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how many members are there on ABCtales?

just curious .....

andrew pack
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Re the editorial staff using pen-names for their contributions. I just figured this was so people wouldn't curry favour by rating their work 5 all the time and sending them gushing fan-mail. I.e, so that they, like everyone else on the site gets an objective view of their work. A bigger mystery is that there are 3 cherrypicking editors. I'm guessing that Emily Dubberley and Mark Y-B are two - but who is the other ? Why are they so silent in the forum. (Unless it's Tony Cook - in which case, sorry) In fact, to be para - how do we now that Mark and Emily are their real names at all - maybe THOSE are the pen-names. "Paranoid - is that what they're saying about me now ? "
Mississippi
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Are we to believe that your wife would marry you only on condition you took her name as part of yours? Whether you would make up a name like yours was never in doubt in my mind, after all you did come up with the 'David St Bonk' didn't you. (Incidentally were you bragging or were you really that good?) I have to confess that you have been a little less evasive about the identities of the cherry pickers than Diana who talked a good tale and tried to make me believe she had answered the question. At least you openly declined to tell the truth!
stormy-petrel
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All I know about the editors is that they cannot spell. I had a story banned from the site (far too well written and humourous for the serious ones to understand) with the following message: Your story has been regected (sic) because blah blah blah. Can't be a typo, even two fingered me knows the g is a whole h away from j! Perhaps this should be a new thread. "Banned stories - post your email here to view a copy! - Age ID required of course" Much love stormy ps This hasn't affected me of course. As long as I stay on the medication and steer clear of keyboards in daylight I'm OK thanks.
alison
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now i am seriously wondering if robert IS liana ...
Emily Dubberley
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I can take some of the mystery out... No, I'm not a cherry-picker. However, I do submit my work to the site under a pen-name, for exactly the reasons set out above so that's another mystery for you (although if people would *really* curry favour by sending me fan-mail, then maybe I should reconsider...) And no, I'm not Liana, before you ask
Robert?
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Foiled again! And I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for that pesky Mississippi and Alison and their clever detective work! I thought I'd get away with it too. Especially with the Wendy Cope discussion thread - had did you work out that this was having a conversation with my alter ego?
Robert
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Oops I've just remebered the tendency of these boards to cause confusion, and I'm regretting my last message! So for the avoidance of any doubt, confusion, lawsuits etc...I AM NOT LIANA
auntie jackie
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Sorry Robert not good enough, your too adult. You can fool some of the..............etc etc etc. AJ
ivoryfishbone
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will the real liana/robert please stand up? ... elsewhere on these message boards that shameless flirt mississippi has deliberately made the confusion worse ... and more to the point i am opening a book on emily's true ABC identity ... who IS emily ... opening bets please ...
Mississippi
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I think Emily is a transexual who used to prowl the net calling herself the David St. Bonker but whose REAL name is Liana, aka as Mark Shoutand Brown! How am I doing gorgeous?
ivoryfishbone
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hmmmmm ..... not a bad start ....
Emily Dubberley
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you're close sweetie ;-)
alison
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yes lianabert/robiana ... you have been rumbled ...
Mississippi
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Not quite Liana, and take my word for it, you wouldn't want to be me. I have inside information and even I don't want to be!
Antoinette
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So Em, Has your pen-name been cherry picked? Just curious!! A
Antoinette
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By the way, I'm not Liana either!!!!!
Mississippi
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Now, Now Antoinette, we don't want to go opening up old wounds do we?
Emily Dubberley
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Antoinette, a few of my pieces have been cherry-picked and I agree with everyone who's been saying what a buzz it is when your work gets chosen (but the way, I love your poem, The Worm)
Bobby McGee
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I know somebody that posts on here - she wouldn't think twice about using another name Heh! Heh!
Bobby McGee
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Hey, Liana ... that long thread that got started with Carly asking about the authors' rights? That kept somebody I know coming back ... I suspected it was cooked up for that purpose. She's still reading and writing too. Hmmmmm ... wonder who .....
Carly Svamvour
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Who is Bobby McGee, anyway?
Mississippi
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Ask Kris Kristoferson!
Janis
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I heard that a couple of my friends are here?
Mississippi
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Dear Carly, did you know someone is posing as you?
mark yelland-brown
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Dear Ivoryfishbone, there are 1794 people who have registered and 543 people who have submitted work. And it's growing all the time!
ivoryfishbone
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thanks mark! x x x (i wonder why the other 1200 odd dont submit????)
Mississippi
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Not all people who read poetry or novels write them!
ivoryfishbone
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good point mississippi! :)
gabrielle
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and maybe some of them ( the 1200) are agents or publishers! I wish......
Robert
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But you don't have to register just to read stuff, do you? I think there are 1200 people with some pretty serious explaining to do.
Mississippi
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Serious? Come on Robert you cannot be serious!
ivoryfishbone
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yes robert ... we want answers and we want them NOW
Robert
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Deadly serious, Mississippi. 1200 strangers in our midst should not be taken lightly! Who are they? Where are they from? What do they do? What do they want? I haven't slept since Sunday.
Mississippi
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Ok, here's my theory. I have already ascertained that there are phantoms present on the site. You have I hear you say. Explain yourself. Well in the coure of another discussion in which I took part it transpired that our chief exec. no less resorted to subterfuge to put his point of view anonymously. How did the cunning little bugger do this? He simply used another name. So if it's the done thing, endorsed by the damagement, sorry I mean management to have mutiple aliases and you multiply that across the membership you have everybody with 3.3 names. Now I can see that the .3 might present a problem to some people but this is an average so some might actually have half a name! Anyway you get my drift? So Robert, the bottom line is are you actually Liana?
Tony Cook
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As the Chief Exec I can assure you that my own writing and my comments in this discussion group are all submitted in my own name! Oh, and we're over 1800 registered members now and growing fast so get all those friends and relations registered and help us grow!
Mississippi
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Come on Tony, I'm only kidding!
Mississippi
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Oops! I knew sooner or laterI'd have to end up apologising to some one. That's what happens when you shoot your mouth off! Sorry Tony, I should have checked the other thread, then I would have known it was Mark and not you that used a nother name. It serves me right for being too quick to get a cheap laugh. I'll try to be more meticulous in future.
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