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Hello! :-)

ACD: Thank you for hosting the NYT Forum diaspora here. I'm wondering if the maintenance of this site is costly. I'm sure I'm not the only one who would be happy to make a financial contribution to help out.

kashania wrote:ACD: Thank you for hosting the NYT Forum diaspora here. I'm wondering if the maintenance of this site is costly. I'm sure I'm not the only one who would be happy to make a financial contribution to help out.

Thank you, Kashania, but the CM&OF is hosted free by our host, FreeForums.org. The only money cost I've incurred so far is to pay for the removal of all ads from the CM&OF (a few of them were actually dangerous). Those ads benefit FreeForums.org which is why they can host boards free of charge to board owners (or "Founders", as they're called). To get rid of those ads, board owners must pay FreeForums.org a monthly fee (at present, $4.95/month). Seems more than reasonable to me, and so I pay it.

ACD

samm wrote:Hello!

Hello, Samm. Good to see you here.

ACD

OK, ACD. But please feel free to let us know if you come across unexpected costs. We're all benefitting from this place and without it, we would have lost our precious community.

kashania wrote:OK, ACD. But please feel free to let us know if you come across unexpected costs. We're all benefitting from this place and without it, we would have lost our precious community.

Ditto.

Like kashie, I'd be willing to contribute.

Samm:

Hi. Glad to see you on board here.

I'd like to start an off-chatter discussion but, unlike the movie forum from the Times, no one will follow me I'm sure. It really was a funny one. I do miss that movie forum. Sometimes music is just not enough.

lulu wrote:I'd like to start an off-chatter discussion but, unlike the movie forum from the Times, no one will follow me I'm sure.

You'll never know unless you actually try.

Knowhadamean?

ACD

Samm, great to see you here! Glad to read that you're playing tennis. Work and other commitments have my playing time down to once a week (or less); that's really not enough to keep my game (let alone my body) in shape.

Lulu, go ahead and try. Maybe we'll get our first food fight that way.

ACD, please add my name to the list of those willing to contribute funds, as the need arises.

ACD: I just saw the Palin video on your blog. Wow, one can't make this stuff up.

kashania wrote:ACD: I just saw the Palin video on your blog. Wow, one can't make this stuff up.

Don't you just love her to pieces!

ACD

Thank you, ACD, for hosting this place. It's nice to see all the familiar names and wonderful to receive warm greetings.

Ahoy, Karl!

Lulu-maki, start your movie discussion please, don't just taunt us!

As a recent retiree, Peter, I find I do have time for tennis. So much so that I'm now laid off with a nasty tennis elbow. *ptui!*

Is there a threaded off-topic chatter forum?

I was thinking of having a "movie cliche" thread and see where it took us.

If not, I can start it here.

lulu wrote:Is there a threaded off-topic chatter forum?

I was thinking of having a "movie cliche" thread and see where it took us.

If not, I can start it here.

Sorry. No threaded Off-Topic Chatter forum. You can start your "'movie cliché'" subject here, of course, and, if you wish, give your post on the subject a subject title reflecting its subject matter. That way, posts by those replying to that post by clicking on the QUOTE button in the upper right-hand corner of your post will also show the same subject title. Ditto for those replying to replies to that original post, etc. In that way you can build a thread within this single main thread of this non-threaded forum. The original subject title of this forum's main thread will not be affected by your doing this as anyone posting to the main single thread of this non-threaded forum by simply clicking the POSTREPLY button, or clicking on the QUOTE button of any post whose subject title has not been changed will preserve the original subject title of this main thread.

Is that all clear for you?

ACD

Karl, are you sure Picasso isn't just having a very active, erm, "retirement"?