Hello From Chicago!

Harbal your’ve escaped from your cage, earlier than allowed…:lol:

Hi Plankton! :039:
Welcome to the madhouse!

I love Spongebob too :smiley:

Well until somebody sorts out why he did not receive the welcoming email that enables him to communicate.
sending another one is that acceptable…In the meantime :lol:

some light entertainment for the ‘‘fans.’’…

Hello Plankton :slight_smile: we are still having problems with your account, please see my post here…

From what I can understand he cannot access your email link because access denied.shows up…

Hi Plankton :slight_smile: the email message facility you mention above is nothing to do with your verification email, it is a different thing entirely . You should send back the verification email before attempting to post onsite.
As I said in my post above please follow the link for advice …

Someone finally sent me that elusive verification email last night. I’m officially official. Not sure what happened, but I understand sometimes things just don’t work.

Again, thanks for all the warm welcomes. The rip tide almost took me out.

Hello Plankton :slight_smile: it may be down to your email service provider, they sometimes hold things as spam .
The verification emails sent from here are automatic on registration .

Hello Plankton and Welcome, can I call you Planky, I like to add a y on everyone’s name, I dont know why

Then, somehow it magically got through?

I had no idea gmail did all that. First time that’s happened in 20 years.

You can call me anything but collect.

:wink:

What does’’ Collect’’ mean as a way over the sea kind of Guy?..
I have managed over time to give quiet a few nick names and I basically only tell when pushed. none are rude but that depends in the eye of the beholder, sometimes, Hello Plonker.:smiley:
My Twin Son Steve is about your age group and he is called…Yubbie…so all good…:confused::

He’s 54? Poor kid. lol Kidding of course.

As for “Collect”:

Back when payphones were still around, you could have the person you were calling pay the charges, and that was called a “Collect Call”. So, when you did this you were in fact: “Calling them collect”.

I have no money, so don’t call me collect.

It’s a play on the old phrase.

funny that did occur to me actually…can remember using the Traditional Red Phone Boxes that where on the streets everywhere, certainly would be not the norm…to have a phone installed in doors in your home…Though my Nan and Grandad had a hardware shop in Shirley not that far from Croydon my birth town…they had a phone…just remembered that…smoked Laurier cigs in a posh red box not a package…
her son in law is still in Australia about 97 years old…Uncle Les,but dementia has hit him now…You can breathe now, well almost my Steve is 52 years this year…and still got the long Covid19 and is ok really overall…Plonker haha…you deserve that title…

Then I shall wear that title proudly.

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Yes and you are a real asset to the forum already…gotcha .protective hat painted red white and blue would be safest for you…:wink:

Welcome.
What type of instruments do you play?
Furniture restoration can be quite exciting.
Your hobbies sound like fun so I’m thinking you must be too. :mrgreen:

Thanks! Darn happy to be here.

A bit of everything, but mostly guitar.

I’m kinda fun. Not as fun as a barrel of monkeys, but just enough to give the illusion. I’m like a fun mirage.

:slight_smile:

Guitar is really nice.
Do you play melody or just chords?
Barrel of monkeys! :044:

A little from column A, and a little from column B:

Heavy:

Less heavy: