[philman_36]

That's the problem with this new electronic world ( shades of the old BBS's! )--
Those were the days, eh?
...it's so easy to get an impression of people that is a cariacture, at best.
Ain't that the truth.

[backhoe]

Those were the days, eh?

The first BBS I logged on to was some sort of pilot's advisory board near Seattle, in the summer of 1980, with a TRS-80 ( the 64K 'deluxe' version ) and a 300 baud modem. It was the first time I saw the term "email!"

I'm working on taking a digital pix of that cartoon I drew in my businessman days, that use to hang in my office at the old Yellow Frog, and escaped the 1983 fire that burned up the old Brunswick Mall. Derned digital cameras- I still haven't figured out how to access all the features of the bleeding thing, and the controls & legends are so tiny as to be nearly invisible... stay tuned!

[backhoe]

Testing...

I did stuff like this quite a bit... there was a Pirate Crew poster ( "Don't be effette-- Join the Elite!" ), one of ( ironically enough, this was 25 years ago ) a backhoe operator with something along the lines of "Gals really dig a man who's good with the controls..." and a Widower's Flowchart, with lots of TV dinners and Dirty Pierre's House Of Easy Women...

But still, Lepidopteran, you are seeing something of a caricature of me, and I'll readily admit my once-zany sense of humor has been muted by the passage of time and the loss of many I held dear. I am not nearly as funny nowadays.