Since I know that a lot of folks rarely visit the 'Small Talk' forum I'm taking the liberty of moving The Watchman's excellent post over here. It would be very cool if all corfid members put themselves on the map. Here it is:

I saw this on another site and thought it would be cool to see on a virtual map where all Lightfoot's fans are located. I set up an account there for us and it's very easy to add yourself. No personal information is needed and you can also post a picture. The default setting is for North America but you can zoom in and out wherever you want.

http://www.frappr.com/corfid

How fun! Great idea!
Kimberly

The directory notes that our #1278 member signed up yesterday. The new map has 28 members listed. So we've only got 1,250 to go. Not bad for only a few days.

Bill :)

BillW it was a boring day, so I did some searching. There are 64 pages of registered members, 18 of those have listings of people that registered but never left a post, 16 pages of people that left 1 post, out of the last 30 pages 21 pages of registered users had less than 20 posts. Wonder how many still read this site and just never post.

I'm there! No photo yet.

I added myself...not sure if I did it right!

As a gracious present to the women of the world I have added myself. Steady ladies, steady...If you must swoon then please take a number and do it in an orderly fashion.

I'm on and in! :) That wasn't so bad now! Can i have a lolly? :D

Very cool BillW. I've now put myself onto the map. It's a neat thing we've created.

Great work ! We've got 42 on the map so far. How about we shoot for 100 by year end ?

Bill :)

Hello again,

Just putting this back up top so we can get over 100 members on the map by December 31, 2005 and win the big prize.

Bill :)

Oopps, just uploaded a pic and somehow got 2 up there. How do we delete?

That is actually Mr Nasium quite simple. Just click on the link to "Contact admin" which I have just done having on my first attempt contrived to make a stoopid typo in my own name
and leave a suitable message and with luck the requisite Admin guy , which I assume to be the erstwhile watchman Al will sort you out.
In passing I noted the pretty canine picature displayed by "someone". Is that Mary an indication that you are a bitch??
I thought there was a very nice shot of you there before. feeling shy??
Not so the Sydney hooligan who chose to display himself I presume squatting on his outside "dunny"
I am most impressed with the mapping facility which looks like the handiwork of Google earth no it might be digitalglobe/earth atlas.
Whatever even with my slow dial up with patience and after I got used to the zoom and direction controls I was able to capture the following small screenshots
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/sherborne/map1.jpg

the general Bristol/Yeovil/Southampton area I know so well having been my own company's salesman for nigh on 30 years.
now to zoom in:-

http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/sherborne/map2.jpg

Nearly there

http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/sherborne/map3.jpg

Bingo!

Now lets try the "satellite" view:-

http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/sherborne/satellite1.jpg

Nar too much cloud (this is England remember)
Oh well it'll have to be the "hybrid" view:-

http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/sherborne/hybrid1.jpg

Wonderful
John Fowles
See the children of the earth Who wake to find the table bare
and for a change
When I stand on my own sod It feels so good to be home, by God .

OK. I'm number 83. But just look at that chick in the corner banging her glass on the table and wolf whistling at your legs...

Thanks very much JF I have done as you suggested. If the requisite Admin guy ,the erstwhile watchman Al, reads this post, I apologise for my perfunctory message, in attempting to paragraph my request, the message was sent.

Thanks. I got a deal for you. It's a three for one. I'll take your Mother-in-Law in trade for my three siblings? All three live on the west coast and they're too cheap to buy a plane ticket to come and visit you, and the only time they'll ever call you is if someone in the family they don't like dies. Whadda ya say?

Oh, hmmm, gee, did that maybe sound a little bitter? Can't imagine why that would be :)

Well Not Allright
I have heard frem Bru that when she tried to show another picture of herself (her existing one is a very nice study of her droolling over a "Lightfoot Trail" signboard in some obscure Ontario town they call Orillia) she is told that London and Surrey sre both invalid names!! I tried Croydon and Shirley and got the same stoopid result.
I checked the site's FAQs and found a provision to request adding more places to their obviously woefully inadeqate database
I also note that forum founder Florian has yet to reveal himself but in today's UK Travel Telegraph email is a short article extolling the unique blend of the historic and the modern of his home city at:-
http://www.telegraph.otc-uk.com/holi...e=Dec05-Vienna
http://image.onlinetravel.com/conten...a/Vienna_1.gif
John Fowles
Travel with me if you choose I promise to protect thee

Oh dear.
Mr Fowles yet again puts 2 & 2 together and comes up with 5.
Its not the names of the towns John ! Its the identity of the requester. Use a pseudonym. Try Sydney Steve ! This name engenders serious credibility & respect (and is nearly as acceptable as American Express around the world...)
John has overlooked the fact that most of the modern software will not recognise questions from anyone with an internet history of being of a certain sort (if you Corfiders catch my drift)[lol]...

This doesn't explain Bru's problems though..Must have been a glitch in her case...

That's rich coming from somebody sitting and no doubt straining on the can in the anti-podes
http://64.34.180.159/pics4/i/2005121...3091e5c44204f0
deep in the doo doo in his backyard
who is obviously full of it if you get my drift
John Fowles
obvious lyric quote:-
Hang on ye drifters now
You got so much to go and gamble on
Watch out for the shifting sand
Note young Stephen the spelling of the two words starting with an "s" and ending with "ing" that
I have used neither of witch/which describes whatever it is you are trying to do in that disgusting picture

[ December 23, 2005, 11:28: Message edited by: johnfowles ]

Mr Fowles, as we know is one of the few objects of his own vintage NOT to be displayed in a museum. BUT nobody would suggest he is not also tricky.
Corfid folk will be well aware that in the photo he has used digital trickery to discredit me .

The original photo before he got at it with a Fowlsian Furphy follows:

http://img320.imageshack.us/img320/2...ntent5843b.jpg
Sydney Steve

MY EYES!! MY EYES!!

I'm going to OZ!

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Mindful that certain readers here might object to a continuing series of acrid exchanges being made in jest by that Sydney (j)erk and myself I have now deletede my latest rebuttal and reposted it on the small talk topic of the same title at:-
http://www.corfid.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ul...c&f=2&t=000738
John Fowles
Where love had been misplaced His chance to waste And if you saw him now
think of the time you waste

am bringing this to the top to enable newcomers to add themselves to the map.

one more time, c'mon everybody add yourself to the map.

Bill :)