I used to live in Nashville, but I moved back to New York 8 years ago. I hadn’t been back, but this weekend we are in Nashville for a crafts show I used to do when I lived here. Dan and I brought all 3 kids. I was expecting to run into people I knew when I lived here. But who did I run into?
In the hotel lobby to get my kids some candy (bribes), I looked up and saw a face I had seen only online for over a decade. DALE WISELY, here for a wedding! What a wonderful and strange coincidence!
Wow, Dale is much, much better-looking than I thought. But who’s the big ugly guy?
way cool! 
Cosmic.
(I do assume, in a tooth fairy kind of way, that the people with whom I chat on Chiff exist. I mean, apart from the handful whose existence I’ve more or less verified. Thanks for the pic. It does enhance my credulity.)
An almost shocking sensation to actually see them, isn’t it? They really do exist…
thud
(that was me passing out)
Good thing you didn’t recognize me. I would have had to have killed you. I’m getting so tired of killing Chiffers.
You just made my day, Jessie. I truly miss your unique posts… Dale, as always, looks dapper.
Your thread heading may just be in the running for cleverest of the year.
Stay well. Best to you and your family.
Byll
PS Our new band is releasing a live CD in a few weeks. You liked our old band’s last studio effort, although I think you playfully mocked our tempo on Banish Misfortune by saying that it could provide good lullaby material… Heh. Heh. We retain all of our whistles, fiddle, twin hammer dulcimers, etc., and have added viola and cello - plus 4 vocals to the mix. If you are interested, let me have your e-mail in a PM, and I will send you a track or two.
Thanks, Byll!
I’ll PM you.
Good to see the original cutiepie again.
I had no idea you’d had a third! Did you
remember to get the bribes after such
a surprise?
What fun that was. I can’t believe Jessie recognized me. She said I have a distinctive face. I don’t know, but I have a really large face. Maybe that was it. And, looking at the photo (taken, by the way, by Mrs. Undisputed), I can understand why my doctor insists I need to lose 10 lbs.
Ahem.
Anyway, it was great to catch up with Jessie. We got an astounding amount of gossiping about chiffers done in just a short visit.
[advice about brown rice not posted for fear that it could have led to an erroneous construction that medical advice was being proffered or an insinuation that medical advice was being proferred which construction or perceived insinuation may lead to an arbitrary locking up of an otherwise locklustre topic]
And that, people, is what in the vernacular is called an “Oops. Wrong thread.”
Or it’s a commentary about Jessie’s children eating candy…or a commentary on Dale’s channelling of the Buddha… or some even more profound concept that Talasiga is loath to fully share.
I think I know what talasiga’s concerns were, and if I am right about them they are worth consideration. With any luck we shall continue that conversation elsewhere and anon.
So, c’mon. Fork it over, already.
Dale, I was kicking myself for not asking if you and Marilyn would be around later for dinner or something. But it sure WAS a fun little conversation in 100 degree weather (or something like that). I’ve been giggling about it ever since. I mean, seriously, how cool!
Yes, I have three now. And yes, I remembered the bribes.
Trust me. Someone would have remembered.
it was a silly question, no?
We’re gonna have ta pull Dale off’a covert ops. Someone thank Jessie. 
Being sort of “forced” to explain myself here I although I could, and. perhaps, should desist.
I was referring to Dale’s comment about losing poundage
and for some inexplcable reason (or cause) I recalled the fashion
in the lat 60’s prompted by the macrobiotic writings of George Ohsawa
I don’t visit the board that often anymore as I did 10 years ago ( 
)
but it is really nice to come into the pub and see such familiar faces I’ve never met.
Thanks for posting!
Jeroen
Ah, that’s what got you into trouble! It was so oblique as to appear utterly non sequitur, and consideration for people’s feelings no doubt played a big part: while an attributed quote might have done wonders to set the ship on course, it would have been an awkwardness of courtesy on top of the medical-advice thing and you probably saw yourself on the horns of a dilemma. Now I get your strategy, but the fruits of it was that instead of my knowing that you had poked your nose in, with all good intention, to a certain someone’s passing comment made in humor (and who would do that on such an occasion of joyous reunions? But never mind.), I thought you must have, had to have, gotten lost on your way to the “Gluten-Free” thread and the best I could figure was that you were probably either hinting at the issue of arsenic levels in rice bran (my first guess), or roughage-induced diarrhea (I didn’t want to believe you’d go there). After all, the subject of rice was all the rage there at the time. Obviously I was wrong. At the end of the day I’m glad to know it wasn’t about diarrhea, anyway. I think we all are.