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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. ;) :D HOWEVER, I'm not gonna jump on anyone for a few of these kinds of things, only if it gets out of hand. :D

1st Post! [img]graemlins/thewave.gif[/img] - Hi Cloudy and goodnight. I'm off to bed [img]graemlins/sleep3.gif[/img]

EDIT: 0 minutes for the first post - that must be a record ;)

[ 02-10-2003, 07:07 PM: Message edited by: Ar-Cunin ]

*sweeps* Hi everyone.I'm not going for first post today.COULD have gotten it.Cloudy posted she was just joking awhile ago about me being all around sweeper...I WANT THE JOB. [img]tongue.gif[/img] *sweeps somemore* I got my haircut today for school photos tomarrow. [img]tongue.gif[/img] I think it looks nice. Today in Social Studies, we got to make and design our own shields.Ended up taking mine home to finish it.Wait till they find out that was'nt my design anyway. [img]tongue.gif[/img] ;) I'm going to put the icewind dale tree thing as my design. [img]smile.gif[/img] Hope it turns out good.

Evening, all, just wanted to say, "Hi, before I go get Will at Day School. (He has instructed me not to call it "Day Care." LOL, he wants to be a "big boy," so bad.

Whoa the old cafe was 9 pages long!

What happened in there? ;)

Just a spammathon. I had to employ the dreat "Cerise Bellow" to get things qquieted down.

NP-

We skipped the light fandango
And turned cartwheels cross the floor.
I was feeling kind of seasick
But the crowd called out for more.
The room was humming harder
And the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
The waiter brought a tray
And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale.

She said There is no reason,
And the truth is plain to see,
But I wandered through my playing cards
And would not let her be
One of sixteen vestal virgins
Who were leaving for the coast
And although my eyes were open
They might just just have well been closed.
And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale.

Great great song. Long live good music.

I know what you mean; it was only 3 pages long when I last looked ;) .. this afternoon

Morning Hmmph

BANG just got woken up BANG from a very deep BANG sleep after 12 hours SMASH nightshift by the BANG tiler.

grabs tea and toast. orders the sweeper to sweep quitely [img]graemlins/1pissed.gif[/img]