Gaucho, I absolutely agree with you. I know I am insanely jealous of gorgeous, clever, sophisticated, multilingual, world travelers (like you) who actually get to live in my favorite city in the whole world, NYC.

I just reread this thread and am fascinated by its development. Commencing 6/12/02, we Seattlites and BellissilmAA were all having a fine time planning our party with the delightful BellissimAA, when out of the blue on the 17th, Dhammer53 posts:

Not a very pleasant welcome to FT, IMHO. Think about it. Why would somebody who is going to meet us all in less than a week post a false picture?? Obviously it was her real picture.

Then all hell broke lose with people first mysteriously defending Dan's erroneous position, and then, apparently, defending their own position, even after they were proven wrong. As my hero Spock would say, Fascinating!

FlyerTalk is a wonderful, generous worldwide community, unique, I do believe in its openess and curiosity. In this instance some members of our community made some questionable posts based on inaccurate assumptions or loyalty to their friends. They were wrong and now it is simply time to apologize (retract) as graciously as possible, and move on.

BellissimAA is a lovely, smart, well-mannered, funny, spunky, talented young woman who just happens to be lucky enough to be very beautiful as well. Good for her! Good for us. We are lucky to have people like her in our community and I hope she sticks around and becomes a regular.

p.s. BellissimAA, if you come to Portland to the brewfest, Travelwearyand I will protect you from the VSOI crowd.


[This message has been edited by Punki (edited 06-25-2002).]