i know, because I have tried both, with similar results.

i think it’s cos i is black.

shucks…I drank a cup of Milo and now I can’t sleep.Misagh, may know what that is - they sell it there too, and he may also be awake now seeing as you’re +10 hrs ahead, right?

Sanisha, so is cuz u is black, huh? I got your back sista. Like you so aptly and graciously remind us, “Life is a dwarf.”

My freckle-spotted red-headed pasty Irish friend and I used to try to persuade our Literature teacher that “We’re black on the inside.” This didn’t sit well against his conviction that our culture was becoming too American and he spent a whole class in animated rebuttal that no, my friend and I were not, in fact, black.

Sanisha, you are the Neocratic Commentator. You are born to it - and so just as much a neocrat as those who kick off the conversations.

Misagh, seeing as you are 10 hours ahead of us, can you please post something if the world ends, to give us some warning? Perhaps you could be the Neocratic crows nest.

Thanks.

Dear _____,

Current events in Australia hint at a possible armageddon, a huge Russel Crowe spat or other cataclysmic global catastrophe.

Based on current signs, the danger posed to planetary survival is x/10. If x=5, continue reading:

Please alert all friends in the Northern Hemisphere with less than four degrees of separation from Richard Branson to attempt securing a space flight. Ask the others to pray, forgive anyone with whom they hold a grudge, and hold their dear ones close.

Please alert all that any survivors hold the hope of all our ancestors and the future of our race in their hands (though you must take every care that this is done in a smooth manner such as not to place undue pressure or stress on the possible survivor).

May you be forever young and God speed.

“Based on current signs, the danger posed to planetary survival is x/10. If x,=5, continue reading:”

but in case I don’t make it…how will we recognise you guys in the next world if we can’t put faces to names - look out for someone who resembles Mick Hucknall, but with a nightingale on his shoulder ?

Remember when Carly Simon sang out on the bridge overlooking NYC “Let the river run ” at the end of Working Girl with Melanie Griffith? what a great song…what a great movie…that was the last time i wanted to be a blue eyed blonde, or to wear shoulder pads for that matter.They don’t make songs like that anymore, they don’make movies like that anymore, clothes neither.

/coughs, sniffles and grabs her walking stick

…it looks like our work here is not yet done, hmm…