could do that, but then I wouldn't get non-spam emails, which might somehow get into the junk mail folder.

dplax, you can even order out for food if you need to! [img]smile.gif[/img] Just enjoy some quality time with your friends/family. Hmm.. I could mail you a bit of turkey but it might end up in the junk bin, making deals for larger body parts and a better mortgage loan! [img]graemlins/biglaugh.gif[/img]

LB, yes, the junkmail box empties now and then, but for me it isn't often enough! I get so much spam mail that it clogs my account in a couple days sometimes. I empty junkmail every time I check in.

ah :spam:
one of the most annoying things there is
especially when your "friends" think it's funny to subscribe you to spamming sites to annoy you. Well ok i do get them back but it is still annoying. Also i find the hotmail junk mail filter doesn't allways work, i mean how hard is it? "is the address in the address book? = no go to junk" simple yet they still get into my inbox.
The ammount of times i have been tempted to block the domain hotmail.com

They don't get in my inbox... *sigh of relief* Thank God that doesn't happen! I would have become crazy within days!