Welcome, and a plea

Wow! I'm impressed by our commenters today. All excellent. I welcome them and any new visitors to this little corner of the web.

But once more, I have to make my humble plea. I've made it many times, and some are no doubt sick of it. But I hope it's not in vain.

My simple request is that commenters pick a name with which to post their comments.
Please, please, please do NOT simply post as anonymous.

At the bottom of the comments window is a place where you have three choices. Either to post as a registered user, to post as anonymous, or to post as "other".

PLEASE do not post as "anonymous". Simply click the "other" button and type in whatever name suits you. It would be double-cool if you'd stay with that same name each time you post.

Why? Well, for one thing, if someone wants to reply to someone else who has posted a comment further up the comment window, and 3/4 of the comments are by "anonymous", it makes it damn hard to specify who you're replying to!

And for another purpose, it makes it impossible to associate comments with an individual commenter. So what, you say? Well, that really dillutes things and takes away from any sense of community here. You should pick a name and stand behind your comments. When almost everyone is posting under the same deadly-dull "anonymous" name, it's hard to get an idea of how many different individuals are posting, and we can't tell who's brilliant and who's not. ;-)

I can't enforce this rule with a gun, but I am asking, for about the mungogingdillionth time, please avoid posting as "anonymous" unless absolutely postitively necessary.

If you follow these simple requests, you'll have a warm glow of satisfaction and your love life will improve wildly, if your hair is thinning, it will suddenly start to grow luxuriously, strangers will smile at you on the street, there'll be a bounce in your step, your kids will all realize how wise you truly are, and start being grateful they have such a great parent or parents, you'll start getting the best parking spots, those unwanted pounds will melt away, your stocks will go through the roof, food will taste better, and you'll be able to eat as much of every food you love as you want and never gain a pound, you won't have to exercise, and still, you'll be muscular and fit and your doctor will marvel at your amazingly good health, if your breasts are too small, they'll get larger, and if they're too big, they'll get smaller, you'll never be mystified by technology, your relatives will stop being such annoying jerks, your car will get better gas milage, your kid's grades will improve, your luck will be unstopable if you gamble, people will notice you when you want to be noticed, and leave you alone when you don't, your boss will realize what a true genius you are and offer a promotion with a huge raise, you'll write that book you always wanted to write and it will fly off the shelves, you'll look good no matter what you wear, Hollywood will offer an obscene amount of money for the right to film your life story, your favorite actor, actress, or musician will start writing YOU fan-mail, you'll find all those things you've lost that are driving you nuts, your bags will never be lost by the airline, you'll over-hear beautiful women or handsome men (as the case may be) talking to each other about how sexy you are, you'll always find the fastest check-out lane at the store, you'll always get great tickets to whatever sporting event or concert you want to go to, your team will always win in close games, you'll always know just what to say, no matter what the situation, your car will never rust or get a dent, your checks will never bounce, dogs and children will be drawn to you, you'll become a fantastic dancer, and a little ray of sunshine will follow you wherever you go.
So... it's up to you.