Clearly, I've been gone too long...

I’ve ventured back hoping to see some old friends. Except for a handful of familiar names, most of you are unfamiliar to me. As far as I’m concerned, that essentially makes me a newbie. Be gentle.

This evening I chanced upon the In Memoriam thread, and unfortunately I saw a lot of old familiar names there. Some I knew and expected, and others that I didn’t realize were gone.

Anyway, just wanted to say, “hi” and let anyone that remembers me know that I’m back. If you don’t know me, let me just clear this up up-front. The screen name is meant self-deprecatingly. I’m really not that full of myself.

Usually.

Hi. Nice to meet you.

Likewise!

I like your avatar. Any stories for that?
I see you’re in the thread games a few times, I’ll see you around there, for sure.

Hello, fellow '99er.

I remember seeing your screen name, although I don’t have a really vivid sense of what your posts were like.

He’s the title character from the Edward Gorey story The Doubtful Guest. I’m a bit of a Gorey fan.

It has been a while. And I was never as gregarious as some of our other contemporaries.

Hi, Sky!

Well, I’m terribly disappointed that you don’t really know it all, but hello anyway.

:slight_smile:

Welcome back. Since you’ve been away the messageboard has evolved into a forum for sophisticated and erudite discussion, filled with whimsical rhetorical badinage and intellectual debate.

Just kidding - it’s still the same arena for puerile blathering and rampant abuse of strangers as the rest of the internet, only with better spelling and fewer kitten pictures.

Welcome back! Would you like some ice cream? I promise we won’t have any problems with it this time.

Did you bring pie?

Be careful; we have another gnoitall and you know what will happen if the two of you post in the same thread?

“Annihilation, Jim. Total, complete, absolute annihilation.”

(The answer: claim you’re Bullwinkle.)

So we’re stuck with you until at least 2036 then?

I recognized it immediately. I’m another fan. My favorite is The Gashlycrumb Tinies.

Only because we can’t post images!

Ah, what a warm welcome. I have to admit, though, that I forgot the pie. Maybe next time I go away and come back.

March of 99. I’m just a kid being from May of 99 and all…

Pi? I’m a Tau-ist. :slight_smile: