It's a cultural thing Mr RLWALTR. There was a plague of Jeremyishness in New Zealand in the latter stages of WW II, and some of us ended up scarred for life with the marks. There was no known treatment for this at the time, and I often reflect on life's dirty tricks, thinking I could have been a Zane, Xavier, Clint, Ken - or even Ralph (or is that Rafe?). I've already introduced myself on Bullamanka - about 3 years ago - but the announcement was received with all the effervescence of a lead balloon. But for those few who omitted to archive my auto-introduction: I'm an architect in private practice in Devonport, Auckland - one of earth's favoured places. I was converted to preservation around 1988, fortuitously encouraged by a visit from the remarkable Henry Chambers. My company has managed to make a respectable living from this stuff since then, and the place of heritage and the business of its conservation have become dangerously mainstream in the past 4 or 5 years. I delivered a paper on one of my projects (the 1841 Pompallier Printing House) at one of the APT conferences, and this was subsequently published in the APT journal. Otherwise, I'm perfectly normal (apart from being named Jeremy). I've cast myself on the collective bosom again in the hope that it remains more active - if less technically specific - than Preservation_L, which seems to have enjoyed a post mortem spasm in the past 24 hours. The fact is, although I'm desperately and unrepentantly foreign, I have always rather enjoyed my conversations with North American colleagues, and these discussions tide me over between APT meetings (I've been to 4 in the past ten years). So forgive me if I listen in to savour the flavour of the discussions (you'll note I can't spell either), and if you don't mind, I'll just lurk away quietly for a while. If you need to know more - my waist size etc - just let me know. Jeremy (the first) Salmond Reed Architects 58 Calliope Road Devonport Auckland 1309 New Zealand tel: +64 9 445 4-45 fax: +64 9 445 4111 [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Kitty tortillas! [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of [log in to unmask] Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 12:06 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Night of the Living Jeremys In a message dated 11/15/2003 5:30:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: A question for Mr. Follett on the issue of international lurking. Was Jeremy penalized for his self acknowledged lurking or was his removal an act of mercy? Wait just a goldarned minute here. Is this Jeremy the same Jeremy who asked about Pennsylvania earlier in the day, or are there TWO Jeremy/ies, one a Pennsylvanian and the other a Kiwi? And if somebody's trying to convince us that there are two of them, are we also supposed to believe that it's a completely random coincidence out of the clear blue sky, unrelated to anything else in the known universe, that they both surfaced on the very same day? And that it's another coincidence that this happened exactly one week after a total lunar eclipse, and two weeks after Halloween???? I think everybody better be on their guard; this could be like the Cicadas popping up out of the earth all of a sudden, only worse. We don't want to have to go around raking up (and stepping on) dead Jeremy husks all over our front lawns, do we? On the other hand, neither of the alleged Jeremys have been seen by any dues-paying pinheads yet, as far as I know, and has only appeared on our computers, so maybe this so-called Jeremy is a virus, or a worm, or something of an even lower order than a cicada. Ralph