I know if someone want to tell their name or email they do it. I keep seeing messages from Z or names similar to that which appear to come from the same person. They are very long and often have links in them. I am only curious about who Z is and ask that he or she say something about who they are and why they post here so often. Do you live in Treasure Beach, etc. You seem to have knowledge of many topics. I will say some of what you write is too long for me to read but then again when I have time I do find interesting facts in some of what you write.

think it's the same person who posts as Zeb or Zed

Could it be that Zed belongs to the Hermandad del Silencio (The Brotherhood of Silence) through which permission is given, not so much to speak a mind, but to write out messages of dubious interest...transpired from a moon-viewing pavilion from sea/cliff-side Treasure Beach?

Whaah!...Did you see those star constellations last night...were you searching for the flicking glow of the planet Venus? Why did the Hermandad del Silencio pull that universe together and find guidance involving the sociable deeds of the TB Women's Club, Sandy Bank School, Citizen Watch's; fishermen heading out to the Pedro Banks with faithful expectations; feeling & watching the sun's immense energy falling unharnessed on every ground surface while oil/gas is imported to light us up at night; a goal scored at Sports Park ripples out with expectations of greater achievements to come; poetry flowing out of our lives and the stages of the Calabash and the poetic "craftiness" of some our household objects; melon fields bursting with sweetness; yummy foods uniquely flavoured by herbalist-cooks; the washing of tears that are shared when friends depart this travail...expansive joys when parents welcome their babies into a re-start of innocence and the preciousness of earthly, shimmering beauty...and the community chorus echos Amen!

Sunrise...Sunset
(Men)
Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly flow the days
Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers
Blossoming even as we gaze

(Women)
Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly fly the years
One season following another
Laden with happiness and tears

(from Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein...father of Treasure Beach's massage/bodywork therapist, Joshua Stein)

Alpha you and Zed and Z are one and the same, right! Nice relatively short piece, and original too, not quotes...except of course the song from Fiddler on the Roof.

Spooky D...you must realize by now that QUOTES just might carry some of the weight of accumulated knowledge...sometimes they're even TRUE, as in an adage, aphorism, axiom, maxim, motto, platitude, proverb, saying...Do you know why yours or anyone elses clichés might ring true, even though, perceived as "trite'? Could it be that clichés are obvious to those holding similar opinions or "truths"?

As to why the tune to Fiddler on the Roof might be appropriate for you to be humming along in a Kumbaya spirit (Hear me crying and laughing, my Lord, kum bay ya)...what can anyone say that hasn't been said to you, me and the deep blue sea:

"Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."
• William Congreve

Ever whipped that little nugget out while sipping a dram of brandy?

Ha ha, the operative word is 'might', but very often they do not. Lets take your latest quote, the fellow should have stopped at breast, but the brandy got the better of him!!! I could be wrong, but shouldn't breast have been beast?
Would you answer if you are the three-in-one?

Spooky D...savage breast is the correct quote...dating back to 1697, but everyone I know usually says savage beast, including maddah...could be a coy way of avoiding a titillating reference!

It's always good to know, Spooky D, that you stand tall and ready, as sentinel and referee, to police language and incoherent thought in the forum. (?)
I picture you as one who has "toasted" amusingly at weddings, as your mastery of the queens english would entitle you to that consideration. If clever quips and quotes are good enough for the wedding feast, why not the wait-ing forum of TB.Net?

TAKE THIS IS A COMPLEMENT...Sit back...Relax and be smug. One Love!

Consult the Swami for A Poor-try Lesson:
www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/252000.html

I think Z, Zed and Spooky Dude are one in the same. Therefore, Spooky Dude talks to himself. Am I correct?

Z, the difference between toasting at wedding and commenting on this forum is: a wedding needs comic relief...! Seriously, though, I don't understand your 'COMPLEMENT'. I am sorry that you find me conceited, but I am not really, but perceptions are subjective and reflect the perceiver more accurately than they do the objects being evaluated.
I still believe that 'savage beast' would have been more apt, and in fact phrases.org reports that about 50% of the references found use beast instead of breast. I find the use of 'savage' to describe breast, most unkind. Maybe it was a misprint which would have been difficult to correct at the time, much like the misprint in 'compliment'. I rather like your pun. One love bro.

hey Bubba, [edited by TB.Net] Talking to oneself has its merits you know, but you are not correct,sorry to disappoint you.

The above was NOT writter by Spooky Dude. Note the 'hey' is not capitalized and there is no space after the work 'correct'.

Spooky D..you are keen observer. No rhetorical googlies getting past you. Obviously I didn't want to sound insincere "paying you a "compliment"...so didn't it make make more sense pouring on a bit of "sauciness"...hence a complement.

Oh our punning ways are a mere (mamma) playful mischief and sometimes confuse the censors, whom you're having a "lick of a time" filtering through their screens.
There is no suggestion from these quarters about your "conceit", unless you were getting grandly literary with us in that other fine use of the word "conceit": a particularly fanciful figurative device that's intended to surprise and delight readers by its cleverness and wit. Carried to extremes, a conceit may instead serve to perplex and annoy.

In a cricket sense and a verbal one, we have to argue our case with the umpires of life when accused of leg before wicket...have some fun with that...as we assuage our savage beasties, mi bredren.

Spooky Duppy, you at it again?

Z, I took my inference from the use of smug; whereas conceit is open to broader meanings, smug is quite particular in meaning. However, I take no offence, merely pointing out that I am not conceited although I can understand how I may be thought to be.
On the subject of censorship, I earned a 'edited' for a very innocuous rhetorical question.

Turey, the Spooky Duppy wrote the comment coming before the last one from Zed, I post a disclaimer but I don't see it posted as yet. Oh I know why, it was sent with 'Ss' in error.

Spooks...the teacher said, son, would you use the word smug in a sentence, and little William Pearson replied... in his slight-ly self-satisfied manner: "the smug look of a toad breakfasting on fat marsh flies"
Enough already of this thread...it's a wreck heading into wonderland.

I LOVE SPOOKY DUDE AND THE AIR TIME AND TYPE TIME AND ETC HE OR SHE WANTS. SEEMS THE "DUDE" KEEPS GETTING IT. KUDOS TO THE SPOOKY DUDE. TOO FUNNY. IF THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT YOU OR TO YOU...THEY ARE STILL TALKING

Well Mr/Ms reverse Spooky Dude, I am not too sure what you are saying, but you could infer from my name that I am not a 'dudess', LOL

The "Dude" part could be an extension of the incognito effect Spooky One.

You could be right O Sentry, but the Spooky One is not so devious, one deception is more than enough! LOL
By the way reverse spooky, I did not thank you for what may have been a compliment as it could as easily have been a criticism. Thanks anyway.

I have an idea: All pseudonyms, aliases, pen names, alter egos (egos are welcome too), nick names, working names, noms de plume, etc, should all get together at an Annual Costume Ball, masks and all, and try to figure out who is whom. I think the Sports Park would be a great venue. There would be a nominal entrance fee and I, Your's Truly, humbly volunteer to collect said fee at the gate. Proceeds will, true to form, be distributed anonimously.