What's in a Name?

[mountaingigi]

C'mon kids, it will be like deja vu all over again.

1. Who are you and what have you done with trollmama? ( I'm mountaingigi, poster extraordinaire)
2. Stole the troll? What is going on here? ( I changed my user name)
3. Could be a kidnapping. Let's see if there's a ransom demand from "mountaingigi" (there is - one million smackeroos).
4. OK.  The ransom demand is in.  Happily, it doesn't specify the currency, so if we send 1,000,000 in Guinean Francs, it'll set us back only about a hundred and ten bucks.  (it's been changed to smackeroos)
5. We can get back to OP when OP gets back to us.  Without photos of the bottom and the mark, we're at a standstill.  In the meantime, we have some fun and it keeps the thread towards the top.  Win-win, as they say. (bring back the fun)

Okay Argon, bring on the ransom note. I'll take the $110 to make Maxine happy, and Sonoma can tell us why he/she/it did a name change.

[mountaingigi]

Talk about an inside joke ... this thread will be it.

[argon38]

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@mountaingigi wrote:
bring back the fun

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Amen.

[sonomabarn67]

"...he, she, it..."

Really? I'm here because I know a boatload about art & antiques and like to share what I know and I get reduced to ...he,she, it...? Really? Must be about Spring Break time for me.

Watercolor not a painting?

[mountaingigi]

Had I known it couldn't be done, I would not have asked the mod to move our remarks to a new thread. Instead, they were deleted. Now I'm sorry I asked, but I didn't know if the OP would be offended with our hijacking. 

Perhaps I'll take this opportunity to share a few things, which I've been meaning to do anyway.

Stay tuned.

[argon38]

I'm wondering if I should maybe take the plunge, be adventurous and change my name to argon39.

[mountaingigi]

You could get really crazy and do 38 1/4 (or 38.25). Work your way up in increments.

[mountaingigi]

I'll be sharing a watercolor here soon, that I think you'll enjoy ... and I won't be calling it a painting.

[mountaingigi]

Actually, I'm not going to post that here. I'm going to let this thread die a natural death. Sorry I spoiled all the fun in the other one.

Thanks to you and Argon and Maxine - we'll always have Paris.

[argon38]

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@mountaingigi wrote:
Actually, I'm not going to post that here.

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Just as well, it would've been off-topic

[mountaingigi]

I don't know why I included it as a choice ... I'm sorry.

[a_rootie_tootie]

Well, I have no clue what's going on (which is fairly usual), but it sounds like it was fun!

[shirleys809304]

must have been a tempest in a teapot

[a_rootie_tootie]

what if it was a teapot in a tempest?

[shirleys809304]

you better duck!  don't want to be clobbered by a teapot