I think we should stay strong and be as one here. The American goverment want to re-direct The Mississippi!!!!! Hey Dubya, yah gonna mess with an ABCtales member at your peril. If Mississippi needs re-directing well, we're well versed in that. They don't like it up 'em Missi!

I got really cheesed off trying to plough through 'Mansfield Park' today and after several hours reading random stories I began to investigate some of the personal webpages on here and encountered some truly wonderful (and others truly weird) sites.

Have a go and post your most (or least) favourite.
I'll start, this is great fun. Feed the patients or give them therapy the choice is yours.

http://www.parapluesch.de/whiskystore/anstalt_dolly.swf

I loved this poem. I wish someone had written it for me. I particularly liked :

"Another evening spent with tears, That can't wash away what is true." Great line.

http://www.abctales.com/node/544221

Look no further than Cannel Five's Lara Lewington. If she ain't ' trailer trash' beautiful then I'll just have to eat my cornpone. Mind you as newsreaders go I think the Asian-Irish guy Krishnan Guru Murphy on Channel 4 takes some beating.

For me, he's a bit and miss - but this one is a great big hit:

http://www.abctales.com/mcmanaman/your_portrait

but then again that's what ABCtales is for - trying stuff out and finding out what works and what doesn't.

http://www.abctales.com/node/544290

This is really great. In particular:

"By overstepping the line,
By maybe trying to hold your hand, sometime, in the near future."

So well phrased.

Ben

It isn't often that something comes to us so perfectly formed - but this is a delight:

http://www.abctales.com/tanis/a-typical_love_story

Same old thing but told so well this time - and with what is, to me, an original twist. Hurrah!

... i frequently imagine i would be better at running a coffee shop or bar than those who are already running them ...

of course i wouldn't ... i am lazy and disorganised ... and i don't much like people (customers) ... so in fact would be lousy ...

what do you think you could do better?