I hate it when people forward bogus warnings, and I have even done it myself a couple times unintentionally, but this one is real, and it's important.
If someone comes to your front door saying they are checking for ticks due to the warm weather and asks you to take your clothes off and dance around with your arms up,
DO NOT DO IT!!! THIS IS A SCAM!!!
They only want to see you naked.
I wish I'd recieved this warning yesterday. I feel so stupid.

Little Red Riding Hood was skipping through the forest road when she sees the big bad wolf crouched donw behind a log.
"My, what big eyes you have, Mr. Wolf!"
The wolf jumps up and runs away.
Further down the road Little Red Riding Hood sees the wolf again, now crouched behind a bush.
"My, what big ears you have", said Little Red Riding Hood.
At this, the Big Bad Wolf again leaped up, and ran away.
About a 1/4 mile down the road, Little Red Riding Hood again spots the wolf. This time he is crouched behind a rock.
"My, Mr. Wolf, what big teeth you have!", says the Little Red Riding Hood.
At this the Big Bad Wolf finally leaped up and screams, "Lady, will you knock it off? I'm trying to take a sh**!"

Two female, blonde carpenters, Anne and Caroline, were building a house. After spending a while on the roof, Anne noticed that Caroline would frown at almost every nail she pulled out of her bag, then throw it to the ground below. Finally, Annes' curiosity got the best of her. "Caroline, why are you throwing away so many nails?", she asked. Caroline replied, "It seems that almost every other nail I pull from the bag has the head on the wrong end! They're worthless!"
"You moron!", Anne said, "those are for the other side of the house!"

Hopefully, everyone will be as rational as you are...
...like those good folks in the "town hall" meetings.

She emailed me last night.

I doubt it.
However, what troubles me is that such a movie (seen the horrific trailers?) is being released just before Christmas, at a time in our nations' history where everyone is ALREADY terrified by the economic meltdown, a new, inexperienced president, HEALTHCARE REFORM with all the unsettling rumors, terrorism, etc.
Will this further affect consumer confidence psychologically and on a subconscious level, so there will be less cash registers ringing for the holidays?
We sure as he** don't need that!

WHO'S MARRIED? (GULP...)
(I couldn't find a smiley that was dodging bullets...)

There IS a lot to like about you, earthy. But you knew that, didn't you. Gotta love a woman who has confidence in herself.

Hey, great profile pic and...
...she just emailed me.
Ha.

I enjoyed the "Daisy Mae" character (I forget her name...)
Useless trivia: "Lulu" was once a stripper, if I remember correctly...can you believe that one?

It seems the "cyber" comment "rubbed" you the wrong way.
So stop that! You'll go blind!
Uhm..."ridiciolous"? Now that's just plain "ridiculous"!
I think you missed some very pertinent points here...
...wadeva.
Have a nice day!

Phuque...always so charming.
I'm just relating my own past experience so as to help the guy who started this thread. My reply is extensive, the same as my intent for consoling this person. This topic began as an actual reply to a guy with a really sad look in his profile pic in HIS topic, "Women Who Don't Respond".
Uhm..."ginormous"?
WTF: "What...The Fonics?" p-h-o-n-i-c-s

BECAUSE...she had mentioned she wanted to be very careful with her heart, and these issues were important so as to safeguard it.
We clicked on 95% of the relationship issues we discussed...
There was no "venting"...
There was a LOT of "having fun"...
People tend to open up more in print than in a face-to-face...attachments can develop quickly this way.
There's more to email and online chat than "cyber"...
It was kind of a "grown-up" thing.

There is a thread about both women AND men who don't respond, but it is written more for those who just abruptly cut off a regular communication.
"FOR MEN AND WOMEN: YOU'RE "CLICKING", THEN..."
by trublu4u
Enjoy yourself in there.

...nothing.
(THIS ONE GOES OUT TO BOTH THE GUYS AND GALS OF MINGLER2!)
The last email you received was positive...upbeat, with a promise to reply ASAP.
You had been elated that you might have finally found your "soul-mate". Abruptly, however, she never replied back, ever again.
What happened?
(...and ladies, please don't say this is fair compensation for all the times some guy promised you he'd call, but never did. Stop your celebrating the fact that women do this to guys, as well. If you are to be the "superior" gender, then this won't be accomplished by making a mans' blunders, now will it?)

I CAN RELATE TO THESE DISTRESSING DISAPPOINTMENTS...
A certain female mingler and myself really seemed to click, at least for a while. We discussed relationship issues...divorce, cheating, how the roles of men and women have seemed to change, child-rearing, etc., etc., etc.
We seemed to agree on most everything. If there was some disagreement on a particular point, this was readily stated, yet accepted, and without any drama. I was really uplifted that we seemed to connect on so many issues...
...and then...
...nothing.
She has a demanding job, but not near demanding enough to prevent her from just typing, "Hello...very busy...will get back to you very soon." This was the gist of her last email, but that was quite a while ago.

THE DOWNSIDE OF HONESTY...
She had seemed way too mature to have been playing any kind of game.
I had been honest in my last email to her (as we always had been...), bringing up some controversial issues. However...
...IF SHE'S LOOKING FOR AN "HONEST" MAN, THEN OBVIOUSLY THERE IS A DOWNSIDE TO THAT WHICH SHE SHOULD BE WILLING TO ACCEPT.
As I should be ready in accepting her own opinions...to be ready to "agree to disagree".
Who knows?

LESSONS LEARNED...
1) One really shouldn't take this "mingle2" thing too seriously...
2) Though I prefer communicating by typing (so there are few interruptions...), serious misunderstandings MAY RESULT, regardless.
3) Some people (men and women both) simply "wear their heart on their sleeve", and are dramtically easy to offend. What do you do after you've been dumped in a very cruel way by a significant other? You turn to sites like www.mingle2.com, of course! And you've got your "mad" on...
4) She may be married, and had been caught emailing you...
5) She could have met some untimely end...(sorry, but this could be true...)
6) Her long-lost lover might have made an unexpected return
7) She decided that she is, indeed, a lesbian.
8) For whatever reason, he/she had decided that, be it a distance issue (long-distance romance...), she had found she was pregnant (WHOA!), any resulting relationship would only be short-term, at best.
EITHER OF YOU COULD MAKE ONE FINAL CALL, BUT YOU RISK DRAMA...and who wants/needs drama?
My point is...

FORGET HER/HIM!
Heck, if you've been left wondering, as I was, FORGET HER! Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Hanging your hopes on just one mingler is very unwise. This is a gradual, seductive, psychological change which will reveal itself only too late for you, every time.
A mature man or woman should be quick to bring any supposed offense to your attention, so you may explain yourself and apologize. But not everyone can be expected to be mature. Just don't waffle on your beliefs to appease her.
She may be impressed enough with THAT to continue communicating with you.

Oh, I adore you for posting this topic!

I wanna job where I can dress like a viking...
with an enormous, black war-axe!
Hey, I could be a sushi chef at that Viking sushi bar!

You know (and if I get banned for this, please remember, it was said only for the well-being of my fellow minglers...), could it be that once so many emails have been recorded on the server, any further emails are intentionally DELETED before received so one might click on any of these SILLY-A**ED dating, screw**g sites, in the deepest, darkest depths of our despair?
I am CERTAIN all those babes in the marquee which travels across my laptop screen DO NOT reside in my hometown! Can you say, "FALSE ADVERTISING"?

NOTHING IS "FREE"
Are we victims of a diabolical, psychological ploy which plays quite insidiously upon our need for a significant other?
IF I DISAPPEAR, FELLOW MINGLERS, THEN THIS IS PROOF POSITIVE I'VE EXPOSED THE CONSPIRACY!
...then simply tell all your friends.
AM I TO BE YOUR MARTYR, FELLOW MINGLERS? IF SO, THEN SO BE IT!
(Of course, I don't REALLY BELIEVE THIS...
...I take it back.
....please don't ban me...

That quote of yours really says it all, sweet.

Try this book: "I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me!: Daily Affirmations With Stuart Smalley"
This book began with a regular skit on "Saturday Night Live", as performed by Al Franken, now SENATOR Al Franken.
It was hilarious...but his technique of standing in front of a mirror and saying the above mantra seems viable.
It's also a fantastic self-healing technique which comes in very handy after one has posted some unfortunate topic which offends EVERYBODY, and you get your A** not "flamed", but "charred to a cinder"!