# Another n00b **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 26, 2009, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-n00b/501108 "2009-06-26T21:03:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-n00b/501108/21 "2009-06-28T01:08:01Z")
**Baby Driver** , ignore the preceding (except for the pie). They’re just babbling. Happens a lot around the end of the month. Besides pie, the only thing required of a new member is a visit to the Petting Zoo and Aquarium. Nothing to be afraid of at all. _snerk_ fnord ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-n00b/501108/22 "2009-06-28T04:00:41Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > **Baby Driver** , ignore the preceding (except for the pie). They’re just babbling. Happens a lot around the end of the month. > > Besides pie, the only thing required of a new member is a visit to the Petting Zoo and Aquarium. Nothing to be afraid of at all. _snerk_ fnord Yeah that’s easy for you to say, you’re not the one having to keep the squid calm until **Baby Driver** returns. It’s getting increasingly anxious and irritable since it learned there was supposed to be a new poster for it to meet, but hasn’t yet. So yes, **Baby Driver** , please visit the Petting Zoo and Aquarim ASAP. Thank you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-n00b/501108/23 "2009-06-28T12:41:26Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > :: cough :: > > What, what? When did **twicks** become a moderator? I _have_ been out of touch! Less than a month ago – and since I’ve been online very little during the last two weeks due to family stuff, I haven’t really started throwing my weight around yet. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-n00b/501108/24 "2009-06-28T15:40:39Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Less than a month ago… Congratulations! :: tiptoes cautiously away :: ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-n00b/501108/25 "2009-06-28T16:49:12Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > **Baby Driver** , ignore the preceding (except for the pie). They’re just babbling. Happens a lot around the end of the month. > > Besides pie, the only thing required of a new member is a visit to the Petting Zoo and Aquarium. Nothing to be afraid of at all. _snerk_ fnord Besides pie? What about the beer? Welcome to the boards **BD** [ol] sucker[/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2009, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-n00b/501108/26 "2009-06-29T00:38:16Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Now that I’m a mod, I guess I can’t participate in the welcome rituals anymore? ☹ You get the flowing robe and the digital video camera. I’ll have to check the SDMB manual on what you’re permitted to wear under the robe. Or am I thinking of the initate’s robe? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2009, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-n00b/501108/27 "2009-06-29T00:49:23Z")
> [@Scuba\_Ben](#): > > Or am I thinking of the initate’s robe? If you can call it a ‘robe’. The slate and vinyl do tend to skew things a bit. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2009, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-n00b/501108/28 "2009-06-29T00:50:14Z")
> [@chowder](#): > > Besides pie? > > What about the beer? > > Welcome to the boards **BD** > > [ol] > sucker[/ol] British bastids and their beer. I suppose you could request steak and kidney pie made with Old Peculier, or somesuch; and IMHO, you’d be welcome to it. (True\* anecdote: my grandfather emigrated from Ireland in the late 19th century, and my father swore that he [my father] was in his teens before he realized that “British bastard” was two words.) \*True in the sense that my father definitely told the story; given that he was from Montana, I can’t vouchsafe that the story itself is accurate. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2009, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-n00b/501108/29 "2009-06-29T01:36:17Z")
Eeeeee! What a cute user name! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2009, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-n00b/501108/30 "2009-06-29T13:48:09Z")
> [@Scuba\_Ben](#): > > You get the flowing robe and the digital video camera. > > I’ll have to check the SDMB manual on what you’re permitted to wear under the robe. Or am I thinking of the initate’s robe? Dear, dear **Ben**. You’ve been getting increasingly easily confused since your _own_ encounter with the squid. . .😉 ---
**Author:** ![Baby\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@Baby\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baby_Driver)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2009, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-n00b/501108/31 "2009-06-29T18:54:17Z")
Wow, thanks for all the welcomes! **Covered\_In\_Bees!** , I haven’t been to the aquarium, but I did visit the petting zoo. They had me on the 8am-noon shift. I got fed and groomed by several enthusiastic seven-year-olds on a summer camp visit. **Darryl Lict** : No No They’re golden, thanks! You can come to my room to play anytime. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-n00b/501108/32 "2009-06-30T16:52:59Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > Dear, dear **Ben**. You’ve been getting increasingly easily confused since your _own_ encounter with the squid. . .😉 And there’s a good reason for that, **norinew**. By the time we started using cephalopods and crustaceans in the initiation ritual, I was an established Charter Member. So I knew what was going to happen with the squid. The initiates have it easier because they don’t know what’s about to happen. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-n00b/501108/33 "2009-06-30T19:57:26Z")
> [@Scuba\_Ben](#): > > And there’s a good reason for that, **norinew**. By the time we started using cephalopods and crustaceans in the initiation ritual, I was an established Charter Member. So I knew what was going to happen with the squid. The initiates have it easier because they don’t know what’s about to happen. Soooooo easy to make excuses after the cephalopod secretory enzymes have invaded your brain, isn’t it? 😛 (You know I love you!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-n00b/501108.md?page=1)