Someone on the TBspinoff forum (was that cpr?) noticed that they had surpassed many other LUSENET forums already in message posting, and were coming up on beating out the "ER" discussion forum.

Well, we're not "quite" so high..but here are some forums we HAVE already beat out. Steve Heller's books forum, Swimming, garden project, and Ask Jesus. We passed something called Urban Y2K survival. We've also bashed the ever popular Freak Magnet and the Ivan Goran Kovacic forum (whatever the hell THOSE are). So, in honor of this momentus occasion...DRINKING AND MERRIMENT ARE IN ORDER! HEZZAH!

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), March 07, 2000

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PS...we are also 8 messages short of passing a forum called Y2K Personals. Which I just looked through. It's old of course, but you'll never guess who's in there looking for wimmin. TB2k's own William J. Schenker, M.D.,.... boy I'll bet his face is red now ;-)

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), March 07, 2000.

Goes to show you should never post a thread which you don't have the means of deleting yourself.

-- Brooks (brooksbie@hotmail.com), March 07, 2000.

Does that mean we can't pick up wimmin on this board?

-- gene (ekbaker@essex1.com), March 07, 2000.

gene, you can always TRY, but if your pickup line sucks, you risk being deleted too.

-- Brooks (brooksbie@hotmail.com), March 07, 2000.

Kritter:

That post of Bill's was from 629 days ago. I think he already mentioned in his first 11.5 Doomer thread that his old wife left when he got too doomish for her tastes. I'd be curious to learn how many times he has been married. One of his recent posts refers to "learned this from an ex, learned that from ANOTHER ex..."

A woman named Rhonda was his only taker on that forum. The link to the forum with his want-ad required authorization, so I couldn't see it. Someday we can ask his wife's name and see if Rhonda "won."

I think it great that a 74-year old man has the guts to put a "mate wanted" ad on the internet. [Then again, he was only 72 at the time.]

-- Anita (notgiving@anymore.thingee), March 08, 2000.

Sure, and with the "DR." in front of his name, he probably looks like a good catch. Who can we set him up with? :-)

I knew that forum was old when I looked at it. I felt like I was on an archeological dig. From a hindsight perspective, it's almost eerie.

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), March 08, 2000.

Hey! I think any woman would be lucky to have someone so smart and lively as Dr. Schenker. He's cool.

-- (sis@home.com), March 08, 2000.

I agree, Sis. Bill and I have been E-mailing. He's quite a fellow. I suspect that Jean is the name of his new wife, so it looks like Rhonda didn't win.

-- Anita (notgiving@anymore.com), March 09, 2000.

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Still movin' on up, but it will be a while before we overtake Maine Coon Cats.

-- Brooks (brooksbie@hotmail.com), March 16, 2000.

Ah yes...but we are about to pass the Poodle Support Group!

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), March 16, 2000.

ATT'N ALL YOU LADY 'GOSSIP COLUMNISTS:'

"Hallyx" brought my attention to this thread ... so I guess I'll have to bring y'all up-to-date.

My post on the 'old' GN forum was placed when I realized my wife at that time (25-year marriage, after an earlier one of about 5 years) didn't want anyone around talking gloom & doom. So I realized we were going to split. Put an ad on the forum -- thought it was a straight-forward idea.

Well the only responses I got were 2 or 3 ladies who excoriated me with "How dare you advertize for an adulterous relationship! bla bla bla." I was completely taken aback. Set me to thinking about how some my fellow Christians were going to handle the coming TEOTWAWKI. Anyway, headed for the South with just me and my dog, Hobbes. Thank heavens for him -- got me thru about 5 months in Tennessee.

However by October I was going nuts -- not built to live alone. Advertized in Classifieds.com and match.com for a wife. Met all kinds of people, but nothing near a match. Finally gave up on 1/4/99, and added an ad for 'penpals only.' Well, on 1/5/99 Jean responded to my original ad and the rest is history. We exchanged TWELVE emails in the first 4 hours, and 43 in the first 3 days. By the 5th day I knew I had to drive to AL to meet this lady. Relocated and married a month later.

BTW, Jean was a 1.0 (2's stretching it) doomer --- good balance, kept me from floating off into total paranoia.

No, my face ain't red -- took a lot of courage to write those personal ads, but it was the best thing I've done in many a year.

Tnx for all your concerns for my welfare.

"Little girls grow up into ladies, little boys into big ones." -- George Gilder (I think.)

-- William J. Schenker, MD (wjs@linkfast.net), March 19, 2000.

Was that Gossip? Hmm..I guess it was. :-) I feel very catty now. Sorry Doc, hope you realize us wimmin were just funnin ya. I'm sure you read all the replies, you know everyone here thinks yer a fine catch! My mother would kill for me to marry a doctor!! (It's a Jewish thing!) Just wish I'd seen that ad one year ago. ;-)

I'm glad you found Jean, and I am an advocate of meeting ones mate through email, having done the same. (I think a few of us here did) X's and O's -kirsten

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), March 19, 2000.

Gossip? I dunno? Maybe a quest for truth or just curious. I have refrained from posting on the forums where Bill posts because of the flaming, etc. Not for myself, but because I do not want to place him in a position of feeling he needs to defend me or us. However, to this one I just cannot resist. My name is Jean Stephens Schenker. Having had a wonderful marriage for 29 years until widowed 7 years ago, I was very lonely. Although I met many nice, decent men, none were quite right.

So, I broadened my range for search and tried the Internet. Thank God for the Internet! Bill is a fine, wonderful, kind Christian man with a zest for life. He is very truthful, genuine and unpretentious; has a great sense of humor, and loves mankind and its creatures. Yes, indeed, he is a fine catch and I tell him so daily. He brings so much joy to our lives. We are both a little dismayed at how much fun we are having. I find he is very unique, so amazingly intelligent. When I first responded to the ad, I did not know about his medical background, but it would not have made any difference. We enjoy living a quiet life on top of a ridge overlooking a beautiful valley. We are both eccentric (he more than I), but we appreciate those differences and enjoy them in the other. He was totally engrossed in y2k preparation. The way he does everything he undertakes, e.g., winning the World Championship (Masters) Ski Racing in 1997. I was secure in his preparations because of the frequent ice storms and tornadoes which we have in this area. He stepped into my family and filled a great void for my daughter, grandson and son- in-law. My daughter who is 30 loved her biological dad deeply and still misses him. She calls Bill my new dad' and tells others how fortunate she feels to know him. I find that Bill quickly and easily gains the respect, loyalty and/or love of those who have the privilege to know him.

Bill mentioned our e-mails. They are truly a beautiful journal of two people falling in love. He is almost 74 and I am 64. To me, he is wonderful, which is as it should be. BTW, Bill will be embarrassed at this glowing representation.

Jean

-- Jean Schenker (jps@linkfast.net), March 19, 2000.

Hi Jean! You sound like you have a wonderful relationship. That makes three of us that I know of here who married our soul mates after first corresponding with them over the computer. My husband was fine enough to marry me and my children,..and my 2 yr old (at the time) daughter HATED him...(would step between us if we embraced..push us apart) Her father was a strong presense in her life, and this man was NOT him. He gently worked his way into her heart...an amazing feat! He took me from poverty to the upper middle class (as I like to call it), bought me a house, a car, let's me sit home and paint while he works. And he's HAPPY to have me...(still amazes me!)

I don't know how it is that you can tell from just writing back and forth to someone...that this is the person for you, but it works! (well, okay, in my case I didn't like my husband in message boards, we argued over politics and I thought he was the most ignorant, pigheaded, obnoxious person on earth..but when we met..we couldn't debate anything without breaking into stupid grins, both of us.)

I hope you'll join us here on this forum, since Bill's not apt to post here (amongst us gossipy catty ladies...God help us) I'd like to get to know you better. -Kirsten

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), March 19, 2000.

Kritter:

Thanks for the invitation to chat. We discussed having children and decided to try, and I must say that we do have a problem with Hobbes, Bill's dog. He seems a little jealous. I have been reading this forum and I think you have done a wonderful job with it. Thanks.

Jean

-- Jean Schenker (jps@linkfast.net), March 19, 2000.