A Humble Request

[Louetta]

Lou,
You'll have to experiment with concentration and leaf variety, color, and time of exposure. Those leaves will last for years and be pliable and glossy. Try it on some flowers too. Also some will do great in the silica gel which is actually crystaline in form.

-----------billyjoe

Yeh. Today is not the day, though. Very heavy rain and winds. Going to do lots of damage to our remaining leaves.

[billyjoe]

Lou,
You'll have to experiment with concentration and leaf variety, color, and time of exposure. Those leaves will last for years and be pliable and glossy. Try it on some flowers too. Also some will do great in the silica gel which is actually crystaline in form.

-----------billyjoe

[Louetta]

Louetta,
Have you ever preserved leaves in glycerin available at your local drug store ? If not try this http://portlandme.about.com/blffproj.htm scroll down to about the 12th activity next to leaf symbol.

-------------billyjoe

Cool. This shows the value of the internet so clearly.

[billyjoe]

Louetta,
Have you ever preserved leaves in glycerin available at your local drug store ? If not try this http://portlandme.about.com/blffproj.htm scroll down to about the 12th activity next to leaf symbol.

-------------billyjoe

[Louetta]

Come to my thread, we have lots of fun. I took my leaves out of the books I had under my bedposts and they look really keen.

[IIC]

Of course, I was being sarcastic...LOL

Of course...I knew you were...Vulcan or not...My crystal ball says you like to have fun...at least once in a while

[Websman]

Anyone who doesn't have fun investing shouldn't be investing IMO...Doug(IIC)

Of course, I was being sarcastic...LOL

[IIC]

Me neither. Vulcans do not joke or have fun. We make money...and we don't spend our money...because we don't have fun.

Serious investors don't joke or have fun...

Anyone who doesn't have fun investing shouldn't be investing IMO...Doug(IIC)

[IIC]

I'm a little disappointed to see after just joining this forum that there are some who feel that the board itself is not a serious investor site just because it also contains some personal messaging and humor. I've found in the short time I've been here (less than a week) that it is quite easy to sort the serious investing messages from the rest of it. Simply mousing over the topic of one of the threads will bring up a little yellow window showing the beginning of the latest message. If it's a message I have no interest in, I don't have to click on it. One can also figure out fairly easily which threads are serious and which ones aren't. If you don't like a particular thread, don't visit it. So what if it happens to be the most active thread. Again, if you don't like it, don't visit it. As for the salty language, I'm not as bothered by it as Rob but that may be because I'm a new member and haven't seen as much of it as he has. My general opinion of profanity (and if you really think about it, it's true) is that "Profanity is only a weak imitation of strength."

That was well put Mary.

I'm a firm believer in just passing over what you don't want to read....Sift out the garbage Jim...I know I talk about a lot of stuff...I know you don't like it...So out of respect, I don't do that on your thread even though I enjoy reading what you have to say.

I don't know about other forums that others are in but I was in 11 at the start of the year...I've dropped 7 so far because they either dried up or everyone was arguing all the time...The other 3 I'm in have a really low number of posts too vs. just 6 months ago. This is the only one left where I can almost always find something new to read.

Robb...I've noticed a few expletives here and there...But I'd hardly say it is the norm. I agree w/ Peanuts take on this matter. I believe I usually use something like this (^%^&$ or something like this: D*mn...If that is offensive then I'm sorry, but I can't please everyone.

Best, Doug(IIC)

[Websman]

I rarely post anymore because I don't consider this a serious investor site anymore.......

Me neither. Vulcans do not joke or have fun. We make money...and we don't spend our money...because we don't have fun.

Serious investors don't joke or have fun...

[skiracer]

My goal in life is to be more like you Ed, you #$%*&! you....

I do love it when you talk dirty to me Lye.

Disappointment

I'm a little disappointed to see after just joining this forum that there are some who feel that the board itself is not a serious investor site just because it also contains some personal messaging and humor. I've found in the short time I've been here (less than a week) that it is quite easy to sort the serious investing messages from the rest of it. Simply mousing over the topic of one of the threads will bring up a little yellow window showing the beginning of the latest message. If it's a message I have no interest in, I don't have to click on it. One can also figure out fairly easily which threads are serious and which ones aren't. If you don't like a particular thread, don't visit it. So what if it happens to be the most active thread. Again, if you don't like it, don't visit it. As for the salty language, I'm not as bothered by it as Rob but that may be because I'm a new member and haven't seen as much of it as he has. My general opinion of profanity (and if you really think about it, it's true) is that "Profanity is only a weak imitation of strength."

[Rob]

I'm sorry too.

I'm wondering if it would be possible to clean up the language around here. One of the things I have enjoyed about this site (the whole forum) is its relative lack of profanity. I'd really hate to see that change ... well, unless it was to an absolute lack of it. I've noticed a marked increase lately. When I cease to enjoy coming to this site, I will cease to visit it. Maybe that means nothing to anyone, but I just thought I'd mention it anyway.

Yeah...you guys knock that shit off already!

sorry Rob, I couldn't resist

[Lyehopper]

First he starts with the rules and regs with the POTW and now he's trying to clean up the vulgarities. Is this guy Elliot Ness or what. The terrible thing about it is that with never mentioning the filthy language you guys use you can slip into the type of language that Doug, Lyehopper, Webs, Peanuts and the rest of you use with such casuality. Why can't you all be more like me. Pure of heart and tongue. This is my last post with any dirty or foul language damnit. I've been clean now almost 30 seconds and it feels GOOD!!!

My goal in life is to be more like you Ed, you #$%*&! you....