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  1. Leo is large hearted, noble…..
    In the cyber universe, there is a 13th birth sign called Troll. That’s undoubtedly your sign.
    Mary Goodman says, trolls are fearsome creatures, hunt in groups and can sense each other across several incarnations.

  2. deuce says happy birthday to the birthday “deuce” guys! Hilarious. #credit to hawkeye
    A Muzz fan registering herself as Rafa fan means her intentions were malafide ab initio. A troll citizen by birth! Eligible to be President of Troll Nation!!!

      • btw i think that 2016 ie holdserve appeared in the article which went something like 10 questions for the atp for next year – obviously that isn’t the exact title but summat like that. there were a couple of pieces by ricky in december on what was going to happen next year in the slams and rankings. she appeared in one of those as 2016.
        it could of course be the case that holdserve and mary just sounded very similar at that point and are not the same person.
        when i get a chance i will find the posts but am too tired now..

        • also hawks i have to say that i don’t think mary is ritb. i don’t see their writing style as similar and they have a different temperament – ritb has a dreadful temper but she is hotblooded and blows up which is a totally different mindset from a troll who is manipulative and systematic.
          also i noticed that ritb and mary aren’t even posting on the same time-scale!
          also mary has a lot of ‘tells’ in her posts. ie she tries to show off a lot that she is erudite and full of learning. that’s not ritb. also she constantly goes on about how logical she is and so on..again quite unlike ritb.
          i’m not saying i am right but that’s my opinion (which could of course be wrong)

          • I am in agreement with Amy. I didn’t think it was RITB because she was never that hostile and intensely angry. Also, her language wasn’t as intemperate and vulgar.

            I remember when Ed was on the receiving end of the accusations that she was really a Murray fan pretending to be a Rafa fan. That went on for a long time on TT. Checking the archives is helpful. Reading the comments sometimes can be very enlightening.

            The truth is that no one can ever know for sure who someone is. But when a person admits that they used to post on TT, then we know that there were only so many female Rafa fans who posted on that site on a regular basis. There was no “Mary” on TT posting as a Rafa fan. It is a process of elimination.

            What I do know is that this person is very mean-spirited and vindictive and makes a point of trying to put people down to build herself up. Always trying to one up others with vulgar insults.

            All I know is that there was only one person who made it their business to go after another poster with the exact same accusation of being a closet Murray fan while pretending to be a Rafa fan. It’s the exact same accusation which is now being thrown at Amy, who we all know is not deucey.

          • Since you are all convinced I am holdserve why don’t you write an apology to ritb and get her back? vr was particularly vicious in his attacks on her.
            and native how do you know amy is not deuce?? Who is this “we all” who know?

      • The trolls are busy trying to figure out who I am but they are picking only Rafa fans. so what difference does it make ? I am a rafa fan.
        However amy is not a Rafa fan. amy is obviously lying when she says she has been on the internet for just one year. Anyone with common sense can see how unlikely it is that an old person like amy, living in UK, knowing a lot about tennis never got on the internet till last year and then suddenly starts reading every post on tenngrand and tennis-x. But I guess common sense is in short supply among trolls.

    • rc

      Thanks for this. I have been watching the coverage of this terrible earthquake in Italy and it’s been heartbreaking. Having living in southern California for a number of years in the past, I am well acquainted with what it’s like to live through an earthquake!

      The old buildings and structures in those towns just collapsed all over the place and it’s so hard to see.

      Prayers to all affected.

  3. ^Hubby and i were on our way back from Yorkshire driving to Coventry, and while driving back he said i have a horrible feeling that something bad has happened, said he felt that all the way home, then we watched the sky news urgh just awfull^ ….

    • Being on the West Coast I was just waking up. Turned on CNN and they said a ‘small plane’ had hit the North Tower. The scene unfolding paralyzed me – but somehow got to work and got my little boy to school. It was hard to focus on anything. Most of our patients at the cancer center cancelled and we nursed sat around in shock.

  4. RC I Dont actually have kids, but its sad to think what sort of of world we bring them into these days :-(….
    On a happier note we have an old lady at our care home whom was 104 yesterday ;-)…

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