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the pound) obeys any command instantly, just so it's to sniff, snack or snooze. I can finally let her off the leash in the woods because I can outrun her. Our shepherd/whippet/whatisit mix is not the brightest, but she is the absolute sweetest animal I've ever had. Sorry, I guess dog people can go on about them as much as others go on about their kids (have a couple of those, too) :) Cheers!
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Thanks for the nice note. I'm sorry you didn't want admin right now, as you seemed a shoo-in, but I guess it's a grace to not do more than you feel you can at any time. Your dog training is remarkable. I've had six dogs for life and I would be ashamed to parade them in front of you. The Beagle (from
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Well, I suppose 150 Billion dollars may be more or less correct - but there is limited space there. A line wont hurt. But it does seem odd, doesnt it -- "A million
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Hi Elf, I'm one (of many) admins in
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English errors as well :) I'm thinking it's a Croatian immigrant that has been in the States for quite a while, because they seem to know various intricate idioms though they're somewhat troubled by
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Adrian. I'm sorry the argument escalated so much. I'm fairly new to this and this was my first experience of the frustration of someone deleting my work which I thought was quite valid. I have taken on board some of your POVs and will consider them in the future. I guess we'll have to agree to
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Thanks for all the moves of my photos, I really appreciate your work. It looks like I'm going to be pretty busy with some mediation stuff over the next few days, so won't be doing much in the way of table tidying etc. But I'll be back soon. --
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I just wanted to thank you for copyediting the flurry of new pages the 6.x.y.z user interested in all things
Croatian has been creating over the last few days. I wish they responded to my invitation to get a username, but oh well.
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Many thanks for your comment welcoming me. I was a bit nervous about making changes at first. Now I think I am addicted. Anyway, I left a question on the talk agility page. You may wish to look at it.
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And, holy cow, I was amazed by what the scanner revealed about the veins, wrinkles, and general blotchiness of my hands! I didn't think I was a vain person but I, uh, did photoshop the image a bit.
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CSS, but one can't really reference a stylesheet (which kind of defeats the purpose of CSS). Thus you'll see only very small uses of CSS, almost entirely to do with floating tables and graphics. --
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