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johnfowles · 07-30-2004, 02:59 PM

Again there was a single obvious common highlight on the two principle message boards.
Several posts revealed the discovery that Gord would be appearing on Canadian Idol next month.I had two "lowlights" during the past week:-
In common with at least two other Gordfans Bruna Zanelli in England and Laurel Hoover from Vancouver WA (are you reading this Ron Jones in Vancouver BC??) I am being plagued with what might be the annoying atack by some sort of ad-ware. Although a scan by the freeware Ad-aware program(me) detected and then deleted some 57 suspect files I still get an objectionable search site by some perverse outfit operating from outhost.info constantly insinuating itself as my Internet Explorer Home page.And another equally unxwelcome outfit going by the name of casinopallazo repeatedly places an unwanted connecting link "on-line show" on my desktop. On top of that once I do connect I am constantly disconected requiring a reboot because another dial-upo connection allegedly is using MY modem".I sispect that this might or might not be connected with a spurious "phantom" connection calling itself "700104" that keeps being setup in the My Computer dial-up networking folder which would try to connect to a stupid phone number 12345!! However as I have several other silly issues with my laptop I will sometime give in and carry out a full system recovery which means saving imoportant files; reloading a stack of drivers and favo(u)rite program(me)s. I have promised myself that this time once all is hunky-dory I'll make an updated and complete recovery back-up CD-R.
My second lowlight concerns the ignoring of my well-intentioned campaign to get more fans "certified" in displaying pictures on the corfid Discussion Forum. Despite in my highlights last week trying again to encourage regulars on the Newsgroup to try their hand at this potentially most useful technique the result is zilch.
In particular I singled out the following:-
"so how about it Derek (a nice pic of Palo Alto),
Peter Treloar (an outback photo perhaps),
David Bradford isn't there anything beautiful in Sweden other than your wife and their furniture??
Cathy (the beauty of Northern Maine under snow perhaps)
Charlene (Beautiful downtown Whitby perhaps)
Kimberley a view of the ocean at the end of the road perhaps"
No response from any Newsgroupers even though the thread degenerated into a basic discussion on Derek's state of mind(lessness) to which two of the above contributed.
the thread also produced a fascinating glimpse into those far off AOL chat sessions.
So far other than the usually challenged Charlene to whom I awarded a certificate a long time ago now as far as i can see not one Newsgroup regular has made even an unsuccessful attempt at this.
Surely not everybody cannot be simultaneously on vacation???
I therefore declare that this past week saw no other highlights on the Newsgroup
Indeed last Sunday the 25th not a single new post was made.
But at least one relative newbie on corfid the above-mentioned Laurel Hoover qualified brilliantly by showing a picture of Gord with that Dylan fellow thus joining champion displayer the "statiomaster who entertained us with pix of the now-famous Lake. Also in this topic at:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002423.html
was a link I reproduced to a fascinating topic on Gord's late lamented pet Yellow canary Lyle (you just gotta Love-it!!) and his fate acording to Al the Watchman which just might have been that Gord...
"ended up eating this same canary on a canoe trip down the Chiniguntha during the 80's"
see:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002016.html
In yet another surreal topic Al had claimed to have rescued Gord from his canoe on the Chiniguntha which I discovered was itself in fact a tributary of the mighty Chimichunga

Another corfid highlight was the revelation by the pugilistic poster previously known as DMD3 that he was actually pacifically named "Douglas McArthur Dowdy 3"
In another topic the ever alert Annie from Auburn NY beat me to report on an interesting article giving the "real Harry Tracy story":- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002439.html
Bruna/silverheels tried again to rekindle interest in GordfestUk 2005:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002301.html
Well that's it for this week now to try to get a long enough connection to post this!!
H yes I'll be in the chat room again this evening at 9 pm EST at:- http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot/chat
and hope to see more than the 5 who attended last Friday
John Fowles

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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot

07-30-2004, 02:59 PM	#7
johnfowles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Jersey U.S.A. ex UK and Canada Posts: 4,846	Again there was a single obvious common highlight on the two principle message boards. Several posts revealed the discovery that Gord would be appearing on Canadian Idol next month.I had two "lowlights" during the past week:- In common with at least two other Gordfans Bruna Zanelli in England and Laurel Hoover from Vancouver WA (are you reading this Ron Jones in Vancouver BC??) I am being plagued with what might be the annoying atack by some sort of ad-ware. Although a scan by the freeware Ad-aware program(me) detected and then deleted some 57 suspect files I still get an objectionable search site by some perverse outfit operating from outhost.info constantly insinuating itself as my Internet Explorer Home page.And another equally unxwelcome outfit going by the name of casinopallazo repeatedly places an unwanted connecting link "on-line show" on my desktop. On top of that once I do connect I am constantly disconected requiring a reboot because another dial-upo connection allegedly is using MY modem".I sispect that this might or might not be connected with a spurious "phantom" connection calling itself "700104" that keeps being setup in the My Computer dial-up networking folder which would try to connect to a stupid phone number 12345!! However as I have several other silly issues with my laptop I will sometime give in and carry out a full system recovery which means saving imoportant files; reloading a stack of drivers and favo(u)rite program(me)s. I have promised myself that this time once all is hunky-dory I'll make an updated and complete recovery back-up CD-R. My second lowlight concerns the ignoring of my well-intentioned campaign to get more fans "certified" in displaying pictures on the corfid Discussion Forum. Despite in my highlights last week trying again to encourage regulars on the Newsgroup to try their hand at this potentially most useful technique the result is zilch. In particular I singled out the following:- "so how about it Derek (a nice pic of Palo Alto), Peter Treloar (an outback photo perhaps), David Bradford isn't there anything beautiful in Sweden other than your wife and their furniture?? Cathy (the beauty of Northern Maine under snow perhaps) Charlene (Beautiful downtown Whitby perhaps) Kimberley a view of the ocean at the end of the road perhaps" No response from any Newsgroupers even though the thread degenerated into a basic discussion on Derek's state of mind(lessness) to which two of the above contributed. the thread also produced a fascinating glimpse into those far off AOL chat sessions. So far other than the usually challenged Charlene to whom I awarded a certificate a long time ago now as far as i can see not one Newsgroup regular has made even an unsuccessful attempt at this. Surely not everybody cannot be simultaneously on vacation??? I therefore declare that this past week saw no other highlights on the Newsgroup Indeed last Sunday the 25th not a single new post was made. But at least one relative newbie on corfid the above-mentioned Laurel Hoover qualified brilliantly by showing a picture of Gord with that Dylan fellow thus joining champion displayer the "statiomaster who entertained us with pix of the now-famous Lake. Also in this topic at:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002423.html was a link I reproduced to a fascinating topic on Gord's late lamented pet Yellow canary Lyle (you just gotta Love-it!!) and his fate acording to Al the Watchman which just might have been that Gord... "ended up eating this same canary on a canoe trip down the Chiniguntha during the 80's" see:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002016.html In yet another surreal topic Al had claimed to have rescued Gord from his canoe on the Chiniguntha which I discovered was itself in fact a tributary of the mighty Chimichunga Another corfid highlight was the revelation by the pugilistic poster previously known as DMD3 that he was actually pacifically named "Douglas McArthur Dowdy 3" In another topic the ever alert Annie from Auburn NY beat me to report on an interesting article giving the "real Harry Tracy story":- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002439.html Bruna/silverheels tried again to rekindle interest in GordfestUk 2005:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002301.html Well that's it for this week now to try to get a long enough connection to post this!! H yes I'll be in the chat room again this evening at 9 pm EST at:- http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot/chat and hope to see more than the 5 who attended last Friday John Fowles ------------------ My Gordon Lightfoot webring starts at http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot