# Hello I am new **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 8, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-new/212114 "2003-11-08T21:01:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![\_Flux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/47e85d/32.png) [@\_Flux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Flux)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-new/212114/41 "2003-11-09T05:25:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tripler \* > \*\*Not trying to pick a fight or anything, but that’s the second time you’ve said that. > > Is that a quote or something? If so, from whom? > > Tripler > Is it “who” or “whom”? I can never get it straight. . . \*\* Tool, Sober Acutally, it’s Jesus, won’t you fucking whistle something but the past and done? Oops. ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-new/212114/42 "2003-11-09T05:26:45Z")
Sigh. You’re all taking my earlier comment way too seriously. I’m just saying - if I was new, I wouldn’t make a flippant comment right off the bat. **Flux** - welcome (for the 3rd f–ing time) - but please just lower it down a notch, I’m getting a headache. Or perhaps it’s PMS, in which case y’all should all step slowly away. ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-new/212114/43 "2003-11-09T05:43:06Z")
Welcome to the boards, **Flux**. If you haven’t lurked a lot before registering, I suggest you spend some time reading through many of the threads in the various forums in order to get a feel for how things work here. This is the finest message board system on the Internet, bar none, but it does have its own rules and quirks. I lurked for nearly a year before registering. Check out the FAQs in the ATMB section. It could save you some time and aggravation later on. I hope you enjoy it here. ---
**Author:** ![\_Flux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/47e85d/32.png) [@\_Flux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Flux)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-new/212114/44 "2003-11-09T05:46:44Z")
What notches? Their are no notches here, right now. The notches are only in your mind. Do you choose the red notch, or the blue notch? Hm. If you have a problem on your part that causes you to be more likely to take comments the wrong way or become angry easier, why should WE step away? ---
**Author:** ![\_Flux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/47e85d/32.png) [@\_Flux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Flux)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-new/212114/45 "2003-11-09T05:49:15Z")
(directed to Blonde) ---
**Author:** ![Petter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dbc845/32.png) [@Petter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petter)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-new/212114/46 "2003-11-09T06:21:11Z")
**Flux** , I may have been out of line in my previous post, but your first few posts in this thread, your use of smileys, as well as your choice of nick did not give me the impression that you had been lurking for a while. If I was wrong, I apologize. I didn’t like your drive-by posting in the thread I linked (I’ve been guilty of a few myself) and I called you on it. That being said, I hope you’ll contribute to the board at least as frequently as I do. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![\_Flux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/47e85d/32.png) [@\_Flux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Flux)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-new/212114/47 "2003-11-09T06:31:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Petter \* > \*\ ***Flux** , I may have been out of line in my previous post, but your first few posts in this thread, your use of smileys, as well as your choice of nick did not give me the impression that you had been lurking for a while. > \*\* How so? ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-new/212114/48 "2003-11-09T06:47:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by 🙂 ☹ 🙂 Flux \* > \*\*What notches? Their are no notches here, right now. The notches are only in your mind. Do you choose the red notch, or the blue notch? > > Hm. If you have a problem on your part that causes you to be more likely to take comments the wrong way or become angry easier, why should WE step away? \*\* Oh, my. Sweetie, I think you should start a thread in the BBQPit - some really fun times await you there. ---
**Author:** ![\_Flux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/47e85d/32.png) [@\_Flux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Flux)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-new/212114/49 "2003-11-09T06:57:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Blonde \* > \*\*Oh, my. > > Sweetie, I think you should start a thread in the BBQPit - some really fun times await you there. \*\* I’ll go there when I feel the need to rant, not on your command, Hon. If you have issues with me, then I think you need to do so there, not snipe at me here. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-new/212114/50 "2003-11-09T07:07:18Z")
For **Tripler** : _Whom_ Hint: Almost always use _whom_ instead of _who_ after a preposition. Hope that helps. Bit by bit. **Flux** , for some strange reason my feelings of welcome for you tend to ebb and flow, come and go. Why is that? ---
**Author:** ![\_Flux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/47e85d/32.png) [@\_Flux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Flux)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-new/212114/51 "2003-11-09T07:18:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zoe \* > \*\* > > **Flux** , for some strange reason my feelings of welcome for you tend to ebb and flow, come and go. Why is that? \*\* I am sending negative(-4) and positive(+23, plus 12 for equal shinies, with a 12%accuracy towards up to 59% better chance of casting out demons) energy towards the chakra of your regard for me. I hope you do not mind, as I am new to this magic game, and may be a little off. (:p) ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-new/212114/52 "2003-11-09T13:43:36Z")
Flux, you seem like a good chap - level-headed, fine sense of humor, fine sense of self. If you continue to not let other people rile you, you’ll do fine. (Just remember that there may be many people not on your specific “wavelength,” meaning they might not grasp your humor right off - or want to.) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-new/212114/53 "2003-11-09T14:45:13Z")
Keep it civil, folks . . . that includes you, **Flux**. * * * **Cajun Man** ~ SDMB Moderator [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-i-am-new/212114.md?page=2)