Now, a bit more seriously... as the (obvious
) winner will be officially announced this evening (for me, in Europe), some comments :I certainly cannot chose the 100% favourite poster. It depends upon so many, and the last thing I would do is to judge someone somehow !
There are postings and postings, due to the simple fact that there are personalities and personalities, characters and characters... Here, one will favour a more rational approach ; there one will approve a rather humorous touch, a third one will bring new infos, opening threads, a fourth one will make rather marginal comments, a fifth will resume to lurking. There will be posters (and their consequent postings) who will create/construct the atmosphere of the board ; there will be posters (and, again, their consequent postings) who will be rather attracted to analyse ; and so on : postings that recount personal experiences, souvenirs, postings that share knowledge (critique, science, curiosities, connoisseur issues, etc.), postings that endeavour to maintain the camaraderie here, so on. But ! one changes. X can post a day in a way, and then embrace a new style. Trenchant, faultfinding today, boisterous tomorrow, funny in 3 days, etc. One can focus on this-and-that, and then become the promoter of different-then-expected opinions. Q can be - successively - passive, coy, redundant, sharp and astute, pragmatic and a brilliant critic, if (s)he feels like it. An opinion of someone who posted 2 times may weigh more and be more valuable than 250 messages of someone who posted 300 times, like I did. What I could notice is that we're really fortunate to have an incredibly subtly tuned equilibrium on the forum, nestled between all the components I mentioned. And humour has a lot to do with it. 8)
It is this abundance, this richness that I appreciate and love. Labyrinth of sensations, of impressions, arabesque of thoughts, experiences, sagacity, of lust and pleasure, of chiselled words - how could I chose only pieces from this dazzling forum ? That morning feeling of opening the LPSG page has something special : I do it with a large smile. It's like meeting a good, old, diverting chum. (Misfortunately, I don't have enough time to read every post, or to reply to every posting I go through.) The pity is that we'll always be cyber : we will never meet in a LPSG reunion (even just for the fun).
SO !!! I take from my pocket The Golden Vote Excelsis, the one I keep for special occasions and I will give to a guy who is very dear to me (but he doesn't know that because I never said it, and I don't bother him with my mails or IMs), the Deux ex machina who made it all possible : Mark_Admin, Marko, Mark_LPSG, our Mark. Monsieur, vous avez toute ma gratitude et appréciation ! You have my entire gratefulness and appreciation. My days would have been a bit poorer without this site.
And there are my Premium Gold Votes, that I love to confer now to all the posters, nominated or not, Top 25 or not. Ladies and Gentlemen, je vous adore ! I owe you some of my smiles, some of my questions, my laughter, my good disposition ! :-* Mmwwwaaaaaaah ! (that was a kiss)
My multiple vote goes together with bottles of French champagne (Dom Pérignon, Laffitte-Rothschild, Veuve Cliquot, Roederer Crystal or Taittinger, just name it) and caviar (beluga, ossetra, sevruga, molossal, golden Persian, you're free to chose).
And, of course, with hugs from a blushing Raal.
