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Grannyknot Sun 13-Jan-13 22:08:35

It occurred to me that there are parallels between having pen pals and posting on these forums - of course there are many differences! I had pen pals way back when I was still at school and wrote these polite little letters on blue lined Basildon Bond, usually no more than 2 pages. And then you waited until you received an equally polite letter back weeks, sometimes months later. Nowadays, on GN we have a scatter gun approach (rather than carefully selecting our hopefully likeminded pen pal from the pages of Jackie or Woman's Weekly) and here we are posting on everything from "vaginacology" to messing about in Lil's Bar. I tried to come up with a modern name that explains it. Any other ideas? smile

Grannyknot Mon 14-Jan-13 18:34:54

LOLLLL for all of these grin. Did anyone else - or do you still have pen pals? I was so prissy, would love to read some of the cr*p

Grannyknot Mon 14-Jan-13 18:36:40

The computer got so worried about what I was writing, it developed a life of its own and posted! That should be 'cr*p stuff I used to write'. smile

matson Mon 14-Jan-13 20:03:00

pooters x

Grannyknot Mon 14-Jan-13 20:06:11

matson you've got it - "Pooter Pals" smile

jeni Mon 14-Jan-13 20:13:41

Brilliant!

matson Mon 14-Jan-13 20:20:44

i thank you x smile