Greetings to everybody from a newbie.

What freckafree said – introducing yourself allows us to properly greet you with a [del]sheep[/del] [del]goat[/del] [del]squid[/del] pie.

Welcome both of you to the SDMB!

Welcome, welcome! Would you like some ice cream? It’s [del]frisky[/del] fresh!

Yes. Even more embarrassingly, I treated it as if it were a sentient being.
I have got to work on those social skills.