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From the "Skins & Themes" page, you'll now find a link to browse the entire list of available Skins. We've also made the "Most Popular Skins" link easier to see.

Quick links to the "Skins & Themes", "Costumicons" and "Account Options" pages were missing from the "My Account" navigation menu in the left column, so they've been added! Not only does this make finding those links for use easier... it also makes telling someone else how to find them much, much easier.

You can now pay for Awardicons, cNotes and Merit Badges with group funds! Just above the button to submit for confirmation, you'll find a selector box with any groups that you're able to use the funds from. The text to the left of it reads: "Use your own Gift Points or choose a group to fund it."

Please note that the awards, cnotes and badges still come from you as the sender... this new option only affects where the funds for the purchase come from. If you do choose to pay from a group, the purchase shows up right in the group's gift point log!

You can now send the same badge to multiple recipients just by separating the recipient usernames with commas. For example, to send a badge to Writing.Com Support , The StoryMistress and Diane , you'd enter their usernames in the "To" line of the badge like this: support, storymistress, sgambill72

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Each badge purchase can be used to send badges to up to 5 different members. So, please be extra sure to read the "confirmation" and preview screen. You really don't want to send a typo'd badge to 5 people!

Cat Magnet
Though all pets from her house must be barred,
When my mother goes out in her yard,
          Black cat jets up the street,
          Ten times circles her feet,
And complains that its life is too hard.

So she listens, which seems to suffice,
To it wish barking dogs were small mice.
          She retreats from love's threat
          As they dance a duet
With no touching, per doctor's advice.

Then the cat takes a roll on terrain
While it rumbles a happy refrain --
          Till her gardening's done,
          Shadow sprawls in the sun
Or it minces behind like her train.

There once were ten Authors from Greece
Who all fell in love with my Niece
I told them to quit
And threw quite a fit
Before calling in the Police

The Sergeant was not too concerned
He told me she wouldn't get burned
"These Authors are Gents
I trust their intents
And it seems their interest was earned"

I asked my sweet Niece what occurred
To capture the heart of this Herd
She said (with some snorts)
"I reviewed their Ports...
And now they think I'm their lovebird"

Ten fishermaen sat on a dock
And not one was concerned 'bout the clock.
For their buckets were full
and their homes had no pull
Since their wives had ten cradles to rock.

So the sun rose and set on the ten
The most carefree and careless of men
When they finally arose
After taking a doze
Found their catch in the beak of a hen.

So this is the lesson they learned
For their spouses they should be concerned
For a wife will not wait
To present to her mate
What ever she feels he has earned.

King Arthur arrived with his Queen;
He smelled a foul smell - most unclean!
Ten ladies in waiting
Stood by - all debating
Whose stench was so very obscene.

Sir Lancelot, too, smelled that smell;
So Merlin - he conjured a spell.
Each time odors lingered
The culprit was fingered
Then p o o f - she was gone – fare thee well!

Daniel’s Coming of Age

When our baby boy was just four
He dreamed of enforcing the law
He had lots of fun
With toy badge and gun
That good guys must triumph, he saw

But by ten he had learned so much more
Bad boys are more likely to score
He predicted through fame
Supermodels he’d claim
So the clothes of a rap star he wore

Now sixteen he finds life a bore
Flipping burgers can be such a chore
His work days are long
His clothes always pong
But we know that some day he’ll do more

When I counted from one up to ten,
The officer said do it again
But backwards this time
And make it all rhyme.
I knew trouble was what I was in.

I gave it some serious thought.
My efforts it seemed were for naught.
My syllables slurred,
And sounded absurd.
Not quite the solution I’d sought!

My grandson has made his debut,
Named Jace, he's a real cutie too,
By factor of ten,
He's proven quite zen,
A master of diaper P.U.

Of all of the men that I know,
None is more awesome than Joe.
He gave me a hen,
Eggs she laid numbered ten,
And each of the chicks loved me so.

There once was a number named ten,
Comes around only once, not again,
Though its hidden its face,
It's base leaves a trace,
and makes itself known now and then.

If a giggle is worth but a penny,
And a chortle is worth ten too many.
  Then what would you say,
  If I laughed all the day,
And still didn't charge you any?