SpinyNorma makes first post 9 years after joining SDMB

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I thought this deserved special recognition: Akin to those flowers that take a century to bloom, nine years after joining the Straight Dope Message Board (Join Date: 04-04-1999, member #479), Charter Member SpinyNorma finally posted for the very first time in the Lurkers Anonymous: Roll Call Part II thread.

I don’t know if there is some sort of “living under a rock” award that can be granted for this achievement, but it is interesting to see evidence of what was previously thought to be extinct, namely a reticent Texan. And we hope that SpinyNorma’s next post will appear earlier than 2017…

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Yeah. I’m a 99’er who was considering weighing in on that thread, until I saw SpinyNorma’s post. I’m in awe.

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Wow. I guess it’s appropriate that I have no idea what to say.

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I think we should all get together and send her (?) a cake.

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Could she be kin to Spiny Norman?

ETA: Never mind (found her post).

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She’s up to 3 at last count. That’s the way the Board sucks you in. First, you post to clarify something. Then you post again to just… :slight_smile:

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Wow, she theoretically was posting before edits, before “Hi Opal!”, and back when Mike Lukas was hosting the show. . .

Wow. :smiley:

Tripler
. . . like, back when there were two fora: MPSIMS and the rest of the Internet.

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A cake?!?? Are you insane? We must bring pie.

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Well, technically, since I’m the one who came back, I guess I should bring the pie. Unfortunately, my car is in the shop so that could be a while.

Thanks for the welcome, everyone. Wow! My own thread! I haven’t felt like such a star since the days of Heckler’s Online. It’s a proud and happy day for me, in a mundane and pointless sort of way. But speaking of mundane and pointless, I’m about to have to head on to work so I’ll check back in the morning.

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Somebody will have to explain to me the Spiny Norma/Spiny Norman reference. I suspect it’s something pop cultural, which is of course why I don’t know it.

And welcome to the land of the communicative, Spiny Norma!

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Dang. all the goats that were awaiting SpinyNorma’s first post have long since been converted into cabrito pequeño en assado!

This will take an entirely new generation of goats!

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Not pop cultural – there’s a (more prolific) Doper name of Spiny Norman.

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Its a Monty Python reference

Not that I get it - not being a Python fan, but Brainiac4 always thinks Spiny Norman and Dinsdale should know each other in real life (I don’t think they do - nor apparently, does Spiny Norma).

A delayed welcome to Norma. Glad you joined the conversation.

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Both are a Monty Python reference.

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Twas the reason for the edit. Thread in which Spiny Norma delurked post #69 requested pie, but in post #80 hinted at a preference for white cake with chocolate frosting.

We should respect the Master Lurker Extraordinaire’s wishes in such thing, even when those wishes fly against the face of traditional pie! :smiley:

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::Johnny Carson:: I did not know that. :cool:

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Well now that she is up to 4 posts total, perhaps we should just go crazy and bring both.

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I’m stunned that there’s somebody on this board that can keep their mouth shut for 9 years~! :smiley:

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Technically, she wasn’t* posting *before any of that. :cool:

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Dude wait what? Delurked?