And not just space fillers either but informative, funny, clever, thoughtful and some, dare I say, titillating ones too.

You've made this Board a better place, AdamSmith, and we are all in your debt!

(No doubt Wallace Stevens would have a few thoughts on this singular event and perhaps, with a little encouragement, we'll get to hear a few.)

I knew it was right around the corner and, here it is. Congrats.

Best regards,

RA1

Always enjoyable posts. Thanks AS!

Congrats! Good thing that this wasn't your engagement or wedding congratulation.. You know who would be sad if that were the case..

Yes, Congrats on finding and posting ALL those Liquor Bottles and song Lyrics !

Always enjoyable and stimulating poops posts, AS! Congratulations and well done!

Grazie. At 3.2 posts/day average over the past 8-1/2 years, I suppose I put more attention into these forums than anything else except scratching for dollars. Even that!

Forgive the self-absorption, but it occurred to look back at a few threads that call up strong memories across the years.

Introduction to love of my life; also incidentally the inaugural post by anyone in the Escorts forum, if I recall. (Note that, like many older threads here, the entries are inverted, so that oldest posts are at the end of the thread rather than the beginning.) http://www.boytoy.com/forums/index.php?/topic/554-boston-twink-alert/page-2

On handling the dangers of falling in love with one’s escort. (The posts in this one again run from newest on top to oldest at bottom.) http://www.boytoy.com/forums/index.php?/topic/680-andre-in-nyc-aug-28-29/

Never-ending poetry post that others nevertheless put up with and even got into the swing of. http://www.boytoy.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1672-credences-of-summer/

Altogether different poetry post. http://www.boytoy.com/forums/index.php?/topic/2782-martha-stewart-likes-big-wieners/

Reunion. http://www.boytoy.com/forums/index.php?/topic/2531-two-dinners-with-andre/

Winning Oz’s filthy lucre. http://www.boytoy.com/forums/index.php?/topic/3533-congratulations-adamsmith/

How I spent it. http://www.boytoy.com/forums/index.php?/topic/3724-three-dinners-with-andre/

Raving about The Web/NYC. Several dancers told me that my post #12 in this thread was apparently TMI for club management, who printed it out, posted it in the dancers’ dressing room, and ripped them up one side and down the other about it. http://www.boytoy.com/forums/index.php?/topic/2426-nyc-the-web/

Now (inevitably! ) to Stevens. As a space for reflection, self-presentation, self-constitution, these forums put me in mind sometimes maybe a little bit of this:

The Snow Man

One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;

And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter

Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,

Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place

For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

10,000! That is fucking awesome! Congrats on the milestone and thank you for all 10,000 posts.

That's amazing!

That's amazing!

A kind and generous adjective.