Testing........previous message was from me, directly from my ymail page so wasn't aware of the hullaballoo re. virtual gifts - more important things (like losing rugby games !) to attend to !

O.K ! now I see the v.g. ! shall attend to it right away ! cheers !

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This is a joke that's going around over here at the moment:

AUSTRALIAN MANUFACTURED
TROPHY CABINET FOR SALE



Features:
• Fine timber details
• 4 leadlight options
• 4 side access doors (there is maximum frontal display)
• Adjustable shelves are extra deep to accommodate large items
• Halogen down lights
• Mirror back with glass shelves provide max illumination of collectables from top to bottom.

To give indication of size of the Cabinet it previously held the following:
• THE ASHES
• Rugby League World Cup
• Rugby Union World Cup
• International Rules Trophy
• Tri NationsTrophy
• Super-12 Trophy
• Trans-Tasman Touch Football Trophy
• Davis Cup
• Hockey World Championship Trophy

and the
• Bledisloe Cup.
• South Africa vs. Australia home Test series 2008/09
• South Africa vs. Australia home ODI series 2009

All these trophies are now overseas and the cabinet is excess to requirements.

To make an offer call R Stuart, R Ponting, S Mortlock or P. Fitzsimons who once commented:

"…the Australian Cabinet is groaning under the weight of all the trophies!"

Contact any of the above on: 1800-LOST-THE-LOT

Gidday mate ! Well well ! wins in cricket and Tri-nations ! congrats ! it was bound to come sooner than later. Now the Boks can come back to Earth and regroup for
the All Blacks next week !

As soon as those virtual gifts showed up on the avatars, I have sent a message to Fotki to ask how I could turn this off again. Got the same reply as you did.
Hopefully they will let us turn this childish option off soon !
greetz,
m

good 24hrs 4aussies!
I`m more pleased about theis weeks` diggie nudddie getting nil commento!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
............r

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Yeah it makes a nice change, the Aussies actually winning something !!

hi mate
i deleted all my vg's like loisl did. it worked to get rid of the annoying thing. you didnt send me a vg either! lol dont think i sent you one either. take care. see you next week. i am off to the fair for a week. i will check in once in awhile to see your entries.

bev

... sorry for not answering that quickly ... have some hard work to do all Saturday ?-)))

...but just saw that you exchanged with Bev on the avatar bs :-)))

nb: I deleted all and no spook left any longer (can remember who send me a gift; you didn't *lol*)


See you, joachim

hi peter
i did what loisl said to do. i marked them all private. i can still see it on my end but, i guess no one else can see it. wonder if i just delete all the virtual gifts, if it would go away all together? good luck getting rid of them. they are annoying. have a nice weekend

bev

i dont see it on yours anymore.

hi peter poo

thanks for the congrats. take care.

bev

actually, it shows always the virtual last gift you got ... just switched all gifts to private .. can you still see one on my avatar ?

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No, that did it, well done mate. This is the response I got from fotki:

Hi Peter,

Thank your for feedback. At the moment you can't completely turn the gifts features off. However you can restrict others from sending you virtual gifts. Please click on Go To > My Account > General > Allow sending of virtual gifts for > set to > My Fotki Friends Only.

We will discuss the possibility to add an OFF option with our developers and will find the appropriate solution.

Your Fotki Team.


Fotki Customer Service response on Sat, Sep 5, 2009 6:48 AM EDT

"Yeah me too, I can't find a setting to turn it off. "

...once you find this heavenly bottom to e.g. put your romantic
heart back to where it belongs, wd you mind informing me straight on ?-)))

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No worries,

I've noticed several people's avatars don't have them, so perhaps they haven't received any virtual gifts, but there doesn't seem to be an option to turn that off now (there was at the start) The whole virtual gift saga is merely additional fundraising for fotki, at first it was free.

I'll send a message to fotki & ask them how to turn it off.

However I DO like the options that come up when you scroll over the avatars in GB's now.

My Photo of the Week (August 24-30)

"Rolling Stones....I always figured you to be a rocker...... :-)) what was the name of your band?"*
"Pebbles & Bam Bam !!"**

Buddies, can't you not stay a single second serious … surprisingly, watching this entry badly bobbing up and down in the last two hours I recognized finally that this photo shows Sisyphus’s playing grounds.

:-))) wishing you all a perfect mood for the weekend ahead and thanks your motherly and fatherly comments

Joachim

Nb: I hate fotki blighting my stylish avatar so badly

* Twinpop **ooOPeter (who else ?-)

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Yeah me too, I can't find a setting to turn it off.

Hey smellypete, just letting you know where I have been!! Found this wonderful world called "facebook", LOL!! My girls have always had one, but I never knew how many of my classmates are on there, I haven't seen or talked to most of them for 18 yrs, wow!! Anyhoo just thought I would tell you, now I gotta go finish my voting, I don't even know where I stand, LOL!!

… the tiny, small, sugar sweet not yet obstinate donkey , still a little short of breath, likes to thank you sooo much for all your pushing but he still felt a little too shaky to make it all the way up to the “I'm So Lucky!” podium …

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It WAS a big trip for such a little guy. You're welcome !!

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Shall forward it to him !!!

Thanks for the kind support in I'm So Lucky!
It´s so uplifting to come across something this wonderful
at the walks in our deep woods.
I fully enjoy it and I´m pleased you liked the picture.

why are people writing they love your work? is the world turned upside down suddenly? mass confusion it seems. and it's all my fault, because mona's not on, and not posting real photos to keep some standard for goodness' sakes! :-D

love ya!

hi Peter! :)

GaryGS1 in Estonia!

Welcome to the album: Wild Nature Around Tallinn http://public.fotki.com/talla/2009_09_02/

Talla

Hey Peter -- Thanks for the comment on the motorcycle... it was one that I had taken last year and really liked... soooo my visits to the contests will be brief... seems that I have too much other crap going on to do this crap...lol..

: ] DTM

Thanks for commenting on my photo in the motorcycle contest, Pedro.

I don't know if you noticed, but the jacket of the motorcyclist who subsequently became a Fotkipoid, read "route 66 devils." So my first inclination was to put the back of a great big Dr Evil head on him. In retrospect, perhaps I made a bad choice.

I hope all is well with you, Alex and the boys.

-David

Thanks for the comments, UhOh... you asked if the one photo was form "THE" Route 66... there is only ONE Rte 66.. it stretched from Chicago to Los Angeles. So, yup, that is the famous Rte 66... or what is left of it. Most of it has been replaced by modern highways or Interstates that parallel it wherever there are small portions left. The longest remaining stretch is in Arizona but each state has renamed it as a different number, so there is no Rte 66 any longer. I look out my back window and see the 2nd longest portion remaining, about a mile out my back door... it runs for about 25 miles or so and is now Highway 153.... though historical markers do indicate it is the "old Rte 66".

Interestingly (the preacher in you will like this), there was a "spur" of Rte 66 outside Gallup, New Mexico (60 miles west of me) that was named Rte 666. They have changed the name of that highway, too, since they couldn't keep up with the highway signs being constantly stolen as souvenirs.