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We had a discussion of personality types here about a year ago? Who remembers?
It was based on several famous studies, and there was a test you could take online to determine what category you fit in. I may be able to find the info................

This is for lynne, holst, and teachers everywhere, as as mwp just said, teachers are saints, and this is one of the reasons why.
I received the following email from one of my Adam friends that lives in LA:

Too Busy for a Friend.....

One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name. Then she told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down. It took the remainder of the class period to finish their assignment, and as the students left the room, each one handed in the papers.

That Saturday, the teacher wrote down the name of each student on a separate sheet of paper, and listed what everyone else had said about that individual.

On Monday she gave each student his or her list. Before long, the entire class was smiling. 'Really?' she heard whispered. 'I never knew that I meant anything to anyone!' and, 'I didn't know others liked me so much,' were most of the comments.
No one ever mentioned those papers in class again. She never knew if they discussed them after class or with their parents, but it didn't matter. The exercise had accomplished its purpose. The students were happy with themselves and one another. That group of students moved on.


Several years later, one of the students was killed in Vietnam and his teacher attended the funeral of that special student. She had never seen a serviceman in a military coffin before. He looked so handsome, so mature. The church was packed with his friends. One by one those who loved him took a last walk by the coffin. The teacher was the last one to bless the coffin.

As she stood there, one of the soldiers who acted as pallbearer came up to her. 'Were you Mark's math teacher?' he asked. She nodded: 'yes.' Then he said: 'Mark talked about you a lot.'

After the funeral, most of Mark's former classmates went together to a luncheon. Mark's mother and father were there, obviously waiting to speak with his teacher. 'We want to show you something,' his father said, taking a wallet out of his pocket 'They found this on Mark when he was killed. We thought you might recognize it.' Opening the billfold, he carefully removed two worn pieces of notebook paper that had obviously been taped, folded and refolded many times. The teacher knew without looking that the papers were the ones on which she had listed all the good things each of Mark's classmates had said about him. 'Thank you so much for doing that,' Mark's mother said. 'As you can see, Mark treasured it.'

All of Mark's former classmates started to gather around. Charlie smiled rather sheepishly and said, 'I still have my list. It's in the top drawer of my desk at home.' Chuck's wife said, 'Chuck asked me to put his in our wedding album.' 'I have mine too,' Marilyn said. 'It's in my diary'. Then Vicki, another classmate, reached into her pocketbook, took out her wallet and showed her worn and frazzled list to the group. 'I carry this with me at all times,' Vicki said and without batting an eyelash, she continued: 'I think we all saved our lists'.

That's when the teacher finally sat down and cried. She cried for Mark and for all his friends who would never see him again.

The density of people in society is so thick that we forget that life will end one day. And we don't know when that one day will be.
So please, tell the people you love and care for, that they are special and important. Tell them, before it is too late.

Sending love and hugs to all my wonderful friends here at Atop.
I have made good friends all over the world because of our love of Adam, and the amazing people here on this board.
Thanks again, Adam!

talon!

glad to see you here, and although I have been gone most of the summer, I really appreciate all your imput on this board.

There are lots of bands that still perform with their original band name but with not all the same members. I saw Foghat a couple of years ago, and only one of the members was original. The music was good, the lead singer was a young guy,and didn't sound the same as the original lead singer, but everyone still enjoyed the music.

I guess with Queen, Freddie was the main attraction because he was the lead singer, but, Roger and Brian also wrote songs, and they all collaborated on their unique sound. Brian, IMO, is a truly brilliant guitarist, and he can shred a guitar like crazy, I was so impressed with his playing during the QueenBert concerts, and ditto for Roger.

I think it is sad and also ridiculous for those who say they should pack up and fade away just because they lost their lead singer.
As evidenced by this amazing summer, Queen definitely Will Rock You, and the music they performed was definitely Queen. Guess you can tell I don't worship FM.

NoAngel, brilliant as usual, and I hope Brian & Roger get to read this.

Q as always, love everything you say.

Catz, keep em coming, and thanks for sharing and entertaining us!

Here's my contribution to the "Must Have" collection, and it took me forever to find this.

Also, I realize this will be unpopular with some of yall here, but D A M N N N N
how I would love to see Adam in a romantic role opposite a woman, would def be one of my all time "to die for" moments, just to see Adam and be able to fantasize about it all.
This vid gets me all kinds of giddy and send tingles down my spine, my whole body, really......................



I do love Adam just the way he is, and being gay is a huge part of who he is and it makes him such a sexy and facinating and lovable MF, and I wouldn't change him for anything.
Still, I would love love love to see him in a hot sexy scene with some beautiful girl.

I'm running to hide now before peeps start throwing things at me :wub: :wub: