little_tippler

Yes, that's right. Today is the 8th year of TFP's existence!

I would say that's downright amazing for an internet forum.

Over the years the TFP has changed but its essence has always remained the same.

So, Congratulations to the TFP and to us all for making this place so great that we stuck around this long!

Let's hope we can continue to make this place the home for mature, intelligent discussion on the internet that it has always tried to be (with a little silliness added in the mix).

I know for me it's still somewhere I consider a safe haven and a great place to meet interesting, like-minded people.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TFP!!!

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Stay tuned, later in the day we have a birthday surprise for you

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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918