Anyone else have trouble going from lurker to member?

Oh yeah, this thread is the first I’ve ever heard of the MMP thing and I’ve been reading this board for 4 years! Weird.

Yep.

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Mindfield**, some Zuzu Petal should taste good deep fried.

Um, would you mind slathering yourself with this butter and then rolling around in the breadcrumbs? You know…newbie initiation and all.

…where’s Hal with the squid and marbles and such?

Come to Trivia Night, you Seattleite you, and we’ll scrub that shyness off you like a janitor scrubbing a booth at the Lusty Lady.

Yep, check out my join date and number of posts. And I lurked long before joining. I’m naturally reticent, so hanging back a while and not contributing much is my style. I’ve gotten better (?) about commenting, though. Like many others, I usually don’t comment if I feel like my opinion has been covered already or I don’t have anything terribly clever to add.

Oh, that’s nice. Deep fried? Zuzu is new! You don’t deep fry newbies, you marinate them in hickory smoke and coriander for several hours and then put them over a low flame until golden. It’s much more polite than just unceremoniously plunking them down in hot oil.

Now pass the buffalo sauce.

…and a code wrench. Damn monkeys get into everything around here.

HA!

(hijack) When we moved to our house, one of our cats (indoor cat) was so traumatized by the shuffling of her entire universe that she cowered under the corner of a familiar couch for three days before venturing out to see if the sandbox survived the holocaust.

I’m not sure she ever completely determined that nothing in the house would eat her.
(/hijack)
Hi, Zuzu’s petals!

Having seen the quick wit on display around here for years, Zuzu, I am pretty sure they are kidding about the breading and such.

If other posters decide you are ripe, you’ll find yourself staked out, gutted, stuffed and served in a matter of moments without feeling a thing other than the eternal shame. Just ask Hal.

Not that that should deter you. Life is full of risks.

Yes, we’re kidding.

Breading ruins the natural flavour.

Well, i happen to like Deep Fried Newbie. It tastes like…like…victory…
Besides, frying things is the American Way.
How about we compromise? We fry us some Zuzu AND we slather it with buffalo sauce?

i’m hungry…is it wrong to be genuinely hungry after typing this out?

I’m on a diet. I’ll just have the grilled lurker.

Cilantro tastes like soap to me. May I have the honey-mustard sauce instead?

Most times what I want to say has already been said by someone else. Other times I have no real pearls of wisdom to sow and then there are the occasions when it just seems to be too much effort to post when I spend the time reading other people’s posts.