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johnfowles · 07-21-2006, 09:49 AM

Welcome on board Jeff enjoy yourself here!!
It really warms my heart whenever I read of yet another Lighthead admitting that they previously thought they were the only Lightfoot fans in the world I and countless other Brits used to feel the same way.I realised in 1997 that as I told Wayne Francis of http://www.lightfoot.ca, after he had opined that Gord would never play England again
"I must get over to North America then to see him one more time before he and I get too old"
Truly prophetic words bearing in mind the close brushes with the grim reaper I had in 2000 and Gord 2 years later. In the event as several here know in 1999 I went into the Friday evening chat room (see below for advert) met a super fellow fan, and luckily made the pilgrimage to Massey Hall's House of Gord that November married her and am now in New Jersey and eagerly looking forwards to our next magical Lightfoot experience in New Brunswick. that's the University/Hospital city in NJ (It was incorporated as a town in 1736 and chartered as a city in 1784) not the confusingly named copy-cat Canadian province
(The Province of New Brunswick was therefore officially created by Sir Thomas Carleton on August 16, 1784.)
that produces fine fans like young Jessie-Joe here
Anyway the point is if you are a keen fan you really MUST make the effort to witness Gord in action before it is to late (the man is after all almost 68 and though we hope not thinking of retiring just yet life is unfortunately finite)
Now come on you cannot expect us to be impressed by your bleat
"Its about 6 hours away from us and I think this is as close as he'll be to us" Big deal!!
in 1999 I travelled for about 15 hours and 3000 plus miles
soconsider yourself blessed that it is only 6 hours there will be a number of erstwhile Brits and others flying much longer than that toToronto for the privelage next November plus possibly even some attempting go learn to walk upright from Australia too
and there will be several potential friends from corfid at Vienna,VA,so go if only to repay that resident of the original Vienna,Austria, young Florian who owns this superb corfid web site
Ok that is one advertisement.
Now the next I just mentioned the chat room. we have kept it going and a session is held every Friday at 9 PM EST.
just go to:-
http://www.glchat.notlong.com
which should open the detailed page on my web site at:-
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot/chat/
Look for the blue button which should work unless you have a very new computer with no Java applet handling facility.
Jessie-Joe that probably includes you if so hit the red button after first hitting the green button and getting the free programme mIRC
John Fowles

[ July 21, 2006, 10:35: Message edited by: johnfowles ]

07-21-2006, 09:49 AM	#6
johnfowles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Jersey U.S.A. ex UK and Canada Posts: 4,846	Welcome on board Jeff enjoy yourself here!! It really warms my heart whenever I read of yet another Lighthead admitting that they previously thought they were the only Lightfoot fans in the world I and countless other Brits used to feel the same way.I realised in 1997 that as I told Wayne Francis of http://www.lightfoot.ca, after he had opined that Gord would never play England again "I must get over to North America then to see him one more time before he and I get too old" Truly prophetic words bearing in mind the close brushes with the grim reaper I had in 2000 and Gord 2 years later. In the event as several here know in 1999 I went into the Friday evening chat room (see below for advert) met a super fellow fan, and luckily made the pilgrimage to Massey Hall's House of Gord that November married her and am now in New Jersey and eagerly looking forwards to our next magical Lightfoot experience in New Brunswick. that's the University/Hospital city in NJ (It was incorporated as a town in 1736 and chartered as a city in 1784) not the confusingly named copy-cat Canadian province (The Province of New Brunswick was therefore officially created by Sir Thomas Carleton on August 16, 1784.) that produces fine fans like young Jessie-Joe here Anyway the point is if you are a keen fan you really MUST make the effort to witness Gord in action before it is to late (the man is after all almost 68 and though we hope not thinking of retiring just yet life is unfortunately finite) Now come on you cannot expect us to be impressed by your bleat "Its about 6 hours away from us and I think this is as close as he'll be to us" Big deal!! in 1999 I travelled for about 15 hours and 3000 plus miles soconsider yourself blessed that it is only 6 hours there will be a number of erstwhile Brits and others flying much longer than that toToronto for the privelage next November plus possibly even some attempting go learn to walk upright from Australia too and there will be several potential friends from corfid at Vienna,VA,so go if only to repay that resident of the original Vienna,Austria, young Florian who owns this superb corfid web site Ok that is one advertisement. Now the next I just mentioned the chat room. we have kept it going and a session is held every Friday at 9 PM EST. just go to:- http://www.glchat.notlong.com which should open the detailed page on my web site at:- http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot/chat/ Look for the blue button which should work unless you have a very new computer with no Java applet handling facility. Jessie-Joe that probably includes you if so hit the red button after first hitting the green button and getting the free programme mIRC John Fowles [ July 21, 2006, 10:35: Message edited by: johnfowles ]