Hello again, boys and girls. First, I don’t want to be the only welcomer here, I’m asking any regs who feel like joining in to help me out. Doing this all by myself last time was tiring.
Second, for those who don’t know about it, here is the link to the original Welcome Wagon. I found the easiest way to sift through the 9 pages of that thread is to not read the newbies’ posts. Read my posts, since I quote the pertinent information from the newbie. It’ll cut your reading time by half or more.
So for those who don’t read the original thread (and it’s not necessary by any means), here’s the rules for the newbies:
Give me some info about yourself. Don’t just pop in here and say, “Hi, I’m new. Welcome me, dammit.” If you don’t give some info about yourself, we won’t know how to personalize your welcome.
Don’t write a freakin’ book about yourself, either. We just met you, it’s a little early in our relationship for you to be sharing your life story, ok sparky?
Hi, Opal!
Take all welcomes with a grain of salt. If you read the original thread, my welcomes are not all happy-happy, joy-joy, glad to have you here BS. It’s playful teasing, all meant in fun, please take it as such.
Feel free to ask questions, we’re here to help as well as mock, but please do a search first. There’s only so many times I care to explain what felching is.
There is no… rule number 6.
All female newbies must send nekkid pictures of themselves to me, via email. These are the rules, I’m not making this up.
Oooh ooh! I get to be one of the first newbies. (Well, I’ve been here for a month, but still…)
My name is GilaB because I have no imagination and couldn’t come up with anything interesting/funny/obscure. I’m a college student in the New York area, I’m majoring in biology-not-pre-med (my general answer to the question - it’s a preemptive strike on the next q), and I’m Jewish, which prevents me from meeting requirement 7 (those darn modesty rules!). I, too, dislike mustard, along with pretty much every other condiment known to man. Welcome me, dammit!
I’m just popping in to say hi. I mean, let me go into Dickens-length detail on my life…I mean let me summarize.
I’ve been a lurker for 2 years now and only just got brave enough to join in March. I’m a wanna-be programmer, I enjoy writing and reading, and posting here at SDMB.
My name fits me well, because I’m also lazy, wasteful, and extremely sarcastic, cynical and witty. Sometimes too much for my own good.
At first, I decided to reply just because I wanted to be first. Too late for that, I guess
Personal info: I work in the dreaded customer service industry, delivering pizzas. (I haven’t posted in that rant yet, but as soon as I work up the courage … maybe a few months from now?) Mustard is an abomination unto my palate, as are most other condiments. No book about myself, but I’ll attach a fifty-page pamphlet. It’ll be interesting reading. Honest. Would I lie?
(Let’s see, fully loaded salt shaker standing by. check. post in complete compliance with rules #3 and #6. check.)
Oh, and one other tidbit of personal info: I’m moving out of my home of 22 years soon. Wish me luck.
(Argh, in between composition and preview, someone else slipped in! must … post … now …)
Ummm… yeah.
Well, welcome aboard, Mercutio. Try not to hump my leg in this thread, ok? I would tell you I love you too, but then that would just be leading you on and I have enough troubles IRL with people mistakenly thinking I’m gay, I don’t need it online also.
Ok, GilaB - and you too, Mercutio - see that little thing to the left of your post? Why, <gasp> it’s your name! So please take this: “My name is GilaB” back to the Department of Redundancy Department where it belongs.
Now then, Gila, you’re a college co-ed, huh? Don’t you realize that is exactly the type of person rule #7 was created for? I don’t care how modest you are, rules is rules is rules, and I need that nekkid pic. No one but myself will ever see it. (Excepting of course mods and admins and anyone with PayPal)
What the hell’s wrong with mustard? What do you people put on a hot dog?! Bunch of frikkin weirdos!
Don’t you take that tone with me, young lady! Unless you want to be bent over my knee for a right good spanking…
So you’re just here to take up space. I mean, to ramble incoherently…I mean get the fuck on with it already.
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This was a brave step for you? Wow, what an exciting life you must have led. I bet you’re the life of the party as you spin exciting yarns about pinochle games and the local bridge club. And that one time you were playing Spades and bid 2 club, when you really should have bid 3. You’re a wild one I can tell. I bet you let go of the handrail on the escalator and raise your arms in the air and yell, “Whee!” cuz rules mean mothing to your type. Your on-the-edge lifestyle has led you down dark roads from time to time, such as the day you drank milk straight from the carton, even though the date stamped on it was two days previous. You didn’t even sniff the milk first. You wild man.
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Sorry, seems you’ve confused yourself with me. It’s ok, it happens. I’m used to it now. Lots of guys want to be me. The ones that don’t want to be me want to be Esprix. It’s true. MIT did a study on it. Farren says:
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Now I know who to bitch to next time Papa John’s doesn’t give me extra garlic dip like I asked for. You bastard!
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I don’t care what you do in a week, or tomorrow, or hell - I don’t care what you’re doing right now. Post, don’t post. In a month, it’ll likely be old and gone. As for working up courage, talk to Wastrel. He’s a real rebel and can help you out.
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What the hell is wrong with you people?
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So is that “2” I saw under your name your post count or your age?
You mean you’re not?!!! And I thought all this wimmins stuff was nothin’ but an act! Now I don’t know whether to be relieved or afraid now that I’ve sent in those pics I promised.
[sub]TP wonders idly how long it will take Crunchy to put her over his knee[/sub]
Ok, ok, bend over and I’ll give a spanking, but I don’t want this to get to be a habit with you people…
Ok, Arden, what’ll it be? Paddle, hand, or cat o’nine tails?
Mercutio, don’t take it so badly. Have you seen the original Welcome Wagon? It’s like I suddenly start to channel Don Rickles when I do this.
And Farren I misread that bit about you moving out. I thought you said you will be moving out of your house in 22 years, not your house of 22 years. That one word sure made a difference in the meaning of that sentence.
