I've been out for a week - Did I miss anything?

[Gringo]

I just got back from a trip to the Blue Ridge/Great Smoky Mountains and Asheville, NC, with no internet access. It was wonderful. So - did I miss anything of any real significance?

Did they decide to keep those horrible new GD posting rules?

[Aristus]

1. Well, Gringo, the Lounge has been about as exciting as watching

fresh paint dry since you've been gone. GD should be renamed Gloom and Doom for all the terror tales they're telling about Election 2004. LBN is just the same old shit.

But we're all here. My beloved DU-ers help me keep my sanity through it all, and now that you're back, things will just get better. Welcome home; hope you had a great trip! :hi:

[Gringo]

2. That's nice of you to say.

Man, if I'M the one who livens this place up, we're in BIIIIG trouble. Glad to be back though.

[nuxvomica]

3. Did you go to Black Mountain?

Did you see Chimney Rock? Or the Linville Caverns? Did you climb Mt. Mitchell, the tallest peak east of the Mississippi?
Did you buy pottery at the Folk Arts Center? Did you stay at the Montevista? Did you visit the Blue Ridge Assembly? Or have lunch at the Red Rocker?

edit: Did you see the Biltmore Estate?

[Gringo]

4. Well...

Did you see Chimney Rock?
No.

Or the Linville Caverns?
Yes.

Did you climb Mt. Mitchell, the tallest peak east of the Mississippi?
Yes.

Did you buy pottery at the Folk Arts Center?
No.

Did you stay at the Montevista?
No, at the Asheville Econolodge, and the Pisgah Inn (www.pisgahinn.com) at the top of the parkway.

Did you visit the Blue Ridge Assembly? Or have lunch at the Red Rocker?
No and no.

edit: Did you see the Biltmore Estate?
Yes. It was very impressive.

Alos, we went to Clingman's Dome, The Great Smoky Mtns. Natl' Park, "The Mystery House at Mystery Hill", and spent two days bored to death in an awful Atlanta suburb called Buford, while our car was being fixed. It was a pretty nice trip, overall. The negative aspects have been detailed ad infinitum on a lousy crappy flame-war I started on GD.

[short bus president]

5. Yes

a lot of us are kinky sex perverts, we're all very intolerant of Southerners, and every other DUer is a homophobe.

</sarcasm>

[inthecorneroverhere]

6. this is deception

You posted on Friday multiple times, Gringo. You have not been 'missing stuff.'

Thanks a LOT for your wonderful warm-fuzzy attitude, by the way.

/sarcasm

[Gringo]

9. I RETURNED from my trip on Friday

And that's when I wrote this thread, dumbass. Check the post date. Thanks for your never-ending hostility and derision.

[bocadem]

7. There was a power outage

or something...

[skip fox]

8. About a Gad-zillion CAPTIONS!!!

But it's not too late. Scroll down and give us a CAPTIOM.

(By the way, I just got back from Boone, NC, myself.)

[ComerPerro]

10. A WEEK? I've been out three months

Coming in and out occasionally, but never more than for half an hour once a week