Thanks very much for doing that research guys! The coincidence of dates is rather alarming, so I have just now sent her a PM inviting her to get in touch if she can. I'll let you know if or as soon as I get a reply, ok?

I think she was working in Istanbul, rostasi, and is presumably a US citizen. Luckily, there has been no press coverage about US citizens in trouble in Istanbul, so let's hope she just abandoned MB for personal reasons, or as Batlord mentioned, she got tired of the drama.
Time to check: did anyone post a comment critical of the Eurovision Song Contest in July 2016? If so, shame on you!

Aw you guys. It's so sweet of you to remember me at all, really, I was never very active! Lisna's message came to my email today so I thought I'd drop in and say hi.

Personal stuff: I got married in May of last year and around that time there had been a few terrorist attacks in Turkey and Europe that made my Turkish husband and I uneasy. The coup was the final straw for us. I had to leave Istanbul suddenly and I also lost my very boring job that used to allow me a lot of time for poking around on MB.

Since then I've been spending important time with family in Maine and Florida and just haven't had as much downtime. On top of that I got lucky with a new job plus tons of freelance work.

I think of MB often because I really did like it here and I feel like I got to know some of you well. I'm sorry I never said bye, it was a gradual disconnect and I only realized after a while that I had stopped coming here completely. Didn't mean to scare you!


And Batlord, yeah, the drama here is a little much sometimes, but that's what keeps us coming back for more amirite?? To be perfectly honest it's easy to leave when you don't feel you fit in that much, I think it's safe to say I was always in my own little world on MB :D

When Aux-In showed up I was like ok MB has a good source of music now, they don't need me anymore!!

I do regret not being able to cover Eurovision this year. I hope you can go on without me, guys...

<3

Whoo- Hoo! Good to hear that you're OK.

http://oi39.tinypic.com/jrfwiu.jpg

Happy to hear you are well, Miss P. (or i suppose it's Mrs. Poptart now!) :)

And here I was hoping for gnarly stories of being in a Turkish prison.

She's alive!!! :wave:

Sorry to disappoint you! If you makes you feel better though the Turks don't keep Americans in prison for too long. They just deport you without any trial or hearing. That happened to a few people I know!

Also, hi everyone! I love that drawing of me complaining about the spelling of Lana del Rey. #goodtimes

Welcome back, Misspoptart. Just wanted to say that you're awesome. Not many users have what it takes to pull off a Gaia avatar on MB.

I saw the Eurovision thread and thought of you. Good to hear from you.

Congrats on all the positive changes (including staying away form MB :rolleyes:). Looking back a bit, I think I could've been more engaging with you in regard to musical discussion and things like that. No one I know in real life likes my music, so when you showed up in my journal, I think I was a bit surprised more than anything; that you knew the artists' names ahead of time :yeah:. I was kind of doing my Aux-In thing at the time, so I think I was a little more "matter-of-fact" to some of your responses than I needed to be. No excuses for me, although I need to work on my Internet pleasantries sometimes.

Anyway, welcome back.

^ Very good, WWWP! So this is the picture behind the avatar!

As you can see, you have quite a fan-base here, Mrs.PopTart.

Thanks for all your contributions to the world music threads and for your recent PM. If you are moving on, it's good to know that you're moving on to better things - but it looks like you will remain our go-to resource if we need to spell-check the names of any pop stars, so don't be surprised if you haven't heard the last of us.

Very best wishes, Lisna.

Belated Congratulations!

Why is Chelsea banned?

She requested a permaban for personal reasons.

If Chelsea didn't PM you about it, then you're not important.

She was sending me dick pix.

Where the hell is Engine? I miss that guy.

plankton are you out there

This is the unseen cost of modernisation of transporation. :(
He is, but if he told you where he was, he'd have to kill you. Probably with a guitar solo.

Hello MB.

Hey Rez!

Who's this guy then?

OG member. Rez in the house again. How you doin you sexy mothafukka?

oh **** its rez

Rezdaddy <3

Idk who this is but I am keeping my jimmies away from him.

Legend.

Rez! You came back to do another "tape" compilation with us didn't you?

Don't even joke about that thread. It's dead, and it's staying dead. Died from lack of interest and commitment, despite several attempts (including mine) to save it. Flatlne, baby. Flat. Line.

:laughing:

One of the few who could remain a beloved ****poster and a respected contributor at the same time. Even I flail at such a task.

Hello NEA!

Im doing well Exo, some various circumstances have allowed me to *** back to musicbanter. Glad to be here.

ey boiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Should I go back to Longlegs?

I can see you are already fully jimmie rustled.

Means alot cumming from the best poster on MB.

Actually I will. I am going to work on the thread tonight and get this going again. I wish I knew where the old thread was.

This one?

Also, welcome back.

http://www.musicbanter.com/general-m...ack-again.html

I made a new one. It is no longer themed and has BEGUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Contributed to.

Yup.

oh hey bud

Hey man! Welcome back!
So cool that your avvy seems to be popping in looking around the corner and saying "Yup!"

https://cdn.meme.am/cache/instances/...7/67888087.jpg

Kinda worked out like that. Hows the world of on line journaling these days?