# Hi Everyone **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 2, 2005, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everyone/306474 "2005-06-02T00:22:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everyone/306474/21 "2005-06-02T17:22:06Z")
I think the initiation rituals have gotten to be bit much for Kythereia. Did I just say something about initiation rituals? There are no initiation rituals here… ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everyone/306474/22 "2005-06-02T17:26:24Z")
Initiation, no! It’s a WELCOMING ritual. And I got splinters from the plank in places splinters oughtn’t be. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everyone/306474/23 "2005-06-02T17:38:10Z")
> [@Inigo Montoya](#): > > Fourth, there will be a brief and highly entertaining rite involving a goat, 3 bricks of creme cheeze, a funnel and a 6 foot long 1x6 plank. Are you sure it isn’t a 3/4x6 plank? is this thing on? hello… ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everyone/306474/24 "2005-06-02T18:52:54Z")
**Celena** , are you enjoying yourself? I’ll be back after I mop up this water…where is all this water coming from? ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everyone/306474/25 "2005-06-02T18:55:48Z")
Uh…that’s not water. **Kythereia** just _really_ likes these ritua…er, welcoming parties. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everyone/306474/26 "2005-06-02T19:15:59Z")
Welcome, **Celena**! Please ignore the frivolities of the others. You will find a pleasant banquet laid on in the room down the dall. Just go through the door marked ‘Initiation Room Three’. (Don’t worry about the name– **Hal Briston** let us borrow the room. He often uses it for… other purposes. :: a door opens :: [sub]Hey! Who pushed the button? It’s not time yet![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everyone/306474/27 "2005-06-02T19:18:31Z")
_flings **Tentacle Monster** in past open door and falls to ground, panting_ There! Now we can ge–hey, who pushed the button? _clanking sounds, sploosh-sploosh-sploosh, smacking of wet flippers_ …uh oh. (Why do I always end up saying that during an initiation?) ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everyone/306474/28 "2005-06-02T19:20:56Z")
> [@Snakescatlady](#): > > **Celena** , are you enjoying yourself? I’ll be back after I mop up this water…where is all this water coming from? You’ve got my water!! :mad: :mad: :mad: ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everyone/306474/29 "2005-06-02T19:38:30Z")
> [@CynicalGabe](#): > > You’ve got my water!! :mad: :mad: :mad: Got yer nose! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everyone/306474/30 "2005-06-02T22:32:32Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > _flings **Tentacle Monster** in past open door and falls to ground, panting_ > > There! Now we can ge–hey, who pushed the button? > > _clanking sounds, sploosh-sploosh-sploosh, smacking of wet flippers_ > > …uh oh. > > (Why do I always end up saying that during an initiation?) I don’t know why. I do know, however, why I don’t ever say it: I let you go first! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-everyone/306474.md?page=1)