I, too, watched for a while before jumping in. It’s much more fun to be an active participant. Welcome!
It’s not how you pick your nose, it’s where you put the boogers
I lurked for, I dunno, about a week or so before jumping in with a stupid question and getting torn to shreds. It was still fun, though.
Pray tell, where did you hear about The Straight Dope? I was in Books-A-Million and ran across the first book, and guessed at the name of the website late one night. It sucked me in like a sticky goo, and I haven’t been out for air since. Not that I’d want to leave. 
Oh, yeah. Welcome!
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“All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.”
Wow, quite a nice reception!
Thanks everybody!
Let’s see, to answer the various questions…
No, I don’t believe that I know Sue.
Yes I am a fellow. (A rather decent one, at that.)
Oh, and BTW, Nightingale, nice to know I’m not the only one who reads Tad Williams.
- Jimmy Quasar
Hmm…that last question popped up while I was replying. I’ve been a SD fan since the beginning of its AOL days. (Was a Veteran AOLer for a while before I finally broke free!) Thought I admit I didn’t really fall into reading the boards until around the end of the AOL era.
- Jimmy Quasar
Welcome aboard, Senor Quasar… and stop shining so much 
Coldfire
Voted Poster Most Likely To Post Drunk
"You know how complex women are"
- Neil Peart, Rush (1993)
Hi Quasar!
You do realize don’t you, that all secrets on the SDMB are eventually revealed, so if you have any skeletons, you might as well spill the beans now. Tell us your deepest, darkest secrets.
-Katy
Um…
::tries to think::
I can’t really think of anything that would be my “darkest secret”
My life is pretty common once you forget about the fact that I have some of the worst luck imaginable.
- Jimmy Quasar
…I’m ignoring you…
“Then you’re not the One?”
“Not that One, no,” Jazzica said, then paused, held a half-breath, said, “But I may be…the Other One.”
— Doon
(Welcome to the true source of all insanity, Jimmy!)
Yay for Tad WIlliams! You’re all right in my book! As long as you give me money…
I sold my soul to Satan for a dollar. I got it in the mail.
Ok everyone…very friggin funny.
As we speak, the cops are asking wally’s neighbors what the hell happened to his front door, and how the range rover got on the roof!
Now Jimmy, you seem like a decent sort, nicetameetcha!
see ya around!
Welcome, Jimmy! You do realize, of course, that you have now given a huge chunk of your time as hostage to people named Satan, PurpleCrackWhore, Neuro-Trash Grrl, etc.? You will find yourself bursting into laughter at work and staying up too late.
Ah, what the heck. Sure beats normality. Welcome!
Veb
Always nice to see a new poster! Does this mean you’re transforming from a QSO (“radio quiet” quasar) to the regular kind? We’re expecting you to shine light on the obscure questions that baffle us SDMBers. Is it true that at the cenre of every quasar is a black hole?
Yours truly,
Arnold
I dunno Arnold, that last question there is kinda personal. Not quite sure I want to go there.
j/k
- Jimmy Quasar
I’m fairly new myself, JimmyQ. Welcome aboard from a fellow Texan!! Just jump right in, the water’s fine, and so’s the jello pool! Oops! Wrong thread! 
Super duper nicetameetcha!!!
And, hey, Tad Williams RULES!!! <I may have to go out and buy another set of those, I’m wearing them out!>
Seen on billboard near home:
Don’t make me come down there.
God