The sound of peanuts boiling, or attys firing, or carto tanks crackling is heard. It grows in volume and a tiny blue dot appears above the "Prize winners announcement thread!". It is drawing nearer, and growing larger, gaining speed, and turning into a bluish pastel blur, zipping down toward the floor of the thread! A plain, brown, wooden, perch, with a bevel cut on 1/4 of the "T" rises up and suddenly the blur intersects it with a loud POP and YardByrd appears seated on his faithful Realm traveling perch!
The Platinum "YB" medallion around his neck is glowing a golden saffron-like color and you hear a deep, smooth, male, Latin, voice translating all but his greeting and farewell:
CAW! "Salutations from across the Realms those who frequent the "Prize winners announcement thread!" You share the hopes and dreams of winning and of winners! The vast resources, information, feedback, discussion, and opinion that grace this forum have proven invaluable to me as a vaper. My vaping mentor, who passed away last year, from lung Cancer, and could never quite stop smoking, told me this should be my first stop on my vaping journey and it was; thank you Donna Q and ECF!
I said I would NEVER mess with VV/VW mods, DIY, or build any type of RDA or RBA; I know enjoy all these things. My go to source for information is still ECF. On 6/25/15 I, a self proclaimed Cigaholic, Cancer and Heart attack survivor who still smoked back then, will be 39 months tobacco free and 40 months vaping! Thank you fellow posters for your efforts, and ECF, for providing our forum to post to. The philisophical, humanitarian, information filled, posts, exhibited here in this thread, remind me of why I am a member here.
We share the hopes and dreams of winning and of winners but, in fact, I believe we are all winning and winners! Freed from the slavery to tobacco we literally can breathe easier every
day for the rest of our lives! My hearty CAWgratulations to ECF, the contest winners, and to us all. Job well done and I am proud to be counted among your numbers!" CAW!
YardByrd spreads his wings and extending the left one straight out places the right one across his middle. He bows low, rises, spreads his wings, and begins to levitate straight up! His faithful Realm traveling perch sinks into the floor of the thread. Onward and upward the odd blue Realm traveling avian rises! He dips his beak below a wing and withdraws a scroll holding it there expectantly. Just as his head begins to leave your field of vision, still rising, he drops the scroll, which strikes the floor of the thread, and breaks open revealing a golden, inked message in calligraphy, just as his feet disappear from view and he goes on to another Realm. The writing is clear:
"We'd never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then if we are true to plan,
our statures touch the sky."
~Emily Dickinson
......you are helping folks without even knowing it...I for one really enjoy your posts on the StratoMyst Ship Contest Thread ..... very clever ..and amazing pics! 
Nope. I offered time and time again for the them to come get what they wanted. Insurance n retirement was pre-split. Sorry you went thru what you did...
