march is here and after all the snow and winter and cold and ice and god knows what else, spring is finally making an appearance | it's saturday and it seems like a nice and sunny day outside | so am i getting ready to rub some quality mint this weekend | not just yet | i'm stuck with writing this update for mintrubbing.org, a thing that i've put off for far too long | now it's past the publishing deadline and millions of rubbers from around the world are starting to get anxious | "could it be" | "could this be the end of it" | "has the legendary mintrubbing.org finally admitted defeated by boredom and ceased to feature new updates" |

hell, no |

there's some junk for you to rub this month | i know it's not a lot, but, hey | it is what it is | first, there's a new section on the main rmra site |Free RMRA Sticker | that's right, we've turned the sticker winning thing into a regular feature | all you need to do is send us some insightful thoughts, ideas, suggestions or pretty much anything else that's rubbing related to our official address at wfoster42@yahoo.com and you could win your very own sticker to impress your friends, colleagues and loved ones | a bunch of people have already received their stickers | some of their messages our featured below |

next we were pleased to find that someone took the time and effort to assemble some of our ancient wisdom pages into a pps file and distribute it over the web | that person didn't bother to credit us (the bastard), but the idea is still nice | everything that can be done to spread the word of rubbing should be done | click here to check this thing out for yourself | thanks to mihaela for sending us this file |

moving on, alex created a new wallpaper for our collection - click here to open it and check it out | i would normally add a thumbnail here, but there's this "clever" design that i'm using now | with no pictures | the added bonus is there's no photoshop processing for this issue | so it'll be done faster | clever, huh |

there's one ancient wisdom presentation in this issue | i know that you've gotten used to finding more than one in latest updates | with the exception of those dreadful experimental issues of course | once again - less effort from our part | i need to have this thing finished by 10:00 | so, yeah - click here for a priceless expression on responsibility |

then, there's a bunch of feaured sites for your online mint rubbing pleasure | see below |

- the cuddly menace - scary
- bunny suicides - awesome
- we want your soul - financial
- internet tennis - clever
- computer mirror - mintrubbing protection

what else | our regular list of new websites that have linked to us in the past months | the list just keeps growing and growing | un-fucking-believable | when i see all this support that we get | it just makes me want to cry | well, not really, but you get the point | and to think that some people email us and ask for banner exchanges | funny | anyway, here we go |

- http://www.livejournal.com/users/praytomaaco/
- http://profiles.yahoo.com/aniela_cebotaru/
- http://profiles.yahoo.com/the_ender2k/
- http://marcel.sparetimegroup.net/index.php/marcel/link_uri/(offset)/10/
- http://www.aproape.ro/text/38386783-139.html/
- http://profiles.yahoo.com/ratza555/
- http://profiles.yahoo.com/onica_mihaela/
- http://profiles.yahoo.com/miky_stefanescu/
- http://klass.rdscv.ro/forum/member.php?s=cba949e9ba3bc1753e361906fdff1335&userid=501/
- http://anb.stumbleupon.com//
- http://www.littlebro.3x.ro//
- http://www.freewebs.com/thehullabaloo/void.htm/
- http://www.nyu.edu/classes/siva//
- http://www.botik.home.ro/files/flink.html/
- http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~cosmin//
- http://profiles.yahoo.com/eyeofthesnake/
- http://profiles.yahoo.com/cersetoru/
- http://spaces.msn.com/members/theunfetteredmind/PersonalSpace.aspx?_c02_owner=1&_c=/
- http://www.kkmic.as.ro/2//
- http://www.djyalla.go.ro/page2.html/
- http://profiles.yahoo.com/crinuc2000/
- http://profiles.yahoo.com/brebu2004
- http://www.rdi-sat.com/f2/profile.php?mode=viewprofile...
- http://www.weblog.ro/Trainspot

- http://www.roportal.ro/discutii/index.php?showtopic=2509&pid=28488&st=0&#entry28488
- http://www.linkmania.ro/forums/index.php?showtopic=8050
- http://marioutz.xhost.ro/fanclub/viewtopic.php?t=47
- http://www.daciaclub.ro/index.php?showtopic=5239&st=990
- http://forum.ubbcluj.org/viewtopic.php?t=222
- http://forum.eliberadio.ro/viewtopic.php?t=154&start=15
- http://forum.artelecom.ro/viewtopic.php?t=5760&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=1280
- http://www.ilovephilosophy.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=143118
- http://www.netjunkie.lx.ro/index.php?showtopic=15&st=30
- http://www.streetballplanet.com/10a/viewtopic.php?t=102
- http://www.daciaclub.ro/index.php?showtopic=12831
- http://forum.tiesto.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13895&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=40
- http://rockcafe-forum.com/index.php?topic=238.0
- http://entropia-pioneers.kicks-ass.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=20251&highlight=
- http://forum.cs.tuiasi.ro/viewtopic.php?t=47805&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=34
- http://www.linkmania.ro/forums/index.php?showtopic=3645&st=60&#entry62158
- http://www.netjunkie.lx.ro/index.php?showtopic=47&st=0&
- http://www.atyclb.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=171&start=15
- http://marioutz.mobileworld.ro/viewtopic.php?t=90
- http://forum.eliberadio.ro/viewtopic.php?t=677&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

finally, a bunch of neat messages texts and whatnot that we received in the past months | enjoy |

Here are my two cents. If this helps the cause of mint rubbing to boldly go where no other rubber has gone before, then so for the better. Keep up the good work with the site. As for the text, feel free to do whatever you want with it, but at least I hope you're gonna enjoy it :-)
May your mint rubbing transcend you to the other side of the leaf!

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Subject: VIRUS!!!
Priority: High
Effective: immediately
Areas affected: Planet Earth, especially cosmopolitan areas.

News flash: Yesterday, February 6, 2005, around 9:23 am PST, SARC (Symantec Anti-Virus Research Center) issued a high-alert warning for a newly found virus with potentially devastating effects. Users are to protect themselves immediately by following the measures outlined below.

Description: The virus, code name "work" with variants "job", "long hours", "contract work", and "boss request", was found spreading through corporate offices around the world at constantly accelerating speeds. If you receive such "work" virus from one of your co-workers or your boss, do not touch it! It may ruin your personal life forever!

Removal Instructions: In case you are already infected with the virus, grab your coat at once, call two of your best friends and head down to the pub and try the local special antidote. It usually comes in a bottle, jug, mug or shot. Repeat at least four times or until you find out there are no more traces of "work" in your head...

Notes: To help spread awareness, forward this message to at least five friends. Should you find you do not have five friends, then you are already infected with the "work" virus and it is currently controlling your life.

No matter how small our wages are, we can still work less than we are paid.

-------------------------- > End Message < -------------------------- (virgilg)

I don`t have any nice stories. I`m just rubbing mint. Playing MUonline (www.muonline.com), browsing forums, reading mail, following the www.userfriendly.org comic strip every day, good porn, and so on. (marius)

Am crezut ca o sa cad de pe scaun prima data cind am vazut site-ul. Asta era acum citiva ani, nu mai stiu, multa menta a trecut de atunci. Oricum, faptul ca ati continuat sa oferiti iluminare celor neinitiati este laudabil. Si mai mult, acum cind revin la voi, constat ca ati diversificat gama de servicii! Felicitari! Ma gindesc sa va ajut si eu daca pot, macar cu ceva wallpaper-e, ca eu cu de-astea ma cam ocup. Daca reusesc sa ma desprind de foarfeca de frunze, o sa fac 2-3 (mai mult s-ar chema munca) si o sa vi le trimit. Daca le veti considera suficient de bune, faceti ce vreti cu ele. Inca o data, felicitari (Radu)

The Feminist Movement in Mint Rubbing

Anouncement For All The Ladies

This is it girls, all the more work/less pay, do all the house-keeping work,..., should be over!

Just go to your office, and all you have to do is stay for hours in those so-called "meetings", read the on-line newspapers, chat with your friends, drink coffee and so on. Then you get home, really "tired", go to the refrigerator, take a beer, and watch tv while drinking, waiting for dinner to be ready. (namely, rub mint)

After 2 months go to your boss and ask for a raise, cause you are an important person in the company. You will be promoted, it's guaranteed, this is at cock's mind.

and hopefully i will get the sticker ;) (Roxana)

Bravo baieti, sinteti tari de tot. Am o multime de diplome acum de inminat. (Liviu)

Rabi, Marturisesc spasit ca valurile vietii m-au purtat intr-o fundamental directie gresita: am apucat pe calea nesabuita si scarbavnica a muncii cinstite, lucru care reprezinta nu numai o eroare logica de neiertat, dar si (mai ales in Romania) un atentat la propria securitate. Aracan di mini! Dar sa nu crezi ca la fel sunt si toti ceilalti din jurul meu. Multi dintre ei pot fi caracterizati drept demni reprezentanti ai luptei neostoite de veacuri pentru victoria cauzei noastre (spun "noastre" pentru ca, in adancul inimii si in ciuda realitatii de zi cu zi, ma simt ca fiind si eu un cauzas). Clipa de clipa ii vad neatarnand stindardul care ne poarta in lupta si luptand pentru VICTORIE pana la ultimul fum de tigara si la ultimul cuvant spus taraganat.

Insa in ultima vreme am realizat ca, in realitate, am fost tot timpul cu sufletul alaturi de voi. De aceea, solicit primirea mea neintarziata in asociatie. Primesc smerit ca, daca vei considera necesar, sa mi se impuna o perioada de penitenta in care sa fiu cercetat cu scrupulozitate pentru a se determina daca intr-adevar am luat-o pe calea cea dreapta sau daca nu cumva, naravit cum sunt, nu o voi apuca din nou pe calea dezmatului muncitoresc.

Cer ingaduinta din partea ta, Invatatorule, caci multa vreme am haladuit pe meleaguri straine si usor pot rataci drumul spre CASA.

Ce e mai important este faptul ca nu mai sunt in denial: ma simt plenar ca parte integranta a marii familii RMRA. Stiu ca nesabuitza mi-e prea mare cerandu-ti un sticker sau un martisor acum, cand statele mele de serviciu in RMRA sunt atat de firave, insa trebuie sa admiti ca pentru a deveni membru al asociatiei, cu atat mai mult pentru a ocupa functii de conducere, orice candidat trebuie sa detina un minim de je ne sais quoi .

In final, pentru a avea si o contributie creativa la definirea doctrinei noastre, propun sa fie adaugata la arsenalul comunitatii si nobila si fructuoasa activitate a frecatului dudei. Nu cunosc originea acestei expresii (o fi avand cumva vreo conotatie sexuala?), insa din punct de vedere fonetic suna atat de bine incat nu poate intra in nici un fel in contradictie cu placutele si nobilele idealuri ale frecatului mentei (care au fost doar intinate de cateva persoane inconstiente, intre care am fost si eu pana nu demult).

Totodata, mai propun adoptarea ca imn al asociatiei melodia "Las-o, ba, ca merge-asa, ne-am obisnuit cu ea", cu amendamentul ca (si aici intervine sclipirea de geniu - iertata fie-mi modestia!) la intonarea lui sa nu ne ridicam in picioare, pentru ca tocmai acest lucru ar putea reprezenta o tradare a idealurilor noastre. Tatuca, astept indrumarile tale, caci fara ele nu garantez ca ma voi putea impotrivi tentatiilor mincinoase care m-au amagit pana acum. Si daca imi trimit si un sticker, pot spune ca incep sa intrezaresc cercul vietii mele implinindu-se. NU TE LASA! Al tau credincios ucenic, Sorin

Salut, intai sa zic site-ul e cea mai faina idee pe care a auzit-o anul asta, bravo, multa forta inainte. In al doilea rand vin cu o idee, comanda de menta online, sa vina acasa, plata ramburs. Multa forta inainte. (Drc)

pai voi nu prea frecati menta cum trebuie pe acolo mai baieti !! NU se poate asa, eu nu ma asteptam la un raspuns de la voi in cincinalul (ce ciudat se scrie) asta, nu sinteti seriosi nici la frecatu' mentei! ziceti una si faceti alta. Deci va rog, daca ziceti ca o frecati sa se simta mirosul pina aici OK? Hai ca sinteti foarte funny! Va pup si poate in curind ii co-optati si pe parlamentari ca sa va dea un aer de legalitate. (Liviu)

Dear William:

I arrived at your site looking for some information about peppermint to help an agrometeorologist friend of mine who needed some explanation. And I found a real astounding wealth of information about peppermint and mint rubbing !

As I downloaded information without images I can't give you my appreciation of them, but you have made a really astounding site! Very original and enjoyable even if I can disagree on some points of view. But you don't have to give any weight to my possible disagreements as I are not a roumanian and know nothing about how actual things are going for your people.

It may interest you to know that once I had a roumanian friend to whom I taught to play six strings guitar when I was studying at Havana University. Unfortunately I lost his track about 30 years ago!

I would appreciate very much if you could provide me with some e-mail address of the people who are knowledgeable with the subject of peppermint physiology so I can ask them some technical questions.

And anyway, keep rubbing mint! I had known some fans here also! That horoscope is a masterpiece!

With my very best wishes,

Roger E. Rivero Vega

cu totii avem un pic de menta in noi (florin)

don't forget to check out more messages on the rmra forum | that's it for now | thank god | see you next month |