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Thanks! I'll be watching.

" His Master's Vice "

So long as she weans him before he starts wearing braces . . .

You can say that again!

Apparently the iPad is a big hit with the younger orangutans at Miami's Jungle Island. ( OK, JKane, handoff to you. )

I wonder. There was a time early in Obama's presidency when everyone was on the talk shows with a different point of view. I can't recall the issue, and no one was swearing (s)he spoke for the President, but there were definitely some different positions out there. There was a hullabaloo then, too, but I recall being rather pleased that Obama was willing to have different opinions simmering in public prior to a final position being reached. Maybe naive on my part, but I considered it a refreshing change from the nut-cracking policy of Bush II, who I believe was being counseled by Cheney. A slightly more cynical view is that it provides Obama with the benefit of a day or two of public reaction before he has to weigh in with a final position. I know there are some very smart folks who believe that marching in lockstop is the only way to go but, at this point, I'm not among them.

I'll show you my proclivities if you'll show me yours.

Fun story! I wonder if Lucky will go have a look.

Bless his heart, he's probably just fixin' to file off the serial number.

Funny, my great-great-great grandfather, The Commodore, was also a fat cat.

Can a Content Bored Lurker become a Board Content Scroller?

How very kind of you!

I'm working on a bit of fiction myself. "Let's just stay in tonight and enjoy ourselves.", whispered the gerontophilic twink, slipping a blue pill under my tongue and kissing me hard so I couldn't spit it out. Haven't got to the second line yet.

A tour de force no doubt but I'd hate to have to diagram it in front of a large crowd.

I understand there are many restaurant cooks and waiters who provide this service willingly and without additional charge. While it is generally reserved for their more 'difficult' patrons, I expect they would discreetly honor individual requests.

Thanks for posting. This one is from the same site, and a bit closer to the ground.

Amazing how perspective makes these shorter guys look massively hung. Just realized that, if I had topped out at 3'11", I could have had a pretty successful porn career.

Just noticed one of our 'guests' crawling around a two-year-old post on Les Paul's passing. I am gratified that we host content congenial to even such finely tuned enthusiasms. (Just checked back and, as MsGuy predicted, our visitor is gone.)

Probably so, and I just never noticed it. No wonder I was the only one getting excited when we set new records for viewers. Had I known they were spyders, I'd have made a beeline to the sandbox and stayed there! Talk about a world-wide web!

Very moving. Thanks for posting. Even though I'm a decade or so older than this guy, I can relate to the changes he's seen. Especially how relatively quickly they came to pass. The memory, however, of what is was like before these changes, stays with me and keeps me aware that what can be done quickly might also be undone quickly. I wonder if those who have only heard about the bad times, and not actually experienced them, are aware of this. Or maybe I'm the one who's unaware, and the dark ages really are gone for good. Again, a thought-provoking piece and many thanks for sharing.

I guess anything's possible. There have always been lots of guests at MER. It's just that this is the first time I recall that we had a link that showed us what they were looking at. I always figured a few were lurking and reading posts, and that many were reading reviews, but it now seems that they're just crawling into all the site's nooks and crannies. It doesn't seem that there's necessarily an intelligent being behind it. So maybe your theory is the one to beat. Still leaves the question, though, of why so many at a time, all the time?

Well, I can see how Ping Pong Pussy could bring in a few eyeballs. But riddle me this: Right now there are 130 'guests' and many of them are checking out Member Profiles. And not just profiles of active members, but also members who first signed up in 2006 and never even posted. Not once. Why would someone be scouring the MER site for member profiles? And not just someone, but lots of someones? Some of these Member Profiles have been visited dozens of times, but why? And by whom? And why are so many of them being visited right this very minute by 130 simultaneous 'guests'? (These are in addition to Google, whom we already know is nosy.) I'm sure there's an easy answer as to who all finds us so interesting but, at the moment, it eludes me.

Bravo! Even Henry Ford ran his Sociological Department's surprise home visits for only a short while, and that was nearly a century ago. If an employer wants to spend time peeking up my ass, he better be ready with a marriage proposal.

OK, this is weird. At the bottom of the Forums page is a summary of who's on-line. If you're signed in, your name appears. If you're not, it just says 'guest'. There's a (see full list) link that I hadn't noticed before and I just clicked it. It shows what threads our (currently) 95 'guests' are viewing. What a hodgepodge of threads they're looking at! It seems incredible that 2 'guests' would currently be viewing OZ's Happy Holidays thread from December and another 'guest' is viewing a Bad News from McDonald's thread from September, 2010. (They may not be there by the time you read this post, but they were there as I was writing it.) So what gives? Are they all bots crawling and indexing the MER website? Google is usually here and Bing used to crawl the site. But are there really 95 anonymous web-crawling bots here at one time? Did OZ sign up for some kind of traffic-building service? Are we being invaded by Russian hackers? Or do we just have a boundlessly curious assortment of visitors to the MER site? And should we be ordering in some munchies in case they decide to stick around?

The penis houses of Bhutan are nothing to sneeze at either.