# Heh welcome wagon's broke I guess **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 9, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-welcome-wagons-broke-i-guess/206395 "2003-10-09T02:02:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ripley2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ba9def/32.png) [@Ripley2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ripley2004)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-welcome-wagons-broke-i-guess/206395/21 "2003-10-09T05:10:11Z")
Hello. I’m a n00b. Thanks to Darkhold for starting this thread and the wee bit of reassurance that it offers. Time to dive in (don’t beleive in that testing the waters first, stuff). ---
**Author:** ![PucksRaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecd19e/32.png) [@PucksRaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PucksRaven)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-welcome-wagons-broke-i-guess/206395/22 "2003-10-09T05:13:41Z")
Oh, a newbie thread. Hi, my name is Puck and I’m a newbie. . . Obviously I’ve been lurking a while, but lately I’ve been posting quite a bit. I blame my current unemployed state. I also took some time to get a feel for the tone of the boards. Ruthless insanity appeals to me. Anyway, hello and welcome fellow newcomers. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-welcome-wagons-broke-i-guess/206395/23 "2003-10-09T05:25:02Z")
Yup. ---
**Author:** ![Ripley2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ba9def/32.png) [@Ripley2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ripley2004)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-welcome-wagons-broke-i-guess/206395/24 "2003-10-09T06:23:48Z")
Oh great, my first post and I misspell _believe,_ and I can’t fix it. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-welcome-wagons-broke-i-guess/206395/25 "2003-10-09T10:28:20Z")
Welcome, newbies, one and all! You seem to be a fine, respectable batch so far. Keep your shoes off the furniture, make sure to carry your dirty dishes to the sink, learn and live the #1 rule of the boards (Don’t be a jerk), and check out **Rue DeDay** ’s Monday Morning Posts - that’s where all the cool kids hang out! Yeah, I’m one of the cool kids. You may stand in awe! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-welcome-wagons-broke-i-guess/206395/26 "2003-10-09T10:29:10Z")
Well, with nearly 40000 members, I guess a few of us (present company included) just sort of slip through the cracks… I hoped for a “welcome” up to about my tenth post, realized everone thought someone had done it (no points for recognizing the reference;)), and got on with my life… ---
**Author:** ![Herge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Herge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Herge)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-welcome-wagons-broke-i-guess/206395/27 "2003-10-09T10:29:52Z")
Can I bask in your reflected glory, FairyChatMom? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-welcome-wagons-broke-i-guess/206395/28 "2003-10-09T10:32:46Z")
Bask away, **Herge**. There is no Bask Tax here. It’s an equal opportunity Basking Board. Some restrictions apply. Check your local ordinances. Don’t drink and bask. Ya know, if you say the word _bask_ enough, it start to sound unwordly! ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-welcome-wagons-broke-i-guess/206395/29 "2003-10-09T10:32:50Z")
Oops, just looked again… make that **OVER** 40000 members! Another landmark occasion. Dan Abarbanel ---
**Author:** ![Wyatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b19c9b/32.png) [@Wyatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wyatt)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-welcome-wagons-broke-i-guess/206395/30 "2003-10-09T18:30:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FairyChatMom \* > \*\*Yeah, I’m one of the cool kids. You may stand in awe! 😃 \*\* _looking All over for some Awe to stand in … decides he must build it himself_ awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww wwwwwwwwwwwww_standing here_wwwwwwww wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww And to Alla you fellow NewBe’s!! (official stats. say that most of us disappear within the first 90 days, so till ya get past chur ‘probation period’ I understand we’re all 'newbe’s" … though I proudly hold the honor of having actually posted successfully to a Rue thread, in among the Really Cool Kids!) so… from me to you … and I mean this with all my heart … (there’s a Lotta love in this room … can’tcha feel it?) \*\*Welcome: Darkhold WomanofScorn peritrochoid store-clerk-slacker j\_sum1 Ripley2004 PucksRaven Noone Special Herge I raise my Sarsaparilla to us all! For a terrific introduction to the art of posting, I highly recommend y’all study the first 57 pages of “Oh My Freaking God(long)” … Oh, and **Store Clerk Slacker** if you Must read this series … if you haven’t! [Confessions of a “Video Clerk”](http://www.improvisation.ws/mb/showthread.php?threadid=4475) \*ponders for a moment … folks actually hang out and read the place and learn the rules Before they start posting??? I Never thought of that! ---
**Author:** ![Wyatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b19c9b/32.png) [@Wyatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wyatt)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-welcome-wagons-broke-i-guess/206395/31 "2003-10-09T18:40:03Z")
Cheeze after ALL that fighting with the hamsters to get that post in… and it’s Fulla typos! :eek: Yikes! Typos, I gots Typos!!! Eeeeeeeek! ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-welcome-wagons-broke-i-guess/206395/32 "2003-10-09T18:45:34Z")
Oh, yeah? I’ve been here 2700 odd posts and I still haven’t gotten a welcome post. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-welcome-wagons-broke-i-guess/206395/33 "2003-10-09T19:15:41Z")
slortar, Welcome to the boards. (now you can’t ever say you never got a welcome post again) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-welcome-wagons-broke-i-guess/206395/34 "2003-10-09T19:26:18Z")
Hey, I never got a welcome to the SDMB either! Not that that has stopped me. 😉 If you ever want to have a life away from the board, I tell ya, stay away from MPSIMS. Talk about addictive! :eek: And, just so youse newbies will know, Eddy, Teddy, and Freddy are orange tiger boy-cats; but none of the above applies to **EddyTeddyFreddy**. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-welcome-wagons-broke-i-guess/206395/35 "2003-10-09T19:29:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \* > \*\*Word to the wise: > > When people make posts about spewing a tasty beverage all over their monitors… > > They’re NOT talking about giant lizards. > \*\* You know, NCB, that was so funny I wanted to go out and buy a lizard and a case of cola just so I could prove you wrong … 😛 Oh, and in case anyone’s worried, I didn’t get a welcome wagon either, but that’s OK, I’m used to it … 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Simple\_Dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Dreamer)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-welcome-wagons-broke-i-guess/206395/36 "2003-10-09T20:03:19Z")
Psst… **Wyatt** … PIYF 😉 And a very merry welcome to all the newbie type folks. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DaToad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@DaToad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaToad)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-welcome-wagons-broke-i-guess/206395/37 "2003-10-09T22:00:16Z")
Maybe **Crunchy Frog** will wander in and give all you newbies a proper welcome. ---
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-welcome-wagons-broke-i-guess/206395/38 "2003-10-09T22:10:31Z")
I must have a piece of this welcome action. I am new. Love me! ---
**Author:** ![peritrochoid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@peritrochoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peritrochoid)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-welcome-wagons-broke-i-guess/206395/39 "2003-10-09T22:22:23Z")
Awww … shucks! Thanks, **Wyatt**! I’m so happy to be such an honored and loved newbie. 😃 psssst … dude, you’re tracking the _awe_ all over the place. It’s all over your shoes. And **WELCOME!** to you, **luluBahrain**! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-welcome-wagons-broke-i-guess/206395/40 "2003-10-09T22:23:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \* > \*\*. > > They’re NOT talking about giant lizards. > > \*\* Reptilians! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-welcome-wagons-broke-i-guess/206395.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-welcome-wagons-broke-i-guess/206395.md?page=3)