Long sordid story. Read only if you want. Long long ago I came across the (old)forum by accident. There were maybe a couple of posts at the time. I signed up. I was using hotmail back then. Stopped using it in mid 2004. One day I tried to reply to a thread using my login. I rarely ever posted anything on the old forum. And just my luck, my login didn't work. On the spur of the moment, I made a new login, using my (at the time new) gmail account. That was the one I'm using now. Next time I tried my old login, it worked however, and that was the end of THIS one.
Come January, I visit after a long time and try to sign in to the new forum, but it says have to wait till a confirmation is sent to my inbox. Had stopped using hotmail for a couple of years by then and ofcourse I had not only forgotten my password, had forgotten my secret answer as well Never mind that ID, So I signed up trying to use my gmail, but it said email already taken :S And I searched for it but couldn't find, so what the hell I just made a new one using another email address of mine. I called it "mariner"
And today, I finally managed to find the initial activation for THIS one in my gmail inbox(ull never delete another email again they say) and finally remembered this username. Now activated it, its going good.
Bottom line: Mariner = Fairlady. (hey I like that car thats why i chose it). I'm also guilty of having made 3 usernames in AL(thats including this one). Admin is free to delete all the mariner stuff if its messing up the member numbers. I'll have to start from scratch anyway I am also a dirty, dirty (post)whore.
