Lou, you really, REALLY need to drop the super sweet act. Its lost in novelty and I for one want to see a normal member and not someone who is frankly licking every ass in the stable.
Im saying this because I know you arent an undecent guy, but seriously dude its been 2000 posts, chillout. I would much rather see a member who is calm and decent and has, lets say, ' contraversial' views such as yours. (your frankly conservative views on gays for one) and not behind this mask of niceness which is see throughable.
I mean, it seriously goes beyond the limit when you open a thread to wish a member you or noone in the forum has ever conversed with a happy birthday. Im all for spreading positivity, but this has selfish gain of wanting to gain the like of the members of this forum scrawled all over it isnt even subtle anymore.