Sorry it took me a day to get back on this thread. It seems my tears of joy shorted out the keyboard. I've removed the salt deposits from most of the keys, and happy to be back in circulation.

Gawd! I can picture all of us sitting around the pool in Anchovy's back yard, crying into our beers.

No pool? We'll just dig a big hole and fill it with tears.

Wolf (Wiping his eyes, and blowing his nose. Not at the same moment though! Geez!)

But can we please have a debate about the choice of beers? San Miguel? Yuk! Get out the Estrella Damn please

(Does this mean I've just gatecrashed my way in to the party? )

What's a gate crasher, Lizzee? That's based on the fact that a few of us have shifted the host family around to accomodate us
Seriously - gate crashing is perfectly acceptable - 'specially when we all probably lurked (gate crashed) on MM for weeks or months before posting the first time.

Hi lizzie... gatecrashers most welcome! I've got no choice anyway. :p I agree about the beer... must admit San Miguel, whilst hitting the spot, is not my favourite - but I couldn't make a joke about Saint Mahou being in the fridge!

Pool's close enough to roll into, Wolf, so need for tears or....whatever! Oh and the couch is a very big one, too

MM must be on holiday to let this one go so long without the big stick coming out!!

It's nice to see the love of Damm beer. Every time I see Damm beer I think, "Damm beer!" I see the Damm beer trucks delivering Damm beer to all the Damm beer vendors and Damm beer drinkers around and think, "that's a lot of Damm beer!" One time a Damm beer truck came close to hitting me on my bicycle and I screamed [in English] "DAMM BEER TRUCK!" When I screamed at the Damm beer truck, the Damm beer truck driver apologized for his Damm driving. I thought "that was Damm nice of him." I'll close this Damm post now before you all get so Damm tired of this Damm post that I'm Damm-ed from posting on this Damm thread again.

CaliBasco [Who actually has never had a Damm beer but has enough Casera and mosto in his system to make a Damm burst]

Wait, was that a joke?

I really haven't noticed any strange new vibes on the board at all. It's just that whenever someone writes, the reader is putting his or her own emotion into it. THAT'S ALL. If others have noticed a different vibe, so be it.

If MadridMan has had to close discussions, it is certainly his choice, but when we come to this board and think that we are going to join into a discussion that won't take a turn for the worse, it is there that we are fooling ourselves.

The world certainly isn't CANDYLAND and is not all gingerbread houses. There are some trolls along the way under the bridges and remember, don't get stuck in molasses swamp.

Shawn

It depends whether or not people here sense false-sarcasm in the responses towards their posts where there was none in the first place. But if someone tries to be a "drama-queen" just to get attention; has a short-fuse just because they can't handle any kind of criticism or aren't able to get the response they want and WHINE, I automatically ignore them and their posts. I don't allow myself to be dragged into confrontations without my consent.

Asterault: No joke. It really happened! Actually, I'm practicing for my audition to write the next Adam Sandler movie script.